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HIGHWARE: editing and publishing resources for engineering large projects (science, industry, information systems and infrastructure).

French national registration 1436567 for the word mark HIGHWARE has been active since 1987.

French national registration 1536478 for the word mark HIGHWARE has been active since 1989.

International registration 547036 for the word mark HIGHWARE has been active in France since 1990.

French national registration 1702754 for the semi-figurative mark HIGHWARE has been active in France since 1991.

International registration 584098 for the semi-figurative mark HIGHWARE has been active in France since 1992.

Registration 002804904 for the Community trademark HIGHWARE has been active since 2003.

HIGHWARE's development within the European Union has been marked by multiple partnerships in European projects, including the RAPID, EUREX, and CORONET projects.

RAPID (Rapid Start-up on Quality Management System Implementation) 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.

Then, HIGHWARE became a partner in the CORONET project (2000-2002), supported by the Information Society Technologies (IST) programme of the CEC (Commission of the European Communities).

Full project title was: Corporate Software Engineering Knowledge Networks for Improved Training of the Work Force.

The CORONET project partners were:

Fraunhofer Gesellscheft für angewandte Forschung e.V. (Germany): Coordinating Contractor,
DaimlerChrysler AG (Germany),
University of Technology Graz -Institut für Informationsverarbeitung und Computergestützte Neue Medien (Austria),
Centro de Computação Gráfica (Portugal),
COMUNICACION INTERACTIVA (Spain),
HIGHWARE (France),
The University of New South Wales (Australia).

The overall CORONET objective was to improve efficiency of web-based training of the workforce. This has been achieved by the following detailed project outcomes:

Development and implementation of a new training approach CORONET-train. It was essentially based on learning in corporate knowledge network environments, by collaborative work with human experts as part of the training sessions, and by visualisation of contents and learner profiles;
Development and implementation of a new hypermedia learning environment to support CORONET-train. It was based on the components and experiences of already existing learning environments of the partners;
Improvement of hypermedia content production by reuse of existing knowledge packages for methods and techniques in the software engineering domain. Contents production has been devoted to quality management, project management, configuration management, and innovative inspection techniques;
Industrial validation of the new training approach. The integrated approach CORONET-train was tested in different industrial environments;
Empirical demonstration of the benefits of CORONET-train: A common reference model has been developed, including the process of courseware development, the collaborative training process with group interaction and the process of knowledge sharing via corporate knowledge networks. The benefits of pedagogical, cost, and other aspects of the approach relevant to the user and the sponsor are demonstrated based on empirical data gathered during industrial validation. For this purpose, experimental user trails in two consecutive cycles were conducted: a baselining cycle (cycle 1) and a subsequent improvement cycle (cycle 2).

Since then, HIGHWARE has been developing its network of specialists, trainers and lecturers in France for the engineering of large projects, as well as its partnerships with higher education institutions and service providers.

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.

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:

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.

HIGHWARE training delivery and knowledge management system is in place at IX Academics, and at IndeXpertise.

Registration 002804904 of the Community trademark HIGHWARE has been confirmed since 2003.

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