The ‘ARCHIMEDES’ Project

Support for end users of safety solutions (ARCHIMEDES).

The ‘ARCHIMEDES’ project is intended to create new mechanisms for improvement of end users’ involvement in the process of researching and developing products in the area of safety. This goal will be achieved by:

  1. Development of new methods for management of R&D projects to maximize the share of, and benefits for, end users;
  2. Promotion of common culture of innovation;
  3. Proposing of mechanism enabling structured participation of end user representatives in all R&D work phases: program definition, participation in projects, definition of necessary legal solutions, testing and validation procedure, implementation;
  4. Promotion of collaboration between vendors and end users of solutions, upholding of dialog between companies and representatives of services responsible for public safety;
  5. Establishment of a Web forum/site for facilitation of information exchange between vendors and end users of solutions.

Implementation timeframe: 01/01/2012 – 31/12/2014

Project budget: EUR 1,539,056.00, 7th Framework Program, contract number: 285061

Project type: International research project

Coordinator: EUROPEAN ORGANISATION FOR SECURITYSCRL – EOS, Belgium

Partners:

  • MINISTERIO DEL INTERIOR – MIR-ES, Spain
  • INGENIERA DE SISTEMAS PARA LA DEFENSA DE ESPANA SA-ISDEFE, Spain
  • UNIVERSITE CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN – UCL, Belgium
  • HAUT COMITE FRANCAIS DEFENSE CIVILE – HCFDC, France
  • GERMAN EUROPEAN SECURITY ASSOCIATION EV – GESA, Germany
  • Industrial Research Institute for Automation and Measurements (PIAP), Poland
  • MEDIASERVICE.NET SRL – MEDIASERVICE, Italy
EU_logo This project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Program for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement no 285061.