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Project ID 604674 FITMAN – Future Internet Technologies for MANufacturing

07/08/2015 Deliverable D11.2 – M24 issue

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D11.2

FITMAN dissemination action plan and implementation including FI-PPP

collaboration

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VERSION DATE NOTES AND COMMENTS

V0.1 11/02/2015 ELABORATION OF THE T.O.C.

V0.2 10/03/2015 SECOND VERSION OF THE DELIVERABLE

V0.3 08/04/2015 THIRD VERSION OF THE DELIVERABLE – UPDATE OF THE

EVENTS (COLLECTION OF REPORTS)

V0.4 07/08/2015 FOURTH VERSION OF THE DELIVERABLE BASED ON THE

NEWLY COLLECTED INFORMATION

V0.5 22/09/2015 FINAL VERSION

DELIVERABLE PEER REVIEW SUMMARY

ID Comments Addressed ()

Answered (A)

1 The deliverable is aligned to its purpose and

the DoW objectives.

2 The dissemination report for Period 2 should

include some additional events, webinars,

and publications as proposed in text. ()

3 The FITMAN website statistics as retrieved

from Google Analytics should be transferred

from section 1.4 to Section 2. ()




TABLE OF CONTENTS

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY .............................................................................................................................................. 5

SECTION I. FITMAN DISSEMINATION .................................................................................................................... 6

1. DISSEMINATION STRATEGY AND PLAN ...................................................................................................... 6

Dissemination objectives ............................................................................................................................ 6 1.1.

Targets for dissemination and Key messages ............................................................................................. 6 1.2.

Dissemination plan ..................................................................................................................................... 9 1.3.

Dissemination tools ................................................................................................................................... 10 1.4.

FITMAN Social Media Strategy ................................................................................................................ 14 1.5.

Metrics for Social Media Dissemination ................................................................................................................. 16 FITMAN for SMEs engagement ................................................................................................................ 16 1.6.

2. DISSEMINATION REPORT OF PERIOD 2 .................................................................................................... 17

FITMAN presentations at events ............................................................................................................... 17 2.1.

FITMAN events ......................................................................................................................................... 30 2.2.

Publications .............................................................................................................................................. 40 2.3.

Liaisons with research communities, projects .......................................................................................... 43 2.4.

FITMAN social media report in period 2 ................................................................................................. 44 2.5.

Website assessment ................................................................................................................................... 47 2.6.

Assessment of the impact of dissemination actions at the end of period 2 ................................................ 48 2.7.

3. DISSEMINATION PLAN FOR PERIOD 3 ....................................................................................................... 51

Project results to be disseminated ............................................................................................................ 51 3.1.

Dissemination activities planned for M25-M30 ........................................................................................ 53 3.2.

SECTION II. FI-PPP PROGRAMME COLLABORATIONS .................................................................................. 55

1. FITMAN IN FI-PPP GOVERNANCE BODIES AND WORKING GROUPS ............................................... 55

Steering Board (SB): ................................................................................................................................. 55 1.1.

Architecture Board (AB): .......................................................................................................................... 55 1.2.

Exploitation and Business Modeling (EBM): ........................................................................................... 56 1.3.

Policy, Regulation and Governance Working Group (PRG WG) ............................................................. 56 1.4.

Dissemination Working Group (DWG) ..................................................................................................... 56 1.5.

CONCLUSION ............................................................................................................................................................... 57




LIST OF TABLES

Table 1: Dissemination activities, objectives and targets .................................................................. 10 Table 2. FITMAN’s Social Media Tools and Channels .................................................................... 14 Table 3. Social Media Dissemination Metrics ................................................................................... 45 Table 4. List of Performance Indicators including targets and values for year 2 .............................. 49

Table 5. List of Performance Indicators and targets for year 3.......................................................... 53

LIST OF FIGURES

Figure 1: FITMAN website................................................................................................................ 11

Figure 2: FITMAN flyer .................................................................................................................... 11 Figure 3: FITMAN poster .................................................................................................................. 12

Figure 4: FITMAN trial posters ......................................................................................................... 13 Figure 5: FITMAN newsletter ........................................................................................................... 13 Figure 6: FITMAN website –............................................................................................................. 15 Figure 7. Top countries and states for the FITMAN’s followers ....................................................... 46 Figure 8. Top Interests for the FITMAN’s followers ........................................................................ 46

Figure 9. Distribution of FITMAN page fans per gender and age group .......................................... 46

Figure 10. Distribution of LinkedIn group members per function and seniority ............................... 47 Figure 11: FITMAN website analytics .............................................................................................. 47

Figure 12: FITMAN website analytics – countries of origin ............................................................. 48




Executive Summary

The deliverable D11.2 is the report at M24 of the WP11 “Dissemination and Programme

collaboration”, which includes T11.1 “Dissemination action plan and implementation” and T11.2

“FI-PPP programme collaboration”.

This deliverable will be updated at the end of the project (M30) as the final report of WP11.

The main results presented in this deliverable are:

- The strategy used in order to raise awareness, ensure the adoption of the FITMAN results and

encourage the development of further outcomes are being explained, along with the specific

engagements towards SMEs. This strategy includes the key messages, the targets and the tools:

• The key messages disseminated involve FITMAN’s aim to test and to assess the

suitability of 10 industry-led use case trials in several manufacturing sectors in order to

improve the competitiveness of EU industries. FITMAN’s technologies building on top

of Future Internet Generic Enablers will enable wider adoption of FI Core and Specific

enablers by European manufacturing industries through services and applications and

thus allow SMEs to access advanced ICT solutions.

• The targets for these messages even if mainly focusing on SMEs, Entrepreneurship

networks and ICT infrastructure providers for manufacturing has been widely extended

in order to go beyond the stakeholders and reach towards the general public.

• Amongst the tools used, we can find, the website, flyers, posters, newsletters and social

medias.

- The dissemination actions performed in Period 2:

• 18 FITMAN presentations during selected events as well as the 14 face to face meetings

(workshops for the most part). 11 of those meetings were linked to FI-PPP

collaborations.

• 12 scientific publications from this period are also described.

• An in depth analysis of the social medias (LinkedIn, Twitter, YouTube, Facebook and

Slideshare) will show a successful presence of FITMAN, in line with the strategy

followed since the beginning of the project.

• A positive assessment of the dissemination actions for the Period 2. The dissemination

actions were in accordance with the strategy and met the targets set for the period.

- The dissemination plan for Period 3:

• 11 events and 10 publications planned for the third and last Period of FITMAN.

• The creation of the FITMANovationLab, to exploit and disseminate results beyond the

end of the project. A three steps phase is envisaged with a short-term mission (One-stop

free-shop for Phase III A16 & start-ups), a medium-term mission (one-stop shop for «FI

for Manufacturing» solutions, free of charge for FI-PPP) and a long-term mission for a

FITMAN Sustainable Exploitation vehicle.

The FIPPP programme collaborations before the working groups were cancelled following the

restructuration of the FI-PPP activities in Phase 3 are addressed in section II.




SECTION I. FITMAN DISSEMINATION

This section presents the activities run under the task 11.2 “FITMAN Dissemination” which

includes the dissemination of project’s results and the communication performed by the project’s

partners. The whole section describes the implemented strategy, the method to assess the

dissemination, the reports of actions performed in period 2 and the dissemination plan over period

3.

1. Dissemination strategy and plan

Dissemination objectives 1.1.

As explained in D11.1 and according to the Description of Work (DoW), the WP11 objectives are

as follows:

O1. Promote and raise awareness of the project: by establishing and continuously maintaining

effective levels of communication with the partners, the various stakeholders and other interested

parties, and regularly provide a general overview of the project and a snapshot of the recent work

progress.

O2: Ensure the adoption of the FITMAN results by the potential users and policy-makers: by

establishing liaisons with target communities, sharing expertise and knowledge and contributing to

the transfer of project achievements and lessons learnt.

O3. Encourage the development of further outcomes in new initiatives based on the FITMAN

results at the FI-PPP programme level and beyond. Any FI-PPP stakeholders must be well

aware of the technical and scientific progress and results of the project.

Each objective is linked to specific target audiences which will enable to achieve the FITMAN

expected impact.

The European Commission also provided a recommendation to organise open events and

workshops at trial sites: ”The scope should be to disseminate, not only to stakeholders but also to

the general public, findings, value, benefits but also barriers and in general lessons learned through

the deployment of the FITMAN platform and enablers at each partner trial site.

Targets for dissemination and Key messages 1.2.

The identified targets for dissemination that the FITMAN project aimed at reaching were set in

D11.1

For promotion and awareness of the project (O1) and the adoption of the FITMAN results by the

potential users and policy-makers (O2), the targeted audiences are:

• SMEs including start-ups and web entrepreneurships in ICT for manufacturing

• Intermediaries for SMEs, including venture capitalists, regional authorities, incubators,

and SME associations

• Innovation/Entrepreneurship networks and Clusters

• Innovation managers from application manufacturing companies




• ICT infrastructure providers for manufacturing

• Software and application developers in ICT for manufacturing

• Public institutions and Regional development Agencies

For encouraging the re-using of FITMAN scientific results in other projects or initiatives (O3), the

dissemination will be performed among research communities such as:

• FI-PPP and FoF project consortia and working groups

• IERC (IoT European Research Cluster), FInES (Future Internet Enterprise Systems)

cluster (now renamed under the acronym DBI for Digital Business Innovation), NEM

(Networked and Electronic Media Initiative), FISO (Future Internet Service Offer WG),

NESSI (Networked European Software and Service Initiative), EpoSS (European

Technology Platform on Smart Systems Integration), and others.

• Academia, research projects, research centres, RTD departments and research

communities having common interests with the FITMAN domains

According to the Review Recommendation at M12 these targets have been expanded as much as

possible in order to go beyond the typical stakeholders and reach towards the general public.

The general key messages have continuously been used to describe the purpose of the project and

its contribution to the manufacturing area:

• FITMAN’s mission is to test and to assess the suitability, openness and flexibility of the

FI-PPP Core Platform as the foundation of a new generation of ICT systems contributing

to a strong European re-industrialisation.

• The FITMAN Project (36 partners) aims to provide the FI-PPP Programme with 10

industry-led use case trials in several manufacturing sectors: automotive, aeronautics,

white goods, furniture, textile/clothing, LED lighting, plastic, construction and

manufacturing assets management.

• Through innovative and enhanced business processes, services and applications,

FITMAN technologies, building on top of Future Internet Generic Enablers will improve

the competitiveness of EU industries

• FITMAN will assist the European industry in meeting their STEEP (social-

technological-economical-environmental-political) sustainability targets.

• As an added value with respect to the generic Core Platform, the FITMAN Project is

also developing its own set of software assets, addressing needs and requirements

specific to the manufacturing domain.

• FITMAN will facilitate a wider adoption of FI Core and Specific enablers by European

manufacturing industries.

• FITMAN will lower the barriers for industry and particularly SMEs to access advanced

ICT solutions to support the competitiveness of their business processes.

• FITMAN will lead SMEs towards more advanced computing paradigms increasing

efficiency and reducing the cost of ownership and maintenance of advanced ICT

services.




• FITMAN will allow ICT developers to develop services faster, making use of well-

known components and services they can trust creating a virtuous circle across the ICT

industry and the manufacturing industry.

Along with those key messages, FITMAN started to disseminate the first results:

• FITMAN has defined a methodology to allow the European Industry to define

innovative business processes relying on the capabilities of Future Internet assets,

Generic Enablers and Infrastructures.

• FITMAN is generating the evidence through more than 50 new business processes that

the Generic Enablers, part of the Future Internet Core platform, are suitable to support

operations in realistic manufacturing scenarios.

• FITMAN has leveraged 8 additional Specific Enablers that will extend the FI Core

offerings in the manufacturing domain. They are grouped in three projects:

- MAGNIFY “Managing Real-time Situational Awareness through Dynamic

Monitoring and Interaction in Smart Factories of the Future Internet”

- ELITE “EnabLing future Internet Technologies to Empower Digital Factories”

- ASSET-KIT “Extension Kit for Advanced Asset Management in Virtual Factories”

• FITMAN, to facilitate the faster adoption of FI Generic Enablers and Specific Enablers

by ICT developers for the manufacturing domain has composed and integrated them into

three FITMAN Platforms, each targeted at one of the Factories of the Future domains:

• Smart Factory platform for real-time data collection and processing.

