Infrastructure and Collaborative Technologies: The Engineering Experience

Summary form only given. The presentation summarises the experiences done inside Engineering Ingegneria Informatica SpA Research Lab in the infrastructure and collaborative technologies domain. This experiences is based on the participation (and often coordination) of many R&D Projects, funded by European Commission. These are relevant the possibility to use collaborative technologies in cultural heritage and digital content domains, as well as the building up of new research infrastructure, using GRID technologies. After a preliminary introduction on the Engineering Ingegneria Informatica R&D Lab description, the presentation will describe in details some important European Projects leaded by Engineering Company in the field. These will be BRICKS (www.brickscommunitv.org); CALLAS (www.callas-newmedia.eu); PHAROS, Diligent and ETICS2, Grifin and ERINA. These projects will consider the research infrastructure as an critical success factor to enable European Research to build the future Knowledge Society. In the presentation a vision for the technology based innovation inside private company is also presented together with the analysis on how in Engineering we lead the process to transfer technology from the research into real life applications.