Project description
Strengthening the Digital National Contact Points through transnational collaboration
Under Pillar II of Horizon Europe, the EU's Research and Innovation framework programme (2021-27), Cluster 4 focuses on projects in the areas of Digital, Industry and Space. The EU-funded IDEAL-IST project will support the Digital National Contact Points (NCPs), independent organisations including ministries, academies of science and research agencies that provide valuable support to researchers working on the Horizon Europe projects. IDEAL-IST will provide knowledge and tools while enhancing transnational cooperation among digital NCPs and their collaboration with other Cluster 4 NCPs. Strengthening the NCPs that support digital destinations will have an essential downstream impact on project outcomes and on European competitiveness.
Objective
The Ideal-ist project will give all NCPs with responsibility for the digital destinations in Horizon Europe Cluster 4 (3, 4 and 6) access to the knowledge, tools, and experiences they need to ensure top quality services to their clients. In turn, these services can result in inventive, catalytic European projects. Over 30 NCP teams will pursue this ideal working together and operating across national boundaries, resulting in stronger services exceeding the capacity of a single organisation in a purely national context.
Ideal-ist has clear objectives to meet this goal:
O1: Access to a rich knowledge base on the digital landscape of opportunities.
O2: Offerings that improve and expand their working tools and services.
O3: Interaction among proposers, NCPs, the Commission and strategic partnerships on a personal level that enhances expertise and participation.
The objectives translate to four sets of activities:
1. Manage, share and maintain Ideal-ist's knowledge base during and beyond the adjustment to Horizon Europe, according to the FAIR principles and in cooperation with Bridge2HorizonEurope.
2. Strengthen the sense of community and teamwork among digital NCPs and other Cluster 4 NCPs.
3. Offer services specifically designed for digital NCPs and try their application in the other areas of Cluster 4
4. Offer proposer-oriented services, focusing on the digital parts of Cluster 4, and try their application in the other areas of Cluster 4.
Activities will be monitored using an agile methodology via an Activity Execution Dashboard (AED), allowing the project to deliver activities and tasks, identify deviations and propose corrective actions, measure progress towards success and quantify impact to achieve the high-level objectives. Ideal-ist will enrich the designated activities of NCPs with transnational activities going beyond national mandates, contributing to enhanced natural cooperation, leveraging the services and creating economies of scale.
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HORIZON-CSA - HORIZON Coordination and Support ActionsCoordinator
6812511 Jerusalem
Israel
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Participants (29)
28001 Madrid
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0283 Oslo
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1075 Nicosia
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1077 Budapest
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1090 Wien
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51147 Koln
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4362 Esch Sur Alzette
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2038 CHISINAU
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
75005 Paris
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116 35 ATHENS
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00-801 WARSZAWA
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4150 649 Porto
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Legal entity other than a subcontractor which is affiliated or legally linked to a participant. The entity carries out work under the conditions laid down in the Grant Agreement, supplies goods or provides services for the action, but did not sign the Grant Agreement. A third party abides by the rules applicable to its related participant under the Grant Agreement with regard to eligibility of costs and control of expenditure.
1249 074 Lisboa
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88104 MOSTAR
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0194 Tbilisi
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1200 Tetovo
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105 Reykjavik
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811 04 Bratislava
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51004 Tartu
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011455 Bucuresti
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160 00 Praha
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06100 Ankara
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1060 Bruxelles / Brussel
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00181 Helsinki
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00184 Roma
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10000 Zagreb
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LT-01103 Vilnius
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LV-1050 RIGA
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2595 AC The Hague
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Partners (2)
Partner organisations contribute to the implementation of the action, but do not sign the Grant Agreement.
SN2 1FL Swindon
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Partner organisations contribute to the implementation of the action, but do not sign the Grant Agreement.
3007 Bern
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