• Digital Factory platform for an innovative and sustainable production, through

intelligent knowledge flows.

• Virtual Factory platform for efficient use of the resources accessible in the whole

manufacturing process, taking into account suppliers, customers and production

assets.

• FITMAN has developped a Verification and Validation (V&V) framework, to define the

most suitable performance indicators to measure and assess the success of FITMAN

trials both from the IT and the Business viewpoints. This method will be proposed to the

Future Users of the IT tools proposed by FITMAN.




Dissemination plan 1.3.

D11.1 created a table of concrete activities to be undertaken in order to achieve the objectives of the

dissemination.

We are now adding two new columns, one to summarize how the plan has been followed in Period

2 and one to show what to expect in Period 3.

Activity Objectives of

the

dissemination

Dissemination activities Target

audiences

Period 2

summary

Period 3

expectations

Project

website

Enable a

continuous

communication

between the

partners and the

various

stakeholders

Creation of a project website

for online communication,

including an intranet to be

used by the partners to

exchange project-related

documentation.

The website is regularly

updated with recent news,

publications and results.

Project Partners

and any

interested

parties

reachable via

the Internet

Continuous

content

population and

website

revision

Continuous

content

population and

website

revision

Disseminati

on material

creation and

update

Provide general

information

about the

project

Creation of dissemination

material to be used by the

partners (flyer, poster,

slideshow presentation,

newsletter) when they present

FITMAN in conferences,

events, exhibitions…

This material is updated along

the project

Website visitors

Participants of

the

conferences/eve

nts where

FITMAN is

presented

Update and

revision of the

flyer, the

slideshow, the

poster and

creation of a

newsletter

Possible update

of the material

if needed.

Creation of a

newsletter

Events

attendance

Create

awareness

around

FITMAN

among the

relevant targets

(tailored

communication)

Select events and journals

where FITMAN must be

present (paper submission,

keynote speeches, stand).

According the targets, the

message to provide must be

adapted (information level

and needs of the audience).

Specific targets

for each type of

events (for

manufacturing

ind., SMEs,

researchers in

ICT/FI/FoF)

Many

participations

in events

(details in

Chapter 2

dissemination

report of

Period 2)

Continue to

raise awareness

through various

events but with

a focus on trial

sites

Liaisons

with

relevant

initiatives

Create

synergies with

FI / FoF

projects and

communities in

the domain

Identify the projects and

initiatives to contact and

propose joint actions.

A list of identified

communities is presented in

chapter 2.4

FI-PPP/ FoF

projects

EC policy-

makers

EC clusters

European

Associations

Business

associations

Organisation

of events with

FABulous and

FISPACE and

work with the

FIPPP

working

groups before

their

cancellation

Collaborate

with the IERC

on the AC3 as

well as on

events.

Contribute to

the FI-PPP

newsletter

Publications

and

presentation

s

Share expertise

and knowledge

and contribute

to the transfer

of project

achievements

and use cases

Publish results through

different channels (present

papers at conferences, articles

in books, project website

library, newsletter, alerts on

social media),

Universities,

researchers,

industry

researchers,

projects,

manufacturing

industry, SMEs,

web

entrepreneurs

Papers,

articles, social

media and

newsletter

have been

used to

disseminate

the project

results

Same means

should be used

for Period 3

Workshops Meet Contribute in face-to-face Universities, Many Workshops and




Activity Objectives of

the

dissemination

Dissemination activities Target

audiences

Period 2

summary

Period 3

expectations

and

face2face

meetings

stakeholders

and final users

to receive

feedbacks

meetings, round tables,

workshops

industries,

manufacturing

industries, FI-

PPP and FoF

projects

participations

in workshops

(details in

Chapter 2

dissemination

report of

Period 2)

meetings

should be

continued

Participatio

n in FI-PPP

groups

Contribute and

use the progress

and scientific

advances in the

FI-PPP

programme

Be active in all FI-PPP

working group and

governance bodies.

Participate in all FI-PPP

public events and make sure

that FITMAN is represented.

Support the EC in the FI-PPP

phase III.

FI-PPP

stakeholders,

projects,

EC policy-

makers

See section 2

for more

details

Contribute to

FIPPP events

Presence on

Social

Media

Create a

community of

interested

parties around

FITMAN

interaction with

external

parties).

Creation of FITMAN profiles

on Facebook, SlideShare,

Youtube, Twitter and

LinkedIn in order to publish

news and topics linked to the

project, share information and

make people involved in

discussions

Any interested

parties having a

profiles on

these social

networks

Active use of

social media

(See 2.5

FITMAN

social media

report)

Continue the

use of social

medias

Measure

results

Measure the

impact of the

project, the

interest of

potential users

(to exploit or to

re-use the

results)

Define initial targets for M12

and M24 and check at the end

of the period if the numbers

are reached.

All targets

listed in chapter

2.6

Assessment in

2.5 and

creation of

new targets for

M30

Final

assessment at

M30.

Table 1: Dissemination activities, objectives and targets

Dissemination tools 1.4.

Project website

The website has been created in M3 and is continuously updated. The partners agreed to provide

updates about the project objectives, results, dissemination documents, publications, and news to be

published on the website whenever those pieces of information are available. Therefore, the

expanded website is regularly updated as soon as new outputs, results and information are available,

while the structure, having been chosen as flexible as possible, can be adapted to new needs (for

example by adding links to the FITMAN catalogue, the creation of web pages for the WP8 Package

supporting Phase III).

The website is intended as the main information source for all people and organisations interested in

the FITMAN research activity and matters.




Figure 1: FITMAN website

Project Leaflet

The A4 format leaflet (Figure 4) has been available ad used by the partners to deliver project

information at international conferences, meetings, and workshops. It has been updated whenever

needed (change of partner logo, extension of the consortium, FIWARE Logo).

Figure 2: FITMAN flyer

Project Posters

They are displayed at booths in specific fairs and events, at industrial and research level.

The initial version of two posters has been transformed into one single complete poster. It has also

been updated when needed (change of partner logo, extension of the consortium, FIWARE Logo).




Figure 3: FITMAN poster

Each trial also created a Poster of their own for events such as ECFI Brussels and ECFI Munich:




Figure 4: FITMAN trial posters

Project Newsletter

FITMAN Newsletter released in June 2014 with the articles from I-VLab, PT Inno, VTT, IT Inno

and BIBA.

Figure 5: FITMAN newsletter

Demonstration material (videos and demo presentations)

Short videos and animated PPT presentations, have been created and updated to allow the partners

involved to show and explain during exhibitions the most interesting use cases experiences and

technical results. They have been updated to fit the event as well as to be up-to-date with the latest

results (see chapter 3.1)

Social media tools

Facebook, SlideShare, Youtube, Twitter and LinkedIn are used in order to publish news and topics

linked to the project, share information and make people involved in discussions (see chapter 1.5).




FITMAN Social Media Strategy 1.5.

As presented in detail in the context of deliverable “D11.1: FITMAN dissemination action plan and

implementation including FI-PPP collaboration M12 issue”, FITMAN has recognized the ever

growing outreach of social media in Europe and the importance of their integration in its online

dissemination strategy. To this end, FITMAN has achieved a strong presence on Web 2.0 platforms

for Social Networking, Micro blogging and Content Sharing

The FITMAN social media strategy aims at covering a set of different objectives: (a) to enhance the

project’s visibility by communicating to researchers, industry representatives and any interested

person the project’s events, outcomes and related information, (b) to access real-time information

regarding other relevant projects and initiatives (i.e. FI-PPP Projects) by following their respective

social media accounts and (c) to transfer knowledge to the FITMAN stakeholders by reproducing

(cross-posting, retweeting, etc.) it via the FITMAN’s social media accounts.

To this end, in order to meet the objectives presented above and cover the diverse needs and the

different types of material to be disseminated (e.g. documents, videos, presentations, etc.), different

channels have been used. The selected channels, thoroughly presented in the context of the

FITMAN Deliverable D11.1, are briefly presented in the following table.

Social Network Account URL

LinkedIn FITMAN

Group

http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Future-Internet-Technologies-MANufacturing-industries-4986259

Twitter FITMAN

Account

https://twitter.com/FitmanFI

Facebook FITMAN

Page

https://www.facebook.com/FitmanFi

Slideshare FITMAN

Account

http://www.slideshare.net/FitmanFI

YouTube FITMAN

Channel

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCT_zyTfmi2GAbGRQ5SduHyw

Table 2. FITMAN’s Social Media Tools and Channels

Each social network is used for different purposes in order to distribute different types of FITMAN

public material:

Twitter is used to post original FITMAN content (e.g. participating workshops, plenary and

review meetings, news, publications) and reproduce relevant content from other accounts

that FITMAN follows or based on specific hash tags and keywords (such as #futureinternet,

#FIWARE, #manufacturing) which are tracked. Emphasis has been also placed on creating

social connections with identified influencers in Future Internet, IT and Manufacturing

domains.

In the FITMAN LinkedIn group, selected news are diffused to its members and discussions

are initiated between the consortium and other interested group members (both in the

FITMAN group and other relevant LinkedIn groups, such as FIWARE, Future Internet PPP,

Future Internet Research, etc.). The Facebook page also promotes in a more informal way

the news and results of the project.

In Slideshare, the FITMAN presentations are uploaded and shared, whereas in the FITMAN

Youtube channel the trials and webinars videos become publicly available.

In order to further encourage visitors to engage with project’s social networks, the FITMAN

website has integrated certain, visible social media share buttons and a dedicated space at the

bottom of the website’s homepage to retrieve the FITMAN’s Twitter feed, as indicated in the

following screenshot.



https://twitter.com/FitmanFI

https://www.facebook.com/FitmanFi

http://www.slideshare.net/FitmanFI

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCT_zyTfmi2GAbGRQ5SduHyw




Figure 6: FITMAN website –

twitter feed




Metrics for Social Media Dissemination

The metrics that are used to assess the impact of the FITMAN social media strategy in alignment

with deliverable D11.1, include:

A. Level of Engagement

How many FITMAN entries in the social media accounts?

How many followers in the different FITMAN social media accounts?

How many comments posted by followers in the various FITMAN’s social media accounts?

B. Measure influence

How many times a FITMAN message was reproduced in the Web 2.0 (re-tweets, shares,

etc.)?

How many followers do the persons who reproduced a FITMAN messages have in total?

C. Quality Measurement

Number of meaningful comments associated with the FITMAN social media accounts

Number of posts/tweets/messages quoting or linking to FITMAN

In order to obtain a deeper understanding of FITMAN’s followers’ profiles (i.e. their gender, their

location and their interests), certain supplementary figures from the various social networks’

analytics are taken into account.

FITMAN for SMEs engagement 1.6.

In order to promote its results and role of support in Phase III, FITMAN carried out a set of

technology awareness raising actions among potential applicants interested in the calls organized

under FIWARE Accelerators.

Given that FITMAN has a specific focus on manufacturing, special focus was given to Accelerators

relevant to this field, namely FABulous, CEED and FINISH. The schedule of the actions was in line

with the launching of the calls by the majority of the A16, in the period of November-December

2014.

The geographical scope of the actions was set for EU – 28 and FP7 Associated countries. The target

group was set as SMEs, web entrepreneurs (WEs) and startups working within fields related to ICT

and manufacturing. The list of identified organisations with available communication channels as

presented in D8.3 Annex 7.1 was the source for identifying and contacting organisations. The final

number of the organisations contacted was 111, allocating 22 per partner, with an exception for

VTT with 23 allocated organisations (due to proximity and previous communication with the extra

added organisation). As a result, 36% of the organisations contacted finally propagated FITMAN

information to their members. Through these networks we estimate that around 115.000 SMEs and

WEs have been reached.

Furthermore, FITMAN has been presented at the main events organised at the FI-PPP level and/or

events linked to the FI topics where these targets could be interested to participate.




2. Dissemination Report of Period 2

During the second year of the project, partners have implemented the dissemination plan presented

in chapter 1 in order to follow the communication strategy defined in the project.

The sub-chapters below present the dissemination actions by differentiating the types of actions:

- the general dissemination by participating in main events and representing the FITMAN project

- the events organized by FITMAN

- the publications in the frame of FITMAN at selected conferences, journals, website…

- the specific collaborations with external groups

- the report of the dissemination through social media

At the end of the period, an assessment of these actions has been carried out and the conclusions are

presented in Chapter 2.6.

