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Support for Innovation and Collaboration in the IST Programme

This program aims to support innovation, collaboration, and the participation of SMEs in the IST Programme. It provides funding for proposals that demonstrate scientific/technological quality, community added value, and contribution to social objectives.

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Support for Innovation and Collaboration in the IST Programme

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  1. 5th EU RTD Framework Programme Information Society Technologies (IST) Programme

  2. Programme Structure & Indicative Budget Distribution

  3. IST Programme 1st call proposals Total number of Proposals submitted 2488 Total funding requested 5.1BEURO Proposals for which negotiations started 475 Total funding proposed 818MEURO Success Ratio 1:5.2

  4. Participation By Organisation & Action Line

  5. 1st call participation & Retainment EU Countries

  6. 1st call participation & RetainmentEFTA-EEA & Pre-adhesion Countries

  7. Cypriot Proposals

  8. Evaluation Criteria 1. Scientific/technological quality and innovation 2. Community added value and contribution of EC policies 3. Contribution to Community social objectives 4. Economic development and S&T prospects 5. Resources, partnership and management

  9. Successful Proposals with Cypriot Participation

  10. Successful Cypriot Companies

  11. Newly Associated Countries • Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Slovenia, Romania, Bulgaria, Cyprus • All 11 countries were associated at the time of selection

  12. NAC participations

  13. Success rates per country

  14. Type of retained participations from EU

  15. Type of retained participations from NAC

  16. Analysis of “non retained” • Few rejections on formal grounds - formal mechanism is well understood • Weak on innovation - proposals have little new • Weak on consortium structure -consortia are unbalanced • Weak exploitation plan - low or no information on exploitation or dissemination • Weak end user involvement - little involvement of e.g. larger industry

  17. Recommended to support • Capacity building • Partnersearch and consortium building • Technology brokerage • Networking • SME involvement ; SME awards

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