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Know the main objectives for the first period of the project. They are represented by the ioperational tasks and corresponding deliverables and milestones that have been achieved in this period.
Grant Agreement Number 248676
Project Acronym FORESTA
Project Title Fostering the Research Dimension of Science
and Technology Agreements
Funding scheme: CSA - Support Action
Thematic Priority: FP7-ICT-2009-4-9.1 International cooperation
D1.2 Progress Report II
PERIODIC REPORTING
Due Date: 01/03/2011
Submission Date: 04/03/2011
Start Date of Project: 01/01/2010
Duration of Project: 24 months
Partner in Charge of Deliverable TESEO
Version Status Final
Dissemination Level CO
File Name: FORESTA D1.2 Progress Report II - PERIODIC M1-M12_v9
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Table of Contents
1. Publishable summary .......................................................................................................3
2. Core of the report .............................................................................................................5
2.1 Project objectives for the period .................................................................................5
2.2 Work progress and achievements during the period ...................................................7
2.2.1 WP2: Organisation of conferences ..................................................................................... 7
2.2.1.1 T2.1: Overall conference calendar ................................................................................. 7
2.2.1.2 T2.2 (T2.2.1-2.2.5): Organisation of conferences .......................................................... 8
2.2.1.3 T2.3: Follow up to conferences .................................................................................... 10
2.2.1.4 T2.4: Summary of strategic indications ........................................................................ 11
2.2.2 WP3: Foresight studies on long term perspectives ........................................................... 12
2.2.2.1 T3.1: National ICT policies analysis ............................................................................ 12
2.2.2.2 T3.2: Report on the status of ICT research cooperation ............................................... 14
2.2.2.3 T3.3: Strategic recommendations on key research priority issues ................................ 16
2.2.3 WP4: Coordination with other projects and other funding agencies ................................ 19
2.2.3.1 T4.1: Preliminary studies and contacts ......................................................................... 19
2.2.3.2 T4.2: Study on Latin America national funding agencies action in international
cooperation .................................................................................................................................... 21
2.2.3.3 T4.3: Concertation Workshop with ongoing projects and national funding agencies .. 22
2.2.3.4 T4.4: Follow up and roadmap for the synchronisation of research funding ................. 24
2.2.4 WP5: Dissemination and communication ......................................................................... 25
2.2.4.1 T5.1: Dissemination and communication plan ............................................................. 25
2.2.4.2 T5.2: Website creation and management ..................................................................... 30
2.2.4.3 T5.3: Dissemination campaign to other Latin American countries .............................. 32
2.2.4.4 T5.4: Production of dissemination tools and templates ................................................ 34
2.2.4.5 T5.5: Final conference in Brussels ............................................................................... 35
Project management .............................................................................................................36
3. Deliverables and milestones tables ................................................................................40
Table 1: Deliverables ...............................................................................................................40
Table 2: Milestones ..................................................................................................................52
4. Explanation of the use of resources...............................................................................55
5. Person-month table ........................................................................................................69
5.1 Comments on the person-month table ......................................................................69
6. Cost Budget Follow-up table .........................................................................................71
6.1 Comments on the cost-budget follow up ..................................................................73
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1. Publishable summary
The FORESTA project aims to contribute to bringing the research dimension into ICT policy
dialogue between Latin America and the EU. In particular the project targets the four
countries having established an S&T Cooperation Agreement with the EU, Argentina, Brazil,
Chile and Mexico, plus Colombia, whose recent adoption of the DBV-T digital standard
makes it a country which is in the process of establishing closer relations in science and
technology with the EU.
A year into the FORESTA project implementation (the project started on 1/01/2010), the
overall consideration that can be made is that the whole consortium has been active in the
primarily “desk-work” phase of the project activities, which characterised the first year of
FORESTA. All work packages, specifically designed for and dedicated to the achievement of
the different overall objectives of the project, have carried out their activities and all partners
have been actively involved proving their keen commitment to this initiative.
The main activities in Year 1 are outlined below.
As part of its objective to perform a Foresight study of on long term perspectives for ICT
cooperation with the target Latin American countries, falling under WP3, the FORESTA
consortium has worked cohesively towards the preparation of the Analysis of the National
ICT policies in the five target countries (D3.1), which has been submitted to the EC in
November 2010. The study is a thorough overview of ICT research policies in the different
Latin American countries. Also under this work package, the study on the status of ICT
research cooperation between the EU and LA countries has also started and lead to D3.2 that
is ready as an advanced draft which is being finalised and will be submitted in March 2011.
WP4 encompasses all activities related to other ongoing projects and LA national funding
agencies. The study of ongoing EU-LA projects and initiatives has been developed and
submitted to the EC in November 2010. The study is an analysis of the ongoing relationships
fostered by the European FP7 Programme and by other international initiatives in the field of
ICT, with the aim to detect synergies and complementarities between initiatives at national
and European level and suggest a more integrated form of cooperation. In parallel, under T4.2
the Latin American national funding agencies‟ action in international cooperation projects has
been analysed with the aim to identify bottlenecks hindering participation of LA research
organisations into cooperation projects and provide recommendation to overcome these
barriers. The task has lead to D4.2.
The project also intends to organise five large Conferences in the five countries directly
represented by the project, under the coordination of each national partner (WP2). In the
course of year 1 one of FORESTA conferences has been organised, while the remaining will
fall in year 2. The conference calendar is synchronised with other EU-LA initiatives funded
by the Programme: A preliminary calendar of activities, including the overall methodology
for the Conferences, has been drawn and submitted to the EC (D2.1), although in some cases
the exact date and venue were not finalised yet. For this reason the partners agreed to provide
the dates by March 2011, so that a revised version of the calendar could be submitted with
definitive dates and a refinement of the methodology. The next steps for this broad activity
are the planning and concrete organisation of the different Conferences by the Latin American
partners and under the overall supervision of the project coordinator.
