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| 1 > Signature of a collaboration agreement targeting the exchange of researchers and the definition of joint RDI projects with the University of Aveiro in Portugal. In the photograph: Dr Claude Wehenkel, CEO of CRP Henri Tudor, and José Joacquim De Almeida Gràcio, Director of the Research at the University of Aveiro (27 June 2007) | 2 > Visit of representatives of the University Badji Mokhtar of Annaba (Algeria) (8 June 2007) | 3 > LuHF project “Luxembourg Heart Failure” selected from amongst 4,800 products from over 60 countries as one of the eight lighthouse projects for MEDICA (the world’s largest biomedical technology and equipment trade fairs), held in Düsseldorf from 14 to 17 November 2007 | 4 > European BIC Network (EBN) annual congress in Canterbury (21 June 2007). Technoport is member of EBN since 1998 | 5 > Georges Bourscheid, new chairman of the Board of Directors, takes over from Jean de la Hamette (October 2007) | 6 > In October 2007, a new Board of Directors has been nominated. From the left to the right : Pierre Decker, Patrick Nickels, Pascal Bouvry, Claude Wehenkel, Jean-Marie Haensel, Léon Diederich, Georges Bourscheid, Roger Thill, Lucien Schummer, Arthur Philippe (not present in the photograph: Pierre Hirtt) | 7 > Signing of a partnership agreement with the Luxembourg section of the Conseillers du Commerce Extérieur de la France. The aim is to encourage the creation of innovative companies and their establishment in the area of the Grande Région and to collaborate within the framework of joint RDI projects and continuous post-graduate training. In the photograph from the left to the right : François Biltgen, Minister of Culture, Higher Education and Research, Bruno Théret, Chairman of the Luxembourg section of the Conseillers du Commerce Extérieur de la France, Dr Claude Wehenkel, CEO of CRP Henri Tudor, H.E. Charles-Henri de Bancalis Maurel d’Aragon, Ambassador of France in Luxembourg (10 October 2007) | 8 > Avareness-raising activities on Free and Open Source Software within the framework of the Science Club (29 October 2007) | 9 > On the occasion of the presentation to the press of the Annual Report 2006 (12 April 2007), from the left to the right : Jean de la Hamette, Chairman of the Board of Directors (until October 2007), François Biltgen, Minister of Culture, Higher Education and Research, Pierre Decker, Conseiller de Gouvernement 1ère classe of the Ministry of Culture, Higher Education and Research, and Pierre Hirtt, Member of the Board of Directors | 10 > The conference « When the mobile becomes a tourist guide » gathered 61 participants on 20 September 2007 | 11 > 32 new graduated students for the Master “IT and Innovation” (sessions 4, 5 and 6) (26 January 2007) | 12 > CRP Henri Tudor’s collaborators discovering new horizons (28 June 2007)

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Editorial

Cartography of CRP Henri Tudor

Key Figures 2007 of CRP Henri Tudor

Client Satisfaction

Zoom on the Departments

page 19 LTI - Laboratory for Industrial Technologies and Materials

page 27 CITI - Centre for IT Innovation

page 44 CRTE - Resource Centre for Environmental Technologies

page 51 CR SANTEC - Resource Centre for Health Care Technologies

page 54 CRTI-B - Resource Centre for Technologies and Innovation in Construction

page 56 CVT - Technology Watch Centre

page 58 SITec® - Lifelong Learning for Technological Innovation

page 61 FOSS - “Free and Open Source software” Innovation Platform

page 62 Technoport - High-tech Business Incubator

Main RDI Projects of CRP Henri Tudor in 2007

The 322 Contract Partners of CRP Henri Tudor’s Projects in 2007

Scientific Publications in 2007

PhD Theses at CRP Henri Tudor in 2007

Administration & Finances


« CRP Henri Tudor is by far the largest Public Research Centre in Luxembourg, not only in terms of the number of employees and the size

of budget, but also regarding the range of activities, its internal complexity, and its relationships with the outside world. CRP Henri Tudor

exhibits the strongest links to the private sector. Moreover, CRP Henri Tudor represents a broad concept of «innovation», which is not

restricted to research and development, but also includes standards and thus measurement and testing, training and consulting, aimed at

finding the right management approach or organisational set-up. CRP Henri Tudor can thus be considered a rich pool of resources, which

provides both (technological) knowledge and required management capacity. »

(OECD Review of Innovation Policy Luxembourg, 2007)

Claude Wehenkel, CeO, President Of the ManageMent BOard


EDITORIAL 2007

Dear Partner,

We are delighted to present you our major achievements of 2007 in our twentieth Annual Report. What a wonderful anniversary! Twenty

years of performing in an effective way research and innovation activities in a very small country. In that respect, CRP Henri Tudor has

reached a high level of quality and maturity. The growth curve of CRP Henri Tudor is typically the one achieved by successful start-up

companies. A founding team of 6 at the end of 1987, a staff of 335 twenty years later! Since the early 80s, the history of public research

in Luxembourg is closely related to the story of our Centre, as it will be documented in CRP Henri Tudor’s Almanac 1987-2007 to be

published in October 2008.

In 2007, our Centre became full-fledged member of the European Association of Research and Technology Organisations (EARTO)

defending the interests of the most famous innovation oriented research organisations of Europe, like FhG, CEA, VTT, SINTEF, TNO, VITO,

Joanneum Research, among many other. International recognition has been achieved, based on scientific collaboration as well as on

increasing interest for the innovation model that has been conceived and implemented step by step in the last twenty years.

CRP Henri Tudor’s commitment to do the best for you is summarised by the triplet Quality, Transparency and Accountability. Since 2005,

the quality system set-up progressively over many years is ISO 9001:2000 certified. This means that client satisfaction, staff motivation

and effective process management — the three basic pillars of modern quality systems — are constantly assessed and improved.

Transparency and accountability are self-evident obligations for a RTO partly funded by public money.

In 2007, the last year of our ‘Fourth Development Plan 2004-2007’ *, all of our objectives have been fulfilled or even overtopped.

The presence of the CRP Henri Tudor has been firmly reinforced in the financial sector, in construction and in health, as well as in the

technological domains of materials, environment, and logistics. Increasing activity levels of continuous high-standard training and

normative and technological watch can be added, as well as the start-up support for high-tech enterprises. Excellent results achieved

in 2007 are shown in this report.

With the Performance Contract 2008 - 2010*, CRP Henri Tudor is entering a new era. Performance based governance will be generalised in

Luxembourg’s research and innovation landscape. This was a major recommendation issued in the recent OECD Review on Luxembourg’s

innovation policy. In the frame of this novel approach, our research teams will offer powerful new business models aimed at sustainable

collaboration with private and public partners, such as multi-annual strategic programmes or collaborative research projects where

partners can share risks, results and IP. **

CRP Henri Tudor is ready for the next decade!

Claude Wehenkel

President and CEO

* Downloadable from www.tudor.lu** If you want to know more about our new business models and the related public aids, please contact us: [email protected]


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Free and Open Source software

Health Care TechnologiesTechnologies and Innovationin Construction

Quality and certification of IT services Information systems security

Interoperability standards and e-business E-learning, knowledge management and networked organisations Statistical studies and prospective in the knowledge economy

Knowledge economy and innovation management

Software engineering Engineering and management of ICT processes and services Valorisation of ICT innovation Reference systems for modelling and certification

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Cleaner production Strategy and management

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C R S A N T E C Resource Centre for Health Care Technologies

C R T I - B Resource Centre for Technologies and

Innovation in Construction

S I Te c ® SITec® - ”Li fe long Learning for Technological

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C V T Technology Watch Centre

Te c h n o p o r t ® High-tech business incubator (EC-BIC)

The Centre’s depar tments are made up of:

- I n n o v a t i o n p l a t f o r m s ( P F I )

who have a common national strategic object ive,

a large panel of partners and numerous

mult idiscipl inary act iv it ies of research and transfer ;

- S c i e n t i f i c a n d t e c h n o l o g i c a l u n i t s ( U S T )

A pronounced component of special ised research

associated with RDI and valor izat ion act iv it ies;

- I n n o v a t i o n s e r v i c e u n i t s .

One innovat ion platform is shared between two

depar tments:

« Free and Open Source software ».

The Public Research Centre Henri Tudor

i s m a d e u p o f e i g h t d e p a r t m e n t s :


Key Figures 2007 of CRP Henri Tudor

Financial Figures

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2007 2006

Income (in Euro): 29,088,497.28 23,876,562.41

of which:

Grant for mission of public utility 30% 28%

Activity based funding 70% 72%

Budget for 2008 (in Euro): 31,200,000

2007 2006

Staff at the end of the year (headcount): 335 302

of which:

with a PhD: 14% 13%

with a Master: 69% 70%

Graduates, secretaries, technical staff and other: 17% 17%

The mobility of researchers and engineers of the Centre contributes in a significant way to the transfer of competences and the spirit of innovation. In 2007, 31 persons found an attractive job mainly in the private sector, bringing the total to 370 since the Centre’s creation.


Research, Development and Innovation Projects in 2007

Public/Private Partnership

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In 2007, CRP Henri Tudor participated in 147 projects (129 in 2006).

Among these 147 projects, 52% are conducted in direct partnership with companies or groups of companies, 41% in partnership

with public departments and bodies, and 37% with universities or research centres1.

Project results are various and numerous. Few are underlined below:

· Design of 22 trainings, among which 10 are available on e-learning platform in the field of IT, open source, IFC, project

management, knowledge management, technology watch, business organisation and management, Supply Chain management

· More than 150 communications provided by the Centre’s engineers in events or trainings organised by our partners or within the Centre

· 41 prototypes or tools were developed or experimented in co-operation with partners

· 31 methods or new services designed for our partners.1 the total is higher than 100% given the same project may involve partners of various types.

In 2007, 322 partners were involved contractually in the

Centre’s projects. More than half of them are located in

Luxembourg. 196 other partners participated actively in

the projects on a non-contractual basis. See the overall

list of contract partners on page 73.


European Activitiesg

53 European projects undergoing in 2007

36% of the CRP Henri Tudor’s projects are conducted within the framework of European programmes, in particular FP6, ESA, Eureka

ITEA, Leonardo, ERDF Interreg and Objective 2, ESF Objective 3.

Within the 6th European R&D Framework Programme (FP6), CRP Henri Tudor is co-ordinator of one Specific Target Research Project,

“CASSEM” in the field of composite and adaptative structure, and has active responsibilities in 3 Networks of Excellence:

· INTEROP, in the field of information technologies inter-operability

· CMA, in the field of complex metallic alloys

· GA2LEN, in the field of allergy and health care.

The Centre participates in 4 new projects launched in 2007 within the 6th European R&D Framework Programme:

· TRIG “TRI-generation CHP and Cooling with Integrated Flue Gas-condensation Based on Solid Biomass Fuels”

· SEMS “Sustainable Energy Management Systems”

· NAVOBS+ “Expanded and Competitive Network of GMES Service Providers and Customers”

· IP4Inno “Intellectual Property for Innovation”.

3 other new projects were launched in 2007 within Eureka-ITEA clusters, in the field of mobile technologies, multimedia contents

and trusted security platforms.

The Centre is member of several European networks and committees:

· Member of the European BIC Network (EBN, member of the Board of Directors and mandated as expert to evaluate Business

Innovation Centres), European Space Incubator Network (ESINET), Gate2Growth Incubator Forum

· Member of the European Association of Research and Technology Organisations (EARTO)

· Active participation to the European Research Consortium in Informatics and Mathematics, ERCIM (member of the Board of

Directors and of several working groups)

· Several participations in COST (European Cooperation in the field of Scientific and Technical Research) committees in the field

of materials and information technologies.


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In 2007, CRP Henri Tudor’s researchers published 72 scientific articles in peer reviewed international journals or conference

proceedings. Engineers of the Centre are member of review committees in 11 international journals.

31 PhD students are trained within the Centre in partnership with foreign universities: 16 in the field of material structure

simulation and modelling, 10 in information technologies and organisation, 3 in environmental technologies, 1 in health care

technologies, and 1 in Supply Chain management. Eight students defended their thesis with success in 2007: Gateau Benjamin, Le

Loirec Cindy, Solvi Anne-Marie, Abbadi Ahmed, Azaouzi Mohamed, Boudaoud Hakim, Minea Alexandru, Humbert Jean-Philippe.

Several engineers of the Centre participated in research evaluation :

· as evaluators for research programmes at national level (Belgian and Slovak National Research Funds) and European level (7th

European R&D Framework Programme, COST)

· as member of the jury of doctoral thesis at the universities of Twente (NL), KU Leuven (B), Hasselt (NL), Genève (CH), Namur (B),

Strasbourg (F), and the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines (ENSM) of Saint-Etienne (F).

28 engineers of the Centre gave more than 500 hours of teaching in European universities in 2007.

80 students are following the three international Master courses co-organised with partner universities:

· The Master “IT and Innovation” opened its 9th session, gathering 39 attendees in the three ongoing sessions, and having 7

students graduated in 2007. It is organised in partnership with the University of Nancy 2 (F) and the Facultés Notre Dame de

la Paix of Namur (B);

· The Master “Management Sciences with a Specialization in Quality” 3rd session was launched, gathering 14 attendees, and

10 graduated in 2007. It is organised in partnership with Paul Verlaine University of Metz and the University of Quebec in

Trois-Rivières;

· The Master “Management of Information Systems Security” opened its 2nd session. Gathering in the two ongoing sessions 27

attendees. It is organised in partnership with the University of Luxembourg.

55 new contacts were made, with the final acceptance of one new business in the incubator (GentleSecurity - www.gentlesecurity.com -

active in the field of computer security) and the support for the creation of two further businesses, one of which was set for final

approval in January 2008. This brings the number of businesses accepted since Technoport’s creation in June 1998 to 41. Two

more companies joined the already 8 grown out “success stories”: COnOSTIx and EPURAMAT (see details on pages 64-65).


Training and Dissemination Activitiesg

In 2007, the Centre Henri Tudor organised 145 qualifying trainings gathering 1,450 attendees. Altogether, 196 days of qualifying

trainings and 97 days of Master courses have been organised.

The Centre organised, in co-operation with local and international partners, 51 conferences, attended by 1,909 people. The main

ones are:

· “L’outsourcing informatique dans le secteur financier” (94 attendees) 21 March 2007, in partnership with the Association des

Banques et Banquiers Luxembourg (ABBL)

· “Congrès annuel 2007 GestionDeProjet.lu” (93 attendees) 24 October 2007, in partnership with SPIRAL network

· “REACH information seminar” (83 attendees) 10 May 2007, in partnership with the Chambre de Commerce and the Fédération

des Industriels Luxembourgeois (FEDIL)

· “RSSI : Le “BANQUIER” de vos informations” (79 attendees) 19 December 2007, in partnership with CLUSSIL and SPIRAL

network

· “Journée de la Qualité dans le Secteur Public” (79 attendees) 11 July 2007, in partnership with the Ministère de la Fonction

Publique et de la Réforme Administrative

· “Evaluation et Efficacité des Politiques Publiques” (78 attendees) 27 April 2007, in partnership with the Ministry of the

Economy and Foreign Trade, STATEC and the Observatoire de la Compétitivité

· “Pour un meilleur échange d’information dans les projets de construction” (78 attendees) 29 March 2007, in partnership with

the Ministère des Travaux Publics, the Administration des Bâtiments Publics, the Administration des Ponts et Chaussées, the

Ordre des Architectes et des Ingénieurs-conseils (OAI), the Chambre des Métiers and the Fédération des Artisans.

· “LinuxDays 2007” (71 participants) 1-2 February 2007, in collaboration with the University of Luxembourg, Restena, Lilux,

the National Research Fund (FNR)

· “YaJuG : Rich Internet Applications & Java” (69 attendees) 28 Februar 2007, in partnership with YaJuG

· “Quand le Mobile se fait guide touristique” (61 attendees) 20 September 2007, with the financial participation of the

European ERDF programme

· “Carnet Radiologique Electronique” (50 attendees) 29 March 2007

· “LuSI Day - Luxembourg Safer Internet Day” (46 attendees) 8 November 2007, in partnership with Luxembourg Safer Internet,

Telindus, 12345 Kanner Jugendtelefon, and with the financial contribution of the European Commission and the National

Research Fund (FNR)


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International Relationsg

In 2007, 12 engineers of the Centre were members of ANSIL (Association de Normalisation pour la Société de l’Information

Luxembourg) and participated in two of its expert committees:

· CNLSI (Comité de Normalisation Luxembourgeois pour la Sécurité de l’Information)

· CNLQSI (Comité de Normalisation pour la Qualité des Systèmes d’Information)

At international level, 21 engineers of the Centre are involved in Luxembourg representation into ISO JTC 1 (Joint Technical

Committee) in the field of Information Technologies, for several Sub Committees (SC)

· SC6 on “Telecommunications and Information Exchange between Systems”,

· SC7 “Software & Systems Engineering”: head of delegation, editor for ISO/IEC20.000-4 (IT Service management process

reference model) and co-editor of a new standard (IT Service management incremental approach), which was accepted after

the ballot, participation in the working groups on “Software Lifecycle Profiles for very Small Enterprises”, “ICT Governance”

and “Process Assessment ISO/IEC 15504”,

· SC27 “IT Security techniques”: participation in the working groups on “Information Security Management System”, “Security

Controls and Services” and “Identity Management and Privacy Technologies”,

· SC29 “Coding of Audio, Picture, Multimedia and Hypermedia Information”: participation in working group “Coding of Moving

Pictures and Audio”,

· SC34 “Document Description and Processing Language”: co-ordinator for Luxembourg,

· SC36 “IT for Learning, Education and Training”: participation in working groups on “Mobile learning” and “Quality in

e-learning”.

The Centre also participates in ISO/TC164/SC 3 on “Mechanical testing of metals / Hardness testing”.

In 2007, the following agreements deserve some particular attention:

· The signing of a collaboration agreement with the University Badji Mokhtar of Annaba in Algeria aiming at the supervision

of PhD theses guided by both institutions, the exchange of researchers, as well as the submission of joint RDI projects, in

particular in the field of modelling and simulation. A first result of this agreement was the welcoming in Luxembourg of an

Algerian researcher and the publication of a joint article in a renowned scientific journal,

· The signing of a collaboration agreement with the University of Aveiro in Portugal, in presence of the ambassador of Portugal.

The agreement targets the exchange of researchers and the definition of joint RDI projects,

· The signing of a strategic co-operation agreement between the CITI and the Centre d’Excellence en Technologies de

l’Information et de la Communication (CETIC) located in the Walloon Region. This synergy will give rise to a European centre

of excellence in the quality of software services and products,

· The signing of a partnership agreement with the Luxembourg section of the Conseillers du Commerce Extérieur de la France.

The main objectives are to encourage the creation of innovative companies and their establishment in the area of the Grande

Région and to collaborate within the framework of joint RDI projects and post-graduate training.

Furthermore, CRP Henri Tudor has initiated a collaboration with the University of Chemical Technology and Metallurgy of Sofia

in Bulgaria. First common European projects will be submitted in 2008. Of note is the renewal of the contacts with the Centre

International des Technologies de l’Environnement de Tunisie (CITET) in Tunis, too.


Client Satisfaction

Client satisfaction contact: Cécile Cavalade, phone: +352 42 59 91 - 303, [email protected]

The measurement of customer satisfaction is done by an external company to ensure neutrality of the survey.

It is carried out in two stages:

· A quantitative measure of satisfaction by telephone from clients who closed their contract to establish the “barometer” below

· An analysis with several qualitative interview to deepen the dissatisfaction and the topics of improvement

About 71 customers contacted, 51 responded, representing a return rate of 72%. And 12 interviews were carried out.


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SITec® evaluates the satisfaction of attendees towards the organised trainings, through paper or Internet surveys.

Conferences return rate is much lower as the attendees are much more mobile than in a “classic” training session.

In the Master trainings, each course is evaluated separately.

Activities Return rate Satisfaction rate

Qualifying trainings 69% 89%

Conferences 44% 93%

Diploma trainings (Master) 72% 80%


Zoom on theDepartments

Some of the following activities and projects benefitted from

the financial support of the national Research Fund (FnR),

the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and

the European Social Fund (ESF).


Staff at the end of 2007: 70.5

Key competences: Modelling and piloting of Supply Chains, organisational standards and management, constraint management, enterprise modelling (flow/process duality), new forms of organisations, project management, computational mechanics, data analysis, physical measurement systems, studies, material trials and characterization, materials synthesis, nanocomposite materials, metrology, customer relationship management and relational marketing

Activities: R&D, doctoral research, expertise, technological assistance, ongoing post-graduate training, animation of innovation platforms, specialist services: material trials, metrology and calibration

Number of RDI projects: 32

Units: · “Strategy and management” scientific and technological unit

· “Modelling and simulation” scientific and technological unit

· “Materials” scientific and technological unit

Main partners: ArcelorMittal, Guardian Automotive, Netzsch, Ceratizit, Service de l’Energie de l’Etat (SEE - standards committees), Ministère des Travaux Publics, Office Luxembourgeois d’Accréditation et de Surveillance (OLAS), Agence de l’Energie SA (AEL), Mouvement Luxembourgeois pour la Qualité (MLQ), Vlaamse Instelling voor Technologisch Onderzoek (VITO), Husky, Imatec, e2v, Amer-sil, Mondo, Guardian, Gottscholl-Alcuilux SA, Rotarex, Ministère de la Fonction Publique et de la Réforme Administrative, DuPont de Nemours, Eurocomposites, IEPERBAND N.V., Fidet Sàrl, Defontaine SA, Vitha Travaux SA, ERICO, Luxspace (ESA project), Cegecom, Inlingua, Compass, Hôpital Kirchberg, Glaverbel, ArcelorMittal-Distribution (AMD), Bernard Massard, Congrégation des Soeurs de Sainte Elisabeth (CSSE)

Contact: Pr Dr Jos Schaefers, Director, [email protected], phone: +352 42 59 91 – 1

Further information: www.lti.lu

LTI Laboratory for Industrial Technologies and Materials

Pr dr JOs sChaefers


2007 hIghlIghTS FoR ThE DEpARTMENT AS A wholE:

The following factors have contributed most to the department’s reputation:

· The SC-CONSTRUCT “Sustainable and Competitive Construction” project has made it possible to federate all the key actors in

construction around the theme of the Supply Chain within the field of construction and within a large construction project, namely

the project owner, the project manager, contractors and subcontractors. The overall success of this project lies in the involvement of

three major public project owners: the Adminstration des Bâtiments Publics, the City of Luxembourg and the City of Esch-sur-Alzette.

The project has thus led to the design of a five-year collaborative research programme starting up in 2008. Within the framework

of this programme, the model developed in SC-CONSTRUCT will be used in medium- and large-scale construction projects in order to

increase the value for the customer and the user whilst at the same time reducing delays and costs and generating higher profits for

organisations.

