The consortium worked on 4 main topics:
1. The sustainability of the association and interest for its members
The main results are (1) a market assessment which shows the economic sustainability of the network in all regional hubs, (2) the definition of a business model based on subcontracts, royalties and fees, and supported by ready-to-use documents for pre-commercial and commercial agreements, (3) the identification of a business plan including network enlargement
2. Users involvement and communication
A large diversity of communication tools was deployed and managed: website, web forum, twitter accounts, as well as material for event communication (logos, leaflets, posters). In addition, we developed a marketing-oriented web platform called showroom available in all regional hubs..
The consortium participated in peer reviewed publications, international conferences and workshops.
Numerous meetings with end users were also organized in the regions for different purposes: presentation of EUGENIUS, functional requirements, presentation of results.
3. Development of data exchange platforms in regional hubs
At the beginning of the project, the EUGENIUS technical platforms were prefigured to become the nodes of the network by supporting data exchange and tool processing. However, thanks to a design phase implemented before the development, the consortium re-oriented the platforms towards the facilitation of collaboration between partners.
They were developed for facilitating data and information sharing, workflow management, and showroom.
4. The industrialization of the applicative tools
The partners focused on the packaging of their tools, often originating from research (algorithms, demonstrators) into robust, reliable, error-free application tools. We focused on reproducibility. This major challenge was partly addressed in the EUGENIUS project by the set-up of “Industrialization Guidelines”. These guidelines provide the tool owners with a framework of principles, rules, best practices and recommendations for delivering on the market high quality services and products.
5. The implementation of pilot cases
A total of 27 pilot cases were run in all regional hubs with the aim of testing the interest of end users for applicative tools from the network. All consortium partners invested a lot of effort in those tests to seize the opportunity of the project to define the positive aspects constraints of implementing a partner’s tool in a new context.
