FOCUS K 3D Annual Activity Report Project Year 1

This document contains the annual activity report no. 1 of the IST CA FOCUS K3D, covering the period March 2008 - February 2009. Partner IMATI is responsible for producing this document, and is supported by all other FOCUS K3D partners, reporting quarterly on their activities per Partner, per Task and per Work package. The material is then compiled by the Task Leaders T4.2 Management and T4.3 Project Assessment and Evaluation to produce this report. The report starts with an executive summary of the activities of the first project year, mainly based on the public annual report and the projct newsletters. Section 1 provides a summary of the major achievements by the consortium in the six-month period concerned. The progress in the reporting period is addressed in more detail in Section 2, work package by work package, except the one dealing with the project management. The consortium management is addressed in Section 3. All partners reported separately on their efforts and achievements in the period in the various work packages, and their efforts are shortly summarizedin Section 4. Annex 1, the plan for using and disseminating the knowledge, deals with the dissemination of knowledge, listing project presentations, conferences and other events co-organized by the network, partner publications supported by the project, and participations at conferences.