WP5 - Mapping Indian Research Potential

Sourabha Rani, ITSMA, INDIA

Activities for Year 5 & 6

Objective of WP5 (Y1-Y4)

Specific Objectives

• To develop a contact repository of Indian researchers

• To conduct a survey on current trends and scenarios in the Indian

Environment Sector

• To facilitate match-making between Indian and EU entities

• To disseminate FP7 opportunities through events

Broad Objectives

To map the Indian Environment Research organizations

To enhance EU-India collaboration in FP7

Tasks Overview

• Task 1 – A Report on Environment Sector in India

• Task 2 – Indian Organizations Contact Repository Development

• Task 3 - Questionnaire Development and Designing of Database

• Task 4 – Data Collection

• Task 5 – Design and Development of the Indian Partner Search Tool

• Task 6 - Data Analysis and Report Generation

• Task 7 – Partner Search Tool Maintenance and Updating

• Task 8 - Awareness Raising and Dissemination Activity

All the tasks were completed by Y4

Year 5 & 6 Activities

Task 5.6 - Database maintenance and updating

Task 5.7 - Assessment of Indian Participants in FP7 projects

and EU-India coordinated call projects

Task 5.8 - Mapping the project results with the Indian database

Task 5.9 - Event to promote and Disseminate H2020

Activities foreseen for period March 2013 – June 2014

Task 5.7 - Assessment of Indian Participants in FP7 projects and EU-India coordinated call projects

• A questionnaire based survey

• 19 FP7 projects with Indian partners

• 5 EU-India co-funded (collaborative) projects in the Water

Sector (under Environment theme)

• Both EU and Indian project coordinators and the Indian

partners will be requested to take up the survey.

T5.7 contd.. Questionnaire

• The questionnaire will address– the scientific and research results of their project– project result uptake, new technologies, new knowledge,

innovative outcomes of the project – Exploitation of knowledge - taking research results to market,

knowledge sharing, co-creation of knowledge, technology transfer models that were involved in these projects.

– project execution, management and administrative aspects & partnership experiences• like reporting and deliverables, project coordination, funding

models, sharing of IPs, etc.– Willingness to participate in H2020 will also be assessed

T5.7 contd.. EU-India Coordinated projects

This will be the model followed in H2020

• The positives and negatives of coordinated call type of projects will be assessed

• the kind of organizations that would be interested in such collaborative models,

• the involvement of (local) governments, • the type of topics that will be of interest for future calls, • industry interests in uptake of project results, etc.

T5.7 contd.. Sub tasks

• Three sub tasks of this task are as follows:

– 5.7.1 – Questionnaire development – the questionnaire

will be sent to the EC for review and feedback – May 2013

– 5.7.2 – Data collection – September 2013

– 5.7.3 – Analysis of survey results – Nov 2013

Task 5.8 – Mapping the project results with the Indian database

• Aim is to identify potential entities (esp. industries) that

could take up the project results

• map the new technologies, processes, research results

identified under T5.7 with the industries’ expertise recorded

in the Indian database

• For e.g. mapping the technologies that match water

management industries, waste water reuse, agricultural

research projects, etc.

Task 5.9 Event to promote and Disseminate H2020

• One large event will be organized in the first quarter of 2014

• to disseminate H2020 programme and to promote Indian

participation

• Venue - New Delhi or Bangalore, Mumbai or Chennai

• The event structure will be developed based on H2020 model

and the topics decided for collaboration with India

Deliverables

• D5.7 – Design of Questionnaire (May 2013)

• D5.8 – Analysis of questionnaire survey (November 2013)

• D5.9 – Report on the event (May 2014)

Thank you