Objective As successful SMEs extend their reach and scope in a globalising world, they face the challenge of maintaining agility, creativity and decision speed that is their key competitive strength: Key personnel like managers or specialists are increasingly on business trips and thus not available for problem solving or decision making. Paradoxically, this problem of remote collaboration is further exacerbated by the growing use of more enterprise and productivity applications by SMEs such as CAx, PDM, ERP, etc. These systems and their data is usually not available remotely and thus people "on the road" do not have the basis for meaningful collaboration and decision making, introducing delays, quality problems and lost opportunities.The objective of CoVES is to develop a flexible collaboration environment including access to rich data and applications for nomadic professionals and partners targeted towards SMEs. To this end the project will define new working models and functionalities for effective (mobile) collaboration, develop a flexible open service integration architecture that allows wrapping of enterprise applications and integration of collaboration services, develop a user centric client concept especially for mobile devices, implement a pilot system geared towards the engineering domain through a user driven development methodology, and align with and extend existing standardisation initiatives in the mobile application domain.Appropriate for the innovations targeted, the project combines in its 30 month workplan a system design methodology for architectural components with an iterative, user-driven living lab approach for the collaboration functionality and environment design.Related to the target market, the consortium itself combines innovative technology provider SMEs and representative user SMEs with the expertise of leading research institutions at the cross-road of mobile applications, collaboration systems and enterprise applications. Fields of science social scienceseconomics and businesseconomicsproduction economicsproductivity Programme(s) FP6-IST - Information Society Technologies: thematic priority under the specific programme "Integrating and strengthening the European research area" (2002-2006). Topic(s) IST-2005-2.5.9 - Collaborative Working Environments Call for proposal Data not available Funding Scheme STREP - Specific Targeted Research Project Coordinator FRAUNHOFER IAF EU contribution No data Address Tullastr. 72 79108 MÜNCHEN Germany See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data Participants (11) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all APIF MOVIQUITY S.A. Spain EU contribution No data Address CALLE ISABEL DE COLBRAND 10 - EDIFICIO VENECIA, PL. 5 OF.150 28050 MADRID See on map Total cost No data BALKAN TEKSTIL MAKINALARI SANAYI VE TICARET LIMITED SIRKETI Türkiye EU contribution No data Address ASTIM ORGANIZE SANAYI BOLGESI 5 CADDE 1 09010 AYDIN See on map Total cost No data C3M DOO, CENTER ZA RACUNALNISTVO VMEHANIKI KONTINUUMA - MODELIRANJE IN TRZENJE Slovenia EU contribution No data Address VANDOTOVA ULICA 55 431 LJUBLJANA See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data CIRP INFORMATIONSSYSTEME UND RAPID PROTOTYPING GMBH Germany EU contribution No data Address ROENTGENSTRASSE 31 71229 LEONBERG See on map Total cost No data ENTERPRIXE SOFTWARE LTD AB Finland EU contribution No data Address MANNERHEIMINTIE 44A 00260 HELSINKI See on map Total cost No data LOGOTEC ENGINEERING SA Poland EU contribution No data Address UL. ZALUSKIEGO 2A 41 400 MYSLOWICE See on map Total cost No data NODE PARTNERS SA Spain EU contribution No data Address CALLE PAMPLONA 94-104 08018 BARCELONA See on map Total cost No data STICHTING CENTER FOR TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION MANGEMENT Netherlands EU contribution No data Address PLANTSOEN 97 2311 KL LEIDEN See on map Total cost No data UNIVERSITAET STUTTGART EU contribution No data Address See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data VALTION TEKNILLINEN TUTKIMUSKESKUS Finland EU contribution No data Address VUORIMIEHENTIE 3 02044 ESPOO See on map Total cost No data VIRCE - KOMPETENZZENTRUM VIRTUELLE REALITAET UND KOOPERATIVES ENGINEERING W.V. Germany EU contribution No data Address AUBERLENSTRASSE 13 70736 FELLBACH See on map Total cost No data