· There is an increased quality awareness on the part of administrations and public services, thanks in particular to the LPO “Lean

Public Organisation” project, implemented in the spirit of improving the state of Luxembourg’s productivity and competitiveness. The

LTI has thus raised awareness amongst the management of most administrations and public services about the issue of quality and

performance. Several events were organised, including a one-day event devoted entirely to quality in the public sector; each occasion

attracted around a hundred participants from the said sector. The LPO project has also induced the Ministère de la Fonction Publique

et de la Réforme Administrative to think about defining a collaborative research programme that will run for several years within the

field of public service improvement.

· The laboratory is participating in a new project of the Seventh European Framework Programme on the development of a methodology

and the assessment of the impact of FP5 and FP6 projects in the field of Transport.

· The strategy for developing activities related to scientific research into materials has produced its first results. From among many other

results, we must emphasize in particular the acceptance of a patent in the field of PVC stabilization. In addition, a new section of the

laboratory dedicated to the creation of new materials and to prototypes of analytical instruments was unveiled in September 2007.

The new section allows researchers to work on the entire life cycle of the materials, from design to recyclability, including studies on

their functionality. It is now possible to anticipate the lifespan of a material and forecast its recyclability. The new section also allows

researchers to design new manufacturing processes and improve current processes.

· Finally, by using the project management method based on the Theory of Constraints for the first time in a microelectronic engineering

environment (200 engineers), it was possible to reduce the duration of projects by 30% in six months and to improve compliance with

deadlines by between 15 and 50%.


TRANSFER AND DISSEMINATIoN ACTIvITIES oF lTI

2007 hIghlIghTS by UNIT

Training and teaching Qualifying training organised : 58 days of training; 541 attendees

Master “Management Sciences with a Specialization in Quality”, organised in partnership with

Paul-Verlaine University of Metz (F) and the University of Quebec in Trois-Rivières (CND)

14 attendees to the 3 · rd session, 10 graduate students in 2007

81 hours of teaching in university Master cursus

Scientific publications 13 scientific peer-reviewed publications published in journals or conference proceedings

phDs 17 ongoing PhDs, 3 successfully defended in 2007

Conferences 5 conferences gathered 134 attendees for a cumulated duration of 22 hours, including :

Journée de la Qualité dans le Secteur public · (79 attendees) 11 July 2007, in partnership

with the Ministère de la Fonction Publique et de la Réforme Adminsitrative

· 3 Supply Chain meetings (46 attendees participants)

Events 6 scientific seminars in the field of materials gathered 228 attendees for a cumulated duration

of 7.5 days

3 professional seminars in the fields of quality and productivity gathered 85 attendees for a

cumulated duration of 2 days

“STRATEgy AND MANAgEMENT” SCIENTIFIC AND TEChNologICAl UNIT

The unit’s aim is to develop and maintain skills in order to improve business productivity and competitiveness through management system

and business organisation performance as well as Supply Chain synchronization.

2007 hIghlIghTS:

The unit can pride itself on tangible impacts on the economy in 2007.

Thus, the LPO “Lean Public Organisation” project on quality in administrations and public services ·

made possible the assembly of some 80 professionals for the one-day Quality in the Public Sector event

held on 11 July 2007, which was supported by the Ministère de la Fonction Publique et de la Réforme

Administrative. A number of training sessions and events targeting public administrations with the aim

of continuous improvement in public administrations, have allowed LTI to train 70 people and raise

awareness among a hundred or so. A dozen administrations have started up improvement programmes

and obtained convincing first results. A tool for measuring customer/citizen satisfaction was developed

and implemented in two administrations. Feedback on this project was presented at the EIPA conference

on quality in public services in Europe held on 11 and 12 October 2007 in Lisbon.

The SC-CONSTRUCT “Sustainable and Competitive Construction” project aimed at improving the ·

competitiveness and perenniality of the construction sector, enabled public project owners to become

aware of productivity losses in their sector. A collaborative model capable of producing considerable

gains in productivity and value creation was developed and applied in a pilot project financed by the

private sector. Two other pilot projects are currently being drawn up. Nine workshops were organised

bringing together 25 organisations (public project managers, companies, architects, engineers and

suppliers). Forty people participated in the workshop held on 10 May 2007, during which British

experiences with new models of PPP collaboration were presented. Lastly, about 40 people from the

Ministère des Travaux Publics attended awareness raising activities.

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Competitiveness and productivity in production and service industries were improved. · The unit enabled

a high-tech company to reduce its manufacturing cycles by over 50% (from 5.7 to 2.9 weeks) and

outstanding discounted bills (from 6.1 to 3.3%), with an increase in the rate of compliance with

delivery dates (95%). The company is now able to offer delivery deadlines corresponding to 60% of

those of the market! The unit enabled a research and development team to reduce the duration of

projects by 32% and increase the rate of compliance with project deadlines by 15%, to 50%, thanks

to an innovative project management approach based on the Theory of Constraints. The unit was

responsible for a 6.25% increase in the turnover of a well-known training organisation generated by

customer relations engineering.

Finally, also worthy of note:

The publication through the Quality Pass project “Passport to Quality for Very Small and Small ·

Enterprises” of the PAC-PME pedagogical guide, consisting of a set of documents on tools for increasing

the competitiveness of SMEs.

The launch of the third intake of the “Master in Management Sciences Specializing in Quality” organised in ·

conjunction with the Paul-Verlaine University in Metz and the University of Quebec in Trois-Rivières.

International recognition with the integration of the COST “Comparative Research into Current Trends in ·

Public Sector Organisation” programme, the integration of European CAF groups, the integration of the

International Association for Research into Entrepreneurship and SMEs, “AIREPME”, the establishment

of numerous partnerships, notably with the University of Nancy 2, the Paul-Verlaine University in

Metz, the Institut National Polytechnique de Lorraine, Cranfield University, the GISEH network and the

University of Paris X.

Contact : Magalie briquet, Unit Manager, [email protected]

ZooMINg IN oN ThE RESUlTS oF ThE pRoJECT … QUAlITy pASS

Quality passport for small and very small companies

The project Quality Pass « Passport pour la qualité des petites et très petites entreprises », co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), aimed at improving the sustainability of small and very small enterprises. Every year, 700 bankruptcies of small and very small enterprises are declared in Luxemburg. More than 40 % of the companies disappear before having reached their 5th year of existence.

The project focalised on two major points :

Awareness of small and very small enterprises on the importance of continuous improvement ·

The design and distribution of continuous improvement tools adapted to small and very small ·

enterprises.

Main results are:

The organisation of the « Salon des Bonnes Pratiques » in 2004 and 2006. Unique exchange and ·

discussion platform on the best management practices dedicated to small and very small companies, the

Salon des Bonnes Pratiques gathered more than 200 participants at each session

Seminars and awareness actions targeting shopkeepers and craftsmen, in collaboration with the local ·

administration of several cities

A report on the commercial attraction of the City of Schifflange ·

The design of a diagnostic tool and its implementation in 40 companies ·

Numerous improvement actions conducted in partnership with shopkeepers and craftsmen ·

The design and distribution of a complete improvement toolset dedicated to small and very small ·

enterprises

A second project on this theme will follow.

Contact : [email protected]


“MoDEllINg AND SIMUlATIoN” SCIENTIFIC AND TEChNologICAl UNIT

The unit’s aim is to make available to businesses a data analysis and computational mechanics skills centre and thereby help them improve

their products and processes.

2007 hIghlIghTS:

The doctoral thesis by Dr Heng Hu dealing with “Multi-scale Modelling of Sandwich Structures”, co- ·

supervised by the unit, was awarded the prize for the best Chinese thesis in France by the Chinese

Research Ministry. The work was carried out in collaboration with the Paul-Verlaine University in Metz.

Three theses co-supervised by the unit were successfully presented in 2007: the thesis by Dr Ahmed ·

Abbadi entitled “Characterization of Fatigue-Loaded Sandwich Structures with Honeycomb Cores” (Paul-

Verlaine University in Metz), the thesis by Dr Hakim Boudaoud on “Modelling of the Active-Passive

Shock Absorption in Structures” (Paul-Verlaine University in Metz) and the thesis by Dr Mohammed

Azaouzi on “Modelling of the Numerical Optimization for Drawing Precision Parts in Fine Sheet-metal

Manufacturing” (Institut National Polytechnique de Lorraine in Nancy).

Four additional doctoral theses are being co-supervised: the thesis by Lyasid Bouhala entitled “A Study ·

of Crack Propagation in Solid Oxide Fuel Cells Based on the Meshless Method” (University Louis Pasteur

in Strasbourg and IIT Kumpur in India), the thesis by Anca Maria Nagy on “Analysis and Synthesis of

Multi-model Structures for Simplifying Models Application to Purification Stations” (Institut National

Polytechnique de Lorraine in Nancy), the thesis by Imen El Khaldi on “Definition and Optimization of

Form in Processes for Shaping Thin Sheet-metal” (Paul-Verlaine University in Metz) and lastly the thesis

by Mohammed Moumnassi entitled “Simulations in Ambient Space: an Application of Partition-of-unity

Methods to Integrate Independent Mechanical Engineering Simulations” (Paul-Verlaine University in

Metz).

The proposal for the project on extended piezoelectric strain rosette approach for structural health ·

monitoring of a vibration control has been accepted by the European Space Agency (ESA). This project

will be carried out in collaboration with the Université Libre de Bruxelles and Politecnico di Torino and

will begin in 2008.

Finally, the unit has been · very active with regard to international collaboration, given that a collaboration

agreement was signed on 27 June 2007 with Aveiro University in Portugal. The agreement is the result

of a lengthy collaboration between the unit and the research team of Professor José Gracio. The unit

was also responsible for bringing together the CRP Henri Tudor and the University of Annaba in Algeria.

As result, in June 2007, an agreement between the two parties was signed with the aim of promoting

exchange in the field of research and innovation. Over the coming years, this collaboration will be

cemented through joint research projects.

Contact: Serge Gillé, Unit Manager, [email protected]

PaC PMe: tOOlset dediCated tO sMall and very sMall enterPrises and aiMing at inCreasing their COMPetitiveness


“MATERIAlS” SCIENTIFIC AND TEChNologICAl UNIT

The aim of the “Materials” scientific and technological unit is to develop and maintain a materials test and inspection centre (materials

clinic) in order to improve business productivity and competitiveness by improving products and processes.

2007 hIghlIghTS:

On 24 September 2007 the · new laboratory section (200m2) dedicated to the creation of new materials

and to prototypes of analytical instruments opened. The new section allows researchers to work on the

entire life cycle of materials, from their design to their recyclability, while including studies on their

functionality. It is now possible to anticipate the end of life of a material and forecast its recyclability.

The new section also allows researchers to design new manufacturing processes and improve current

processes.

The unit submitted, in collaboration with a large panel of national and international partners, a project ·

proposal aiming the development of new technological solutions for making plastic components and

innovative interconnections for mobile communications applications, including those used at high

frequencies for aeronautics.

The proposal for the “Solar Sail” project was accepted by the European Space Agency (ESA). This ·

project, carried out with the Centre Spatial de Liège, DuPont de Nemours, the Laboratoire de Surface et

Génie des Surfaces, EADS Astrium, Samtech and the CRP Gabriel Lippmann, aims to devise a solar sail

for propelling satellites in the context of a reconnaissance mission to the planet Mars.

Development of three unique surface treatment and materials analysis prototypes: · the first prototype,

devoted to surface treatment of materials via atmospheric plasma, was built in collaboration with

VITO. This prototype has the characteristic of being able to treat large-scale samples and work in

a dynamic mode to simulate projection speeds. The second prototype combines a chamber for the

surface treatment of materials in a pressure vacuum and an analysis chamber equipped with an x-ray

photoelectron spectrometer (XPS). The third is intended for dynamic mode analysis of materials

subjected to constraints, whether radiative, thermal, chemical or mechanical. The chosen mode of

detection is electronic microscopy, with the possibility of working in environmental mode.

The · 1st Plasma Day was held on 21 November 2007. This event was attended by about 50 participants

who wished to discover the latest innovative applications in terms of surface treatment via atmospheric

plasma conducted in the laboratory.

The laboratory continues to be the principal actor in the field of materials, with · over 5,000 samples

tested this year.

The laboratory successfully passed its maintenance of ISO CEI 17025 accreditation for its trials and ·

calibration. The laboratory is also accredited as a Notified Body for construction products.

From now on the unit welcomes · four doctoral students, since the RDI team of the laboratory was joined

by Gregory Mertz. His area of study deals with understanding ageing mechanisms through an innovative

approach that consists of the dynamic mode probing of ageing phenomena in situ.

Two post-doctorates have also come to strengthen the scientific life of the laboratory. The first, ·

Sylvain Thibault, is working on the development of innovative biosensors and the second, Abdelghani

Laachachi, on the development of nanocomposites with improved properties.

The laboratory has welcomed two internationally renowned researchers: Professors Said Ahzi and ·

Alfredo Marquez. Whilst the first comes from the University of Strasbourg and has been able to compare

his theories on numerical modelling to the unit’s experimental approaches, the second, originally

from Chihuahua (Mexico), is more interested in the topic of biosensors. Over the coming years these

collaborations will be cemented through joint research projects.

Contact: David Ruch, Unit Manager, [email protected]


ZooMINg IN oN ThE RESUlTS oF ThE pRoJECT … ThERA

Excellence in thermal analysis

Thanks to the project THERA, co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF Objective 2) with the collaboration of NETZSCH, the unit has been able to set up a recognized pole of competences in thermal analysis and accelerated ageing.

The laboratory has equipped itself with performance instruments such as a calorimeter, a thermobalance, a laser flash and a dilatometer, enabling it to access properties such as phase transitions, thermal stability, thermal expansion coefficients, thermal diffusivity and conductivity. At the same time, competences in accelerated ageing through radiative (simulation of the solar spectrum), thermal or chemical (simulation of a saline environment) constraints in combination with electrical impulses or mechanical efforts now allow the unit to simulate as closely as possible, the conditions of ageing for materials in usage conditions. This type of competences in thermal analysis and accelerated ageing corresponds to the needs of companies both in Luxembourg and abroad, as well as those of the academic world. The unit has been induced to study subjects including thermal transfer in turbine blades in collaboration with the Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA) of Strasbourg, to determine the remaining potential of polyolefines and the problems caused by the inclusion of recycled matter in new materials.

Taking into account the industrial and academic demands placed on the laboratory, and the international recognition gained as a scientific expert within the framework of the Evitherm Institute, it can be said that this area of competences has now reached cruising speed.

Contact: [email protected]

ZooMINg IN oN ThE RESUlTS oF ThE pRoJECT … SyNThESE

The lTI on a nano scale

Thanks to the project SYNTHESE “Synthesis of Nanocomposites”, co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF Objective 2), the unit has embarked on the development of nanocomposites. This subject area is a real innovation in the process of perfecting materials. In fact, the incorporation of nano-objects to strengthen the base matrix has some fairly exceptional virtues. Polymer nano-composites (polymers strengthened with small quantities of mineral or organic particles of nanometric size), for example, increase the mechanical and thermal properties of the base polymer considerably. While at first the acquisition of competences was accelerated by means of a collaboration with the Centre for Study and Research on Macromolecules (CERM) of the University of Liège, the laboratory then worked on mastering development processes in order to improve the compatibility of the constituents and the dispersion of particles within the matrix to take full advantage of their synergy. The laboratory was also able to work on biopolymeric matrices (polycaprolactone PCL, polylactic acid PLA) and polymeric matrices (polymethacrylate of methyl PMMA, polyvinyl chloride PVC or polyethylene terephtalate PET) reinforced by either strip particles (clay layers) or spherical ones (zinc oxide, titanium dioxide, calcium carbonate). Convincing results, such as an improvement in the thermal stability of PVC, an increase in the mechanical properties of PMMA or barrier properties of PCL, have been obtained and disseminated at international conferences and through the registration of a patent.

The world of nanotechnologies, which constitute a path to innovation for the coming years, is now within the LTI’s reach.



ZooMINg IN oN ThE RESUlTS oF ThE pRoJECT … ICIMAT

Reliability of materials: Innovating in characterization for better performance

The characterization of the properties of materials is essential for a better understanding of the phenomena within materials, and thus for a better comprehension of their reliability. From within this framework emerged the project ICIMAT “Innovation in the Integrated Characterization of Materials”, co-financed by the Ministry of Culture, Higher Education and Research and by the private sector. This project aimed at implementing an innovative procedure for characterizing the performance of materials in partnership with various manufacturers.

A common procedure was applied for each partner or client in accordance with its specific needs. This procedure is based on the following four elements:

Physicochemical characterization of materials in an initial state ·

Initiation of controlled constraints at the level of the material ·

Reproduction of specific damage ·

Assessment of the intrinsic properties of materials following damage. ·

This procedure proved fruitful in the context of understanding the thermal stability of battery separators, the aesthetic stability of floor coverings and the mechanical holding of laser-welded alloys. This project allowed the unit to bring on board an impressive number of partners, both industrial (MONDO Luxembourg SA, Circuit Foil, Amer-Sil, DuPont de Nemours, Euro-Composites, IMATEC SARL, Guardian Luxcoating SARL) and academic (Plastinnov, Laboratoire de Spectométrie de Masse et de Chimie Laser - LSMCL, Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Strasbourg - INSA, Bourgogne Technologies).

The LTI now has its sights set on the next stage, which consists of becoming free from degradation processes.



Staff at the end of 2007: 116

Key competences: Economy and management of innovation, value and organisation of knowledge, measurements of the impacts of innovation and technology assessment, new business models and value enhancement of IT services, economy and management of intellectual property, marketing of IT innovations, IT-based innovation strategy, project management, modelling, assessment and improvement of processes, governance and management of services, risk management, knowledge engineering, ontologies, conceptual modelling, quality reference systems, security reference systems, standardization and certification of services, requirements engineering and selection of IT solutions, human capital training and assessment systems, Human-Machine Interface (HMI), service engineering, interoperability of information systems, free and open source software, software architectures, software quality, mobile technologies, secured communications networks

Activities: Doctoral research, collective R&D, bilateral R&D, assessment and diagnostics, forecasting and pre-project studies, technological and methodological assistance, innovation projects, ongoing training and expert advice, post-graduate diploma training, co-ordination of innovation platforms, professional and scientific conferences, publications, co-ordination of innovation networks, working groups, spin-off projects


Units: Innovation platforms:

“Quality and certification of IT services” ·

“Information systems security” ·

“Interoperability standards and e-business” ·

“E-learning, knowledge management and networked organisations” ·

“Statistical studies and prospective in a knowledge economy” ·

Scientific and technological units:

“Knowledge economy and innovation management” ·

“Software engineering” ·

“Engineering and management of ICT processes and services” ·

“Valorisation of ICT innovation” ·

“Reference systems for modelling and certification” ·

The CITI also participates in the innovation platforms “Technologies and innovation in construction” and “Free and open source software”.

Main partners: Members of the innovation platforms advisory committees: Service Central de la Statistique et des Etudes Economiques (STATEC), Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier (CSSF), Chambre des Métiers, Chambre de Commerce du Luxembourg, Chambre des Employés Privés (CEP-L), Association des Professionnels de la Société de l’Information (APSI), Service E-Luxembourg (SEL), Centre Informatique de l’Etat (CIE), Office Luxembourgeois d’Accréditation et de Surveillance (OLAS), Fédération des Industriels Luxembourgeois (FEDIL), Université du Luxembourg, Ministry of the Economy and Foreign Trade, National Institute of Public Administration (INAP), Club de la Sécurité des Systèmes d’Information au Luxembourg (CLUSSIL), Mouvement Luxembourgeois pour la Qualité (MLQ), National Research Fund (FNR), Centre de Recherche Public Gabriel Lippmann (CRP GL), Centre de Technologie de l’Education (CTE), Luxinnovation, Association de Normalisation pour la Société de l’Information Luxembourg (ANSIL), Computer Security Research and Response Team (CSRRT), Commission Nationale pour

CITI Centre for IT Innovation


la Protection des Données (CNPD), Chapitre Luxembourgeois de IT Service Management Forum (itSMF Luxembourg asbl), Ministry of National Education and Professional Training, Ernst&Young, Fortis, ArcelorMittal, Laboratoire de Soutien à l’Enseignement Télématique (Labset) of the Université de Liège, Java User Group Luxembourg (YaJuG), SPIRAL and CASSIS® networks, ISACA Luxembourg, Fédération des Artisans, Ordre des Architectes et des Ingénieurs-conseils (OAI), Ministère des Travaux Publics, Adminstration des Bâtiments Publics, Administration des Ponts et Chaussées, Association des Banques et Banquiers Luxembourg (ABBL)

Main partners of the scientific and technological units: Université Paul-Verlaine de Metz, Ecole Doctorale IAEM-Lorraine, Université Nancy 2, Université Louis Pasteur de Strasbourg, BETA, Facultés Universitaires Notre Dame de la Paix de Namur (FUNDP), Université Catholique de Louvain, Université de Liège, Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER - Melbourne), Centre Scientifique et Technique de la Construction (CSTC), Centre Scientifique et Technique pour le Bâtiment (CSTB), Centre de Recherche Architecture et Ingénierie (CRAI) of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Nancy, Université de Bordeaux I (LAPS/UB1), Université de Grenoble I (IMAG), Laboratoire d’Informatique de Nantes Atlantique (LINA), Centre d’Excellence en Technologies de l’Information et de la Communication (CETIC), Université Henri Poincaré de Nancy, Ecole des Mines de St Etienne, Irish Software Engineering Research Centre (LERO), Laboratoire Lorrain de Recherche en Informatique et ses Applications (LORIA), Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz (DFKI), MEDIACONSTRUCT, Liaison Entreprises-Université (LIEU), Interdisciplinary Institute for BroadBand Technology (IBBT), Medien- und Filmgesellschaft Baden-Württemberg (MFG), Digiteo, Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (INRIA Transfert), Institut Européen Entreprise et Propriété Intellectuelle (IEEPI), Université de Bordeaux, Université du Havre, Université du Luxembourg, Deutsches Institut für Internationale Pädagogische Forschung (DIPF)

Contacts: Pr Dr Eric Dubois, Director, [email protected]

Jean-Pol Michel, Director, [email protected]

phone: +352 42 59 91 – 1

Further information: www.citi.tudor.lu

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2007 hIghlIghTS FoR ThE DEpARTMENT AS A wholE:

The Fourth Development Plan (2004-2007) has allowed the CITI to implement its multidisciplinary expertise in service-focused innovation.

In this way the five Scientific and Technological Units (UST) organise and manage the competences of the CITI’s RDI engineers. With

regard to innovation activities, these are organised by structures that are transverse to those of the UST, Innovation Platforms (PFI)

oriented towards the major target challenges: quality, security, human capital, interoperability, and technology assessment.

2007 saw some promising breakthroughs for certain sectors in anticipation of the Fifth Development Plan:

The financial sector, in particular through the INNOFinance investment programme “Service Modelling and Assessment for Service ·

Innovation within the Financial Sector”

The mobility, communication and interactive contents sector ·

2007 confirmed the excellent international positioning of the CITI in an ever-changing market for IT services for human capital:

National and European e-learning projects and practice communities ·

National and international services (PISA) in e-testing for educational systems ·

Establishment of a strategic partnership centred on Technology Based Assessment (TBA) with the University of Luxembourg (EMACS) ·

and the Deutsches Institut für Internationale Pädagogische Forschung (DIPF)

In 2007, the department’s ambitions regarding software engineering quality were confirmed and strengthened with the signing of a

strategic co-operation agreement between the CITI and the Centre d’Excellence en Technologies de l’Information et de la Communication

(CETIC) located in the Walloon Region. This synergy will give rise to a European centre of excellence in the quality of software services

and products.

