Ideal-ist Lithuania (Deividas Vijeikis, Ausra Jakaitiene)

www.ideal-ist.net

A catalyst for IST Programme partnerships

Vilnius, 22 October 2002

• EU project under IST Programme made up of 31 partners from EU & Associated Member States

• Based on original project set up in 1996 under IV Framework Programme

• The 31 partners work as or on behalf of their National Contact Points for the IST Programme

IDEALIST Partner Search

Active – rapid - efficient

• The project offers highly successful partner search facilities

• Process ensures success by providing help to proposers in preparing their partner search

SUCCESS

• This process helped found partners for over 1030 proposers since 1st Call for proposals (March 1999)

• During the first two weeks there is an average of 15 responses from interested organizations

1.- Looking for partners for your

own project proposal?

2.- You would like to receive project

ideas from other organisations all

over Europe in your field of interest

Two ways to take advantage of Ideal-ist

1. Looking for partners ?

• Fill out the partner search form (research priority, brief description of project idea, type and role of partners)

• Send the form to your local Ideal-ist representative

• PS launched all over the 31 countries (anonymity is possible)

• Within a few days, you will be contacted by interested organisations

2. Interested in receiving Partner

Searches ?

• Fill in the form to indicate your areas of

interest (it takes only 2 minutes)

• You are included in the Distribution List for

the field(s) of your interest

• You will receive automatically the PS from

all 31 countries in your area of interest

Which type of Which type of organisation?organisation?

Responses by type of organization

57%18%

15%

6% 4% COMPANY

UNIVERSITY

RESEARCH CENTRE

PUBLIC BODY

ASSOCIATION

• Replies from all kind of organizations help build balanced consortia

Responses, 7th Call

21%

15%

15%10%

8%

5%

18%

8%

NAS

Spain

Italy

Germany

UK

France

Other EU

Other

Which countries?

Ideal-ist: some figures

• IDEAL-IST - Results– Ideal-ist found partners for over 1030 projects since 1st

call of the IST Programme– 100% of proposers were provided with potential partners– Proposers received an average number of 24 possible

partners – Over 12.000 organizations got into contact through Ideal-

ist

• CONCLUSIONS– Strategy has proved to be fast and effective: Ideal-ist

found partners in less than one week!!!– Ideal-ist provides partners for about 10% of the proposals

For further informationcontact us

www.ideal-ist.net

EVENTS

Workshops

Partner brokerages

International Conferences

IDEALIST Workshops

To help proposers understand the advantages & problems of working with different cultures & countries IDEALIST holds international workshops about the:

• IST Programme

• Procedures

• Content

• Encourage interaction between participants in developing proposal ideas

• Brokerage is carried out at international events

• Attendees gain knowledge of existing projects, which

will help them develop their proposals as well as meeting

potential partners

• In 2001, 11 brokerage events with an average of

83 participants. Venues: Maastrich, Bratislava, Prague,

Thessaloniki, etc

50% make further contact with the organisations

IDEALIST Brokerage

IDEALIST Conferences9-11 Oct. 2002 Bucharest, ROMANIA6th Information Society technologies for Broadband Europe (330 participants)

Ideal-ist Intl. Conference Information Society Technologies in the Sixth Framework Programme25-26 November 2002, Warsaw, POLANDwww.ideal-ist.de/ConfPoland.htm

German/Lithuanian partnership – IT solutionsVilnius, INFOBALT’2002 25th Oct. 2002 5th Exhibition Hall, 10.00-12.45