International CIP ICT PSP project preparatory meeting of
“Connecting to Smart Cities in the Mediterranean EU regions ”
Date: 4rd March 2010, Venue: MIMCOL, Malta

Draft Programme

8:45 Welcome address by organisers

9:00 Presentation of each participating organisations in 4-6 minutes (max. 5 substance slides)

10.00 The CIP ICT PSP Pilot “B” Theme on 4 ‘Open Innovation for Future Internet-enabled services in “smart” cities’ – Main priorities

9:30 “Connecting to Smart Cities” project general objectives/ structure/subprojects – draft proposal

9:50 Scenarios to explain the objectives (i.e. Adventure based Learning)

10:25 Previous/Ongoing/successful projects/ models, services and functionalities to achieve the objectives - few examples from the preexisting cross-border “smart projects” in Portugal, Greece, Italy, Malta, France, Spain, Cyprus.

11:25 Coffee Break

11:50 The main project structure: WPs and Tasks – WP leaders (8 WP leaders) and tasks per subprojects (4 + 1)

12.15 The model of “town twinning” per services 1. Smart home/building 2.Traffic management 3.Emergency healthcare 4. Cultural heritage

12: 40 The composition of the consortium (core partners and associated partners) – first list of the core partners per countries (one city, one service provider, one knowledge sharing partner), the creation of the list of the associated partners and their roles

13:00 Lunch

14.30 The project preparation timetable by 1st of June.2010: project writing, web-based communication and PM tool, internal deadlines, minutes of meetings, responsible

14.50 Preliminary budget split per subprojects (4 verticals and 1 horizontal) and per partners

15:10 Necessary data: CVs, partner profiles, logos, previous projects in the same topics, publications

15.30 Distribution of TO DO with Agenda of telcos, web-based project management site, deadlines, responsible/WPs

16.00 Closing of the meeting

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