FITMAN presentations at events 2.1.

In order to increase the visibility and create awareness around the project, the partners have

presented the FITMAN outcomes in the main events in the FI / ICT/ FoF domains:

1. Webinar for FI-PPP Phase III Accelerators (IT INNO) -13/5/2014, webinar

2. Research Conference Poster display and video presentation of UK trial, organised in the

context of an internal research conference by the Coventry University Faculty of

Engineering and Computing - Coventry, UK, 14/05/2014

3. 25th European Regional ITS Conference: Panel Session (INNOVALIA) – Brussels, Belgium,

22-25/06/2014

4. 20th ICE Conference (POLIMI) – Bergamo, Italy, 23-25/06/2014

5. DEBS 2015: The 9th ACM International Conference On Distributed Event-Based Systems

(FZI) – Oslo, Norway, 29/06-03/07/2014

6. DBI Cluster meeting (TXT, NTUA, INNO) – Brussels, Belgium, 08/07/2014

7. Visiting lecture on Future Manufacturing Research at Coventry University, Department of

Mechanical Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology (NUST) (Coventry

University) – Coventry, UK, 28/08/2015

8. eChallenges e-2014: (VTT, POLIMI) – Belfast, North Ireland, 28-31/10/2014

9. Innovative Materials and Design Trends Conference (AIDIMA) – Valencia, Spain,

30/10/2014

10. The 11th ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications

(AICCSA'2014) (BIBA)- Potentials of Future Internet Technologies for Digital Factories –

Doha, Qatar, 10-13/11/2014

11. 5th FOKUS FUSECO FORUM (INNO) – Berlin, Germany, 13-14/11/2014

12. FIWARE Acceleration Program y 3D Printing – FABulous Accelerator: Presentation of

FITMAN project (INNO) – Bilbao, 19/11/2014

13. Webinar for FI-PPP Phase III Accelerators (IT INNO) – 20/11/2014, webinar

14. MSEE Workshop, Presentation of FITMAN (TANet) – Brussel, Belgium, 26/11/2014

15. NetWorld2020: Presentation of FITMAN (INNO) – Brussels, Belgium, 03/12/2014

16. 2014 Conference of the UK Academic Centres of Excellence in Cyber Security Research

(ACE-CSR): Presentation entitled “Access Control in Future Internet Applications” (IT-

inno) – London, UK, 16-17/12/2014

17. FIWARE Programme & Platform event: FITMAN presentation and demo (INNO) – Bilbao,

Spain, 17/02/2015




18. International Furniture Fair Meble Polska: presentation of FITMAN Specific and Generic

Enablers (Aidima) - Poland, 20/02/2015

The detailed reports are presented in the tables below:

Description of the dissemination action

Title and context (event,

conference, workshop, meeting

with external community…)

Katerina Achinioti and Clare Hooper presented this

webinar for FI-PPP Phase III Accelerators

Date / Location 13/5/2014, webinar.

Name(s) of the FITMAN

person(s) who travelled

N/A, webinar.

Short description (purpose /

objective)

The goal was to discuss support available from FITMAN to

Phase III and possibilities for collaboration.

Website (if any) http://www.fitman-fi.eu/news/fitman-support-in-phase-iii

FITMAN related scientific aspects

This webinar drew on all FITMAN outputs relevant for Phase

III Accelerators, and hence covered topics from the FITMAN

Specific Enablers to its methodological offering.

Target audience and

dissemination level (international,

national, local)

European audience, specifically Phase III Accelerators.

Benefits for FITMAN Presentation of FITMAN’s Phase III Package, raising the

profile of both the FITMAN project in general, but in

particular FITMAN’s technical and non-technical outputs.

Impact of the dissemination action

(number of flyers printed, number

of participants…)

The webinar was attended by 11 external participants,

representing the following Phase III Accelerators: CEED,

CREATI-FI, FABULOUS, FINISH, SOUL-FI and IMPACT.

The targeted, small audience of this webinar meant that its

slides were not made available on Slideshare after the

webinar, but only on the FITMAN website. The slides were

downloaded 8 times from the FITMAN website.

A follow-up questionnaire was sent to 10 participants and 4

responses were received. All respondents found the webinar

somewhat useful, useful, or very useful, and all said the

webinar helped them clarify the way in which their Phase III

project might collaborate with FITMAN.

Other relevant information

(Proceedings link…)

See D8.6 section 8.2.2.





25th

European Regional International Telecommunication

Society Conference. Disruptive innovation in the ICT

industries: Challenges for European policy and businesses.

Date / Location 22-25 June 2014, Brussels (Belgium)



Oscar Lazaro (INNOVALIA)





objective)

Innovalia participates in the Panel Session 1 - A disruptive

approach to ICT innovation in Europe: the FI-PPP (the Future

Internet Public-Private Partnership) as FITMAN

representative.

Chair: Prof Pieter Ballon

Moderator: Cristina Cullel-March

Speakers:

Peter Fatelnig (European Commission, DG Connect)

Mike Butcher (Techcrunch)

Dr Thomas Bohnert (Zurich University of Applied Sciences,

FI-WARE)

Dr Christopher Thuemmler (Napier University, FI-STAR)

Dr Oscar Lazaro (Innovalia Association, FITMAN)

Website (if any) http://www.itsworld.org/


Target audience and


national, local)

International, large companies, SMEs, universities, research

centres and public authorities.

Benefits for FITMAN Presentation and raising awareness of the FITMAN trials and

technologies. Collaboration with FIWARE programme.



of participants…)

Over 60 participants from companies (large and SMEs),

research projects, and academia interested in 5G.





conference, workshop,

meeting with external

community…)

International ICE Conference on Engineering, Technology and

Innovation (ICE) 2014

Date / Location 23-25 June 2014, Bergamo - Italy



Stefano Perini

Short description

(purpose / objective)

Presentation of the paper “Definition and deployment of a verification

and validation package in complex industrial environments”

Website (if any) http://www.ice-conference.org/

FITMAN related

scientific aspects

FITMAN V&V Package

Target audience and

dissemination level

(international, national,

local)

International conference targeting academics

Benefits for FITMAN Presentation of results to an international scientific community

http://www.itsworld.org/




Impact of the

dissemination action

(number of flyers printed,

number of

participants…)

Hundreds of people participated in the conference

Other relevant

information


http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/mostRecentIssue.jsp?punumber=6867220





DEBS 2015 - The 9th ACM International Conference On

Distributed Event-Based Systems

Date / Location Oslo, Norway, June 29 – July 3, 2015



Ljiljana Stojanovic, FZI


objective)

We presented a novel approach for improving worker safety at

the workplace in the manufacturing shop floor. The approach

is based on a dynamic and scalable real-time processing

pipeline derived from the Storm architecture. The system has

been designed and implemented for a manufacturing line in

TRW, one of the largest suppliers for the automotive industry

Website (if any) http://www.debs2015.org/


This paper is about WP12 results - a novel approach for

realizing dynamic processing pipelines based on personal

monitoring systems in manufacturing. Dynamicity refers to

the possibility to adapt the processing infrastructure to the

dynamic nature of a problem.

Target audience and


national, local)

Research and business

International

Benefits for FITMAN Dissemination of the project results



of participants…)

More than 100 participants working on event processing and

big data



Digital Business Innovation Paths Event

Date / Location 8 July 2014 / Brussels

FITMAN partner(s) involved Sergio Gusmeroli (TXT), Fenareti Lampathaki and Sotiris

Koussouris (NTUA)

Short description The “Digital Business Innovation Paths” event was held on July

8th, 2014 in Brussels, offering the opportunity to liaise with key

stakeholders on Digital Business Innovation, Web

Entrepreneurship and Future Internet and influence a set of




recommendations (addressed to the European Commission and to

other decision makers) in order to boost entrepreneurship, nurture

business creativity and breed new forms of enterprises.

In the “Research and Policy Drivers for Digital Business

Innovation” session, Sergio Gusmeroli (TXT) presented the

FITMAN project scope and results as an industry driver for

manufacturing / business innovation and participated to the panel

discussion.

Website http://www.dbi-community.eu/content/%E2%80%9Cdigital-

business-innovation-paths%E2%80%9D-conference-how-take-

digital-business-innovation-next

FITMAN related scientific

aspects

Project Overview, with emphasis on methodologies, platforms,

specific enablers and trials of FITMAN

Target audience and

dissemination level

International: Research, Academia and Sensing Enterprise /

Digital Business Innovation projects

Benefits for FITMAN Exposure of the FITMAN concept and results

Impact of the dissemination

action

About 40 participants





Visiting lecture on Future Manufacturing Research at

Coventry University

Date / Location 28 August 2014, Department of Mechanical Engineering,

Nanjing University of Science and Technology (NUST)



Keith Popplewell


objective)

Presentation of Future Manufacturing research at Coventry

University

Website (if any) N/A


Overview of FI-PPP, FITMAN, and the UK trial

Target audience and


national, local)

Staff and research students (PhD and Masters) in Department

of Mechanical Engineering at NUST.

International

Benefits for FITMAN General awareness



of participants…)

Circa 30 in audience



N/A



conference, workshop,

meeting with external

community…)

Conference eChallenges 2014

http://www.dbi-community.eu/content/%E2%80%9Cdigital-business-innovation-paths%E2%80%9D-conference-how-take-digital-business-innovation-next






Date / Location 29-30 October 2014, Belfast - UK



Outi Kettunen

Short description

(purpose / objective)

Presnetation of the paper “V&V assessment package instantiation in

ICT-based manufacturing experiences from ten industrial use cases”

Website (if any) http://www.echallenges.org/e2014/

FITMAN related

scientific aspects

FITMAN V&V Package

Target audience and

dissemination level

(international, national,

local)

International conference targeting academics

Benefits for FITMAN Presentation of results to an international scientific community

Impact of the

dissemination action

(number of flyers printed,

number of

participants…)

Hundreds of people participated in the conference

Other relevant

information


http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/mostRecentIssue.jsp?punumber=7048057





Innovative Materials and Design Trends Conference

Date / Location 30th

October 2014, AIDIMA headquarters in Valencia, Spain.



Vicente Sales


objective)

Conference about social and market trends and innovative

materials appearing in the market

Website (if any)


Specially about AIDIMA Use Case 1 related to capturing

weak signals that are to become trends. Also other 2 cases

were introduced.

Target audience and


national, local)

National. Audience were furniture designers, interior

designers, product managers, marketing managers, admin

managers, company managers, etc.

Benefits for FITMAN Introduction of the project to the real players. AIDIMA’s use

case in FITMAN about trends hunting and innovative

materials



58 participants attending from top furniture manufacturing

companies.




of participants…)







Potentials of Future Internet Technologies for Digital

Factories (conference: The 11th ACS/IEEE International

Conference on Computer Systems and Applications

(AICCSA'2014))

Date / Location November 10-13, 2014 at InterContinental, West Bay, Doha,

Qatar



Michael Petychakis (NTUA)

Konstantin Klein (BIBA)


objective)

NTUA Presented the paper: “Infusing Social Data Analytics

into Future Internet applications for Manufacturing”

BIBA Presented the paper: “Potentials of Future Internet

Technologies for Digital Factories”

Website (if any) http://cse.qu.edu.qa/aiccsa2014/


In both papers, the authors investigated the potentials of

Future Internet technology and different components for

realizing the vision of Digital Factories, with the aim of

proposing a software architecture based on Future Internet

principles and components for Digital Factories.

Target audience and


national, local)

Researchers and other kinds of conference members

Benefits for FITMAN Increase the visibility the potentials of Future Internet

technology (SE, PC) in application field of digital factories.



of participants…)

Papers are available in proceedings (11th IEEE/ACS

International Conference on Computer Systems and

Applications, AICCSA 2014, Doha, Qatar, November 10-13,

2014. IEEE 2014, ISBN 978-1-4799-7100-8)



11th IEEE/ACS International Conference on Computer

Systems and Applications, AICCSA 2014, Doha, Qatar,

November 10-13, 2014. IEEE 2014, ISBN 978-1-4799-7100-8





5th

FOKUS FUSECO FORUM: Session “The final phase

of the FI-PPP, Status Quo and Quo Vadis?”

