"Supporting growth and spread of the Information Society"
June 1997
Version 2.2
This Information Document is intended to aid organisations which are planning to submit a proposal for 'Technology Transfer for Software Technologies'.
This document provides detailed information for:
| 1.32 Trial Applications | 2 calls for proposals planned(1) in mid June and mid September 97 |
| 1.33 Leveraging Actions | continuous submission (1); proposals can be submitted at any time |
The actions are identified as preparatory, support and technology transfer measures in the 1997 Work Programme of the Information Technologies Programme, in Domain 1: Software Technologies, Subdomain 'Technology Transfer', Tasks 1.32 and 1.33.
Proposers who are new to Esprit might wish to refer first to the Introduction for Proposers and the Work Programme of Esprit.
Section 1.1. is an "Executive Summary" aimed at the decision makers who need to have a global view about the content and benefits of getting involved in these actions.
The rest of this Information Document contains all necessary information to help you in preparing a proposal for Technology Transfer. If you are interested in Trial Applications only you can ignore section 1.3, if you are interested in Leveraging Actions only you can ignore section 1.2.
All documents are available on request at the Esprit Information Desk:
Tel: +32 2 296.85.96 Fax: +32 2 296.83.88 E-mail: Esprit@dg3.cec.be
this Information Document can be downloaded from the web:
/esprit/src/st-pst.htm
you can also refer to the Webpage:
The Technology Transfer actions aim to help accelerate the innovation process for a range of software technologies.
The adoption of leading-edge software solutions (still insufficiently deployed) presents user organisations with new possibilities forobtaining early competitive advantage. Conversely, the suppliers of such solutions must timely pass the barriers to successful commercial exploitation.
Technology Transfer in Software Technologies targets both users and suppliers and is implemented through two complementary action lines:
Trial Applications are concerned with leading-edge technology (yet not commercially mature) and address innovative users and the early adopters willing to introduce leading edge technology in the context of a trial in which the technology will be validated by the user and possibly adapted by the owner of the technology.
Leveraging Actions are concerned with innovative technology having high potential but still insufficiently deployed; they address the early adopters and initial users of the early majority adopting innovative technology. They also address the providers of such innovative technologies ready to access wider markets.
Technology transfer plays a central role in the innovation chain as it offers the link between leading-edge results and the consolidation of its wide adoption and commercial exploitation. One of the conclusions of a recent survey undertaken by EDS is that the creative adoption of new technologies is considered to be one of the three top strategic priorities for 86% of European company directors.
Innovation is a key element for an increased competitiveness of industries in all sectors. In particular, Software is confirmed to be one of the main vehicles through which innovation is implemented in a wide range of products and services by companies today.
For example:
It is therefore critical to stimulate the efficient Technology Transfer of Leading-edge Software Technologies to companies for which innovation plays a significant role in their competitive position.
Special emphasis is put on facilitating the access of small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) to efficient mechanisms to:
An executive summary for each of the action lines follows.
Trial Applications facilitate the introduction of leading-edge software technology in real-life user applications.
The goal is to encourage wider adoption by the user industry and early commercialisation. Users provide feedback on the suitability of the technology; providers use this feedback to adapt the technology to satisfy market requirements.
| User application: the driving force; typically involves one large application or, when appropriate, a combination of smaller ones. Leading-edge technology: typically a promising yet unproven new technology or a novel combination/integration of existing ones. Business motivation: commitment to exploit the results and benefits for both users and suppliers. |
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Next planned calls: June '97 and September '97 (deadline for proposals mid September '97 and mid December '97 respectively). Typically up to 18 months, 500 KECU of funding (50% of the costs of the trial).
Two partners, a user and a provider -or more. They can be from the same Country under certain conditions (see section 1.2).
Leveraging Actions aim at accelerating the wide adoption of innovative software technologies by industrial users.
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Proposals can be submitted at any time. Funding up to 100% of incremental costs. Typically up to 18 months, 500 KECU (up to 200 KECU for individual participants).
