5th RTD Framework Programme

Success stories - IST

IST (Information Society Technologies)

Project Title:	JENET – Joint European Network on Embedded Internet Technologies
Project Acronym:	JENET
Project ID:	IST 2000-28422
Project URL:	http://www.eurojenet.com
Project coordinator:	CRR Consorzio Roma Ricerche
Proposers:	CRR Consorzio Roma Ricerche, Italy ARAMIS a.s.b.l., Belgium IAM F&E GmbH, Germany UGCS Ltd., United Kingdom IASI, Romania BUTE DMIS, Hungary IEL, Poland and 27 User Companies from the countries above
Project duration:	30 month from 1st of July 2001 to 31 December 2003 (Extended with NAS partners on 1st of July 2002)
Project funding from EC:	2,743,000 €
Hungarian contact person:	Béla Fehér
Organization:	Budapest University of Technology and Economics Department of Measurement and Information Systems
Address:	H-1117 Budapest, Magyar tudósok krt. 2.
Phone:	+ 36 1463 2686
Fax:	+ 36 1 463 4112
Email:	feher@mit.bme.hu
URL:	http://www.jenet.mit.bme.hu
Project duration for the Hungarian participants:	18 months starting on the 1st of July, 2002
EC funding of the Hungarian participants:	26.512 € BUTE 68,348 € INFOWARE Rt. 68,335 € SILEX Kft.

General objectives are: i) to promote the use of new communications capabilities, specifically embedded Internet communications technology, in products and systems developed by European enterprises ii) to stimulate the wider adoption of the promoted technology in organisations by the dissemination of best practice information related to these companies' experiences iii) to generate direct economic benefits for the supported enterprises by developing improved and more competitive products, and by replicating this economic benefit in other organisations stimulated to adopt embedded Internet.

Specific aims are at a) helping the User Organisations involved in overcoming all the barriers to adoption commonly shared at a European level; b) creating a strictly inter-related consortium able to provide guidance and monitoring in the innovation process; c) create a real success stories portfolio to validate the advantages of the technologies proposed and spread the experience gained.

JENET project is a consortium of 7 support centres, called TEC (Technology Expertise Centres) and 27 user organisations (User companies) from Belgium, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Romania and United Kingdom. The project work consists in the realisation of 27 User Experiments (UEs) and in the implementation of a strong dissemination activity able to provide an effective demonstration of the impact of the innovative technology introduction. The UEs are all real business cases in which new methodologies and techniques for the users are introduced through Embedded Internet Networking microelectronic technologies. During the work on progress, the integrated and cross-border structure of TECs will provide an efficient support and reference to the involved companies, as well as guidance, monitoring, training and results exploitation to ensure an effective and successful Know-how transfer. At the end of each project, the "Best Practice" experience gained will be extracted to realise a reference material to be re-used in further internal and external exploitation of the results. The Project co-ordinator (providing the single administrative entity for the consortium and ensuring for the project excellence) and JTG (JENET Task Group, the decision making structure of the project, composed by 7 members, one for each participating TEC) will be in charge of the Management and Operative tasks. The strict link among the different partners and the constant exchange of information and experience were able to create the basis for the extended networking activity, thus enhancing the European added value of the project.

Benefits will be obtained for what concerns: European industrial companies competitiveness; training and re-qualification of employees; employment; replication stimulation; emerging technologies adoption and industrial companies development, with special attention paid to SMEs.