Wednesday, September the 20th 2006 - CAENTI day

10.00-12.00: CAENTI Steering Committee

• First intermediary activity report. Jean-Jacques GIRARDOT, CAENTI coordinator, Université de Franche-Comté.
  The first CAENTI scientific activity report concerns the first six months, from March to August 2006.
  This six-month period was active. It ends with the first conference to which a hundred people registered, from almost ten countries. 56 communications will be presented, 20 will be reports about the progress of the coordination activities that were developed during the first six months within the CAENTI, and 36 communications will be presented by researchers, some are CAENTI members (17) and some not (21). This first six-month period was essentially devoted to organization activities. Amélie BICHET will present the work that was made to implement the management. The Internet website was active as of the kick-off meeting that took place on March, the 23rd and 24th 2006. Since this date, the Internet website developed much, thus the contents of the CAENTI presentation, its participants’ one and its activities one were translated in eight languages. Now, it can direct towards an editorial activity. During the kick-off meeting, we also could present a first version of the workspace Coospace, which has worked since June 2006, as we planned. Lots of exchange spaces and forums were implemented after the coordination seminars. Now, there is their use development left. The scientific coordination activities were quickly implemented as far as the three workshops, Fundamental methods (WP4), Governance principles (WP5) and Tools for actors (WP6) are concerned. The seminar of Huelva allowed structuring theWP5 activities since May, the 5th 2006. The first reports were written or this conference where a first synthesis will be presented. The WP4 and WP6 groups structured through the seminars of Durbuy, Aix-en-Provence and Besançon in May and June, 2006. The orientations of the WP4 Methods coordination groups were defined. An important work was made within the WP6 Tools. A doctoral training course was made; it allowed harmonizing the CATALYSE diagnosis and evaluation guide at the European level, and then defining the contents specifications of this guide. We also started thinking about submitting a candidature to a Network of Excellence in 2009, what implies a strong integration of the CAENTI teams’ research programs, the increase of the partners’ number and the integration of new dimensions (training, edition, transfer). Contacts were established and projects were submitted to associate new partners.
  

• First intermediary management and financial report, Amélie BICHET-MIÑARO, CAENTI manager, Université de Franche-Comté.
  The CAENTI management aims at easing leading quality research activities and at facilitating the collaborative work. During the first six months of the project, we first created a legal framework for the CAENTI project, by signing a Consortium agreement on April, the 10th 2006. We also planned and regularly followed up the use of the European subvention. After a six-month activity period, we can emphasize two points in relation with administrative and financial issues. We may underline that two tasks are already finished up and the funds that were devoted to the latter ones were spent. Moreover, as decided, the fifteen CAENTI partners used the European subvention with economy. These elements will be useful to write the first annual report we will present to the European Commission in February 2007.

• First intermediary innovation and dissemination report, Juan-Sebastian GONZALEZ, Innovation and dissemination manager, Universidad de Huelva.
  One of the main questions of the CAENTI project in which all the members are involved consists in reaching a scientific exploitation and an adequate diffusion of all the research activities and innovations that are generated by the Coordination Action. This objective is all the more important so a network of Excellence of Territorial Intelligence would be created in 2009 In this first report about innovation and diffusion, we describe all the activities and mechanisms that are linked to this proposal: quality assurance, risk assessment, intellectual property rights, use and dissemination of knowledge and monitoring of exploitation issues. We will offer as a debate topic a first list of tools that can facilitate the diffusion of the project results. It will be enriched by the suggestions of the CAENTI members. The edition of a repertory about all the products that can be got with the different diffusion means will be written at the end of 2006.

14.00-15.45: Scientific Committee

• Reception and framing of the Scientific Committee. Moise Ioan ACHIM, Vice-chancellor of Universitatea “1er Decembrie 1918” Alba Iulia.
  The report shows first the general principles of the organisation and functioning of a Scientific Committee in a project such as CAENTI. Then follows the presentation of the scientific committee of our project and the modality of constitution so that every workpackage and research group be represented through their leaders, as well as the representatives of the main research centres. The functioning of the Scientific Committee is provided by a bureau whose constitution and functioning rules are also presented. The main purpose of the Scientific Committee is that of validating the set of research activities of the coordination section, especially in relation with the Conferences organised within the project. A series of concrete measures for the optimisation of the activities of the Scientific Committee regarding the Conference in development in Alba Iulia as well as the conferences in Huelva (2007) and Besancon (2008) will also be presented in the report.

• Reception of the organisational Committee. Organisation of the international conference of Alba-Iulia 2006. Mihai PASCARU, Universitatea “1 Decembrie 1918” Alba Iulia.
  The report presents the general principles of the organisation and functioning of the Organising Committee in a project such as CAENTI, with an emphasis on the fundamental principle of a team easy to organise. The previous analysed experience in the project will also be presented, and there will also be a definition of the evolution of the organisation towards the involvement of all workpackages in specific activities, through their representatives. A special chapter will be dedicated to the organising experience of the Conference in Alba Iulia, and to the need to think the calendar of the different stages in organising the Conferences, with strict deadlines and concrete responsibilities for each and every partner so that the organisation of the future conferences should reflect the involvement of all participants. An important issue will represent an operative permanent connection between the Organising Committee, the Scientific Committee and the Editorial Committee. The report will end with the presentation of a series of possible problems regarding the financial aspects of the project.

