Objective The overall LAURA project goal is the development of regional and interregional electronic commerce zones with an emphasis in the interfacing with Associate States thus safeguarding a smoother integration environment with the European Union. It achieves this goal be means of a shared project through the collaboration of local and regional authorities and administrations, and the exchange of experiences between different countries and regions. In the project we set up Adaptive Zones for Regional and Interregional Electronic Commerce based on the concepts of Request-Based Virtual Organizations and sector-specific Service Level Agreements for improving access to the European market for small businesses, based on the utilisation of a powerful concept namely this of a specific type of the Virtual Organization (VO) taxonomy that is the Request-Based Virtual Organization? (RBVO). This type of VO comprises a cluster of partnering organizations that have totally replaced their vertical integration into a virtual one.OBJECTIVESThe overall LAURA goal is the development of regional and interregional electronic commerce zones with an emphasis in the interfacing with Associate States thus safeguarding a smoother integration environment with the European Union. It achieves this goal be means of a shared project through the collaboration of local and regional authorities and administrations, and the exchange of experiences between different countries and regions. In the project we set up Adaptive Zones for Regional and Interregional Electronic Commerce based on the concepts of Request-Based Virtual Organizations and sector-specific Service Level Agreements for improving access to the European market for small businesses, based on the utilisation of a powerful concept namely this of a specific type of the Virtual Organization (VO) taxonomy that is the Request-Based Virtual Organization? (RBVO). This type of VO comprises a cluster of partnering organizations that have totally replaced their vertical integration into a virtual one.DESCRIPTION OF WORKWork items of the LAURA project are:1. to specify interregional EC zones demonstrating best practice in EC, by defining the needs, as well as the operational and functional requirements of all relevant actors including local/regional authorities, public/semi-public organisations and individual industry actors (especially SMEs);2. to analyse technology- and market-related trends which will, either directly or indirectly, influence the formulation of the intended interregional EC zones;3. to design usage scenarios for the EC zones specified in point 1 and to implement and test them with end users (mainly SMEs), using the resource of value added services to be provided by Support Centres which will be established during the LAURA project lifetime;4. to evaluate the interregional EC zones developed by the project in terms of(i) validation of the Support Centres functionality and usability, and (ii)evaluation of the EC zones effectiveness for the SMEs concerned, by means of post-development work;5. to implement strategies for wide dissemination of the LAURA project results and the commercialisation of concepts, methodologies and prototypes developed in the project, especially for the benefit of other European regions. This will also imply particular attention being paid to Standardisation issues.LAURA will achieve these aims by identifying possibilities for enhancing and/or introducing the latest electronic commerce (henceforth: EC) business practices to identified SMEs in each of the LAURA LFR regions in accordance with the needs and the capabilities of those firms. The main functions which will galvanise most SMEs forward into electronic trading is related in the project through the adoption of the ebXML architecture, including the formal modelling of business processes, trading agreements, and message components. Fields of science social scienceseconomics and businessbusiness and managementcommercee-commerce Programme(s) FP5-IST - Programme for research, technological development and demonstration on a "User-friendly information society, 1998-2002" Topic(s) IST-2001-5.1.11 - CPA11: Regional and sectoral pilot actions and demonstrations for the digital economy Call for proposal Data not available Funding Scheme CSC - Cost-sharing contracts Coordinator 01 PLIROFORIKI S.A. Address Acharnon street 438 11143 Athens Greece See on map EU contribution € 0,00 Participants (9) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all APPLIED RESEARCH AND COMMUNICATIONS FUND. Bulgaria EU contribution € 0,00 Address 5 alexander zhendov str 1113 Sofia See on map CENTRE FOR RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY HELLAS Greece EU contribution € 0,00 Address 6th km charilaou-thermi road 57001 Thermi-thessaloniki See on map CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY OF MESSINIA Greece EU contribution € 0,00 Address 23rd martiou square 24100 Kalamata See on map GRUENDUNGS- UND TECHNOLOGIETRANSFER ZENTRUM HANDWERK (GTZH MBH) Germany EU contribution € 0,00 Address Gustav-ricker-str. 62 39120 Magdeburg See on map HELLENIC ASSOCIATION OF YOUNG ENTREPRENEURS Greece EU contribution € 0,00 Address Harilaou trikoupi kai oplarhigou poutetsi 14 45332 Ioannina See on map KINGSTON UNIVERSITY United Kingdom EU contribution € 0,00 Address River house, 53-57 high street KT1 1LQ Kingston upon thames See on map OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITAET MAGDEBURG Germany EU contribution € 0,00 Address Universitätsplatz 2 39016 Magdeburg See on map Links Website Opens in new window TREND GESELLSCHAFT FUER MARKETING MBH Germany EU contribution € 0,00 Address Platanenstrasse 12 17033 Neubrandenburg See on map UNISOFT BULGARIA SA Bulgaria EU contribution € 0,00 Address Rakovski street 101 1000 Sofia See on map
