Operational goals

The Smart-ECO project stretches over 30 months, which is the maximum allowed duration for an SSA. The reasons for this maximum project duration is twofold:

• It is essential to allow enough time after project initiation to establish the stakeholder group and to conduct workshops with the group so that the stakeholder perspective can be integrated into the work of WP2
• The aim of the project is to add value to ongoing research projects. To allow this, Smart-ECO needs to link to these projects at a point in time where these projects have matured sufficiently concerning their approaches and concerning at least preliminary results.

The project has been organised into 7 work packages, one work package handles the project management and administrational aspects while the other six work packages are designed to focus on achieving the 3 stated operational objectives. The Smart-ECO work packages are as follows:

WP1 Project Management
WP2 Vision and Requirements
WP3 Innovation
WP4 Evaluation
WP5 Stakeholders
WP6 Dissemination
WP7 Exploitation

WP2 is focussed on achieving Objective 1. WP3 and WP4 focus on Objective 2 and WP6 and WP7 focus on Objective 3. WP5 supports the work needed to achieve the three objectives by the direct link to the Stakeholders.

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