ROINTERA INCOCT2003510469 A Success Story and a Challenge for the Romanian R

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ROINTERAINCO-CT-2003-510469 A Success Story
and a Challenge for the Romanian RD System

• Romeo Ilie
• Head of Research Programmes and European
  Integration Office
• Romanian Academy
• Scientific Secretary of the Project

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• We started from here!

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• but also from here!
• Romanias participation in the Fifth
  Framework Programme was not fully satisfactory
  and did not allow the research community to reap
  the full benefit from the programme.
• Romania should now make efforts to further
  reinforce the research-related administrative
  capacity and infrastructure, so as to ensure
  successful participation in the Programmes. In
  addition, Romania needs to improve the
  co-operation between the research sector and
  enterprises. Budgetary resources allocated to
  research and technological development remain
  limited.
• (2003 - Regular Report on Romanias progress
  towards accession)

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• How the project was born? (1)
• April 2, 2003 - Launch of the Call
• April 15-30, 2003 - By MEdC initiative were
  invaited 7 Romanian partners MEdC, Romanian
  Academy, INID, CCIRB, AMCSIT, IPA SA, Western IQ
• May 6, 2003 - meeting with Mr. Louis BELLEMIN, in
  Bucharest - it was confirmed that only public
  bodies are eligible for project - IPA SA and WIQ
  became subcontractors
• May 10-30, 2003 - dialog with EC representatives
  of EC related to subcontractors. The answer they
  can be included in proposal, with very well
  defined responsibilities.
• 15 May-25 June, 2003 - Writing the proposal

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• How the project was born? (2)
• June 25, 2003 - Proposal submission
  by TNT
• September 12, 2003 - ESR OK 18 points
  (threshold 17,5) !!!!
• October 2003 - Start of the
  contract negotiation procedure
• November 7-8, 2003 - Ending-up of the
  negotiations
• November 10-30, 2003 - Finalization of CPF
• December 22, 2003 - Signing down of the
  contract
• January 1, 2004 - Official start of the
  project
• February 3, 2004 - Press Conference
• February 5, 2004 - Launching seminar
• ..
• December 31, 2006 - Official end of the project

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• General prezentation
• Projects partners
• Objectives
• Activities
• Deadlines
• Expected results

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• Projects partners
• Romanian Academy public body, coordinator of
  the basic research national programmes,
  coordinator of the 65 research institutes and
  centers with over 2500 researchers
• Ministry of Education and Research governmental
  body, responsible for the National Research
  Strategies, coordinator of the 14 National RD
  Programmes, host of the most of the NCPs
• National Institute for Information and
  Documentation public organization, activating
  according to PHARE Project 9305 regarding the
  Restructuring of the Romanian Science and
  Technology System, as a Central Body in the Frame
  of the Romanian National Information,
  Documentation and Communication System for
  Science and Technology
• Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Romania and
  Bucharest City public organization, host of the
  Euro Info Centers
• The Managerial Agency for Scientific Research,
  Innovation and Technological Transfer Politehnica
  (AMCSIT-POLITEHNICA) public organization,
  RELANSIN Programme Management Unit administration
  (one out of the 14 RD National Programmes), good
  cooperation and relationships with the 75
  universities from Romania, 20 excellence (high
  quality) research centers and 200 university
  research centers.

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• Which are the objectives? (1)
• To set up an unitary and coherent Romanian system
  for impute/output of the FP6 and ERA related data
  and information
• To increase co-operation between Romanian
  research organizations and the similar
  organizations from EU and AC countries
• To improve the participation of Romania in FP 6
• To support and accelerate the integration of the
  Romanian research community into the European
  Research Area

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• Which are the objectives? (2)
• To help the Romanian scientific stakeholders to
  overcome barriers such as
• lack of experience
• lack of time
• lack of complete and accurate information about
  FP6 and ERA
• low level of confidence some European partners
  have regarding Romanian participants
  competencies.
• To stimulate Romanian scientists participation
  in FP6 and ERA at two levels
• at national level the virtual network of
  National Contact Persons will inform, stimulate
  and encourage Romanian participation and will
  ensure the integration and better communication
  flow inside the national scientific community
• at European level Romanian scientists will
  become better known and will capitalize their
  full potential the Romanian scientific community
  will achieve the critical mass and the level of
  integration needed to become more attractive for
  European potential partners

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• Who is our target?
• The target group of the project are the
  Romanian research organizations, including
  universities, seen as a whole, but also as a part
  of the larger European research community
• 35 National RD Institutes
• 63 Research organizations belonging to the
  Romanian Academy
• almost 200 RD organizations belonging to MEdC
  and other ministries
• more than 300 SMEs with research activities
• more than 200 de Research Centers within the 75
  Higher Education Universities

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• What we propose?
• To extend and improve the national network of
  National Contact Points (NCP)
• To set up and strengthen the virtual national
  network of High Quality Research Centers
• To be permanently in contact, either
  electronically or directly, with most of the
  Romanian researchers in order to support and help
  them in searching for partners, setting up of
  consortia and writing wining proposals

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• By what means? (1)
• The ROINTERA One stop shop FP6 information
  system is already set up as a supporting tool for
  every activity of the consortium, related to the
  events organized, as well as to both internal and
  external co-operation and communication of and
  among the research organizations, within the 6th
  Framework Programme (www.rointera.ro).
• Organization of at least 22 meetings to exchange
  best-practices and assist researchers to write
  proposals (seminars, workshops, conferinces) in
  at least 13 Romanian Cities

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• By what means? (2)
• Editing and submitting of a quarterly FP6 News
  (Romanian), addressing the Romanian potential FP
  6 proposers, containing selected information
  received from both European Commission and NCPs
  from other countries
• Editing and distributing via e-mail and projects
  portal of a quarterly FP6 - News from Romania
  (English), addressing the European research
  community, via NCPs from each European country,
  containing information related to the needs of
  cooperation, but also scientific achievements of
  the Romanian research community

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• What results we expect to get?
• A better understanding of the research objectives
  and the appropriate procedures of FP6, as well as
  a constant and tenaciously effort for taking
  advantage of the FP6 offered opportunities
• A greater European wide visibility of the
  Romanian research community
• An increased quality and number of the proposals
  with Romanian partners and, by consequence, an
  increased number of the eligible and funded
  proposals
• An increased rate of return of the financial
  contribution to the EC RD budget

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• What is the proiects staff?

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• Which is the projects structure?

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• Thank you for your kind attention!
• I wish everybody to have a very soon similar
  success story!