Finally, in 2007 the CITI was able to position itself in Luxembourg as a pioneer in innovation with regard to service and its emerging

research component, namely the “Science of Services”:

Identification of this subject area as the central governing axis of CITI’s activities and the consequent progressive alignment ·

The driving role of the CITI in the Foresight Study by the National Research Fund (FNR) in relation to this subject ·

Structural co-operation with STATEC and the Observatoire de la Compétitivité on the innovation of services ·

Organisation of the first conference held on the science of services in Luxembourg (13 November 2007) ·

Creation in 2007 of a new UST on the valorisation of IT based services. ·


TRANSFER AND DISSEMINATIoN ACTIvITIES oF CITI

Training and teaching Qualifying training organised : 113 days of training; 456 attendees

Master “IT and Innovation”, organised in partnership with the Université de Nancy 2 (F) and

the Facultés Notre Dame de la Paix of Namur (B)

39 attendees to the 3 ongoing sessions; 7 graduate students in 2007 ·

Master “Management of Information Systems Security”, in partnership with the University of

Luxembourg

27 attendees to the 1 · st and 2nd sessions

394 hours of teaching in university Master or Bachelor cursus, involving 18 employees of the

departement



Conferences 29 conferences for a cumulated duration of 81 hours and 1,030 attendees, including :

l’outsourcing informatique dans le secteur financier · (94 attendees) 21 March 2007, in

partnership with the Association des Banques et Banquiers Luxembourg (ABBL)

Congrès annuel 2007 gestionDeprojet.lu · (93 attendees) 24 October 2007, in partnership

with SPIRAL network

RSSI : le “bANQUIER” de vos informations · (79 attendees) 19 December 2007, in

partnership with CLUSSIL and SPIRAL network

Evaluation et Efficacité des politiques publiques · (78 attendees) 27 April 2007, in

partnership with the Ministry of the Economy and Foreign Trade, STATEC, Observatoire de

la Compétitivité

yaJug : Rich Internet Applications & Java · (69 attendees) 28 Februar 2007, in partnership

with YaJuG

· Quand le Mobile se fait guide touristique (61 attendees) 20 September 2007, with the

financial participation of the European ERDF programme

· luSI Day - luxembourg Safer Internet Day (46 attendees) 8 November 2007, in partnership

with Luxembourg Safer Internet, Telindus, 12345 Kanner Jugendtelefon, and with the

financial contribution of the European Commission and the National Research Fund (FNR)

Events 27 working group sessions or professional events for a total of 143 hours and more than 500

attendees mainly in the fields of IT security, Knowledge Management, CASSIS network

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2007 hIghlIghTS by UNIT ·

The CITI is organised into five scientific and technological units with the principal task of contributing to innovation platforms. In the

following section the contributions of the scientific and technological units are documented in the descriptions of the innovation platforms.

For the scientific and technological units, only the activities related to their mission of guaranteeing international scientific visibility in

their respective discipline are documented.

“KNowlEDgE ECoNoMy AND INNovATIoN MANAgEMENT” SCIENTIFIC AND TEChNologICAl UNIT

As a multidisciplinary unit, its aim is to provide suitable skills for innovation platforms and to develop new skills in the following areas:

anticipation and measurement of the impact of ICT based innovation, strategic piloting of innovation via ICT and enterprise modelling,

organisational and change management, IT support for knowledge organisation and status.

2007 hIghlIghTS:

Formalization of the contingent assessment method for the valorisation of innovations ·

Wide dissemination of works on the topics of “e-skills foresight” and “organisation and change ·

management” (lessons, workshops, seminars, symposia, etc.)

Development, in partnership with the Ministère de l’Egalité des Chances, of strategic performance ·

indicators able to measure progress related to the integration of equality policies into municipalities,

and to redefine the assessment criteria of the “Award for the Best Practice of Municipality Policy on

Equality Between Men and Women”

Assistance with the implementation of a number of national strategies: contribution to the expansion of ·

CRTI-B topics and assistance to the advisory committee with the design of a new e-building strategy

Development of methodological skills related to the assessment and development of intangible capital ·

Capitalization of experience in the management of ICT appropriation ·

Documentation of the contribution to performance made by different management and ICT tools ·

Construction of a method for supporting Business/Organisation/IT alignment ·

Supervision of thesis work relating to the performance of network organisations and knowledge ·

management

Finalization of methods for supporting co-ordination and network piloting ·

Development of a training on Open Innovation ·

Development of a partnership with research centres specializing in service sciences (Groupe Precise, ·

Université de Namur) and change management (Unité de Psychologie Sociale des Groupes et des

Organisations, Université de Liège)

Contacts: Jean-Charles bernacconi, Unit Manager, [email protected]

Anne Rousseau, Unit Manager, [email protected]

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“SoFTwARE ENgINEERINg” SCIENTIFIC AND TEChNologICAl UNIT

The unit’s aim is to provide suitable skills for innovation platforms and to develop new skills in the following areas: interoperability of

information systems, software architectures based on the reuse of components, workflow and groupware systems, mobile and multi-agent

oriented software technologies.

2007 hIghlIghTS:

Signing of a strategic co-operation agreement between the CITI and the Centre d’Excellence en ·

Technologies de l’Information et de la Communication (CETIC) aimed at the establishment of a European

centre of excellence in the quality of software services and products

Development of competences in the field of mobile and real-time information diffusion technologies ·

through the deployment of mobility solutions within the framework of several pilot initiatives, mainly

in the tourism and transport sectors

Numerous contributions to the area of software and security services, in particular with participation in ·

the European consortium NESSI (Networked European Software and Services Initiative), and intervention

in the teaching provided by the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Ingénieurs de Bourges on the subject of

secured transactions

The launch of experimentation on the use of expert systems for supporting algorithmic analysis of ·

multimedia content with a view to practical exploitation in the area of banking surveillance

Design of training programmes dedicated to the field of HMI (Human-Machine Interface) ·

Support and co-ordination of the YaJuG network (Java User Group Luxembourg) with over 100 members ·

in 2007

Contacts: pierre brimont, Unit Manager, [email protected]

Séverine Mignon, Unit Manager, [email protected]

“REFERENCE SySTEMS FoR MoDEllINg AND CERTIFICATIoN”SCIENTIFIC AND TEChNologICAl UNIT

The unit’s aim is to provide suitable skills for innovation platforms and to develop new skills in the following areas: conceptual modelling,

IT knowledge, IT certification.

2007 hIghlIghTS:

Strengthening of the unit’s subject areas based on the design of systems and services with a strong ·

knowledge base involving competences in modelling and knowledge representation, computational

intelligence (decision systems, personalisation, meta-heuristics, knowledge extraction), training and

skill assessment engineering

Systemization and dissemination of expertise on semantic web technologies ·

Development and experimentation of a methodology for designing multi-actor services based on ·

integrated value analysis

Strengthening of the work on personalisation of ontology-based services ·

Strengthening and transfer of the GENERIS distributed ontology management tool in numerous projects ·

and application domains

Creation of a knowledge-value model and development of expertise in ontology adjustment supporting ·

collaboration in practice communities

Co-ordination of practice communities on e-learning ·

Development of a decision-aid system for selecting business models and e-commerce transaction ·

patterns


Establishment of a strategic partnership on Technology Based Assessment (TBA) with the University of ·

Luxembourg (EMACS) and the Deutsches Institut für Internationale Pädagogische Forschung (DIPF)

Active participation in working groups 3 and 5 of ISO JTC1 SC36, and participation in the design of the ·

quality standard ISO19796 concerning the subject of “Information Technology in Learning, Education

and Training”

Incorporation of a post-doctorate from the ERCIM (European Research Consortium in Informatics ·

and Mathematics) for the prototyping of a semantic web processor based on an ontological model

representing factual, behavioural and procedural knowledge

Numerous publications and participations in international conferences ·

Professional training and university teaching in the following areas: e-learning, the cognitive aspects ·

of HMI, secured transactions, knowledge representation and conceptual modelling

Participation in more than 20 projects financed or co-financed by various national or international ·

public funds and private-sector funds

Contact: Thibaud latour, Unit Manager, [email protected]

“ENgINEERINg AND MANAgEMENT oF ICT pRoCESSES AND SERvICES”SCIENTIFIC AND TEChNologICAl UNIT

The unit’s aim is to provide suitable skills for innovation platforms and to develop new skills in the following areas: e-governance,

process assessment and improvement, requirements engineering and project ownership assistance, services engineering, information systems

security, and project, programme and portfolio management

2007 hIghlIghTS:

Positioning in EQN (European Quality Network) providing European certifications, particularly through ·

the job role “IT Consultant for SMEs - Software Package Selection”

Strengthening of competences in project, programme and portfolio management with diversification into ·

components such as agile project management (production of an eGROUPWARE module), the creation

of project management training sessions in the construction sector, the second GestionDeProjet.lu

Congress and the second national survey, which enabled the CITI to strengthen the alignment of

competences and led to the emergence of a normative component within this domain in Luxembourg

Active contribution to different IT standardization groups within ISO: SC7 (Software and Systems Engineering), ·

SC27 (IT Security Techniques) and editorial participation in international standard ISO/IEC 20000 on IT

Service Management (process models PRM/PAM based on international standard ISO/IEC 15504)

Methodological support for the process of going electronic in invitations for public bids for the Ministère ·

des Travaux Publics

Extension of assessment services and improvements to IT processes in the financial sector (project ·

management, requirements management, applicative testing, change management) with the help of

process models (PRM-PAM)

Evolution and strengthening of competences for the development of process models (PRM/PAM) ·

constructed according to the requirements of international standard ISO/IEC 15504, in different

domains (IT, knowledge management), and implementation of international standard ISO/IEC 15504

for the production of core business standards in the financial sector (audit and internal control, risk

management, financial directives, etc.)

Development of competences in security management standards (ISO/IEC 2700x and associated series ·

of standards) and production of assessment products in IT security for the SME target market

Contacts: béatrix barafort, Unit Manager, [email protected]

Norbert vidon, Unit Manager, [email protected]


“vAloRISATIoN oF ICT INNovATIoN” SCIENTIFIC AND TEChNologICAl UNIT

The unit was created in 2007 with the aim of providing suitable skills for innovation platforms and developing new skills in the following

areas: economy and management of intellectual property, business models, innovation marketing. The models developed allow the CITI to

improve the transfer of research results to the industrial world, and the creation of new economic activities, particularly in collaboration

with the Technoport.

2007 hIghlIghTS:

Definition of the unit’s three-point strategy: business modelling, marketing and intellectual property ·

Definition of valorisation services on projects (licenses, copyright, business model) ·

Initiation of scientific partnerships: the Centre de Recherche en Informatique et Droit (CRID – Facultés ·

Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix de Namur - FUNDP), the University of Amsterdam, Hautes Etudes

Commerciales (HEC - Lausanne), etc.

Research and co-publication in the domain of open source development with the Centre d’Excellence en ·

Technologies de l’Information et de la Communication (CETIC - Belgium)

Establishment of a consortium of European actors in the domain of IT valorisation via the presentation ·

of a European project co-ordinated by the CITI

Contact: bruno Cornette, Unit Manager, [email protected]

ZooMINg IN oN ThE RESUlTS oF ThE pRoJECT… Mg

SMEs Co-operation Support

The team of the project MG “Mutualize for Gain – Feasibility Study”, carried out in 2007 in the framework of Interreg, in partnership with the Chambre de Commerce et d’Industrie du Luxembourg Belge and the Chambre de Commerce et d’Industrie de Meurthe et Moselle, performed a feasibility study from which many useful lessons were learned for undertaking a mutualisation project with various economic actors. That conceivable mutualisation projects are not the same for all types of network, that there are fundamental differences to be taken into account when working with SMEs, that different approaches are required depending on the topic, domain or region, etc. For this purpose, the team dissected the local economic tissue, identified the different types of existing networks and their characteristics, compared mutualisation to other options, such as outsourcing and subcontracting, and highlighted different types of approach.

When it came to the implementation of a mutualisation project, it became clear that the success of the project is also influenced by “human” constraints. In addition, numerous “relational” requirements were revealed over the course of the project. An evident need emerges to support the progressive collaboration building between all the actors with the help of different integrated methods and to carefully define a mechanism for governing relations that is acceptable and fair to all partners.

This first project allowed the partners to identify which paths to follow, particularly by means of a new experimental project (MG2, Mutualize for Gain - phase 2) which has been submitted in January 2008 within the framework of the Interreg IV programme. The MG2 project, based on this study, is designed to identify the experimentation terrain, the type of federative project as well as the methodological and technical means that must be anticipated in order to respond to the collaboration conditions and constraints.



“QUAlITy AND CERTIFICATIoN oF IT SERvICES” INNovATIoN plATFoRM

The innovation platform’s aim is to develop the quality services market in IT consultancy and to promote the quality of business information

systems, particularly in small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and public administrations.

2007 hIghlIghTS:

Significant investment in the financial sector with:

The official launch of the INNOFinance programme “Service Modelling and Assessment for Service ·

Innovation within the Financial Sector” at a conference co-organised with ABBL (21 March 2007)

The participation in the expert committee CNLQSI (Comité de Normalisation pour la Qualité des Systèmes ·

d’Information” of ANSIL (Association de Normalisation pour la Société de l’Information Luxembourg)

The participation in working group projects on national in-/out-sourcing run by COBMA (Comité ·

d’Observation des Marchés)

The strengthening of the collaboration with networks and professional associations in the sector such ·

as the Association des Banques et Banquiers Luxembourg (ABBL), the Institute of Internal Auditors

(IIA), the Institut des Réviseurs d’Entreprises (IRE), ISACA Luxembourg (Information Systems Audit

and Control Association), Professionals of Risk Management (PRIM), the Association of the Luxembourg

Fund Industry (ALFI), the Association Luxembourgeoise des Compliance Officers du Secteur Financier

(ALCO), the Association des professionnels du secteur financier de support

The development of the international Banking SPICE initiative (www.bankingspice.com) ·

The launch of working groups with the task of developing common frames of reference designed for the ·

financial market

The considerable increase in missions related to definition, quality measurement and governance of ·

financial sector processes, in partnership with advisory and auditing bureaux

An active policy of standardization and certification of services as demonstrated by:

The activities related to the certification of individuals: EQN “European Innovation and Quality Network”, ·

Quapital-Hermes with Service eLuxembourg, the CASSIS® label for consultants in SME

The production of the AIDA20000 assessment model for Service Management in accordance with the ·

requirements and the practices of ISO/IEC 20000 international standard (IT Service Management)

The ISO 15504 ongoing work for the certification of processes in the financial sector ·

New services for consultants in SME awarded the CASSIS® label: “Light Strategy”, “IT Security”, and “COTS ·

selection”. In addition, the CASSIS® network is expected to be extended to Lorraine and Germany.

The positioning of project management as an innovation management tool:

The annual GestionDeProjet.lu 2007 congress on portfolio management, which took place on 24 October ·

2007, and brought together about 100 professionals in the field

The 9 · th launch of the Master “IT and Innovation”

The transfer of an innovation project management method based on a collaborative environment ·

(eGroupware)

Contacts: Jean-pol Michel, CITI Director, [email protected]

Corinne loesel, product Manager, [email protected]


ZooMINg IN oN ThE RESUlTS oF ThE pRoJECT … EQN

Improvement in IT practices: the Centre well positioned on international level

The EQN project “European Quality Network” came within the framework of the “Transnational Network” action of the European programme LEONARDO. The aim of the project was to set up a European certification association supported by European training bodies. Organisations from 18 countries participated in the project and put in place a set of quality criteria and common certification rules, within the framework of the “Life Long Learning” programme for the IT and services sector. This made it possible to set up a pool of job roles certified to high level of comparable European standards, which translates into a set of syllabi and skill cards, a European pool of questions and exam systems (automated portals), and a set of criteria for a common certification process.

The main project results are:

The establishment of quality criteria allowing the acceptance of new job roles into the association, ·

the accreditation of training bodies, the certification of trainers promoted by the association, and test

criteria for certifying learners who have followed the process for a given job role

The development of a concept and the definition of the legal structures necessary for starting up the association. ·

Two conferences were held to launch the association, in accordance with training quality and certification

criteria, with the support of portals associated with the principles of certification and examination

The creation of the European on-line services portal (www.eu-certificates.org) to be a platform for ·

on-line testing for learner certification. The portal also offers a library of publications, case studies,

experience feedback, network exits and/or quality projects, such as EuroSPI (www.eurospi.net), SPIRAL

(www.spiral.lu) and CASSIS (www.cassis.lu) in Luxembourg, or FISMA in Finland

Training for trainers: supplying the pool of job roles by aligning the proposed training sessions (syllabus, ·

skill cards and training supports) into line with EQN criteria, and within the consortium providing

training to trainers interested in these job roles.

For the Centre and for Luxembourg, these results have made it possible to develop the CASSIS network

(providing IT advice for SMEs) to the European level, and to offer the profession of IT Consultant in the

software package selection. This profession is thus part of the pool of job roles that respect the certification

quality criteria at European level. In addition, the results of some of the CITI’s R&D projects in the domain

of quality and the CASSIS network (articles on experience feedback, frames of reference and methodological

guides, templates, etc.) have contributed to the on-line library.


“INFoRMATIoN SySTEMS SECURITy” INNovATIoN plATFoRM

The innovation platform’s aim is to improve the information systems security of businesses, particularly those operated by SMEs, individuals

and the public sector, and to develop the skills and services marketable to meet their requirements.

2007 hIghlIghTS:

Involvement of and contribution by strategic actors in information security in Luxembourg within the ·

advisory committee of the PFI (3 meetings in 2007)

Proposal of several European projects dedicated to security within the framework of the European Union ·

FP7 programme and the intergovernmental EUREKA initiative

Development of a pole of competences in security of information systems located at Technoport in ·

Esch-sur-Alzette

Organisation of working groups with the network of CASSIS® consultants on the creation of a label and ·

services dedicated to security

Design and development of a portfolio of security services dedicated to SMEs, which has led to a total ·

of 31 experiments and to a mass meeting of the Luxembourg IT consulting companies


“INTERopERAbIlITy STANDARDS AND E-bUSINESS” INNovATIoN plATFoRM

The platform aims at deploying new models and tools to promote the development of business information systems in terms of flexibility,

performance and adaptation to current and future business needs. The platform’s objective is also to support organisational and technical

changes linked to the emergence of new services made possible by the innovative application of ICT.

2007 hIghlIghTS:

Implementation of a study project on the clearing of LBS (Location-Based Services) through the national ·

LuxLaunch initiative related to Luxembourg’s participation in ESA activities

Definition of the final version of the e- · FFICIENT toolset for modelling, validation and assistance with

deploying B2B transactions in the framework of a transfer project with the company SWIFT

Finalization of a multi-agent platform for the supervision of security assurance for telecom ·

infrastructures

Development of a semantic multifaceted research engine ·

Production of a promotional film in collaboration with the Administration de la Commune d’Echternach ·

on the diffusion of geo-localized tourist information on mobile devices (MobileTTE “Mobile Technologies

for Tourism Expansion” project)

Launch of the WellCom “Nouveaux services mobiles bases sur l’interactivité permise par les standards ·

DVB-T et DVB-S” project on the development and accessibility of new multimedia services via

heterogeneous terminals

Launch of a study project on the role of satellite in the framework of C2C2E (Car to Car to Environment) ·

Establishment of a partnership with Philips iLabs with the goal of integrating semantic web technologies ·

into the personalisation of Ambilight

Contact: pierre brimont, Unit Manager, [email protected]

Presentation of the project LuSI “Luxembourg Safer Internet” to HRH Grand Duke Henri on the occasion ·

of the 2007 autumn trade fair, as well as to Viviane Reding, European Commissioner in charge of

information society and media at the “Belle-Etoile” event

Launch and supervision of the first year of the professional Master’s degree in “Information Systems ·

Security Management” at the University of Luxembourg

Publication of articles at conferences with programme committees (CRISIS, I-ESA, ICTTA, RCIS) or in ·

specialist journals with cross-editing (MISC)

Strengthening of works on the ISO/IEC 2700x series of standards via the development and experimentation ·

of a method for certification preparation

Active participation in the ISO/JTC1/SC27 standardization group and in the plenary session of SC27 in ·

October 2007 to defend Luxembourg’s interests

Development of expertise on detection and real-time reaction systems ·

Implementation of a panorama study on non-IT risk management ·

Organisation of “LuSI Day 2007” in the CRP Henri Tudor premises ·

Strengthening of links with partner networks: Association de Normalisation pour la Société de ·

l’Information Luxembourg (ANSIL), Club de la Sécurité des Systèmes d’Information au Luxembourg

(CLUSSIL), InSafe and ISACA Luxembourg

Creation of an e-learning portal dedicated to the security of information systems for the European ·

Investment Bank (EIB)

Contacts: Eric Dubois, CITI Director, [email protected]

Sébastien poggi, product Manager, [email protected]


ZooMINg IN oN ThE RESUlTS oF ThE pRoJECT… e-FFICIENT

language, tools and methods for creating, improving and validating e-business transactions through modelling

The objective of the project e-FFICIENT “E-Business framework for an efficient capture and implementation of end-to-end transactions” was to facilitate the creation, improvement and validation of e-business transactions by business experts without specific IT knowledge. e-FFICIENT is a project financed by the National Research Fund (FNR) which ran for a total of five years beginning in 2002.

The project first concentrated on the modelling of e-business transactions, through the development of a modelling language based on UML and the implementation of an adapted tool (a plug-in to MagicDraw UML). The project developed a methodology and a toolset for transaction validation consisting of having the transaction “played” by vocational experts, collaboratively, through the intermediary of a tool called “e-FFICIENT animator”. In this way each expert can participate in the animated transaction via a web interface and guarantee quality by receiving and sending of business messages.

e-FFICIENT also produced a method that led to the creation of a first version of a transaction model based on a business idea: this pragmatic method known as “Chaining” operates through successive refinements of needs expressed by business experts and through a selection of existing transaction patterns based on these criteria.

The final months of the project were devoted to increasing the functional perimeter of tools so as to extend their field of use, in particular to allow the reuse of transaction patterns, to integrate an open source business rules engine (JBoss Rules), and to improve their interoperability via the support of existing standards (particularly WS-BPEL 2.0).

Lastly, numerous scientific publications and tutorials were produced over the course of the project, particularly for conferences and workshops, on ESEC and CoopIS in 2003, ICEIMT in 2004, CAISE, IADIS and REBNITA in 2005, and CAISE and SoS4CO in 2006. The project results have been used in the framework of a project aimed at facilitating import/export transactions between Asia and Europe in various services, especially in the financial domain and for pedagogical purposes. Currently, a project named eTransMod “Electronic Transactions Modelling” for strengthening and transferring methods and tools is under way.


