Project

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Project SMEs go LifeSciences- support
initiative for successfulSMEs and RTDs
participation in Life Sciencesrelated areas of
FP6 and FP7 projectsNBC third Partnering
meetingBiotechnologies for Knowledge Based
BioeconomyBirinu Castle, April 7-9, 2006

• Diana Krievina
• Latvian Technological Center
• Aizkraukles Str. 21, Riga, LV - 1006
• tel [phone]/ fax [phone]
• e-mail dianak_at_edi.lv

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Collaborating with major players...
www.smesgolifesciences.org

• We are a network of 28 partners from 26
  countries, highly motivated experienced in
  working with SMEs and research organisations -
  most of them act as National Contact Points
  (NCPs) working together with
• national/regional multipliers
• Bioincubators and Biovalleys
• important Entrepreneurial networks like
  EUROPABIO (platform for the National Biotech
  Associations), EBN (European Business and
  Innovation Centres Network), IRC (Innovation
  Relay Centres)

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Key Figures

• Submission April 2003 as ETI - Specific
  Support Action
• Project start 1st March, 2004
• Duration 3 years
• Project partner 28 partners out of 26
  countries (3 CC, 3 AC, 20 MS)
• Coordination FFG- Austrian Research
  Promotion Agency Division for
  International Research and Technology
  Cooperation
• Budget 2.557 855 Euro
• EC contribution 1.734 025 Euro

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Main objectives

• This initiative provides SMEs and researchers
  with various services supporting the successful
  participation in FP6 and FP7 research projects in
  the areas of Life Sciences. They get information
  and consulting, starting with the project idea,
  over activities for consortium building and
  matchmaking, to support during the submission and
  negotiation phase.
• Support and foster the participation of SMEs and
  SME groupings in Life Sciences projects of FP6
• Focus on the new instruments Integrated
  Projects and Networks of Excellence
• Focus on increase of the SME participation in
  New Member States and Candidate Countries

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Main ActivitiesINFORM - TRAIN - ASSIST!

• Informing/Profiling of SMEs/SME groupings and
  RTDs interested in European research cooperation
  and ready to participate in the Framework
  Programme
• Addressing of 2500 different SMEs
• Collecting of gt250 profiles of SMEs interested in
  
• European RTD cooperation
• Informing/Identifying of researchers/research
  consortia preparing Life Sciences proposals as
  coordinators or active participants
• Identifying 400 researchers/coordinators of Life
• Sciences related proposals

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Main ActivitiesINFORM - TRAIN - ASSIST!

• Training/Assisting of SMEs and SME groupings on
  FP6 issues following their needs
• Intellectual property rights
• Financial framework of FP6
• Project management., etc.
• Training/Assistance of researchers/research
  consortia
• creation of awareness on the importance of
  involving SMEs
• assistance on consortium building and finding
  partners
• training and assistance on proposal preparation
  and involvement
• of SMEs
• 160 national training sessions
• 6 major transnational training sessions
• individual training and assistance

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Main ActivitiesINCREASING VISIBILITY - BRING
TOGETHER!
SMEs with specific research know-how interested
in European RTD cooperation
Research consortia preparing a FP6 RTD project
and look for SME partners

• High quality matchmaking - database available
  where SMEs can present their expertise and
  researchers their project ideas
  (www.smesgolifesciences.org)
• Organisation of 3 major brokerage events
• Presentation of SME and RTD profiles and
  researchers project ideas on major conferences
  and events
• Matchmaking by individual support/advise of
  SMEs/SME groupings and researchers

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Take advantage of our service!

• Find your competent research partner through
• Increase the European visibility of your
  research expertise
• ensure that you can be contacted by registering
  in the database
• Get prepared for involvement/submission in/of an
  EU RTD project
• Attend our information and training sessions
• Take advantage of the tailor-made, individual
  assistance of your national expert
• Contact your national expert!

