Common use of Workshop Follow-up and Conclusions Clause in Contracts

Workshop Follow-up and Conclusions. The workshop proved interesting and new collaboration possibilities emerged as an end result. Participants expressed their interest in using such a platform, mostly as web services to apply in their work, but also as providers of services themselves. As a matter of fact, some industrials communicated their intention to consider the sharing of some of their tools and data, both for the project and for a wider audience. This had to be followed up at a later stage as participants had to define their strategy internally, at their organisations. In this regard, we can also say that this 1st users’ workshop has helped open a communication channel with the community. One of the challenges has been attracting the industrial audience, which is not a simple task for R&D projects. The fact of combining researchers and industry within PANACEA’s Consortium itself has certainly been a plus to achieve so. Another positive end result of this 1st event is that PANACEA has already touched base with the community and the open communication channel can be further exploited. This will be very helpful when organising next events and, in particular, when pointing towards what to offer to the user. Lists of contacts have been compiled and updated for future events, procedures have been put into place and discussions are already taking place to plan well in advance a final workshop. Needless to say that all this information exchange and discussions have also represented a very valuable contribution for the business model and exploitation plan to be put into place. A final thought goes to the legal aspects discussed during the workshop. Even if it is a topic already known by most of the participants, describing the complexity and the need for such a task has helped increase awareness.