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CIRCE and other alternative funding opportunities
Miroslav Polzer Austrian Science and Research
Liaison Office Ljubljana Centre for Social
Innovation ZSI, Vienna / Austria
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• CIRCE
• Cooperation in Innovation and Research
• with Central- and Eastern Europe

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Objectives of CIR-CE

• Establish and extend transnational,
  business-driven innovation networks (particularly
  SME) between Austria and Central- and Eastern
  Europe for the creation and implementation of
  innovation and for strengthening of technology
  transfer

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Further Objectives of CIR-CE

• Improvement of the innovative capabilities of
  companies (especially of SME) and their ability
  to assimilate and implement external knowledge
• Enhancement of the cooperative capability of
  companies (in particular SME) creation of
  sustainable cross-border innovation networks and
  cooperation structures

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Applicants

• Intermediary Organisations
• Technology- and Innovation Centres, Incubators
  etc.
• Clusters
• Competence Centres
• Cooperative research institutes
• Research institutes with a focus on technology-
  and
• knowledge transfer
• Companies with the role of a network-coordinator

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NETWORK-Projects and INNOVATION-Projects
NETWORK-Projects (NP) Innovation-Projects (IP)
Focus Transnational network Result Established and intensified cross-border co-operation Focus Ambitious element of RTDI Result Developed/optimised product, process or service
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Maximum Public Funding / maximum Duration
NETWORK- Projects INNOVATION- Projects
Up to 75 Up to 45
Up to 150.000 Up to 400.000
1,5 Years 3 Years
Result of First Call 40 proposals submitted 14
projects funded
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Possible Partner Countries CEE
Albania
Poland
Bosnia and Herzegowina
Romania
Bulgaria
Serbia
Estonia
Montenegro
Croatia
Slovakia
Slovenia
Latvia
Lithuania
Czeck Republic
Mazedonia
Hungary
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Example Network-Project ELSEPIM Utilisation
of PIM for electronics, sensors and actuators

• Applicant
• FOTEC Forschungs- und Technologietransfer GmbH
• Partners
• 9 SME and 1 University from Austria, Serbia,
  Montenegro and Bosnia
• Aim
• Develop and evaluate concrete product ideas in
  the fields of electronics, sensors and actuators
  utilising the innovative technology of powder
  injection moulding (PIM)
• Realise long-term relationships between the
  project partners and further partners

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Example Network-Project ELSEPIM ctd.

• Results
• Know-how of every partner increased
• Long-term relation within the network established
  with regard to customer-supplier-relation
• Joint product development
• Technology and know-how transfer
• Two technical feasibility studies carried out
• Follow-up innovation project defined

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Important Dates

• 6 December 2006 opening second call for
  proposals with kick-off event in Vienna
• 11 April 2007 Proposers Day
• 24 May 2007, 12 oclock deadline
• June 2007 Evaluation panel
• July 2007 announcement of projects to be funded
• September 2007 Kick-off meeting with future
  contractors

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Programme Management and Controlling
MARTINA AMON E-mail martina.amon_at_ffg.at Phone
43 (0)5 77 55 2602 ROMANA BOHNENSTINGL
E-mailromana.bohnenstingl_at_ffg.at Phone 43
(0)5 77 55 2607

• BIRGIT BAUMANN
• E-mail birgit.baumann_at_ffg.at
• Phone [phone]
• ULRIKE KAINZ-FERNÁNDEZ
• DE LA REGUERA
• E-mail ulrike.kainz_at_ffg.at
• Phone [phone]
• www.cir-ce.at

Eine Initiative des
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Aso-Ljubljana and Sofia Call onInformation
Society in SEE countries

Austrian Science and Research Liaison Offices
Ljubljana/Slovenia and Sofia/Bulgaria (ASOs)
announce a Call for proposals for projects in
Research Cooperation and Networking between
institutions (universities and not-for-profit
non-university research institutions) in Austria,
the ASO countries Slovenia and Bulgaria and South
Eastern Europe (Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina,
Croatia, FYR of Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania
and Serbia, including Kosovo). The call wants to
intensify the short-term cooperation in the
scientific field of "Information Science and
Society in SEE countries" with the aim to support
the development of long-term scientific
collaboration. Funding is provided by the
Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, Science
and Culture (bmbwk) in the framework of its
South Eastern European science cooperation
initiative. This call is open to 9 February 2007
(date of post mark). http//www.aso.zsi.at/en/all
/aktuelles/2069.html
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SEE-ERA.NET Pilot Joint Call for Research and
Thematic Network Projects as well as Summer
Schools in/with the Western Balkan Region

• Thematic areas
• Food, Agriculture and Biotechnology sub area
  Sustainable production and management of
  biological resources from land, forest and
  aquatic environments
• Information and Communication Technologies sub
  area Applications Research
• Environment sub area Environmental
  Technologies
• Research projects
• These projects shall be conducted by a project
  consortium with at least three participants from
  three different countries and at least one of
  them must be from a Western Balkan country.
• Network projects
• The thematic network projects are preferably
  aiming at the co-ordination and co-operation of
  scientists in one specific scientific area based
  on mutual visits and small Workshops.
• Funding provided primarily for costs of mobility
  of researchers (comparable to bilateral ST
  cooperation agreements), but also for events and
  feasibility studies
• Further information http//www.see-era.net/pjc

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• Thank you for your attention
• polzer_at_zsi.at
• www.aso.zsi.at