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Personnel
All ATKOSoft employees hold University Degrees (B.Sc., M.Sc or Ph.D.) in their respective fields.

Activities
ATKOSoft is a Software/Technology Solutions Provider, active in:

Development of integrated software solutions in the fields of: 
Healthcare Services Management /Telemedicine/Home Care, with the amedLine Integrated Suite of Software Applications for Healthcare Services Management, amedLineNET Integrated Suite of Software Applications for Health Networks Management and Frontis Integrated Suite of Software Applications for Home Care Services Management.
Clients of amedLine and Frontis suites and modules include Greek Private and Public Hospitals/Clinics, as well as Public and Private HealthCare Organizations, Hospitals, Clinics etc in European countries. 

Statistical Software. ATKOSoft's on-going collaboration with Eurostat, the European Union's Statistical Organization, resulted in the development of sophisticated Statistical Software applications and tools, used by Statistical services and organizations of European countries, Multinational companies etc. 

Internet/e-Commerce Applications, focusing in large Database handling and management, as well as in complementary internet applications for its Medical and Statistical products. 

Participation in International Consortia, including Public and Private organizations from many European Countries, that focus on the Research and Development of leading edge Software solutions, using the latest technology in Software development and telecommunications. ATKOSoft is the main Technology provider and Software developer in all projects, and the Leader/Prime Contractor in most of them. 
Development of Custom Software Solutions for clients in the Private and Public sector, both in Greece and abroad. Clients in this area include Greek Public sector and state-owned companies, private companies in Greece, and departments of the European Commission. 
Consulting in IT/European Projects Management & Administration

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1) Soldier of the future
2) Operational stress in overseas operations
3) Operational medicine

However, CRSSA/FH is also involved in public national research programs coordinated by: I.N.S.E.R.M.1 , I.F.R.T.P.2 , A.F.M.3 and others, directly or through scientific collaborations with public laboratories. Grants from D.G.A. and other organisms and institutional budget for research was above 300 K€ in 2001.

CRSSA/FH is headed by a general officer (M.D., Ph.D.); and about 35 permanent peoples: medical officers, scientists, engineers, technicians and logistic staff, and more then 10 Ph.D. students are working at CRSSA/FH. In 2001, the former 4 research units were replaced by seven “poles of competence” to facilitate its functioning: thermophysiology, exercise physiology, biomechanic and muscle function, noise and sound blast, sensorial psychophysiology, psychological stress and neurobiology of stress, each being headed by a medical officer (or veterinarian).
Main facilities of CRSSA/FH are:
- 4 climatic chambers (hot, cold and altitude) for both human and animal studies,
- 1 fully equipped human exercise laboratory
- 1 animal laboratory for noise-induced hearing loss study
- 1 motion-sickness laboratory

Scientific production of CRSSA/FH in 2001 was more than 25 papers in international scientific Journals, 50 presentations in International Conferences and 10 internal reports. The pole of competence of “neurophysiology of stress” (FH/NPS) was created in 2001 to better take into account the interest of the military staffs in the biological effects of stress. Three medical-officers (M.D., Ph.D.), one neuroscientist (Ph.D.), four technicians, four Ph.D. students (two neuroscientists, one physiologist and one engineer) and two master students are
working in FH/NPS on three major connected themes:
1) Neuronal basis of stress in extreme environment, directed by Dr F. Canini (M.D., Ph.D.),
2) Stress and vigilance, directed by F. Chapotot (Ph.D.)
3) Physiological assessment of stress directed by Dr L. Bourdon (M.D., Ph.D.).

Main collaborations are:
- International, with the Defence and Civil Institute of Environmental Medicine (Dr I. Jacobs, P. Shek, T. McLellan, J. Frim);
- National, with INSERM U480 (Lyon Dr R. Cespuglio), Institute of tropical neurology (Limoges, Pr Dumas), University of Grenoble : TIM-C (Prs G. Benchetrit and P. Baconnier), INSA Lyon (Dr A. Dittmar) and the University hospital (Pr B. Bonaz);
- institutional with the french military hospitals (Lyon, Marseille, Paris, Metz) and the fire brigade of Paris.

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Particular attention is paid to the students' personal development: flourishing student associations, sporting and specialised cultural activities (Science and Sports Section, Science and Arts Section), courses in communication and humanities.

- An active centre for scientific research:
• 690 postgraduate students,
• 31 research laboratories of which 13 are partners of the major research organism (INRA - the National Institute for Agronomic Research, INSERM - the National Institute for Health and Medical Research, CNRS - the National Centre for Scientific Research),
• 24 nationally accredited PhD programs.

INSA-Lyon is also part of:
• The nationwide network of 4 schools (Lyon, Rennes, Rouen, Toulouse). Each year, nearly 10% of entry-level engineers are INSA graduates
• the Lyon area University Pole, which brings together higher education institutions governed by the Ministry of Education, Research and Technology 

The Laboratoire de Physique de la Matiere (LPM) is part of Institut National des Sciences Appliquees de Lyon associated with CNRS (Unite Mixte de recherche 5511). It is currently headed by Gerard GUILLOT. It is affiliated with Departement des Sciences pour l'Ingenieur (SPI) from CNRS.

The permanent staff reaches about 40 people, among them CNRS researchers, professors, assistant professors, engineers and administrative staff. About 35 Ph. D. students also study at LPM. Since a few years research topics tend to be pluridisciplinar. The scientific multicultural groups working at the lab have common goals: to develop innovating materials for electronics, to understand of their physical properties, to master new technological processes and lastly to concept, modelize and characterize new devices in the fields of microelectronics, optoelctronics, photovoltaics and microsystems.

