CRONET-DAYS - Promoting and Facilitating ERA-networking between European Contract Research Organisations (C.R.O.)
Overview
Background & policy context:
Research and Technology Organisations (RTOs) are major actors of technology RD and innovation, but are too fragmented. Very few individual RTOs or companies that can reasonably claim to respond to challenges in RD sector due to increasing complexity and interdisciplinarity critical mass. For this purpose, support from EC was needed to initiate the networking process, so to integrate RTOs efficiently in European Research Area.
Beneficial's results were also expected to stimulate high tech and medium tech SMEs on specific niche technology through their participation in RTO network and partnership.
Objectives:
CRONET-DAYS was a Specific Support Action (SSA) with a main goal to facilitate and enhance the meeting between the contract research organisations of European Research Area (ERA) in surface transport area (road, rail, waterborne, intermodality). It aimed at:
- enhancing the creation of Research and development (R&D) and innovation projects in ERA;
- initiating European partnerships (Sixth Framework Programme (FP6) Integrated Projects (IPs) and Network of Excellence (NoE), Eureka, bi- or tri-national projects);
- increasing technology transfer and synergies inter-Research and technology organisations (RTOs) (sharing and combining knowledge, know-how, software, hardware, facilities, human resources);
- networking on common R&D areas by enabling cross-fertilisation of ideas and capabilities between the different surface transport modes.
Methodology:
This overall objective was achieved by organising a two-day 'Surface Transport' RTO meeting in Nantes, on 28-29 April 2005, including 20 general presentations (large FP6 projects, five technology platforms ERRAC, ERTRAC, WATERBORNE, ARTEMIS, H2 & FUEL CELLS, as well as one to one technical and business meetings (about 540 meetings). All presentations of speakers and list of participants were available on www.sirehna.com.
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