Decision Support Systems for Partnership Activities Facilitation

An adequate collaboration between the partners within a multinational project is essential for a successful project deployment. The activities developed by the project partnership involve usually decisions that collaboratively must be taken. Although the e-mail is the most used technology for distance collaboration, the team work within a multinational project involves collaborative activities and the decisions associated to it that only the e-mail cannot support. This paper presents several collaborative work examples and decision scenarios which are specific to many European funded multinational educational projects. The analysis of these scenarios shapes a list of features that a decision support system must provide in order to facilitate the collaborative activities developed in the frame of multinational projects.