The series of FORESTA Conferences was kicked-off by CINTEL in their Colombian event
organised within ANDICOM2010 on 27 and 28 October 2010. The Conference was
successful and highly participated. The overall organisation and running was spotless and
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boasted the participation of numerous eminent speakers appearing in the panels‟ agenda. The
full and detailed report of the event is in the dedicated deliverable D2.3.
Work package 5 is dedicated to communication and dissemination activities. Within WP5,
FORESTA has developed its communication and dissemination strategy plan (split into those
actions targeted to the five countries represented in the consortium, D5.1, and those directed
to other LA countries not represented within the consortium, but which are reached through
the LA federation of ICT associations, ALETI (D5.3), and has designed the different
communication tools to be implemented in the project. These include the project website
(FORESTA was also in charge of designing and implementing the common web entry page
for the three clustered projects and including PRO-IDEAL PLUS and FIRST as well) and all
necessary communication tools: logo, templates for communication, brochure, presentation
templates, etc. The web addresses for the project and the initiative are: www.forestaproject.eu
and www.lac-ictgateway.eu.
During Year 1, a key milestone falling under WP5 has been represented by the 2010
“Digitally Driven” edition of the DG INFSO run bi-annual ICT event, which took place in
Brussels under Belgian EU Presidency on 27-29/09/2010. The clustered projects, FORESTA,
FIRST and PRO-IDEAL PLUS, have decided to adopt a joint action for the participation in
the event: the three projects presented themselves under the branding “EU-LAC ICT
Gateway”, replicating the branding that was used by the cluster of EU-LA projects that
participated in the 2008 Lyon edition of the ICT event in the sake of conveying continuity in
the EU-LA action supported by the European Commission. The EU-LAC ICT Gateway also
joined forces with DG Research INCO NET project EULARINET to organise a set of
activities in the aftermath of ICT 2010. The ICT2010 event and related activities showed a
massive participation from Latin America, which confirmed the growing dynamism and
interest from the region for cooperative research with Europe.
The FORESTA consortium is composed of the following organisations:
Participant no. Participant organisation full name Part. short
name Country
1 (Coordinator) Technical Support for European Organisations Sprl. TESEO BE
2 Rose Vision ROSE ES
3 Europe for Business Ltd EFB UK
4 Universidade de São Paulo USP BR
5 Instituto Tecnologico de Monterrey ITESM MX
6 Universidad de Palermo UP AR
7 Universidad Tecnologica Metropolitana UTEM CL
8 Centro de Investigación de las Telecomunicaciones de
Colombia CINTEL CO
9 Federacion de Asociaciones de Latinoamérica, el
Caribe y España de Entidades de Tecnologías de la
Información
ALETI CR
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2. Core of the report
2.1 Project objectives for the period
The main objectives for the first period of the project are represented by the operational tasks
and corresponding deliverables and milestones that have been achieved in this period. These
can be summarised in the following table:
Overall project
objectives
Corresponding tasks
(Task leader)
Deliverables and
Milestones Next Steps
a. Organisation of 5
large brokerage
Conferences
T2.1 Definition of
overall calendar of
Conferences
(TESEO)
T2.2.2 Organisation
of conference in
Colombia (CINTEL)
D2.1 Submitted
indicating calendar
and methodology
for events
D2.2.3 Report on
conference in
Colombia
Planning and
organisation of
remaining events in
LA targeted countries
(T2.2).
b. Run foresight
study on long term
perspectives
T3.1 National ICT
policies analysis
(ROSE)
T3.2 Status of ICT
Research in
cooperation (ROSE)
D3.1 Submitted
delivering an in-
depth analysis of
ICT policies in the
targeted countries
D3.2 Ready as a
draft. The final
version completing
and refining the
analysis will be
submitted during
March 2011.
Foresight studies and
strategic
recommendations and
establishment of the
ICT Policy Dialogue
Support Council
(T3.3).
c1. Coordination of
information and
activities with other
ongoing projects
T4.1 Study and
contacts with
ongoing projects
(EFB)
D4.1 Submitted
delivering a
comprehensive
assessment of EU
and international
initiatives for ICT
research cooperation
Launch of activities
for Concertation
Workshops with
ongoing projects and
funding agencies
(T4.3). c2. Contacts with
agencies and other
bodies running
funding mechanisms
T4.2 Study on LA
national funding
agencies actions in
international
cooperation (USP)
D4.2 Submitted
delivering a
comprehensive
study of national
support instruments
to ICT research in
the LA countries
under focus
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Implementation of a
sound support
Communication and
Dissemination
strategy
T5.1 Dissemination
and Communication
Plan (ITESM)
T5.2 Website
(ITESM) – also
including common
web entry page
www.lac-
ictgateway.eu
T5.3 Dissemination
campaign to other
LA countries
(ALETI)
T5.4 production of
dissemination tools
and templates
D5.1 submitted
outlining
communication and
dissemination
strategy of the
project
D5.2 The
FORESTA website
and common page
online from M3
D5.3 submitted
complementing
D5.1 for other LA
countries not
covered in the
consortium.
D5.4 Submitted
presenting first
batch of
communication
tools ready.
Implementation of
communication
strategy and
deployment of
dissemination
activities.
Maintenance and
update of website
pages.
Drafting and launch
of next issues of
FORESTA
newsletter.
Dissemination of
FORESTA
conferences.
