1. EPSSOn-line Off-line EPSS CD-Rom Diskette Paper version Two adresses : mail = Hand delivery-Private courrier services =FP6-Research Proposals (Call identifier………) European Commission B-1049 Brusselsrue de Genève 1 B-1140 Brussels

2. Cases of non elligibility 1.Proposals arriving after the date and time specified in the call concerned will be excluded. 2.Proposals not satisfying the conditions relating to the minimum of participants indicated in the call concerned will be excluded. 3.In case of successive submissions of the same proposal for an indirect RTD action, the Commission will examine the last version received before the closure date. 4.If the same proposal is submitted in paper and electronic format, the Commission will only examine the text submitted under the electronic format. 5.Proposals submitted by email or by fax will be excluded.

3. Specific cases submitted to the Commission At the end of each closure of proposals EPSS send a report explaining the problems met. During the last call TI-3-Main, we had the following cases to solve : Proposal submitted in wrong call Proposals submitted on-line but the coordinator oversight to press the submit button The coordinator had no time to upload the different parts of the proposal in the system for different reasons and sent them by email after the closure time They change the content of the proposal just before the closure time and had no time to upload the new version and sent it by email. On 12 cases presented, 5 have been accepted by a committee of eligibility composed of 2 lawyers of the Commission, an expert in EPSS knowing the different situations and the system, and the call coordinator.

4. EVALUATION 2004 TI-3-Main: All Proposals 12-05-04 06-06-0407-06-0412-06-04 499 PROPOSALS RECEIVED 1 transferred to Science & society 1 duplicate 4 non eligible 316 PROPOSALS Were submitted electronically Representing 63 % 493 PROPOSALS EVALUATED In 17 GROUPS By 185 Experts Budget : 1.06 B€ Subdivided in 423 STREP 32 CA 38 SSA

5. Subdivision of proposals by panelNb prop Panel n° 1 - 3.4.1.1-1 Self-organisation,-assembling 47 Panel n° 2 - 3.4.1.1-2 Molecular Motors 10 Panel n° 3 - 3.4.1.1-3 Expanding knowledge.. 3 Panel n° 4 - 3.4.1.2-1 New knowledge on interfaces 22 Panel n° 5 - 3.4.1.4-1 Char. &/or manipulation… 25 Panel n° 6 - 3.4.1.5-1 Impact on human health 8 Panel n° 7 - 3.4.1.5-2 Ethical,legal,social aspects res 10 Panel n° 8 - 3.4.2.1-1 Understanding mat. Pheno. 8 Panel n° 9 - 3.4.2.1-2 Modelling & design of mf mat 65 Panel n° 10 - 3.4.2.2-1 Mat. processing 103 Panel n° 11 - 3.4.2.2-3 Intel. Bio-ma for tissue repair 41 Panel n° 12- 3.4.2.3-1 Materials by design 48 Panel n° 13 - 3.4.2.3-3 Meas. & testing of mf mat 3 Panel n° 14 - 3.4.2.3-4 Mapping on multi-funct. mat 11 Panel n° 15 - 3.4.3.1-1 Friendly prod. technologies. 13 Panel n° 16 - 3.4.3.3-2 New life-cycled optimized 61 Panel n° 17 - 3.4.3.3-3 Increasing the user awarness 15 493

12. Budget Scenario - TI Received Eligible Indicative Budget 12/05/04 07/06/04 M€ 499 prop 4572 partners 60 proposals 105M€ Selected 1,0561,047 M€ 493 prop 4536 partners 1 out of 8 2.3 M€/prop. 9 part/prop. 120 M€ 1out of 5

13. New Instruments (NI) The second stage proposals are currently being evaluated Two IP proposals with Greek coordinators have passed (AERONAO -Konstadopoulos and Galiotis). There are no data for the partners (they are not mentioned in the first stage) Final results for STREPS (and possibly for NI) will be announced on July 20th