European Network of Excellence on Requirements Engineering (1997-2000)
''"Any information technology product, or service, which does not meet the requirements of users, or which cannot be identified with the requirements of a market sector, will not be used, sold or yield social benefit. Requirements engineering (RE) provides the tools, concepts and methods which mediate between the providers of information technology services and products, and the users or markets for such services and products."''
"RENOIR is a Network of Excellence, established within the Fourth Framework Programme (FP4) of the European Union. It is a network of research groups, each with established excellence in the area of requirements engineering, funded through the FP4 provisions for research and technology development in information technology, collectively known as ESPRIT."
"The objectives of the Requirements Engineering Network of International Cooperating Research Groups [...] are: to provide a framework for coordinated joint research in requirements engineering related to industrial needs; to support the diffusion of requirements engineering research; to provide requirements engineering research training; to support technology transfer in requirements engineering."
Within Renoir, the IS Group (Opdahl) lead the Research Area on the wider context of requirements work.
All quotes on this page were taken from the Renoir project page: http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/research/renoir/ (external link - no longer updated).