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2.2 Work progress and achievements during the period
2.2.1 WP2: Organisation of conferences
2.2.1.1 T2.1: Overall conference calendar
Task description:
The final conference calendar will be defined in the first phase of the project, based on the indicated
dates and content of the Joint Working Group meetings between the EU and the target countries. The
calendar will schedule conferences in principle one or two months after the Joint Working Groups. It
should be stressed that at the time of proposal, preparation dates for the future EU-Latin American
countries Joint Working Group meetings on Information Society are indicative. Thus, the dates
indicated for the implementation of the tasks below may be revised either during negotiation or in the
first phase of the project. The elaboration of the calendar will be done taking into account and seeking
synergies with the activities planned by PRO IDEAL PLUS.
Status: Completed
TESEO
Task Leader
TESEO is in charge of defining the Conference calendar for the FORESTA events.
Most activities taking place in Year 2, an indicative FORESTA calendar of
Conferences has been delivered in the first months of the project course, on the
assumption that exact dates and locations will be defined further into the planning
and organisation phase of the events. The calendar of conferences will be refined
when dates fixed and communicated to the EC in an updated version of dedicated
deliverable D2.1.
The calendar of conferences also includes a section covering the overall rationale and
methodology for the organisation of the FORESTA conferences, which the Latin
American partners taking on the practical organisation of the events will use in the
planning and organisation phase and in the definition of the most appropriate
programme for activities.
All Latin American partners were asked to confirm the indicative dates expressed
during the proposal and negotiation phases or to provide a new one. The Colombian
conference, which as per DoW was foreseen a M15, has been anticipated to M10,
during the first year of the project.
ROSE Not involved in the activity
EFB No contribution was originally foreseen. Nevertheless EFB has been active in the
definition of the methodology in order to harmonise it with the work that will be
carried out in Year 2 under T2.3 “Follow up to conferences”.
USP USP coordinated with Task Leader to define date of the event in Brazil.
ITESM Mexican conference was originally planned in February2011 but following intense
consultation with the most relevant ICT policy and decision makers on ICT field
such as CONACYT, State council of Science and Technology and AMITI, the
Mexican National Association of ICT industry, it has been decided to shift the event
in order to suit their agenda needs and facilitate their participation to Mexican
conference. In addition, as the working group meeting between Mexico and UE is
planned in September 2011, it is deemed relevant to organize the FORESTA
conference in the period. Further synergies will be sought with a possible additional
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Colombian event also to take place in the period.
UP UP will schedule the Argentine Conference for June 9, 2011. UP has agreed this date
in concertation with the Chilean partner which will hold their conference on the same
period, thus facilitating attendance of EU experts to both events.
UTEM The Chilean conference was originally planned in July 2011, but UTEM, together
with the Argentinean partner has suggested to move it to 7th June, just ahead of
conference in Argentina with date of 9th June, because during July will be winter
holidays in both countries.
This change of date also allows experts and attendees traveling from Europe to attend
both conferences with a single intercontinental travel.
CINTEL The Conference of FORESTA in Colombia was initially scheduled for M15 (March
2011). However, CINTEL decided to hold this Conference in the framework of
ANDICOM 2010, the International ICT Congress organized by CINTEL during the
last week of October 2010 in Cartagena de Indias, to take advantage of this huge
event for the Colombian and the overall LA ICT community, able to attract a large
and high-profile participation of government, industry and academia.
A possible additional event in Colombia to be organised in Year 2 in October is
under discussion. Coordination will be made with the Mexican partner to achieve
synergies with their event planned in the same period.
ALETI ALETI is not in charge of organising any conference, but has remarked the most
important events in the other Latin American countries that are not directly covered
by the project consortium.
2.2.1.2 T2.2 (T2.2.1-2.2.5): Organisation of conferences
Task description:
Organisation of conferences will follow a common procedure described in the Introduction to the
Work-Plan. The logistics of the conferences will be looked after by local partners (USP in Brazil,
ITESM in Mexico, UP in Argentina, UTEM in Chile, CINTEL in Colombia). Organisation activities
will entail:
o Identification and booking of venue (including necessary equipment, catering, translations if
needed). In principle all local partners have the necessary facilities to host conferences and
no need should arise for external venues;
o Definition of conference agenda (joint activity between local partner and TESEO), with
identification of themes and speakers;
o Confirmation of speakers;
o Production and dispatching of invitations to relevant stakeholders + all relevant support in
conference communication (through the media or other communication channels);
o Invitation and organisation of participation of 5 relevant European stakeholders per
conference;
o Preparation of both debate and brokerage components including details and preparation of
background material (policy documents or text of calls for proposals, or work-programmes
updated) to be handed to participants.
T2.2.1 – Mexico – ITESM
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T2.2.2 – Colombia – CINTEL
T2.2.3 – Brazil –USP
T2.2.4 – Argentina – UP
T2.2.5 – Chile – UTEM
Status: Ongoing
TESEO
Task Leader
All FORESTA Conferences are foreseen for the second semester of 2010 and 2011.
In Year 1 one conference out of 5 planned has been carried out, namely the
Colombian one under the responsibility of partner CINTEL. TESEO has worked in
close coordination with the Colombian partner as concerns the agenda and panel
definition. In its capacity as coordinator, TESEO was invited to attend the event and
present the FORESTA project as a key instrument to sustain research cooperation
with EU.
ROSE ROSE supported FORESTA event in Colombia, through active involvement in the
debates for agenda definition and participated to the conference.
EFB Not involved in the activity.
USP USP has started working on this task as the conference is scheduled for September
2011. It will take place in Brasília, The exact date, venue (hotel) and the draft
agenda will be communicated in the upcoming weeks. Possible speakers will be
Ministers and Secretaries of Science and Technology from the 5 LA countries.
ITESM Being the conference planned for October 2011, actual organization will start early
Y2. Nevertheless, ITESM is in talks with the country ICT stakeholders in order to
combine FORESTA and National Digital Agenda development themes and interests.
