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HIGHWARE: Publishing educational content for the engineering of major scientific, industrial, IT, and infrastructure projects.
International registration 584098 of the semi-figurative mark HIGHWARE has been confirmed in Italy since 1992.
International registration 547036 of the word mark HIGHWARE has been confirmed in Italy since 2001.
Registration 002804904 of the Community trademark HIGHWARE has been confirmed since 2003.
HIGHWARE's introduction in Italy was through its partnership with the RAPID project- (Rapid Start-up on Quality Management System Implementation).
RAPID was a two years project (1997-1998) funded by the European Commission (EC) under the ESPRIT ESSI programme to develop modular training supporting the implementation of an ISO 9000 compliant Quality Management System (QMS) in software producing organisations, mostly SMEs or small to medium groups. The QMS approach supported by RAPID aims to make the implementation quicker and to secure a beneficial impact on the effectiveness of the implementing organisation.
Prime Contractor was GEMINI, an Italian training and consulting company specialised in SPI, QMS and Software Engineering.
The other project partners were:
COFIMP: a not-for-profit association of SMEs which since 1983 actively participates to the implementation of training systems and programmes targeted to SMEs;
The HIGHWARE Group (HIGHWARE S.A and HIGHWARE GmbH). The HIGHWARE Group was founded with the aim to provide a modular, flexible system of standard educational modules to their customer base in Europe and Overseas.
The MARI Group (Northern Ireland): MARI had been providing major project management, consultancy, development and training services in a variety of areas within IT for one decade.
The output of the RAPID project has been a training package for Quality System in use at GEMINI and HIGHWARE since the project took place.
Then HIGHWARE entered partnership in the EUREX project.
The EUREX project was part of the ESSI (European System and Software Initiative) initiative of the ESPRIT (European Strategic Programme of Research & Development in Information Technology) program, funded by the CEC (Commission of the European Communities).
The ESSI initiative (1994-1998) aimed to finance the additional cost associated with a change in practice in software development. A change in practice is defined as an improvement in the actions of software developers; this improvement is generally supported by the introduction of a new method, new tools or new technology.
The ESSI initiative has funded nearly 300 PIEs (Process Improvement Experiments) conducted by as many small and large companies in the European Union. Each PIE involves preparing, piloting, and evaluating the improvement of software development practices supported by the introduction of a new technology for the company.
Funded under the ESSI initiative, the EUREX project consisted of gathering, classifying and exploiting the lessons learned from these PIEs and making them public.
The EUREX project (April 1997 - March 1999) brought together the following five organizations: HIGHWARE GmbH (in Germany), GEMINI (in Italy), SOCINTEC (in Spain), SISU (in Sweden) and HIGHWARE SA (in France).
After an initial phase of analysis of the results obtained by the different PIEs in the different countries, the EUREX project consists of consolidating the results and publishing the results in a series of works which have been published by the German publisher Springer Verlag.
Since then, HIGHWARE has been developing its network of specialists, trainers and lecturers in Italy for the engineering of large projects, as well as its partnerships with higher education institutions and service providers.
Founded in 1987 by Gilles Vallet, HIGHWARE has been developing numerous professional training programs, including the "Postgrade Highware en Ingénierie de Projets - PHIP”, in French, and the Highware Postgraduate Initiative in Project Engineering - PIPE, in English, which were awarded the "Registered Education Program" label by the IPMA (International Project Management Association) in 2015; as well as various higher education programs run and accredited by IX Academics::
- Exec Cert PE (Executive Certificate in Project Engineering),
- Exec Dip PE (Executive Diploma in Project Engineering),
- Exec Master PE (Executive Master in Project Engineering),
- and other Master's programs, Specialized Masters, and MBA specializations.
HIGHWARE learning resources (course handouts, conference videos, software components, digital role games and remote learning) are in use at IX Academics (Higher education - Oxfordshire - UK), at IndeXpertise (Professional certification - Paris - France) , and a number of selected higher education partner institutions.
Thousands of project leaders have been successful thanks to HIGHWARE services, professional training or higher education in Europe (France, Germany, Bulgaria, Italy, Portugal, Romania, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Ukraine and Greece), in Asia (China, India, Malaysia, Brunei, Singapore), in Africa (Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt) and in the United States of America.
The HIGHWARE training administration and knowledge management system is operational at IX Academics and IndeXpertise.