ZooMINg IN oN ThE RESUlTS oF ThE pRoJECT… NoE INTERop

Improving inter-/intra-organisation interoperability

The NoE Interop Project (Network of Excellence - Interoperability Research for Networked Enterprises Application and Software) was a support project for the European Excellence Network of the 6th Framework Programme. The network brought together a consortium of 51 participants to carry out research activities related to inter-/intra-organisation interoperability. The CITI participated in the development of deliverables, information exchange workshops, scientific publications, case studies and the organisation of dissemination events.

The objective of the NoE Interop network was to improve inter-/intra-organisation interoperability by means of a multidisciplinary approach comprising three key subject components:

Business modelling to define needs in terms of interoperability ·

Technologies (architectures and IT platforms) to provide solutions in terms of interoperable systems ·

The formal representation of a set of concepts (defining ontologies) to identify the semantics of in-house ·

interoperability and thereby ensure the link between IT architectures and business level requirements

The project provided the opportunity to strengthen and develop the research activities of several of the CITI’s scientific and technological units, particularly the units devoted to certification and modelling reference systems, and to software engineering. It was possible to validate results already obtained on projects (for example, on projects such as ACCES-PME, e-FFICIENT, LINK-ALL, MobileTTE, Carlink, GERAMO, Passepartout, Cassis.Net, RED – detailed descriptions at www.citi.tudor.lu) by comparing them to the network’s European scientific expertise. The CITI’s “Interoperabilty standards and e-business” innovation platform ensured the coherence of the subjects covered, and verified of the alignment of its strategy with the scientific orientations of the network.

This project also contributed to strengthening CRP Henri Tudor’s international position in these domains, in terms of partnership with European universities, mobility of researchers, organisation of conferences


or workshops, and scientific publications in collaboration with other research bodies in the network. Of note in particular is a new emphasis on the activities of the CASSIS network (providing IT advice to SMEs) on a European level and an initiative to set up an inter-regional virtual laboratory, bringing together the universities of Namur, Nancy and CRP Henri Tudor.

Contacts: [email protected], [email protected]

“STATISTICAl STUDIES AND pRoSpECTIvE IN ThE KNowlEDgE ECoNoMy”INNovATIoN plATFoRM

The platform’s aim is to develop a set of prospective analytical services and to use them to observe, investigate and analyse the impact of

technologies on innovation in Luxembourg, in order to anticipate new risks and opportunities of an economic or social nature.

2007 hIghlIghTS:

Completion of thematic studies and analysis reports on: ·

Recourse to outsourcing in the financial sector: presentation of results at a conference co-organised ·

with the Association des Banques et Banquiers Luxembourg (ABBL) (21 March 2007)

Inventory of governance practices; presentation of results during an ISO committee in Moscow ·

Project, programme and portfolio management in Luxembourg: inventory and characterization ·

of the contribution to the performance of organisations; presentation of results at the annual

GestionDeProjet.lu congress held on 24 October 2007

The needs and practices of human resource managers (HRM) in Luxembourg ·

The total factor productivity, entrepreneurship and innovation in Luxembourg. ·

In relation to these topics, the presentation of a number of communications at international symposia, ·

and contributions in the publications of partners (Bilan de la Compétitivité of the Observatoire de la

Compétitivité of the Ministry of the Economy and Foreign Trade and in various STATEC publications)

Organisation of a seminar on the evaluation of the effectiveness of public policies, in collaboration ·

with the Observatoire de la Compétitivité of the Ministry of the Economy and Foreign Trade and STATEC,

which brought together around a hundred participants (27 April 2007)

Participation in a number of international working groups (OCDE on innovation, Eurostat, etc.) ·

Completion of two investment opportunity studies in the domain of IT innovation: “NFC Telephony in ·

Luxembourg” and “RFID for the Library”

Implementation of a e skills foresight process in an inter-organisation context (15 job roles into five ·

domains: knowledge management, e-learning, IT quality, information security and logistics)

Experimentation of needs anticipation in terms of competences in an inter-organisation context within ·

two Luxembourg organisations

Organisation of eight seminars for disseminating the results of experiments with needs anticipation in ·

terms of competences

Development of support software for technology assessment ·

Transfer of the competence anticipation methodology to various organisations in the Walloon Region ·

Definition and presentation of an Interreg 4A project “Perform” on the theme of competence anticipation ·

(follow-up of the project ABILITIC “Installation of an inter-regional mechanism for competence

anticipation related to ICT innovation in job roles”)

Presentation to the European Space Agency (ESA) of a complete software solution, produced with the ·

Luxembourg start-up Flowing Content (located at Technoport), able to ensure the satellite delivery of

audio masters, with the control and follow-up of operations carried out using satellite return (SATMODE

technology)


Presentation to the ESA of a satellite diffusion of a pilot interactive television broadcast (tourism) ·

using satellite return (SATMODE technology)

Presentation to the EUREKA authorities (Cluster ITEA 2) of a personalisation system that functions ·

according to the profile of the viewer watching the programme, making programme recommendations

and, in the case of children, applying viewing rules for programmes designed for their parents

Contact: Jean-Charles bernacconi, Unit Manager, [email protected]

ZooMINg IN oN ThE RESUlTS oF ThE pRoJECT … TASMANIA

An innovative btob software solution

The project TASMANIA “Two-way Satellite Secure Media Delivery Monitoring”, co-financed by the European Space Agency (ESA - programme ARTES 3) and co-ordinated by the Luxembourg start-up Flowing Content, made it possible to produce a software solution ensuring satellite delivery of audio masters, control and follow-up of operations carried out using satellite return path (SATMODE technology). This software solution is made up of two main modules:

The transport chain (satellite file delivery) implemented by Flowing Content ·

The web interfaces (delivery monitoring and administration) that pilot the transport chain, implemented ·

by the CRP Henri Tudor.

The design and development of the transport chain were carried out so as to take into account the constraints of traceability, reliability, security and transparency. These are common constraints in the industrial world. Taking them into account in the design and development of the transport chain means that it will be possible in the future to better respond to the actors’needs in the sector. It should also be noted that the solution was produced with the continuous user evaluation.

A number of experiments in real conditions have demonstrated the good operationality of the application.


ZooMINg IN oN ThE RESUlTS oF ThE pRoJECT … gEANCoTIC

Anticipating tomorrow’s competences

The GEANCOTIC project “Gestion anticipative des compétences liées à l’innovation et aux Technologies de l’Information et de la Communication” (2005-2007), co-financed by the European Social Fund (ESF) and the Ministry of Culture, Higher Education and Research, aimed at improving and deploying, on national level, competence anticipation management practices linked to innovation in the ICT domain, and to embed them within private and public partner organisations.

The main project results are:

Design of a methodology for constructing an occupational frame of reference ·

Construction of 12 frames of reference for occupational competences ·

Testing of the needs anticipation process in terms of competences in an inter-organisation context on ·

nine professions divided into three domains: knowledge management, e-learning and quality

Drafting of anticipation reports for the nine occupations dealt within an inter-organisation context ·

Design of a procedure for needs anticipation in terms of competences in an inter-organisation context ·

Testing of the procedure for needs anticipation in terms of competences in an inter-organisation ·

context within two organisations: Group 4 Securicor and Groupe Foyer Assurances; and the drafting of

an anticipation report for two occupations (one occupation per organisation)

Design of supports for training in the procedure for needs anticipation in terms of competences in an ·

inter-organisation context



ZooMINg IN oN ThE RESUlTS oF ThE pRoJECT … AbIlITIC

An inter-regional methodology for anticipating competences related to innovation, information and communication technologies (ICT) in job roles

The aim of the ABILITIC project, co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and the Ministry of Culture, Higher Education and Research (MCESR) within the framework of the Interreg IIIA programme was to improve the anticipation methodology developed by CRP Henri Tudor with the help of inter-regional exchanges, and to test it out on a sample of professions distributed among the project partners, for the purpose of inter-regional transfer. The project was carried out in collaboration with FOREM (Walloon public service for employment and professional training), IFAPME (Institut Wallon de Formation en Alternance et des Indépendants et Petites et Moyennes Entreprises), MIRELUX (Mission Régionale pour l’Emploi du Luxembourg), IWEPS (Institut Wallon de l’Evaluation, de la Prospective et de la Statistique), INFFOLOR (Portail d’Information sur les Métiers, la Formation et l’Emploi), OREFQ (Observatoire Régional de l’Emploi, de la Formation et des Qualifications) and TECHNOFUTUR TIC (competences centre in ICT).

The most significant results are:

Selection of eight professions and development of frames of reference for related competences: logistics ·

manager, heavy vehicle mechanics, process technician for wood houses, central heating installer,

Information Security (IS) auditor, IS consultant, Engineer in charge of monitoring IT incident, IS

lawyer

Skills anticipation methodology improved and enriched by exchange of practices between inter-regional ·

partners. This methodology aims at identifying the key skills of the future for a particular job role and

enable training companies to proactively adapt the training they offer to the needs of the employment

market

Transfer of the skills anticipation methodology to project partners in the form of a training developed ·

within the framework of the project

Testing of the methodology by each partner on one or several of the chosen occupations (nine job roles ·

tested in total) and validation of the results at the inter-regional level

Development of a method for appropriating results obtained for training companies ·

Creation of a web platform for the dissemination of the project results: · www.abilitic.eu

Dissemination of the results at the regional level in the form of seminars, bringing together the ·

concerned organisations, associations and federations for each job role

At the end of the project, most of the partners wished to pursue the idea further by concentrating more on

the continual appropriation of the anticipation methodology within their organisations. In response, a new

Interreg IVA project “ABILITIC 2: PERFORM” was presented, with the integration of new partners.


WWW.aBilitiC.eu


“E-lEARNINg, KNowlEDgE MANAgEMENT AND NETwoRKED oRgANISATIoNS” INNovATIoN plATFoRM

The platform’s aim is to encourage the use of e-learning, knowledge management (KM) and co-operation practices in businesses, the public

sector and networks.

2007 hIghlIghTS:

Participation in two projects of the 6 · th European Framework Programme on the use of interactive

television in e-learning (STREP ELU “Enhanced Learning Unlimited”) and on the development of a range

of support tools for Communities of Practice (IP PALETTE “Pedagogically sustained Adaptive Learning

through the Exploitation of Tacit and Explicit Knowledge”)

Strengthening of Technology-Based Assessment (TBA) of scholastic monitoring at the European and ·

international levels within the framework of PISA 2009

Strengthening of the brand positioning of tools designed and developed by the PFI: ANAXAGORA ·

(www.anaxagora.lu), TAO (www.tao.lu), and GENERIS

Design, development and testing of ten or so media e-learning courses ·

Testing of the competence evaluation method in the framework of a training cycle in partnership with ·

the Administration de l’Emploi (ADEM)

Development of an integrated service offer for supporting the elaboration of training in e-learning and ·

computer-assisted test design

Installation of an e-learning device at the European Investment Bank (EIB) ·

Testing of e-learning and KM diagnostics (profiles, diagnostics, maturity evaluation of KM processes) at ·

several businesses and organisations in Luxembourg

Development of a network of knowledge management professionals (15 members) ·

Installation and testing of a training cycle on the improvement of trainer practices (methodologies and ·

tools) in partnership with SITec® “Ongoing training of engineers and management”

Expansion of Communities of Practice in e-learning within the CRP Henri Tudor and opening up to ·

external participants

Numerous publications and participations in international conferences ·

Organisation of events on PFI themes (meetings, breakfasts, university and professional trainings, etc.) ·

Creation of the Internet site “AllAboutElearning” with support from the European Social Fund, providing ·

useful information to learners, trainers and decision makers who wish to know more about e-learning

(www.allaboutelearning.lu)

Contact: luc vandenabeele, Unit Manager, [email protected]

with the support of the European Social Fund

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ZooMINg IN oN ThE RESUlTS oF ThE pRoJECT … pRECoDEM

preparing job seekers, engineers and managers for the competences of the future

The aim of the PRECODEM project “Preparation for the competences of the future for job seekers”, co-financed by the European Social Fund (ESF), was to design, implement and evaluate new approaches to training and the battle against unemployment. In fact, according to economic studies conducted by STATEC in 2004 and the results of previous studies carried out at CRP Henri Tudor, there was an obvious gap between the profile of job seekers and the competences sought after by the market.

The following actions were thus undertaken:

Development of frames of reference integrating the advanced practices and technologies of two ·

occupations, Programmer Analyst and Network Administrator, in response to strong demand from the

employment market

Design, on the basis of these frames of reference, of innovative trainings related to these advanced ·

practices and technologies aimed at job seekers, with the objective of increasing their employability

and helping them to better position themselves in an unfavourable economic context

Evaluation of the contribution of training to the competence capital of job seekers, in particular by ·

means of an evaluation mechanism of the computer-assisted testing kind

Evaluation of the mechanism’s contribution (frames of reference - testing - trainings - testing) for ·

the Administration de l’Emploi (ADEM) and the structures involved in the payment of benefits to job

seekers

The analysis of the strategic and value dependencies carried out by the project team on the PRECODEM mechanism were aimed at determining the viability and the perenniality of a socio-economic mechanism of this type for the different stakeholders, namely the Administration de l’Emploi, training centres, businesses and job seekers. This analysis has enabled the proposal of a working model that takes into account the challenges and the interests of these stakeholders.

The validation of this model revealed certain limitations of the mechanism in its present form and a number of areas for improvement for subsequent training components. This analysis also showed that mechanisms like PRECODEM must be part of a logic of mutual development and the necessity for medium or long term investment between businesses, training centres and employment agencies.



A CoMMoN STRUCTURE oF ThE MINISTRy oF ThE ENvIRoNMENT AND CRp hENRI TUDoR


Key competences: environmental sciences and techniques, best available techniques (BAT), process engineering, sustainable management of material flows, life cycle assessment, environmental process modelling, environmental risk assessment, energy technologies

Activities: R&D, technological assistance, drafting of clean production requirements and state of the art reports, advice and training on environmental technologies, advice on environmental strategies, animation of environmental networks, doctoral research, co-ordination of the REACH Helpdesk


Units: · “Sustainable construction” innovation platform

· “Cleaner production” scientific and technological unit

· “Energy” scientific and technological unit

· “Water” scientific and technological unit

Main partners: Ministry of the Environment, Ministère de l’Intérieur et de l’Aménagement du Territoire, Ministry of the Economy and Foreign Trade, Ministère des Travaux Publics, Administration de l’Environnement, Administration de la Gestion de l’Eau, Administration des Bâtiments Publics, Administration des Services Techniques de l’Agriculture, Chambre des Métiers, Chambre de Commerce du Luxembourg, Fédération des Industriels Luxembourgeois (FEDIL), Ordre des Architectes et des Ingénieurs-conseils (OAI), Agence de l’Energie (AEL)

Contacts: Joëlle Welfring, Director, [email protected]

Dr Paul Schosseler, Director, [email protected]

phone: +352 42 59 91 – 600

Further information: www.crte.lu

CRTE Resource Centre for Environmental Technologies

dr Paul sChOsseler - JOËlle Welfring


On 7 May 2007, · the activities of the Luxembourg REACH Helpdesk were officially launched at a press

conference presided over by the Minister of the Economy and Foreign Trade, Jeannot Krecké, and the Minister

of the Environment, Lucien Lux. The REACH Helpdesk meets an obligation of the European regulation REACH

(Registration, Evaluation, Authorization and restriction of CHemicals). The regulation, which came into

force on 1 June 2007, deals with the registration, evaluation, and authorization of chemical substances

and the restrictions that apply to them. Within this framework, the European Union member states must

set up national technical assistance services in order to help businesses, particularly SMEs, to comply with

the regulation requirements. (For more details see insert below.)

From 14 to 16 September 2007, the CRTE and the Ordre des Architectes et des Ingénieurs-conseils (OAI) ·

participated in Oekofoire 2007, with a joint stand devoted to the R&D work of the CRTE in the field of

eco-technologies, as well as on concepts of sustainable rainwater management in urban environments.

To illustrate these concepts, taken from the Cleaner Production Guide produced by the CRTE for the

Administration de la Gestion de l’Eau, the CRTE and the OAI organised an exhibition of construction projects

based on the concepts and designed by OAI members on their stand.

Lastly, the CRTE contributed to the · installation of innovative sanitary technologies in operation in the

sanitary block on the site of the “All We Need” exhibition held to mark the 2007 year of culture in the Halle

des Soufflantes in Belval. These installations allow considerable water savings as well as the recuperation

of nutrients that can be reintroduced into the natural matter cycle. Posters were used to inform the public

and a survey was carried out amongst visitors on their acceptance of the innovative sanitary technologies,

with very positive results.

2007 hIghlIghTS FoR ThE DEpARTMENT AS A wholE: ·g

ZooMINg IN oN ThE … REACh hElpDESK

helping businesses comply with REACh regulation requirements

Since 2007, the CRTE has taken on the responsibility of running the REACH Helpdesk on behalf of the Ministry of the Economy and Foreign Trade and the Ministry of the Environment. The key facts for this first year of action are:

Launching of the website · www.reach.lu, providing businesses with a range of useful information on

compliance with the requirements of the REACH regulation

Organisation of a series of seminars on REACH, including the information session held on 10 May 2007 ·

intended for downstream users (83 participants)

Publication of information documents, all downloadable at · www.reach.lu: a questionnaire on REACH

to identify the needs of businesses in Luxembourg, to help them position themselves in the Supply

Chain, and to familiarize themselves with their responsibilities; an information guide on REACH; an

information leaflet on REACH giving a brief introduction to the Helpdesk and the regulation, as well as

the resulting main deadlines businesses are facing. This leaflet is available from the CRTE, the Chambre

de Commerce de Luxembourg, the Administration de l’Environnement, the Ministry of the Economy and

Foreign Trade and the Chambre des Métiers.

Finally, as a point of contact for businesses, the REACH Helpdesk has dealt with around fifty enquiries ·

since March 2007.

All information: [email protected]


TRANSFER AND DISSEMINATIoN ACTIvITIES oF CRTE

Training and teaching Qualifying training organised : 8 days of training; 356 attendees, including :

The 4 · th session of the training cycle “Bauen & Energie - Constructions & Energies”, in

partnership with the Ordre des Architectes et des Ingénieurs-conseils (OAI), the University

of Luxembourg, the Agence de l’Energie SA and OekoZenter

· Teaching of 153 hours in professional training



Conferences REACh information seminar (83 attendees), 10 May 2007, in partnership with the

Chambre de Commerce and the Fédération des Industriels Luxembourgeois (FEDIL)

Events 9 professional or scientific seminars, for a cumulated duration of 5.5 days and 252 attendees

Co-organisation with IfaS of the “Biomassetagung Rheinland-Pfalz” conference (350 attendees),

8-9 November 2007 in Birkenfeld (D)

Participation to the Oekofoire 2007

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In addition to these R&D projects, CRTE carried out a large panel of services in environmental

technologies with companies and public institutions.


“SUSTAINAblE CoNSTRUCTIoN” INNovATIoN plATFoRM

The aim of the “Sustainable Construction” innovation platform is to contribute, through its skills and expertise, to the development of

sustainable construction in Luxembourg, which includes environmental protection, land management, sustainable urban concepts and the

production and use of construction materials that are environmentally friendly and ensure a rational use of energy.

2007 hIghlIghTS:

In July 2007, · the guide to sustainable construction and renovation was updated for the first time. New

construction materials and the latest data on environmental impacts were added. In addition, public

and private actors were trained in sustainable construction in general and in particular through the use

of the guide. The guide can be consulted or downloaded free at www.crtib.lu/Leitfaden.

Organised jointly with the Ordre des Architectes et des Ingénieurs-conseils (OAI), · the 4th edition of

the training cycle “Bauen & Energie - Constructions & Energies” on sustainable construction, rational

energy use and renewable energies was held between November 2006 and March 2007. The subjects

dealt with over the course of the training cycle had been determined by a working group initiated by

the OAI and the CRTE that brought together experts from the Agence de l’Energie, the Ministère des

Classes Moyennes, du Tourisme et du Logement, the Ministry of the Environment, the Oeko-Zenter

Lëtzebuerg and the University of Luxembourg. (For further details, see insert on next page)

“ClEANER pRoDUCTIoN” SCIENTIFIC AND TEChNologICAl UNIT

The “Cleaner production” unit’s aim is to reduce the environmental impacts of industrial installations, commercial facilities and communities

by taking a proactive and integrated approach to sustainably managing material flows (renewable and non-renewable natural resources, air,

water, land, by-products and waste) and energies (electricity, heat, cold, renewable, alternative and non-renewable).

2007 hIghlIghTS:

The Interreg IIIA WLL Valorboues project “What solutions for the future of biosolids in the transborder ·

zone”, which was completed in December 2007, made it possible to carry out an assessment of sludge

deposits in the transborder zone, make an inventory of the technologies available for treating biosolids,

and conduct a multi-criteria evaluation of the proposed procedures, taking into account economic,

technical and environmental aspects. The latter evaluation revealed the most favourable sludge treatment

procedures for the transborder zone and will be able to be used as a decision-making aid for development

of biosolids at the transborder level, particularly in Luxembourg, in the framework of the renewal of the

Waste Management Plan.

In the framework of the AGID project “Integrated and sustainable analysis and management of ·

material and energy flows in business”, co-financed by the Structural Fund (ERDF Objective 2), the

CRTE collaborated with the Centre Hospitalier Emile Mayrisch (CHEM) of Esch-sur-Alzette. By using the

method for managing material and energy flows, the flows of infectious waste in the CHEM laboratories

were reduced by 20%. Two optimization measures were applied in order to improve the collection and

sorting of infectious waste and residue fractions. A guide was produced for the laboratory employees.

The CRTE set up and managed a working group on · refrigeration systems, composed of representatives

from different ministries, administrations and associations, with a view to adapting the authorization

procedure for these systems (pertaining to the modified law on classified establishments, or the “commodo/

incommodo law”). In collaboration with this working group, the CRTE developed new decision-making

criteria for chillers and refrigeration systems (TEWI method - Total Equivalent Warming Impact, energy

consumption optimization methods, etc.) designed to facilitate the authorization procedure.

Contact: bianca Schmitt, Unit Manager, [email protected]

2007 hIghlIghTS by UNIT ·g


“ENERgy” SCIENTIFIC AND TEChNologICAl UNIT

The aim of the “Energy” scientific and technological unit is to provide Luxembourg stakeholders with competences in the field of renewable

energy (biomass, photovoltaics, solar thermal, wind, etc.), non-renewable energy and rational energy use.

2007 hIghlIghTS:

The · meteorological station set up within the framework of the PV-Lab project “Photovoltaic Laboratory”

co-financed by the ERDF (Objective 2), is operational and can be accessed via the website www.solarinfo.lu.

In the framework of the RELIES Project “Réseau Luxembourgeois pour l’Information sur l’Energie Solaire” ·

(Luxembourg Network for Solar Energy Information), also co-financed by the ERDF (Objective 2), monthly

charts were drawn up showing the potential solar energy in Luxembourg. These charts take account of

actual cloud cover as well as local geographic altitudes (www.solarinfo.lu). This information is useful

for, amongst other applications, heating and cooling plans for buildings, as well as for solar thermal and

photovoltaic installations.

