NESSI SME Group

NESSI is the European Technology Platform, launched in September 2005 by industry in support of the strategic area of software and services. The NESSI community includes leading players from industries, SMEs, Academia and users sharing the vision of a common long term strategy on software and services to contribute to Europe’s competitiveness, job sustainability and quality of life.

To achieve its goals, NESSI has and will continue to be supported by all its partners and members, with direct financial support provided by the industrial partners and human resources provided by all. In this context, NESSI-2010 contributes to NESSI focusing on five specific activities:

• Supporting NESSI Strategy formulation and implementation, in building a Global Strategic Plan which will encompass all NESSI objectives and ensuring its implementation
• Supporting the SME Community effort, in agreement with the SME Strategy paper that has been approved by NESSI in January 2007 and has led to the launch of the SME Working Group
• Supporting the interlinking activities specifically oriented towards coordination with national and international research programmes
• Supporting the continued awareness and participation building activity with the organization of NESSI events, website etc
• Supporting the labour resources of the NESSI Office, in particular linked to membership management & support and information and collaborative tools towards existing and new stakeholders