Date / Location 13-14th

November 2014, Berlin (Germany)





objective)

The event is focused on Cloud-based ICT Platforms and

Virtualized Networks for flexible Ecosystem enablement

within Smart Cities. Innovalia was participating in the Session




“The final phase of the FI-PPP, Status Quo and Quo Vadis?”

with other FIWARE programme actors:

FI-Core and FIWARE Lab: Cutting edge technology for

the development of innovative applications utilizing

Generic Enablers of the FI-PPP Core Platform. Stefano de

Panfilis (Engineering Ingegneria Informatica)

Status of FI-PPP’s node deployments, capabilities,

utilization by Usage Areas and SMEs. Maurizio Cecchi

(XiFi Coordinator, Telecom Italia)

Pan-European FI-PPP node federation. Federico Facca

(XiFi Technical Coordinator, Create-Net)

Delivering eHealth Services through FI-PPP technology.

Stefan Covaci (Technische Universität Berlin)

Manufacturing Usage Area in the FI-PPP, Overview

and Status Quo. Oscar Lazaro (Innovalia Association)

Networked media for social TV and smart city services in

the FI-PPP, Overview and Status Quo. Robert Seeliger,

(Fraunhofer FOKUS)

Website (if any) Page of the event:

https://www.fokus.fraunhofer.de/4b03319a2451c690/about-

this-event

Page of the workshop (Session 2):

https://www.fokus.fraunhofer.de/1c9c072e9cdcb874/day-1-fi-

ppp-workshop


Target audience and


national, local)







of participants…)


research projects, and academia interested in the Future

Internet and FIWARE technologies.







FIWARE Acceleration Program y 3D Printing –

FABulous Accelerator. Event organized by FABulous

Accelerator and the Basque Agency Entrepreneurial

Development (SPRI). FITMAN was invited as FIWARE

technology expert, due to the high importance of the GEs and

SEs of FITMAN for the FABulous entrepreneurs.


November 2014, Bilbao (Spain)




Short description (purpose / The Basque Agency Entrepreneurial Development (SPRI)

https://www.fokus.fraunhofer.de/4b03319a2451c690/about-this-event

https://www.fokus.fraunhofer.de/4b03319a2451c690/about-this-event

https://www.fokus.fraunhofer.de/1c9c072e9cdcb874/day-1-fi-ppp-workshop

https://www.fokus.fraunhofer.de/1c9c072e9cdcb874/day-1-fi-ppp-workshop




objective)

organizes this event to allow to the Basque SMEs to know

more about the opportunities that the FIWARE Accelerator

programme offer them. Experts in the FIWARE technologies

(such as Innovalia) and the coordinator of FABulous

explained the details about how the programme works and the

key factors to present successful projects to the first wave of

FABulous.

Website (if any) Video of the event:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCo1Zj7GJ74

Video of the new explaining the event:

http://www.sprilur.es/es/spri-presenta-un-proyecto-europeo-

con-54-millones-para-star-ups-y-pymes-vascas/

(Both are in Spanish)


Target audience and


national, local)

Mainly regional and national large companies & SMEs, but

also universities & research centres interested in the FIWARE

programme.

Benefits for FITMAN Presentation and raising awareness of the FITMAN

technologies (GEs and SEs), demonstration of the FITMAN

trials and potential of the FITMAN solutions. Cooperation

with FABulous Phase III Acelerator.



of participants…)


research projects, and academia interested in the FIWARE

programme.







Katerina Achinioti and Clare Hooper presented this webinar

for FI-PPP Phase III Accelerators

Date / Location 20/11/2014, webinar.



Webinar. FITMAN participants: IT Innovation,

INNOVALIA, Atos, I-VLab, NTUA and VTT


objective)

The goal was to provide key information to the Phase III

accelerators.

Website (if any) http://www.fitman-fi.eu/news/fitman-support-in-phase-iii


This webinar drew on all FITMAN outputs relevant for Phase

III Accelerators, and hence covered topics from the FITMAN

Specific Enablers to its methodological offering.

Target audience and


national, local)

European audience, specifically Phase III Accelerators.

Benefits for FITMAN Clarify FTIMAN’s support offers



Of the 16 accelerators, 6 participants joined the webinar, from

SOUL-FI, FInish, CreatiFI, FABulous and FINODEX.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCo1Zj7GJ74

http://www.sprilur.es/es/spri-presenta-un-proyecto-europeo-con-54-millones-para-star-ups-y-pymes-vascas/

http://www.sprilur.es/es/spri-presenta-un-proyecto-europeo-con-54-millones-para-star-ups-y-pymes-vascas/




of participants…)

A questionnaire was sent to the participants to get feedback on

the webinar. Only 3 of the 6 participants filled in the

questionnaire. Nevertheless, the feedback was positive. In

terms of the topics of interest, Erreur ! Source du renvoi

introuvable. shows that it was the technical information the

respondents were the most interested in (platforms and SEs).

All respondents said the information was useful to them, as

seen in Erreur ! Source du renvoi introuvable.. Only 1

respondent said they visited the FITMAN website after the

webinar for further information. All respondents said that the

webinar clarified they ways in which FITMAN could support

them.

After the webinar was held, the slides were made available on

SlideShare to download. At the time of writing, end of

September 2015, there were 274 views on SlideShare



See D8.8 section 5.1.3.1.





Workshop

Date / Location 26/27 November 2014



Gash Bhullar


objective)

Represented FITMAN Project and presented the benefits of

using GE’s and SE’s in building software platforms such as

SMECluster.com

Website (if any) https://twitter.com/MSEE_EU


TANet presented an Industrial viewpoint of FITMAN Trials

Target audience and


national, local)

International

Benefits for FITMAN The group had a very good understanding of what FITMAN

could offer other projects in terms of collaboration and

dissemination activities



of participants…)

Packs were premade by the co-ordinator and available to

attendees of the workshop



https://twitter.com/MSEE_EU





NetWorld2020 Annual Event 2014

Date / Location 3rd

December 2014, Brussels (Belgium)










objective)

NetWorld2020 is the European Technology Platform for

communications networks and services. Communications

networks enable interaction between users of various types of

equipment, either mobile or fixed. They are the foundation of

the Internet. The NetWorld2020 European Technology

Platform gathers players of the communications networks

sector: industry leaders, innovative SMEs, and leading

academic institutions.

The event presented news regarding 5G-PPP plans, activities

and topics, include keynote speeches but also parallel session

on technical topics. The event also aimed at collecting

feedback from the wide community in order to input the next

version of the H2020 Work programme. Parallel Session 1A:

Requirements from Vertical Sectors on 5G Systems –

Experiences Gained from Experimentation in the FI-PPP. The

session was composed by the following presentations:

The Future Manufacturing Services Challenge for 5G

MTC Evolution: Towards Seamless Cyber-Physical

Production Systems. Oscar Lázaro, (FITMAN project

technical coordinator, Innovalia)

Business Collaboration in agri-food chains – added value

features from farm to fork and role of future

telecommunication as key enabler. Harald Sundmaeker,

(FIspace coordinator, ATB)

How to leverage the XIFI experience to build an industry

driven 5G testing framework. Maurizio Cecchi (XIFI

project coordinator, Telecom Italia)

Short reminder on plans and visions for 5G systems (to

inspire and trigger the discussion), Jean-Sébastien Bedo,

(Orange)

Panel discussion

Website (if any) http://networld2020.eu/


Target audience and


national, local)







of participants…)


research projects, and academia interested in 5G.




Title and context (event, 2014 Academic Centres of Excellence in Cyber Security

http://networld2020.eu/





with external community…) Research Conference

Date / Location 16-17 December 2014, Birmingham, UK.



Mike Surridge, IT Innovation


objective)

The meeting brings the 11 ACE-CSRs across the UK together

with equivalents from the USA plus representatives of the

security and defence industries in an invitation only meeting

to review cyber security research progress and future trends.

Website (if any)


FITMAN presents novel, Future Internet scenarios in which

conventional security solutions are not always sufficient. The

modelling approach used by IT Innovation in FITMAN gives

practitioners a means to find such shortcomings and address

them.

Target audience and


national, local)

National conference, but with an international audience.

Benefits for FITMAN Presentation of FITMAN’s approach to analysing security in

dynamically composed networks, raises the profile of both the

FITMAN project and our technical solutions in academia and

industry.



of participants…)

Around 250-300 participants.







FIWARE Programme & Platform event

Date / Location 17 February 2015, Bilbao (Spain)



June Sola (INNOVALIA)


objective)

Event organised in the Basque Country by the Europe

Enterprise Network (EEN) and FIWARE. The coordinator of

the FIWARE initiative and the IoT chapter’s partners also

took part (being Telefonica the main actor). FITMAN was

invited as FIWARE for Industry expert, due to the high

importance of manufacturing sector in the Basque Country.

The presentation was oriented to “Advanced Manufacturing

Applications based on Future Internet Technologies”, showing

the 10 trials of FITMAN, and how successful services and

apps can be developed by using the FI assets.

Website (if any) New about the event (in Spanish):

http://www.spri.eus/es/actualidad-spri/noticias/teics-la-mayor-

http://www.spri.eus/es/actualidad-spri/noticias/teics-la-mayor-colaboracion-de-la-industria-tic-europea




colaboracion-de-la-industria-tic-europea#


Target audience and


national, local)

Mainly regional and national large companies & SMEs, but

also universities & research centres interested in the FIWARE

programme, most of them related to the manufacturing

industry.

Benefits for FITMAN Presentation and raising awareness of the FITMAN

technologies (GEs and SEs), demonstration of the FITMAN

trials and potential of the FITMAN solutions. Cooperation

with FIWARE.



of participants…)

Over 150 participants from regional companies (large and

SMEs) and research centres interested in the FIWARE

programme.







INTERNATIONAL FURNITURE FAIR MEBLE

POLSKA


of February 2015 at the Poznan International Fair

Grounds in Poland.



Javier Martin (AIDIMA)


objective)

The Meble Polska showcases products from architecture,

design, furniture industries with the current offer of Polish and

foreign furniture producers, and presents trends and new

technologies. Everybody from the furniture industry is invited

to the fair. It is important to notice that Poland is the third

largest furniture exporter in Europe and the fourth in the

world, and that Polish furniture, is among the world leaders in

terms of workmanship quality.

AIDIMA presented its three use cases namely Furniture

Trends Forecasting for Product Development, Opinion Mining

in Furniture Products, and Collaborative Work for Product

Design

Website (if any)


Polish manufacturers were very interested in the business

processes being described and how they had been challenged

using the FITMAN Specific and Generic Enablers, and even

some of them showed their interest in experimenting and

collaborating with AIDIMA and its solutions.

Target audience and


national, local)

Presented to 12 owners and presidents of leading furniture

manufacturing companies during the fair, by the head of the

deployment department at the Poznan Supercomputing and

Networking Center, Adam Olszewski.

Benefits for FITMAN Creating awareness to leading manufacturers and openings to

possible collaborations

http://www.spri.eus/es/actualidad-spri/noticias/teics-la-mayor-colaboracion-de-la-industria-tic-europea






of participants…)

According to the registration data this year’s edition of the fair

was visited by furniture traders from 45 countries.



FITMAN events 2.2.

During the second period, FITMAN has organized or co-organized several events, workshops and

exhibition/demo stands at international level, in order to meet the stakeholders and to deliver

specific information.

1. ECFI, (I-VLab, ENG, Whirpool, AIDIMA, UPVLC, LYON2, APR, IT Inno, NTUA) –

Brussels, Belgium, 02&03/04/2014

2. European Textile Platform-Review Workshop (DITF) – Denkendorf, Germany, 9/05/2014

3. Organisation of three workshops in China (Weihai, Shandong Province, Beijing) to

disseminate information on FI-PPP and FITMAN (TXT, I-VLab) – May 2014

4. IoT week 2014 (TXT, POLIMI, VTT, TANet, C2K, Piacenza, Consulgal Trial, INNO) –

London, UK, 16-20/06/2014

5. World Manufacturing Forum: FITMAN booth for overall dissemination and demonstration

of trials (TXT, INNO, TRW, Polimi, I-VLab, WHP, Piacenza) – Milano, Italy, 01-02/07/2014

6. ECFI, (TXT, NTUA, I-VLab, INNOVALIA, WHP, APR, Piacenza, Consulgal, TANET,

LYON2, Piacenza, ENG) – Munich, Germany, 17&18/09/2014

7. Workshop "Smarter Manufacturing: Sustainable Futures” (Conventry University, TXT,

Holonix) – Coventry, UK, 08/10/2014

8. MULTI-SITE FIWARE EVENT (INNO) – Valencia, Spain, 15-17/10/2014

9. LibreCon 2014 – Business and Open Technologies Conference. Conference + Workshop

with FABulous Accelerator (INNO) – Bilbao, Spain, 11-12/11/2014

10. Workshop on Factories of the Future: ICT Trends in product and service lifecycle

management (NTUA) – Athens, Greece, 14/11/2014

11. Discussion of the trial usage and adaptation to the end user needs (Fraunhofer IPK / VW

AG) – Wolfsburg, Germany, 25/11/2014

12. Innovation in the Cloud: FITMAN presentation and demo booth of CONSULGAL trial

(PTIN, UNINOVA, TXT, CGAL) – Lisbon, Portugal, 28-30/01/2015

13. Presentation of the FITMAN Whirlpool Trial (Whirlpool) – Italy, spring 2015 – Internal

Event.

