Objective Project EURACTIV is a policy and technology initiative aimed at developing a multilingual portal dedicated to European Union (EU) affairs.The project has three main objectives: - to implement a working prototype of a policy portal www.euractiv.com - to promote a pan-European multilingual Information Society - to validate a business model ensuring the portal's economic viability The EURACTIV site has been conceived of as a multilingual portal from its inception. It plans to make extensive use of state-of-art machine translation technologies, keeping its localisation budget to a moderate level. The site will be private sector oriented, relying on non-public sources of revenue to fund itself. Results: The project has a 3-phase approach: Prototype (implementation); Consolidation (populating with content); and Expansion (expanding the portal's scope). The expected results emerging from EURACTIV are: - a working prototype of an EU policy portal site www.euractiv.com - a demonstration of the feasibility of large-scale multilingual web sites through the use of machine translation technologies a validated business model for sustaining such a public sector portal through private sector revenue. Programme(s) IS-ECONTENT - Multiannual Community programme to stimulate the development and use of European digital content on the global networks and to promote linguistic diversity in the Information Society 2001-2005 Topic(s) PA200400-2 - Facilitating linguistic and cultural customisation of digital products and services Call for proposal Data not available Funding Scheme ACM - Preparatory, accompanying and support measures Coordinator Systran Sa. EU contribution No data Address 1 Rue du Cimetiere 95230 Soisy Sous Montmorency France See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data Participants (2) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all EurActiv.com PLC United Kingdom EU contribution No data Address Maracas, Herons Lea WS RH 10 3 Crawley (Sussex) See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data International Federation of Journalists Belgium EU contribution No data Address 266 Rue Royale 1210 Brussels See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data