Personal information
Surname : Cabrer i Vilagut
First name : Ferran
Address : Jaume Fabra 12, 08004, Barcelona, (Catalonia) Spain
Telephone(s): +34 93 423 82 67 +34 93 423 9164 - Fax: +34 93 423 34 30
E-mail : Ferran.Cabrer AT CONSEN.org - Ferran.Cabrer AT MUFICATA.net - Ferran AT Cabrer.cat

Nationality : European / Spanish / Catalan
Date of birth : 1958-03-30
Gender : Male
Employment / Occupational field: Owner and General Manager of MUFICATA s.l. B-61421830
President and Coordinator of CONSEN EEIG Euro-Group G-63665152

 

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Ferran Cabrer (EU eSafer-eContent expert)

Expert application form to the eContentplus and Safer Internet plus programmes

Personal Details

Title: Mr
Family name: Cabrer i Vilagut
First name(s): Ferran
Date of birth: 30/03/1958
Town of birth: Barcelona
Country of Birth: CATALONIA Spain
First Nationality: CATALONIA Spain
Second Nationality: Not answered

Gender: Male

Contact Details:

Organisation name (if applicable): CONSEN EEIG Euro-Group
Street: Jaume Fabra 12
Town/City: Barcelona
Country: Catalonia

Postal code: 08004
PO Box: Not answered

Telephone 09-17 hours: +34 93 423 82 67
Telephone 2: --
Mobile telephone: --
Fax Number 1: +34 93 423 34 30
Fax Number 2: Not answered
E-mail 1: Ferran.Cabrer@consen.org
E-mail 2: consen AT consen.org
Web: consen.org

Above contact information (address + telecommunication) is
business

Number of years relevant professional experience
10

I am familiar with the following sectors:

Audiovisual media, broadcasting
Publishing and content supply
Telecommunications and computing
Policy and legal issues
Multilingual/customised content and services
Societal, social and economic issues
Education and training

I am interested in working in the following areas:

Safer Internet plus
Fighting against illegal content through hotlines
Tackling unwanted and harmful content through technology
Promoting a safer environment through self-regulation
Awareness raising

eContentplus
Educational content
Cultural content scientific information and scholarly content

Sectors of specialisation

Safer Internet plus
Legal issues of content on Internet and new media
Self regulation
Technological measures: Rating systems/ Filtering technologies
Content rating

eContentplus
Scientific and technical content
Public/private partnerships
Networked administrations
Metadata and data collections
Multilingual content access and interfaces
Internationalisation and localisation services, cultural customisation
Ontologies, conceptual models, taxonomies, semantic interoperability
Distributed digital repositories and related brokerage services
Information and transaction services, e-and m-commerce
Business innovation and technology transfer
elearning and learning tools
Technologies for accessing and preserving Europe's cultural, artistic resources
Digitisation, digital restoration and preservation techniques for museums and libraries
Geographic information systems and standards

Cross-programmes
Media & new forms of interactive information and communication
Publishing and content supply
Intellectual property rights
Data protection & Consumer protection
Networking and identification of best practices
Information and network security issues (viruses/spam)
Interoperatibility of resources

I have worked mainly for the following types of organisations

Private/commercial company

Recent positions

Position 1

Start date: 01/01/1986
End date: 01/01/2000
Organisation name: Diverses MUFICATA s.l.-GEN.CAT.
Organisation type: Public sector
Organisation size (no. of employees): 500
Job title:
Enginer Assisstant, CEO
Task description:
Diverses
S&T works -Generalitat catalonia: Technical assistant -LAINCO:
Director of Agrochemicals RTD department -MUFICATA: Granting
Technologic projects. Advisor and CEO

Position 2

Start date: 01/01/2000
End date: 01/01/2003
Organisation name: GETRONIC and GECSA
Organisation type: Higher education establishments
Organisation size (no. of employees): 51-500
Job title:
eLearning and KWM Consultant
Task description:
-
Diverse eLearning networks and intranets projects, i,e, Caixa Sabadell
intranet; - FP5 Metacampus project as developers of database of
profiling - Portic portal and collaborative intranet (BCN Harbour)
migrating edi to edi-xml

Position 3

Start date: 01/01/2003
End date: Not answered
Organisation name: MUFICATA - CONSEN EEIG
Organisation type: Private non-profit research centres
Organisation size (no. of employees): 1-10
Job title:
CEO and IST consultant
Task description:
particpation
in diverse EU-RTD projects SIGOSSEE, TOSSAD and SECURE-FORCE
Constitution and management of CONSEN Euro-Group Collaboration with
IQUA, CEN and AMI@WORK and diverse EU initiatives in the area of IST

Highlights of my professional profile

CONSEN - CONSEN (EEIG) Euro-Group is a Grouping of European SMEs who
have agreed to cooperate as Euro-Cluster in Information Society
Technologies projects, tenders and business throughout Europe. The main
objective of the CONSEN (EEIG) is to establish an ongoing and effective
dialogue between members focused on Research, Development, Innovation
and Business of Open Technological Solutions for Information and
Communication at European level. The companies are all experts in
Open-Source Software, Contents, Standards, Infrastructures and
Information Society Technologies. 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 exp

Please reference relevant education

1981 Industry Engineer High Technical School of Industrial Engineer
of Barcelona (UPC, ETSEIB). 1983 Agricultural Technical Engineer
University of Agriculture Technical Engineers of Barcelona (UPC, EUTAB)
1986 Agronomist Engineer High School of Agronomist Engineers of Lleida
(UPC, ETSEALL). From 10/2002 To 2003 Director of MUFICATA s.l. EU RTD
in IST Information Society Technologies, participation in
eLearning-info programme contributing in SIGOSSEE project.From 10/2000
To 10/2002 GECSA Knowledge Management (IST, Learning and KW Management
project manager). Participation in EU-FP5 IP MetaCampus eleraning
market From 1999 To 10/2000 Getronics: IST project manager and IT
TeacherFrom 1998 To 1999 Organization GUVER (IST project manager)From
1996 To 1998 APIP Association NGO of Professional Insertion and
Inclusion (Course Content production and administrative projects
coordination)From 1993 To 1996 Multifinancial Capital s.l. (Corporate
Finance, M&A and Enterprise management consulting) From 1991 To
1993 TOP5 s.l. (General Manager, scooter accessories)From 1987 To 1991
LAINCO s.a. (Agrochemical Research and development Director) From 1986
To 1987 Generalitat of Catalonia (Technical Assistant of the Tarragona
Territorial Delegation)

Studies, works, publications related to the areas chosen

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 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 networked problems, such as imagining,
legalizing, registering, acting, banking, accounting,
trusting/authenticating and monitoring. - 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. - Exploration, Promotion
and exploitation of the Open Source Solutions: Software, Contents,
Protocols, Standards, Communities, Platforms and Infrastructures. -
Clustering resources and “hibridyzing” competences catalogue for
improving Technological results and Business generation. CONSEN aims to
reach a recognized position in the EGs Consulting mediation services
and to establish partners and co-operation agreements in detected
Innnovation 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 - ELMA learning for the
European Labour Market Enhancement Leonardo LdV-2 Mov-PILOT.

Languages in which the applicant can work

	Languages	Written	Reading	Conversation
1	English	Average	Average	Average
2	French	Average	Average	Average
3	Italian	Elementary	Average	Elementary
4	Portuguese	Elementary	Average	Elementary
5
if other languages, please specify		My Native language is Catalan

Earlier evaluation/reviewing experience (national/EU programmes, projects)
Yes

Specification of national programmes and other:
- 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 - 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