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OVERVIEW OF ACTIVITIES OF ALL WORK-PACKAGES

Viorel Vulturescu – ANCS Romania01.03.2010

NCP projectEnvironment NCPs cooperating to improve their effectiveness

Objectives:

• Strengthening the cooperation between NCPs from EU MS by promoting transnational cooperation

• Reinforcing international cooperation with NCPs from ICPC with high potential of participation to FP7

• Increasing the number and improving the quality of project proposals submitted to FP7 calls for proposals by a better service offered by NCPs to potential proposers

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WP 0: coordination WP 1: intra European NCP cooperation WP 2: brokerage events WP 3: increasing the quality of proposals submitted in

response to FP7 calls WP 4: international cooperation WP 5: mapping Indian research potential WP 6: dissemination and communication WP 7: pan European survey of environment sector

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◦ WP 0 – Viorel Vulturescu (ANCS - RO) D 0.0 Kick off meeting and report (M2) – March 2009 D 0.1 Project web page including special area for NCP communication

(M4) – August 2009 WP leaders meeting (July 2009 - Brussels, March 2010 - Bucharest) Annual meeting (March 2010 – Bucharest)

◦ WP 1 – Christian Jagersma (Agentschap NL - NL) D.1.1 – Benchmarking of ENV NCP services, including identification of

“best practice” and recommendations for training of less-experienced NCPs (M3) – preliminary version

D.1.2 – Evaluation reports of training courses (M6) – after 3-4 March training

◦ WP 2 – Alain Straus (FFG - AT) D 2.1. Development and maintenance of the matchmaking software (M5)

– report is needed D 2.2 – Brokerage event in Austria (call 2010) – already uploaded

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◦ WP 3 – Catherine Holt (BETA - UK) D 3.2 – Pre-screening tool (M 12) - achieved D 3.3 – Questionnaire to evaluate the proposal pre-screening tool (M12)

◦ WP 4 – Marion Tobler (EU RESEARCH - CH) D 4.2 – 5 annual WP progress report to the project coordinator (M 12) D 4.3 – a database of international partners including organizations and

potential partners made available in a secure way (M12) D 4.4 – A questionnaire of ICPCs (M5) D 4.5 – A report with recommendation on ICPC FP7 needs (M10) D 4.6 – Preparation and distribution of first draft ICPC customized information

about FP7 to selected ICPC representatives (M2) D 4.7 – FP7 ENV training presentations to ICPC representatives meetings (M

12) - ? D 4.8 – FP7 ENV training events at the offices of ICPC representatives of high

potential countries (M12) - ?

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◦ WP 5 – Surbhi Sharma (ITSMA - IN) D 5.1 – Report on Indian organizations and environmental sector in India (M6) D 5.2 – Questionnaire and data base structure (M4) - Sourabha

◦ WP 6 – Lior Ben-Artzi (ISERD - IL) D 6.1 – Catalogue of researchers (M6) - achieved D 6.2 – Interim reports on feedback and impact assessment of coordinators

and SMEs/ICPC successfully involved in ENV projects (M12) D 6.3 – Selection and preparation of the 10 most relevant success stories of

researchers participating in ENV projects (M12) - achieved D 6.4 – PR materials: Brochures, Posters, Leaflets (M6) – only a leaflet (need

to be revised)

◦ WP 7 – Zdenka Sustakova (TC AS CR - CZ) - delayed D 7.1 – Development of questionnaire for national sector survey

(M6) D 7.2 – Data processing and interpretation – creation of database

(M12)

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WP 0 – delays but achieved WP 1 – delayed – the training is set (March

2010) WP2 – completed WP3 – completed WP4 – delayed WP5 – completed WP6 – completed WP7 - delayed

Conclusions (March 2010)

PARTNERPRE-FINANCING

(EURO)DELIVERED

YES/NO

ANCS 104.917,35 YES

FFG 53.421,53 YES

BEA 32.732,00 YES

TUS 23.504,25 YES

EU RESEARCH 65.344,26 YES

RPF 18.916,00 YES

TC AV CR 16.006,13 YES

JULICH 38.376,89 YES

ARCHIMEDE 25.389,03 YES

ADEME 29.262,80 YES

NKTH 11.807,24 YES

ISERD 77.655,20 YES

PARTNERSPRE-FINANCING

(EURO)DELIVERED

YES/NO

APRE 36.179,50 YES

TMTPPA 18.970,30 YES

MCST 15.541,75 YES

SENTER 67.784,50 YES

IPPT PAN 46.291,00 YES

NFC 22.358,77 YES

TUBITAK 27.244,88 YES

NCSR 23.239,03 YES

LUXINNOVATION 14.722,72 YES

BETA TECH 56.212,08 YES

FORMAS 16.074,66 NO

CDTI 29.454,43 YES

PARTNERS

PRE-FINANCING(EURO)

DELIVEREDYES/NO

RANNIS 18.324,66 NO

MZSOS 12.345,40 YES

IITSMA 54.487,09 YES

ADI 23.214,63 YES

TOTAL: 979.778,05

http://www.env-ncp-together.eu/

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„ABOUT” - short introduction and its main objectives.

„PARTNERS” -all the consortium partners

„WP” - WP leaders ….. if you click on (read more..) … a description of WP is

given.

”NCPs” - short summary of what an NCP means and about the NCP system.

- link to CORDIS where you can have more information.

MonthUnique visitors

Number of visits

Pages Hits

Aug 2009 0 0 0 0

Sep 2009 29 37 313 1.277

Oct 2009 166 306 2.419 11.629

Nov 2009 337 473 14.057 24.957

Dec 2009 182 256 8.171 13.974

January 2010 190 354 9.291 16.354

February 2010 (partially)

106 252 12.419 19.037

Total 1.010 1.678 46670 87.288

Top usage - Countries: (RO, FR, TR) …. (PL, HU, CY)

WP 0 - REPORTING (technical and financial)

WP 1 – training for NCPs WP 2 – Brokerage event (Istanbul) WP 3 – Training materials for pre-screening tool, plus PsT feedback from NCPsWP 4 – Selection of “high potential” ICPC +

workshopsWP 5 – Database of Indian ENV contactsWP 6 – Promotion of ENV-NCP-TOGETHER (+..)WP 7 – Questionnaire + assessment + outcome