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Conference
Poland in the European Research Area
Cracow, 21-22 September 2001
Polish-Austrian Co-operation in
EU RTD Activities
Manfred Horvat
BIT - Bureau for International Research and Technology Co-operation, AT
An initiative of the Austrian Government and the Economic Chamber Austria
[email protected]
Contents
The BIT in Poland:
past, present and future activities
AT/PL success in FP5
perspectives for stimulating
AT/PL co-operation in EU RTD activities
BIT in Poland - How it all started
Projects:
Twin Partner des FEMIRC Polen, FNP
Phare SCI TECH Programm, FNP:
Polish Participation in EU RTD Programmes
Polish Liaison Officer for SME Aspects in FP5
evaluation of Polish Centres of Excellence (Phare)
POLNET
other activities, such as e.g.:
Water Brokerage event, Cracow (EUREKA & EU)
Poznan Industrial Fair and POLEKO
participation in information days in several PL cities
visits of Contact Points in BIT
BIT in Poland: Present state
Accepted EU projects:
Partners for Life, IPPT
Fellows for Industry, IPPT
TRAIN-NET, IPPT
UNIVERSAL, TU Warschau
POLDA - Polish Network Dev. Action, IPPT
CoE AMAS (Adv. Materials and Structures), IPPT
started special AT initiatives:
targeted information for AT companies in PL
BIT initiative “Partnership for Research”
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FP5: Partners in EU-Projects with
Austrian Participation
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EU-15
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Candidate Countries
Austrian-Polish Participation in FP5
(10 AT-Co-ordinators, 3 PL-Co-ordinators)
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Perspectives for enhancing AT-PL
co-operation in EU RTD Activities
Flanking measures:
Liaison Officer for AT-PL RTD co-operation
Contact Points‘ staff placements in BIT
specific actions, such as e.g.:
Cracow: water technologies, socio-economics
Poznan: environment (POLEKO), socio-economics
PAN, Lublin: Agrophysics
IPPT & Pol. Warszawska: material technologies
Centres of Excellence: biomed & material tech.
AT/PL Forum for EU RTD and Innovation
The strategic BIT initiative:
„Partnership for Research“
Objective: to enhance Austrian RTD co-operation
in the EU FP with Candidate Countries
Measures - a three steps strategy:
promoting Marie Curie fellows from Candidate
Countries to Austria
preparing a EU RTD project as integrated part
of the Marie Curie training
promoting Marie Curie fellows from Austria to
Candidate Countries
Co-operation of BIT with IHP NCPs in CC!
„Partnership for Research“:
A strategic approach
Promoting Marie Curie Fellowships CC to AT:
a Call for Expressions of Interests in Austria
a Catalogue: more than 600 possible host organisations!
Web page:
http://www.bit.ac.at/partnership or
PL: http://www.kbn.gov.pl/en/index.html
advertisments in newspapers
PL: Rzeczpospolita
a “road show” through all Candidate Countries
PL: Cracow, Gdansk, Poznan, Szcecin, Wroclaw, Warsaw
Austrian Partnership for Research
with the Candidate Countries
An Initiative of the
Austrian BIT (Bureau for International Research and Technology Co-operation, Vienna)
The EU Fifth Frame-Work Programme on RTD offers a special scheme called Marie-Curie Fellowship
Scheme which supports training and mobility of young postdoctoral researchers in Europe.
The BIT Initiative intends to encourage Polish Researchers to take advantage of the Marie-Curie Scheme
by doing postdoctoral research in Austria. BIT supports your contact to Austrian host institutions like
universities, research institutes and companies. More than 500 Austrian host institutions are looking
forward to welcome you!
If you
 have doctoral diploma (or 4 years research at the postgraduate level)
 are younger than 36 years (allowance is made for military/civil service and child care)
then you are a candidate !
The BIT offers full and free support during all phases of your planned fellowship in Austria.
For more information please attend the BIT information days, e.g. in Poland:
18/10/2001 in Gdansk
06/11/2001 in Szczecin 08/11/2001 in Wroclaw
14/11/2001 in Warsaw
15/11/2001 in Krakow
Your contact person will be: e.g. in Poland Dr. Wieslaw Studencki Tel: 022-826 2502 E-mail:
[email protected]
Your BIT Contact: www.bit.ac.at/partnership
Austrian Partnership for Research
with the Candidate Countries
The BIT „Road show“
21.09.01: Bratislava, SK 15.10.01: Vilnius, LT
25.09.01: Kosice, SK
16.10.01: Prague, CZ*
27.09.01: Maribor, SI*
17.10.01: Gdansk, PL
28.10.01: Ljubljana, SI* 23.10.01: Timisoara, RO
01.10.01: Budapest, HU 25.10.01: Bukarest, RO
09.10.01: Brno, CZ
06.11.01: Szczecin, PL
09.10.01: Tallinn, EE
07.11.01: Sofia, BG
11.10.01: Szeged, HU
08.11.01: Wroclaw, PL*
11.10.01: Riga, LV
14.11.01: Warsaw, PL
12.10.01: Pecs, HU
15.11.01: Cracow, PL*
Co-ordinators in BIT:
Dr. Gerald Mueller-Niklas and Stephan Hinteregger
* scheduled
General measures to support AT/PL
EU RTD co-operation
A bi-lateral „ERA action plan“!
Active integration into projects: partner search
awareness, information, brokerage, training
using MC fellowships for generating projects
networking of Centres of Excellence
strategic use of Accompanying Measures, etc.
Specific measures for CC in FP6!
Joint actions of AT&PL Contact Points!
An AT/PL Forum for EU RTD & Innovation!
An Austrian-Polish Forum for
EU RTD and Innovation
Objectives: to enhance AT/PL co-operation in
EU RTD and Innovation activities
Strategy: managed by NCPs using a platform
of champions for promoting co-operation
Measures:
preparing sector specific action plans
develop bilateral links into EU RTD
strategic use of all FP instruments
use synergies with activities in other areas
For any further information,
ideas, comments, suggestions ...
... get in contact with:
Hon.-Prof. DI. Manfred Horvat
Director, BIT
[email protected]
Tel +43 1 5811616-114, Fax +43 1 5811616-16
DI Dr. Sabine Herlitschka
Deputy Director, BIT
[email protected]
Teö +43 1 5811616-103, Fax +43 1 5811616-16