The IANIS⁺ Work programme

The work programme comprises 5 main Action Lines:

• AL 4.1.- Annual Conferences and Policy Seminars
  IANIS⁺ Annual Conferences provide a focal point in each year for all members of the network. IANIS⁺ will organize two major annual conferences (in June 2005 - already concluded and in June 2006) of a significant scale and with a broad scope.
  Policy seminars (8 in total) will be organized in close cooperation with Commission services to provide a platform for debatee and discussion on policy issues of relevance to the regions and the Commission.
• AL 4.2.- Regional Good Practice Research & Peer Reviews
  IANIS⁺ will identify, research, evaluate, and promote good regional practices with a view to reinforcing innovation in the mainstream operational programmes of the structural Funds.Inforamtion will be gathered from a variety of sources and used to develop a number of short case study reports focusing on specific regional operations.
  In this action line, IANIS⁺ builds on the Study Visits experience of IANIS but tie these closely with research and dissemination of good practice.
  The Peer Reviews scheme offers an important opportunity for memeber regions to undertake a visit to a peer region and to study RIAP and related ICT projects in some depth.
• AL 4.3.- Intensive Course in Regional Development
  Regions often have difficulty in recruiting and retaining people with adequate knowledge to and experience to work as a part of their information and knowledge- based society initiatives. Therefore each region will have the opportunity to send one person per region on a one-week intensive training programme that will cover a range of themes relevant to regional IS development including technological issues, ICT applications domains, etc...
• AL 4.4.- Thematic Work Groups
  The following six thematic work groups were chosen, taking into account the distribution of ICT projects in the RIAPs and the interest of regions:
  eGovernment (possibly including eDemocracy), eLearning, Infrastructure (possibly including eInclusion & Accessibility), eContent (possibly including Culture & Identity),eHealth and eBusiness.
  In this way, IANIS⁺ offers regions an amlost unique opportunity to belong to and to partcipate in six differing Europe- wide inter-regional networks. Regional experts will be expected to partcipate actively in the work of the work group contributing to the on-line forum as well as contributing to the potencial for inter-regional collaboration through joint project developments.
• AL 4.5. Dissemination Activities
  Action Line 5 of the IANIS⁺ work programme concerns activities which willl be achieved through two main channels: a regular monthly newsletter and the web site. Memeber are asked to contribute regularly to both.
  Most of the financial effort will be committed to updating and improving the funcionality and ease-of-use of the existing web site.