Participants can be from one Country under certain conditions (see section 1.3).
Trial Applications aim to facilitate the introduction of leading-edge software technology in real-life user applications to encourage wider adoption and commercial exploitation.
They bring together users and providers in a complementary cooperation making it possible to satisfy the needs of each of them concerning leading-edge technology (yet not commercially mature). Trial Applications will be carried out by:
The use of a leading-edge technology can provide substantial competitive advantages to a user but it might also represent a risk. Furthermore, the user incurs extra costs when adopting new technology.
The aim of Trial Applications is to overcome the barriers to the introduction of technology by making it more accessible for a first-time user to take the risk of adopting the new technology and so promoting in this way a wider adoption by other users who will see successful experience as a reference to follow.
This is done by providing financial support for the extra costs involved , and by establishing a direct user-supplier co-operation within the context of a real application.
The key points of a Trial Application are:
Proposals can be made by:
A Trial Application shall normally involve one user and one technology supplier but more could be involved if appropriate. In all cases a commercial partner committed to exploit the technology should be involved.
Simplified administrative process through a single contract between the CEC and the coordinating partner; other partners will have associated contracts with this partner. Payments are envisaged as follows: 50% advance payment at start and afterwards, payment of fixed instalments linked to the achievement of milestones.
Support is available for 50% of the full incremental costs (i.e. including overheads) associated with undertaking the trial application. For users, these are the extra costs of adopting the technology in the context of the application. For suppliers, these are the costs of any fine-tuning of the technology essential to allow its successful adoption. For both, the costs of disseminating lessons learnt. The costs of the target application itself and the cost of any significant development and commercialisation of the technology remain with the proposers.
Duration typically up to 18 months.
Typical funding: up to 500 KECU -per individual application if several are involved.
Trial Applications exceeding 500 KECU shall provide a clear justification (value for money should be particularly clear).
The following are just two examples of possible Trial Applications. There can certainly be many other possible examples involving other application domains, other industrial and service sectors and other software technologies.
The end goal of the Leveraging Actions is to "enhance the competitiveness of the EU by accelerating the wide adoption of innovative software technologies."
| The actions aim at helping users -commercial, industrial and public sector organisations- to adopt innovative "software technologies" that will provide them a competitive edge in their operations and increase the quality of the products and services they provide to their clients. For providers they aim at facilitating the task of deploying new products and services. |  |
The adoption of any new product or service is successful only if its usage makes obvious business sense. That includes, from the users point of view, an understanding of the product, its performance, its functionality, quality and benefits, and from the suppliers point of view, the sizing of the potential market, the sales and marketing plans and related costs, the deployment strategy, plans and costs.
If large organisations are in many cases able to undertake these actions within their existing resources, the SMEs very often lack time and people to design and implement successfully the required actions.
The Leveraging Actions aim at providing support to the European organisations in the above mentioned areas.
Any organisation in any sector of the economy which uses or produces products or services based on innovative software can make proposals and participate in the Leveraging Actions. They will benefit as follows:
Leveraging Actions (LAs) can take either a commercial focus or a user adoption focus.
However, they will usually involve a combination of activities related to both commercial issues and other issues and contributing to accelerating the adoption of innovation by users - the goal of the LAs.
Action lines are described below and examples have also been included for reference. Proposals could involve work related to one or more of the action lines.
Whilst in the case of the Trial Applications the technology will be adapted to some extent to satisfy user requirements, in the Leveraging Actions the technology simply needs to be put into practical use and the actions will focus on accelerating the adoption by the users of innovative technologies insufficiently deployed through different mechanisms according to the different action lines described below
Note: Actions of this type should be proposed as Leveraging Actions. However, proposers submitting them as Preparatory, Support and Transfer activities - tasks 0.3 to 0.7 in the workprogramme- will not be in disadvantage.
Simplified administrative process through a single contract between the CEC and the coordinating partner; other partners will have associated contracts with this partner. Payments are envisaged as follows: 50% advance payment at start and 50% on completion and acceptance of the action.
