The COMMUNIGRAM-NET consortium partners are committed to the establishment of a sustainable Virtual Centre of Excellence.

Through the Industrial Advisory Board, the consortium will be connected with the industrial world, and thus continuously aware of the market needs and perspectives in the field of social project management.

Regarding scientific impact, the consortium will endeavor to secure a dominant role in other well-established scientific bodies, as ACM SIGs, IEEE Technical Committees, and EURASIP special interest groups. Several dissemination forums, standardization bodies (ISO 21500, ISO 9241), international conferences and exhibitions will be targeted and used to cement the ties between COMMUNIGRAM-NET and the broad research community. The aim is not only to strengthen the scientific impact of COMMUNIGRAM-NET but also to steer and organise top-ranked conferences and symposia in media Internet.

Next to the impact outwards, COMMUNIGRAM-NET will also have a substantial impact inwards, by fostering links to national research clusters. The integration efforts started during the NoE funding period will continue and lead to more integration and re-balancing of strategic research agendas across national networks, and thus to even more momentum for moving towards new research challenges.

The COMMUNIGRAM-NET will also contribute to dissemination by issuing training material and tutorials on key topics related to social project management. That material will be combined into coherent courses targeting chosen topics to be offered by NoE members. COMMUNIGRAM-NET intends to use this material to prepare a joint distance learning course that will be linked into Masters courses at many of the contributing universities when the project is finished. A thematic book to support distance learning will be published.

Moreover, other expected impacts of the COMMUNIGRAM-NET Network of Excellence include:

• Reinforced positioning of industry in social project management, collective intelligence and in social knowledge creation and management.
• Wider market opportunities, including for SMEs.