Project launches

As the project nears completion a series of dissemination workshops are taking place across partner countries. For more information on forthcoming events please contact your nearest national grouping in Ireland, Italy or UK.

Additionally the pan-European pre-production launch workshop is being held in Madrid on 26-27 April 1999.

Video

The UK partners have recently been "caught on camera" in a video produced by the regional Innovation Relay Centre. This highlights opportunities for involvement in the EC’s Fifth Framework Programme and has used the PROMISE project as an example for illustrating project planning, development and impact. KAJ-Isis, Berkshire China, Leslie Group and Chalice International are all included in this production which has been supplemented by a series of events, throughout the Midlands, during March and April.

Presentations

The most recent transnational project presentation took place in London on 24-25 March at an international workshop entitled Strategies for the screening, commercialisation and fast-tracking of new product development. This event focused on ways that you can define the interface between the new product development programme and teams within your organisation, developing a consistent planning and program evaluation system, managing risk and understanding the key strategic concepts which should be recognised by the organisation. Amongst several international speakers the PROMISE developments were presented by the Swedish partner, SBDS/Strator and covered:

The PROMISE partnership were invited to present developments and findings to date at the 3^rd European Access conference, which took place in London on 19-20 October 1998. Both Denis Kearney of AMT Ireland and Ardawan Lalui of Vitalograph attended to present a paper, Project management of product innovation – implementation of project management techniques within the PROMISE project, which outlined the PROMISE approach and which specifically, reviewed the experiences of the two Irish end-users.

Chalice and KAJ jointly covered various aspects of the PROMISE project at the APPLICA event which took place in Lille, France from 16-17 November 1998. This offered the opportunity to make short, one-off presentations to small group participants.

Looking forward

The partners are currently exploring potential for on-going developments related to the PROMISE findings under the newly launched EC Fifth Framework Programme.