Your Worldwide ICT Support Network NCP Benchmarking Workshop 25 Marc h 2010 Sarajevo

1. Your Worldwide ICT Support Network NCP Benchmarking Workshop 25 March 2010 Sarajevo

2. Ideal-ist: Introduction • Project aim: • “To develop and implement a coordination mechanism for strengthening trans-national cooperation among ICT NCPs in FP7 in order to improve the overall quality of NCP services across Europe in the area of ICT.” • Project duration: 36 months, starting on 01.10.2008 • Co-ordinator: Deutsches Zentrum fuer Luft und Raumfahrt - DLR (DE) • Consortium: 64 partners from EU12, EU15, AS, EEPC, MPC and Emerging Economies

3. Ideal-ist members • Associated Countries • Eastern European Partner Countries (EEPC) • Mediterranean Partner Countries (MPC) • Western Balkan Countries (WBC) • Emerging economies, • Developing Countries • Industrialised Countries

4. Ideal-ist Objectives • Reinforcing the ICT NCP network by promoting trans-national cooperation • Sharing knowledge & experience, promotion of good NCP practices, to ensure the best NCP service throughout Europe and internationally • Provision of a quality checked Partner Search for the proposers, and support to interpret the Work Programme and improve project idea • Raising the awareness for NCPs’ services among constituency • Improvement of cooperation with other networks, organisations and initiatives

5. Ideal-istactivities • NCP Networking/Training (37%) • NCP Forum, NCP good practice analysis, Advanced NCP training for special needs, Twining / coaching for NCP • Partner Search (13 %) • PS methodology, PS service, PS quality, PS statistics • Promotion & Management of BEs (13 %) • PR & Marketing, Online relations, Event management • External Relations (13 %) • Cooperation with other EU projects, networks, EC organisations (Cordis) and EC (surveys, among them closed EU 12 survey)

6. Ideal-ist NCP Networking / Training • NCP Document service • create a common repository to share background documents • provide brief summaries of ICT policy key documents • NCP Forum • a tool for NCPs to raise common concerns, discuss the existing experience, clarify potential solutions • NCP good practice analysis • understand the various national approaches and provide a basis for sharing experience • arrange face-to-face networking meetings • prepare a short and helpful "good practice" handbook

7. 2.1Document Service / Discussion forum • Suggestions for • new content WELCOME

8. 2.3NCP best practice guide Current content () and more to come (-) • NCP system structure • The NCP international network • National funding to support participation in the FP • Sources of information for NCPs • Clients Database & Relations management • NCP organization website • Newsletters • Events organization • Partner Search tools • Public Relations (PR) • Personal consulting • Proposals review • Guidance for New comers, Seminars and Trainings • Analyzing call results • Pre Work Programme phase • NCP organizational issues • Suggestions for • new content WELCOME

9. Ideal-ist NCP Networking / Training • Advanced NCP training for special needs • seminars to share NCP knowledge and experience: • training seminars to target needs of less experienced NCPs • in-depth seminars to discuss strategic issues of strong interest to the entire network • topics: “lessons learnt” from evaluators and coordinators • Twining / coaching for NCP • identify mutually beneficial partnerships of NCPs, including both more and less experienced • offer NCPs a “learning-by-doing” experience to cover the full range of NCP activities

10. 2.4NCP training Pre-defined seminars • Exchange of experience with Evaluators (2009 JAN) • Exchange of experience with Coordinators (2011 MAY/JUN) Training seminars • Partner search, pre-proposals check (2010 JUL/SEP) • Enriching national NCP infrastructures In-depth seminars • IPR, Consortium building - successful cooperation scenarios (2010 JUN - Cagliari, Italy) • Financial issues (2009 OCT) • Analysis of participation