14. Net Futures Conference (TXT, I-VLab, NTUA, Holonix) – Brussels, Belgium, 25-26/03/2015

These actions are detailed in the following pages:





1st European Conference on the Future Internet – ECFI.

Date / Location Brussels, 2-3 April 2014.



TXT, I-VLab, ENG, Whirpool, AIDIMA, UPVLC, LYON2,

APR, IT Inno, Atos, NTUA


objective)

This FI-PPP event brought the opportunity to run a FITMAN

booth and raise the profile of FITMAN among FI-PPP

participants.

FITMAN presentations in the session on "FI -Enabling




opportunities for vertical application sectors" and in the

session on "Business Models for the use of FI technologies"

Website (if any) http://www.ecfi.eu/brussels2014/ FITMAN related scientific aspects

The FITMAN booth provided the opportunity to discuss all

aspects of FITMAN with interested parties.

Target audience and


national, local)

International audience, FI-PPP participants attending ECFI1.

Benefits for FITMAN Presentation of FITMAN’s goals and outputs, raising the

profile of FITMAN to the audience.



of participants…)







European Textile Platform-Review Workshop

Date / Location 9/5/2014



Thomas Fischer (not travelling, workshop held at DITF)


objective)

DITF presented FITMAN at the European Textile Platform-

Review workshop in Denkendorf

Website (if any)


Specific Enabler MoVA, Management of virtual assets,

advanced networking in manufacturing

Target audience and


national, local)

Experts from the textile and clothing industry as well as from

textile research

Benefits for FITMAN Create awareness in a specific target sector



of participants…)

~40 participants



Presentation based on:

http://www.ditf-denkendorf.de/mr/en/projects/fitman.html

No slides available

Description

Title and context (event, conference,

workshop, project, external community…)

Workshop with INTEROP-VLab partners

Chinese Pole

Date / Location May 25th

,2014 HIT University at WEIHAI

Name(s) of the person(s) who travelled (*) Michele Sesana (TXT), Guy Doumeingts (I-VLab)

http://www.ditf-denkendorf.de/mr/en/projects/fitman.html




Short description (purpose / objective)

The goal of the workshop was to present FITMAN

results project particularly the use of Future Internet in

Manufacturing to the partners belonging to the

Chinese Pole of INTEROP-VLab

Website (or Proceedings link)


Presentation of the V&V method of FITMAN

Participation:

- Target audience (research community,

industry)

- Number of participants

- Percentage of industrial participation (*)

10 representatives

Mainly Academic but strongly involved with

industry

Dissemination level (international, national,

local)

National level

Results: benefits for FITMAN The Partners of China poles wish to develop

cooperation on FITMAN subjects. Some are in

strongly involved in the use of IoT.

Assessment of the impact of the

dissemination action (*):

- number of flyers, contacts, projects

collaboration, prospects for open standards

20 flyers distributed

10 contacts for cooperation

Other relevant information I-VLab will maintain the contact with the Chinese

partners; EC Bureau in China has been informed on

FITMAN mission

Description



Workshop on Advanced IT for Manufacturing

Date / Location May 30th

, 2014



The use of Future Internet in Manufacturing through the

project FITMAN (Future Internet MANufacturing)

Website (or Proceedings link)


Presentation of the V&V method of FITMAN

Participation:


industry)



Beihang University is the most important University

in China for Aeronautics and Astronautics. Great

interest for the subject.

40 participants, 20 from Academic, 20 from industry


local)

Regional workshop

Results: benefits for FITMAN Possibility to develop a cooperation with some

industries as AVIC (leader in Aeronautics. and also

in research)





The participants have a high level both on Industry

and Education




Other relevant information -





IoT Week 2014

Date / Location 16 – 20 June 2014, London - UK



TXT, POLIMI, VTT, TANet, C2K, Piacenza, Consulgal,

INNO


objective)

Event organized by the IoT Forum. FITMAN presented a

demo stand

Website (if any) http://www.iot-week.eu/iotweek_2014/index.html

http://www.fitman-fi.eu/events/iot-week-2014


FITMAN platform

Target audience and


national, local)

IoT community of researchers and practioners

Benefits for FITMAN FITMAN exhibited stand where people can ask for

demonstrations of FITMAN trials and get information about

the project.



of participants…)

Hundreds of people joined the event



Description



Workshop on Advanced IT for Manufacturing (v2):

the FITMAN project

Date / Location June 28th

, Shandong University at Jinan



The use of Future Internet in Manufacturing through the

project FITMAN (Future Internet MANufacturing)

Website (or Proceedings link) FITMAN related scientific aspects

The use of the V&V method

Participation:


industry)



50 participants, 25 academic, 25 indutry.

Shandong Province is an important industrial region

of China


local)

National /regional level

Results: benefits for FITMAN Great potentiality cooperation with Industry.

http://www.iot-week.eu/iotweek_2014/index.html

http://www.fitman-fi.eu/events/iot-week-2014




University of Shandong has a great cooperation with

Industry and could be a link. Proposition to cooperate





The number of participants specially from Industry.

50 flyers distributed

Other relevant information -





World Manufacturing Forum 2014 – The way forward to

prosperity through Global Manufacturing Collaboration

Date / Location 1 – 2 July 2014, Milan - IT



Giacomo Tavola, Alessandro Canepa, Cathy Lieu, Pierluigi

Petrali, Sergio Gusmeroli


objective)

Presentation of FITMAN to international industrials and

academics

Website (if any) http://www.worldmanufacturingforum.org/


Target audience and


national, local)

Manufacturing experts of international (worldwide) dimension

Benefits for FITMAN FITMAN booth for overall dissemination and demonstration

of trials. Mainly presented PIACENZA and WHIRLPOOL

Trials



of participants…)

Hundreds of people joined the event







2nd

European Conference on the Future Internet – ECFI2

Workshop “What FIWARE can do for the IoT”

Date / Location Munich, 17th

September 2014





objective)

Oscar Lazaro (INNOVALIA) chairs the workshop that

contains the following participants and presentation:

Richard Stevens (IDC) – Market Opportunities &

Business Trends for IoT and Connected Smart Objects

Jesper Meulengracht (Grundfos Connect) – Lessons &




business opportunities for IoT digital business

transformation in traditional industries

Carlos Ralli (FIWARE) – FIWARE IoT Proposal &

Community

Oscar Lazaro (FITMAN) – FITMAN Approach to

manufacturing platforms and IoT

Christoph Thuemmler (FIStar) – IoT and Future Internet

Platforms in the health sector

Peter Friess (EC) – Ecosystems for IoT and Connected

Smart Objects

The disruptive impact on future businesses, citizens and

society of the Internet of Things in an Internet of Everything

is no longer disputed. Over the recent past, we have witnessed

how companies of all sizes are embracing the IoT

technologies and working on innovative business

propositions. Moreover, connected communities and

ecosystems are starting to emerge being supported not only by

embedded system manufacturers such ARM but also by end

users aiming at delivering value added services on top of their

traditional businesses models and products. New computing

paradigms such as Fog Computing provide an amenable

support and a more effective exploitation capabilities of the

features that IoT technology can leverage to people and

businesses. The workshop aims at bringing together key

stakeholders to share their experiences, lessons learned, plans

in the FIWARE, IoT and open innovation ecosystem domains

and jointly identify the opportunities that FIWARE and IoT

open ecosystems will bring to business development in

general and to future FIWARE web-entrepreneurs taking part

in the FIWARE acceleration programme in particular.

Website (if any) http://www.ecfi.eu/conference-exhibition/

FIWARE BEST PRACTICE AND FUTURE

OPPORTUNITIES Stage Programme - Workshop Programme

Plenary 3


Target audience and


national, local)


centres and public authorities involved in the FI-PPP.

Benefits for FITMAN Presentation and raising awareness of the FITMAN and FI-

PPP GE trialling scope. Cooperation with other FI-PPP

projects as well as with European Commission authorities.



of participants…)

Over 60 participants from research projects, industry and

academia in the field of ICT technologies (mainly future

internet).




http://www.ecfi.eu/conference-exhibition/







Smarter Manufacturing: Sustainable Futures

Workshop with contributions from EU FP7 and H2020

projects FITMAN, FLEXINET, MSEE, CAPP-4-SMES

and SMARTER. Audience also included regional

manufacturing enterprise representatives.

Date / Location 8th

October 2014, The Simulation Centre, Techno Centre,

Coventry University, United Kingdom



Sergio Gusmeroli

Eva Coscia

Keith Popplewell


objective)

The Workshop was organised to provide an opportunity for

the five EU funded projects listed above to exchange

understanding of their projects, the areas of possible overlap

and synergy between the projects, and potential areas of future

cooperation. Additionally representatives of regional industry

were invited and attended to obtain an overview of these

projects’ potential contribution to their needs, and an

awareness of the possibility of participating in future projects.

In terms of FITMAN results, the emphasis was on making

both projects and industry aware of the potential benefits that

may be available through FI-PPP Phase 3, as well as on the

achievements of the FITMAN project itself.

Website (if any) http://www.coventry.ac.uk/smartermanufacturing


All aspects of the structure of GEs and FITMAN SEs.

Trial structures and progress (especially UK Trial).

Future opportunities offered by FI-PPP Phase 3.

Target audience and


national, local)

FP7 and H2020 project partners, and regional industry.

Dissemination level: International (academic) and regional

(industry)

Benefits for FITMAN Interaction and potential future collaboration with other

projects represented in the workshop: all projects address

related domains associated with manufacturing.

Promotion of FITMAN and FI-WARE results and future

opportunities to both academic and industrial delegates.



of participants…)

Invitations issued through Coventry University mailing lists to

regional enterprises, and to all partners in the participating

projects.

Total attendees: 21 (13 academic, 8 industry)







MULTI-SITE FIWARE EVENT:

Connecting cities to the Internet of the Future


of October 2014, Valencia (Spain)








objective)

The Ministry of Industry, Energy and Tourism (MINETUR),

following the guidelines of the European Commission, is

fostering the implementation of the Internet of the Future. For

that purpose, events have been prepared to show the potential

of the platform FIWARE, which may be used for Smart Cities

and industrial processes.

This event is focus on the FIWARE Accelerator Programme.

During these days, participants were informed about the

necessary requirements to access current and future calls, will

attend conferences and showcases to witness FIWARE’s

potential and will discover the different funding possibilities.

Regarding FITMAN, Oscar Lazaro (INNOVALIA)

participates in the Roundtable about FIWARE potential on

Industrial Processes:

Moderator: José Jiménez Delgado (es.INTERNET)

INNOVALIA. Oscar Lázaro (Coordinator of the

Digital Platform of FITMAN - FI Technologies for

Manufacturing)

UPM. José Manuel Menéndez. Technical Manager of

FOTsis and member of iMobility Forum

Joaquín Cabezas. Area representative

Marta Pascual. Area representative

Website (if any) http://www.fiware.org/multisiteevent/


Target audience and


national, local)



Benefits for FITMAN Presentation and raising awareness of the FITMAN trials.

Cooperation with FIWARE and Phase III Acelerators.



of participants…)


research projects, and academia interested in the Future

Internet and FIWARE technologies.







