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INCONTACT NEWSLETTER 03
INCONTACT NEWSLETTER 03
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INCONTACT—update
INCONTACT is the official project of the INCO NCPs,
funded under the INCO program in FP7 and will be
operational till December 2009.
During these last months of the project the focus
will be drawn on the completion of the intercultural
research and on the organization of the last
training session.
However, we would like also to note that:
3 regional workshops have been successfully
concluded in Eastern Europe & Central Asia, Central
America, and Sub-Saharan Africa.
A training session has been organized in Brussels.
The INCO-wiki is fully operational and open to NCPs.
The first set of presentations on cultural
differences is complete
Special News Alerts have been disseminated to the
INCO NCPs, highlighting specific INCO related
information.
on behalf of the INCONTACT team
Nondas
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Contents
• Intercultural Business Etiquette
• FP7-INCO-2010-6 CALL, ERAWIDE
• Information and Brokerage Day on Call FP7 - KBBE
2010 , Brussels, 7 Oct 2009
• INCO-wiki
• INCO NCP training: 5-6 October 2009, Brussels
• Intercultural research
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 Intercultural
Business Etiquette
In the Context of INCONTACT a first version of a
document on Intercultural Business Etiquette is
produced. It includes a compilation of “basic”
information for the Business Etiquette in several
countries and cultures.
The country files include all the necessary basic
information from the main religion and language, to
greeting habits and business behavior (Check the
files on the
INCO-WIKI)
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FP7-INCO-2010-6 CALL, ERAWIDE—
A new opportunity for the INCO NCPs
Under the call FP7-INCO-2010-6, ERAWIDE, EU
research institutions can build or extend
collaboration with research institutions based in
European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) countries. This
is a new opportunity for INCO NCPs, as we have again
the opportunity to collaborate with the research
institutions in our countries.
The objective of this new action is to reinforce the
cooperation capacities of research centres located
in the ENP countries, which are not associated to
FP7. The call gives these countries the possibility
to improve the research activities of their highest
quality and/or promising centres in the thematic
priorities of FP7.
Proposed activities
The activities covered by the call are:
• Networking with research centres in Member
States or Associated Countries in view of
disseminating scientific information, identifying
partners and setting up joint experiments;
• Developing training modules to build competency
and facilitate the participation in FP7 of the
centres located in the targeted third countries;
• Developing the research centres’ strategy in
order to increase their scope in particular their
regional coverage and to improve their responses to
the socio-economic needs of their countries and of
the region.
Funding
The funding scheme that applies is the Coordination
and Support Action (supporting action). Community
contribution for each project is expected to be
about EUR 0.5 million. The typical duration of the
project would be between 2 to 3 years.
Participants
This call is addressed to research centres of proven
high level S&T capacities, which are located in an
ENP country not associated to FP7. The research
centre is defined here as an existing working unit,
either independent or functioning within a locally
established research organisation of one of the
countries concerned, having preferably distinct
organisational and administrative boundaries. The
centre should not be a subsidiary or branch of an
organisation established in another country. In
order to be eligible, the proposal must target only
one such centre, the consortium should however
include additional participants, in particular from
the Member States and/or Associated Countries so as
to fulfil the objectives of the Activity.
Areas open to this call
The call will be open to the fields of science
addressed by the thematic priorities of FP7 and will
target centres located in the following regions:
• Area INCO.2010-6.1: Eastern Europe and South
Caucasus: Moldova, Georgia, Ukraine, Belarus,
Armenia, Azerbaijan
• Area INCO.2010-6.2: Mediterranean Partner
Countries: Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt,
Jordan, Palestinian-administered Areas, Lebanon,
Syria
Important Information
• The consortium must include the research centre
that is targeted in the proposal.
• The research centre targeted by the proposal
should be the coordinator of the proposal.