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Partner seraches for the projects (1)

• Daddy Sitter Elderly people surveillance
  (STREP Israel). Deadline of expression of the
  interest 25.04.2006 !
• The aim of the project is to develop a knowledge
  based image processing
• system that studies elderly people in a house
  daily routine and alert when
• unusual event happens. The proposal intends to
  deliver the innovative
• technologies of knowledge based image processing
  for the surveillance of
• elderly people.
• Required partners
• Nursing homes and hospitals that wish to
  implement automatic surveillance systems
• Medical communication companies.
• System integrator for medical and healthcare
  applications.
• Work to be carried out
• A nursing home or a hospital will support the
  system definition and requirements.
• A medical communication company will develop and
  integrate the alert capabilities with the system.
• An integrator will integrate the technology with
  other devices and communications capabilities.

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Partner seraches for the projects (2)

• 2. Aging Guard Development of a system that
  will monitor vital parameters in order to detect
  the physiological status of elderly people
  performing a physical effort (STREP Israel).
• Deadline of expression of the interest
  25.04.2006 !
• The subject is the development of a system that
  will monitor vital parameters in order to detect
  the physiological status of elderly people
  performing a physical effort. The information
  will be transmitted to a distant medical center,
  which will continuously asses the health status
  of the user and to alert if an impending problem
  might occur. The sensing unit will be in the
  mouth. We have developed an intra-oral
  electro-stimulating system to treat dry mouth
  (Saliwell Project, under FP5) and a drug delivery
  system (IntelliDrug Project, under FP6). The
  company Telefónica, which is part of the
  consortium, is responsible for developing the
  telemedicine system. The work will address key
  user needs for independent living and provide an
  innovative solution that can significantly
  increase autonomy of elderly people.
• Required partners with the following
  characteristics (in order of
• preference)
• Geriatric organization
• End user representative (clients or care
  providers)
• SME (not obligatory)

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Partner seraches for the projects (3)

• 3. CommSup Implementation of Supportive
  Communities and Assisting Information and
  Communication in the Aging Society (Israel).
• Deadline of expression of the interest
  25.04.2006 !
• CommSup objective is to implement the working
  model of 'supportive community' within several
  European nations. Supportive communities will be
  created in such a way that while introducing the
  model, appropriate scientific evaluation will be
  carried out. Utilization of newly emerged
  technologies, ready for 'field testing' will be
  an integral part of the program.
• CommSup will introduce, under well controlled
  approach, 4-5 such 'supportive communities'
  within the consortium participating nations.
• These communities will create the cohort in which
  various sociological and behavioral parameters
  will be monitored.
• Analysis of the monitoring will be performed by
  the fourth members
• Evaluation of the economic modus operandum will
  be tested.
• Implementation of sophisticated enabling
  technology will part of the program. The
  technological solutions will be tested
  evaluation of needs, adaptability and social
  differences will be performed by the ICT members
  of the consortium.

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Partner seraches for the projects (4)

• Required partners (refers to Call for NGO/NPO
  SME)
• SME or a non profit organization managing and
  providing social and health services for the
  elderly in its local community (refers to Call
  for NGO/NPO SME)
• Companies inventing/installing state of the art
  hardware and software aimed for the elderly at
  home (refers to Call for technological
  companies)
• Work to be carried out
• NGO/NPO and SME service providers
• This partner will have the responsibility to
  establish the supportive community, to manage and
  provide the needed support for the conduction of
  scientific and other surveys which are part of
  the program.
• This partner will have to be able to bring along
  to the consortium the local authorities and/or
  the national relevant bodies dealing with the
  elderly.
• The partner should be able to facilitate the
  introduction of novel technologies such as
  sensing devices and/or software for the benefit
  of the elderly and the caregivers. This should be
  performed in tandem with the technology partner/s
  of the consortium.
• SME as technological innovator
• Should have ready to use technology, willing to
  provide and implement the solution in the
  supportive communities and monitor the successful
  use of the technology.

