1. Stepping up Economic and Technological Intelligence Brussels, 18 December 2002 Germán Valcárcel European Commission DG Research - Research and SMEs

2. Budget 2003: 20 M€ Call for Proposals: ~ end January 2003 Deadline for submission of proposals: 29 April 2003 ROADMAP 2003 Evaluation procedure : 1 single stage Evaluation results: ~ end July 2003 Contract signature: ~ end 2003

3. è FP6 Brochure: « 6th Framework Programme in brief » - common è Guide for Proposers - particular for SSA-ETI è Work Programme - Estructuring: Introd + ETI + common annexes è Call for proposals - Estructuring: Introd + ETI annex è Evaluation Manual - common è ETI guidelines for evaluators è Model contract Available documents Information package for Specific Support Actions for ETI Call 1:

4. è FP6 Brochure: « 6th Framework Programme in brief » - common è Guide for Proposers - particular for CA-ETI è Work Programme - Estructuring: Introd + ETI + common annexes è Call for proposals - Estructuring: Introd + ETI annex è Evaluation Manual - common è ETI guidelines for evaluators è Model contract Available documents Information package for Co-ordination Actions for ETI Call 1: www.cordis.lu/calls/sme

5. Application Forms Structure of a proposal Part A: Administrative & Financial Information Part B: Scientific & Technical Information

10. Part B Proposal full title: Stepping up Economic and Technological Intelligence CALL 1 SPECIFIC SUPPORT ACTION PROPOSAL PART B “PROPOSAL ACRONYM” 1 st Research topic ___________________ 2 nd Research topic ___________________ 3 rd Research topic ___________________

11. Part B Front page Proposal full title Proposal acronym Date of preparation Type of instrument, in this case: Specific Support Actions List of participants, with co-ordinator first Co-ordinator name Co-ordinator organisation name Co-ordinator email Co-ordinator fax

12. Contents page show contents list Proposal summary page Proposal full title Proposal acronym Proposal abstract, copied from Part A Part B

13. B.1 Objectives of the proposed project and state of the art (~ two pages) B.2 Relevance to the objectives of Stepping up ETI (~ three pages) B.3 Potential impact (~ three pages) B.4 The consortium and project resources (~ five pages) B.5 Project management and exploitation/dissemination plans (~ three pages)

14. B.6 Workplan a) Workplan introduction b) Work planning (Gantt chart or similar) c) Graphical presentation of the components (Pert diagram) d) Detailed work description broken down into workpackages: Workpackage list (use Workpackage list) Deliverables list (use Deliverables list) Description of each workpackage (use Workpackage form) B.7 Other issues (No recommended length) B.8 Exclusion of individual experts from evaluation of this proposal (use the table) Part B

15. Contractual issues Model contract NO Specific Provisions for SSA and CA NO consortium agreement Annex II: General Conditions