Funding up to 100% of incremental marginal costs.
The costs associated with the execution of the Leveraging Action can be charged under the agreed contract. An incremental marginal cost in this context is defined to be the actual expenditure which a contractor incurs in the execution of the Leveraging Action and which is solely attributable to the execution of the Leveraging Action. A contribution to general company overheads or profits is not allowable.
Emphasis will be placed on funding activities for which there is a real need for public stimulation and support, demonstrating value for money and no distortion of the market.
Allowable costs can include, for example: licence fees or costs associated with the purchase of software; costs associated with the acquisition of services; management and coordination with the Commission and other related actions, costs associated with the use of telecommunication services; costs of postage, printing and publication; rental costs for external meeting rooms or conference rooms; travel costs, justifiable marketing studies and labour costs.
Service costs could include subcontracting professional experts in specialised domains.
It should be noted that justifiable labour costs are limited to direct costs: salary directly paid to employees plus social charges. Labour or other costs between affiliated(2)1 organisations are expected not to exceed internal rates.
Duration typically up to 18 months
Typical project funding: activities of each participant up to 200 KECU
Leveraging Actions exceeding 500 KECU -in total- shall provide a clear justification (value for money should be particularly clear).
The programme is open to all legal entities - i.e. people and organisations - established and carrying out R&D; activities in the Member States of the European Union (industrial firms both large and small enterprises aimed at bringing products and services to the market, universities, higher education institutes, research organisations, etc.), and to the Joint Research Centre of the EC.
Normally ESPRIT proposals contain at least two non-affiliated participants from different member states or from one member state and one state associated and financially contributing to the Programme. Technology Transfer proposals need not necessarily contain organisations from more than one EU Member State, if the European added value of the proposal is demonstrated beyond doubt.
Participation in this programme, with financial contribution from the EU, is open to any legal entity established or carrying out R&D; activities in a third country associated with and contributing financially to the implementation of this Programme.
These are currently: Iceland, Israel, Liechtenstein and Norway.
Legal entities established and carrying out R&D; activities in other European countries or in countries who have concluded an S&T; agreement with the EU (not financially contributing as described above) may participate in the programme on condition that:
These states are at printing date: Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Georgia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Moldavia, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey and Ukraine, for which financial support by the EU, would in the case of acceptance of the proposal, normally be provided from funds other than the Esprit budget (an explicit request for such funding has to accompany the proposal).
Swiss, Australian and Canadian organisations may participate under the above conditions, but without funding from the EC. It is expected that agreement with South Africa will be reached in early 1997, so that organisations from South Africa may from then on also participate under the above conditions without EC funding.
Legal entities established in states other than above listed, may participate on condition that:
Organisations from Japan, Korea, New Zealand, Taiwan and the USA are not eligible for funding from the EU.
For organisations from other countries, financial support by the EU may be provided from funds other than the Esprit budget. An explicit request for such funding has to accompany the proposal.
International Organisations may participate on condition that:
Financial support from the Esprit Programme may be provided to international organisations situated in Europe on a case by case basis. An explicit request for such funding has to accompany the proposal.
If your proposal is successful in the evaluation and is selected for further negotiation, the Commission services will contact you for finalisation of the Project Programme and budgetary aspects.
The Project Officer assigned to be the responsible Commission official will provide you with the necessary documentation. The time needed in this phase depends on the complexity and evaluators' comments, but normally negotiations would take between 4 and 8 weeks if the work is well planned by the consortium.
The contract to be used will normally be: i) in the case of Trial Applications a Cost Reimbursement Contract for RTD with reimbursement by fixed instalments and ii) for Leveraging Actions an ESSI contract -with partners other than the coordinator being associate contractors.
The Commission has published an information booklet concerning the contracting conditions and the standard contracts. You can obtain this booklet by request from:
**** e-mail: info-dg12@DG12.cec.be; fax: +32/2 295 82 20 ****
The contract provides explicit definitions of the partnership, the reporting obligations, the allowable costs and other financial conditions and the intellectual property rights conditions. The contractual terms cannot be overruled by a consortium agreement, but the latter is recommended to provide further detail for the consortium on management and exploitation aspects.
