1. STEF-NANO-ACC Project NANO-MAT-PROD Conference 20-21 January 2005 Budapest Zbigniew Turek National Contact Point, Poland

2. What is STEF-NANO-ACC ? SSA type project for FP6 NMP Priority Submitted for the SSA-ACC call in June 2003 Duration – 12 months Budget 100.000 Euro Coordinator NCP, IFTR PAS http://www.kpk.gov.pl/stef/en/index.php

3. Project partners  Hungary  Lithuania  Latvia  Estonia  Cyprus  Slovakia  Slovenia  Netherlands Associated partners  Germany  France

4. Project goals Increasing the participation of New Memeber States teams in FP6 projects Creating opportunities for presenting project idea forms by MS partners (launching and disseminating project idea database on STEF-NANO-ACC website) Renewing enthusiasm in scientific community (database of researchers from New Member States, contest for zoung scientists…) Expanding and strenghtening cooperation between Member States Candidate Countries Facilitating cooperation with countries outside EU (mostly USA, Russia, Ukraine, Bielorussia)

5. Advantages of participating in project actions Possibility of:  Joining projects (running and being prepared)  Fastening closer cooperation in FP6 and others  Financing part of costs of attending meetings (project, brokerage) and conferences  Promoting young scientists

6. Priority actions I. NMP introductory seminars NMP priority in FP6 NMP priority calls Calls (current NMP calls) Examples of project proposals from past NMP calls Success people Offers for joining proposals

7. Priority actions II. Two day conferences (Poland and Hungary NMP information day (i.e. current NMP calls) Workshops  Project proposal idea  Proposal preparation (incl. financial matters)  Submitting proposal

8. Priority actions II. Two day conferences (Poland and Hungary Brokerage events  Project idea and project proposals presentations  Presentations of technological and scientifical problems  Meetings with project coordinators (running and being prepared) Forum for young scientists  Presentations of outstanding doctoral thesis  Presentations of project ideas

18. Zbigniew Turek zbigniew.turek@kpk.gov.pl +48 22 828 74 83 int. 159