LibreCon 2014 – Business and Open Technologies

Conference. “Introduction to FIWARE and FITMAN”

Conference + Workshop with FABulous Accelerator


November 2014, Bilbao (Spain)



June Sola (INNOVALIA)


objective)

LicreCon 2014 carries on where the previous three editions of

the Libre Software World Conference (LSWC) left off. This

year it sets out a big event which main objective is the

creation of business and employment in all sectors of society

through open source technologies, innovation and

entrepreneurship.

http://www.fiware.org/multisiteevent/




Innovalia give a conference called “Introduction to FIWARE

and FITMAN” in cooperation with FABulous Accelerator,

explaining the FIWARE programme and FIWARE and

FITMAN open source technologies. Additionally, Innovalia

participates with FABulous and FINODEX Accelerator in a

workshop to explain and encourage the companies to be part

of the FIWARE programme and use FIWARE technologies.

Website (if any) http://www.librecon.io/en/librecon-2014/


Target audience and


national, local)

International large companies & SMEs, but also universities

& research centres related to Open Source Technologies.

Benefits for FITMAN Presentation of the FIWARE programme, explanation and

raising awareness of the FITMAN technologies (GEs and

SEs), and demonstration of the FITMAN successful use cases.

Cooperation with FABulous and FINODEX Phase III

Acelerator.



of participants…)

Over 1.500 participants from 600 companies (large and

SMEs), public administrations and other organisations.






Workshop on Factories of the Future: ICT Trends in

product and service lifecycle management

Date / Location 14 November 2014 / Athens

FITMAN partner(s) involved Sotiris Koussouris and Dimitris Panopoulos (NTUA)

Short description The workshop focused on trends in tools, methodologies and

business models for product and service lifecycle

management in Factories of the Future.

Sotiris Koussouris (NTUA) presented the “Future Internet

Technologies for MANufacturing” in the session “Existing

approaches and projects on Factories of the Future” and

participated to the round table discussion regarding key

success factors for market uptake and future research. The

presentation included the FITMAN project description, the

key results and the added value to Manufacturing industry.

Website http://www.innovathens.gr/events/workshop-on-factories-of-

the-future/

FITMAN related scientific

aspects

Project Overview and Presentation of Outcomes

Target audience and

dissemination level

International: Research, Academia and FoF projects

Benefits for FITMAN Exposure of the FITMAN concept and results, acquiring

feedback and comments from FoF projects and industry

representatives

Impact of the dissemination

action

About 40 participants

http://www.librecon.io/en/librecon-2014/

http://www.innovathens.gr/events/workshop-on-factories-of-the-future/

http://www.innovathens.gr/events/workshop-on-factories-of-the-future/








Workshop

Date / Location 25/11/2014



Frank-Walter Jaekel, Jan Torka


objective)

Discussion of the trial usage and adaptation to the end user

needs

Website (if any) --


Clarification of the integration of SEmed and vObeya into the

VW trial, identification of required data

Target audience and


national, local)

Trial end user in terms planners, the meeting was in

Wolfsburg within VW

Benefits for FITMAN Improvement of the trial solution



of participants…)

Number of participants was about 4, discussions and creation

of interest, presentations and document exchange







Innovation in the Cloud

Date / Location 28 to 30 of January 2015



Paulo Rodrigues


objective)

The Consulgal trial was presented as a FITMAN showcase, at

this event organised by PT-Inovação. Whirlpool and TRW

trials were also shown

Website (if any)


Target audience and


national, local)

The audience were IT developers, PT staff, and technological

companies. There were international partners represented

Benefits for FITMAN Presentation of success case developed under FITMAN



of participants…)

Nr. of participants around 50










NETFUTURES 2015

Conference

Date / Location Brussels, (BE)



Doumeingts Guy, Sergio Gusmeroli, Michele Sesana, Fenareti

Lampathaki, Eva Coscia


objective)

The objective of NET FUTURES was to maximize

competitiveness of the European technology industry. The

conference will gather over 1000 attendees, to form an

interconnected community involving companies,

organizations and people in Research & Innovation, Market

Validation & Living Lab Research, Business Development,

Entrepreneurship & Enterprise Strategy, Policy Making

Website (if any) netfutures2015.eu


NETFUTURE was organised by FI-PPP , FITMAN is one

project belonging to this programme

Target audience and


national, local)

International

Benefits for FITMAN FITMAN has a booth on which the results of FITMAN were

presented using a video. The FITMAN partners who

participated to the event, were continuously present and had

the possibilities to discuss with visitors of the booth round 80

during the two days



of participants…)

200 flyers printed , more than 1000 participants, 80 visitors to

the Booth with discussion with the FITMAN partners present



The presentation are stored on the web site

Publications 2.3.

Based on the FITMAN results, the partners have published scientific papers presented at the most

appropriate international events that have been identified in the dissemination plan defined at the

beginning of the project.

1. 20th ICE Conference (POLIMI, VTT) – Bergamo, Italy, 23-25/06/2014

2. Internet of Things: IERC Book 2014 (TXT, INNOVALIA) – June 2014

3. PortugalNews Magazine: Article (Consulgal) – Web, July 2014

http://netfutures2015.eu/




4. DEBS 2015: The 9th ACM International Conference On Distributed Event-Based Systems

(FZI) – Oslo, Norway, 29/06-03/07/2014

5. The International Journal of Artificial Intelligence, Neural Networks, and Complex

Problem-Solving Technologies: “Smart places: Multi-agent based smart mobile virtual

community management system” (Lyon2) – Springer, July 2014

6. Jahreskolloquium Kommunikation in der Automation, Conference proceedings (TXT) –

Lemgo, Germany, September 2014

7. eChallenges e-2014 (VTT, POLIMI) – Belfast, North Ireland, 28-31/10/2014

8. eChallenges e-2014: « An Approach to Monitoring the Long-term Impact Creation

Activities in EU Research Projects” (VTT) – Belfast, North Ireland, 28-31/10/2014

9. 11th ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications, AICCSA'

2014: “Infusing Social Data Analytics into Future Internet applications for Manufacturing”

(NTUA) – Doha, Qatar, 10-13/11/2014

10. 11th ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications, AICCSA'

2014: “An Ontology Based Digital Preservation System for Enterprise Collaboration”

(Lyon2) – Doha, Qatar, 01-13/11/2014

11. 5èmes Journées Francophones sur les Ontologies: “Business process implementation using

an ontology-driven Web service selection algorithm” (Lyon 2) - Hammamet, Tunisie, 14-

16/11/2014

12. 5th International Conference on Information Society and Technology (ICIST’2015):

“Service Networks Monitoring for better Quality of Service” (Lyon2) - Kopaonik, Serbia, 8-

11/03/2015

Paper

type1

Title Author(s) Date of

publication

Related

deliverable

/ WP

Event, location

Or Journal title

DOI number

(for papers) *

Conferen

ce paper

Definition and

Deployment of a

Verification and

Validation Package in

Complex Industrial

Environments

Galbusera, C.; Perini,

S.; Tavola, G.; Taisch,

M.; Karvonen, I.;

Jansson, K.; Kettunen,

O.

23-25 June

2014

D2.3/WP2 2014 International

ICE Conference on

Engineering,

Technology and

Innovation (ICE)

23-25 June 2014,

Bergamo - Italy

10.1109/ICE.20

14.6871622


Title and context (event, eChallenges e-2014

1 Type of papers: journal articles, conference papers, book chapters papers, other published papers related to FITMAN

2 Type of papers: journal articles, conference papers, book chapters papers, other published papers related to FITMAN

Paper type2 Title Author(s) Date of

publication

Related

deliverable /

WP

Event,

location

Or Journal

title

DOI number

(for papers) *

Conference

paper

Dynamic Monitoring

for Improving

Worker Safety at the

Workplace: Use

Case from a

Manufacturing Shop

Floor

Aleksandar

Stojadinović

Nenad

Stojanović

Ljiljana

Stojanović

June 2015 WP12 DEBS 2015,

Oslo.

Norway

http://dx.doi.or

g/10.1145/267

5743.2771881

http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2675743.2771881

http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2675743.2771881

http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2675743.2771881






Date / Location 28-31.10.2014 Belfast, Northern lreland



VTT Kim Jansson


objective)

A wave based approach for maximizing EU research project

long term impact creation

Website (if any) http://www.echallenges.org


FITMAN Impact creation

Target audience and


national, local)

International, research, academic, industry

Benefits for FITMAN Large uptake of FITMAN results



of participants…)

400+ Participants







eChallenges e-2014

Date / Location 28-31.10.2014 Belfast, Northern lreland



VTT Kim Jansson


objective)

V&V Assessment Package Instantiation in EU-project “Future

Internet Technologies in Manufacturing”, Implementation in

Ten Industrial Use Cases

Website (if any) http://www.echallenges.org


FITMAN Verification and Validation

Target audience and


national, local)

International, research, academic, industry

Benefits for FITMAN Large uptake of FITMAN results



of participants…)

400+ Participants






Liaisons with research communities, projects 2.4.

External communities and European projects having common interests with the FITMAN domains

(ICT, FI, FoF technologies, methodologies and tools applied to the manufacturing industry, IT

infrastructure and platforms…) have been identified in order to analyse possibilities to co-organize

events or common initiatives. The FITMAN partners are involved in many research and industrial

communities, associations and networks. They have the mission to try to develop dissemination

actions with them and create synergies.

The paragraphs below describe the collaborations initiated by some partners with external EU

clusters, research communities and EU projects.

Digital Business Innovation (DBI) Cluster formerly known as the FInES Cluster. FITMAN had a

presentation at the DBI Cluster meeting (Brussels, 8 Jul. 14) at the session on "Research and Policy

Drivers for Digital Business Innovation" (TXT, NTUA, Innovalia).

IERC cluster The IERC cluster (WG1) is organically integrated into a R&I framework, so its pilots,

demonstrators, best practices are playing an even more important role for bridging the gap between

Research and Market.

FITMAN will therefore contribute to the AC3 in the next period.

FITMAN is also planning to participate in at least one event related to IERC.

FITMAN collaboration with EFFRA

FITMAN is monitoring the actions that could be undertaken to engage more effectively with

EFFRA’s actions.

FITMAN collaborations with FoF projects

- Workshop Smarter Manufacturing: Sustainable Futures in October 2014 in he UK with

contributions from EU FP7 and H2020 projects FITMAN, FLEXINET, MSEE, CAPP-4-SMES and

SMARTER.

- 5th Usage Areas Workshop (at ECFI Brussels, 3 Apr. 14), presentation at the NetSoc workshop –

(Innovalia) : “ETP for communications networks and services”

- During the IoT week workshops (June 2014), FITMAN worked with OSMOSE, TELL ME,

MSEE, IMAGINE and COMVANTAGE

- Workshop on Factories of the Future (Athens, 14/11/2014) organized by FoF projects: ICT Trends

in product and service lifecycle management (NTUA)

FITMAN collaborations with FI-PPP projects

- ECFI 1 (April 2014, Brussels) FITMAN presentations in the session on "FI -Enabling

opportunities for vertical application sectors" and in the session on "Business Models for the use of

FI technologies".

- Presentation at the 25th

European Regional International Telecommunication Society Conference

(June 2014, Brussels). Disruptive innovation in the ICT industries: Challenges for European policy

and businesses. Participation to a panel along with FI-WARE, DG CONNECT and FI-STAR.

Presentation and awareness raising of the FITMAN trials and technologies.




- ECFI II in Munich (September 2014) Organisation of a workshop FIWARE for Manufacturing

and Logistic Enterprises: Expansion of existing trials" with FISPACE, FABULOUS and FINISH.

Presentation and raising awareness of the FITMAN and FI-PPP GE trialling scope through a

workshop presented by Innovalia: Workshop “What FIWARE can do for the IoT”. Cooperation

with other FI-PPP projects as well as with European Commission authorities.

- MULTI-SITE FIWARE EVENT: Connecting cities to the Internet of the Future (October 2014,

Spain). This event was focused on the FIWARE Accelerator Programme. Regarding FITMAN,

Oscar Lazaro (INNOVALIA) participated in the Roundtable about FIWARE potential on Industrial

Processes.

- FIWARE Acceleration Program y 3D Printing – FABulous Accelerator (November 2014) in

Spain. Event organized by FABulous Accelerator and the Basque Agency Entrepreneurial

Development (SPRI). FITMAN was invited as FIWARE technology expert, due to the high

importance of the GEs and SEs of FITMAN for the FABulous entrepreneurs.