The ESPRIT programme has procedures for both single and two step proposal submission and evaluation.
The submission and evaluation of the proposals as described in this information package will be done in a single step. Proposers must submit a full proposal before any evaluation takes place.
All proposals are evaluated by a panel of specially selected external experts who are all bound by a confidentiality agreement and a code of conduct to avoid conflicts of interest. The evaluation will be exclusively based on the criteria set out in this section and will include assessment of the conformity of the work with the objectives and topics as stated in sections 1.2 and 1.3 of this Specific Information Document. The evaluation will be carried out under the responsibility and co-ordination of the Commission which will also interact with associate Programmes, e.g. Telematics Applications, ACTS, IMT if appropriate.
When making a proposal, proposers should ask themselves the following questions:
The Why
The industrial relevance concerns the industrial context the proposal refers to, including market situation, needs and opportunities, technical state-of-the-art, and outstanding problems.
The What
The objectives set the specific business and technical targets to be achieved by the proposers, whereas results define the concrete outcomes of the project. They should be innovative within their specific industrial context and provide benefits to a wider community than solely the proposers themselves.
The Who
The proposers include both individual proposers with their profiles and skills and their collaboration, where synergism among partners roles should appear. The soundness of the proposing group is not limited to the technical ability to perform the work, but includes aspects such as whether the work is in-line with the core business of proposers and whether business co-operation among participants is possible, credible and potentially successful.
The How
Exploitation planning addresses the ways to achieve business objectives and provide the expected benefits during and after the project, whereas the work planning mainly concerns the identification of activities needed to achieve technical objectives and how they are co-ordinated with the business aspects.
Duration and resources concerns the staffing and time scale of activities identified in the work plan, whereas project management focuses on how all the components above are managed to achieve success.
You should keep the above basic questions in mind while fulfilling the criteria detailed in the Annexes. These criteria address the different aspects of a proposal in detail, and will be used by the expert evaluators to assess how it answers the basic questions above, while conforming with the scope and objectives of the Programme and showing the necessary European-level added value.
The criteria are designed to provide a fair, practical and consistent way of establishing to what extent proposals meet the goals of Esprit.
A proposal is comprised of two parts :
Part 1: providing the administrative and financial data
Part 2: providing the description of the proposed project in not more than 30 pages.
You may submit proposals in any official language of the EC. However, the provision of at least the summary in English is appreciated as this will assist the speedy evaluation of proposals.
The recommended structure and the evaluation criteria which need to be satisfied by proposals is described in Annex A for Trial Applications and Annex B for Leveraging Actions.
Each proposal must have a co-ordinating proposer, the Co-ordinator, and this section of the information package is primarily directed at this person. Normally, the Co-ordinator will become the project co-ordinator, if the proposal is ultimately successful
Proposals should be submitted by you, Co-ordinator, and you will be responsible for the liaison with the Commission.
You should submit one full original of each proposal plus 6 copies. This includes the forms and any useful information you choose to include, as long as it is relevant and limited in quantity.
It is your responsibility to assemble the proposal and you should submit it in one parcel.
It is also your responsibility to ensure that the proposal is delivered at the appropriate address before expiration of the deadline.
Your proposal should be sent by courier or postal services or delivered by hand to:
IT Programme Office
Boulevard du Souverain, 191-197
B-1160 Brussels
Belgium
You must clearly mark on the parcel:
'Confidential: Proposal for the programme for
RTD in Information Technologies (Esprit)'
Important note
Do not send proposals by fax or E-mail. Do not announce by fax, telephone or e-mail that the proposals are in the mail. Faxes, e-mail and telephone calls of this nature hinder the operation of the Commission in handling proposals, and will not be acknowledged. Until two weeks have elapsed, do not telephone, fax or e-mail to enquire whether your proposal has been received.
