1. Monday June 2 nd 2003, Athens Greece1www.ideal-ist.net Silvana Muscella Ideal-ist Project Representative NCP Italy ncpit@cpr.it www.meta.cpr.it/idealist/ www.ideal-ist.net & Framework 6

2. Monday June 2 nd 2003, Athens Greece2www.ideal-ist.net Contents – Finding Partners  How does the Partner Search work?  How effective is the Ideal-ist method?  Statistics from 1 st FP6 Call  What added value does the service offer?  Conclusions Partner Search mechanism

3. Monday June 2 nd 2003, Athens Greece3www.ideal-ist.net How does the Partner Search work? www.ideal-ist.net DE; DK, BE, AT etc. Italian User Ideal-ist Rep. Italy www.ideal-ist.net Step 1 The user wishes to insert a new partner search on www.ideal-ist.net e-mail Italian user registers to mailing list & selects areas of interest Step 2 After the user has inserted and saved the form, the server sends an email to the Italian rep. with a link to the form for him to validate Correction of the PS, Approved with saved modifications Step 3 Web page creation of the accepted proposal and submission of e-mail to the 32 Ideal-ist representatives. Ideal-ist 32 representatives

4. Monday June 2 nd 2003, Athens Greece4www.ideal-ist.net PARTNER SEARCH ID : IT115 DATE : 24/03/03 CALL ADDRESSED BY THIS PROPOSAL: Call 1 RESEARCH PRIORITY: Knowledge technologies and digital content STRATEGIC OBJECTIVE: 3.1.7 Semantic-based Knowledge Systems EVALUATION SCHEME : One-step DEADLINE OF PROPOSAL : 24/04/2003 TYPE OF PROJECT:Specific Targeted research Project PROPOSAL NAME: KNOBSUBJECT:Knowledge Network Ontology Based to enhance SME competitive advantage KEYWORDS: Peer to peer, JXTA, Globus Toolkit, Ontology, knowledge exchange, web services, GRID computing FURTHER INFO: http://www.ideal-ist.net/fp6/3.1.7/IT115.htmhttp://www.ideal-ist.net/fp6/3.1.7/IT115.htm Partner Search mechanism

5. Monday June 2 nd 2003, Athens Greece5www.ideal-ist.net How effective is the Ideal-ist method?

6. Monday June 2 nd 2003, Athens Greece6www.ideal-ist.net PS launched by organisation

7. Monday June 2 nd 2003, Athens Greece7www.ideal-ist.net PS by Country Group

8. Monday 2 June 2003, Athens, Greece 8www.ideal-ist.net  Organisations feel they are receiving an individual personalised service from Ideal-ist  Many organisations deal personally with their Ideal-ist representative and seek advice & suggestions  Immediate, international feedback from potentially interested organisations  Expand their networking channels  Learn about new, innnovative projects worldwide  Interested organisations can propose themselves as partners as well as proposers What added value does the service offer?

9. Monday 2 June 2003, Athens, Greece 9www.ideal-ist.net What added value does the service offer?  The Ideal-ist network works closely with its 32 partners  Finding the right international partner, via the Ideal-ist representative is common practice;  All Ideal-ist members have a national database where organisations are divided into different types of Research Priority areas so companies are well-known  Excellent dissemination visibility for proposers  The Partner Searches reach a targeted audience  Confidence for proposers in each, individual search

10. Monday 2 June 2003, Athens, Greece 10www.ideal-ist.net  Over 117 Partner Searches were published during first call 17 December 2002  More than 4,400 responses  Average of 38 responses per partner search, 58 in the case of IPs  Around 93% proposers found appropriate partners to form consortia  Around 41% of proposals originated from newcomers to the IST programme  The service is: FAST EFFECTIVE with IMMEDIATE RESULTS Conclusions