1. WP1 presentation Christian Jagersma Bucharest, 1-4 March 2010 Agentschap NL (NL Agency)

2. Workpackage 1 Content – Aims and objectives Achievements Deliverables Challenges (“Problems”) Plans for the future

3. Content of WP1: task 1.1 Task 1.1: Benchmarking of NCP Services Task Leader: Belgium/Brussels Capital Region (The Brussels Enterprise Agency) 1.Benchmark identify opportunities for exchange of information in areas such as customer relation management, brick analysis, content management, etc. This would also be valuable to experienced NCPs who are not aware of new techniques available.

4. Task 1.2: Helping new and not-yet experienced NCPs Task Leader: The Netherlands (Agentschap NL) 1.Training sessions 2.Twinning measures Content of WP1: task 1.2

5. Task 1.3: Continuing Professional Development Task Leader: Italy (APRE) 1.Workshop to update the quality of NCPs assistance and to level off their skills. Content of WP1: task 1.3

6. D 1.1 Benchmarking of Environment NCP services D 1.2 Evaluation reports of the 4 Training courses D 1.3 Summary activity report of twinning exchanges D 1.4 Evaluation report of Continuing Professional Development info-day Deliverables

7. Achievements Questionnaire: NCPs Best practices & Training needs (Alexandre BONNYNS) – Identification of needs and gaps of knowledge Organise 2 day training for new and non- experienced NCPs

8. Questionnaire A.1 Political background of FP7 ( and Barcelona Objectives, Design of Framework Programmes (FP), Information on FP8, European Scoreboard for Innovation,…) 23% poor A.2 “Lobbying” background of the Environment Theme (development of work-programmes, role and responsibility of Programme Committee (PC) members,….) 29% poor, 26% moderate A.3 Participation of International Cooperation Partner Countries (ICPC) in FP7 (SICA, relevant EU-Initiatives, overall EC-strategy, INCO-nets,....) 26% poor A.5. Recent scientific developments in Environment Research (Foresight studies, state of the art in several research areas,….) 34% poor B.3.FP7 Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) rules (foreground, background, ownership, access-rights, …)26% poor B.8 Risk management & contingency plans (identification of potential risks or weaknesses and means to address them) 17% poor D.1 Contract negotiations (GPFs, negotiation process, guide for contract negotiation, Negotiation Facility – NEF,...)14% poor 54% moderate E.2 Technical Reporting (reporting process & guidelines, (web-based) project management tools, communication tools,….) 20% poor E.4 Project end (methods for finishing a project successfully, final payment, final report, controls by the EC,… )26% poor E.5 Dissemination & Exploitation (Dissemination strategies, Exploitation strategies, licensing, patents, when and how to create a spin-off,…..) 17% poor, 51% moderate F.2 Other relevant European funding schemes (CIP, COST,, LIFE+, ERA-NETs,…)20% poor F.3 Relevant European Technology Platforms (ETP)34% poor F.4 Other funds that can be combined with FP7 funds (National, Regional, Structural Funds) Example: Operational Sectoral Program in Romania (funded from ERDF) that many researchers use to purchase R&D equipment (large R&D infrastructures) that will be used for further FP 7 projects. 31% poor

9. Koos de Korte – Coördinator BIO-net project (Food NCPs) Kim Kruisinga – Legal and Financial advisor Christian Jagersma – WP1 leader First training

10. Four sessions in two days How to write a good proposal Reporting – Technical and financial aspects Contract negotiations – Roles of participants The context of FP7 – Political background, other relevant initiatives.

11. D 1.2 Evaluation reports of 4 Training courses month D 1.3 Summary activity report of twinning exchanges D 1.4 Evaluation report of Continuing Professional Development info-day (organized somewhere in the last 2 years of the project) Future

12. Planning 2010 – WP1 meeting June 2010 Dates and location of training activities Content of training activities Planning of twinning activities Tasks to be performed Future

13. Planning 2010 – NCP training end of 2010 (December) Location Topics Trainers – Start with twinning activities Future