Do not send or deliver your proposal to other ESPRIT Offices. This would create considerable delays. The only correct address is the one given above.
Proposals for Leveraging Actions can be submitted at any time. The deadlines for Trial applications are planned as follows mid September (call opening in June) and mid December (call opening in September).
You should include – in the parcel in which the proposal is delivered - a separate envelope containing the official 'Acknowledgement of Receipt' form as given in the Annex. On this you – the Co-ordinator - must put your organisation's name and address and the title of the proposed project. This will ensure that the acknowledgement is returned to you correctly addressed.
Before it is returned, however, the Commission's reception staff will record the date of receipt and a unique reference number on the form. This reference number must be used in all subsequent correspondence relating to the proposal.
You should ensure that all proposers are given the proposal reference number and use it in all contacts with the Commission.
If you do not receive an 'Acknowledgement of receipt' within two weeks after the closing date of the Call, or the date of submission in case of a continuous Call, you should send a fax to the IT Programme office (Fax: + 32 2 6637200), indicating the acronym, title, domain, type of action and name of Co-ordinator. You will receive an answer by fax within one week. You are strongly advised to retain proof of dispatch if the proposal is mailed or sent by courier.
You are advised to submit proposals only once and to not send proposals which are essentially the same to different domains of the Esprit Programme or different programmes.
If the proposal is related to other Esprit domains or to other Community programmes you are advised to indicate this in the proposal itself or in an attached covering letter.
In any case you should give details on similar proposals on form 1a and sign the declaration.
The IT programme will take your comments into account and when appropriate involve the other domains or other programmes in the evaluation.
The IT programme reserves the right to redirect the proposals to another domain than indicated by the proposers or to another programme if EC staff or evaluators indicate that this would be more appropriate.
If there are further questions on the Programme or the Call, please contact:
| Esprit Information Desk European Commission DGIII/F Rue de la Loi 200 B-1049 Bruxelles, Belgium. |
telephone: +32.2.296.85.96 fax: +32.2.296.83.88 email: Esprit@dg3.cec.be |
Should you have any specific questions on the Technology Transfer actions, please address them to:
Alejandro MOYA
Fax: +32 2 296 1692 (att.: DGIII-F/4-Software Technologies)
e-mail: alejandro.moya@dg3.cec.be
with a reference to" Technology Transfer for Software Technologies".
To complete Part 1 of the proposal you need to complete all the forms as given in Annex C. You can obtain an electronic version of these forms on a diskette or download it from the Esprit Web pages. You are strongly recommended to use this way of data preparation and send the prepared diskette along with the proposal.
If you use the diskette or Web software to prepare a diskette, it will make it easier to fill in the data correctly. You can also make clear print-outs and it will help Commission services to enter your data quickly in their database. Of course, you may complete the paper forms, or the forms as they are provided by other programmes for RTD Project proposals, as these contain the same questions. In either case, please follow carefully the detailed instructions.
A complete Part 1 comprises :
Part 2 (your project description) should follow the recommended structural outline given below and provide all the information requested in not more than 30 pages. It should contain the following sections:
1. Executive summary
2. Objectives and scope
3. Motivation, industrial relevance and impact
4. Exploitation and dissemination
5. European dimension
6. Approach, work plan and management
7. Proposers and consortium
8. Duration and resources
The description of these sections as well as the criteria which will be used for assessment are given below. Evaluators will be asked to use these evaluation criteria to assess your proposal.
It goes without saying that evaluators are best helped in conducting their task if the information provided is concise and follows the recommended structure. Any irrelevant information should be avoided.
The criteria for Trial Applications and Leveraging Actions are given below.
This section should be one page and should capture the essence of the proposal. It should summarise :
Note: This could be a copy of the 1000 character summary given in Part 1 (form 1a).
