The Objectives of ICT4E2B Forum are:

• Bring together relevant stakeholders to identify and review the needs in terms of research and systems integration
  • Invite expert groups to provide advice in the key areas of focus
  • Set up a wider community in the ICT4E2B domain
  • Provide a virtual cooperation environment to facilitate communication between stakeholders
  • Organise expert hearings, validation workshop, sessions inside international conferences and national/regional events
  • Promote networking and collaboration between the stakeholders in these events
  • Build consensus of RTD priorities in the ICT4E2B domain

• Update the REEB research roadmap
  • Identify key knowledge areas and related application fields
  • Analyse state of the art in industry  and research, and other related RTD strategies
  • Identify current industry requirements
  • Define vision exemplified by a representative set of application scenarios
  • Identify and rank gaps between the state of the art, recent and ongoing research and industrial needs
  • Develop and validate the updated research roadmap

• Promote the use and further development of ICT for improved energy efficiency of buildings
  • Provide knowledge content about the state of the art, best practices, RTD results
  • Propose a future extended collaborative value chain in ICT for energy efficient buildings
  • Provide guidelines for the implementation of R&D results and best practices
  • Contribute to dissemination of standards and regulation
  • Disseminate project results and recommendations to the ICT and Construction Communities, national/regional research and industry policy makers, and widely to European industry, research community, policy makers and media