The LuxCycle project “Dry Monofermentation of Energy Crops” has contributed to the · development of an

innovative technology for producing biogas by dry monofermentation of energy crops. The environmental

impacts of the production, the injection into the network and the use of biogas, as well as those related to

the importation and use of natural gas were compared, taking into account the life cycle of the processes.

Different methods of producing biogas and different soil uses, e.g. for the production of several types of

biofuels, were also analysed.

In the framework of the Interreg IIIA DeLux and DeLor RUBIN project “Regionale Strategie zur ·

Nachhaltigen Biomasse-Nutzung” aimed at sustainable use of biomass at the regional level, the regional

biomass potential was determined during the course of 2007. The CRTE organised thematic working groups

that enabled regional actors to exchange experiences and best practices in terms of injecting biogas

into the gas network. The first elements of an inter-regional strategy for the sustainable use of biomass

were presented and discussed by regional decision-makers, in particular at the inter-regional Biomass

conference held in Forbach on 17 October 2007.

ZooMINg IN oN ThE TRAININg CyClE … “bAUEN & ENERgIE - CoNSTRUCTIoNS & ENERgIES”

147 architects and consultant engineers trained in rational energy use in construction

Organised on five thematic axes (basic concepts, design, technical installations, building energy renovation, regulations), the twelve modules of the cycle “Bauen & Energie - Constructions & Energies” dealt with topics including basic principles of construction, auditing, energy balances and energy indices, sustainable construction regulations in force in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, and the energy efficiency of buildings, as well as the environmental impacts of construction. The speakers from Luxembourg, Germany, Switzerland, Belgium and France rotated their participation so as to ensure the maximum quality of teaching at the scientific, technological and pedagogical levels

Key figures:

37 participants on average per module ·

147 architects and consultant engineers representing ·

65 companies were trained during the 12 sessions ·

Further information: [email protected]


“wATER” SCIENTIFIC AND TEChNologICAl UNIT

The aim of the “Water” scientific and technological unit is to improve knowledge and management of water treatment concepts and

processes, as well as knowledge and control of pollutant flows and the risks linked to the presence of different chemical substances in the

water cycle.

2007 hIghlIghTS:

The CRTE strengthened its competences in the fields of knowledge and management of pollutant flows ·

and the risks linked to the presence of chemical substances in the water cycle, through projects such as

FLUXALZETTE, “Flow of materials into the catchment area of the Alzette: Impacts of pollutants (micro/

macro pollutants and nutrients)” and the FLUSH component, “Establishment of pollutant profiles in

the flood waves in the catchment area of the Alzette” of the collaboration agreement reached with

the Ministère de l’Intérieur et de l’Aménagement du Territoire. The aim of these activities, carried out

in close collaboration with the Administration de la Gestion de l’Eau, is to make available tools and

strategies for reducing situations of emission of pollutants into aquatic environments, with a view to

the transposition of the Water Framework Directive (for more details see insert on next page).

The theme of · sanitation infrastructure modelling was put forward by the FNR project RESEAUSURE

“Modelling of a sanitation network: contribution to risk management of pollution of the drinking

water reserve of the Haute-Sûre”, which will conclude in early 2008. The modelling foresees important

environmental gains as a result of the installation of the proposed control system. With the finalization

of the project on integrated modelling of the river system sanitation network – purification plant

– with a view to the transposition of the framework directive, the first doctoral thesis within the

CRTE was successfully completed by Anne-Marie Solvi. This ambitious project was carried out in close

collaboration with the University of Gant (Biomath Department), for the scientific content, and the

Syndicat Intercommunal de Dépollution des Eaux résiduaires du Nord (SIDEN), for the experimental

case studies.

Very satisfactory progress was made in the work on · best practice guides on rainwater management in

urban environments and on water management in wine production along the Luxembourg section of

the River Moselle. The guides are produced within the framework of the collaboration agreement with

the Ministère de l’Intérieur et de l’Aménagement du Territoire, in close collaboration with the actors in

the field. Dissemination and awareness-raising activities (for example, conferences, pedagogical posters

in wine cellars, prominence given to pilot projects concerning rainwater management in collaboration

with the OAI) contributed to knowledge transfer.

The 2nd edition of the training cycle “Abwassertechnik und Gewässerschutz” · was organised in autumn

2007. The five modules of the cycle, which is organised in collaboration with the Association du

Personnel des Stations d’Epuration Luxembourgeoises (APSEL), were highly successful and there was an

average of fifteen participants per module. New thematics were also incorporated into the training, at

the request of the participants (for example, sanitation network modelling and integrated modelling

networks-purification plants, see next page).

Contact: Dr luc Zwank, Unit Manager, [email protected]

The final report of project ANIA, “Analysis and management of environmental impacts and energy ·

consumption of refrigeration installations in the agro foods sector”, was completed and presented to

the partners, Administration de l’Environnement and the company Cactus SA. Different aspects of energy

consumption and performance were analysed. Using these results it was possible to define decision-

making criteria for adapting the authorization procedure of refrigeration systems in Luxembourg.

Contact: Frank Minette, Unit Manager, [email protected]


ZooMINg IN oN ThE RESUlTS oF ThE pRoJECT … FlUXAlZETTE

Methods for identifying and quantifying river pollutants The FLUXALZETTE project “Flow of materials into the catchment area of the Alzette: Impacts of pollutants

(micro/macro pollutants and nutrients)”, co-financed by the National Research Fund (FNR) and brought to a close in 2007, implemented an analysis of regionalized flows of materials through the catchment area of the Alzette, the most polluted river in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. The project made it possible to calculate the dynamic of pollutant loads of nutrients, heavy metals and organic substances for the main sub-watersheds, with the focus on urban sanitation systems, such as purification plants and storm drains.

Particular attention was paid to the quantification of “first flush” loads, which mobilize pollutants originating in impermeable surfaces and pipe systems. This was undertaken within the framework of the FLUSH component “Establishment of pollutant profiles in the flood waves in the catchment area of the Alzette” of the collaboration agreement reached with the Ministère de l’Intérieur et de l’Aménagement du Territoire. The project team developed methods for identifying and quantifying the contributions from different urban sources (roadways, roofs, pipe sediments) and locating these loads during flood waves in the receptor rivers by analysing sets of samples with a high time resolution.

Further information: [email protected]

POster Created Within the fraMeWOrk Of OekOfOire 2007



Key competences: Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) applied to healthcare:

Hospital and medical information systems: specialised software for hospital and medical ·

departments, electronic health care records, medical databases

Interfacing and communication between IT applications: Enterprise Application Integration ·

(EAI), Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), communication standards (HL7, DICOM, etc.)

Clinical expert and decision-support systems ·

Medical and hospital security: data protection, security of data and systems, security ·

management, encryption, anonymization/pseudonymization

Communication networks, mobile and wireless computing, open source software ·

eHealth: processes and interconnections in the health care chain, technical and semantic interoperability, integrated care (including disease management), telemedicine, home care and monitoring, patient identification, chip cards

Clinical engineering: hospital and medical equipment and devices, intelligent sensors (in collaboration with the Laboratory for Industrial Technologies and Materials – LTI), terminologies, classification and codification systems, clinical processes, clinical pathways, clinical intelligence and performance, hospital management, logistics and organisation, quality assurance (in collaboration with the LTI)

Public Health: health economy evaluations, impact evaluation of new methods, new systems and/or solutions on quality of life and costs, analysis on the utility and efficiency of new methods, new systems and/or solutions, market and needs studies, cost-benefit and socio-economic analyses

Image treatment: treatment of images in general, medical imaging, bio-medical imaging

Activities: R&D, doctoral research, technological assistance and consulting, university and ongoing post-graduate training, awareness raising and dissemination, incubation of RDI activities, documentation and information centre, technological, scientific and regulatory watch

The CR SANTEC participates, together with CITI, in the “Free and Open Source Software” innovation platform.


Main partners: Luxembourg hospitals, doctors and dentists, Ministry of Health, Ministry of Social Security, Direction de la Santé, sickness funds

Contact: Pierre Plumer, Director Tel.: +352 42 59 91 – 250 [email protected]

Further information: www.santec.tudor.lu

CR SANTEC Resource Centre for Health Care Technologies

Pierre PluMer


In 2007, CR SANTEC made important advances at all levels: its activities (17 research projects conducted ·

by the end of 2007), its competences, which were restructured to better meet the needs and expectations

of its partners, and its financial and human resources. At the end of 2007, CR SANTEC had 20 collaborators.

The resource centre’s strategic orientations however, which are the health care quality, patient quality of

life, patient security and cost control in the health sector, remain unchanged.

2007 also brought CR SANTEC the opportunity to consolidate its collaborations and its national and ·

international reputation. As part of this process, the Union des Caisses de Maladie and the Ministry

of Health entrusted CR SANTEC with the task of conducting a strategic study on the inventory of IT

applications in hospital establishments in Luxembourg and strategic and operational recommendations for

future computerization.

Other examples of national and international recognition included: ·

Participation in the national Hospital Organisation Working Group ·

Participation in the national eHealth Working Group ·

Participation in the national Logistics Working Group ·

Participation in the national Health Classifications Working Group ·

Participation in the European Network of Excellence GA · 2LEN

Participation in the SENTINEL network “Safety and Efficacy for New Techniques and Imaging Using New ·

Equipment to Support European Legislation”

Collaboration with AGFA HealthCare on the adaptation of its radiological software to the needs of ·

Luxembourg

Sponsoring of the GECAMed project “Management of Medical Practices” by Pfizer and Astra-Zeneca ·

With regard to research projects, it must be emphasized that there is continued interest in the internationally ·

successful project OPTIMAGE “Optimal Image Quality”, aimed at quality constancy control of medical

images. Collaboration of the project partners (EHL, Ministry of Health, BK Trier) with a number of renowned

specialist university hospitals and the European network SENTINEL resulted in a unique software solution

that makes it possible to automatically evaluate the constancy of quality of medical images. This solution

is being deployed both in the main Luxembourg hospitals and by a number of European partners.

The first phase of the GECAMed project “Management of Medical Practices” allowed the development of the basic ·

functionalities of software for medical practices management. Although the developments are not yet complete,

GECAMed is already operational in a number of medical practices and in the radiological service of the Centre

Hospitalier Emile Mayrisch. A “Beta” version will be freely available by mid-May 2008 and a second phase, which

will make it possible to extend the software to different medical specialities, is already planned.

The aim of the “Laboratory” part of the Healthnet project “Secured infrastructure for health professionals” ·

is to send laboratory test results to prescribing physicians. At the end of 2007, the Centre Hospitalier de

Luxembourg joined the project as a provider of laboratory results and as a system user. Some 300 doctors

have been connected to the laboratory exchange system.

Acceptance of the LuHF project “Luxembourg Heart Failure” from amongst 4,800 products, from over ·

60 countries as one of the eight lighthouse projects for MEDICA (one of the world’s largest biomedical

technology and equipment trade fairs), held in Düsseldorf from 14 to 17 November 2007

Organisation of a workshop at MEDICA on managed care approaches supported by information and ·

communication technologies

Participation by CR SANTEC in the finalization of the national eHealth action plan ·

“Live” demonstration of the CARA project “Electronic Radiological Health Records” in the presence of the ·

Health Minister, Mars Di Bartolomeo

Organisation of a symposium on dosimetry in CT (Computer Tomography) (held on 28 November 2007, with ·

a total of 66 participants)

2007 hIghlIghTS: ·g


Acceptance of phase 3 of project MENSSANA, “Mobile Expert and Networking System for Systematic Analysis ·

of Nutrition-based Allergies”, thanks to the success of the work in progress. In fact, the project has

already allowed the development of a device that eases the daily life of allergy sufferers, in collaboration

with the Centre Hospitalier de Luxembourg and the “Institut für medizinische Statistik, Informatik und

Epidemiologie” of the University of Cologne. The Personal Allergy Assistant® is a pocket device which reads

the barcodes of food products and checks the list of ingredients to see whether the product contains a

substance to which the user is allergic. The Personal Allergy Assistant® also allows the patient to keep a

daily diary of products consumed, thereby facilitating the diagnosis of allergies

Participation in two scientific congresses (EAACI 2007 in Göteborg and Multimediatechnik 2007 in Wismar) ·

at which the MENSSANA project team had the opportunity to present their principal findings

Uploading of over 13,000 food products on the · www.wikifood.eu website. This portal, launched by the CR SANTEC,

provides information for allergy sufferers, as well as their families and friends, on the composition of

commercially available food products

Lectures given at the University Henri Poincaré of Nancy (10 · th year running), as well as at the Lycée

Technique des Professions de la Santé (8th year running)

TRANSFER AND DISSEMINATIoN ACTIvITIES oF CR SANTEC

Teaching 30 hours of teaching in university cursus at the University of Nancy 1 and the international

Health Care Management Institut


phDs 1 PhD sucessfully defended

Events 3 professional events gathered a total of 148 attendees

Carnet Radiologique Electronique (50 attendees), 29 March 2007

Medica Media Congress - topic “Telemedizin, Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologie:

IKT - unterstützte Managed Care - Ansätze” (32 attendees), 14 November 2007

“Exposition des patients au luxembourg lors d’examens CT” Symposium (66 attendees),

28 November 2007

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WWW.WikifOOd.eu


A JoINT STRUCTURE oF ThE ChAMbRE DES MéTIERS AND ThE CRp hENRI TUDoR

Staff at the end of 2007: The CRTI-B employs no specific staff. The secretary is taken in charge by the Chambre des Métiers. Normalization work is done by panels of professionals and projects are carried out by partners including the departments of the CRP Henri Tudor.

Key competences: · Strategic direction of innovation by new technologies in the construction sector

Anticipation of the impacts of new technologies on the construction trades ·

New modes of co-ordination and collaboration in the construction sector ·

Standards of electronic exchanges in the construction sector and interoperability of ·

information systems

Sustainable construction ·

Assistance in the implementation and management of innovation projects in the ·

construction sector

Standardization of contractual and technical clauses ·


Main partners: Ministère des Travaux Publics (MTP), Administration des Bâtiments Publics (ABP), Administration des Ponts et Chaussées, Ordre des Architectes et des Ingénieurs-conseils (OAI), Chambre des Métiers, Fédération des Industriels Luxembourgeois (FEDIL), Fédération des Artisans

Contacts: Michel Brachmond, Deputy Director of the Chambre des Métiers, Secretary General of the CRTI-B, [email protected]

Laurent Grein, Vice-Chairman of the CRTI-B, phone: +352 42 59 91 - 1, [email protected]

Further information: www.crtib.lu

CRTI-B Resource Centre for Technologies and Innovation in Construction

MiChel BraChMOnd laurent grein


Definition and implementation of a business model to encourage general use of new software for monitoring ·

of construction projects, including the setting-up of a dedicated server at the Administration des Bâtiments

Publics

Specification and development of an IT management and plan change tool ·

Organisation of a meeting for sector professionals on the topic of construction project management ·

platforms, illustrating the opportunities for improving information exchange between project partners

Participation in the design of a new training cycle on “Office Management and Project Administration” ·

of the Ordre des Architectes et des Ingénieurs-conseils (OAI), within the framework of the overall CRTI-B

objective of improving training in the construction sector in Luxembourg

Participation in the working group of the research project SC-CONSTRUCT “Sustainable and Competitive ·

Construction”, aimed at developing a new, more effective form of partnership in construction projects

Active participation in international workshops organised within the framework of “Focus Area 7 – Processes ·

& ICT” of the European Construction Technology Platform (ECTP)

Revision of certain clauses with a view to adapt them to technological evolutions ·



A JoINT STRUCTURE oF ThE MINISTRy oF ThE ECoNoMy AND FoREIgN TRADE AND CRp hENRI TUDoR


Key competences: Scientific and technological watch, competitive intelligence, scientific and technological documentation, information research, information analysis (bibliometry, text mining), dissemination of information, standardization, standard and regulation watch, intellectual property

Activities: Specialized services (scientific and technology watch services, competitive intelligence (CI) services, standard and regulation monitoring services), organisational assistance (implementation of CI organisation), doctoral research, joint R&D, consulting, post-graduate training


Main partners: Ministry of the Economy and Foreign Trade – Intellectual Property Department, Office Luxembourgeois d’Accréditation et de Surveillance (OLAS), European Patent Office (EPO), World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO)

Contact: Dr Serge Quazzotti, Manager

[email protected], phone: +352 42 59 91 – 1

Further information: www.veille.lu, www.brevet.lu, www.vnorm.lu

CVT Technology Watch Centre

dr serge QuaZZOtti

CvT’S SERvICE ACTIvITIES IN 2007 ·g

Services offered by CvT Number of requests satisfied

Technology and competitive watch services 56

Standards and regulations monitoring services 87

Other services 33

Total 176


In 2007, the Technology Watch Centre was particularly active in the development of · new training

programmes, products and services for businesses and actors in the research sector.

Four new training programmes were designed in collaboration with economic actors in Luxembourg and ·

integrated into the CRP Henri Tudor training catalogue: “Survey your competitors”, “Regulation monitoring”

and “Technology watch in project management”, as well as a new e-learning training programme “Professional

Internet information search”.

An e-learning training platform is currently being developed within the framework of a new project entitled ·

e-Jobs “Development and transfer of an e-learning training programme to information search and watch

on the Internet for job-seekers”, carried out in collaboration with the Administration de l’Emploi (ADEM),

with financial support from the European Social Fund (ESF). The aim of the project is to increase chances

of reintegration for unemployed people into active life through better use of the Internet as a source of

information.

The CVT has also launched a number of new products. In the framework of the transfer of the EPO’s ·

“Special searches” services to national offices, the CVT has integrated “Special patent searches” into its

catalogue (see www.brevet.lu). The catalogue of products and services has also seen the addition of

the “Automated Internet Watch” product (see www.veille.lu). A new system for managing standards and

regulation documents has also been developed (see www.vnorm.lu).

Two professional conferences on economic security and on the tools of a good business strategy, · organised

by the CVT, brought together for the first time in Luxembourg, experts from different fields who presented

and exchanged practices on subjects including data securization, change management, competitive

intelligence and benchmarking.

With regard to research, the results of the study “20 years of patents in Luxembourg” were included for the ·

first time in the 2007 Bilan de Compétitivité list of patent indicators, published by the Observatoire de la

Compétitivité.

A publication entitled “Project watch: towards a methodology of watch implementation in the framework ·

of a project-based management” was presented to the community of competitive intelligence professionals

at the Scientific, Strategic and Technological Watch Congress (VSST’2007) (22-24 October 2007 in

Marrakech).

The CVT represented Luxembourg at the 12 · th Conference of the International Federation of Standards Users

(IFAN) (held 20-21 August 2007 in San Francisco). The IFAN membership is of major importance, since it

represents the interests of Luxembourg standards users in the standardisation community.

Lastly, the CVT has set up its new Internet sites, · www.veille.lu, www.brevet.lu and www.vnorm.lu.


WWW.veille.lu WWW.Brevet.lu WWW.vnOrM.lu



Activities: continuous post-graduate training:

at academic level, in co-operation with the University of Luxembourg and other European ·

and American universities

at qualifying level, in-class or distance learning (intensive courses, specialization cycles, ·

custom-tailored training courses, e-learning training courses)

requalification programme for job-seekers ·

dissemination activities (conferences, meetings, working groups)


Main partners: University of Luxembourg, Chambre de Commerce, Chambre des Employés Privés, Chambre des Métiers, Institut National de l’Administration Publique (INAP), Ordre des Architectes et des Ingénieurs-conseils (OAI), Association Luxembourgeoise des Ingénieurs Industriels (ALII), Institut National pour le développement de la Formation Professionnelle Continue (INFPC), Ministry of National Education and Professional Training, Ministry of Culture, Higher Education and Research, Ministry of Work and Employment

Contact: Bernard Lambeaux, Manager phone: +352 42 59 91 – 1 [email protected]

Further information: www.sitec.lu

On quality level, a number of noteworthy advances were made during the course of 2007, in particular:

A progression of training activities within the framework of partnerships with professional associations and ·

organisations that have entrusted SITec® with the design and organisation of training programmes dedicated

specifically to their members (Ordre des Architectes et des Ingénieurs-conseils (OAI), Association du

Personnel des Stations d’Epuration du Luxembourg, Institut National d’Administration Publique, Groupement

Luxembourgeois de l’Aéronautique et de l’Espace, Mouvement Luxembourgeois pour la Qualité)

Further innovation in the pedagogical methods used, in particular through e-learning and its community of ·

practices, and through support and training of the Centre’s trainers.

In recognition of its excellent quality standards, the SITec® continuous training service was awarded ISO ·

9001-2000 certification in October 2007

2007 was characterized by a considerable increase in the number of hours (2,055 hours, an increase of 14%) of

continuous training activities of CRP Henri Tudor.

SITec® Lifelong Learning for Technological Innovation


Bernard laMBeaux


With regard to continuous training activities at the qualifying level:

Training was developed for the benefit of the construction sector: ·

Completion of a first cycle of training on the evolution and implementation of construction materials ·

(eight half-days, in collaboration with the OAI, 347 participants)

Launch of the first cycle of training on office and project management (two half-days, in collaboration ·

with the OAI, 66 participants)

End of the fourth session of the cycle “Bauen und Energie” (seven half-days, in collaboration with the ·

OAI, 274 participants)

A one-day training, organised within the framework of the CRTI-B, on numerical models in IFC format, ·

that brought together 10 participants

Increasing individualization of training activities (54 custom-tailored training programmes conducted for ·

the benefit of 49 organisations, 15 e-learning training programmes conducted for the benefit of 159

attendees)

Implementation of new very high level training for the logistics sector, with the first round of a training ·

cycle, at the end of which seven participants were awarded a “Certificate in Global Logistics and Supply

Chain Management” from the Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

Some 46 inter-organisation training programmes, both in-class or distance learning, were conducted in the ·

domain of Information and Communication Technologies for the benefit of 406 participants from the public

and service sectors

The specialization cycle “Abwassertechnik und Gewässerschutz” organised on a custom-tailored basis, ·

provided training to 74 professionals from the sector

Lastly, 48 participants benefited from training related to technological watch. ·

With regard to continuous training activities leading to a qualification:

Launch of the second Master’s degree class in “Management of Information Systems Security”. This second ·

intake serves as confirmation of both the partnership with the University of Luxembourg and the interest

in this thematic existing in the service sector

Launch of the ninth Master’s degree class in “IT and Innovation”. To date, 128 students have taken the ·

Master’s course, which is the fruit of a model partnership with the faculties of the Université Nancy 2 and

the University of Namur

Launch of the third Master’s degree class in “Management Sciences with a Specialization in Quality” ·

organised in partnership with the Paul-Verlaine University of Metz and the University of Quebec in Trois-

Rivières.