11. 2.5Twinning – status Twinning call 1: 8 applications, 5 complete, 1 on its way, 1 postponed Twinning call 2:  OPEN NOW - more flexible rules! • Open with each ICT call + ad-hoc opportunities • Two types of twinning • Exchange of experience • Training (trainer, trainee) • can combine with brokerage EU12 - EU15 No longer limit of one twinning per partner: • Each partner can benefit once(either exchange experience or as trainee). • Experienced partners can train as often as needed

12. Partner Search • Targeted to actual calls • Type of information requested • Call identifier, research objective, instrument, evaluation scheme, closure date • Proposal – objectives, keywords • Partner profile sought – required skills, expertise, work to be carried out, type of partner sought, coordinator sought • Your FP experience (participation, coordination) • Partner searches are Quality checked • Ideal-ist Partner Search now Open for: • ICT Call 6, CIP ICT PSP

13. How Ideal-ist finds partners for you

14. How to get started If you would like to submit a Partner Search: • Register as a Proposer (http://www.ideal-ist.net/createMember) • Log in, create and submit a Partner Search • If you would like to submit an Expression of Interest: • Reply to open Partner Searches if you match the profile sought and have the expertise to carry out the activities foreseen • (http://www.ideal-ist.net/partner-search) • If you would like to be informed: • Subscribe toMailing list: you will receive regular communications on open Partner Searches • (http://www.ideal-ist.net/partner-search/newsletter_subscribe)

15. Ideal-ist: 20 supported calls so far • ICT Call 1 (FP7-2007-ICT-1) • FET Open (FP7-2007-ICT-C) • ICT Call 2 (FP7-ICT-2007-2) • FP7-ICT-SEC-2007-1 • ICT Call 3 (FP7-ICT-2007-3) • ARTEMIS-2008-1 • ENIAC-2008-1 • ICT Call 4 (FP7-ICT-2009-4) • ICT-ENERGY Joint Call (FP7-ICT-ENERGY-2009-1) • ICT Call 5 (FP7-ICT-2009-5) • FET Open (FP7-ICT-2009-C) • ICT PSP 2009 (CIP-ICT PSP-2009-3) • ARTEMIS-2009-1 • ENIAC-2009-1 • ICT Call 6 (FP7-ICT-2009-6) • ICT PSP 2009 bis (CIP-ICT PSP-2009-3bis) • Factories of the Future 2010 (FP7-2010-NMP-ICT-FoF) • Energy-Efficient Buildings 2010 (FP7-2010-NMP-ENV-ENERGY-ICT-EeB) • ICT for Green Cars 2010 (FP7-2010-ICT-GC ) • ICT PSP Call 4 (CIP-ICT PSP-2010-4)

16. Ideal-ist Success Story – so far Quality Check: 70% of these Partner seaches Quality labeled Partner seaches published: 491 Partner searches Expressions of Interests: All together 19.276 EoI (50 EoI a PS) Partner searches initiated: 711 Partner Searches Quality check proofs efficiency Accepted as partner 98% of these PS found a partner Success Stories = FUNDING Submitted proposals 80% submited proposal with their partner Over treshold 33% of the proposals over treshold (on average 11,5 points ) Retained 20 % of those proposals retained

17. Partner Search

18. Response Management Tool:Pending EoI

19. Backoffice of a Proposer

20. Ideal-ist Brokerage Events Schedule • A. During big EC events : • a) an International BE addressing Call 7: in line with the ICT 2010 conference in Brussels - besides a Networking session, presentations and a booth • b) an International BE addressing Call 8/9: in line with the ICT Proposers’ Day in Budapest • B. In selected EU12 countries: • an International BE addressing Call 8: in line with the eChallenge 2010, Warsaw, Poland • 3 upcoming "Huckepack" Networking events "Huckepack" Networking events (BE + Info Day) until 09/2011, in 3 different EU12 locations

21. Thank you for your attention! www.ideal-ist.netYOUR worldwide ICT support network Ideal-ist (*) The Ideal-ist project is part-funded by the European Commission under its IST Priority. Any opinions expressed in this document are those of the author/organisation and do not necessarily reflect the views of the European Community.