- At LibreCon (November 2014) in Spain, Innovalia gave a conference called “Introduction to

FIWARE and FITMAN” in cooperation with FABulous Accelerator, explaining the FIWARE

programme and FIWARE and FITMAN open source technologies. Additionally, Innovalia

participates with FABulous and FINODEX Accelerator in a workshop to explain and encourage the

companies to be part of the FIWARE programme and use FIWARE technologies.

- FITMAN participated to the Concord Meeting (21/11/2014, Brussels, i-Minds) along with

Concord, FINESCE, XIFI/ FI Links, FISPACE, E3I Hub and FI Business.

- Participation of Innovalia to raise awareness on FITMAN trials and technologies at the 5th

FOKUS

FUSECO FORUM: Session “The final phase of the FI-PPP, Status Quo and Quo Vadis?”

- FIWARE Programme & Platform event (November 2014, Spain): FITMAN was invited as

FIWARE for Industry expert, due to the high importance of manufacturing sector in the Basque

Country. The presentation was oriented to “Advanced Manufacturing Applications based on Future

Internet Technologies”, showing the 10 trials of FITMAN, and how successful services and apps

can be developed by using the FI assets.

- NETWORLD2020: The event aimed at collecting feedback from the wide community in order to

input the next version of the H2020 Work programme. Innovalia participated in a Parallel Session

1A: Requirements from Vertical Sectors on 5G Systems – Experiences Gained from

Experimentation in the FI-PPP.

- For the NetFUtures event organised by FIPPP (March 2015) in Brussels, FITMAN had a booth

with the results of FITMAN presented on a video. The FITMAN partners who participated to the

event, were continuously present and had the possibilities to discuss with visitors of the booth round

80 during the two days.

FITMAN social media report in period 2 2.5.

Following the first year’s emerging presence in social media, the FITMAN social media accounts

achieved to establish an active and strong presence, gain visibility and engage a more targeted

audience during the 2nd

year of the FITMAN project.

The following table presents the metrics regarding social media dissemination activities performed

by FITMAN during the two years of the project and a comparison with the metrics of the 1st year,

based on the Social Media strategy described in Section 1.4.

For the calculation of the metrics. the integrated insights and analytics of Twitter, LinkedIn and

Facebook were used, as well as data derived directly from each FITMAN account and a dedicated

Twitter analytics tool, called Tweetchup3.

3 http://tweetchup.com




Activity Achieved until March 31st,

2015 Increase (%)

Y1 Y2 Comments

How many FITMAN entries in the social media

accounts?

852 158% Photos, Videos, News

Items, Discussions, Presentations

How many followers in the different FITMAN social

media accounts?

657 135% Facebook, Twitter,

LinkedIn, YouTube

How many comments posted by followers in the various

FITMAN’s social media accounts?

58 190% LinkedIn, Twitter and

Facebook Discussions

How many times a FITMAN message was reproduced in the Web 2.0 (re-tweets, shares, etc.)?

232 673% Re-tweets, Shares

How many followers do the persons who reproduced a

FITMAN messages have in total?

259.740 7321% No of Followers of the

Followers who have reproduced FITMAN

messages

Number of meaningful comments associated with the

FITMAN social media accounts

34 240%

Number of posts/tweets/messages quoting or linking to FITMAN

231 1440%

Table 3. Social Media Dissemination Metrics

As the table reveals, a significant increase from Year 1 (with the lowest increase noted at 135%) is

recorded in all the social media dissemination metrics. These numbers can be attributed to: (a) the

continuous effort invested on social media to efficiently share FITMAN information and material

over the Internet; (b) the fact that during the 2nd

year, concrete FITMAN results (regarding the

methodologies, the SF-VF-DF platforms, the Specific Enablers and the trials) were publicly

distributed and promoted through FITMAN’s social media accounts, attracting the interest of the

public and especially of top influencers in the FITMAN-related domains; and (c) the increased

visibility of FITMAN in various dissemination events and (d) the continuously expanding

audience outreach of the FIWARE programme during Phase 3. In particular, it needs to be noted

that the huge increase of the total FITMAN outreach (i.e. How many followers do the persons who

reproduced a FITMAN messages have in total?) can be justified by the engagement and interaction

with various domains influencers on FITMAN’s social media accounts.

During the 2nd

year of the project, the FITMAN twitter account has achieved a Klout4 score of 42,

reflecting once more its active and constant presence in the twitter landscape and acknowledging

its expertise on Innovation, Future Internet, Apps and Science and Technology in Europe. The

following figures from Twitter analytics depict the location and interests of the FITMAN followers

in Twitter.

4http://klout.com




Figure 7. Top countries and states for the FITMAN’s followers

Figure 8. Top Interests for the FITMAN’s followers

Concerning the profiles of the followers of FITMAN social media accounts, detailed metrics can be

drawn both from Facebook and from Twitter. The following graph presents the percentages per

gender and per age group of the fans of FITMAN page. Although most followers are men, it can be

noted that there is an increase of women’s presence from 38% in the 1st

year of the project

(presented in the previous deliverable) to 44%. It is also evident that most followers belong in the

age groups 25-34.

Figure 9. Distribution of FITMAN page fans per gender and age group




From April 2014 to March 2015

Figure 10. Distribution of LinkedIn group members per function and seniority

In summary, the successful presence of the FITMAN project in Social Media has been in line with

the strategy followed since the beginning of the project, confirming in the strongest way the initial

belief that publishing the ongoing outcomes and results from the adoption of the FIWARE Generic

Enablers and the FITMAN Specific Enablers to the trials would strengthen the interest of the

European IT and Manufacturing industry, as reflected to FITMAN Social Media channels. With

regard to the final year of the FITMAN project implementation, the consortium plans to adhere to

its effective social media strategy and to further focus on attracting and interacting with influencers

in the social web, culminating the visibility of the project. Updates regarding the FITMAN Specific

Enablers, Platforms, Methodologies, and Trials, as well as the FITMANovation Lab (FML),

together with information about the FIWARE accelerators and their advancements, are among the

main topics which will be communicated through the social media accounts of the project.

Website assessment 2.6.

The results from Google Analytics show the variety of origin from the visitors therefore implicating

that the audience reached has been worldwide. It first reached its core target with 8 European

countries in the first visitors before reaching the USA and Brazil.

Figure 11: FITMAN website analytics




Assessment of the impact of dissemination actions at the end of period 2 2.7.

As explained in D11.1, the simplified ECOGRAI Method has been used to determine the

performance indicators and to assess the impact of dissemination.

Therefore objectives, actions and Performance Indicators (PIs) have been defined.

The table 4 below shows the links between objectives, actions and performance indicators:

This table starts from the results presented in chapter 2.

Objectives

of the

disseminati

on

Dissemination activities Performance

indicators

Target in

year 1

Values in

year 1

Target in

year 2

Values in

Year 2

Enable a

continuous

communicat

ion between

the partners

and the

various

stakeholder

s

Creation of a project

website for online

communication,

regularly updated.

Number of

visits

8000 visits 15000 visit

sessions -

37% new

visits –

Avg 5

pages

visited per

session

20000 visit

sessions

24 862 visit

sessions -

45%new

visits –

Avg 5 pages

visited per

session

Provide

general

information

about the

project

Creation of dissemination

material to be used by the

partners (flyer, poster,

slideshow presentation,

newsletter) updated along

the project

Number of

flyer versions

Number of

posters

Number of

slideshow

versions

Number of

newsletters

2 flyers

versions

2 posters

3 slideshow

presentatio

ns

1 newsletter

2 flyers

versions

2 posters

3 slideshow

presentatio

ns

1 newsletter

2 flyer

versions

2 posters

2 slideshow

presentatio

ns

1 newsletter

2 flyer

versions

11 posters

2 slideshow

presentation

s

1 newsletter

Create

awareness

around

FITMAN

among the

Select events and journals

where FITMAN must be

present

Number of

presentations

on events

10 15 14 18

Figure 12: FITMAN

website analytics –

countries of origin




Objectives

of the

disseminati

on

Dissemination activities Performance

indicators

Target in

year 1

Values in

year 1

Target in

year 2

Values in

Year 2

relevant

targets

(tailored

communicat

ion)

Create

synergies

with FI /

FoF

projects and

communitie

s in the

domain

Identify the projects and

initiatives to contact and

propose joint actions

Number of

joint actions

with other

projects

10 5

10 4

Share

expertise

and

knowledge

and

contribute

to the

transfer of

project

achievemen

ts and use

cases

Publish results through

different channels (present

papers at conferences,

articles in books, project

website library, newsletter,

alerts on social media)

Number of

scientific

papers in

conferences

and

in journals

Number of

webinars

10

10

12

9

10

20

12

2

Meet

stakeholder

s and final

users to

receive

feedbacks

Contribute in face-to-face

meetings, round tables,

workshops

Number of

face to face

meetings

Rountables and

workshops

5 4 9 14

Contribute

and use the

progress

and

scientific

advances in

the FI-PPP

programme

Be active in all FI-PPP

working group and

governance bodies.

Participate in all FI-PPP

public events

Participants in

WG and

governance

bodies

Number of

participations

in FI-PPP

public events

8 “bodies” Steer.

Board

Archi board

Exe. Indust

Board

DWG

EBM WG

PRWG

Stand WG

Total: 8

bodies

3

participatio

ns

8

3

participatio

ns

N/A (see

Section II)

11

particpation

s

Create a

community

of interested

parties

around

FITMAN

interaction

with

external

parties).

Creation of FITMAN

profiles on social network

to publish news and topics

Number of

news published

in social

networks

200 entries

and 200

followers

330 entries

and 280

followers

600 entries

and 500

followers

850 entries

650

followers

Table 4. List of Performance Indicators including targets and values for year 2




FITMAN has mostly reached or exceeded its targets. Being in the second period of the project, a

special effort has been put into face to face encounters such as workshops in order to go into deeper

details of the results and future exploitation rather than simple awareness (which was still ongoing

with FITMAN’s participation to multiple events and active social medias). The other emphasis has

been FIWARE & FI-PPP collaborations in order to still participate despite the cancellation of the

working groups.

Concentrating on those priorities has shifted our focus from working with other FoF project.

Webinars are also in preparation for the next period.

Social media dissemination have also been doing well and will continue to be improved until the

end of the project.




3. Dissemination plan for Period 3

Project results to be disseminated 3.1.

The dissemination plan is related to the results that will be achieved by the end of the project. The

project expected results disseminated since M13 can be classified in two categories:

- the scientific results, presented mostly at the scientific community

- the technological results which are of interest for the technical community but also for the

business community in particular the trials recommendations

The scientific result includes:

- FITMAN Verification & Validation Method (WP2)

- FITMAN Business and Technical Indicators (WP2)

- FITMAN Architecture and Trials (WP1 and WP3)

- FITMAN SMEs Innovation preparation (WP8)

The technological results include:

- FITMAN System for Smart, Digital and Virtual Factory (WP4, WP5 and WP6)

- FITMAN Trials Recommendations to App Ecosystem & Service Delivery, Cloud Hosting &

Interface to Network, Internet of Things and Data Context Management, Privacy-Security-Trust

(WP7)

- FITMAN Trials Guidelines and Best Practices for Phase III Trials (WP7)

- FITMAN Phase III Package and SEs Terms and Conditions Final (WP8)

An information package for Phase III participants is publicly available on the project website

(http://www.fitman-fi.eu/phase-iii-package). People can find in these web pages all the public

results produced during the project and can download consultation documents for each result (after

registration). The information package will be updated by integrating the results accepted by the EC

after the first review and the final review.

A third type of result has started to be disseminated: the exploitation of FITMAN in the future.

FITMAN is working hard to follow the European Commission’s request to find a sustainable entity

to keep hosting and disseminating the results of the project.

The FITMANovation Lab (FML) concept has been conceived with that idea: an exploitation

instrument that can be used to sustain the FITMAN project activities and results well beyond the

end of the FIWARE Programme, while offering, during the FI-PPP, a set of software and support

services to the Phase III accelerators and their sub-grantees that will take part in the Programme.

While FITMAN is working on a business plan, INTEROP-VLab has offered to host the FML as

part of its Non-Profit International Association and is currently working on the specifics to include

the FITMAN Partners and the possible development and commercialisation of the FML inside

INTEROP-VLab.

Targets for M30

Following the extension of the projects, some new targets have been defined for M30. Period 3 is

only 6 Months and includes the summer period hence the less ambitious objectives.