A proposed speakers list will come as results of these talks including 5 relevant
European speakers.
UP UP has already confirmed and booked the facilities to host the Argentine conference
within the University of Palermo. UP has specifically coordinated with UTEM in
order to combine the dates of conference in the respective countries and smooth
organisation to facilitate stakeholders‟ participation. Currently working on the list of
people that will be invited and also preparing a short survey to send them in advance.
UTEM Currently working on the definition of requirements to define the place of the
Conference and the list of stakeholders that will be invited to participate. We have
worked on the first draft with the guiding profile, methodology and main issues to
consider as content adjusted to the Chilean context, the main program with exhibitors
and attendees profile, as well as the strategies of communication and promotion of
the event.
We have held several meetings with government agencies, institutions involved in
R&D in ICT, industrial and business associations and national researchers in ICT in
order to disseminate the event and engage their participation (CONICYT, Digital
Strategy of Chilean Government, GECHS, ACTI, Information Society Programme
ECLAC, REUNA, etc.)
CINTEL Following is a summary of the main activities for the organization of the Conference:
Identification and booking of venue
CINTEL defined as venue of the Conference, the International ICT Congress,
ANDICOM 2010, in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia. ANDICOM is the most
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important event of the ICT sector in Latin America and the Caribbean, for its format
as an academic congress which includes a commercial exhibit and business rounds.
The Congress is considered as an ideal stage for business and for getting to know the
most recent trends in the ICT sector.
Conference agenda
The FORESTA Conference was held in two sessions, on October 27 and October 28.
The agenda was defined in close coordination with TESEO, the Coordinator of the
project, and additionally, it was adjusted according to the final commentaries and
recommendations made at the meeting of the project in Brussels, Belgium (October
1st 2010, after the ICT2010 event). The agenda considered initial presentations and
the development of panels related to the main topics of the project. The conference
agenda is attached.
Speakers and debate preparation
The FORESTA conference met all objectives set in the DoW in terms of expected
attendance and speakers, including the participation of 5 European experts and
industry representatives. In order to incite the conference debate around the main
topics of the FORESTA project, speakers, moderators and panellists were provided
in advance with structured documents serving as guidelines and preparatory material
for the discussion. These documents introduced speakers to FORESTA project, the
objective of the conference and its methodology and content.
ALETI ALETI isn‟t in charge of conference organisation, nevertheless has taken part to the
discussion to define FORESTA conferences agenda.
2.2.1.3 T2.3: Follow up to conferences
Task description:
Conferences will be followed up in a structured way by EFB with the participation of local partners, in
order to foster concrete cooperation between Latin American research organisations and European
researchers on areas of mutual interest. Latin American researchers will be assisted in getting in
contact with appropriate organisations in Europe or to better shape their project ideas or to check
them against the requirements of calls for proposals. The three European partners have the necessary
experience and networking ability in the European context, to be able to efficiently link the Latin
American research communities with the major stakeholders in Europe. Typical follow up activities
might be summarised as:
o Identification of challenges and topics of the work-programme (or other funding schemes)
for the proper development of proposals;
o Identification of key European players in areas of interest of the Latin American
researchers;
o Screening and first assessment of project ideas originating by Latin American researchers;
o Remote assistance to project ideas development (providing advice based on experience of
European partners and on usual FP practices that Latin American researchers might not be
familiar with);
o Representing the Latin American research communities at conferences in Europe (infodays,
conferences, consultation meetings, etc.). Brokerage activities, linking Latin American
project developers with European research organisations active or likely to participate in
European projects
Follow up procedures will be clearly explained to the Latin American researchers in all conferences,
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so as to make them aware of all the support that the FORESTA project can offer them in developing
project ideas, joining project consortia, or other forms of cooperation with European researchers.
Status: Not started
2.2.1.4 T2.4: Summary of strategic indications
Task description
At least 5 representatives of EU ICT research will take part in each conference. In order to facilitate
interaction and input from EU representatives to potential cooperation, their positions in respect of the
themes treated and of the overall cooperation framework will be obtained through formal interviews
and summarised into a “Strategic indications” document. The FORESTA consortium will ensure that
at least 2 out of the minimum 5 Europeans (excluding consortium representatives) participating in the
conferences represent industry.
Status: Not started
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2.2.2 WP3: Foresight studies on long term perspectives
2.2.2.1 T3.1: National ICT policies analysis
Task description
This task will involve making an in-depth analysis of national ICT policies and their design/deployment
processes in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Mexico, as well as an analysis of the main agents
responsible for defining and/or implementing these policies. Such comprehensive analyses are a
necessary step in order to facilitate the identification of future trends and areas of common interests
and associated recommendations for follow-up actions. The main objective of this task is to produce
executive reports in which ICT policies and strategic priorities will be summarized and clearly
explained. This will facilitate the development of stakeholder inputs to the ICT Policy Dialogue
Support Council.
FORESTA partners in Latin American countries are key entities in their respective R&D ICT
environments and, consequently, they are excellent points of reference in Argentina, Brazil, Chile,
Colombia and Mexico for ICT policy dialogue analysis, since they are all strategic partners in these
dialogues.
ROSE will identify the key areas that should be covered and produce the main document which will be
used to perform the analysis. ROSE will also coordinate the individual analyses.
The partners responsible for the individual analyses are:
o Argentina: UP
o Brazil: USP
o Chile: UTEM
o Colombia: CINTEL
o Mexico: ITESM
o Other Latin American countries: ALETI
Status: Completed
ROSE
Task
Leader
ROSE has developed guidelines for the National ICT Analysis, so that each partner could
give some feedback on the existing documentation at national level. It has also been
decided that ALETI would develop the analysis for Costa Rica and Uruguay.
