CONSEN EURO-GROUP E.E.I.G.
CONSEN - CONSEN (EEIG) Euro-Group European Economic Interest Grouping,
is an alliance of European SMEs who have agreed to cooperate as
Euro-Cluster in projects and tenders throughout Europe. The main
objective of the CONSEN (EEIG) EURO-GROUP is to establish an ongoing
and effective dialogue between members focused on Research, Development
and Innovation European projects. These companies are all experts in
Open-Source and Information Society Technologies and through the
Euro-Group, are able to operate contracts in all countries in Europe.
CONSEN is a non-profit, independent and international consulting firm
constituted in November of 2004 in Barcelona. The CONSEN partner's
commitment maximizes the Socio-Economic benefits of CONSEN activities.
The Key-Concept is to consider CONSEN as a European-OS/IST-Cluster
built with the networking methodologies, competences and best practices
of our partners. The CONSEN member's strategy is to share resources, to
exploit and manage the competencies of their members with synergic
effect.
CONSEN grouping's acts as extension of the company internal
organization, fostering cooperation and transferring technology,
innovation and knowledge from the scientific world to companies and
reach the local and sectoral business and competitiveness leadership.
CONSEN facilitates them to acquire and put into practice new
technologies, cooperate with research institutes to develop systems and
application in response to industrial demand of creation of new
markets, new business models and new profit centres.
CONSEN is member of the Internet Quality Agency (IQUA) and the European Business Supportive Network (eBSN).
This CONSEN concerns the OPEN-SOURCE philosophy, technology, business
and innovation, which is, by definition, an open door to the
cooperation, to the partnership and thus to the networking success. The
purpose of
The CONSEN objectives are to present and carry out innovative
initiatives and projects in IST, trying to maximize the quality and the
socio-economic benefits, in the following areas:
Research, Development, Implementation, Promotion and Sustainable
Exploitation of the cooperative technologic and business networks
formed by micro and small companies and organization.
RTD+I of Organizational and Operative problems, as imagining,
legalizing, registering, acting, “apostilingâ€, banking, accounting,
trusting/authenticating, info-transparency and monitoring, etc.
Promotion and Sustainable Exploitation to create a real wide market – connected, sorted and structured - of opportunities.
Systemic Procedure to “bottom up†initiatives, research and
leverage knowledge and transfer from the European Organization the
technology and innovation to individual members with efficiency.
Finally help and train individual members to convert this innovation in
competitiveness and local business for its benefit and organization
reinvestment, etc.
Detection and definition in the Variety of the information and communication environment of opportunities for synergic effects.
Clustering resources and hibridyzing competences catalogue for improving Technological results and Business generation.
CONSEN expects by means of the EGs On-Net improve their internal
injection of knowledge and innovation to the members, boost the
conversion of the innovation in local business for the members and
reinforce their European representation.
CONSEN aims to reach a recognized position in the EGs Consulting
mediation services and to establish partners and co-operation
agreements in detected Innovation and business opportunities, new
countries and EGs areas of interest in parallel with the EU-FP6
projects going-on:
SIGOSSEE (Special Interest Groups in Open-Source in e-learning and Education in Europe)
TOSSAD (Towards OSS Adoption and Dissemination) IST-3 CA No. 015981
SAMANTHA (OPEN MOBILE NETWORKS for traceability in Seafood)
COMIST (AMIATwork communities to IST in NMS)
SECURE-FORCE (European Security and Privacy platform - Pro-active
intelligence & support programme to stimulate European SMEs Faced
with research issues in the field of ICT secuRity) INNOV-5 CA No. 023426
If you have any questions or concerns, please contact us at:
Office of Admissions
CONSEN (EEIG)
Jaume Fabra 12
08004 Barcelona
Phone: +34 93 423 8267
Email: consen(@)CONSEN.org
