3. WISTCIS PROJECT COMPONENTS

4. WISTCIS Kick-off Conference "Teleworking in Research, Medicine and Business", Kiev, Ukraine, 19-21 April 2001 WISTCIS Workshop "Telematics and Networking support in Environmental and Natural Hazard Research and Monitoring“, June 21-22, 2001, Chisinau, Moldova WISTCIS Workshop E-working, Distant Training and Environmental Monitoring: New Opportunities, 13-14 December 2001, Baku, Azerbaijan WISTCIS Conferences and Workshops (The audience: more then 150 participants from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, China, France, Georgia, Germany, Moldova, Portugal, Russia, the Netherlands, Ukraine) ( The audience: more then 50 participants) The IST projects were promoted: SHOPEAWARE, TELESOL, TELEBALT, TeleinVIVO, TEAMwork, THINK, StarMate, UNITE

5. PROBLEM HISTORY GENERIC TOOLS FOR COMMUNICATION AND DISTANCE-WORKING NUMBER OF TELEWORKERS IN EUROPE IN 2000 OBSTACLES TO GROWTH ISSUES INVOLVED CASE STUDIES INTRODUCING TELEWORKING INTO AN ORGANISATION ARE YOU READY FOR TELEWORKING? Manual “TELEWORKING 2001” By J-C. Marot

6. TELEBALT PROJECT CONSORTIUM Teleworking as a Tool for Information Society Technologies Programme Promotion to Baltic States IST Programme Coordinator EDNES, Strasbourg, France Open Latvia, Riga, Latvia Kick-off planning meeting and Workshop: ”Information Technologies, Tourism and Social Integration” INFOBALT, Vilnius, Lithuania Project conference: “Teleworking for Business, Education and Electronic Commerce” Inforing AS, Tallinn, Estonia Kick-off planning meeting and Workshop: ”Information Technologies, Tourism and Social Integration” CODATA, Paris,France

7. TELEBALT PROJECT COMPONENTS

8. Lecture 1. European Union Lecture 2. Enlarging European Union Lecture 3. Fifth and Sixth Framework Programmes TELEBALT Training Courses Lecture 4. Participating in Sixth Framework Programme: Opportunities for Pre-accession States Lecture 5. Introductory

9. TELEBALT on the Web (Open Latvia)

10. Project coordinators: UNIDOEDNES, France (Earth Data Network for Education and Scientific Exchange)

11. TELESOL PROJECT CONSORTIUM Telework Solutions for Promotion of EU Cooperation in Business and Research with the Commonwealth of Independent States UNIDO Coordinator EDNES, Strasbourg, France EU Participants Austria France The Netherlands CIS Participants Kazinformtelecom, Kazakhstan World Health Organization Information Center, Kyrghizstan Institute of Cybernetics of National Academy, Uzbekistan Baku Scientific/Training Center, Azerbaijan Arminco, Armenia Business Communication Center, Georgia Center of Geophysical Data Studies, Russia Kiev Polytechnic Institute, Ukraine

12. Expected results of the project TELESOL: better understanding of the local telework problems; telework competence centers as the focal points for addressing telework issues; new contacts and new telework projects

13. Project participants - members of business and research communities in the participating countries, with a positive experience in the telework: