Sollerta News
June 2010: Sollerta achieves ISO9001:2008
Sollerta has just completed its triennial audit and took the opportunity to update all the Quality documents to the new ISO9001:2008 standard.
The Sollerta Quality Management System could be adapted to other SMEs. Sollerta will shortly be offering a service to SMEs to assist them develop their quality standards and to achieve ISO accreditation.
May 2010: SecureCHAINS - successor to SecureSME
Sollerta is collaborating with leading Security Expert Organisations in Europe in a new project funded under the European Commission FP7 Security Programme 2009. The SecureCHAINS project was launched officially on 1 May 2010 and the length of the project is 24 months.
SecureCHAINS is a project to integrate Security Technology Supply Chains and identify weaknesses and untapped potential. SecureCHAINS aims to actively involve researchers, SMEs, government institutions, major companies and major industrial enterprises to examine technologies capable of tackling a number of major topics in the field of security in Europe.
The main mission of SecureCHAINS is to contribute to a more competitive Security Technologies Supply Chain (STSC) and the objectives of the project are:
- To detect untapped potential that can be integrated in the European STSC
- To engage innovative low tier suppliers in the STSC
- To contribute to the building of R&D competences in STSC
- To develop awareness building activities in Security related RTD topics
- To promote and facilitate a communication platform/website and open dialogue in the fields related to Security technology management, regulation, policy and forecasting
- To promote and facilitate a communication platform/website and open dialogue in the fields related to Security technology management, regulation, policy and forecasting
The partners in this collaboration are: Inovamais, SA (PT); Fraunhofer (DE), Thales Alenia Space (IT), DHL (DE), Innova SpA (IT), Sollerta (UK), ROBOTIKER-Tecnalia (SP), Vdlconsult (DE), RoNDU - “Carol I” National Defence University (RO), Alma Consulting Group (FR), Teseo (BE), INA - Southeastern Europe Telecommunications & Informatics Research Institute (GR)
The opening meeting will be in May
April 2010: Sollerta appointed by the DMN to investigate ‘Training Brokering’
The Dorset Marine Network was set up to foster and support marine businesses in Dorset. Sollerta is a founder member. The DMN has recognised that SME's often cannot obtain training courses focused to their specific needs. Other business networks have developed a training brokering service for their members, where the network identifies training needs and liaises with training providers so that training courses can be set up specific to these needs.
Sollerta has been asked to investigate the feasibility and applicability to the DMN, drawing on the experience of other networks, and to develop a business process through which training can be offered, specific to members’ needs.
December 2009: Sollerta joins the PROPOSSE Project
PROPOSSE is a multinational collaboration, sponsored by the European commission to promote short sea shipping between Ireland, UK, France , Spain and Portugal. A number of companies are involved:
- Gotten Consultants and the Port of Gijon (Spain)
- Association Industrial District Aveiro and the Port of Aveiro (Portugal)
- CRITT Logistics and the Port of Le Havre (France)
- The Port of Cork (Ireland)
- Marine South East and the Port of Poole (UK)
Sollerta is working as a subcontractor to MSE. One of Sollerta's tasks is to explore the circumstances where SME's and their freight forwarders would choose to use a short sea shipping route to import or export goods to or from France, Spain or Portugal instead of the more conventional land routes through Dover and across France.