Over its 18 month duration, starting 1 December 2003, the CALIMERA 18 month Co-ordinating Action is structured as five work packages (including one for Management and Co-ordination) with a high level of integration and mutual inter-dependence.

WP1 Technologies and research for local services will identify technologies and relevant research and link this to the cultural community mapping exercise conducted in WP 2, to identify which areas of research hold the most promise in offering citizens new opportunities for active participation through local institutions and what research is likely to bring the most impact and benefit in application.

Through WP2 Local services: sharing policies and best practice and the involvement of national authorities, ministries and professional representative bodies throughout Europe, CALIMERA will provide the necessary forums to identify and develop tools such as guidelines to deliver these findings in a form which will make an impact on strategic thinking and real world services.

WP3 the end user experience: a usable community memory adds a key extra dimension, establishing and validating the usability research agenda for local cultural institutions and their end-users, ordinary citizens, also producing a key guideline on this topic.

WP 4 Dissemination, networking and training provides the human network development and co-ordination activities across the national and local authorities, professional bodies, individual professionals, projects and industry players who are the broad constituency co-ordinated by CALIMERA. It also establishes the necessary dissemination vehicles including a portal website providing access to all the project results, guidelines, solutions noticeboard, forums and an alerting service. This workpackage will provide an assessment and recommend a development path to support training for the engagement with new technologies and research by local cultural services. Finally, it will ensure that those countries which are likely to become the next wave of applicants to join the EC (e.g. the countries of South East Europe) can benefit from the development of local services being undertaken in CALIMERA and FP6 in general and extend joint research activity in the area of community memory and local cultural services to Europe’s research partners elsewhere in the world.

WP 5 provides the management, co-ordination and evaluation activities and the leadership activities necessary in an extensive co-ordination activity of this kind.