The rationale for the project should be clarified. In particular:
Criteria to be addressed in this section are:
Objectives
Scope
Important aspects are:
Criteria to be addressed in this section are:
Consortium's strategy for the exploitation and dissemination of the foreseen project results and individual exploitation plans of each of the partners. The following issues should be addressed:
Criteria to be addressed in this section are:
Address the relevance of the work to the competitivity of European Industry and the interdependence with ongoing national, European or international programmes
Criteria to be addressed in this section are:
Describe concisely the work planned to achieve the objectives of the project and include the following elements :
Criteria to be addressed in this section are:
Present the rationale for the specific consortium and include:
Criteria to be addressed in this section are:
The duration should be rationalised in relation to the objectives to be achieved. Estimates and justification of the resources (effort, equipment, etc.) should be presented for each partner for each work package and summarised at the project level.
Criteria to be addressed in this section are:
To complete Part 1 of the proposal you need to complete all the forms as given in Annex C. You can obtain an electronic version of these forms on a diskette or download it from the Esprit Web pages. You are strongly recommended to use this way of data preparation and send the prepared diskette along with the proposal.
If you use the diskette or Web software to prepare a diskette, it will make it easier to fill in the data correctly. You can also make clear print-outs and it will help Commission services to enter your data quickly in their database. Of course, you may complete the paper forms, or the forms as they are provided by other programmes for RTD Project proposals, as these contain the same questions. In either case, please follow carefully the detailed instructions.
A complete Part 1 comprises :
Part 2 (your project description) should follow the recommended structural outline given below and provide all the information requested in not more than 30 pages. It should contain the following sections:
1. Executive summary
2. Objectives and scope
3. Motivation, industrial relevance and impact
4. Exploitation and dissemination
5. European dimension
6. Approach, work plan and management
7. Proposers and consortium
8. Duration and resources
The description of these sections as well as the criteria which will be used for assessment are given below. Evaluators will be asked to use these evaluation criteria to assess your proposal.
It goes without saying that evaluators are best helped in conducting their task if the information provided is concise and follows the recommended structure. Any irrelevant information should be avoided.
The criteria for Trial Applications and Leveraging Actions are given below.
This section should be one page and should capture the essence of the proposal. It should summarise :
Note: This could be a copy of the 1000 character summary given in Part 1 (form 1a).
The rationale for the project should be clarified. In particular:
Criteria to be addressed in this section are:
Objectives
Scope
Important aspects are:
Criteria to be addressed in this section are:
Consortium's strategy for the exploitation and dissemination of the foreseen project results and individual exploitation plans of each of the partners. The following issues should be addressed as appropriate for each specific case(3)
Criteria to be addressed in this section are:
Address the relevance of the work to the competitivity of European Industry and the interdependence with ongoing national, European or international programmes
Criteria to be addressed in this section are:
Describe concisely the work planned to achieve the objectives of the project and include the following elements :
Criteria to be addressed in this section are:
Present the rationale for the specific consortium and include:
Criteria to be addressed in this section are:
The duration should be rationalised in relation to the objectives to be achieved. Estimates and justification of the resources (effort, equipment, etc.) should be presented for each partner for each work package and summarised at the project level.