With regard to professional and scientific dissemination activities, in addition to the first national Service

Sciences event “New keys to successfully drive business innovation”, which attracted the interest of around fifty

actors from the domain (13 November 2007, in collaboration with the SPIRAL network), and the re-launch of

the 6-10 workshops on Supply Chains, a large number of events were organised on the basis of thematic and

targeted sector, including:

The “LinuxDays 2007” (1-2 February 2007, in collaboration with the University of Luxembourg, Restena, ·

Lilux, the National Research Fund - FNR, 71 participants)

“IT outsourcing in the financial sector” (21 March 2007, in collaboration with the Association des Banques ·

et Banquiers Luxembourg - ABBL, 94 participants)

“For a better exchange of information within projects in the construction sector” (29 March 2007, in ·

collaboration with the Ministère des Travaux Publics, the Administration des Bâtiments Publics, the

Administration des Ponts et Chaussées, the Ordre des Architectes et Ingénieurs-conseils, the Chambre des

Métiers and the Fédération des Artisans, 78 participants)

“Evaluation and Effectiveness of Public Policies” (27 April 2007, in collaboration with the Ministry of the ·

Economy and Foreign Trade, STATEC and the Observatoire de la Compétitivité, 78 participants)

“REACH” information seminar (10 May 2007, in collaboration with the Chambre de Commerce and the ·


Fédération des Industriels Luxembourgeois - FEDIL, 83 participants)

“When the mobile becomes a tourist guide” (20 September 2007, 61 participants), with the financial ·

support of the European programme ERDF

“Official Launch of the Creative Commons Licences in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg” (15 October 2007, ·

in collaboration with Luxcommons asbl, 49 participants)

Annual Conference 2007 of “GestionDeProjet.lu” (24 October 2007, in collaboration with the SPIRAL ·

network, 93 participants)

“Open Source Software for the financial sector” (15 November 2007, in collaboration with Jamendo and ·

Conostix, 57 participants)

“LuSI Day - Luxembourg Safer Internet Day” (8 November 2007, in collaboration with Telindus, 12345 ·

Kanner Jugendtelefon, the European Commission and the National Research Fund, 46 participants)

“Le Logiciel Libre pour le secteur financier” (15 November 2007, in collaboration with Jamendo and ·

Conostix, 57 participants).

Key figures 2007

Trainings and events organised by the CRP Henri Tudor

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Number of Cumulated Cumulated activities hourly volume number of attendees

Inter-company 91 993 1,148

Tailor made trainings 54 382 302

Diploma courses / master 3 680 80

Conferences 51 187 1,909

Professional events 50 320 1,207


Staff at the end of 2007: The platform employs no specific staff. The activities and projects are carried out by two departments of the CRP Henri Tudor: Resource Centre for Health Care Technologies (CR SANTEC) and Centre for IT Innovation (CITI)

Key competences: Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) technology, FOSS networking, intellectual property, FOSS business models, FOSS communities

Activities: Conducting surveys in the field of FOSS, RDI projects, FOSS training activities, co-ordination of FOSS initiatives in Luxembourg, participation in international scientific conferences and exhibitions, sensitization of industrial and political decision makers, organisation of conferences, seminars, round tables and road shows in the FOSS domain, professional and scientific publications, installation of FOSS-based services for SMEs


Main partners: Association des Professionnels de la Société de l’Information (APSI), Centre d’Excellence en Technologies de l’Information et de la Communication (CETIC), Club de la Sécurité des Systèmes d’Information Luxembourg (CLUSSIL), Centre de Technologie de l’Education (CTE), Fachhochschule Trier, GNU/Linux User Group Luxembourg (LiLux), ASC, Audaxis, Broadcasting Center Europe - an RTL Group company, Cetrel, Conostix, CONSEN (EEIG) Euro-Group, Fujitsu Siemens Computers, HP Luxembourg, IBM, Intech, Open Source Development Lab (OSDL), Oracle, Plan-Net, Pragma Consult, Sun Microsystems, Telindus

Contact: Ortwin Donak, Co-ordinator of the innovation platform, [email protected]

Further information: www.libre.tudor.lu

2007 hIghlIghTS:

Organisation of the “Meet the Communities II – Web Portals” conference targeting business decision makers and technical managers, ·in collaboration with Pragma Consult (14 June 2007, 50 participants)

Organisation over two days (1-2 February 2007) of the LinuxDays, consisting of workshops, presentations, and an exhibition ·

Organisation, on 15 November 2007, of the “Journées du Libre” (FOSS Days) dedicated to the existing constraints on the adoption ·of open source software in the financial sector in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg

Participation in LuSI Day (Luxembourg Safer Internet) held on 8 November 2007 with an information and awareness stand on Free ·and Open Source Software

Organisation of a number of awareness-raising activities aimed in particular at young people, such as the pedagogical workshops of ·the Science Club (29 October 2007), the CDays, organised by the Lycée Technique d’Ettelbrück (26 March 2007), the “General Hacking Techniques” training programme, organised at the Lycée Technique d’Esch-sur-Alzette (LTE) (6 July 2007)

Launch of the project FOSS4PRO “Free and Open Source Software for professional use” which targets research, surveys and the ·development of models and methodologies in the FOSS domains communities, intellectual property, business and technology

Organisation of sensitization and promotion activities on FOSS throughout Luxembourg in the scope of the FreeSpread project ·“Sensitization towards and the utilization of FOSS in the entire Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, especially for companies and organisations”

Finalization of the first phase of the project FreeGate “An Open Source System Integration Solution for Small and Medium Enterprises ·- Requirement Specification and Marketing Strategy”, concerning a market research, business plan and specifications for an open source software for enterprise application (freegate.tudor.lu)

Scientific publication (presented to the AIM – HEC Lausanne) on the institutional ecosystem of Free and Open Source Software called ·“Yet Another Mutualist Ecosystem in the Knowledge-Based Economy”, co-written with the CETIC

Supervision of two Master’s theses in the field of Free and Open Source Software ·

Creation of an e-learning course on OpenOffice via the e-learning platform Anaxagora (www.anaxagora.lu) ·

Participation as co-ordinator for Luxembourg in the ISO committee “JTC 1 / SC34” defining standards for structured markup languages ·like XML.

FOSS “Free and Open Source Software” Innovation Platform


Staff at the end of 2007: 4.25

Activities: · Management and development of an incubator for innovative technology-based companies

Awareness and training for the creation of innovative technology-based companies ·

Assistance, consulting and training in ·business development strategy for innovative technology-based companies

Elaboration of methods and recommendations ·to foster the creation and development of

innovative technology-based companies


Senior partners of Technoport: City of Esch-sur-Alzette, Broadcasting Center Europe (BCE) – an RTL Group Company, ArcelorMittal

public and institutional partners: Technoport is a member of the European BIC Network (EBN) and the European Space Incubator Network (ESINET) and an associate member of the International Association of Science Parks (IASP).

Contact: Diego De Biasio, Manager phone: +352 42 59 91 – 404 [email protected]

Further information: www.technoport.lu

Technoport High-tech Business Incubator

2007, the year of mergers and acquisitions!

2007 was characterized by a movement to consolidate the activities of Technoport and its companies on a number of levels.

In terms of internal development, 55 new contacts were made, with the final acceptance of one new business in the incubator and support for the creation of two further businesses, one of which was set for final approval in January 2008. This brings the number of businesses accepted since Technoport’s creation in June 1998 to 41. The business that joined the incubator in 2007 was the company GentleSecurity (www.gentlesecurity.com), active in the field of computer security.

With regard to the development of hosted businesses, two joined the existing list of eight “success stories”. These were Epuramat, active in the field of development and marketing of innovative wastewater treatment plants, and Conostix, a company specializing in computer security (see inserts on pages 64 and 65). A table highlighting some of the most significant developments of the businesses followed by Technoport (hosted companies and/or success stories) is shown on page 66.

A significant development in 2007 was the acquisition of three success stories by external companies.

June 2007: · The American company Patchlink announced the acquisition of SecureWave SA.

July 2007: · The Weinig Industrial Group (Germany) announced the acquisition of LuxScan Technologies Sàrl.

December 2007: · New Media Lux, a new Luxembourg media group, announced the acquisition of Neonline Sàrl.

These acquisitions open up new development opportunities for the three companies concerned, which will further consolidate their position in their respective domains whilst keeping part of their activities in Luxembourg.


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Activity field: Computer security

Date of creation: 2001

Date of acceptance at Technoport: September 2001


Turnover growth in 2007: +72%

products: Virtuoso, secure-pme

Services: Consulting in computer security

geographical area: “Greater Region” area

Founded in 2001 by experienced professionals, Conostix provides innovative Internet security solutions. Conostix’ approach is based

on “simplicity first”. It is better to use smart tools than to add more tools. It is essential to prevent the security infrastructure from

becoming a security problem in itself. Conostix initially acquired its experience and its reputation in the provision of solutions for

improving the information protection measures of banks in the Luxembourg financial market. This expertise then led Conostix to diversify

its original market by coming up with a solution that meets the needs of a modern SME. Following the slogan “Think big but start small”,

Conostix designed a complete solution that can be easily integrated into the client’s ecosystem and does not require any changes to

existing systems. The client pays only for what he really needs, which means a high return on investment that is easy to quantify and

value. The integral security solution with 24-hour monitoring was launched in September 2006 under the brand name “secure-pme” and

was awarded the “Prix Eschois de l’Innovation” in December 2006. Today, Conostix delivers computer security awareness programmes

for IT security, remote-monitoring and management services for SMEs as well as on-site services on IT infrastructure. With the positive

developments that took place at Conostix in 2007, the company took the first step towards moving out of Technoport by signing a

lease for premises in the commune of Kayl and plans for the final move in January 2008 after renovation. This decision makes it in fact

become Technoport’s 10th “success story”.

The integral security solution!

MAJoR ADDITIoNAl FACTS ovER 2005-2007

April 2005:

R&D project aimed at providing “Security solutions” to SMEs ·

Project co-financed by the Ministry of the Economy and Foreign Trade ·

March 2007:

CASES project – Conostix is selected for the implementation of an awareness programme on “Information security” in ·administrations

September 2007:

Yves De Pril, CEO and founder of Conostix, awarded second prize at the “Creative Young Entrepreneur Luxembourg 2007” contest ·

November 2007:

Winner of the category “Start-up of the Year - ICT Awards Luxembourg 2007 – ·ITOne” (ex aequo with Jamendo)

January 2008:

Conostix moves into its new premises in Kayl ·

Details: Conostix SA | 70, rue de Tétange | L-3672 Kayl

phone: + 352 26 10 30 61 | fax: + 352 26 10 30 62 | www.conostix.com | [email protected]

ZooM 1: CoNoSTIX SA – 2007, ThE TAKE-oFF yEAR! ·g


Activity field: Clean Tech

Date of creation: 2005

hosted at Technoport from December 2005 to January 2007


products: Wastewater plants and systems

geographical coverage: “Greater Region” area

Epuramat is one of the quick success stories of the incubator as it was hosted only for a period of 14 months. The company supplies

technologically advanced wastewater treatment plants and systems which are turn-key delivered within 6 months. Its innovative

technology, based on the ExSep solid/liquid separator (patent pending), makes the treatment of wastewater more efficient, resulting

in significantly smaller, more economical and easier to use wastewater treatment plants. The Epuramat-technology allows, amongst

other things, efficient handling of the fermenting substrates from biogas plants. At the beginning of 2007, Epuramat moved to its new

premises after having announced the minority equity taken by Chaux de Contern back in December 2006. In April of this year it also

took over the wastewater treatment plant business unit from the Chaux de Contern that has built over 50 plants in Luxembourg. 2007

was also the year of the first client as Epuramat could announce Panelux as its first industrial client. The company will provide a new

wastewater treatment plant for Panelux and its biogas plant in Luxembourg. Panelux, one of the country’s largest foodstuff producers,

decided to turn their residual bread and bakery products into electrical energy in a novel biogas plant. This innovative biogas plant is

able to recycle the energy-rich “raw materials” into electricity and heat without any co-fermentation (e.g. organic substrates, liquid

manure). Subsequently, an Epuramat wastewater treatment plant in a manner allowing it to be re-circulated outside of the foodstuff

sector will process the industrial water discharged from the biogas plant. The industrial water produced in this style is used to soak

the bakery products taken back and for the cleaning of the facility and vehicle fleet. The water drained from the Epuramat wastewater

treatment plant will almost achieve the quality of drinking water. In a special procedure, the arising fermenting substrates are converted

to high-quality compost, which are used in the fertilizer industry or sedimentation facilities. This integrated concept combines thus

two systems and thanks to the wastewater treatment plant, the planned biogas plant can even be operated without being connected to

a public sewage system. To protect natural water resources, the industrial bakery Panelux is able to save considerable amounts of fresh

water as well as disposal costs and on top, feed surplus “green” electricity back into the public networks.

MAJoR ADDITIoNAl FACTS ovER 2005-2007

November 2005:

Patent application for the ExSep solid/liquid separator ·

March 2006:

Launch of the R&D project “Universal purification system for municipal and industrial wastewaters on the basis of a solid/fluid ·separator”

Project co-financed by the Ministry of the Economy and Foreign Trade ·

Partners (among others): Centre de Ressources des Technologies pour l’Environnement (CRTE), Railion, ArcelorMittal, Panelux, ·Coboulux

Details: Epuramat SA | rue des Chaux | L-5324 Contern

phone : + 352 35 70 72 | fax : + 352 35 81 13 | www.epuramat.com | [email protected]

ZooM 2: EpURAMAT – INNovATIoN IN wASTEwATER TREATMENT! ·g


2007 – COMPanies develOPMent, a ChrOnOlOgiCal OvervieW

January - March

SecureWave passes 2 Million License Mark as Sanctuary Install Base Increases by 38 percent. The company is also announced as ·SC Magazine Award Finalist.

Epuramat announces final closing and move to new premises. ·

Codasystem awarded by Red Herring. ·

OneTree Technologies’ Model-Driven Methodology used by European Investment Fund to specify Service Level Agreements. ·

Conostix delivers security awareness expertise for *cases.lu*. ·

Noemi Concept celebrates 2 years of activity. ·

April – June

LuxScan Technologies sells its 100 · th scanner and announces expansion of US team.

SecureWave buoys Security Americas Cup Team. ·

Jamendo goes platinum and announces new notification system. ·

CodaSystem gets Microsoft Mobile2Market Certification for its CodaMobile application. ·

Epuramat gets wastewater treatment branch of Chaux de Contern. ·

Conostix’ CEO, Yves de Pril, is awarded at the Creative Young Entrepreneur Luxembourg Award 2007(CYEL) ·

July – September

LuxScan Technologies announces acquisition by Weinig Group. ·

Patchlink completes SecureWave acquisition and becomes Lumension Security. ·

CodaSystem launches “Shoot and Proof” – a B2C solution and presents at the DEMO FALL07 event in San Diego (US). ·

Jamendo closes Series A funding from Mangrove Capital Partners and announces partnership with Dailymotion. ·

J-Way announces new version of J-Publisher. ·

Epuramat builds wastewater treatment plant for Panelux. ·

Neonline announces new development plan. ·

october – December

OneTree Technologies signs partnership with Exalead · TM.

Neonline moves to new premises and undergoes re-looking of lesfrontaliers.lu logo. ·

Successful tradeshows for LuxScan Technologies. ·

Conostix’ CEO, Yves de Pril, ends 12 · th at the CYE world award in Turkey.

CodaSystem announces first steps on US market. ·

Jamendo welcomes directory of Spanish independent label. ·

Lumension Security wins top honors by Computerworld magazine for two consecutive years. ·

GentleSecurity joins Technoport with its innovative solutions/products in IT security. ·

Blue Sky Software celebrates 7 years of activity and opens subsidiary in Nancy. ·

The ITOne 2007 ICT Awards sees ex-equo Conostix and Jamendo as start-ups of the year for 2007. ·

aCtivity ZOOM On faCts, events, visits, seMinars and fairs Over 2007

International:

Technoport presents for the second consecutive year at the ESADE Business School (Barcelona, Spain). ·

Technoport takes part at the 2007 EBN spring event (Brussels, Belgium). ·

Technoport at PNI Cube’s annual international workshop on “Management of academic spin-offs” (Turin, Italy). ·

Technoport attends EBN 2007 annual congress (Canterburry, UK). ·

Technoport at Intel & UC Berkeley “Technology Entrepreneurship, theory and practice” seminar (Barcelona, Spain). ·

Technoport attends workshop on “How to do business in ICT markets based on satellite technologies” organised in the framework of ·the INVESAT European project (Triest, Italy).


INCUbAToR STATUS AS oF 31 DECEMbER 2007 ·g

Office space: 1,600 m2

Occupation rate: 85%

New contacts 2007: 55

New companies accepted in 2007: 1

Number of files accepted by the Board of Directors since 1998 : 41

Member companies of the Technoport innovation Network: 21

- On-site : 11

- Success stories : 10

Average tenancy period: 3.4 years

Planned exists in 2008 : 2

Cumulated turnover 2007 : 23.5 M Euro

Evolution of the cumulated turnover in 2007 : 17.5%

Cumulated venture capital financing raised by the companies: 11.5 M Euro

Number of employees: 198

New jobs created in 2007 : 36

Subsidiaries abroad: 8 (USA, gb, F)

Inter-company collaborations in 2007 : 14

Collaborations with the CRP Henri Tudor in 2007 : 11

Trainees in 2007 : 18

PhD theses in 2007 : 5

Technoport attends “Initiatives 2007 – Le forum des entrepreneurs” – a B2B fair (Liège, Belgium). ·

Technoport presents its support services for research-intensive SMEs in the framework of the Detect-it2 European project (Brussels, ·Belgium).

Technoport attends Best Science based Incubator conference on «Expanding the incubators function» (Sevilla, Spain). ·

National:

Technoport official partner of the European Venture Contest 2007. ·

Successful Microsoft enterprise & development summit 2007 at Technoport. ·

Technoport presents opportunities for research projects at Linux Days 2007. ·

The Fédération des Jeunes Dirigeants organises working dinner on entrepreneurship at Technoport in presence of the Minister of the ·Economy and Foreign Trade.

“How did we raise Venture capital?” – entrepreneurship evening at Technoport with Laurent Kratz, CEO and co-founder of Jamendo. ·

Technoport welcomes delegations from Chile and Poland to share best practices in managing an incubator. ·

Successful completion of five further projects within the sales and marketing support structure. ·

Technoport supports the official launch of the creative commons 3.0 licences (Luxembourg). ·

“How did we get acquired?” – entrepreneurship evening at Technoport with LuxScan Technologies CEOs Jean-Yves Hergott and ·Raphaël Vogrig.

Successful completion of the Leonardo Mobility project of Technoport. ·

“Why didn’t we succeed?” – entrepreneurship evening at Technoport with Alex Papanastassiou explaining the lessons learned within ·a former venture.

Technoport attends together with 5 companies of the Network “Contact – Your Entrepreneurial Networking Event” – a B2B/B2C fair ·(Luxembourg).


Main RDI Projects of CRP Henri Tudor in 2007

laBOratOry fOr industrial teChnOlOgies and Materials (lti) ust g “Strategy and Management” scientific and technological unit

· SC-COnSTRUCT “Création d’un ensemble de pratiques de gestion de performance dans le secteur de la construction”, [email protected]

· CHAMAnE “Innovating with true Supply Chain Management”, [email protected]

· CRM “Création de compétences en CRM”, [email protected]

· ExInD2 “Conception de formation en management”, [email protected]

· HOSPIMOD “Analyse du système de performance”, [email protected]

· IMPEE “Innovative Multi-Product Engineering Environment”, [email protected]

· LPO “Lean Public Organisation - Management et outillage d’un processus d’évaluation et d’amélioration des organisations du secteur public”, [email protected]

· MASTERLQ “Mise en oeuvre de la promotion 3 du Master en Logistique et Qualité (spécialisation qualité)”, [email protected]

· QUALITy PASS “Passeport pour la qualité pour les très petites et petites entreprises”, [email protected]

· REBAMO “Méthode d’aide à l’ingénierie ou ré-ingénierie des entreprises par la modélisation”, [email protected]

ust g “Modelling and simulation” scientific and technological unit

· CASSEM “Composites and Adaptive Structures : Simulation, Experimentation and Modelling”, [email protected]

· Concurrent Modelling “Concurrent Modelling Tool Development”, [email protected]

· EMBOUTISSAGE “Emboutissage de pièces de précision en tôlerie fine par simulation numérique”, [email protected]

· VEIAnEn “Viscous Effects Investigated by Applied numercis and Experimental nanoindentation”, [email protected]

ust g “Materials” scientific and technological unit

· ICIMAT “Innovation dans la caractérisation intégrée des matériaux”, [email protected]

· MATInSITU “Vers une approche comportementale des matériaux en phase dynamique”, [email protected]

· METROLOGIE “Création d’un laboratoire national d’étalonnage accrédité”, [email protected]

· MOSE “Vers un pôle de compétences de modification sélective des matériaux”, [email protected]

· QSE “Démarche Qualité Sécurité Environnement - Système de management intégré”, [email protected]

· SynTHESE “Synthèse de nanocomposites”, [email protected]

· THERMOMECA “Développement d’un pôle de compétences en essais thermomécaniques”, [email protected]

· TRASU “Développement du procédé propre de traitement de surface à base de plasma à pression atmosphérique. Application industrielle pour le remplacement du procédé humide à base de chrome hexavalent et transfert du procédé plasma dans l’industrie”, [email protected]

· VALMAT “Vers un pôle de compétence en valorisation des matériaux”, [email protected]


Centre fOr it innOvatiOn (Citi) Pfi g “Quality and certification of IT services” innovation platform

· 3emeCycle I&I P9 “Diplôme d’Etudes Supérieures Spécialisées “Informatique & Innovation”, 9ème promotion”, [email protected]

· AIDA “Approche intégrée d’amélioration - Assessment and improvement integrated approach”, [email protected]

· CASSIS_nET “Mobilisation d’un réseau pour l’innovation par les TIC dans les PME”, [email protected]

· EQn “European Innovation and Quality network”, [email protected]

· GERAMO “Gestion des relations clients/fournisseurs dans les projets TIC”, [email protected]

· InnOFinance “Innovation dans le secteur financier”, [email protected]

· InnOVATIC “Favoriser l’entrée des PME dans des processus d’innovation par les TIC”, [email protected]

· SEQUOIA “Software Engineering Quality - Model, Implementation and Assessment”, [email protected]

· SPICE4A “Support à l’amélioration des processus d’accréditation”, [email protected]

· TOOLInnOVE “Systèmes et outils de gestion de projet - méthode QUALInnOVE”, [email protected]

Pfi g “Information systems security” innovation platform

· BUGyO “Building Security Assurance in Open Telecommunications”, [email protected]

· CASSIS Sécurité “Développement d’un pôle de compétences en sécurité des systèmes d’information, dédié aux PME situées dans la zone Objectif II”, [email protected]

· E-Confidential “Trusted Security Platform to secure multiple kinds of application and to provide a trustworthy execution environment”, [email protected]

· ISMS_PME “Information Security Management System pour PME”, [email protected]

· LuSI “Luxembourg Safer Internet”, [email protected]

· MSSI-P2 “Master en management de la sécurité des SI - 2ème promotion”, [email protected]