In line with the guidelines, a FAQ was developed to help partners with the development of
the analysis. Finally the template for the D3.1 was sent to all Latin American partners
together with an overview of National ICT Policies, to provide partners with some extra
information sources.
In line with this analysis and in order to keep coherence with the rest of the WP of
FORESTA, audio-conferences and constant exchange of information was kept with WP4
leader.
D3.1 was deeply debated in several iterative sessions in order to align the content of each
country report. Conference calls have been held in order to revise the content of the
document, additions, etc.
ROSE produced a guideline document on the main aspects to be taken into account for
completing the document. Specific debates between ROSE and ALETI took place aiming
at shaping the final document content and further debated with the contributing partners
and the Coordinator.
Finally, the deliverable included comprehensive information about the policies relevant for
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the cooperation EU-Latin America and was delivered few months after the deadline. The
delay, which did not impact on the development of the other project tasks, was due to
enable different peer-review stages and come to a much harmonized content. For a better
integration and consolidation, D3.1 has been finalized after the coordination meeting held
in Brussels in October 1st. At this meeting were discussed the final adjustments of the
document prior to the peer review.
TESEO TESEO took part into the review process of circulated draft documents and provided
general recommendations towards the implementation of the task and the preparation of
the deliverable associated with the task in this period (D3.1).
EFB No contribution was foreseen; nevertheless EFB has kept contacts and exchange of
information with ROSE to prepare work under WP4.
USP For this task, USP was responsible for making a study on the national ICT policy in Brazil.
First, by completion of a table of key actors, priorities, etc., an overview of the current
policy situation in Brazil was prepared. Following that, former and current ICT policies
were compared, highlighting their differences and analysing how they evolved. This was
followed by a SWOT analysis. The document also contains a brief comment on the main
stakeholders acting in the country.
ITESM Mexico information submitted to WP leader. ITESM gathered the necessary information
to fill in the format provided by ROSE to be used for the report writing. Detailed
information and statistics are scarce and could not always be found for Mexico. More than
11 official sources of information were identified and consulted, and policy makers were
also involved.
UP UP sent to the task leader the requested information for filling up the National ICT
Analysis for Argentina.
UTEM Reports and contributions from Chile to deliverable were prepared and submitted to the
WP coordinator ROSE for consolidation into D3.1. UTEM has worked with main
stakeholders in the national ICT area, such as the Executive Secretary of Digital Strategy,
National University Network (REUNA) and National Commission Scientific and
Technological Research (CONICYT). The data has been collected from studies of
government, universities, study centres.
CINTEL The ICT sector in Colombia is currently in a transition and consolidation process, for this
reason, there are not many indicators related to this industry. Consequently, the data
collect by CINTEL mostly correspond to the Telecommunication sector.
Regarding the analysis of the ICT policies, CINTEL focused initially on two policies,
which are related with the ICT sector as a whole, constituting the regulatory framework of
this sector. In addition, CINTEL taking in account the change of government, included
information about the new policy of the ICT sector, the VIVE DIGITAL Plan, launched in
October 2010, in the framework of the ICT International Congress, ANDICOM.
Similarly, CINTEL identified the main programs and initiatives that involve ICT, as well
as the main stakeholders (government, academy and industry).
Furthermore, CINTEL included a short description of the most important and recent policy
documents.
Finally, as a result of this task, CINTEL encouraged the development of the first SWOT
analysis of ICT policies in Colombia, by Electronic, Telecommunications and Informatics
Council, as part of the National Department of Science and Technology - COLCIENCIAS
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ALETI ALETI analyzed which countries could be included in this task. It was noticed, that even
private sector was interested, most public sectors were not ready yet for this kind of
research due to lack of information. Finally two countries were chosen. ALETI focused
on the analysis of the ICT policies of Uruguay and Costa Rica. Panama was also part of
the scope, but as by that time it was starting to implement National policies regarding ICT,
we had to decline to include it in this early period of the project. ALETI described the
current policies of Costa Rica and Uruguay. The analysis output was a SWOT scheme in
which the main items for each country are highlighted. Also a list of the main stakeholders
of the country was made in order to identify who are the key actors to take into account.
2.2.2.2 T3.2: Report on the status of ICT research cooperation
Task description
This task will analyse the best ICT cooperation practices which have been implemented already
between the EU and Latin America. The analysis will be reported and disseminated through the EU
and Latin American R&D communities. Task 3.2 will also identify and monitor interesting
public/private cooperation examples in the ICT sector. Some of the key areas which will be included in
this study are:
o ICT cooperation within the EU Framework Programme (including a detailed analysis on
differences among industrial-industrial, industrial-academic and academic-academic
cooperation). This analysis will concentrate on research initiatives, whereas support or
coordination actions will be mainly considered by WP4 as instruments to foster cooperation;
o Cooperation within Iberoeka or other European Programmes managed at national level;
o Cooperation in standardization activities in the ICT field;
o Analysis of previous research cooperation activities and their impact on the current status of
cooperation (e.g. on issues such as whether the research cooperation has been followed by
later cooperation in the innovation field or by a commercial phase).
This task will include a final report on the status of ICT research cooperation between Europe and
Latin America focusing on Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Mexico with special attention being
given to those areas identified by T3.1.
Status: Ongoing
ROSE
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In line with T3.1, ROSE has asked partners to include some initial information in
what concerns ICT cooperation practices and public/private cooperation examples in
the ICT sector. Guidance has been provided to FORESTA partners about the scope
of the document and the expected content to be included in the deliverable resulting
from this task. Specific requests have been made to partners to include some initial
information in what concerns ICT cooperation practices and public/private
cooperation examples in the ICT sector.
