WP 1 Requirements and Trend Screening      

  WP 1 Requirements and Trend Screening
From the beginning of the project, WP1's main goals and tasks have been the definition of the state of the art, the specification and validation of the requirements on VAN project and the self-evaluation of the project execution.

The main target of Work Package 1 at the end of the project has been to perform a final evaluation of VAN results with respect to the state of the art and the original project goals. The progress and outcomes of the project have been assessed in order to evaluate the technical and non-technical quality and achievements of VAN project.

  Work package 1   Requeriments and Trend screening
Task 1.1 State of the art
Task 1.2 Requeriments and unresolved issues of automation
Task 1.3 Trend screening and self-evaluation


  Delivery date   Deliverable
Nov, 2005 State of the Art and Trends in safety, security, wireless technologies and real-time properties (1st version)
Jan, 2006 Description of Requirements and Technological roadmap (1st version)
Jan, 2006 Trend Screening report on VAN relevant technologies (1st version)
Jan, 2006 Socio-economic ex-ante assessment report
Feb, 2006 Self-evaluation criteria and Technical targets (1st version)
May, 2006 Key applications and benchmarking
Jul, 2006 State of the Art and Trends in safety, security, wireless technologies and real-time properties (2nd version)
Aug, 2006 Update of Requirements and Technological roadmap
Aug, 2006 Trend Screening report on VAN relevant technologies (2nd version)
Aug, 2006 Self-evaluation criteria and Technical targets (2nd version)
Aug, 2006 Socio-economic in-itinere assessment report
Jul, 2007 State of the Art and Trends in Safety, Security, Wireles Technologies and Real-Time (3rd version)
Aug, 2008 Trend Screening report on VAN relevant technologies
May, 2009 Final Evaluation and Conclusions
May, 2009 Ex-post Social Impact Assessment


Socio-economic impact
WP1 includes a Social Impact Evaluation that reinforces the inclusion of society as an important stakeholder of VAN.

The Social Impact Evaluation (SIE) aims at applying a methodology intended to shape VAN research in order to improve its Social Impact –reinforcing positive impacts and avoiding the negative ones. The search for a classification of different kinds of impacts has led to consider five domains: environmental issues, societal issues, innovation system, employment, strategic economic issues. The study has been carried out through three stages: an ex-ante, an in-itinere and an ex-post assessment. As a result of the work carried out, some possible social impacts of the project have been identified, the majority of them were beneficial and were concentrated in the environmental and innovations system domain.

This methodology, which has required the participation of technological partners and end-users, has been based on CARTIF experience in socio-economic impact assessment of RTD&I projects. This experience is also supported by a research co-operation project between CARTIF and the University of Valladolid (Sociology and Applied Economics Departments).

For more information, please refer to
D01.3-6
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Social Impact Evaluation Methodology