This Action Line of support measures aims to increase the overall impact of the RTD work while stimulating synergies across disciplines and communities and building a critical mass of actors.
Priority is given to working groups and awareness.
Other measures like project clustering and studies can be addressed through the general IST programme support measures. Establishment of focal points in support of national and international communities of human-language technologies researchers, developers and users, with a view to fostering new partnerships and speeding up the deployment of research results. The projects arising from Cross-programme Action Lines should seek to work closely with the most relevant projects in the Key Actions. The expected benefits are easier and more flexible access to information and services and, therefore, acceptance by a wider section of users. Focus will be on system-level integration of component technology.