ATHENA is an Integrated Project partially funded by EU. The objective is to develop solutions to overcome todays interoperability problems. More specifically the aim is to:

• Define a reference model for interoperability
• Define interoperability requirements and solutions for applications, data and communications
• Develop methods that allow enterprises to address interoperability
• Develop semantic tools to support interoperability

AHTENA is a three year project which started in February 2004. It has 19 partners from academia, research and industry. SINTEF's contributions are within the following thematic areas:

• Enterprise modelling
• Process modelling
• Ontology and semantics
• Service Oriented Architecture
• Model-Driven Architecture