Coordinating IST research and development across Europe: the CISTRANA outlook

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Coordinating IST research and developmentacross
Europe the CISTRANA outlook Simon
Lamberte-Science Systems Research
Groupe-Science CentreCCLRC Rutherford Appleton
LaboratoryUK
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Introducing CISTRANA

• CISTRANA a CRIS within a CRIS?
• Motivating CISTRANA the European Research Area
  (ERA)
• Internal market in research
• Restructuring the European research fabric
• Development of a European research policy
• Funding of research activities
• Taking account of all relevant aspects of other
  EU and national policies

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Motivating CISTRANA

• What are the barriers to coordination?
• Lack of consistent thematic search possibilities
• Lack of relevant information
• Lack of comparability between information sources

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So why does CISTRANA think it can help?
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CRInformationS or CRManagementS?
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CISTRANA
The world at large
National information sources
Survey
National databases
Portal
Awareness
Information exchange and best practice
Process
Future national activities
Transnational and strategic issues
Future transnational activities
Interaction
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The CISTRANA portal

• Who are the users?
• Policy
• Programme
• Research
• Industry
• What do they need?
• Benchmarking
• Planning
• Coordination
• Finding research partners
• Finding project results
• Looking for what competitors are doing

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What characterises a portal?

• Single entry point
• Access to somewhere else
• Comprehensive
• Suitably organised

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The IST research landscape
Type of feature Location Distinguishing
characteristics Relation to other features
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SPECIALIZATION OVERVIEW ON BROADBAND TECHNOLOGIES
IN FP6
Rough number of participation by country
NORMALISATION BASED ON THE PARTICIPATION SHARE OF
EACH COUNTRY IN THE WHOLE IST PRIORITY TO AVOID
MASS EFFECT OF EUROPE BIGGEST COUNTRIES
base 100
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CASE STUDY SPAIN in BROADBAND
TECHNOLOGIES Collaboration frequency
75 to 100 of projects with Spanish participants
involve at least one UK, FR or IT participant
50 to 75 of projects with Spanish participants
involve at least one DE, EL or BE participant
25 to 50 of projects with Spanish participants
involve at least one NO, NL, PT, HU
...participant
0 to 25 not relevant
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What I want to know
CISTRANA
European collaborative projects involving a
particular country what other countries are
participants?
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IST World
CORDIS
ERA-NET projects
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The question of sustainability
Incentivizing body
Data source (if applicable), or other parties
Incentive/reward
Sustaining body (e.g. data provider)
Incentive/reward money authority perceived
benefits peer pressure
Sustained result (e.g. portal)
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Conclusions

• CISTRANA project as a Current Research
  Information/ Management System
• CISTRANA portal as a CRIS within a CRIS
• The idea of landscaping
• Where can I find what I want to know?

www.cistrana.org