Knowing the objectives of the project on one side, having understood the requirements in terms of critical mass and ingredients to be used on the other side, this page is focusing on the strategy to achieve the overall project vision.
The project strategy, which has been carefully monitored and updated during the project life-time, covers two major domains : the technical and the organisational strategy.
Technical strategy is made of the following principles
to be applied in sequence :
explore,
conclude,
develop and demonstrate.
First step : Explore the world of solutions.
The first phase of the project has been mainly focused on the exploration of the variety of paths that could lead to the solution. Some elements of the approach were already in place before the project starts but consolidation of the overall approach was required. Many technical discussions occurred during this step, sometimes leading to partial solutions, sometimes showing deadlocks.
Second step : Conclude on the set of solutions.
This second step has forced the consortium to reject some solutions in favour of others that seemed more close to the objectives and more attainable in terms of demonstration.
Third step : Develop the selected solutions.
After the paper stage, came the prototype stage where multiple demonstrators have been developed to show either the adequacy to the industrial needs, or the feasibility of the technical solutions, sometimes both. During the project phase II multiple demonstrators have been elaborated, first focused on local problems, then step by step integrating multiple solutions.
Fourth step : Demonstrate the validity of the solution.
This is the last step of the project : the prototypes have to be used on case studies close to real project in order to show their qualities and limitations.
The project has now reached this final phase and the current outcomes can be seen on the Outcome section.
