Objectives

The PROMIS project is based on software that works with internet technology. It is developed for the purpose of giving support to the management of an integrated system of quality, health and environment. It will not only deliver knowledge and information to help the decision-making process and tasks delegation, but it will also provide necessary instruments (for example the integrated components of a software application) and working tools.

The objective of the project is clearly focused on SMEs and industrial services regarding market demand. The project is market-oriented because the partners of the PROMIS consortium are also SMEs and intend to develop a market strategy in the European Union. In each member country a public organisation has been chosen for external collaboration, as well as pilot users to define the service of PROMIS and to allow demonstrations and validation of the software.

The project was terminated 2 months ahead of schedule at an ad-hoc review held in Brussels on July 26th 2001.

Related Information

Visit PROMIS official website for further information.

Objectives

CAEMIS Project made possible the construction of a software (LMS-U1) product-service that provides an integrated system for the environmental management of a company. It is based on an eight-module architecture for the customer and a central server that acts as a relational database. The result of the application can be reflected by means of fulfilment of legislative requirements, the reduction of environmental and economic costs in the company, a decrease in risk factors concerning the workers health and the environment, and an improvement in the planning strategies for the environmental management. The project has a coordinator (the Austrian company LMS), three technological intermediaries (RENDAN, in Denmark; University of Cork, in Ireland and Randa Group, Spain), and three final industrial users (the Danish railroad company, DSB; the Irish dairy company, Dairygold; and the Spanish pharmaceutical company, J.Uriach Laboratorios). As well, Dr. Ruth Hillary from Imperial College of London and Dr. Manfred Marsmann of Bayer are acting as the expert supervisors of the project.

Objectives

The main objective of this project is to extend the dissemination of the CAEMIS project to all interested parties (industry, administration, etc) in EU member states, informing by means of diverse diffusion tools such as web sites, demonstration CD-ROMs, brochures and seminars.

The web site allows updated data about the project and LMS-U1 software to be accessed by a world-wide audience. Futhermore, the web page contains links with direct access to the web sites of the CAEMIS / CAEMIS-NETS partnership members, final industrial users, pages about EMAS and ISO 14001, and others.

The CD-ROM is based on multimedia technology and contains, among other things, images and brief video-clips about the software applications by industrial users.

Brochures containing text and photos regarding the web site and CD-ROM, as well as descriptions of the partners and a summary of CAEMIS project have been published. Partners participated together with environmental management systems experts and representatives of the organising country authorities and of the European Commission in diffusion seminars.

Objectives

The purpose of the project is to study the viability of a web site with an online Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) service for small and medium-size enterprises (SME). The web site will also contain information about LCA in general, legislation, training, etc., and will address consultancies as intermediaries between experts and companies.

The main objectives of the project are:

to analyse the availability and structure of public and private information for conducting LCA in different EU countries;
to identify the best form of database management, considering new forms of public/private collaborations;
to study the technical and economic viability of the web site to conduct LCA in SMEs; and
to implement a prototype for testing the web site through a sample of SMEs.

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Further information:

Visit eLCA official website