Knowledge intensive Services for Open Innovation – PROMIS was presented in the context of Systemic Open Innovation highlighting:

Human-centred Politics * Human-centred Security * Human-centred Technology
i.e. the HUMAN PERSON at the heart of the system.

The result of well administered EC funding and successfully deployed Knowledge Intensive interactive Services for Systemic Open Innovation, was shown with 2 practice-oriented examples:

1. Global Crisis and Disaster Resilience
2. WePROMIS®

Please see the outcome at http://www.knowledge4innovation.eu/8th-eis-outcome

Accelerating the adoption, deployment and use of Cloud Computing by small businesses (SMEs).
CloudingSMEs provides support services to European SMEs, in order to facilitate them in adopting and fully leveraging the benefits of cloud computing services.
CloudingSMEs is driven by a vision for the optimal adoption and use of cloud computing within SME communities, and by a set of road maps aiming at the realization of this vision.

The Services

The Grand Coalition for Digital Jobs, Pledge to the European Commission

PROMIS@Service has entered in alliance with, and in solidarity to the “Millennia2025 Solidarity-Women” action developed by the Millennia2025 Women and Innovation Foundation (PUF), sharing the WePROMIS® eMentoring platform to support and advise women in precarious situations among others, through eSkills. The Millennia2015 community counts 1.505 contributors in its Think Tank, 3.827 members and 10.299 contacts in 133 countries or regions in February 2014. Key values of the Millennia2015 “An action plan for women’s empowerment” (www.millennia2015.org), organized by The Destree Institute with the patronage of UNESCO and the United Nations, are the equality between women and men, the respect of rights and diversity, the development of the human capital and the digital solidarity in order to empower women. The Millennia2015 process, built with its international partners, is structured through three phases: “Information transfer”, “Knowledge process” and “Intelligence platforms”. The Millennia2015 foresight research process acts in a view of digital solidarity with those who do not access communications tools and who nevertheless are drivers of changes. With WePROMIS® as eSkill enabler instrument, the alliance between PROMIS@Service and the Millennia2025 Women and Innovation Foundation objective is to achieve these concrete actions and action plans in favor of women and girls in the concerned countries, for their empowerment and for gender equality.

Europe goes Cloud – Digital Jobs for Europe

Participants:

• Eric Blot-Lefrère, Chairman of TrustSeed, Paris, France
• Caterina Dr. Berbenni-Rehm, CEO at PROMIS @Service, Luxembourg

Recent studies show evidence that nearly 27 million people in the EU are without work. The gap between the countries of Europe in terms of employment is large. Once we are ready to accept the principle that through IT developments and facilities such as Cloud Computing, Big Data, Mobility or Social Business, a potential increase of more than 100,000 digital and related jobs per year can be imagined. There is a tremendous opportunity for the European labour market.

Until now wish and reality across countries are still a long way away from each other. When it comes to IT-related and technical professions, the number of relevant graduates decreases. In addition, we witness the retirement of many valuable professionals today and in the coming years.

The Grand Coalition for Digital Jobs is a contribution of the European Commission to get the European economy back on track. Part of this initiative includes training and Skills Matching with leading IT companies in Europe, a common EU certification scheme for IT skills, eMentoring, as well as the funding of support services for computer scientists. European IT companies, governments and education and training institutions are explicitly called to stand up and become active, so that in Europe by 2015 as many IT jobs as possible are generated.

CEN has recently established a new Workshop on “Terminology Policy to Support Generic Applications of Management Systems with focus on Smaller Organisations in a Multilingual Environment”. The project kick-off meeting took place in Brussels on 29 and 39 July in Brussels.

The main purpose of the project is to develop a CWA integrating the results of the EU research project PROMISLingua and to explain the methodology of the project for ease of application of management systems in smaller organisations. The target stakeholders are Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) that are now facing steadily increasing requirements from standards and regulations related to environmental, quality performance, health&safety and other regulatory issues at local, national and international levels. Currently, SMEs cannot afford appropriate personnel and financial resources to cope efficiently with these demands and they need tailored business services to help them overcome the challenging requirements of effectively and safely operating their on-going activities.

