Towards successfully meeting the strategic objectives set, innovation-related stimulation activities and dissemination plans will adequately ensure optimal use of the project results.

Stimulation enhancing activities include all activities related to the propagation and use of the results of the project. The objective of this specific activity addressed to develop and perform SPAS stimulation is to provide an analytical and comprehensive approach and concrete basis for the strategies of visibility, dissemination, implementation and exploitation of SPAS outcomes.

A Technology Promotion and Dissemination Plan will be prepared to introduce the communication strategy during the lifetime of the project. It will examine, in particular, how to best support the dissemination efforts of the Consortium partners in their countries, to reach a widest audience of local governments on a pan-European scale and to prepare better conditions for a deployment of the project results.

This Work-package also aims at creating a "critical mass" of interest necessary for the deployment, on the target scale, of the results of the project.

In brief, the main objectives of this WP are:

• To ensure a large diffusion of the results of the project
• To define a second-level dissemination & exploitation strategy for the utilization of the SPAS developed services
• To use existing tools/services and communication channels to deliver information on the results of the project and to improve the internal communication within the Consortium
• To create better conditions for the deployment of the project results on a pan-European scale
• To achieve efficient synergies with other EU projects and major initiatives launched at the European level.
• Development of the "plan for using and disseminating the knowledge"