1. Information Society Technologies (IST) Programme
5th EU RTD Framework Programme
Information Society Technologies (IST) Programme

2. Programme Structure & Indicative Budget Distribution

3. IST Programme 1st call proposals
Total number of Proposals submitted
Total funding requested BEURO
Proposals for which negotiations started 475
Total funding proposed MEURO
Success Ratio 1:5.2

4. Participation By Organisation & Action Line

5. 1st call participation & Retainment EU Countries

6. 1st call participation & Retainment EFTA-EEA & Pre-adhesion Countries

7. Cypriot Proposals

8. Evaluation Criteria
1. Scientific/technological quality and innovation
2. Community added value and contribution of EC policies
3. Contribution to Community social objectives
4. Economic development and S&T prospects
5. Resources, partnership and management

9. Successful Proposals with Cypriot Participation

10. Successful Cypriot Companies

11. Newly Associated Countries
Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Slovenia, Romania, Bulgaria, Cyprus
All 11 countries were associated at the time of selection

12. NAC participations

13. Success rates per country

14. Type of retained participations from EU

15. Type of retained participations from NAC

16. Analysis of “non retained”
Few rejections on formal grounds
- formal mechanism is well understood
Weak on innovation
- proposals have little new
Weak on consortium structure
-consortia are unbalanced
Weak exploitation plan
- low or no information on exploitation or dissemination
Weak end user involvement
- little involvement of e.g. larger industry

17. Recommended to support
Capacity building
Partnersearch and consortium building
Technology brokerage
Networking
SME involvement ; SME awards