Project title

Collaborative platform for organizational competitivness and management of knowledge, information, competencies, expertises and partnerships in the agrifood R&D

Acronim: POL-EX-AGRA

PROGRAMME 4 " PARTNERSHIPS IN PRIORITY S&T DOMAINS" 2007-2013

Line of research: 9. Socio-economic and humanistic systems

Project type: PC Complex R&D projects.

Financing Agreement: 92-081/2008

Coordinator

The INSTITUTE OF FOOD BIORESOURCES

Dinu Vintila street, 6, district 2, 021102, BUCURESTI
Cod fiscal : R 13576464; Tel./Fax: 021-210.91.28; Tel.: 021-211.36.39
E-mail: bioresurse@adslexpress.ro; Web: www.bioresurse.ro

Financed by:

Ministry of Education, Research, Youth and Sport, National Center for Programmes Management, www.mct.ro, www.cnmp.ro.

Project budget:

Total budget: 2.269.000 lei.

Financed budget: 1.995.000 lei

Project duration: 27 months

Project summary

Knowledge Management is dealt with  today, in the majority of the existing systems, as being based on a structured organization of the Best Practices, knowledge, information, competencies, expertise and partnerships concerning various fields, generically reunited as such under the concept of intangible values.

These static systems have the drawback of creating the intangible values through processes and possibly, through procedures centered on the individual and not on the community and hence of creating a great amount of information stored at the individual's level, very probably redundant, with uncertain utility, relative accessibility and difficult, time consuming extraction.

Furthermore, the lack of a common collaborative platform at the level of the communities involved in joint programmes for the creation of knowledge represents a major hurdle in accomplishing a management of the knowledge, aligned to the strategies of the organization.

The creation of a contextual collaborative platform to manage the intangible values solves the frequent situations when too much information kills information, since the accessibility and easy extraction of the created and stored intangible values are generally hindered or limited by the absence of a filtering based on a contextual values system, which the users can use to find not only all the information concerning a certain problem but, especially, to find only that information which best solves their problem, under a given context.

An example would be: if, around a technological procedure, we address a classical knowledge management system, we will come up with an extremely important amount of documents. These will contain an impressive volume of information, uncorrelated with the contexts under which they were generated, used or retrieved. This further brings about an inefficient utilization and, most frequently, of an ad-hoc nature, of the accumulated knowledge.

The proposed project sets as general objective the creation of a collaborative, integrated and secured platform for the increase of the organizational competitiveness and management of knowledge, information, competencies, expertise and partnerships in the agro-food R&D, assembling representative organizations in the field. The platform is an interactive, intuitive, flexible, easy to use working instrument for all members of the communities involved in the processes of creating and contextually managing the intangible values in the agro-food R&D.

Implementing a system for document management (document templates, versioning, multiple search criteria, document flows, storage, etc.) based on the structuring of the information and decision flows, i.e. this type of collaborative platform, aims to the superior valuation of the human factor and to offer the needed interface for the integration of the agro-food R&D with the big European R&D partnerships, projects and programmes, thus contributing to an increased competitiveness of the research activity.

The intended outcome is the development of the possibility to measure the value contributions and hence, of the performance at the employees, the communities aligned to the strategic objectives of the organization and organization levels in the field of agro-food R&D.

The mechanisms of capturing and structuring of knowledge, according to the contextual definition of the knowledge domains, give the collaborative platform an evolutionary character, which is organic and independent of the organizational mobility of the employees generating intangible values.

Project director:

Eng. Adriana MACRI

E-mail: adriana.macri@bioresurse.ro ; adriana.macri@yahoo.com