Project Monitoring at a glance. As a result of these first ten months, a public platform in each language is on line from the 6th of March 2012, with all central features available in their final version: news, case studies, innovations, communities, members’ management and the back office features related. Seven translation packages have been treated in the period, and a complete check of each platform has been achieved by each national team, on successive Beta versions and sandboxes, with a high reactivity from all partners. The peripheral features as links with external websites and RSS feeds, especially with Build UP and web monitoring system are in progress and will be implemented at the end of March 2012. The dissemination activities, the partnerships agreements and the first case studies collection have largely begun. C21 has been presented on many national and international events and to a huge number of stakeholders, with first positive results (i.e., 37 agreements have been signed so far). 31 first case studies have been entered in the 6 national websites and a first circle of stakeholders is involved in each country, thanks to each national project team action. The major lesson learnt during this first period is that the actions of communication, dissemination, contributors’ recruitment and training can fully deploy only when the platforms are available. These actions had been planned at a very early stage of the project, before the tool finalization, and will be behind the initial schedule. We need to prove the opportunity for organizations to join by showing some contents and activity first. That’s why the highest priority has been given to the finalization of the central features of the platform and the negotiation with only a few partners, in order to enter new contents from last February on. This important and necessary step is now achieved. The project is warmly welcomed by the first professionals involved and all the dissemination and communication actions will fully deploy in the next period. For the same reasons, experts and case studies ranking have been postponed after March 2012, for they need a minimum number of people and cases registered to be relevant. The deployment of the communities is on progress. The launch of these communities requires contacting national key experts in each specific community field. Each partner has begun to work on his own WP6 topic and part of the other ones. All partners have also begun to identify the relevant topics to propose in th...
