R4eGov

R4eGov is a research project partly funded under the European Commission's Framework 6 Programme. The project started in March 2006, and it will last until April 2009.

The project at a glance
Type: FP6 Integrated Project
Duration: 36 months
Start date: 1st March 2006
Budget: 11.4 Million Euros
Total European Union funding: 7.4 Million Euros

R4eGov Consortium
Project Coordination
One NorthEast
One NorthEast is the Regional Development Agency for North East England. One NorthEast is in charge of the administrative coordination of the project.

SAP Labs
SAP is in charge of the technical coordination of the project.

Technical Partners
- The Institute for Information Systems
- Infocert
- Karobas
- Metadat
- Thales Group
- Unisys
- Webforce
- Eurécom
- University of Leeds
- Max Planck Society
- University of Hamburg
- University of Koblenz

Public Bodies
- Bundesgerichtshof
- The Austrian Chancellery (BKA)
- Eurojust
- Fedict
- Greffe du tribunal de Commerce de Paris
- Europol

Project Summary
Converting Vision into Results
R4eGov has the vision and practical aim to address one of Europe’s major challenges: developing a workable framework for pan-European interoperability between public administrations and agencies which delivers trusted, secure, and protected data exchanges.

Meeting Real Needs
There is now a growing urgency to develop the basis for pan-European eGovernment Services. Europe’s increasingly mobile citizens demand efficient and user-centric cross-border services.
At the policy level, the EC’s i2010 programme and the Lisbon Agenda have set clear objectives for the adoption of eGovernment services by the end of this decade.
Of particular importance, by the end of 2009, all member states will have introduced the EU Services Directive. This will play a crucial role in completing the Single Market, opening up the EU to border-free access to services, and, importantly, to services delivered electronically.
This e-services challenge, enshrined in Article 8, will transform the power and reach of eGovernment pan-European services for citizens and member states’ administrations.

Solutions at Scale
R4eGov builds on the evidence of experience and pilot actions, and validates solutions with transferable applications at European scale.
It draws on special case work in interoperability between two EU agencies, Europol and Eurojust, as well as the generic lessons from the Federal Chancellery in Austria, one of Europe’s eGovernment champions.
User-centricity and Alliances with Users are a key focus of the project, engaging with stakeholders in public-sectors such as police, consular work, universities, justice, and health.
Integration of approach means addressing not just the technical requirements of business processes, but the reality of change management in respect of national cultures, traditions, legal frameworks, and administrative practices.

Capacity Building for Results which Endure
Because the task of defining templates for European-wide interoperability brings together complex organisational, semantic, and technical issues, R4eGov also consults widely with other projects and programmes, presenting findings and proposals across the academic, business, and political spectrum in the EU and beyond.
The project also takes part in major national and EU conferences, including Presidency events, as part of the necessary peer-group learning to secure results with enduring application, accessibility and relevance to today’s and tomorrow’s agenda.

User Groups
An important dimension of the project is engaging with the needs and expectations of users. A number of user groups and networks have been consulted so that real-world practical issues can be understood, where technology is one of the overall factors of successful change management in processes involving cross-border interoperability and security.
Additionally, the project is setting up its own User Groups, which will become active in June 2008.

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