The general objective of this sub-project is to correlate the different areas of research within the other four SPs, to provide them with a common research framework and cater for common activities such as dissemination, exploitation, management, interface to users needs and wants, legal and organisational aspects, standardisation and policy issues.

SP 5 gathers a set of activities that are common for all four sub-projects 1-4.

This includes the Consortium Management, innovation-related activities (dissemination, exploitation, legal and organisational issues, user acceptance, gender issues), training activities, a common System Architecture and Evaluation framework and standards and policy measures, recommendations. These activities are rather heterogeneous and have been gathered together for organisational rather than technical reasons and, thus, each has its own specific objectives.