The application of standards in the shipbuilding sector is crucial for the development of European innovative business practices and services. It will enable the creation of a European Shipbuilding Area and enhance vertical and horizontal cooperation given to the competitive environment with the Far East.
Euromind envisages to support the set-up of a pan-European coordination of National initiatives on standards in order to enable the exchange of best practices in data transmission and e- communication within the shipbuilding supply chain.

Coordination activities comprise the identification of most promising open standards and facilitation of their use in Best Practice studies, in horizontal integration (cooperating shipyards) and vertical integration (in the supply chain).

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Activities

EUROMIND will :

• identify best practises in shipbuilding supply chain collaboration with regard to digital information exchange.
  
  
• analyse innovative shipbuilding supply chain collaboration business solutions.
  
  
• compile a EUROMIND Handbook for Standards-based Shipbuilding Supply Chain Collaboration and a corresponding training course.

Findings are exchanged in intensive workshops, with focus on a common strategic agenda for the use of standards.
A handbook and an open course on Standards-based Shipbuilding Supply Chain Collaboration are compiled and disseminated to improve business process design in the shipbuilding sector.

15 partners from 10 countries (including Southern European countries Spain and Portugal) are cooperating in this Coordination Action: experienced academics, consultants and business associations representing Industrial User Groups of yards and suppliers.

Duration

The project will be running until 31 August 2008.