· R2SIC “Recherche en sécurité des systèmes d’information et de la communication”, [email protected]

· RED “Reaction after Detection”, [email protected]

· RISK-DESAnA “An Incremental Decision Support System for IT and Operational Risk Analysis within Evolving Organisations and IT System”, [email protected]

· SIM “Projet de recherche sur une solution innovante et avancée dans le domaine de l’Identity Management et de la

sécurité des SI dans l’entreprise”, [email protected]

Pfi g “Interoperability standards and e-business” innovation platform

· CAnTATA “Content Aware networked Systems Toward Advanced and Tailored Assistance”, [email protected]

· CARLInK “Wireless Traffic Service Platform for Linking Cars”, [email protected]

· e-FFICIEnT “E-Business framework for an efficient capture and implementation of end-to-end transactions”, [email protected]

· eTransMod “Electronic Transactions Modelling”, [email protected]

· InTEROP “Interoperability Research for networked Enterprises Application and Software”, [email protected]

· Mobile TTE “Mobile Technologies for Tourism Expansion”, [email protected]

· WellCom “nouveaux services mobiles basés sur l’interactivité permise par les standards DVB-T et DVB-S”, [email protected]

Pfi g “e-learning, knowledge management and networked organizations” innovation platform

· AVC “Agora Virtuelle de la Connaissance”, [email protected]

· CAM4Home “Collaborative Aggregated Multimedia for Digital Home”, [email protected]

· CMA-noE “European network of Excellence on Complex Metallic Alloys - Volet Knowledge Management”, [email protected]

· DEMOISEL “Dispositif de e-learning accompagnant une modernisation organisationnelle et informatique au sein de l’Etat luxembourgeois”, [email protected]


· ELU “Enhanced Learning Unlimited”, [email protected]

· FFL e-Santé “Développement et adaptation d’une plate-forme de e-learning en multilingue à destination des professionnels de Santé de la Communauté Européenne”, [email protected]

· FORM-IT “Conception de filières de formation IT”, [email protected]

· InVESTIC “Innovation et investissement TIC”, [email protected]

· MG “Mutualiser pour Gagner”, [email protected]

· MOVIES “Mobile Video and Interactive Services”, [email protected]

· nETWORKInG “Accompagnement des réseaux professionnels dans une activité de services d’innovation à destination des plates-formes d’innovation”, [email protected]

· PALETTE “Pedagogically sustained Adaptive Learning Through the Exploitation of Tacit and Explicit Knowledge”, [email protected]

· Pilot KM “Expérimentation d’un dispositif KM dans le cadre de la conduite de projets d’innovation”, [email protected]

· PRECODEM “Préparation aux compétences de demain pour les demandeurs d’emploi - ingénieurs et cadres”, [email protected]

· SECURLEARn “Dispositif e-learning destiné aux citoyens et PME luxembourgeois pour l’apprentissage des thématiques liées à la sécurité des systèmes et réseaux de l’information et de la communication”, [email protected]

· TAO2 “Testing assisté par ordinateur: plate-forme libre de nouvelle génération en environnement ouvert, distribué et multilingue”, [email protected]

· TAO-Qual “A Quality Control System for Assessment Processes by Means of a Collaborative Internet-Based Assessment Platform”, [email protected]

· TInIS “Technological Innovation network in the field of Information Systems”, [email protected]

· TRAnS-e-FORM “Transition vers la e-formation”, [email protected]

· V3 “Elaboration d’un outil innovant de création de contenus e-learning à la fois polyvalent, professionnel et éducatif”, [email protected]

· Web Training Game “Elaboration d’un jeu d’entreprise en ligne pour la téléformation au e-business et au web-marketing”, [email protected]

Pfi g “Statistical studies and prospective in the knowledge economy” innovation platform

· ABILITIC “Mise en place d’un dispositif interrégional d’anticipation des compétences liées à l’innovation et les TIC dans les metiers”, [email protected]

· COMPETIC “Compétitivité et dynamique d’innovation par les TIC”, [email protected]

· DOTIC “Mise en place d’une méthodologie opérationnelle de détection précoce des opportunités dans le domaine de l’innovation par les Technologies de l’Information et de la Communication (TIC)”, [email protected]

· GEAnCOTIC “Gestion anticipative des compétences liées à l’innovation et aux Technologies de l’Information et de la Communication (TIC)”, [email protected]

· nAVOBS+ “Expanding the existing nAVOBS network of GMES users in order to factor out common needs and to instigate economies of scale in service delivery which will help SMEs (GMES service providers and customers) become more competitive”, [email protected]

· PASSEPARTOUT “Personnalisation de contenus interactifs”, [email protected]

· TASMAnIA “Two-way Satellite Secure Media Delivery Monitoring”, [email protected]

· Valor IT “Valorisation through development chain for ICT based services”, [email protected]


resOurCe Centre fOr health Care teChnOlOgies (Cr santeC)· BIOInFO “Création d’une nouvelle compétence en bio informatique et d’une plate-forme technologique d’analyse génique

à grande échelle (puces à DnA), se fondant sur une application en cancérologie”, [email protected]

· CARA “Carnet radiologique électronique”, [email protected]

· DECLIC “Developing emerging categories for Luxembourg’s informatics in health care”, [email protected]

· FACTGEn “Facturation générique de médecins spécialistes au Luxembourg”, [email protected]

· FACTRAD “Facturation des radiologues”, [email protected]

· GECAMed1 “Logiciel de gestion de cabinets médicaux”, [email protected]

· HEALTHnET 3 “Réseau informatique fermé et sécurisé pour tous les professionnels de la santé”, [email protected]

· IMAGEMED “Expérimentation de l’extension des concepts RIS-PACS vers une gestion intégrée de l’imagerie médicale”, [email protected]

· ISIS “Inventaire des systèmes informatiques de santé”, [email protected]

· LUHF3 “Luxembourg Heart Failure – Phase 3”, [email protected]

resOurCe Centre fOr envirOnMental teChnOlOgies (Crte) ust g “Cleaner production” scientific and technological unit

· AGID “Analyse et Gestion Intégrées et Durables des Flux de Matières et d’Energie en Entreprise”, [email protected]

· LAn “Luxemburg Aviation noise”, [email protected]

· MARC “Energy recovery of biodegradable waste streams from wine production”, [email protected]

· VALORBOUES “Quelles solutions au devenir des boues d’épuration dans la zone transfrontalière ?”, [email protected]

ust g “Water” scientific and technological unit

· ALZETTE “Flux de matières dans le bassin versant de l’Alzette : impacts de micro/macro-polluants et de nutriments sur la qualité des ressources hydriques”, [email protected]

· CHEMRISK “The Development of a Drinking Water Contamination Risk Assessment and Management Strategy in Luxembourg - An Interdisciplinary Approach”, [email protected]

· InEAU “Integration of scientific knowledge on water resources in Luxembourg with a view to the formulation of a sustainable water management policy”, [email protected]

· OPTISTEP “Optimisation de procédés de traitement des eaux usées par des outils de modélisation/simulation”, [email protected]

· REPOx “Modelling the Removal of Polar xenobiotics during Wastewater Treatment”, [email protected]

· RESEAU “Modélisation du réseau d’assainissement des localités regroupées autour du lac de la Haute-Sûre”, [email protected]

· SpatialMonitor “Vulnerability assessment of spatially distributed drinking water resources - Monitoring and data interpretation”, [email protected]

ust g “Energy” scientific and technological unit

· AnIA “Analyses et gestions des impacts environnementaux et de la consommation énergétique d’installations frigorifiques dans le secteur agro-alimentaire”, [email protected]

· LUxCyCLE “Dry Monofermentation of energy crops”, [email protected]

· PV-LAB “PhotoVoltaic Laboratory”, [email protected]

· RELIES “Réseau Luxembourgeois pour l’Information sur l’Energie Solaire”, [email protected]

· RUBIn “Regionale Strategie zur nachhaltigen Umsetzung der Biomasse-nutzung”, [email protected]

· SEMS “Sustainable Energy Management Systems”, [email protected]

· TRIG “TRI-generation CHP and cooling with integrated flue gas-condensation based on solid biomass fuels”, [email protected]


· MEnSSAnA “Mobile Expert and networking System for Systematical Analysis of nutrition-based Allergies”,

[email protected]

· OPTIMAGE “Quality Control for Optimal Medical Images”, [email protected]

· RESIST “Vers une plate-forme sécurisée pour le développement de solutions de soins à domicile”, [email protected]

resOurCe Centre fOr teChnOlOgies and innOvatiOn in COnstruCtiOn (Crti-B)· BUILD IT “Faire évoluer le secteur de la construction vers les technologies de l’information”, [email protected]

sitec® “lifelOng learning fOr teChnOlOgiCal innOvatiOn”· CALIFORM “Intégration de la qualité dans le processus de conception et de production des formations du Centre”,

[email protected]

· DULOG “Mise en œuvre d’un diplôme universitaire en logistique – promotion 2”, [email protected]

teChnOlOgy WatCh Centre /standards WatCh Centre (Cvt)· CVT-DIFFUSIOn “Formations et activités de diffusion sur les pratiques de veille technologique et normative”,

[email protected]

· e-JobS “Développement et transfert d’une formation e-learning à la recherche d’information et veille sur Internet pour les demandeurs d’emploi”, [email protected]

· IP4Inno “IP for Innovation”, [email protected]

· IP-Base “IP Awareness and Enforcement: Modular Based Actions for SMEs”, [email protected]

teChnOPOrt· DETECT-IT 2 “A dedicated network of incubators detecting new FP7 opportunities for SME”, [email protected]

· MST-STR “Mobility of students in start-ups and research”, [email protected]

“free and OPen sOurCe sOftWare” innOvatiOn PlatfOrM· FOSS4PRO “Free and Open Source Software for professional use”, [email protected]

· FREEGATE “An Open Source System Integration Solution for Small and Medium Enterprises - Requirement Specification and Marketing Strategy”, [email protected]

· FreeSpread “Sensitization towards and the utilization of FOSS in the whole Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, especially for companies and organizations”, [email protected]


Scientific Publications 2007

laBOratOry fOr industrial teChnOlOgies and Materials (lti)Bardon J., Bour J., Aubriet H., Ruch D., “Deposition of Siloxane Based Anticorrosion Layers on Galvanized Steel by Atmospheric Pressure Dielectric Barrier Discharge Plasma” in Plasma Processes and Polymers, Wiley Interscience, Weinheim, Vol. 4, n. S1, May 2007, ISSN 1612-8869, pages 445 – 449

Boudaoud H., Belouettar S., Daya El M., Poitier-Ferry M., “A Shell Element for Active-passive Vibration Control of Composite Structures with Piezoelectric and Viscoelastic Layers” in Mechanics of Advanced Materials and Structures, Special issue, MAMS 070409 2007

Makradi A., Belouettar S., Ahzi S., Puissant S., “Thermoforming Process of Amorphous Polymeric Sheets: Modeling and Finite Element Simulations” in Journal of Applied Polymer Science, Vol. 106, n. 3, pages 1718 – 1724

Shokuhfar T., Makradi A., Titus E., Cabral G., Ahzi S., Sousa A.C.M., Belouettar S., Gracio J., “Predicton of the Mechanical Properties of HA/PMMA/CNTs Nano Composite” in Journal of Nanosciences and Nanomanufacturing, Springer Publications, New York (USA)

Becker C., Exposito J., “Study of Polymer Materials Ageing by Laser Mass Spectrometry, UV-Visible Spectroscopy and Environmental Scanning Electron Microscopy” in Research Letters in Physical Chemistry, Hindawi, December 2007

Boudaoud H., Belouettar S., Daya El M., “A Numerical Method for Nonlinear Complex Modes of Active-passive Vibration Damped Sandwich Structures” in proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Design, Modelling and Experiments of Adaptive Structures and Smart System (DeMEASS II), Bad Herrenalb (D), 14.10.07 - 17.10.07

Boudaoud H., Belouettar S., Daya El M., Benjeddou A., “Analytical Evaluation of the Effective EMCC of Sandwich Beams with a Shear–mode Piezoceramic Core” in proceedings of the 2nd World Congress on Design and Modelling of Mechanical Systems, Monastir (TN), 19.03.07 - 21.03.07

Azaouzi M., Delamézière A., Naceur H., Batoz J.-L., Belouettar S., Sibaud D., “Conception fabrication intégrée de pièces de précision en tôlerie fine” in proceedings of the 8ème Colloque National en Calcul de Structures, Giens (F), 21.05.07 - 25.05.07

Rechdaoui M.S., Azrar L., Belouettar S., Daya El M., Poitier-Ferry M., “Contrôle actif des vibrations non linéaires des poutres sandwich piézoélectriques par la méthode des échelles multiples” in proceedings of the 8ème Congrès de Mécanique, El Jadida (MA), 17.04.07 - 20.04.07

Boudaoud H., Belouettar S., Daya El M., Poitier-Ferry M., “Elément coque pour l’analyse modale de sandwich 5 couches à amortissement hybride actif/passif” in proceedings of the 8ème Colloque National en Calcul de Structures, Giens (F), 21.05.07 - 25.05.07

Boudaoud H., Belouettar S., Daya El M., “Non-linear Vibration Analysis of Five Layers Adaptive Sandwich Composites Using Asymptotic Numerical method” in proceedings of the 12th Asia-Pacific Vibration Conference (APVC2007), Hokkaido University, Sapporo (Japan), 06.08.07 - 09.08.07

Azaouzi M., Delamézière A., Naceur H., Batoz Jean-L., Belouettar S., Sibaud D., “On the Determination of the Blank Contour for Thin Precision Parts Obtained by Stamping” in proceedings of the 2nd World Congress on Design and Modelling of Mechanical Systems, Monastir (TN), 19.03.07 - 21.03.07

Deraemaker A., Nasser H., Preumont A., “Some Issues in the Modeling and Design of Macro Fiber Composite Actuators and Sensors” in proceedings of International Symposium on Piezo-composite Applications, Dresden (D), 27.09.07 - 28.09.07

Centre fOr it innOvatiOn (Citi)Habra N., Renault A., Alexandre S., Laporte C.Y., “Initiating Software Process Improvement in Very Small Enterprises” in Information and Software Technology, Elsevier, Vol. 49, n. 11 - 12, October 2007, ISSN 0950-5849

Guerriero A., Kubicki S., Halin G., “A Dashboard for AEC Integrating Trust Concepts: a Model Driven Engineering Approach” in International Journal of Design Sciences and Technology, Ed. Reza Beheshti and Khaldoun Zreik, Vol. 14, n. 1, November 2007

Becue A., Burton J., Dury L., Hansenne C., Larin A.V., Latour T., Leherte L., Meurice N., Petit J., Vercauteren D.P., “In Silico Molecular Similarity and Complementarity Based on the Electron Density” in Chimie Nouvelle, n. 94, pages 14 – 21

Tifous A., El Ghali A., Dieng R., Giboin A., Evangelou C., Vidou G., “An Ontology for Supporting Communities of Practice” in proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Knowledge Capture (K-CAP’2007), Whistler (CDN), 28.10.07 - 31.10.07


Guerriero A., Kubicki S., Halin G., “A Model-Based Approach to Develop a Dashboard Tool Integrating Trust Concepts in AEC” in proceedings of the 24th CIB-W78 Conference “Bringing ITC Knowledge to Work”, Maribor (SLO), 26.06.07 - 29.06.07

Feltus C., Rifaut A., “An Ontology for Requirements Analysis of Managers’Policies in Financial Institutions” in proceedings of the 3rd International Conference Interoperability for Enterprise Software and Applications (I-ESA 2007), Funchal (P), 28.03.07 - 30.03.07

Renault A., Hilbert R., “Assessing IT Service Management Processes with AIDA® – Experience Feedback” in proceedings of the European Software Process Improvement and Innovation (EuroSPI 2007) conference, Potsdam (D), 26.09.07 - 28.09.07

Valoggia P., Di Renzo B., “Assessment and Improvement of Firm’s Knowledge Management Capabilities by Using a KM Process Assessment Compliant to ISO/IEC 15504. A Case Study” in proceedings of the 7th International SPICE Conference on Software Process Improvement and Capability Determination, Seoul (Korea), 09.05.08 - 11.05.08

Turki S., Kohlbecker J., Grégoire B., Latour T., “De l’intention à la valeur dans un dispositif de formation pour demandeurs d’emploi” in proceedings of the conference “Information Management in Modern Organizations: Trends & Challenges”, Marrakech (MA), 04.01.08 - 06.01.08

Mayer N., Heymans P., Matulevicius R., “Design of a Modelling Language for Information System Security Risk Management” in proceedings of the First International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS 2007), Ouarzazate (MA), 23.04.07 - 26.04.07

Charlier B., Boukottaya A., Daele A., Deschryver N., Naudet Y., El Helou S., “Designing Services for CoPs: First Results of the PALETTE Project” in proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Building Technology Enhanced Learning solutions for Communities of Practice (TEL-CoPs’07), Creta (GR), 17.09.07

Jadoul R., Mizohata S., “Development of a Platform Dedicated to Collaboration in the Social Sciences” in proceedings of CELDA 2007, Carvoeiro (P), 07.12.07 - 09.12.07

Jadoul R., Mizohata S., “Development of a Platform Dedicated to Collaboration in the Social Sciences” in proceedings of UKFIET 2007, Oxford (GB), 11.09.07 - 13.09.07

Barlatier P.-J., Vidou G., Jacquemart S., Latour T., “Don’t Value the Valueless : Toward a Model of Evaluation of Knowledge within E-Communities of Practice” in proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Building Technology Enhanced Learning solutions for Communities of Practice (TEL-CoPs’07), Creta (GR), 17.09.07

Durand A., “Evaluation contingente de la valeur du service offert par la technologie NFC intégrée au téléphone mobile” in proceedings of Montpellier International Workshop on Information Systems (MIWIS), Montpellier (F), 13.07.07

Asikainen A.-L., “Evaluation of Public R&D Subsidies” in proceedings of the Symposium on the Evaluation in Knowledge Society, Kolding (DK), 18.10.07 - 19.10.07

Kohlbecker J., Jacquemart S., Brimont P., Vandenabeele L., “Finding Means Enhancing Nomadic Learners’ Motivation” in proceedings of IADIS Mobile Learning 2007, Lisbonne (P), 05.07.07 - 07.07.07

Benedic M., Rousseau A., Valoggia P., Schmitt C., Bayad M., “Gestion des connaissances et capital social: quelles inter-relations?” in proceedings of the 2ème Journée Transdisciplinaire de Recherche “Management et réseaux sociaux”, Clermont-Ferrand (F), 08.11.07

Barafort B., Renault S., Krystkowiak M., Dubois E., “Improving SME Trust into IT Consultancy: a Network of Certified Consultants Case Study” in proceedings of the European Software Process Improvement and Innovation (EuroSPI 2007) conference, Postdam (D), 26.09.07 - 28.09.07

Mention A.-L., Asikainen A.-L., “Innovation and Productivity in Luxembourg – What is the Influence of Collaboration Practices as Indicators of IC at Firm Level?” in proceedings of the conference “Visualising, Managing, and Measuring Intangibles and Intellectual Capital”, Ferrara (I), 29.10.07 - 31.10.07

Johannsen L., Dumont V., Rousseau A., “Innovation sociale et enrôlement d’acteurs : apport d’une démarche participative de construction de tableau de bord” in proceedings of the conference “Créer et diffuser l’innovation sociale”, Montréal (CDN), 08.11.07 - 09.11.07

Kubicki S., Guerriero A., Halin G., “IT Services Design to Support Coordination Practices in the Luxembourg AEC Sector” in proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Cooperative Design, Visualization and Engineering (CDVE), Shanghai (China), 18.09.07 - 20.09.07

Meunier B., Valoggia P., Rousseau A., “Knowledge Management Strategy Identification of a Luxembourg Research, Development and Innovation Centre – A contingency approach” in proceedings of the 23rd EGOS Colloquium, Vienna (A), 05.07.07 - 07.07.07

Meunier B., Valoggia P., Michel J.-P., Rousseau A., “Knowledge Management Strategy Identification of a Luxemburg Research, Development and Innovation Centre – A contingency approach” in proceedings of ISPIM2007, Varsovie (PL), 15.06.07 - 20.06.07

Lombard C., Humbert J.-P., “L’apport du e-learning dans la e-stratégie luxembourgeoise pour la sensibilisation aux risques liés à la sécurité des systèmes d’information” in proceedings of E-Learning Forum, Paris (F), 29.01.07 - 31.01.07


Jadoul R., Turki S., Kohlbecker J., Mayer H., Latour T., Mizohata Sachié, “L’employabilité dans le secteur IT peut-elle être monitorée et améliorée?” in proceedings of FREREF2007, Luxembourg, 03.09.07 - 04.09.07

Kubicki S., Halin G., Guerriero A., “Multi-visualization of the Cooperative Context in Building Construction Activity” in proceedings of Information Visualization 07 - Visualization in Built and Rural Environment, Zurich (CH), 04.07.07 - 06.07.07

Mention A.-L., Stragiotti F., “Outsourcing of IT Services as Innovation in the Financial Sector in Luxembourg: Which Challenges?” in proceedings of ISPIM2007, Varsovie (PL), 15.06.07 - 20.06.07

Mention A.-L., Rousseau A., Bernacconi J.-C., “Performance et technologies de l’information : proposition d’un cadre d’analyse multidimensionnel” in proceedings of the Montpellier International Workshop on Information Systems (MIWIS), Montpellier (F), 13.07.07

Durand A., Hua D., “Quelle prévention du changement en matière de gestion des connaissances à Luxembourg d’ici 2010?” in proceedings of Prospective et entreprise, Paris (F), 06.12.07

Khadraoui D., Feltus C., De Remont B., Rifaut A., “Reaction After Detection – Business Governance Based Policy Regulation” in proceedings of the International Conference on Risks and Security of Internet and Systems (CRISIS 2007), Marrakech (MA), 03.07.07 - 05.07.07

Mayer N., Dubois E., Rifaut A., “Requirements Engineering for Improving Business/IT Alignment in Security Risk Management Methods” in proceedings of the 3rd International Conference Interoperability for Enterprise Software and Applications (I-ESA 2007), Funchal (P), 28.03.07 - 30.03.07

Naudet Y., Latour T., Ruokolainen T., “An Ontology of Interoperability in Inter-Enterprise Communities” in proceedings of the 3rd International Conference Interoperability for Enterprise Software and Applications (I-ESA 2007), Funchal (P), 28.03.08 - 30.01.08

Berre A.-J., Di Marzo Serugendo G., Khadraoui D., Charoy F., Athanasopoulos G., Pantazoglou M., Morin J.-H., Moraitis P., Spanoudakis N., “SAMBA – An Agent Architecture for Ambient Intelligence Elements Interoperability” in proceedings of the 3rd International Conference Interoperability for Enterprise Software and Applications (I-ESA 2007), Funchal (P), 28.03.07 - 30.03.07