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Partner seraches for the projects (5)

• 4. H2RAT A Haptic Handling Robot for
  Assistance Tasks (STREP Austria).
• Deadline of expression of the interest
  25.04.2006 !
• The objective of the proposed project is to
  develop a haptic handling robot for the
  assistance of human experts in critical tasks
  that have to be realized with high accuracy in
  accordance to a predefined procedure, under
  obstacles such as high inaccessibility for
  applying a tool, and with perhaps scanty
  visibility in the working area. The H2RAT aims
  on utilizing robots as assistants for work
  performing tasks that would be impossible or at
  least hard to be accomplished with accuracy.
• Required partners
• A partner, who is capable to deliver or
  manufacture the mechatronics construction and the
  prototype of a haptic hinge. Therefore, a company
  (SME) with experience in planning and
  manufacturing of micro/miniature mechanics.

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Partner seraches for the projects (6)

• 5. DEVELOPMENT OF SUBUNIT VACCINE FOR AVIAN
  INFLUENZA (STREP Israel).
• Deadline of expression of the interest
  25.04.2006 !
• The objective of the project is developing
  effective vaccines to treat human, farm animals
  and birds. This project proposes to develop a
  subunit vaccine based on immunogenic MHC peptide
  antigens (T cell epitopes) and on viral proteins
  which are the targets of antibodies in people or
  animals. The project's main objectives are 1.
  Identification of the MHC peptide repertoires of
  the birds and establish their consensus binding
  motifs 2. Identification of MHC peptides derived
  from the virus proteins and presented by bird MHC
  molecules that elicit T cell responses3.
  Identification of the viral proteins that are the
  targets of serum antibodies of people or animal
  that survive the disease 4. Based on the
  identification of these MHC peptides and
  proteins, to develop subunit vaccines that can be
  administered to humans, farm animals or birds. A
  potential benefit of this project is the
  development of vaccines that can be mass-produced
  and administered even to wild animals. Improved
  understanding of the immunology of the avian
  influenza may help future design of molecules
  that could be used as components of vaccines for
  other strains of influenza and other viruses
  transmitted from birds to humans.

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Partner seraches for the projects (7)

• Required partners
• Role technology development, research, training,
  dissemination, demonstration activities
• Partner wit expertise Immunologist and
  virologist, especially specialist in avian
  immunology and virology.
• 6. EUMITOCOMBAT - Rational treatment
  strategies combating mitochondrial oxidative
  phosphorylation disorders ( Integrated project
  Netherlands)
• Call for additional 1-2 partners (max budget
  96.000,00 Eur) planning for
• launching June 2006
• The EUMITOCOMBAT consortium already consists of
  12 partners (21 scientific
• groups from 9 different countries) aims to
  integrate and extend knowledge on
• basic aspects of OXPHOS biology and the
  pathobiological cascades underlying
• OXPHOS disease manifestation in humans. The
  EUMITOCOMBAT project will re-
• inforce Europe as the international leader in the
  development of treatments
• capable of combating these disorders.

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Partner seraches for the projects (8)

• They will
• Integrate clinical and model-system expertise
• Characterize important genes and proteins
  involved in the formation and regulation of the
  OXPHOS-system.
• Study the network of components involved in
  cellular energy metabolism by functional
  genomics.
• Develop more efficient genetic and protein
  (mutation) screening methods.
• Evaluate the cellular alterations/adaptations of
  these defects in specified cells, tissues, models
  and humans.
• Develop methods to target and test therapeutic
  agents to specific (sub)cellular locations.
• Required partners
• Role technology development, dissemination
• Scientific development
• Organisation of Public Relations and
  communications

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Contact your national expert and get support
fromSMEsgoLifeSciences partner in
LatviaLatvian Technological Center Diana
Krievina!Tel [phone], e-mail
dianak_at_edi.lv
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