• At least one project per country covered by
the areas of this activity will be funded, provided
that it has passed thresholds of all evaluation
criteria. Therefore, the highest ranked proposal for
a given target country will be considered for FP7
Capacities Work Programme: Activities of
International Cooperation 2010 funding, subject to
the result of the evaluation and availability of the
budget. After allocating a budget to the best
projects in this way, all remaining projects in each
Area will be ranked together in one list according
to the marks obtained during evaluation. The
remaining budget will be allocated to the projects
according to their position in this overall ranking
without further concern for country coverage.
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 Information
and Brokerage Day on Call FP7
KBBE 2010 , Brussels, 7 Oct 2009
An information day and brokerage event on
transnational research cooperation in food,
agriculture and fisheries and biotechnology will be
held in Brussels, Belgium, on 7 October 2009. The
objective of the event is to bring together research
stakeholders, industry representatives and
Commission officials, and to provide ground for
discussion and networking within the scope of the
'Food, agriculture and fisheries, biotechnology'
theme of the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7). The
event will include a presentation of the areas
addressed by the 2010 call, presentations of
proposal ideas and a session of pre-arranged
bilateral meetings to discuss potential partnerships
in FP7 proposals. The event is organised by BIO
CIRCLE, a European project on international
cooperation in FP7 with Third Countries, in
collaboration with the European Commission and the
MEDA GO TO EUROPE. More information on the Event and
how to register as a researcher will be published
here this week.
For more information...
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INCO-wiki
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www.ncp-incontact.eu
The INCO-Wiki is an Online Encyclopaedia on
International Cooperation compiling relevant
information on International Cooperation
activities in the 7th Framework Programme of
the EU.
This is the place for INCO NCPs and FP7
contacts in Third Countries to add
information on Best Practices, News, Events,
and comment on interesting developments. For
example log in and read how to perform a
partner search or how to negotiate for a
project.
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You want to read the INCO-Wiki?
Create
account
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You want to edit articles?
Contact us
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Need a quick introduction to get you
started?
See our help section
For further questions please do not hesitate
to get in contact:
Mrs Nadine Müller
EU-Bureau of the Federal Ministry of
Education and Research
NCP International Cooperation
Project Management Agency, Member of German
Aerospace Center
Phone: +49 228 3821-650
Email:
Nadine.Mueller@dlr.de
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 A
questionnaire was disseminated for
identifying areas of interest to be included
in the INCONTACT training sessions.
The 2nd training session is planned to take
place after the INCO NCP meeting of the 5th
of October 2009 in Brussels, and consists of
2 different sessions:
• The first session will include the
presentation of specific NCP best practices
and also about the effect of cultural
differences in research initiatives
(Check the complete INCONTACT Training
agenda).
• The second training session will take
place on the 6th of October 2009 at APRE’s
office (for a limited number of
participants) and will focus on ”Gender in
Research”
(check the complete agenda):
For registrations please contact:
Mr Gianluca Rossi
National Contact Point International
Cooperation
APRE - Agenzia per la Promozione della ricerca
Europea
Tel +39 06 5911817, e-mail
rossi@apre.it
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Research
on the cultural differences and their effect
on research collaborations
An undergoing research is producing
interesting results on the cultural
differences and their effect on research
collaborations.
The final result will be the production of
several presentation modules on cultural
differences and their effect on research
and technological collaborations
The presentations will provide useful
information on aspects of intercultural
communication for the European
researcher 's community as well as for
third country participants and should help
researchers from different parts of the work
to effectively collaborate by knowing
potential cultural peculiarities of the
partner country or a region.
The presentation contains an introduction to
the main field of intercultural training and
communication and elaborates specific fields
of conflict, typical for international
cooperation.
Additionally, this task will provide a
PowerPoint presentation aiming at NCPs
and FP7 contacts in third countries on the
topic: “How to present FP7 to a
non-European community?”
The first draft presentations are
prepared and published on the INCO-WIKI and
available for use by the INCO NCPs. (go
to the INCO-WIKI website and type “cultural”
on the search tool)
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For additional
information please contact:
Mrs Nadine Müller
EU-Bureau of the Federal Ministry of
Education and Research
NCP International Cooperation
Project Management Agency
Member of German Aerospace Center
Phone: +49 228 3821-650
Email:
Nadine.Mueller@dlr.de
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