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THE network of national contact points for ICT in Horizon 2020

Supports project proposers From project idea to successful proposal submission

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Who we are?

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Ideal-ist Network

is worldwide

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Ideal-ist project objectivesReinforcing the network of national contact points for ICT in Horizon 2020 : EU15, EU12, AS & Contact Points from 3rd countries

Identify, understand and share good practices

Include practical initiatives to benefit cross-border audiences

Collaboration and Networking with similar projects in parallel themes in the context of joint/coordinated calls

Special attention on less experienced NCPs

Support potential proposers during the whole process “project idea focusing to successful proposal submission”

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Ideal-ist Offers Long-standing experienceUnique quality labelled partner

search tool International Quality TeamHigh expertise advice in proposal writing and project

managementServices:

eNewsletter, Work Program Information, Brokerage events

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Ideal-ist Services

Ideal-ist supports Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), Academia, Non-

Profit Organisations, Large Industries, Public

Administration, Research Organizations and

Consultancies

Finding the right partners for your project

Joining as partners to other proposals

Organizing brokerage events

in European national and

regional levels

Submitting project ideas in line with the Challenges & Objectives of ICT

Interpreting the ICT work programmes of Horizon 2020

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How Ideal-ist finds partner for you?

Proposer inserts a new Partner Search online

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PS is checked by local representative & Quality Team according to

subjective & objective criteria: Quality Label

PS is published & distributed to subscribers of national mailing list

(~85,000 contacts)

Potential partner send EOIs (Expression of interest) to proposers (on avg. 50 per

PS)

Proposer replies to EoIs (Standard reply form)

& chooses partner(s) to build consortium (98% success rate)

PS is closed & Proposer fills in feedback form

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Ideal-ist Success in FP7Partner searches initiated: 1,100 Partner Searches

Partner searches published:610 Partner searches Expressions of

Interests:All together 24,880 EoI (avg. of 40 EoI/PS)

Accepted as partner95% of these PS found partners

Quality Check:70% of these are quality labelled

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Launching Partner Search Service via Ideal-ist means to increase awareness to reduce barriers to future participation to present the potential to receive guidance on how to get started in Horizon 2020 to find specific expertise to find partners abroad to create an added value with a new partner to find a coordinator to expand into another challenge to get support by the Quality team to increase the chances to

submit a proposal and get funded

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Partner Search SystemIncludes the following: Targeted to actual calls Type of information requested

– Call identifier, research objective, instrument, evaluation scheme

– Proposal outline– objectives, keywords– Partner profile sought – required skills,

expertise, work to be carried out, type of partner sought, coordinator sought

– Your FP experience (participation, coordination)

Partner searches are Quality checked!

PS IDProposal Name

Publish date

Call Objective CountryQuality Label

Status

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How to get started?Submit a Partner Searchhttp://www.ideal-ist.eu/user/register

Submit an Expression of Interest http://www.ideal-ist.eu/partner-search/pssearch

Register for your national newsletterhttp://www.ideal-ist.eu/user/register/newsletter

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ICT in H2020

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Simplified access

International cooperation European Research Area

Common rules, toolkit of funding schemes

Europe 2020 priorities

Shared objectives and principles

Coherent with other EU and MS actions

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Mark…The places where you can find us on-line:http://www.facebook.com/Idealist.ict http://www.linkedin.com/company/ideal-ist-euhttp://twitter.com/ICT_IDEALIST

For any relevant information on

ICT in Horizon 2020

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Thank you for your attention! Thank you for your attention!

www.ideal-ist.eu

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