Project TELESOL will promote telework in business and research areas between EU and the eight countries of CIS (Kazakhstan, Kyrghyzstan, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia, Ukraine, and Russia).

TELESOL will use a system of Information Demonstration Centers, deployed by TAP project STACCIS in 1996-1999 in European CIS countries and create on this base, a system of Telework Competence Centers (TCCs). Core TCC will be set up in Russia. TELESOL will create in the CIS countries pilot fully operational online telework systems between EU and CIS participants in business and research areas. First telework systems will be set up around Core TCC; further development in new methods of work will follow the development of local TCCs in Central Asian and European countries of CIS. TCCs will be the focal points of collecting relevant telework information, training, exchange of experience, establishing contacts with interested parties in EU. Such role of the TCCs will generate new telework systems.

TELESOL will organize technology kick-off meeting, Central Asian regional conference and local workshops, will develop curriculum on the technology and management aspects of new methods of work between EU and CIS. By these training and dissemination actions, TELESOL will create telework awareness in EU and CIS countries, and will help them to overcome barriers to networking and to successful teleworking projects between EU and CIS countries.