The CIP-PSP research project PROMISLingua (Performance Operational and Multilingual Interactive Services to support Compliance for SMEs in Europe) aims at facilitating SMEs’ access to tailored information and advice on legislation, standardisation and the integrated application of management systems. This project envisages translating, localising and rolling out the existing PROMIS online service in order to deliver a cost-efficient and easy-to-use Internet based service at the service of SMEs in Europe.

The CEN Workshop Agreement, based on PROMISLingua project, will provide additional guidance on the systematic and structured use of terms and definitions implicitly or explicitly specified, both established or emerging, in various standards and regulations embedded in a multilingual environment. Among the specific aspects to be covered in this reference document is a stable terminology system that presents and applies vocabularies references for terminology management and workflow with a methodology to organise a translation service for terms and definitions.

For more information about this activity, please consult the Business Plan of the CEN Workshop PROMISLingua available at CEN website;

http://www.cen.eu/cen/Sectors/TechnicalCommitteesWorkshops/Workshops/Pages/WS75.aspx

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Contact points

Workshop chairman
Dr. Caterina Berbenni-Rehm
Chief Executive Officer
PROMIS@Service S.a.r.l
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Workshop secretariat
Bettina Seitl
ASI – Austrian Standard Institute
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PROMIS@Service together with UEAPME, EuroCloud and other European Partners was the initiator of the European Commission’s Support Action:
CloudingSMEs – Accelerating the adoption, deployment and use of Cloud Computing by SMEs, which was kicked-off in July 2013 in Brussels. More

Every year, the leaders of the European cloud industry gather together at the EuroCloud Congress. This unique two-day event is fully dedicated to the European cloud computing sector. It is the place to meet with business leaders, policy makers and researchers engaged in cloud computing and applications from across Europe. It will examine the role that political, industrial and economic policy can play in cloud’s successful growth and global impact.

SaaS, integrated multilingual Compliance and e-Training for SMEs

Date: Thursday, 7th March 2013

Participants:

• Mrs. Sabrina Sagramola, Head of European Affairs, Manager of the Enterprise Europe Network-Luxembourg, Chamber of Commerce of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg
• Mr. Bernd Becker, President EuroCloud Europe
• Mrs. Dr. Caterina Berbenni-Rehm, CEO PROMIS@Service

Introduction:
Business relevant knowledge and its beneficial exchange among institutions and small and medium enterprises (SMEs) across Europe are becoming massively important. However, a look behind the facades of small and medium-sized companies shows that there are still gaps between “vision” and “reality” to overcome. The importance of SMEs as the economic backbone of a specific nation is not even rudimentary reflected in their knowledge and technical equipment.

For the framework period "2014 – 2020", many EU programmes aim at providing supportive measures in order to foster research and technical development in a global view to contribute to the reinforcement of the overall competitiveness and sustainability of European enterprises, in particular SMEs. More than ever before, transfer of know-how, skills and expertise becomes important and significantly contributes to the creation of new economies of scale. It is clear that if the European economy wants to remain competitive, it needs to bring more creative products and innovative services from the drawing board right onto the market.

Within a perspective of advancement of the knowledge society and an economic "development must" based on a sustainable economic growth, politicians, associations, stakeholders are demanded to take a more active role.

Stimulating the Power of SMEs and their Associations in Europe


EU live program at CeBIT Studio Mittelstand 2012

Date: Thursday, 8 March 2012

Participants:

• Mr. Andrea Benassi, Secretary General UEAPME
• Mrs. Caterina Berbenni-Rehm, CEO PROMIS @ Service Sarl in Luxembourg
• Mr. Bernd Becker, Chairman EuroCloud Deutschland_eco e.V. and Vice President EuroCloud Europe

As regards associations, SMEs are more and more asking for tangible benefits.

There is e.g. the need of SMEs for easy and simple instruments, available in their own language. Instruments helping them complying with the mandatory regulations and assisting them on their way to reach the voluntary certifications.

Therefore, associations need to change their traditional role. From being only lobbying organizations they have to develop to innovative services providers for the SMEs they are serving. Otherwise they will face SMEs leaving their associations.