Tag Archive for 'Brussels'

Let’s share useful links and relevant photos

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Vlastimil Vesely
  on  May 21, 2008
  in  About CITT
. 3 Comments

Moving forward, nowEurope will be not only mapping our topics and bringing news through the posts. We have integrated several data feeds to other community driven (or web 2.0 if you like) services in the right column.

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Review: Vienna IT Enterprises (VITE) trip to Belgium 16th-18th of April, 2008

Published
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Bernhard Schmid
  on  May 16, 2008
  in  About CITT, Austria and EU funding programmes
. 2 Comments

I am very glad to have the opportunity to be a nowEurope contributer. With my first article I would like to greet and welcome all readers of this page warmly.

The Brussels office of the Vienna Business Agency (VBA) and VITE organised from the 16th to the 18th of April 2008 a business trip to Brussels and Leuven for IT enterprises from Austria and the CENTROPE region. Continue reading ‘Review: Vienna IT Enterprises (VITE) trip to Belgium 16th-18th of April, 2008′

A local view to the previous two calls

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Vlastimil Vesely
  on  December 1, 2004
  in  EU funding programmes
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One year ago the evaluation of project proposals submitted within the 2nd IST Call of the 6th framework programme took place in Brussels. As one of the invited evaluators I had a chance to view it from the other side. Let’s say from a view of a wicked man, at least this is the way the evaluator ‘killing’ the majority of proposals is perceived by their promoters.

The number of proposals ‘to be killed’ was really high, because submitted all together into the 2nd call was over a thousand projects (more than half was submitted in the electronic way), which at total required more than 4 bil. EUR (the budget available was 525 mil. EUR, so the chance to succeed can be simplified as a ratio of 1:8). Despite the obstacles of individual evaluation criteria and total minimum score, which is always necessary to reach to move forward, 276 (26%) projects pursuing together more than 1 bil. EUR (still almost a double overhang of demand) were passed forward. Continue reading ‘A local view to the previous two calls’