(1)INVITATION FOR A MEETING
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY PROJECTS SPONSORED BY THE
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
(**** IMPORTANT**** If you have been working on projects with European
universities,industries, organizations, and you don't know about Esprit or INCO, you can easily
apply for joint projects under these programs)
The Palestinian Information Technology Special Interest Group (ITSIG) will be holding an
information meeting for two European Union IT programs: Esprit and INCO-DC. Under these
programs, Palestinian companies, universities, institutions, etc. can apply for joint projects
with European partners. Successful projects are partly or fully funded by the European
Commission.
During this meeting, Mr. Erik Habers from the European Commission DG3 will describe these
programs, give examples of successful Palestinian projects, and explain how to find partners.
The meeting will be held at Kamal Nasser hall at Birzeit University on Wednesday, April 2, 1997
between 1 and 3 p.m. Everyone is welcomed.
Agenda for the meeting:
* A description of Esprit, the 5th fmwk and INCO-DC
* How does INCO-DC work
* Examples of successful projects
* How to find partners
* The type of projects that may work in Palestine.
* Evaluation criteria
* Open discussion
Esprit and INCO-DC, a brief description:
Esprit
Esprit is the European Union's Information Technology (IT) Research and Development Program.
It is focused on user requirements and the need to accelerate and broaden the take-up of IT.
The program aims at bringing together IT suppliers, Industrial users, research organizations and
universities.
The program forms part of the EU's Fourth Framework Program which runs from 1994 to
1998.Discussions on a possible Fifth Framework Program have started recently.
The latest call for proposals for the Espirt program has been published on 15 March 1997.
Or try this other Esprit link.
Although the program is primarily aiming at the EU countries, organizations from the Mediterranean
region and Central and Eastern Europe are encouraged to apply.
INCO-DC
The EU Program for international cooperation with developing countries aims to foster relations
between researchers in the EU with their counterparts in the developing countries. These countries
include the Mediterranean, Africa, Latin America and Asia.
Part of this program focuses on Information Technologies.
The next call for proposals for INCO-DC is scheduled for 15 April 1997 with a closing date of 11
September 1997.
For the 1996 call for proposals eight proposals with Palestinian organizations were submitted.
Three of these will likely be selected for funding.