Yesterday was crunch time for EurActory, EU Community’s first tool to identify relevant EU experts.
EurActiv, partner in the project, held an event at the European Parliament dubbed #Media4EU. Suddenly, we found ourselves surrounding by 150+ potential users, eager to take a peek at the platform.
MEPs like Siegfried Muresan and Brando Benifei. Former EU Commissioners like Siim Kallas and Connie Hedegaard. Businesses reps like Karl Cox (Oracle) and Chris Sherwood (Allegro). Or media reps like Tom Weingärtner (API) or Max von Abendroth (EMMA).
All of them, and many others, in the room.
So we pitched them EurActory…
@EU_Community excited to get EurActory in the hands of the audience at #Media4EU pic.twitter.com/DcpGJIaIHq
— David Mekkaoui (@hMayDay) January 29, 2015
EurActory is now open for user feedback. Caution: it’s a beta! That means bugs may occur when you’re browsing the platform. But we wanted to open it up to users, get your input and make sure we shape the service to what you are looking for.
Visit the homepage. Type a search query and see what comes up. Read about how to get in the directory. And give us your feedback.
@AnneLaumen Will develop together with users’ interest. Also: ranking/ordering results = next phase: http://t.co/Df1q0FFU3C Tnx!
— EU Community (@EU_Community) January 29, 2015
EurActory was initiated by EurActiv, is coordinated by the leading IT Solutions group Intrasoft and is developed by a consortium of eight organisations as part of the project EU Community (info).
EU Community is co-funded by the European Commission’s DG CONNECT under the Seventh Framework Programme for Research (FP7). Oracle is a Partner of this public-private partnership project.
Tonight #Media4EU event presents EurActory’s, a result of the EU-funded project @EU_Community http://t.co/nZ5j4fHnbZ via @john_magan
— ICT 4 Excellent Sci (@ICTscienceEU) January 29, 2015
The service will be continuously developed, as more and more EU experts and professionals discover it. The platform was released to get feedback from the community of EU experts, making future development open and collaborative.
Everyone, type in your browsers NOW: http://t.co/vcgg5dCIEn The ultimate tool to find experts in the #EU #Media4EU pic.twitter.com/WhdlrAWtoI
— Andreea Flintoaca (@andreeafc) January 29, 2015
My profile on EurActory : Alexis Poulin http://t.co/XjcYnQh2HO
— Alexis Poulin (@Poulin2012) January 29, 2015
@FilippovEU Hi Sergey, you’re invited to read our FAQs & About + test the platform. http://t.co/tKhI2n3hiE
— EU Community (@EU_Community) January 29, 2015
#Euractory is the 1st brick of #eucommunity;2nd brick is #policy line – mapping docs in the #policy process.Check #climatechange #media4eu
— Andreea Flintoaca (@andreeafc) January 29, 2015