Criteria to be addressed in this section are:
| FORM 1a : PROPOSAL ADMINISTRATIVE SUMMARY | |||||||
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To the best of your knowledge, has this proposal, or a proposal that is similar in content, with your involvement or with the involvement of any of the partners in your consortium, been submitted to any other domain of Esprit or EU research programme? Yes / No If your answer is Yes, please give details (title of proposal, coordinator, name of programme, when submitted). Signature of Contact Person............................................................................................ | |||||||
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Admin.Role (b) (C/P/A) |
Org. Type (b) |
Funding Regime (e) (S/A) |
Global Costs in ECU (f) |
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Please copy this form if more space is needed to list the participants. The participation in the Proposal of all the Partners and Associated Partners, and at the levels indicated above, must be formally sanctioned by representatives of the said organisations in letters accompanying the proposal. | |||||||
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(b) A list of codes is supplied in this Annex. (c) See Work programme : task 1.32 Trial Applications or task 1.33 Leveraging Actions (d) Short name for participants that use such a name in Form 2, and legal name if such a short name does not exist. (e) S for shared costs funded at 50% -Trial Applications- and A 100% of incremental marginal costs -Leveraging Actions- A applies also to Research Institutes or Universities with funding at 100% of additional costs. Research Institutes or Universities might be obliged to be funded at 100% of additional costs if they cannot demonstrate that an analytical budget accountancy system is used which can appropriately support the cost reporting required. (f) If funding regime A is chosen, the figure should only cover additional costs. Costs per partner are not required for short proposals. | |||||||
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| FORM 2 : INDIVIDUAL PARTICIPANT PROFILE | |||||||
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| Short name (h): | Legal Status (i): | Organisation Type(l): | |||||
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| Legal address of the Participating Organisation | |||||||
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| Post Code: | City: | Country : | |||||
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| Administrative role (l) (C/P/A): | Functional role(l) (S/U): | Relevant industrial sector (l): | |||||
| Organisation details (if applicable) | |||||||
| Number of employees: | Is the participant an SME (Y/N)? (k) | ||||||
| Is your organisation affiliated to any other participant(s) in the proposal (Y/N)? (k): | |||||||
| If the answer is Y, please indicate the participant(s) name(s): | |||||||
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(h) A Short name should be included only if it is in common use outside the organisation (max. 20 char.). (i) e.g. SA, Ltd, GmbH, AG, EEIG, etc. (j) The legal name is the one used in contracts. (k) For definition see glossary. (l) A list of codes is supplied in this Annex. | |||||||
| 1. Action Types | |||||
| TA | Trial Applications | ||||
| LA | Leveraging Actions | ||||
| 2. COUNTRY | |||||
| Code | Name | Code | Name | Code | Name |
| A | Austria | FL | Liechtenstein | N | Norway |
| B | Belgium | GR | Greece | NL | Netherlands |
| CH | Switzerland | ISR | Israel | P | Portugal |
| D | Germany | I | Italy | S | Sweden |
| DK | Denmark | IRL | Ireland | SF | Finland |
| E | Spain | ISL | Iceland | UK | United Kingdom |
| F | France | L | Luxembourg | ||
| Other according to standard ISO list | |||||
| 3. ADMINISTRATIVE ROLE | |||||
| C | Coordinator | A | Associate Partner | P | Partner |
| 4. ORGANISATION TYPE | |||||
| U | University | A | Public Administration | R | Research Institute |
| I | Industry | O | Other | ||
| 5. FUNCTIONAL ROLE | |||||
| S | Supplier | U | User | ||
| Please note that this relates to the specific role that your organisation has in this proposal with respect to its expected results. If both apply please choose the one most relevant in this project. | |||||
| 6. INDUSTRIAL SECTORS | |||||
| Identify the relevant industrial sector of the organisation in the proposal and include the corresponding code in the appropriate space on Form 2 | |||||
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| Business | |||||
| Finance and Insurance | FI | ||||
| Business, legal and management consultancy; holdings | BC | ||||
| Publishing, printing and reproduction of recorded media | PP | ||||
| Real estate activities | RE | ||||
| Renting and leasing | RL | ||||
| Lodging and restaurants | LR | ||||
| Technical testing and analysis | TA | ||||
| Wholesale and retail trade; repair of goods | WR | ||||
| Community activities | |||||
| Community service activities | CS | ||||
| Education | ED | ||||
| Energy production and distribution; gas and water supply | EN | ||||
| Health and social work | HS | ||||
| Recreational, cultural and sporting activities | RC | ||||
| Recycling | CY | ||||
| Post and telecommunications | PT | ||||
