1. Malgorzata Gliniecka Institute of Fundamental Technological Research Polish Academy of Sciences PRO_NMS Košice, Slovakia 1 Dezember 2006 PRO_NMS Pro Active Actions for New Member States

2. Malgorzata Gliniecka Institute of Fundamental Technological Research Polish Academy of Sciences PRO_NMS Košice, Slovakia 1 Dezember 2006 Consortium of PRO_NMS project: 1IPPT PAN - Instytut Podstawowych Problemow Techniki Polskiej Akademii Nauk (PL) 2BIT FFG – Austrian Research Promotion Agency Division for International Research & Technology Co-operation (AT) 3VDI/VDE Innovation + Technik GmbH (DE) 4TUKE Technical University of Košice (Office of European Projects) (SK) 5SPIE International Society for Optical Engineering(LV) 6Archimedes Archimedes Foundation (EE) 7LvCSTEI Lviv Centre for Scientific Technical and Economic(UA) 8InfoPark Co. (HU) 9Association INFOBALT (LT) 10LIC - Lithuanian Innovation Centre (LT)

3. Malgorzata Gliniecka Institute of Fundamental Technological Research Polish Academy of Sciences PRO_NMS Košice, Slovakia 1 Dezember 2006 Objectives of the project - 1 The project PRO_NMS addresses research organisations, SMEs, IT companies mainly from New Member States (NMS) – Poland, Slovakia, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Hungary and one country – Ukraine from NIS to enlarge the participation in Framework Programmes. This country will be accompanied by partners from other Member States – from Austria and Germany.

4. Malgorzata Gliniecka Institute of Fundamental Technological Research Polish Academy of Sciences PRO_NMS Košice, Slovakia 1 Dezember 2006 Objectives of the project - 2 The project aims to facilitate participation of research organisations, legal entities, IT companies from the New Member States (NMS) and to help to establish solid frameworks for international collaboration in research activities of IST.

5. Malgorzata Gliniecka Institute of Fundamental Technological Research Polish Academy of Sciences PRO_NMS Košice, Slovakia 1 Dezember 2006 Objectives of the project – 3 The consortium will reach the potential proposers to 5th IST Call as well as to future IST actions (FP 7th) from key IST fields: Micro/nano based sub-systems Embedded Systems ICT for Networked Businesses

6. Malgorzata Gliniecka Institute of Fundamental Technological Research Polish Academy of Sciences PRO_NMS Košice, Slovakia 1 Dezember 2006 The workplan comprises 6 workpackages: WP1: Project Co-crdination/ Management WP2: Strategic Objectives (SO) Market Research (Landscaping) WP3: Preparation of Standardized data base and Project web page WP4: Training and Consultancy WP5: Brokerage Activities and Promotion of Key Players WP6: Project Promotion

7. Malgorzata Gliniecka Institute of Fundamental Technological Research Polish Academy of Sciences PRO_NMS Košice, Slovakia 1 Dezember 2006 Preparation of the Data Base: To facilitate management and communication between the partners; Internal communication platform for the project team (in INTRANET only accessible for team members); To build links between existing/starting projects

8. Malgorzata Gliniecka Institute of Fundamental Technological Research Polish Academy of Sciences PRO_NMS Košice, Slovakia 1 Dezember 2006 Training and Consultancy: 2 workshops in Poland 2 workshops in Slovakia 2 workshops in Latvia (for participants form Estonia and Lithuania) 2 workshops in Hungary 2 workshops in Ukraine

9. Malgorzata Gliniecka Institute of Fundamental Technological Research Polish Academy of Sciences PRO_NMS Košice, Slovakia 1 Dezember 2006 Brokerage activities: Brokerage activities will consist mainly of brokerage events – the project consortium will organise 3 international brokerage events (1 per selected Strategic Objectives); The brokerage events will be organised in Poland, Lithuania and Slovakia.

10. Malgorzata Gliniecka Institute of Fundamental Technological Research Polish Academy of Sciences PRO_NMS Košice, Slovakia 1 Dezember 2006 Objectives of the brokerage events: To exchange experience between partners active in selected Strategic Objectives; To give partners from the NMS possibility to meet potential partners from other MS and from successful projects; To present possibilities to join ongoing projects under FP6; To bring together the skills and knowledge of the potential consortia members; To promote and facilitate participation of NMS (PL, LV, LT, EE, SK, HU) and Ukraine; Transferring the experience, expertise and contacts between successful IST Projects co-ordinators from the other MS to NMS and Ukraine.

11. Malgorzata Gliniecka Institute of Fundamental Technological Research Polish Academy of Sciences PRO_NMS Košice, Slovakia 1 Dezember 2006 Webpage of the project: http://www.pro_nms.net

12. Malgorzata Gliniecka Institute of Fundamental Technological Research Polish Academy of Sciences PRO_NMS Košice, Slovakia 1 Dezember 2006 Contact: Malgorzata Gliniecka National Contact Point for Research Programmes of the European Union 21 Swietokrzyska Str. 00-049 Warsaw/ Poland (+48 22) 828 74 83 ext. 294 malgorzata.gliniecka@kpk.gov.pl