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Guide for Information Providers

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  • What is CORDIS?
  • Who are the IPs and stakeholders?
  • What can be published on CORDIS?
  • Publishing services offered by CORDIS
  • Why host your web service on CORDIS?
  • What are the role and responsibilities of the IP?
• Publishing on CORDIS
  • Creation of a web service
  • Maintenance of a web service
  • Editorial aspects
  • Quality issues
• Content services of CORDIS
• Tools and facilities
• CORDIS Contacts
  • CORDIS Management Team (CMT)
  • CORDIS Help Desk
• Useful links

Content Services of CORDIS

The CORDIS website offers a variety of information services that might be of relevance to the IP of new services. Dynamic content functionalities allow these content services to be directly embedded in the websites maintained by the IPs, thus ensuring syndication of relevant content.

The main content services are the following:

• News: CORDIS News is a daily on-line news service provided together with the Research Directorate-General of the European Commission.
• Wire: CORDIS Wire is an interactive service that publishes high quality press information on results, innovative policies, successes, case studies and events. The information is directly submitted by the Information Providers and other research stakeholders.
• Acronyms: The Acronyms service is a compact dictionary of acronyms and abbreviations in the area of European Union research programmes and related services.
• Contacts database contains the contact details of individuals and organisations providing information, assistance and advice on research and development programmes.
• Partners Service is a free on-line service, tailor-made to help you find the best research partners for your projects, either in the context of EU-funded research and development projects or within a broader search for technology-orientated partnerships. The service includes details on thousands of active partnership requests from companies, research institutions and universities across Europe and around the world.
• Projects database: All EU-funded projects from previous and current EU programmes are presented on CORDIS. For each EU-funded project CORDIS provides:
  • Project summary, with objectives, description and achievements
  • Activity area
  • EU funding channels - programmes and status
  • Contact details of project leaders and partner organisations
• Results service publishes information about exploitable results of research and development in a wide range of fields. The information can stem from public and private sector organizations, from EU- and non-EU-funded research (regional, national, etc). All results included in the service are presented for further exploitation.
• Technology Marketplace (TMP) Offersis a free on-line service where research and technological development results are available. The Technology Marketplace includes:
  • All exploitable research results stored in the Results Service
  • A showcase of selected results displayed as technology offers
  • Additional information on innovation news, events, useful links and local support.
    
    The service is available in English, French, German, Italian and Spanish.
• Document library & publications is an entry point for documents and publications on European research and innovation activities. This interface offers direct access to:
  • Documents: official documents downloadable in electronic format
  • Publications: references, bibliographic details and abstracts of research publications such as studies, reports and scientific papers.
• Programmes is a service containing details of EU RTD Programmes (programme objectives, internal structure and key references) and provides references to additional sources. It also incorporates national RTD programmes and national competence centres.