In line with T3.1, ROSE sent to the LatAm partners the guides and schemes to
prepare their contributions. ROSE has received, analyzed and sent comments about
the first documents from the LatAm partners and is in direct contact with all them in
order to finalize and submit D3.2 during March 2011.
TESEO TESEO took part into the review process of circulated draft documents and provided
general recommendations towards the implementation of the task and the preparation
of the deliverable associated with the task in this period (D3.2).
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EFB EFB is not involved in the activity but has kept contacts and exchange of information
with ROSE to prepare work under WP4.
USP Each of the projects with Brazilian cooperation in the European Commission were
contacted and a detailed report has been developed by the Brazilian team.
ITESM Specific information from the individual partners in research cooperation was asked
for, for example the European Union in Brussels (Thomas Mckinlay), IBEROEKA
program manager in Mexico and the CONACYT. UEMEXCYT ICT senior project,
ICT National Contact Point as well as secondary information sources were consulted
to provide information on cooperation programs and analysis of previous research.
Despite some initial problems in getting information about standardization activities
and results from previous research for lack of specific database, ITESM seek
information on primary sources scattered throughout universities, research centres
and government agencies and was able to comply with the task requests and produce
a detailed and well assessed report.
UP UP has gathered and processed information obtained from the Science, Technology
and Productive Innovation Ministry (MINCyT). The requests received from the Task
Coordinator have been fulfilled.
UTEM UTEM has identified the main previous and current projects of international
cooperation in ICT in Chilean institutions of private and public sectors. Reports and
contributions from Chile to deliverable 3.2 were submitted to the task coordinator.
CINTEL CINTEL obtained information about the previous and current bilateral agreements
with EU from COLCIENCIAS related with ICT and Science and Technology; and
also, the IBEROEKA projects.
The analysis on the differences among cooperation practices (academy-academy,
industry – industry, academy-industry) does not exist in Colombia, but CINTEL
showed the current relations of Colombian entities with European entities in the
Seventh Framework Programme. On the other hand, CINTEL presented information
about the COLCIENCIAS plan to encourage the relation between Academy-
Industry-State and Society at national level.
ALETI ALETI worked on the identification of different actions of cooperation between EU
and the countries of the project, in this case Uruguay and Costa Rica. The next step
was trying to establish a contact with the stakeholders involved in those actions in
order to get further information.
ALETI has worked on the D3.2 deliverable. The main objective of this task was
identifying the main channels of International cooperation between the target
countries and the European Union. ALETI worked on the international cooperation
activities of Costa Rica and Uruguay. ALETI analyzed the different project of the
Seventh Framework programme in which these countries were involved. A
description of the project activities, of its partnership and all the details was included.
In addition to this, the different IBEROEKAS initiatives were also analyzed. Using
the CYTED database, ALETI described the different activities in R&D and
innovation that included partners from both Costa Rica and Uruguay. The different
standardization agreements were also included. For example, the Digital TV
standardization adopted by Uruguay. Finally, a set of conclusions were given in order
to summarize the document information.
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2.2.2.3 T3.3: Strategic recommendations on key research priority issues
Task description
This task includes:
o Establishment of the Council. This Council will be formed by between five and ten experts
from the Latin American region (mainly from partner organisations which all have a central
role in the scientific community of their country) under the coordination of ROSE, which has
a clear vision of the current ICT issues on which policies are being developed on the EU
side;
o Coordination of the Council activities. The Council will meet twice during the project at a
time corresponding with other major project milestones (e.g. the Concertation Workshop in
Brazil organised under WP4 in M17 and a project meeting in Mexico City foreseen for
M18);
o Editing of any documents produced by the Council;
o Promotion of the participation of representatives of the Council in all relevant forums,
conferences and other events.
The Council will work based on inputs provided by the FORESTA project (see outcome of T3.1, T3.2
and findings of WP4) which will stimulate international discussions. The Council will also be provided
with the necessary tools to permit its members to engage in informed discussions. The work will be
conducted mainly online through the Council website which, provisionally, will be hosted on the
FORESTA website. The Council website will provide Council members with a work zone in which they
can share documents, have interactive discussions, etc.
Foresight studies: Future oriented thinking is vital for any planning or policy activity to be able to
meet future challenges. Foresight is a widely recognised methodology which enhances such thinking by
gathering anticipatory intelligence from a wide range of knowledge sources in a systematic way and
linking it to today's decision making.
The value of adopting explicit processes to consider and manage the future through Foresight studies,
is now widely recognised for a number of reasons, including:
o Research and Innovation policies are necessarily based on visions of the future of science,
technology and society;
o Research and Innovation policies need more systemic instruments to manage the increasing
complexity of the dynamics of change.
Foresight fulfils two functions. The first one is to “enabling change” while the second one is to
“provide anticipatory intelligence” to policy-developers and other actors.
Knowledge sources
The main sources of knowledge for these Foresight studies in the FORESTA project are:
o FORESTA preliminary studies (tasks 3.1 and 3.2);
o Expertise and knowledge from ICT Policy and Dialogue Support Council members
(representing key stakeholders from Public and Private sectors implementing the necessary
public-private-partnerships).
Strategic recommendations: The main deliverable of T3.3 will be a set of key recommendations
identifying common R&D priorities, opportunities and challenges and which focus particularly on long
term perspectives. The objective of the Council and its recommendations is to strengthen and support
the ICT policy dialogue between Europe and Latin America in the ICT domain. This will be
accomplished by:
o Formulating longer term national (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Mexico) and
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regional research priorities;
o Anticipating technologies application trends likely to be supported by research work for the
region targeted.
Hence, the successful establishment of ICT policies will require open coordination of these visions of
the future of science, technology and society, as well as the use of open Foresight as a systemic
instrument in which all relevant stakeholders will be represented.
