1 ENV-NCP-TOGETHER after one year OVERVIEW OF ACTIVITIES OF ALL WORK-PACKAGES Viorel Vulturescu – ANCS Romania

 NCP project Environment 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 ENV-NCP-Together 2

 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 ENV-NCP-Together3

◦ 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 Brussels, March 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 ENV-NCP-Together4

◦ 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) - ? ENV-NCP-Together5

◦ 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) ENV-NCP-Together6

7  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)

PARTNER PRE-FINANCING (EURO) DELIVERED YES/NO ANCS ,35YES FFG ,53YES BEA ,00YES TUS ,25YES EU RESEARCH ,26YES RPF ,00YES TC AV CR ,13YES JULICH ,89YES ARCHIMEDE ,03YES ADEME ,80YES NKTH ,24YES ISERD ,20YES

PARTNERS PRE-FINANCING (EURO) DELIVERED YES/NO APRE36.179,50YES TMTPPA18.970,30YES MCST15.541,75YES SENTER67.784,50YES IPPT PAN46.291,00YES NFC22.358,77YES TUBITAK27.244,88YES NCSR23.239,03YES LUXINNOVATION14.722,72YES BETA TECH56.212,08YES FORMAS16.074,66NO CDTI29.454,43YES

PARTNERS PRE-FINANCING (EURO) DELIVERED YES/NO RANNIS18.324,66NO MZSOS12.345,40YES IITSMA54.487,09YES ADI23.214,63YES TOTAL: ,05

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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.read more..  ”NCPs” - short summary of what an NCP means and about the NCP system. - link to CORDIS where you can have more information.

Month Unique visitors Number of visits PagesHits Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec January February 2010 (partially) Total 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 NCPs WP 4 – Selection of “high potential” ICPC + workshops WP 5 – Database of Indian ENV contacts WP 6 – Promotion of ENV-NCP-TOGETHER (+..) WP 7 – Questionnaire + assessment + outcome