Marion LE LOUARN

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CIPICTPSP Call 2007Other themes and actions

• Marion LE LOUARN
•  Technologies for Digital Ecosystems  cluster
• INFSO D4  Networked Enterprise RFID 

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Competitiveness and Innovation Programme (CIP)

• ICT Policy Support Programme (ICTPSP) Call 2007
  workprogramme planned to be published by the end
  of May 2007, including
• Other themes and actions (total budget foreseen
  for all objectives 4.1 to 4.4 3M )

• Facilitation of replication/deployment of
  innovative ICT based solution through exchange of
  experiences and best practices.
• Key actors Practitioners, stakeholders

Thematic Networks
For more information on ICTPSP Short url
http//ec.europa.eu/ict_psp Functional mailbox
infso-ict_psp_at_ec.europa.eu
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Thematic Networks
Main features of Thematic Networks

• At least 7 key stakholders (legal entities) from
  7 different Member States or associated
  countries. Network must be open. Indicative
  duration 18-36 months. EC contribution 300-500
  K/network funded through lumpsums.
• The goal is to bring together relevant
  stakeholders, expertise and facilities to support
  the implementation of Information Society
  policies using ICT
• The work of the Thematic Networks should be
  focused on developing new policy implementation
  schemes through working groups, workshops and
  exchanges of good practices.
• Examples preparation of future pilot activities,
  replication of innovative solutions, development
  of common cross border strategies.
• The network should provide guidance for
  ICT-enabled solutions and their roll-out and will
  highlight the remaining obstacles to be overcome.
• The outcomes of Thematic Networks must have clear
  and measurable objectives, and the results shall
  be in the public domain.
• Proposals will be evaluated against the published
  evaluation criteria. One or more proposals will
  be selected on quality for each Thematic Network
  defined in the work programme.

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Evaluation of Proposals
The evaluation of proposals will be based on the
principles of transparency and of equal
treatment. It will be carried out by the
Commission with the assistance of independent
experts.
Evaluation criteria

• Eligibility Criteria
• - on-time, completeness, proposer status, .
• Award Criteria
• - Relevance (threshold 3/5)
• - Impact (threshold 3/5)
• - Implementation (threshold 3/5)
• Selection Criteria
• financial operational capacity to carry out
  project
• professional competencies and qualifications

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Other themes and horizontal actions Objective
4.1 Sharing experience on ICT Initiatives for
SMEs
Thematic Networks

• Thematic Networks will ensure the wider uptake
  and best use of ICT in businesses, and
  particularly SMEs. They will help establish a
  platform bringing together major stakeholders to
  identify, share and raise awareness of best
  practices, with due attention to adaptation to
  local needs/conditions. They will address
  training elements, help co-ordinate the
  development of specific approaches and standards
  and provide guidance for solution and their
  implementation.
• Up to four Thematic Networks will be funded, two
  for each of the following work programme
  sub-objectives

a- Improving SMEs business environment through
partnership building development of business
ecosystems
Other Themes and Horizontal Actions Objective
4.1 Sharing experience on ICT Initiatives for
SMEs Thematic Networks Call 2007
b- Improving the capacity of SMEs to benefit from
ICT-based innovations in their products and
services
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Objective 4.1-a
Improving SMEs business environment through
partnership building and the development of
business ecosystems
Thematic Networks

• RATIONALE behind the Objective 4.1-a Thematic
  Networks
• Digital Ecosystem Infrastructure enabling the
  composition of customised ICT solutions from
  generic components, to enable the economic
  development of SME clusters. This emerging and
  evolving paradigm is being adopted by industries
  and decision-makers in various regions in Europe,
  in different forms and interpretations, for
  deploying services for SMEs, based on the open
  source Digital Ecosystem infrastructure already
  publicly available from FP6 projects.
• For customised ICT solutions to be composed in
  response to SME needs, the ecosystem needs to be
  populated by generic digital components.
  Component supply is driven by both market forces
  and public administrations or regional demand.
  But wide-scale ICT adoption by SMEs
  necessitates addressing a number of complex
  issues, such as coordination with regional
  policies, launching concerted actions at
  different level of subsidiarity, attracting and
  involving a critical mass of SMEs using
  appropriate instruments.
• Thematic Networks are hence needed to define and
  carry out strategies for implementing Digital
  Ecosystem regional pilots, and are called for
  under objective 4.1-a.

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Objective 4.1-a
Improving SMEs business environment through
partnership building and the development of
business ecosystems
Thematic Networks

• AIMS of the Thematic Networks under objective
  4.1-a
• By addressing ICT adoption at European level, the
  Thematic Networks will help to promote the
  sharing of experiences (and risks) on ICT
  adoption among European regions, to promote
  interoperability of ICT solutions and business
  processes across Europe, to fight market
  fragmentation for SMEs and to promote a culture
  of technological innovation.
• Up to two thematic networks will be supported
  under objective 4.1-a, for European regions
  wishing to prepare the deployment of digital
  business ecosystems to work together with the
  regions already experimenting such ecosystems.
  They will help businesses, in particular SMEs, to
  improve operations at local level and also to
  develop their capacity to work in partnerships
  and for various customers across Europe.
• The network should primarily target
  catalysts/facilitators such as regional
  governments, public bodies, regional agencies and
  non-profit bodies whose mission includes support
  for SMEs, local development, innovation and
  capacity building. The consortium should include
  at least two regional digital business ecosystems
  pilots with previous experience of local
  deployment.
• For more information on Digital Ecosystems
• URL http//www.digital-ecosystems.org
• Functional mailbox infso-ict_psp_at_ec.europa.eu

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DBE IP completed
Digital Business Ecosystem

• FP6 Integrated Project
• 20 Partners from 9 countries
• 14.2 M Cost / 10.5 M Grant
• 2003 - 2006

A digital ecosystem infrastructure adopting
mechanisms from biological theories of
self-organisation and evolution addressing
networked software solutions business models
Paradigms and open-source component-based
infrastructure enabling the creation of
networkedlocal digital ecosystems forSMEs
competitiveness andlocal development
http//www.digital-ecosystem.org
Contact Andrea Nicolai T6 - a.nicolai_at_t-6.it
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Digital Ecosystem pilot regions
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More information on http//www.digital-ecosystems.
org