Project objectives

The general objective of the project is: the creation of a collaborative platform for the management of knowledge, information, competencies, expertise and partnerships in the agro-food R&D.

The specific objectives of the project are the follows:

1.   establishing definitions, rules and functional procedures of the collaborative system for knowledge management

2.   modeling organizational structures and processes comprising the collaborative system for knowledge management

3.   implementation of the collaborative platform prototype and dissemination of results.

Activities

   Organizing the project:

   Establishing the set of definitions, rules and procedures for the knowledge management system; identification and establishing of the involvement level of the possible beneficiaries (research communities)

   Defining the components of the knowledge management system (competencies, patents, experiences, best practices, research projects). Establishing the types of electronic documents containing knowledge which will be loaded in the system

   Defining the attributions of various participants for the design of the knowledge management system (users, experts, system administration

   Defining and validating the configuration rules (communities, processes, activities, types of documents, workflows)

   Configuration and validation of system configuration on the collaborative platform

   Configuration of prototype

   Data Loading

   Proof of prototype operability

   Concluding agreements for system and data use in an extended research network.