Since 1993, the lab's scientific activity can be regrouped within 4 main directions:
•Silicon microelectronics devices and characterization
•Microoptoelectronics and heterostructures
•Microtechnologies and microsensors
•Photovoltaics

The Microsensors and Microsystems Biomedical (M.M.B.) Research Department is a part of LPM Laboratory, the MMB team set up in France in 1970 at the faculty of Medicine in Lyon, in the CNRS laboratory of thermal regulation The research activity was focused on micro and non invasive sensors for the study thermal parameters, microcirculation, artificial thermal regulation, sensors to monitor the activity of nervous system, study of vigilance. The multidisciplinary approach of the team was based on the natural cooperation and potentiality of University and Hospital. In 1996 the MMB team joined the LPM laboratory of the INSA de Lyon.
Special competence of MMB for WEALTHY project:
Micro sensors, non invasive sensors, thermal measurement of human body, micro-technologies, micro-optics, Microsystems, biomedical sensors.

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1. Press, PR and Marketing/sales activities

Since we are planning world wide sales presentations and press conferences with special emphasis on Europe for the respective Avantex events, we are able to communicate and promote the results in the framework of our informations kits , in the respective speeches and in numerous personal dialogues with key partners from the entire textile value chain and related interdisciplinary areas. In detail we may ensure the dissemination via press releases, respective information in our Avantex news that will be published three times a year and via specific information on our web site Avantex that enjoyed a significant increase of access during the last year.

Further dissemination platforms are the working cycles especially the one related to healthcare clothing and new functional clothing for the elderly that had been initiated in Frankfurt this year. We are elaborating a totally new concept in view of a Europe-wide international working group community that will considerably enlarge the dissemination angle.

Another activity in the recent future will be a study of the health-care industry. The aim of this study will be both to provide a general survey of the international market situation in the area of health and disease- management and health-care textiles and to identify potentially profitable areas of application (short, medium and long term). This market survey goes along with the initiative of Messe Frankfurt Avantex to build up a Europe wide information and communication platform for high-tech health-care garments.

Since Avantex has a certain monopoly on concentrating and collecting know-how and knowledge in the multifarious areas of high-technology application Dr. Hofmann keeps on giving lectures at various places in Europe. This is another perfect opportunity to talk about the results of WEALTHY. Moreover we are invited to write essays for publications - still another fine opportunity to report on the results.

2. Avantex events – Symposium and innovation fair

The Avantex event for the moment every two years combining an international symposium with a high-quality innovation fair is an ideal platform to reveal new ideas, developments and processes in the area of high-technology. With 2.700 participants in the symposium as well as professional trade visitors to the innovation fair from more than 40 countries we reach a high potential of the innovation community in Europe. The results of WEALTHY may be illustrated in various ways – lecture in the Avantex symposium and product display in the future area of the innovation fair.

3. Presentations at the point of sale throughout Europe

Avantex is trying to build up a Europe-wide network to promote new high-tech clothing in selected retailer outlets throughout the major European metropoles. The first cooperation has been finalized with Karstadt Warenhaus AG – the leading retailer in Europe. In ten of the most important outlets starting in the flagship store in Berlin – KADEWE - we will show innovative garments of Avantex clients to the end consumer. The time schedule foresees August/September 2003 as starting period.

Concerning the textile sector , Messe Frankfurt GmbH has a particularly strong profile and extensive experience. With 25 events a year, Messe Frankfurt GmbH is the leading textile trade fair organiser world-wide. Per cycle, more than 6 000 exhibitors and nearly 117 000 trade visitors attend the trade fairs covering all three textile markets sectors: apparel fabrics, home/interior textiles and technical textiles. The most outstanding textile fair brand names are Heimtextil (www.heimtextil.de), Interstoff (www.interstoff.de), Techtextil (www.techtextil.de).

With the ‚Avantex – International Innovation Forum and Symposium for High-tech Apparel Textiles‘, launched in Frankfurt in November 2000, Messe Frankfurt took a clear step in the direction of securing the future together with the innovators in this sector. The event was inaugurated by the EU-commissioner Erkki Liikanen and the European Commission is still according its patronage in 2002.

Avantex is the world’s first international innovation platform for the whole textile process chain from research to the trade via the end consumer. Avantex is practising consumer-orientated innovation management in close partnership with its customers. It is a platform, for both the launching of new products and the presentation of products recently marketed in the textile and health-care sector. It sees itself as a sensor, navigator and motor for the textile business of the future. The complementary nature of the event consisting of a user-orientated symposium and an accompanying innovation fair offers the unique chance of developing concrete business ideas together with industrial partners in addition to the exciting networking possibilities. An event on the subject of innovation must also lead to new forms of presentation. This was shown by the fact that at the first event quite a lot of exhibitors did come with their partners in joint ventures, or with users from earlier or later production stages – already as a sort of network. The very new approach of Avantex is that it brings together specialists from different areas like the medical field, micro- and nanosystem technology, IT sector, electronics, chemical industry and the textile sector. Avantex is intended to publicise the new technical possibilities for functionalising clothing and to accelerate the process towards commercialisation. The motto is interdisciplinary exchange of knowledge and future management. The Avantex is the ideal platform for the dissemination of the results of the project.

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