Bridging the Gap - CORDIS, Accession &
Candidate Countries
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Bridging the Gap
CORDIS and the Accession &
Candidate Countries
November 21, 2003
NIROC/IGLO, Brussels
[email protected]
Introduction
Introduction
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CORDIS – a few facts
CORDIS and the Candidate Countries today
CORDIS and the new Member States tomorrow
Interactivity on CORDIS – CORDIS Wire
CORDIS – a few facts
Introduction
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CORDIS – a few facts
CORDIS and the Candidate Countries today
CORDIS and the new Member States tomorrow
Interactivity on CORDIS – CORDIS Wire
CORDIS – a few facts
CORDIS in numbers
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CORDIS is well established with the research and
innovation community in over 150 countries.
Every month:
- 6 000 000 viewed pages
- 250 000 unique users
- 300 000 downloaded documents
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CORDIS users:
82% are from Member States
9% are from Associated and Candidate Countries
CORDIS – a few facts
Information flow on CORDIS
Information providers
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• European Commission
services
• External organisations
Users
• Research organisations
• SMEs and large
companies
• National administrations
• Member States,
Accession and
Associated Countries
• Policy makers
• Regional authorities
• Journalists
• Intermediaries
• Support organisations
CORDIS – a few facts
A great variety of information
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With this increased information flow, the CORDIS content is
becoming more and more varied.
- over 60 000 projects
- over 3000 contacts for advice & support (e.g. 600 incubators)
- over 7000 partners profiles
- over 13 000 results
- over 13 000 ideas from research consultations (EoIs)
Furthermore, CORDIS also provides detailed information on
research policy and platforms for the creation and support of
European networks.
CORDIS and the Candidate Countries today
Introduction
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CORDIS – a few facts
CORDIS and the Candidate Countries today
CORDIS and the new Member States tomorrow
Interactivity on CORDIS – CORDIS Wire
CORDIS and the Candidate Countries today
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Map-Based Search – the Candidate Countries’
first address
With its Map-Based Search,
CORDIS was one of the
first official websites to
include the Candidate
Countries in its services
www.cordis.lu/map-search
CORDIS and the Candidate Countries today
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National services – Candidate Country portal
The Accession and
Candidate Countries are
represented on a portal that
allows a search on each
country‘s
• Highlights
• FP4 and FP5 projects
• Technology offers
• Contacts
www.cordis.lu/national_service/en/candidate_countries.htm
CORDIS and the Candidate Countries today
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Expressions of Interest – Partner search
A special search for partners
from Candidate Countries
has been created to
encourage the creation of
networks between current
and future Member States
under FP6.
http://fp6.cordis.lu/fp6/partners_cs.cfm
CORDIS and the new Member States
tomorrow
Introduction
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CORDIS – a few facts
CORDIS and the Candidate Countries today
CORDIS and the new Member States tomorrow
Interactivity on CORDIS – CORDIS Wire
CORDIS and the new Member States
tomorrow
National services –
Member States services
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Member States all have a
dedicated service, which
contains information on:
• national policies
• financing schemes
• news and events
• contact details
• projects
... and much more.
www.cordis.lu/national_service
CORDIS and the new Member States
tomorrow
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Regional services
Regions can apply for a
service, describing their
R&D infrastructure,
financing schemes,
news and success
stories.
www.cordis.lu/regions
Interactivity on CORDIS – CORDIS Wire
Introduction
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CORDIS – a few facts
CORDIS and the Candidate Countries today
CORDIS and the new Member States tomorrow
Interactivity on CORDIS – CORDIS Wire
Interactivity on CORDIS – CORDIS Wire
CORDIS and interactivity
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There are two kinds of interactivity on CORDIS:
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‘Passive‘ interactivity:
- setting up of an e-mail alert under RAPIDUS and
QuickPick
- subscribe to CORDIS Express
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‘Active‘ interactivity
- creating a partners profile
- submitting results to the Technology Marketplace
- publishing (your) news, events and success
stories on CORDIS Wire
Interactivity on CORDIS – CORDIS Wire
CORDIS Wire
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The innovation and research
information exchange
platform on CORDIS
• open for diversified and
specialized information
• releases in your own words
• e-mail alert
• content feed to other
specialized CORDIS
services
www.cordis.lu/wire
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Interactivity on CORDIS – CORDIS Wire
Interactivity on CORDIS – CORDIS Wire
Forthcoming events
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The CORDIS Wire events
calendar was first created to
provide NCPs with space for
their event announcements.
Now the calendar has
become an attractive feature
on CORDIS Wire.
www.cordis.lu/wire/events
Interactivity on CORDIS – CORDIS Wire
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Content feed into specialized CORDIS
services
www.cordis.lu/incubators
Institution: Business Incubators
www.cordis.lu/nanotechnology
Subject: Nanotechnology
Interactivity on CORDIS – CORDIS Wire
CORDIS Wire – a user-driven service
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Because of its interactive nature, CORDIS Wire has a
great potential for development .
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Improved e-mail system, allowing for an even more
tailored user profile (including country selection etc)
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Interactive forum, where users can exchange
opinions on selected subjects, controversial themes
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Content feed to other external services, such as the
Innovation Portal
Interactivity on CORDIS – CORDIS Wire
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Further developments – search features
Thematic indexing/classification – Autonomy
Introduction of a thematic classification and search of
CORDIS information.
Possibility to index information sources beyond the
CORDIS domain, e.g. ‘Europa’.
Improved Search Feature
An improved interface to facilitate the global search on
CORDIS is currently under testing.
It will make complete the search of all services and extend
results to items from the Technology Marketplace and
CORDIS Wire.