The EC¿s "Horizon 2020" program gives the basis for a variety of research actions. European projects on the one hand are esteemed but on the other hand the voluminous handbooks for proposers, detailed reporting and monitoring usances often discourage potential proposers. Based on the presenter¿s comprehensive experience as coordinator, evaluator and reviewer the seminar aims at overcoming deficits in being familiar with the EC¿s philosophy and thus understands itself as a contribution to successful applications originating from the faculty of ETIT.
CORDIS website, the gateway to European research and development, national contact points and institutions offering support to potential applicants, structure of Framework Programmes, identification of relevant calls, identification of promising research topics, cooperation with technology platforms (of relevance esp. in ICT and NMP domain), proposal writing and constituting an effective consortium, the evaluation process and how to be inline with it¿s requirements, the recognizability of excellence, negotiations and implementation, cost categories, reporting, the new responsibility for dissemination, exploitation and (FP7 and Horizon 2020): standardization, reviewing, auditing, paths to guarantee sustainability of research efforts