| Transportation services | TS | ||||
| Engineering (other than software engineering) | |||||
| Electrical engineering and related technical consultancy | EE | ||||
| Mechanical engineering and related technical consultancy | ME | ||||
| IT activities | |||||
| Audiovisual consumer electronics | IA | ||||
| Electronic components | IC | ||||
| Electronic engineering and related technical consultancy | IE | ||||
| Industrial process control systems | IP | ||||
| Office machinery and computers | IM | ||||
| Software consultancy and supply, data processing and related Services | IS | ||||
| Manufacturing | |||||
| Aircraft and spacecraft | AS | ||||
| Metals and alloys | MA | ||||
| Chemical products | CP | ||||
| Fabricated metal products, except machinery and equipment | FM | ||||
| Food products and beverages | FB | ||||
| Furniture | FV | ||||
| Leather and leather products | LL | ||||
| Machinery, electrical and electrical instruments | EQ | ||||
| Medical, precision and optical instruments | IN | ||||
| Non-metallic mineral products | MP | ||||
| Pharmaceuticals, medicinal chemicals and botanical products | PH | ||||
| Pulp, paper and paper products | PA | ||||
| Rubber and plastic products | RU | ||||
| Textile and textile products | TE | ||||
| Vehicles for land transportation | VL | ||||
| Vehicles for sea transportation | VS | ||||
| Wood and wood products | WW | ||||
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| Agriculture and forestry | AF | ||||
| Construction and building | CB | ||||
| Fishing | FS | ||||
| Mining and quarrying | MQ | ||||
| Telecom products | IT | ||||
| Activity code not provided above | NN | ||||
European Commission
Directorate General III: Industry
RTD: Information Technologies
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| Affiliated Organisation | Two organisations are affiliated if either one directly or indirectly controls the other or if both are directly or indirectly controlled by the same parent organisation. Organisation A is considered as controlling B if:
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| CORDIS | Community Research and Development Information Service (see Section 5 in Introductory Booklet) |
| EC | European Commission |
| EU | European Union |
| EEA | European Economic Area, includes the EU, Iceland and Norway. The EEA agreement is not in force for Liechtenstein at the time of printing this document |
| EEIG | European Economic Interest Grouping. A legal entity consisting of several European organisations which could participate as such in a project under an EU programme. A guide to the role of EEIGs in RTD can be obtained from the IT Programme Information Desk (see section 5 in Introductory Booklet) and more detailed documentation is also available from Directorate General XV (Financial Institutions and Company Law) |
| EFTA | European Free Trade Association, includes Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland |
| ESSI | European Software Systems Initiative, a best practice activity in ST |
| HPCN | High Performance Computing and Networking: one of the four focused clusters in the IT work programme |
| ICT | Information and Communication Technologies |
| IiM | Integration in manufacturing: one of the four focused clusters in the IT programme |
| IT | Information technology |
| IPR | Intellectual property rights |
| JRC | Joint Research Centre of the EC |
| LTR | Long term research: one of the domains in the IT work programme |
| MS | Multimedia systems: one of the three domains of underpinning technologies in the IT work programme |
| OMI | Open microprocessor systems initiative: one of the four focused clusters in the IT work programme |
| RTD | Research and technological development, including demonstration |
| SME | Small/medium sized enterprise. For SME Exploratory Awards, enterprises will be eligible if they satisfy simultaneously the following three criteria:
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| ST | Software technologies: one of the three domains of underpinning technologies in the IT work programme |
| TBP | Technologies for business processes: one of the four focused clusters in the IT work programme |
| TCS | Technologies for components and subsystems: one of the three domains of underpinning technologies in the IT work programme |
National Contact Points will help if you have any questions about the Programme and the preparation of proposals.
A list of National Contact Points is available for consultation.
(1)See relevant "Call for Proposals" published in the Official Journal of the European Communities. (March 1997, June 1997, September 1997)
(2)For definition see the Appendix of this Guide for Proposers.
(3)Depending on the type of action the emphasis shall be on exploitation or dissemination as appropriate. In all cases both issues should be adressed. In the case of "Promotion of Adoption" the dissemination activities subject of the action shall be described in detail in the workplan, this section should present the overall dissemination plan and deal also with the dissemination of the experience running such type of action and associated exploitation - direct or indirect contribution to the business strategies of the proposers.
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