Mission
As Interoperability is the key
needed element for businesses and governments in the new electronic
landscape, the Greek Interoperability Centre's (G.I.C.) vision
is to assist Enterprises and Public Administrations to co-operate
efficiently and securely, based on open standards and IT-systems,
in order to bridge organisational and technical borders. In this
context, the Greek Interoperability Centre's mission encompasses
the following goals:
- The creation of a national research pole of
interoperability which will cooperate with enterprises,
governmental organizations and research centres in Greece, in order
to achieve high quality research results in the area of
Interoperability.
- The active interaction with other relevant
organisations and research centres, at Regional, European
and International level, so as both to gain needed experience and
know-how, but also to communicate results and assist neighbouring
countries.
- The contribution of multi-disciplinary research on
interoperability, tackling research challenges at
organizational, semantic and technical level. The scope of the
G.I.C. in vertical thematic areas is not constrained to e-Business
and e-Government, but has a long perspective of expanding to
e-Learning, e-Health and Network of the Future, promoting a
multi-platform and multi-device approach to interoperability.
- The contribution to policy making and
standardisation in Greece and the neighbouring region, thus
assisting the implementation of European Policies and
interoperability - related initiatives, such as the e-Government
Interoperability Framework (eGIF).
- The creation of a new generation of young and more
experienced researchers in the areas of Computer Science,
Information Systems, Decision Support Systems and Electronic
Business, able to tackle emerging interoperability issues in
Businesses and Governments.
- The active dissemination of
research results towards the scientific and business
community in Greece, in the neighbouring countries and
internationally.
The Centre
The Greek Interoperability Centre
is a new research centre targeting eGovernment and eBusiness
Interoperability that provides Interoperability R&D
services for administrations, businesses and research institutions
in Greece, South-Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean.
It is based at the Decision Support Systems Lab of
the National Technical University of
Athens - the leading technological research institute in Greece
- and aims at becoming a premium research centre in the field
of Interoperability, cooperating with academia and research, public
administration, organizations and businesses across the Greek
regions but also with institutions form the Balkans, Eastern
Europe and the Mediterranean in order to form a strong
regional pole of research and technology in Europe.
The Greek Interoperability Centre
is structured through cooperation with leading research
institutes from Germany, Italy, Norway, UK, US and China, inviting
high-caliber international researchers and engaging more than 15
experts and new researchers in its team.
The Centre is capable of
conducting innovative EU level research, supporting the Greek
Government and the IT Industry in achieving the benefits of
interoperability, exerting influence in shaping national policy
regarding interoperability research and funding, contributing to
standardisation in national and international level and
disseminating research results and knowledge in relevant identified
research centres and organisations in Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech
Republic, Slovakia, FYRO Macedonia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovenia
and Turkey.
The Greek Interoperability Centre
is a Research Project with the funding and supervision of the
European Commission within the FP7 Research Programme (EC /
FP7 Project 204999).