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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 project RICH 2 (Research Infrastructures Consortium for Horizon 2020) is built on activities of previous project EuroRIs-Net + and following RICH project.

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.

The Technology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences (TC) won a national tender for providing
a technology transfer activities for the European Space Agency (ESA) in the Czech Republic.
TC has been doing this service since October 2015. The Czech Republic is therefore involved in a significant network of ESA Technology Transfer Network. The network operates an online database of technologies, methodologies, proven practices and new materials, which is a unique marketplace, where it is possible to match technology needs with available space solutions and thus enhance new applications in a commercial non-space area.
The main objective of the project is to increase the frequency of transfers of knowledge and technology from ESA space program to industry, as well as from companies or universities working in space program to other industrial areas outside the space sector. The technology transfer may also lead up from the Czech entity to the ESA.

NUCL-EU 2020 is set up in order to provide EURATOM NCPs with all the required skills in such a way that they can ensure the best support for Horizon 2020 potential applicants and raise the average quality of proposals submitted under the new EURATOM Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (R&I).

NUCL-EU 2020 is a 48 months project having the following specific objectives:

1. Enhancing the competence of NCPs, raising the level of know-how of the EURATOM network in particular helping less experienced NCPs rapidly acquire the experiences accumulated in other countries.
2. Consolidating the network of EURATOM NCPs.

The mission of the project is to provide all EURATOM NCPs with the necessary tools, guidelines and training to carry out their duty efficiently and, most importantly, to be part of a dynamic network which will allow the exchange of experiences and good practices, learning from each other and reporting back to the European Commission (EC) on identified management issues susceptible of improvement.

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.

EU H2020 PROVIDE project (PROVIding smart DElivery of public goods by EU agriculture and forestry) is a 3 year project which seeks to provide conceptual bases, evidence, tools and improved incentives and policy options to support the “smart” provision of Public Goods (PG) by the European Union (EU) agriculture and forestry ecosystems.
TC´s  task is to formulate a case study of the agricultural policy and its impact on the  region of northern Bohemia.

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.

Project CZERA 2 (Czech Republic in the European Research Area 2) follows previous activities of Research Infrastructure CZERA (2010-2015) and provides it´s continuity and deepening of expertise. CZERA 2 represent an expert system which provides a wide range of professional consulting and support services to submitters and participants of the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme, and analytical-information services to decision makers responsible for R&D policy, particularly in the field of international scientific cooperation, so as to achieve a broader and more effective Czech integration into European research area (ERA).

The project is structured into eight sub-areas of activities which correspond to the EC requirements for the operation of the national contact points (NCPs) system.

The public tender for elaboration of the Regional Innovation Strategy of the Central Bohemian Region for the period 2015-2020 (RISCBR) aims to make a common policy document for the research and innovation business in the Central Bohemian Region.

As a highly attractive region in many respects, the Central Bohemian Region has a number of specific features. Systematic support and development of research and innovation business was, however,
for a long period of time non-existing and of rather marginal interest. For a functional innovation system, effectively connected key actors and knowledge capacities in the corporate and public sectors, there must necessarily be a properly formulated strategy which is widely accepted and manifested by the partnership principle and commitment of public authorities to actively fulfill defined goals.