which has awarded three four year grants for a research projects related to services. Members of ERISS have attracted research funds from the Dutch N.W.O.

4CaaST has a duration of 3 years and comprises 17 partners. 4CaaSt embeds all the necessary features, easing programming of rich applications and enabling the creation of a true business ecosystem where applications coming from different providers can be tailored to different users, mashed up and traded together. 4CaaST, the 4CaaSt project aims to create an advanced PaaS Cloud platform which supports the optimized and elastic hosting of Internet-scale multi-tier applications.Cockpit has a duration of three years and comprises 12 partners. Cockpit will combine the research areas of citizens’ opinion mining in the context of Web 2.0, enhance Service Science Management Engineering in the context of the public sector and encourage deliberative engagement of citizens for forming informed judgements on public services delivery. Cockpit aims to define a new Governance model which actively engages and empowers citizens in Public Service delivery decision making process.

Citizens Collaboration & Co-Creation in Public Service Delivery (COCKPIT).

The STREP (COMPAS) has a duration of three years and comprises 9 partners.

Small/Medium-Scale Research Action (STREP) in the field of service compliance - Compliance-driven Models, Languages, and Architectures for Services (COMPAS).

Papazoglou serves as the scientific coordinator of this NoE. The NoE (S-Cube) has a duration of four years and comprises 15 partners.

Network of Excellence (NoE) in Software Services and Systems.

ERISS succeeded in obtaining four prestigious IST FP7 projects in Call-1, all awarded in the area of Services:

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