Information Days on the FP7 ICT Theme

Enhancement of Jordan-European S&T Partnerships, EU-JordanNet

The Higher Council for Science and Technology (HCST)

EU-JordanNet (244082) is co-funded by the European Community's Capacities Programme under FP7

 

Dr. Thies Wittig, Managing Director
IT Consult GmbH, Germany

AGENDA

 

Mechanics Auditorium, Royal Scientific Society

 

Monday , October  11 th  2010                                    ICT Information Day

09:15 - 09:30

Registration

09:30 - 09:40

Welcome by HSCT  and  Introduction to the Workshop


MORNING SESSION

9:40 - 11:15

-          Brief Review of EU Framework Programmes

-          FP 7 Overview

¨       The 4 programmes

¨       The 10 Themes

¨       The ICT component

¨       International Cooperation

-          Instruments and Funding Principles

¨       The types of projects

¨       Financing

11:15 - 11:30

Coffee break

11:30 - 13:00

-          When to go for funding and when not

¨       Pros and cons of participation

-          Finding Partners and forming a consortium

¨       General partner search services

¨       The Join-MED services

-          Other important support services. By Yousef Torman, Jordanian Universities Network (JUNet)

¨       EUMEDCONNECT and EUMEDGRID

¨       The Pan Arab Research Network

13:00 - 14:00

Lunch

 

AFTERNOON SESSION

14:00 - 15:30

-          The Project Life Cycle

¨       From Ideas to Proposals

¨       Key steps

-          Evaluation Criteria

-          FP 7 Call 7

-          Open Discussion

 

 

Mechanics Auditorium, Royal Scientific Society

 

Tuesday , October  12 th   2010                  Training on Proposal Writing

09:15 - 09:30

Registration

09:30 - 09:40

Welcome by HSCT     

 

MORNING SESSION

 

09:40 – 10:30

Introduction and overview

10:30 – 10:50

Outline of a fictitious proposal in the ICT theme:

¨       Objectives

¨       State-of-the-Art

¨       S&T Excellence

¨       Workplan

¨       Impact

10:50 – 13.00

Coffee Break

 

Work Group max 4 groups of up to 5 participants draft Objectives, Workplan and Impact on a different idea.

13:00 – 14:00

Lunch Break

 

AFTERNOON SESSION

 

14:00 – 15:30

Presentations of the group work results by rapporteurs. Applying the evaluation criteria.

15:30 – 16:00       

Summary and future steps.

 

 

Administrative Meeting Rooms, Royal Scientific Society

 

Wednesday, October 13 th  2010                                         Brokerage Day

09:15 - 09:30

Registration

09:30 - 09:40

Welcome by HSCT     

 

MORNING SESSION

09:40 - 10:15

FP7 ICT 2011 calls

10:15 - 11:15

4 Short presentations of proposal ideas by EU experts (15 min. each)

11:15 - 11.30

Coffee Break and networking

11.30 - 12.30

Short presentations of proposal ideas by Jordanian researchers (15 min. each)

12.30 - 13.00

Discussions / Cooperation Meetings

13:00 - 14:00

Lunch Break

 

AFTERNOON SESSION

 

14:00 - 15:00       

Short presentations of proposal ideas by Jordanian researchers (15 min. each)

15.00 - 17.00

Discussions / Cooperation Meetings