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The idea is to share ideas and exchange experiences, launch of a community initiative, get together with other people, development of an arena to discuss topicl problems.

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Ecospace

ECOSPACE pursues the vision that by 2012 every Professional in Europe is empowered for seamless, dynamic and creative collaboration across teams, organisations and communities through a personalised collaborative working environment. ECOSPACE contributes to this vision through 4 main objectives:

• The definition of innovative work paradigms through the analysis of eProfessionals and their related organisation.

• The design and development of an open standards, service-oriented architecture for complementary and alike systems.

• A collaboration middleware and services to enable seamless and instant collaboration among knowledge workers in group forming networks, beyond organisational boundaries.

Leadership

Leadership and management

The development of innovation environments requires different aspects, interests and skills from different experts. One major and time-consuming task is to seek the right people and organisations for the innovation environment and make them to realise the importance of the network and co-operation.

• The creation of new tools that simplify the complexity of collaboration in dynamic work environments and which enable users for creative and knowledge intensive tasks.

Small Enterprises

Small markets

One truism has been that while small businesses represent a huge market — companies with fewer than 10 to 50 employees, the government reports, account for a big part of th nation's economic output and a large percentage of all new jobs — it is highly fragmented and hard to reach.

EU Communities

Now, the great challenge for all of us is to prepare our Communities for the 7th Framework and CIP Programmes for European research and policy.

Support

First, we need to make sure that our strong support and initiatives are heard when assigning budgets and priorities. To bring forward AMI interests, we need to speak loud and clear for Living Labs, Collaborative Environments and ICT for Business. Engineering and Design are our special interests in Manufacturing.

Information Society

If you have not yet done so, do not hesitate to express your own research and policy interests immediately through the web consultation at: Information Society.

Budget and priorities

Support the budgets and priorities to network brains to create value, especially in highly knowledge-intensive services. Multidisciplinary research will be needed to create a services science platform, new-generation collaborative environments.

Partnering

Businesses, citizens and public sector will partner for a new European innovation system. Put Lisbon strategy in real life. Express your approach. Be direct.

Finland

To find the latest in the Finnish EU Presidency initiative to launch a European Network of Living Labs, as strongly supported by the AMI communities, please take a look at: Tietoyhteiskuntaohjelma.

Yours co-creatively, Roberto Santoro, EsoCE-Net, Chair of the AMI@Work communities