Projects

The main goal of the VATES project is to make use of science-policy research to contribute to improving the quality of strategic decision-making in research, which is key to an efficient management of research policies on national, regional, and institutional levels. An efficiently and strategically managed research policy that utilizes modern methods of strategic studies is a prerequisite of improving the competitiveness of Czech research.

An important aspect of a quality research policy is the ability to access information about current trends in the area of technology development, research directions, and potential impacts of new technologies on socio-economic developments, environment, living standards, behavioural patterns, and population health. Such information is important for strategic decision-making of the public administration, research organizations, and enterprises.
The public administration uses this information to formulate and implement research policies, research organizations use it to direct their research projects, develop international cooperation, and create new study courses, and enterprises use it to orient their research, development, and innovation activities and develop international cooperation within global production networks. However, the growing availability of various types of structured and especially unstructured data makes the systematic and conceptual gathering of such data more demanding, and the same is true for the subsequent processing, analysing, and interpreting of this data.

The research realized as a part of the VATES project will thus concentrate on the development of methods for systematic monitoring and assessment of technological and socio-economic trends, methods for assessing potential impacts of new technologies on society, and methods for evaluating the results and impacts of science policies.

Technology Centre coordinates BISONet PLUS project (BusInesS and InnOvation Support Network) that provides services of the Enterprise Europe Network in the Czech Republic. The Enterprise Europe Network is the largest network of contact points providing information and advice to EU companies on EU matters, in particular small and medium enterprises (SMEs). The network offers concrete and effective solutions to entrepreneurs and companies in more than 50 countries worldwide. The network covers nearly 600 local partner organisations, employing around 4 000 experienced staff working to support competitiveness of EU businesses.

The CZELO facilitates a direct contact between Czech research and important European institutions, mainly the EC, the European Parliament, and the EU Council. For this purpose the office is located in Brussels. The CZELO also cooperates with Czech regional offices in Brussels. The office, which is funded by the MEYS from the EUPRO programme, provides services to all parties interested in European research cooperation, especially in the Framework Programmes.

Currently the CZELO3 project has been runníing, which follows previous CZELO1 and CZELO2. More details about the period you will find here.

SiS.net is the network of NCPs specialised in supporting the Science with and for Society programme of Horizon 2020. SiS.net provides high quality services to Science with and for Society stakeholders, authorities, research institutions and enterprises on the opportunities offered by Horizon 2020 to boost integration of scientific achievements into society and engage the public in science.
The main objectives are to increase dialogue and collaboration between Science with and for Society stakeholders, for example: CSO's, cities, research funding agencies, science centers,  science museums, media organisations and education establishments and for the second to enhance the visibility of the Science with and for Society programme.

The aim of BioHorizon is to facilitate transnational co-operation within a network of National Contact Points (NCPs) for Horizon 2020, within the scope of Societal Challenge 2 (SC2) “Food security, sustainable agriculture and forestry, marine and maritime and inland water research and the bioeconomy” and the Key Enabling Technology (KET) “Biotechnology” with a view to identify and share good practices in order to improve general standard of support to programme applicants.
TC is a worpackage leader for Communication and dissemination.

NCP ACADEMY is a joint project of several European organizations coordinating the activities of National contact points (NCP) for Horizon 2020 Programme at the national levels. Project team consists of NCP coordinators as well as Legal and Financial NCPs. The project aims at enhancing the knowledge of all officially nominated NCP in cross-cutting issues of H2020, exchanging the experience and sharing best practises between experienced NCP and also providing the feedback to the EC.

The project RICH (Research Infrastructures Consortium for Horizon 2020) is built on activities of previous project EuroRIs-Net +. The project aims at more effective collaboration of national contact points (NCPs) for research infrastructures in order to improve their services to applicants in Horizon 2020. 11 project partners and 30 associated partners will benefit from the project activities. Project activities will lead to better and more professional service of national contact points across Europe and facilitate access to information on the H2020 Calls.

The main objective of Idealist2018 is reinforcing the network of National Contact Points (NCP) for LEIT ICT under Horizon2020, by promoting further trans-national cooperation within this network. This cooperation will also include collaboration and networking with similar networks in parallel themes (Security, ENV, Transport, Energy, Health,…etc) especially in the context of joint/coordinated or PPP calls.

