EXTEND - Extending ICT research cooperation between the European Union, Eastern Europe and the Southern Caucasus

Project

EXTEND - Extending ICT research co-operation between the European Union, Eastern Europe and the Southern Caucasus

 

Contract nr.

231137

 

Funding

Specific Support Action of the COOPERATION Programme of FP7

 

Objectives

Enhancing scientific and research co-operation between the Eastern Europe and the Southern Caucasus (EECA) countries and the EU, focusing specifically on the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)

field of the FP7

 

EXTEND aims to support the ICT research communities in the region by:

 

a) identifying suitable ICT research actors per country, training them on the procedural aspects of FP7 and providing assistance in developing networks across Europe, and

 

b) defining future ICT research priorities that will enhance co-operation between the EU and EECA countries.

 

Partners

PLANET S.A. - Greece

Centre for Industrial Economics and Services – Romania

Information Society Technologies Center – Armenia

Regional Information Technologies Academy – Azerbaijan

Belarusian Institute of System Analysis and Information Support of Scientific and Technical Sphere – Belarus

Academy of Sciences of Moldova - Republic of Moldova

Kyiv State Centre for Scientific, Technical and Economic Information – Ukraine

Georgian Research and Educational Networking Association – Georgia

 

Duration

30 months, starting January 1, 2009

 

Impacts

The project is expected to ease the diffusion of the Information Society in Eastern Europe and the Southern Caucasus, and to support the build-up of know-how related to the European ICT programmes on Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). The above named aims will be achieved through ICT Training Workshops organized in target countries and through help-desk services provided to research actors in ICT field.

 

The envisaged long-term impact is, on the one hand, to enable ICT research actors from Eastern Europe and the Southern Caucasus to engage dynamically in the pan-European research environment and to contribute in developing “global laboratory” in which researchers from everywhere can co-operate regardless of borders and distance. On the other hand, the programme enables EU ICT research actors to access and promote knowledge in the region and jointly pursue research and development to build a competitive Europe in the field of ICT in the world.

 

Link

www.extend-ict.eu

 

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