Objectives

of the

disseminat

Dissemination

activities

Performance

indicators

Target in

Period 1

Values in

Period 1

Target in

Period 2

Values in

Period 2

Target in

Period 3

http://www.fitman-fi.eu/phase-iii-package




ion

Enable a

continuous

communica

tion

between the

partners

and the

various

stakeholder

s

Creation of a

project website for

online

communication,

regularly updated.

Number of

visits

8000 visits 15000 visit

sessions -

37% new

visits –

Avg 5 pages

visited per

session

20000

visit

sessions

24 862

visit

sessions -

45%new

visits -

Avg 5

pages

visited per

session

30000 visit

sessions

Provide

general

information

about the

project

Creation of

dissemination

material to be used

by the partners

(flyer, poster,

slideshow

presentation,

newsletter) updated

along the project

Number of

flyer versions

Number of

posters

Number of

slideshow

versions

Number of

newsletters

2 flyers

versions

2 posters

3

slideshow

presentatio

ns

1

newsletter

2 flyers

versions

2 posters

3 slideshow

presentation

s

1 newsletter

2 flyer

versions

2 posters

2

slideshow

presentatio

ns

1

newsletter

2 flyer

versions

11 posters

2

slideshow

presentatio

ns

1

newsletter

1 flyer

version

1

newsletter

Create

awareness

around

FITMAN

among the

relevant

targets

(tailored

communica

tion)

Select events and

journals where

FITMAN must be

present

Number of

presentations

on events

10 15 14 18 6

Create

synergies

with FI /

FoF

projects

and

communitie

s in the

domain

Identify the

projects and

initiatives to

contact and

propose joint

actions

Number of joint

actions with

other projects

10 5

10 4 2

Share

expertise

and

knowledge

and

contribute

to the

transfer of

project

achievemen

ts and use

cases

Publish results

through different

channels (present

papers at

conferences,

articles in books,

project website

library, newsletter,

alerts on social

media)

Number of

scientific

papers in

conferences and

in journals

Number of

webinars

10

10

12

9

10

20

12

1

6

5

Meet

stakeholder

s and final

users to

receive

feedbacks

Contribute in face-

to-face meetings,

round tables,

workshops

Number of face

to face

meetings

Rountables and

workshops

5 4 9 14 5

Contribute

and use the

progress

and

Be active in all FI-

PPP working group

and governance

bodies.

Participants in

WG and

governance

bodies

8 “bodies” Steer. Board

Archi board

Exe. Indust

Board

8

N/A (see

Section II)




scientific

advances in

the FI-PPP

programme

Participate in all

FI-PPP public

events

Number of

participations

in FI-PPP

public events

DWG

EBM WG

PRWG

Stand WG

Total: 8

bodies

3

participation

s

3

participati

ons

11

particpatio

ns

3

Create a

community

of

interested

parties

around

FITMAN

interaction

with

external

parties).

Creation of

FITMAN profiles

on social network

to publish news and

topics

Number of

news published

in social

networks

200

entries and

200

followers

330 entries

and 280

followers

600

entries and

500

followers

850 entries

650

followers

1200

entries and

1000

followers

Table 5. List of Performance Indicators and targets for year 3

Dissemination activities planned for M25-M30 3.2.

3..2.1. FITMAN planned events M25-M30

• ECFI, 5th

Usage Areas Workshop (ATOS, INNO / ENG) – Brussels, Belgium, 03/04/2015

• Manufacturing & Materials Engineering Faculty Research Centre Internal Conference (K.

Popplewell) – Coventry, UK, 11/04/2015

• ICT Group meeting @Portuguese Technological Platform for Construction: (CONSULGAL)

– Lisbon, Portugal, 13/04/2015

• Manufacturing Performance Days 2015: FITMAN flyers distributed (VTT) – Tampere,

Finland, 08-10/06/2015

• INTEROP-VLab General Assembly: FML Presentation (I-VLab) – Brussels, Belgium,

10/06/2015

• Infoday on Future Internet and FIWARE (CONSULGAL, PORTUGAL TELECOM),

Lisbon, Portugal, 02/07/2015

• SIDO: FITMAN booth trial TRW (INNOVALIA, LYON 2) – Lyon, France, 7-8/04/2015

• CONTROL Fair: Stand (INNO) – Stuttgart, Germany, 05-08/05/2015

• IWEI 2015 - "New challenges for Enterprise Interoperability: the sensing enterprise“ (TXT,

INNO) – Nîmes, France, 26-28/05/2015

• Volkswagen - Knowledge exchange regarding FITMAN to different VW departments and

groups working on similar topics (Fraunhofer IPK / VW AG) – Wolfsburg, Germany,

16/06/2015

• How SMEs can benefit from FITMAN technologies (AIDIMA, UPVLC) – Spain, September

2015

• FITMAN Webinars on SEs and Methodologies (IT Inno, All SEs and methodologies

owners)




3..2.2. FITMAN publications planned for M25-M30

• 22nd CIRP conference on Life Cycle Engineering (POLIMI) – Sydney, Australia, 7-

9/04/2015

• IST-Africa: "Assessing benefits and impact creation in IST research projects“ (VTT,

POLIMI, NTUA) – Lilongwe, Malawi, 05-08/05/2015

• IWEI 2015: FITMAN on performance indicators of Virtual Factory trials (UB1) – Nîmes,

France, 25-27/05/2015

• IWEI 2015: Opportunity Analysis for Enterprise Collaboration between Network of SMEs

(Lyon2) – Nîmes, France, 25-27/05/2015

• ICE 2015: Paper "Forecasting Impact of Technology Developed in R&D projects: the

FITMAN Approach“ (VTT, IT-Innovation) – Belfast, North Ireland, 22-24/06/2015

• ICE 2015: Proceedings "Model-based control for collaborative Innovation Projects concept

and first case study (DITF, MR) – Belfast, North Ireland, 22-24/06/2015

• DEBS '15: 9th ACM International proceedings (FZI) – Oslo, Norway, 06/2015

• IERC Book 2015 (INNOVALIA, TXT, ENG, ATOS) – June 2015

• IIIE Conference 2015, proceedings (UPVLC) – Aveiro, Portugal, 6-8/07/2015

• PLM 2015 : 12th International Conference on Product Lifecycle Management: “Big Data

Perspective with Ontological Modeling for the Traceability of Cultural Heritage” (Lyon2) –

Doha, Quatar, 19-21/10/2015




SECTION II. FI-PPP Programme Collaborations

FITMAN was involved in the FI-PPP governance bodies and working groups and had appointed

representatives in each working groups namely:

- Steering Board (SB): S. Gusmeroli (TXT#1); O. Lazaro (INNOVALIA#10)

- Architectural Board (AB): M. Isaja (ENG#4), M. Sesana (TXT#1)

- Executive Industry Board (EIB): S. Gusmeroli (TXT#1)

- Standards Working Group (SWG): J. Hitado (ATOS#8)

- Exploitation & Business Modeling (EBM): E. Vega (ATOS#8)

- Policy & Regulation Working Group (PRWG): G. Doumeingts, C. Lieu (I-VLab#2), D. Rotondi

(TXT#1)

- Communication and Dissemination Working Group (DWG): G. Doumeingts, C. Lieu (I-VLab#2)

The role of this FI-PPP governance organization was to ensure the consistency and a common

strategy between all the FI-PPP projects acting during phase 2.

However, following the restructuration of the FI-PPP activities in Phase 3, a working group

including the 16 accelerators, specialized task forces and Organizing Committee, has been created

to coordinate the future FI-PPP activities. Therefore the working groups have been cancelled. Their

last activities are mentioned below.

1. FITMAN in FI-PPP Governance bodies and working groups

Steering Board (SB): 1.1.

SB meetings have mostly addressed the organisation of ECFI II in Munich and the launch of Phase

III acceleration projects. FITMAN contributions to SB discussion have been always timely and to

the point, appreciated by all the SB members. FITMAN also proposed a new candidate for the SB

Chairmanship and Stefano de Panfilis (Engineering, FITMAN beneficiary) was elected.

3 April 2014: physical meeting in Brussels – FITMAN representatives: Sergio Gusmeroli from

TXT; Oscar Lazaro from INNOVALIA (just first day)

6 May 2014: phone meeting – FITMAN representative: Oscar Lazaro from INNOVALIA

5 June 2014: physical meeting in Helsinki – FITMAN representative: Sergio Gusmeroli from TXT

15 July 2014: phone meeting - FITMAN representatives: Sergio Gusmeroli from TXT; Oscar

Lazaro from INNOVALIA

16 September 2014: physical meeting in Munich - FITMAN representative: Sergio Gusmeroli from

TXT

Architecture Board (AB): 1.2.

The Architecture Board is the FI-PPP program's governance body responsible for driving the design

and development of the FIWARE Core Platform. The AB is composed by high-profile technical

representatives from all the FI-PPP projects. In particular, the role of Use Case Projects (UCP)

within the AB is to actively contribute their requirements and results to a continuous evolution




process. From its very start, the FITMAN project was consistently represented in the AB by two

consortium members - TXT and ENG. During this period of time, spanning from April 2013 to July

2014, the AB held a total of 12 meetings, both virtual and face-to-face, on a monthly schedule.

Initially, the main focus of the discussion was to ensure a proper alignment of the new UCP's

reference architecture with the Core Platform's evolving specifications. Once this prerequisite goal

was achieved, two more discussion topics were introduced: defining a set of program-level Key

Performance Indicators (KPIs) for the assessment of FIWARE impact, and preparing the ground for

Phase III - i.e., ensuring that SMEs and developers joining the program will be able to fully exploit

Phase II results.

Exploitation and Business Modeling (EBM): 1.3.

ATOS has contributed to the organization of a meeting between FITMAN core consortium and the

FiCore and FIPPP representatives, organized on 5 September 2014 in Brussels. The main purpose

of this meeting was to align the FITMAN sustainability vehicle with FiCore and FI-PPP

exploitation strategy.

Policy, Regulation and Governance Working Group (PRG WG) 1.4.

I-VLab has contributed to the organisation of the “Data Protection and Privacy”, organised at the

1st ECFI in Brussels on 2 April 2014

Dissemination Working Group (DWG) 1.5.

I-VLab has contributed in the activities defined by the CONCORD project and the Phase 2 projects,

until June 2014.

The FIWARE Press Office has now taken over those activities.

Despite the cancellation of the working groups, FITMAN has continued to contribute in FI-PPP

common action, as it is shown in 2.4. IT will also continue in the next period by continuing to

organise joint actions with other projects or by participating in the FIPPP newsletter.

As described in the dissemination plan for Period 3, FITMAN is also planning to create the

FITMANovation Lab to pursue the FI-PPP activities.




Conclusion

The dissemination activities during the second year of FITMAN were performed in coherence with

the objectives and strategy defined at the beginning of project, the main goal being that the project

results are largely promoted especially towards the manufacturing industry.

A total of 30 events have been achieved; mainly presentations and workshops with amongst them

renown ones such as ICE, ECFI, the IoT week, or the World Manufacturing Forum.

12 publications appeared with most notably proceedings for the ICE Conference, the 11th

ACS/IEEE, ECFI 1 and ECFI2 but also papers for the International journal Intelligence Artificial.

There has been a strong outreach through social media with a total of 657 followers and 852 entries

throughout the various social media accounts.

Despite the cancellation of the FIPPP working groups, FITMAN has kept a high participation to

FIWARE and FI-PPP related events (11 events).

These results allowed FITMAN to achieve the objectives planned in D11.1 and created a strong

awareness around the project.

For the final period, FITMAN needs to maintain its efforts in terms of events and publications to

disseminate the last results. It was requested that the trials organize workshops at trial’s sites in

order to show the excellent results in the trial’s environment.

An important goal will also be the creation of the FITMANovationLab in order to continue the

dissemination of the project after its ending. Actions and services are already planned:

• Short-term services (FITMAN Project Duration)

• Phase III accelerators / startups support.

• Brokering of manufacturing assets.

• Phase III Platforms as a Service provision

• Medium-term additional services (FI-PPP Programme Duration)

• European hub – «FI for manufacturing»

• Digital business process ideation & innovation services.

• Certification Programme.

• Long-term additional services (Beyond FI-PPP)

• Business Process Digitalization.

• Legacy systems Integration

• FIWARE Business Process Delivery

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