Transcript An overview of the FP6 IST Priority

CIRCE and other alternative funding opportunities
Miroslav Polzer
Austrian Science and Research Liaison Office Ljubljana
Centre for Social Innovation ZSI, Vienna / Austria
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CIRCE
Cooperation in Innovation and Research
with Central- and Eastern Europe
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Objectives of CIR-CE
Establish and extend
transnational, business-driven
innovation networks (particularly
SME) between Austria and
Central- and Eastern Europe for
the creation and implementation
of innovation and for
strengthening of technology
transfer
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Further Objectives of CIR-CE
• Improvement of the innovative capabilities of
companies (especially of SME) and their ability
to
assimilate
and
implement
external
knowledge
• Enhancement of the cooperative capability of
companies (in particular SME); creation of
sustainable cross-border innovation networks
and cooperation structures
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Applicants
• Intermediary Organisations
– Technology- and Innovation Centres,
Incubators etc.
– Clusters
– Competence Centres
– Cooperative research institutes
• Research institutes with a focus on technology- and
knowledge transfer
• Companies with the role of a network-coordinator
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NETWORK-Projects and
INNOVATION-Projects
NETWORK-Projects (NP)
Focus:
Transnational network
Innovation-Projects (IP)
Focus:
Ambitious element of RTDI
Result:
Result:
Established and intensified Developed/optimised
cross-border co-operation
product, process or service
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Maximum Public Funding /
maximum Duration
NETWORKProjects
INNOVATIONProjects
Up to 75 %
Up to 45 %
Up to
150.000 €
Up to
400.000 €
1,5 Years
3 Years
Result of First Call: 40 proposals submitted 14 projects funded
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Possible Partner Countries CEE
Albania
Poland
Bosnia and Herzegowina
Romania
Bulgaria
Serbia
Estonia
Montenegro
Croatia
Slovakia
Latvia
Slovenia
Lithuania
Czeck Republic
Mazedonia
Hungary
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Example – Network-Project:
ELSEPIM= Utilisation of PIM
for electronics, sensors and actuators
• Applicant:
• FOTEC Forschungs- und Technologietransfer GmbH
• Partners:
• 9 SME and 1 University from Austria, Serbia, Montenegro
and Bosnia
• Aim:
• Develop and evaluate concrete product ideas in the fields
of electronics, sensors and actuators utilising the
innovative technology of powder injection moulding (PIM)
• Realise long-term relationships between the project
partners and further partners
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Example – Network-Project: ELSEPIM ctd.
•Results:
•Know-how of every partner increased
•Long-term relation within the network established with
regard to customer-supplier-relation
•Joint product development
•Technology and know-how transfer
•Two technical feasibility studies carried out
•Follow-up innovation project defined
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Important Dates
•6 December 2006: opening second call for
proposals with kick-off event in Vienna
•11 April 2007: Proposer’s Day
•24 May 2007, 12 o’clock: deadline
•June 2007: Evaluation panel
•July 2007: announcement of projects to be funded
•September 2007: Kick-off meeting with future
contractors
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Programme Management
and Controlling
BIRGIT BAUMANN
E-mail: [email protected]
Phone: *43 (0)5 77 55 – 2401
ULRIKE KAINZ-FERNÁNDEZ
DE LA REGUERA
E-mail: [email protected]
Phone: *43 (0)5 77 55 – 2403
www.cir-ce.at
MARTINA AMON
E-mail: [email protected]
Phone: *43 (0)5 77 55 – 2602
ROMANA BOHNENSTINGL
Email:romana.bohnenstingl@f
fg.at
Phone: *43 (0)5 77 55 – 2607
Eine Initiative des
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Aso-Ljubljana and Sofia Call on
„Information Society in SEE countries“
Austrian Science and Research Liaison Offices Ljubljana/Slovenia and
Sofia/Bulgaria (ASOs) announce a Call for proposals for projects in
Research Cooperation and Networking between institutions
(universities and not-for-profit non-university research institutions) in
Austria, the ASO countries Slovenia and Bulgaria and South Eastern
Europe (Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, FYR of Macedonia,
Montenegro, Romania and Serbia, including Kosovo).
The call wants to intensify the short-term cooperation in the scientific
field of "Information Science and Society in SEE countries" with the
aim to support the development of long-term scientific collaboration.
Funding is provided by the Austrian Federal Ministry for Education,
Science and Culture (bm:bwk) in the framework of its South Eastern
European science cooperation initiative.
This call is open to 9 February 2007 (date of post mark).
http://www.aso.zsi.at/en/all/aktuelles/2069.html
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SEE-ERA.NET Pilot Joint Call
for Research and Thematic Network Projects
as well as Summer Schools in/with the Western Balkan Region
Thematic areas:
• Food, Agriculture and Biotechnology: sub area “Sustainable production and
management of biological resources from land, forest and aquatic environments”
• Information and Communication Technologies: sub area “Applications Research”
• Environment: sub area “Environmental Technologies”
Research projects
These projects shall be conducted by a project consortium with at least three
participants from three different countries and at least one of them must be from a
Western Balkan country.
Network projects
The thematic network projects are preferably aiming at the co-ordination and cooperation of scientists in one specific scientific area based on mutual visits and
small Workshops.
Funding provided primarily for costs of mobility of researchers (comparable to
bilateral S&T cooperation agreements), but also for events and feasibility studies
• Further information: http://www.see-era.net/pjc
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Thank you for your attention
[email protected]
www.aso.zsi.at
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