NESSI SRA - Overview

Introduction
	The Strategic Research Agenda (SRA) is the tool through which a European Technology Platform details its strategy, its challenges and how it intends to meet them. The role of the SRA is to translate the NESSI vision into action and to guide NESSI’s implementations during the entire lifetime of NESSI.

Organisation

The SRA is coordinated by the SRA Committee, which was formed by NESSI’s Steering Committee. The Committee’s mission is to define and update the NESSI SRA. Like all NESSI Committees, it is an extension of the Steering Committee and in particular is open only to NESSI partners.

The specific missions of the SRA Committee are:

to be the guardian of the integrity of NESSI within the scope of the SRA
to define the NESSI skeleton and principles
to redact and maintain the SRA based on the input from the NESSI Working Groups
to trigger the creation of horizontal and vertical NESSI Working Groups
to implement SRA-related communication

Contributions to the SRA
	As further detailed in the introductory page to Working Groups, the content of the SRA is elaborated by both the partners and members of NESSI. NESSI Working Groups constitute the core elements which contribute to the content of the SRA. These NESSI Working Groups are open to all members and also link to supporting European Projects such as NESSI-Soft, NESSI-Grid, ESFORS etc.

Publications of the SRA

The SRA is organised in three volumes, from the scope of a service economy to a strategy and roadmaps to build NESSI.

Volume 1 – Framing the future of the service oriented economy

In order to support the transformation into a service oriented economy, NESSI is defined in the context of a holistic approach to an ecosystem in which all the parties involved coexist and which can develop into a new economic model. This holistic model embraces the whole service area and foresees NESSI as a key element in the EU economy. It illustrates the three main constituent parts of the context of NESSI:

the NESSI Framework – where the core services are engineered.
the NESSI Landscape – where the core services, delivered by the NESSI Framework are applied to specific businesses and domains and support cross-domain operation.
the NESSI Adoption – which includes the instantiation mechanisms based on regulations, rules and policies to make services real and usable by consumers.

Volume 1’s first edition was published in March 2006.
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Volume 2 – the Strategy to build NESSI

Volume 2 currently in preparation describes the principles, paths and evolution steps in the construction of NESSI.

Volume 3 – the NESSI Roadmap

Volume 3 details, in a series of documents the short, mid and long term phases in the execution of NESSI. The roadmaps include an analysis of the strategic pillars of NESSI within FP7, the 7^th Framework Programme of research supported by the European Commission.

A first Volume of the NESSI Roadmap within the context of FP7 was published in June 2006.

A second Volume wa published in Feb 2008.

All the volumes are available on the NESSI Publication page

Introduction
	The Strategic Research Agenda (SRA) is the tool through which a European Technology Platform details its strategy, its challenges and how it intends to meet them. The role of the SRA is to translate the NESSI vision into action and to guide NESSI’s implementations during the entire lifetime of NESSI.