Special focus is put on helping less experienced NCPs from Member States (MS) and Associated Countries (AC) to access the know-how accumulated in other countries and to apply it in a locally relevant and efficient manner.

Furthermore Idealist2018 aims to address national and cross-border audiences, relying on the NCP network mainly established in the MS and AC at national and regional level, to stimulate, encourage and facilitate the participation of current and future ICT research stakeholders in ERA. Special focus is put on newcomers and SMEs, including organisations from MS, AC and third Countries.

The activities of Idealist2014 are incremental to the formal NCP responsibilities as they address the international aspects not covered by the nationally funded NCP role. It is built upon:

• Experience gained over more than 15 years from the 8 preceding projects covering FP4 to FP7 and now the transition to H2020
• Strengthening NCP cooperation with support for MS, AC and third Countries
• Provision of Training and Twinning for less experienced NCPs
• Provision of partner search, pre- and full proposal quality support
• Focused support for SMEs in the ICT sector and for organisations new to H2020
• Provision of NCP support for countries with S&T international agreements
• Promotion of opportunities and Idealist services ensuring a higher NCP visibility

The objective of the NCP_WIDE.NET is to create a transnational network of National Contact Points (NCPs) for Spreading Excellence and Widening Participation under the EU programme Horizon 2020 in order to facilitate trans-national co-operation between NCPs and to identify and share good practices. Raising general standards of support to applicants, organization of internal and external workshops, trainings and brokerage events will be realized in the framework of this project as well.

The overall objective of NCPs CaRE is to form a joint cooperation network of experienced and less experienced National Contact Points (NCPs) on SC5 “Climate action, environment, resource efficiency and raw materials” which aims at pooling their resources and know-how to raise the overall quality of services provided to their clients. By involving 23 formally nominated NCPsacross Europe, the project will significantly strengthen transnational cooperation.

SEREN3 is a 36-month Coordination and Support Action with the overall aim of facilitating trans-national co-operation among NCPs for Secure Societies, identifying and sharing good practices, and raising the general standard of the support to programme applicants across the EU, Associated and Third countries. To reach the objective above, the project will develop three main activity axes, corresponding to the projects’ specific objectives: 1) capacity building of NCPs; 2) strengthening the participation of relevant stakeholders to Horizon 2020 funding opportunities; 3) and supporting networking opportunities within the Secure Societies constituency. Cross-cutting activities of dissemination and communication will add up to this main set of activities, helping to enhance their impact.
SEREN3 is the continuation and evolution of the precedent network, SEREN2, whose results and lessons learnt have been taken into consideration with the logic of improving the future network and in order to valorize the network’s strengths. SEREN3 will also take into account the paradigmatic change brought by Horizon 2020. This will be reflected in particular in a stronger attention of the network in terms of multidisciplinary competences, consideration of related societal challenges, and linkage with other EU relevant initiatives, funding programmes and policies. Finally, the network will seek further opening to a wider target of stakeholders and businesses in the Secure Societies field.
SEREN3 consortium comprises 17 beneficiaries, with a good mix of well-experienced and less experienced NCPs, and representing Member States, Associated Countries and Third Countries. Besides beneficiaries, the project services will be offered to all officially appointed H2020 Secure Societies NCPs, who will be involved as “associated partners”.

CIMULACT has as a main objective to add to the relevance and accountability of European research and innovation – Horizon 2020 as well as national - by engaging citizens and stakeholders in co-creation of research agendas based on real and validated societal visions, needs and demands. The project will expand the outlook and debate on STI issues, increase scientific literacy in a broad sense, which includes the understanding of the societal role of Science, Technology and innovation (STI), and create shared understanding between scientific stakeholders, policy-makers and citizens. This multiactor approach will embrace EU28 plus Norway and Switzerland.

The CIMULTACT builds on the principle/conviction that the collective intelligence of society gives Europe a competitive advantage, which may be activated to strengthen the relevance of the European science and technology system. By establishing genuine dialogue between citizens, stakeholders, scientists, and policymakers visions and scenarios for the desirable futures will be developed and debated, and transformed into recommendations and suggestions for research and innovation policies and topics.