Status: On-going
ROSE
Task Leader
ROSE has launched internal debates about what could be the main lessons from
previous studies, analysing the outcomes of the reports on the countries situation as
well as visioning possible areas for recommendation: technologies, MoU, Workshop
Agreement, Join Calls, SICAs, etc. All those possibilities have been brought to the
Consortium for further consideration.
The discussion on the structure and methodology of the Policy Dialogue Council has
started. ROSE advanced the general criteria that will govern and run the Council
during the project progress meeting held in Brussels on October 1st, 2010. Currently,
ROSE is preparing a document including a summary of all the advanced information
and a working plan, in order to implement the Council during the first quarter of
2011.
TESEO Not involved in the activity. Nevertheless it has taken part to the discussion around
the methodology and implementation of the council.
EFB Not initially foreseen to be involved in the activity but has taken part to the
discussion in view to subsequent involvement.
USP USP is in the process to identify potential representatives for the council and to this
purpose USP carried out preliminary talks with local stakeholders. In particular, USP
had meetings with SUCESU/SP (Users Society for Information Technology and
Telecommunications at the State of São Paulo), which has a long tradition on
gathering ICT groups for discussions.
ITESM ITESM has taken part to the discussion leading to the council creation and set up the
forum facility on the FORESTA website that will host the council work online under
the guidance of the task leader.
UP UP is in the initial stage with this task. Some preliminary work has been done in
order to identify potential representatives in the council and preliminary talks with
local stakeholders.
UTEM UTEM focussed into the evaluation of a number of experts to be proposed for the
council. The next activities are preparing the material for the experts about the status
of ICT cooperation of the national scientific community with UE.
The key players in the national ICT area have been identified and then contacted.
Informing them of the existence and activities of FORESTA project as well as of the
clustered projects (FIRST, PRO IDEAL PLUS). Among these key players we have
selected the person who has been deemed as the best candidates for the council.
Currently UTEM is managing the formal procedures for the candidates‟ proposals,
who have already agreed with the possibility to take part into the council.
CINTEL CINTEL has been in the process of identification of the members of the Council,
taking into account the change in the National Government.
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ALETI ALETI is in the process of identification of the members of the council from Costa
Rica and Uruguay. ALETI has already researched and identified some key
stakeholders.
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2.2.3 WP4: Coordination with other projects and other funding agencies
2.2.3.1 T4.1: Preliminary studies and contacts
Task description
This task will result in a clear explanation of the ongoing relationships fostered either by European
Framework Program project sub-programs (e.g. Mobility, Capacities, ICT, etc.) or by other
international initiatives including bilateral agreements between the target countries and the EU and
between the target countries and individual EU countries. This task will aim at: a) informing and
involving in FORESTA activities those responsible for the EU projects identified; b) assessing the
effectiveness and impact of different types of approaches to ICT research cooperation and actions tried
in different projects. These will provide examples of practices, which might be proposed for further
adoption or adaptation in an enlarged Latin America-EU cooperation context.
Status: Completed
EFB
Task Leader
EFB has produced a research that analyses the available European funding
instruments supporting cooperation with LA in the field of ICT (D4.1). The analysis
also covers the bilateral agreements between single EU countries and the target LAC
and gives an analytical and qualitative analysis on projects funded in this domain.
The deliverable is a comprehensive and thorough study aiming to identify synergies
and complementarities between the many different actions at national and European
level with a view to provide recommendations to make the available framework more
effective: the work went through various careful revision and peer-review stages to
harmonise contributions and get to a consistent and well argumented document.
TESEO TESEO has contributed providing some information about the European programmes
for funding. TESEO took part to the review phase of D4.1 prior to submission and
coordinated with Pro-Ideal Plus for their parallel deliverable D1.2
ROSE ROSE provides feedback on main studies to consider. Participation in the peer
review of D4.1
USP USP participated in this task by providing the task leader with information about the
projects which are currently going on in Brazil in the ICT area and which have
European involvement one way or another.
ITESM ITESM identified the main programs for supporting the international cooperation and
bilateral agreements between EU and Mexico and provided feedback to the
document produced by the Task Leader.
ITESM has a close relationship with OASIS, PROIDEAL PLUS and FIRST FP7
projects and NCP with which it has been involved in event coordination (as Mexico
ICT Day). Also an active collaboration has been done with the Bureau for European
and Mexican Science and Technology Cooperation (UEMEXCYT) in order to gain
insights of different ICT research cooperation projects.
UP Not involved in the activity.
UTEM UTEM reviewed the results of task 4.1 and has double-checked the data with
information obtained from various national agencies in ICT (CONICYT, CORFO,
etc.) regarding international cooperation projects in ICT. This document has been
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used as a tool for developing a collaborative work with other FP7 projects in Chile.
UTEM has established a permanent relationship between the FORESTA project and
the European Union Program (Chilean-European Platform to Improve Science and
Technology Cooperation) of Department of International Relations of National
Commission for Scientific and Technological Research (CONICYT). This
relationship aims to contribute to the coordination, between the activities undertaken
by the FP7 LA projects, FORESTA, PRO IDEAL PLUS and FIRST. The three
projects in Chile also worked together with the European Union Program to design a
Technology Mission at the past ICT Event 2010, held in Brussels.
UTEM has established an ongoing relationship with the projects coordinators PRO
IDEAL PLUS and FIRST in Chile, as well as with ALETI in Argentina, with the aim
of enhancing the actions of the projects, coordinate dates of events and collaborate on
common goals.
On April 22nd, 2010, on behalf of the FORESTA project, UTEM participated in the
launching workshop of the project FIRST in Chile. The proposals and main
objectives of FORESTA were presented and highlighted. In this meeting all the
companies and institutions present were invited to participate actively and contribute
to the development of the ongoing FP7 support actions in Chile.
