WP5 Transversal Elements	Allocation of Person-Months per Partner
	P1	SC-1	P2	P3	P4	P5	P6	P7	P8	P9	P10	Totals
5.A Internet Diffusion WWW	4.0	1.0	1.0	2.0			1.0	1.0		2.0		12.0
5.B Citizen/Distance learning	1.0				2.5		10.0	2.0		1.0		16.5
5.C Demos: Institutional Users	3.0	1.0	1.0		4.0	1.0	1.0			1.0	4.5	16.5
5.D Exploitation Plan	2.0	1.0		2.0	0.5							5.5
Deliverables

Notes: (1) The Work Package lead partners are indicated by the highlighted box in the matrix. (2) A significant part of the work in these Work Packages was undertaken by tenured researchers of university institutions, working together with contract staff and post-graduates, hence the full effort is not represented in the person-months specified.

Objectives:
To contribute to the conception, operational design and tuning of VIRTU@LIS products for the purposes of embedding them in decision making and learning systems; and to ensure the rapid and wide valorisation of the project results through exploitation of electronic, printed, and human forms of networking and communication.
Work description:

WP5.A Internet Diffusion.
The ICT products, and documentation of the VIRTU@LIS work, was made available through Internet site formats. Part of the design responsibility for the creation of the adapted website(s) was given to specialist subcontractors, FUTUREtec (SC1), working in close co-operation with the ICT specialists Partner 2 (Angela Pereira and Serafin Corral at ISIS, JRC Ispra) and Partner 3 (YDREAMS) and with Partners 6 and 7 (Open University, University of Dundee) who advised on adaptations for use in classroom teaching and distance learning (see WP5.B below). Specialist inputs was also required for Environmental information systems - including purchase of data bases and/or use rights and (where appropriate) service agreements for regular upgrading/updating - for inclusion within the Virtual Visit for each of the four environmental domains.

WP5.B Autonomous Citizen use and Distance learning.
The intention was to ensure that the VIRTU@LIS prototypes are, or can readily be, adapted for autonomous learning by citizens and also for use in structured distance learning (i.e., "open university") formats. Going beyond the extended peer assessment procedures within WP3.A, achieving this goal requires considerable software engineering and attention to effectiveness and reliability of "delivery" of the information interfaces to remote "end-users". This work has been led by Sandrine Simon of Partner 6 (The U.K. Open University) which specialises in the adaptation of learning material for remote users, in the environmental and other domains, supported by learning process specialists Jim Ewing (Dundee University, Partners 7) and at the University of Milan (Partner 9), and also by university 'user' Partners 1 (C3ED at UVSQ) and 4 (Cranfield University). The delivery formats and platforms was designed not just for reliability and ease of access but also to enhance active learning and reflection by users. This means attention to the ways that cultural context, gender, socio-economic profile, geography, etc., can play a role in "uptake" of information and learning possibilities.

WP5.C Demonstrations to institutional users.
Demonstrations was made to potential users in various institutional contexts (municipalities, environment ministries, the European Environment Agency, private sector companies, sectoral groups such as agriculture, water, industry, citizens associations, as well as schools and universities), including customised small workshops and presentations at conferences. These demonstrations will highlight the enhanced communication potential for large publics with explain potential for commercialisation. This WP has been led by CoMPLEX (Partner 10), with support from other consortium partners to ensure wide coverage in different European countries.

WP5.D Exploitation Plan.
The consortium investigated and defined prospects for commercialisation of some or all of the prototypes produced by the project. This is based on, first of all, a clear definition of intellectual property rights (IPRs) within the consortium and beyond (as provided for within the Consortium Agreement, see WP1.D), and the development of an international marketing plan. This aspect of work will be led within the consortiumby YDREAMS (the SME Partner 3), supported by specialist subcontractor inputs (FUTUREtec, SC1) for a wide European outlook. The Exploitation Plan (WP5.D) furthermore built directly on the work in WP3.B defining user requirements in relation to each domain implementation, and on the experience gained in WP5.A (web-based presentations), WP5.B (Autonomous Citizen use and Distance learning) and WP5.C (Institutional Users).
The consortium partners brought differing, and complementary, perspectives on exploitation of the VIRTU@LIS products:

• The SME Partner YDREAMS (Partner 3) within the consortium has a direct interest in further development and exploitation of the VR concepts and of the environmental domain communications in its own commercial sphere of activity.
• The distance learning perspectives are of high interest to several of the university partners and, by extension, to the university community at large.
• In addition, several of the consortium's research partners, including the C3ED at the Université de Versailles St-Quentin-en-Yvelines (Partner 1), Cranfield University (Partner 4) and CoMPLEX at the University college London (Partner 10) see strong prospects for exploitation in the environmental information, stakeholder concertation, science-policy interface and governance fields within the European Union.