This Workpackage has the intention of producing a report detailing both the current status of F/OSS adoption in European countries, and the barriers that such future adoption might face.

This Workpackage aims to start up national programmes for improved usage of F/OSS in some of the target countries and develop guidelines that will be used for F/OSS adoption in the public sector.

The major objectives of this Workpackage are to tackle the obstacles and leading to a breakthrough of usability in F/OSS, by assuring that usability will be paid more attention in F/OSS in the future.

The proposed Workgroup gathers partners with deep and complementary knowledge in software engineering, university curricula development, e-learning and collaborative learning, application of open source methodology and business models to real world problems.