Plichart P., Latour T., Jadoul R., Martin R., Busana G., Keller U., “TAO: Architecture and Use Cases of a Collaborative, Internet-based Platform for Computer-assisted Testing in European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction” in proceedings of EARLI 2007, Budapest (H), 28.08.07 - 01.09.07

Plichart P., Latour T., Jadoul R., Busana G., Martin R., Keller U., Reichert M., Burton R., Swietlik J., “TAO: Use Cases & Item Templates in European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction” in proceedings of EARLI 2007, Budapest (H), 28.08.07 - 01.09.07

Halin G., Kubicki S., “Une approche par les modèles pour le suivi de l’activité de construction d’un bâtiment” in proceedings of the XXVe Congrès InforSid, Perros-Guirec (F), 22.05.07 - 25.05.08

Viseur R., Farcot M., “YAME in the KBE” in proceedings of AIM 2007, Lausanne (CH), 18.06.07 - 19.06.07

resOurCe Centre fOr envirOnMental teChnOlOgies (Crte)Klepiszewski K., “Development and Verification of a General Approach to Describe the Efficiency of Vortex Separators in Combined Sewer

Systems” in Water Science & Technology, IWA Publishing, London, Vol. 55, n. 4, ISSN 0273-1223, pages 165 – 173

Plattes M., Fiorelli D., Gillé S., Henry E., Minette F., O’Nagy O., Schosseler P., “Modelling and Dynamic Simulation of a Pilot-scale Moving Bed Bioreactor for the Treatment of Municipal Wastewater: Model Concepts and the Use of Respirometry for the Estimation of Kinetic Parameters” in Water Science & Technology, IWA Publishing, London, Vol. 55, n. 8 - 9, pages 309 – 316

Schosseler P., Lohmann T., Schmitt B., Perbal S., Dubois C., Sauerborn K., Muschwitz C.,Weidenhaupt A., “Implementing Sustainable Sanitation Concepts in Luxembourg: Methodological Approach and Outcomes” in Water Science & Technology, IWA Publishing, London, Vol. 55, n. 5, pages 33 – 41

Plattes M., Fiorelli D., Gillé S., Girard C., Henry E., Minette F., O’Nagy O., Schosseler P., “Modelling and Dynamic Simulation of a Moving Bed Bioreactor Using Respirometry for the Estimation of Kinetic Parameters” in Biochemical Engineering Journal, Elsevier, N. 33, March 2007, pages 253 – 259

Schosseler P., “Implementing Sustainable Sanitation Concepts in Luxembourg – Methodological Approach and Outcomes” in proceedings of the conference Advanced Sanitation, Aachen (D), 12.03.07 - 13.03.07

Leopold U., Braun C., Schröter S., “Integrating Open Source Applications to Manage Spatio-temporal Data in the Field of Environmental Sciences on a National Scale” in proceedings of the Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G) conference, Victoria (CND), 24.09.07 - 27.09.07

Henry E., Klepiszewski K., Schosseler P., “Modelling of a Combined Sewer System to Support Planning Decisions and Initialise the

Application of a Real Time Control System” in proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Sustainable Techniques and Strategies

in Urban Water Management (Novatech 2007), Lyon (F), 25.06.07 - 28.06.07


Main RDI projects of CRP Henri Tudor in 2007laBOratOry fOr industrial teChnOlOgies and Materials (lti)

“Strategy and management” scientific and technological unit

- SC-COnSTRUCT “Création d’un ensemble de pratiques de gestion de performance dans le secteur de la construction”, [email protected]

- CHAMAnE “Innovating with true Supply Chain Management”, [email protected]

- CRM “Création de compétences en CRM”, [email protected]

- ExInD2 “Conception de formation en management”, [email protected]

- HOSPIMOD “Analyse du système de performance”, [email protected]

- IMPEE “Innovative Multi-Product Engineering Environment”, [email protected]

- LPO “Lean Public Organisation - Management et outillage d’un processus d’évaluation et d’amélioration des organisations du secteur public”, [email protected]

- MASTERLQ “Mise en oeuvre de la promotion 3 du Master en Logistique et Qualité (spécialisation qualité)”, [email protected]

- Quality Pass “Passeport pour la qualité pour les très petites et petites entreprises”, [email protected]

- REBAMO “Méthode d’aide à l’ingénierie ou ré-ingénierie des entreprises par la modélisation”, [email protected]

“Modelling and simulation” scientific and technological unit

CASSEM “Composites and Adaptive Structures : Simulation, Experimentation and Modelling”, [email protected]

Concurrent Modelling “Concurrent Modelling Tool Development”, [email protected]

EMBOUTISSAGE “Emboutissage de pièces de précision en tôlerie fine par simulation numérique”, [email protected]

VEIAnEn “Viscous Effects Investigated by Applied numercis and Experimental nanoindentation”, [email protected]

“Materials” scientific and technological unit

ICIMAT “Innovation dans la caractérisation intégrée des matériaux”, [email protected]

MATInSITU “Vers une approche comportementale des matériaux en phase dynamique”, [email protected]

METROLOGIE “Création d’un laboratoire national d’étalonnage accrédité”, [email protected]

MOSE “Vers un pôle de compétences de modification sélective des matériaux”, [email protected]

QSE “Démarche Qualité Sécurité Environnement - Système de management intégré”, [email protected]

SynTHESE “Synthèse de nanocomposites”, [email protected]

THERMOMECA “Développement d’un pôle de compétences en essais thermomécaniques”, [email protected]

TRASU “Développement du procédé propre de traitement de surface à base de plasma à pression atmosphérique. Application industrielle pour le remplacement du procédé humide à base de chrome hexavalent et transfert du procédé plasma dans l’industrie”, [email protected]

VALMAT “Vers un pôle de compétence en valorisation des matériaux”, [email protected]

Centre for IT Innovation (CITI)

“Quality and certification of IT services” innovation platform

3emeCycle I&I P9 “Diplôme d’Etudes Supérieures Spécialisées “Informatique & Innovation”, 9ème promotion”, [email protected]

AIDA “Approche intégrée d’amélioration - Assessment and improvement integrated approach”, [email protected]

CASSIS_NET “Mobilisation d’un réseau pour l’innovation par les TIC dans les PME”, [email protected]

EQN “European Innovation and Quality Network”, [email protected]

resOurCe Centre fOr health Care teChnOlOgies (Cr santeC)Roesch N., Arens A., Feidert F., Moesges R., Harpes P., “MENSSANA - Mobile Expert & Networking System for Systematical Analysis of Nutrition based Allergies” in Allergy (European Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology), Göteborg, Vol. 62, Special issue, July 2007, pages 565 - 566

Roesch N., Wagner D., “Pulstransizeit: Neuer Parameter zur telemedizinischen Überwachung von Patienten mit Herzinsuffizienz” in Ehealthcom, Frankfurt, n. 2, March 2007, pages 58 - 60

Arens A., Herbst R., Roesch N., Schneider G., “1D Barcodeerkennung auf Mobiltelefonen mit eingebauter Kamera zur automatischen Erkennung von Lebensmitteln für das MENSSANA Projekt” in proceedings of 2. Kongress Multimediatechnik Wismar 2007 Mensch-Maschine-Interaktion, Wismar (D), 25.10.07- 26.10.07

Bokou C., Moll C., Jahnen A., Lehners N., Pilloy W., “Automated Quality Control: a National Approach for Nuclear Medicine in Luxembourg” in proceedings of EANM 2007, Copenhagen (DK), 14.10.07 - 17.10.07

Blendl C., Buhr H., Moll C., Jahnen A., Shannoun F., “Automatische Auswertung von Prüfkörperaufnahmen” in proceedings of 88. Deutscher Röntgenkongress, Berlin (D), 16.05.07 - 19.05.07

Harpes P., “Datenschutz und Datensicherheit beim (Tele-)Homemonitoring” in proceedings of Medica Media 2007, Düsseldorf (D), 14.11.08 - 17.11.07

Jahnen A., Shannoun F., Schilz C., “Design and Features of a Central Quailty Assurance Software for Constancy Controls in Medical Imaging” in proceedings of the European Congress of Radiology, Vienna (A), 09.03.07 - 13.03.07

Roesch N., “IKT unterstütze Managed Care Ansätze” in proceedings of Medica Media 2007, Düsseldorf (D), 14.11.07 - 17.11.07

Arens A., Schilz C., Schreiner A., Shannoun F., Hermen J., Moll C., “Optimage - Central Organised Image Quality Control Including Statistics and Reporting” in proceedings of Safety and Efficacy for New Techniques and Imaging using New equipment to support European Legislation (SENTINEL), Delft (NL), 18.04.07 - 20.04.07

Grelot M., Jahnen A., Bokou C., Kaphammel O., Meyer A., Moll C., “Organisation du contrôle qualité en radiologie et en médecine nucléaire au Luxembourg à partir d’un outil commun, le logiciel Optimage” in proceedings of SFPM, St Malo (F), 30.05.07 - 01.06.07

Jahnen A., Moll C., Frising H., Shannoun F., Sebane B., Blendl C., “Organisation und automatische Auswertung von Konstanzprüfungen am Beispiel der PAS1054” in proceedings of 88. Deutscher Röntgenkongress, Berlin (D), 16.05.07 - 19.05.07

Kaphammel O., Didier G., Jahnen A., Shannoun F., “Proyecto « Optimage »: Programa automatizado de calidad de imagen en diagnóstico médico, y Grupo de Trabajo de Garantía de Calidad en Resonancia Magnética del Gran Ducado de Luxemburgo Trabajo” in proceedings of SEFM 2007, Granada (S), 10.09.07 - 14.09.07

Shannoun F., Jahnen A., Moll C., “Zur Konstrast-Detail-Bestimmung in der digitalen Mammographie” in proceedings of 88. Deutscher

Röntgenkongress, Berlin (D), 16.05.07 - 19.05.07

teChnOlOgy WatCh Centre (Cvt)Perbal S., Delecroix X., Kohll Stein S., Schosseler P., «La veille projet: Vers une méthodologie de mise en oeuvre de la veille dans le cadre

d’un management par projet» in proceedings of Veille Scientifique Stratégique et Technologique, Marrakech (MA), 21.10.07 - 25.10.07


OngOing Phd thesesGuerriero Annie “Modèle de coordination, de représentation et de visualisation de l’activité de conception cooperative”, Ecole Doctorale IAEM-Lorraine

Benedic Michaël “Politiques publiques de soutien aux réseaux d’innovation transfrontaliers: une analyse des facteurs de succès par le prisme de la connaissance”, Université de Nancy 2

Bianco Dominique “Innovation, concurrence et croissance”, Université de Nice-Sophia-Antipolis

Dumont Véronique “Les systèmes d’information dans les réseaux de santé, un dispositif socio-technique pertinent comme support à la coopération des acteurs ?”, Facultés Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix (FUNDP) de Namur

Valoggia Philippe “Le rôle de l’encadrement intermédiaire dans une démarche de gestion des connaissances”, Université de Nancy 2

Mayer Nicolas “Managing Security IT Risk: A Goal-Based Requirements Engineering Approach”, Facultés Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix (FUNDP) de Namur

Arenz Martina “Verhalten von Antibiotika in Böden des Luxemburger Sandsteins”, University of Trier

Majewsky Marius “Modelling the Removal of Xenobiotics during Wastewater Treatment”, University of Trier

Sperandio Caroline “Collage structural innovant”, Université Paul Verlaine de Metz

Grégory Mertz “Vieillissement in situ de matériaux composites”, Institut National Polytechnique de Lorraine

Junien Exposito “Vieillissement de composites”, Université Paul Verlaine de Metz

Nibennaoune Zhor “Improvements in the Durability of Artificial Hip Joints using CVD Technology”, Université Louis Pasteur de Strasbourg

Bouhala Lyasid “A Study of Crack Propagation in Solid Oxide Fuel Cells based on Meshless Method”, Université Louis Pasteur de Strasbourg, IIT Kumpur (India)

El Khadi Imen “Définition et optimisation de forme dans les procédés de mise en forme de tôles minces”, Université Paul Verlaine de Metz

Guegen Olivier “Modelling and Simulations of the Mechanical Behavior of Polymers : Effects of Strain Rate, Temperature, Pressure and Strain induced Crytallization”, Université Louis Pasteur de Strasbourg

Moumnassi Mohammed “Simulations in Ambient Space. An Application of Partition-of-unity Methods to Mesh Independent Mechanical Engineering Simulations”, Université Paul Verlaine de Metz

Nagy Anca Maria “Analyse et synthèse des structures multi-modèles pour la simplification de modèles. Application à une station d’épuration”, Université de Nancy 1

Siddiqui M.A. “Modelling and Simulations of Electromagnetic Forming Process for Sheetmetal”, Université Louis Pasteur de Strasbourg

Tharrault Yvon “Diagnostic de fonctionnement des systèmes linéaires par analyse en composantes principales. Application à une station d’épuration”, Université de Nancy 1

Weichao Hu “Investigation of the Effect of Indenter Tip Geometry on the Identification of Material Parameters”, Université de Liège

Gallais Marie “Instrumentation et cognition en gestion: L’adoption des outils de gestion dans les PME-PMI lorraines”, Université de Nancy 2 (CEREFIGE)

Boulaid Boulkroune “Estimation de l’état et des paramètres et commande prédictive de systèmes non linéaires. Application à une station d’épuration”, Centre de Recherche en Automatique de Nancy

Mallet Christelle “Innovation, TIC et processus d’appropriation”, Université Paul Verlaine de Metz, ongoing (left CRP Henri Tudor in 2007)

Phd theses suCCessfully defendedMinea Alexandru “Déficit, monnaie et croissance économique: éléments d’analyse théorique et d’évaluation empirique”, Université d’Orléans (thesis defended a few months after his join of CRP Henri Tudor)

Gateau Benjamin “Modélisation et supervision d’institutions multi-Agents”, Ecole des Mines de Saint-Etienne

Le Loirec Cindy “Simulation Monte Carlo de suivi de positrons dans la matière biologique: Applications en imagerie médicale”, Université Paul Verlaine de Metz

Solvi Anne-Marie “Modelling the Sewer-Treatment-Urban River System in view of the EU Water Framework Directive”, Ghent University

Abbadi Ahmed “Characterization of Fatigue-Loaded Sandwich Structures with Honeycomb Cores”, Université Paul Verlaine de Metz

Azaouzi Mohamed, “Modélisation et optimisation numérique de l’emboutissage des pièces de précision en tôlerie fine”, Institut National Polytechnique de Lorraine

Boudaoud Hakim “Modelling of the Active-Passive Shock Absorption in Structures”, Université Paul Verlaine de Metz

Humbert Jean-Philippe “Les mondes de la cyberdélinquance et images sociales du pirate informatique”; Université Paul Verlaine de Metz, thesis successfully defended in October 2007 (left CRP Henri Tudor in 2007)

PhD Theses at CRP Henri Tudor in 2007


Administration & Finances


BOard Of direCtOrs Jean de la Hamette Chairman, engineer (until October 2007)

Georges Bourscheid Managing Director of GUARDIAN LUXGUARD I SA & GUARDIAN LUXCOATING SA and

Chairmain of CRP Henri Tudor’s Board of Directors since October 2007

Lucien Schummer Member of the Executive Committee, Vice-president of Cargolux Airlines International SA

Claude Wehenkel Member of the Executive Committee, CEO of the CRP Henri Tudor

Philippe Arthur Director, Member of the Executive Board of the Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier

(member since October 2007)

Pascal Bouvry Professor at the Faculty of Sciences, Technology and Communication of the University of Luxembourg

Pierre Decker Commissaire du Gouvernement, Conseiller de Gouvernement 1ère classe,

Ministry of Culture, Higher Education and Research

Léon Diederich Chargé de mission, Ministry of Culture, Higher Education and Research (member since October 2007)

Jean-Marie Haensel Senior Budget Advisor

Pierre Hirtt Founding Partner and CTO of HITEC Luxembourg SA

Patrick Nickels Conseiller de Direction 1ère classe, Ministry of the Economy and Foreign Trade

Jean Tagliaferri Professeur attaché, Ministry of Culture, Higher Education and Research (member until October 2007)

Roger Thill Vice-president, Paul Wurth SA (member since October 2007)

hOnOrary ChairManJean de la Hamette

sCientifiC advisOrs Dr Serge Allegrezza

Michel Brachmond

Jean de la Hamette

David Hagen

Pr Dr Hans Pfeiff

Dr André Weidenhaupt

ManageMent BOard Dr Claude Wehenkel, President

Pr Dr Eric Dubois

Etienne D’hoedt

Jean-Pol Michel

Pierre Plumer

Pr Dr Jos Schaefers

Joëlle Welfring/Dr Paul Schosseler

adMinistratiOn and suPPOrt serviCesCécile Cavalade Customer relations, project review, KPI

Yves Collet Quality management

Pascale Degiorgi Accounting

Etienne D’hoedt Management audit, finances

Monia Di Pillo External and internal communication

Monika Grünwald Administrative support

Hugues Henriot IT support

Nicole Isaac International affairs

Martin Mus Co-ordination and management

Robert Schambourg Purchasing and technical support

Sylvie Weyland Human resources

the neW BOard Of direCtOrs and its neW ChairMan, geOrges BOursCheid


Annual Accounts

CERTIFyINg oF ACCoUNTS

The financial and analytical accountancy has been carried out in the Centre. The accounts have been audited by Mr Marc Müller, auditor, and approved by the Board of Directors.

pRoFIT AND loSS ACCoUNT FoR ThE yEAR ENDED 31 DECEMbER 2007

(in Euro) 2007 2006

CoSTS

Charges on operating costs 2 336 578.78 1 949 328.17

Other charges 5 012 019.49 3 328 717.78

Staff expenses 16 567 456.30 14 508 501.25

Value adjustment on equity tax and in respect of tangible and intangible assets 420 427.16 538 784.51

Value adjustment on current assets 184 401.11 957 276.47

Other operating costs 3 087 619.11 1 778 299.16

Value adjustment on financial fixed and current assets 0.00 0.00

Interests payable and similar charges 13 669.01 10 761.74

Exceptional expenses 299 496.74 292 660.26

Result of the financial year (income surplus) 1 166 829.58 512 233.07

Total 29 088 497.28 23 876 562.41

INCoME

Net turnover 14 804 776.30 12 376 021.02

Grant for mission of public utility 9 403 776.87 7 590 179.51

Income on projects and independent structures 1 076 277.55 1 038 098.32

Other income from operations 3 513 009.77 2 544 864.88

Products of participation 0.00 40 667.11

Other interests and similar income 69 625.60 14 248.02

Exceptional income 218 031.19 272 483.55

Total 29 088 497.28 23 876 562.41

bAlANCE ShEET AS AT ThE 31 DECEMbER 2007

(in Euro) 2007 2006

ASSETS

Fixed assets

Intangible assets 372 772.79 435 444.38

Tangible fixed assets

Technical equipment and machinery 161 376.37 344 063.34

Other equipment and machinery 367 118.21 392 901.29

Financial fixed assets 12 394.68 12 394.68

Total fixed assets 913 662.05 1 184 803.69

Current Assets

Stocks : raw materials and consumables 0.00 0.00

Accounts receivable

Accounts receivable from sales of goods and services 6 626 200.06 13 374 155.52

Other accounts receivable 487 869.84 643 113.78

Total accounts receivable 7 114 069.90 14 017 269.30

Cash in bank and in hand 9 696 185.93 522 388.53

Total current assets 16 810 255.83 14 539 657.83

Adjusting account 946 527.79 125 790.44

Total assets 18 670 445.67 15 850 251.96

lIAbIlITIES

Equity capital

Subscribed capital 247 893.52 247 893.52

Non-dedicated reserve 2 097 709.94 1 878 423.66

Profit brought forward 512 233.07 219 286.28

Income surplus of the financial year 1 166 829.58 512 233.07

Total equity capital 4 024 666.11 2 857 836.53

Provisions 2 331 611.50 1 229 365.99

Accounts payable

Accounts payable to credit institutions 0.00 342 974.05

Accounts payable from acquisitions and services 1 100 601.03 1 134 566.32

Tax and social liabilities 622 221.25 418 911.23

Other accounts payable 2 138 188.67 1 701 141.72

Total accounts payable 3 861 010.95 3 597 593.32

Adjusting account 8 453 157.11 8 165 456.12

Total liabilities 18 670 445.67 15 850 251.96


Addresses & Access



Centre de Recherche Public Henri Tudor

29, avenue John F. Kennedy | L-1855 Luxembourg

Technoport Schlassgoart

66, rue de Luxembourg | B.P. : 144 | L-4002 Esch-sur-Alzette

| 13 > CR SANTEC welcomes representatives of the Algerian Health Care sector (5 February 2007) | 14 > Presentation of the Personal Allergy Assistant® to the Minister of Health, Mars Di Bartolomeo (on the right) and to the press. The PAA® is a pocket device which reads the barcodes of food products and checks the list of ingredients to see whether the product contains a substance to which the user is allergic. The Personal Allergy Assistant® is the result of the MENSSANA project on mobile expert and networking system for systematic analysis of nutrition-based allergies (27 November 2007) | 15 > Official launch of the activities of the REACH Helpdesk run by the Resource Centre for Environmental Technologies (CRTE) on behalf the Ministry of the Economy and Foreign Trade and the Ministry of the Environment. In the photograph from the left to the right : Dr Claude Wehenkel, CEO of CRP Henri Tudor, Jeannot Krecké, Minister of the Economy and Foreign Trade, Lucien Lux, Minister of the Environment, and Joëlle Welfring, Director of CRTE (7 May 2007) | 16 > Sensitizing businesses on economic security and the protection of their property (6 February 2007) | 17 > Summer seminar dedicated to the performance contract 2008 – 2010 | 18 > The new section of the materials laboratory dedicated to the creation of new materials and to prototypes of analytical instrument unveiled on 24 September 2007. The new section allows researchers to work on the entire life cycle of the materials, from design to recyclability, including studies on their functionality | 19 > The conference “Evaluation and Effectiveness of Public Policies”, organised in collaboration with the Ministry of the Economy and Foreign Trade, STATEC and the Observatoire de la Compétitivité, gathered 78 participants on 27 April 2007 | 20 > CRP Henri Tudor at « Business Meets Research » event organised by Luxinnovation on 12 December 2007 | 21 > Signing of a strategic co-operation agreement between the CITI and the Centre d’Excellence en Technologies de l’Information et de la Communication (CETIC) located in the Walloon Region. This synergy will give rise to a European centre of excellence in the quality of software services and products. In the photograph, representatives of CETIC and CITI with François Biltgen, Minister of Culture, Higher Education and Research (10 July 2007) | 22 > In 2007, the company EPURAMAT, supplying technologically advanced wastewater treatment plants and systems, left Technoport as ninth “success story” | 23 > Professional “Speed dating” at 29JFK within the framework of CASSIS initiative (26 June 2007). Business Managers met IT consultants | 24 > More than 4,600 participants at CRP Henri Tudor’s trainings and conferences in 2007 | 25 > CRP Henri Tudor at the entrepreneurial networking event « Contact » (20 – 22 November 2007) | 26 > At 29JFK, Saint Nicolas and the Bogeyman meet the children of collaborators of the Centre (28 November 2007)

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