The mission of the 1st Conference on Collaborative Working Environments for Business and Industry was to bring together a select group of industry practitioners and academics, to jointly address emerging industry needs, and to shape the future research agenda in the area of Collaborative Working Environments.

Innovations in the area of Collaborative Working Environments are certainly at the heart of improving the sustainability and competitiveness of European business. In order to create growth and employment, it is essential that European corporations are given the opportunity to more effectively make use of globally dispersed information resources and knowledge workers. In light of this focus, the conference was organized according to the following central topics:

• Knowledge Enabled Workers: Generating, capturing, and activation of knowledge (both tacit and explicit) across organisations, disciplines and locations
• Virtualized Collaborative Environments: Modelling, simulation, and visualisation in a virtual collaborative environment.
• Shared workspaces: Merging virtual and physical workspaces for creative collaboration.
• Virtual Communities: Users form teams and communities across organisational boundaries to deal with rapidly changing business demands.
• Responsive environments: environments enhanced with networks of artefact's and robotics delivering context-aware services to respond to users’ demands

A complete Conference Summary and Final Report you can read on the Conference web-site - www.cwe-europe.org

Currently it was announced that the 2nd Conference on Collaborative Working Environments for Business and Industry will be held in June 14-15, 2007 in Luleе, Sweden.

A call for papers for the 2nd Conference on Collaborative Working Environments for Business and Industry is now open. You will be able to find updated information about the conference, as well as download a call for papers here

The organisers are the European Commission, Luleе University of Technology and North Sweden European Office.