Research Innovation Growth Warsaw, Poland 2627 April 2004

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Research - Innovation - GrowthWarsaw,
Poland26-27 April 2004

• EU RTD Coorperation The case of Poland and
  Austria
• Manfred Horvat
• BIT - Bureau for International Research and
  Technology Cooperation, Austria

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Contents

• The BIT - a reminder
• AT/PL success in FP5
• AT/PL co-operation in FP6
• Some Austrian initiatives
• Outlook

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The BIT is ...

• promoting cooperation in international RD
  programmes and initiatives
• EU Framework Programme (National Contact Point)
• EUREKA (EUREKA Secretariat and NPS)
• INTAS
• providing information and assistance for all
  interested parties
• the Austrian "one-stop-shop for EU RD
• a gateway for finding RD partners in AT
• Sponsors Austrian government the Economic
  Chamber

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BITs Customer Base Dec 2003
30000
Persons
W
25000
V
T
20000
Sa
15000
St
O
10000
N
K
5000
B
0
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997
1998
1999
2000
2001
2002
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Austria in the EU Research Programmes

• FP4 (1994-1998)
• gt 1000 successful organisations
• gt 2.000 participations in gt 1.500 projects
• 170 Mio EU funding
• 10.000 participations from abroad
• 72 financial return
• FP5 (1998-2002)
• 1000 successful organisations
• 2.000 participations in 1.430 projects
• 290 Mio EU funding
• gt 12.500 participations from abroad
• 100 financial return
• ) as of November 2003

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Austria and Poland in FP5

• Joint AT-PL projects in general
• PL partners in 161 projects
• 222 AT, 200 PL participations in 161 projects
• 11 of all AT projects (1.429) with Polish
  participants
• 32 Austrian coordinators4 Polish coordinators
• a continuous increase in partnership,BUTmore
  should be done and achieved!

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FP5 Partners in Successful Projects withAustrian
Participants
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Austria and the CCs in FP5

• In relative terms Austria has strongest
  collaborative links with Candidate Countries

Basis 2002 signed contracts in FP5(Annual RTD
Report of Europ. Commission)
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Successful FP5 Projects with Partners from Poland
and Austria
40
161 projects out of1.429 projects - 11,3
35
30
25
20
35
31
15
28
25
10
17
14
5
9
2
0
IST
Growth
QoL
ENV
ENERG
INCO
INNO/SME
IHP
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FP5 Participants from Poland inProjects with
Austria (data by December 2003)
2002
50
1999
1999
2000
2001
2002
(n 21)
(n 40)
11
20
45
2
40
11
2000
35
2001
(n 50)
2
(n 86)
25
7
44
30
5
25
29
20
1
8
20
15
15
6
2
17
10
5
3
5
11
12
11
5
6
7
1
5
1
1
2
1
1
0
QoL
IST
UW
EN
IHP
Wachstum
INCO
(INNO/SME)
11
Polish and Austrian Participations byType of
Organisations in FP5
100
Austria (n 222)
Polen (n 200)
90
80
70
60
50
87
40
76
66
30
51
44
41
20
39
10
13
1
4
0
IND
UNI
ROR
OTH
NN
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Cooperation AT-PL in Comparison
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Perspectives for enhancingAT-PL cooperation in
FP6

• Continuation of a success story
• enhanced cooperation of Contact Points
• Joint AT/PL ERAFP6 activities
• Economic and Technological Intelligence actions
• Specific Support Actions
• linking AT clusters in PL with Polish partners
• linking PL Centres of Excellence with AT partners
• linking AT companies in PL with Polish RTD actors
• BIT initiative Partnership for Research
• ERA-NET stimulate cooperation RT funding
  organisations - e.g. KBN, FWF, FFF

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FP6 AT-PL Cooperation inACC Specific Support
Actions

• General
• CERA Creating ERA in Central Europe
• REGinNET Regional approach towards ERA
• Thematic
• QualityMeat Promoting Poultry Pork Quality
• Integrating ACC NCP Cooperation in TP6
• Ecomplete Environment
• FET-EEU Energy
• ECO-DATABASE Energy

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Two Austrian Pilot Actions toStimulate
Cooperation with CCs

• STRAPAMO (BMWA/BIT) creating strategic RT
  partnerships with CEEC between research and
  technology centres or clustershttp//www.bit.ac.a
  t/strapamo/
• Contact gruber_at_bit.ac.at
• CONEX (BMBWK)Cooperation and Networking for
  Excellence - linking Centres of Excellence in
  CEEC with Austrian Partners http//www.bmbwk.gv.at
  /conex
• Contact anneliese.stoklaska_at_bmbwk.gv.at
• next Calls 2004

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Linking Austrian Companies in Poland with
Regional RTD Partners

• Proposal for a BIT-Initiative in cooperation
  with Austrian Economic Chamber andPolish Contact
  Points
• identifying AT companies active in Poland
• establishing contacts to regional RTD partners
  with the help of PL Contact Points
• providing advise for preparing FP6 projects
• due to start May 2004

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Re-inforcing the BIT initiative Partnership for
Research

• Strategic use of the MC Mobility Scheme
• promoting Marie Curie fellows from Poland to
  Austria and vice versa
• preparing a EU RTD project as integrated part of
  the Marie Curie training
• enhancing researcher mobility from Austria to
  Poland
• preparing the ground forlong-term RTD
  cooperation

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Partnership for ResearchA strategic approach

• Partnership Catalogue
• more than 600 possible host organisations!
• Web pages
• http//www.bit.ac.at/partnership or
• PL http//www.kbn.gov.pl/en/index.html
• advertisments in newspapers
• e.g. Rzeczpospolita
• road show October-November 2003
• e.g. Cracow, Gdansk, Poznan, Wroclaw, Warsaw,
  Szcecin
• Coordinator Dr. Gerald Mueller-Niklas, BIT
• mniklas_at_bit.ac.at

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BIT - Contact persons

• Manfred Horvat, Director Co-ordination National
  Contact Point, NEST
• Andrea Hoeglinger, Dep. Dir. Socio-economic
  Research, Science Society
• Klaus Bernhardt Information Society
  Technologies
• Gerald Kern Nanotechnologies, Materials,
  Production
• Hans Rohowetz Aeronautics and Space,
  Transport
• Bettina Asamer Environment
• Siegfried Loicht Energy
• M. Bidmon R. Litauszky SME Measures
• Robert Schwertner International Co-operation
• Kurt Butscher Innovation, INNOVATION Relay
  Centre Austria
• Gerald Müller-Niklas Human Resources,
  Infrastructures
• Christian Hopp Legal and financial matters of
  EU RTD

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For any further information,ideas, comments,
suggestions ...
... get in contact with Prof. Manfred
Horvat Director, BIT horvat_at_bit.ac.at Tel 43 1
26013-114, Fax [phone] Andrea
Hoeglinger Deputy Director, BIT hoeglinger_at_bit.ac.
at Tel [phone], Fax 43 1
26013-16 or name_at_bit.ac.at