FIspace: Future Internet Business Collaboration Networks in Agri-Food, Transport and Logistics

Project information
Insights gained in FI-PPP Phase 1 emphasize the need for novel ICT solutions that allow radical improvements for collaboration in business networks. Primary sectors demanding such solutions are Agri-Food and Transport & Logistics industries: several actors (incl. enterprises, authorities, service providers) need to exchange information & communicate across org. borders to conduct business. Current ICT solutions limit this to mostly manual efforts, therewith tremendously hampering business efficiency, effectiveness & sustainability. Leveraging on outcomes of two complementary Phase 1 use case projects (FInest & SmartAgriFood), aim of FIspace is to pioneer towards fundamental changes on how collaborative business networks will work in future. FIspace will develop a multi-domain Business Collaboration Space (short: FIspace) that employs FI technologies for enabling seamless collaboration in open, crossorganizational business networks, establish eight working Experimentation Sites in Europe where Pilot Applications are tested in Early Trials for Agri-Food, Transport & Logistics and prepare for industrial uptake by engaging with players & associations from relevant industry sectors and IT industry.FIspace will extensively utilize GEs and Development Kit from FI-PPP Core Platform, validating its capabilities, openness & versatility for realizing future B2B collaboration solutions. FIspace will be open; other FI-PPP projects and external users & solution providers can easily use, test & exploit it. It supports a future business model where external solution providers, esp. SMEs, can provide additional, novel, and disruptive solutions into the FIspace ecosystem. With this, FIspace will prepare for establishment of a future standard for cross-organizational business collaboration leapfrogging pressing challenges arising in industry, exploit FI technologies developed in FI PPP, and lay foundation for industrial uptake & innovation enablement planned for FI-PPP Phase 3.
Project partners: 
STICHTING DIENST LANDBOUWKUNDIG ONDERZOEK Netherlands
IMINDS Belgium
EUROPEAN NETWORK OF LIVING LABS Belgium
KUEHNE + NAGEL MANAGEMENT AG Switzerland
CentMa GmbH Germany
FRAUNHOFER GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG EV Germany
SIMULATIONSDIENSTLEISTUNGSZENTRUM GmbH Germany
KURATORIUM FUER TECHNIK UND BAUWESEN IN DER LANDWIRTSCHAFT E.V. Germany
UNIVERSITAET DUISBURG-ESSEN Germany
European EPC Competence Center GmbH Germany
SNOOPMEDIA GMBH Germany
GS 1 GERMANY GMBH Germany
EURO POOL SYSTEM INTERNATIONAL DEUTSCHLAND GMBH Germany
INSTITUT FÜR ANGEWANDTE SYSTEMTECHNIK BREMEN GMBH Germany
UNIVERSIDAD POLITECNICA DE MADRID Spain
ATOS SPAIN SA Spain
CBT COMUNICACION & MULTIMEDIA, S.L. Spain
CIT DEVELOPMENT S.L. Spain
SUPERMERCATS PUJOL S.L. Spain
ETHNIKO KAI KAPODISTRIAKO PANEPISTIMIO ATHINON Greece
MOBICS LTD Greece
INNOVEITORS (INNOVATORS) EFARMOGES YPSILIS TECHNOLOGIAS AE Greece
ORGANISMOS PLIROMON KE ELEGHOU KINOTIKON ENISHYSEON PROSANATOLISMOU Greece
IBM ISRAEL - SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY LTD Israel
FINCONS S.P.A. Italy
STICHTING FLORICODE Netherlands
MIELOO & ALEXANDER BV Netherlands
KVERNELAND GROUP MECHATRONICS BV Netherlands
WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY Netherlands
LIMETRI VB Netherlands
Q-RAY BV Netherlands
NORSK MARINTEKNISK FORSKNINGSINSTITUTT AS Norway
NORTH SEA CONTAINER LINE AS Norway
BO - MO SVETOVALNO PODJETJE D.O.O. Slovenia
KOCSISTEM BILGI VE ILETISIM HIZMETLERI A.S. Turkey
ARCELIK A.S. Turkey
ASTON UNIVERSITY United Kingdom
X/OPEN COMPANY LIMITED United Kingdom
ATOS IT SOLUTIONS AND SERVICES SRO Slovakia
Project dates: 
April 2013 to September 2015
Contact
Contact project
Contact person: 
Harald Sundmaeker
Contact organisation: 
STICHTING DIENST LANDBOUWKUNDIG ONDERZOEK Netherlands
Funding
Funding agency: 
European Commission - Seventh Framework Programme
Grant: 
k€13499
Total budget: 
k€20140