VERITAS' concrete and verifiable objective will be the permanent creation of three stable networks. VERITAS will not force a VE initiative within its time horizon, but will provide all the necessary prerequisites and knowledge to form a VE in the future. This includes comprehensive training in configuration, co-operation and competence management for VE as well as the development of tools to monitor and manage VEs.

The specific activities and outputs of VERITAS will be:

	Accumulation of dissemination and training material on VEs based on state-of-the art findings from theory, applied research and best practise.
	In-depth interviews with selected VE initiatives on specific VE problems such as the trade-off between trust and control, competition and co-operation.
	Establishment of virtual industry clusters - actively involving member companies of the participating manufacturing associations - that are the potential basis for configuring virtual enterprises.
	Assignment and coaching of the relevant roles for the cooperation network - brokers, in/outsourcing managers and auditors.
	Creation and documentation of rules for VEs together with the VIC members.
	Support of trust building and business culture transformation necessary in VEs through coaching and use of different tools.
	Evaluation of the trust building initiatives and tools in a survey.
	Set-up of a multi-lingual online portal, consisting of:
	Extranet section for members of the VIC, including Virtual Community to support social relationships and trust building for members. Knowledge community for sharing information resources and innovation. Access to VERITAS information system and sample work management tool. Support tools for negotiations between network partners. Online learning modules for self training; publicly accessible. General content (including the project approach, findings, the agility evaluation method and the implementation guide).
	Set-up of database structure and ontology as a comprehensive information system for the network partners' competencies and as a selection tool for VE initiatives.
	Deployment of sample work management application across companies and integration with existing ICT infrastructures to enable communication, coordination and cooperation of VEs.
	Training and support of companies in use and integration of the application.
	Development of a survey instrument to evaluate the work management solution and its actual evaluation. The tool should also be reusable to evaluate similar products.
	VERITAS contact point throughout the project for any inquiries concerning the technology or other training content. VERITAS agility evaluation handbook documenting the generic steps for creating the VICs and lessons learned. VERITAS implementation guide.