• Organisation of the conferences acts publishing. Ioan ILEANA, Universitatea “1 Decembrie 1918” Alba Iulia.
  The conference documents will be published in a book which will have an ISBN. The book will have the following features:
  The covers will be designed in a way that presents the project and the fact that it is beeing financed by the European Community.
  The content will be divided in 2 sections: a part will be dedicated to technical interventions and official papers, to decisions taken during work sessions; the other part concerns the scientifically papers which will be chosen among those presented by the participants.
  The problems to resolve:
  A) Technical matters: the book’s size (number of pages), it’s format (A4, B5 etc.), the number of copies, graphical quality (tightly related to the printing cost)
  B) Scientifically matters: the selection of the papers which will be published should be done by someone who has the necessary skills and who will assist at their presentation (perhaps the work session hosts).
  This meeting should allow defining a homogeneous publishing organization for the three conferences. Our debate will also concern the development of an editorial activity, that is required by the prospect of the Network of excellence.

• Preparation of the international conference of Huelva 2007. "Territorial intelligence and governance". Dolores REDONDO-TORONJO, Universidad de Huelva.
  The CAENTI project plans international conferences of Territorial intelligence as an integrative activity between the scientific teams. Each international conference analyses a specific thematic, and the University of Huelva is responsible of the International conference that will take place in 2007. The specific theme is “Territorial intelligence and governance”. This Conference will aim at presenting, debating and disseminating the main questions of the CAENTI scientific centre WP5, that is to say the analysis of the application of the governance principles of sustainable development in the territorial research-action. This conference of 2007 will focus on the debate about good practices in the scientific production of Social sciences and Humanities area that favour and inspire territorial governance. Another aspect that will be evoked in this Conference will be the discussion on standards and norms that must be used for this kind of research activities. The CAENTI works will be presented so as to establish the quality criteria in the research that is made in cooperation between scientific teams and ground actors who are involved in the economic, social and environmental development.

16.15-18.00: Editorial Committee of the portal www.territorial-intelligence.eu

• Presentation of the portal and of the Editorial Committee organisation (WP3). Cyril MASSELOT, Université de Franche-Comté - Anne PIPONNIER, Universita di Salerno.
  The object of the WP3 [PORTAL] – Internet portal of territorial intelligence is to provide the CAENTI with an Intra-consortium website and a cooperative workspace (CooSpace), by the installation, feeding, maintenance and actualization of the portal, in accordance with the decisions of the Steering Committee and under the Editorial Committee authority.
  This report initially presents the general design of the portal in three specific tools:
  - Internet website for general public: objectives and public target
  - Intra-consortium website: design and management of the administration of the portal
  - Cooperative workspace (CooSpace): objectives, users and organization
  We detail then the evolution of each one as of these tools during the first 6 months of activities within the CAENTI (From 01/03/06 to 31/08/06):
  - Design and realization;
  - Evolutions since its official opening;
  - Statistics (frequentation - use - referencing);
  - Current Situation;
  - Evolutions to come, tasks to be organized.
  The prospects for evolution of the current portal can be used as a basis of discussion to program the continuation of work together to be carried out, in particular the chain of numerical edition of the results of research in progress, and the publication of the acts of the annual conferences and of the virtual conferences. These operations are to be organized according to the decisions of the Steering Committee, in relation to the Scientific Committee, and by developing new partnerships like the online review ISDM (laboratory I3M).

• Presentation of the cooperative workspace CooSpace. Peter ACS, University of Pecs.
  Concept of CooSpace: The system was developed on the basis of communication theory. What are the main figures of it and what are main objectives.
  Reality in numbers (Evaluation of activity) : The use of the system. Statistics of logins, time spend in the system, activity rates and uploaded documents. What does the number shows. Tutorial overview.
  Recent development: What have we developed in the last period. What are to be installed in very soon.
  Conclusions: How to improve the effectiveness of use. What are the tasks we have to face with.

• Presentation of the review on Internet isdm.univ-tln.fr. Editorial politic intention & Scientific attempt. Yann BERTACCHINI, Chief Editor of ISDM, Research Director, I3m lab, University du Sud Toulon-Var.
  Since the publication of The new science of management Decision by H.A Simon in 1960, relation between Information & Decision originally made the object of many debates, studies in several scientific fields. Nowadays Information and Communication Sciences go further to underline that interdisciplinary approach should have the key role.
  ISDM review aims to be more a media than an electronic support between specialists of various fields in their relation to information and communication process. It is expressly wide opened in connexion with all cultures and languages illustrating “Icts & Territory: Witch way on developing ?” (a scientific and annual event which moves up and down from the north to the south (and reversely).
  Articles contents are framed of theoretical reflexion and practical testimonies, published on line and easy to access by all on free subscription. To benefit from the flexibility of Internet, the articles or Proceedings will be mediated a.s.a, after the evaluation process conducted by two referees.