FORESTA Chile, in collaboration with FIRST project, organized a workshop on
September 7th, 2010, with the main objective of getting a preliminary idea about the
Interest and knowledge that the Chilean ICT research community has regarding the
FP7 or others funding programs for cooperation. The conference included
representatives of national research universities in person as well as connected by
videoconference, streaming and twitter.
In November 2010 FORESTA participated in two events organized by Pro-Ideal
Plus. The first of them was the conference "ICT Forum in support of the political
dialogue between Chile and the EU R&D in the ICT sector" held in Santiago on
November 3rd 2010 which was attended by the European delegation participating in
the Steering Committee, where one of its members was our Project Officer, Mr.
Klaus Pendl, together with other important government officials and national
companies representatives. The second event was the "InfoDay" related to the ICT
Call 7, held on November 5th 2010 in Valparaiso Chile.
It is worth to mention the participation of FORESTA project in the meeting with
officials of the Directorate General for Research of the European Commission,
organized by CONICYT for researchers involved in FP projects, held on November
3th, which was attended by Mr. José Manuel Silva Rodríguez (Advisor to the
Director General of DG Research and International Cooperation of the European
Commission) along with the remaining members of the Steering Committee.
During the first year of the project FORESTA there have been carried out monthly
coordination meetings between FORESTA, PROIDEAL PLUS, FIRST and the
Liaison Office of EU-Chile from CONICYT. Since November it has been integrated
to these meetings the REUNA corporation who also participated in an FP7 project in
the area of ICT.
In December 2010 FORESTA-CHILE actively collaborated with the FIRST project,
towards the organization of the event "Second National Workshop Implementing
International Cooperation Chile-EU for R&D in Future Internet, ICT Systems and
Components", held at the central building of the UTEM, in Santiago, Chile on 1st
December. In this event the many representatives from academic and industrial
sector established a collaborative network for R&D in Future Internet declaring their
commitment in the creation of four Chilean technology platforms. (See press releases
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in the annexes)
CINTEL CINTEL identified the bilateral agreements between EU and Colombia around the
field of ICT and Science and Technology, and the main tools for the international
cooperation European Union- Colombia. In addition, from this, CINTEL collected
some lessons learned from the Colombian participation in this projects and programs
of international cooperation.
On the other hand, CINTEL has been coordinating activities in Colombia related
with the events and the objectives of two projects: PRO IDEAL PLUS and FIRST,
the last one coordinated in Colombia by CINTEL too.
ALETI Not involved in the activity.
2.2.3.2 T4.2: Study on Latin America national funding agencies action in
international cooperation
Task description
This study will firstly identify agencies or other bodies active within the national support systems to
research in the five targeted countries. It will then identify critical factors that influence the ability of
research organisations from the target countries to launch or get involved in collaborative projects
with European counterparties. Such factors might relate to issues like: lack of matching funds (to
support preliminary work, or participation in conferences, etc.), lack of adequate analysis of
opportunities, lack of synchronisation of local funding cycles with the European ones, insufficient
definition of research objectives at national level, language barriers, nationalism or tied funding or
other types of factors likely to bear an impact on international research collaboration. Due
consideration will be given to aspects related to the legal, administrative or financial context given by
the national schemes or programmes (e.g. mechanisms funding participation to conferences, or support
schemes for networking or submission of proposals, etc).
Status: Completed
USP
Task Leader
A template of a document has been sent to each Latin America partners. Through an
analysis of those completed documents, USP has identified the main issues that
influence these target countries on launching or getting involved in collaborative
projects with European counterparties. A first draft of the deliverable was ready at
the beginning of second semester of the project but several round of peer-review
within the consortium was deemed necessary to harmonise such a comprehensive
study that includes contribution from all LA partners.
TESEO TESEO issued recommendation on how to address the task and took part to the
review phase of revision of D4.2 prior to submission. TESEO coordinated with Pro-
Ideal Plus concerning their parallel deliverable.
EFB For this task, EFB has kept contacts and exchange of information with USP.
ROSE ROSE provided feedback on main content of the report
ITESM Contribution sent to the task leader. National funding agencies were identified in
Mexico and main tasks and actions were described. The critical factors were
identified using available scholastic support and reinforced with in-depth interviews
with government authorities related with collaborative projects with European
counterparts. Requests from task coordinator were fulfilled.
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UP Contribution to the work on request of task leader. During the implementation of the
task, it‟s been stressed the fact that the National Agency for the Promotion of Science
and Technology (ANPCyT) doesn't have any international cooperation program.
Neither do the National Council of Scientific and Technological Research
(CONICET).
UTEM UTEM has identified the two main agencies that provide support for research in
Chile: National Commission for Scientific and Technological Research CONICYT
and Chilean Economic Development Agency CORFO Innova. Both agencies have no
resources specifically allocated to ICT research in their funding lines. UTEM has
also identified the only two specific instruments of funding for ICT research; in all
the other instruments, the ICT projects must participate in conjunction with other
projects from diverse areas of knowledge.
In relation to the critical factors, UTEM had meetings with different key actors in the
field of universities, businesses and government to identify the main causes of low
participation of Chile in the European Framework Programme.
CINTEL Regarding international support for research in S&T and ICT in Colombia, CINTEL
identified three entities considered as funding agencies for these fields of
International Cooperation: COLCIENCIAS (Administrative Department of Science,
Technology and Innovation), ACCION SOCIAL and SENA (National Learning
Service). In addition, the deliverable shows the main programs and tools of each
entity for the international cooperation.
It is important to note that COLCIENCIAS is the leading agency of public
administration which coordinates the National System of Science, Technology and
Innovation (SNCTI), and that is evaluating the possibility to centralize all financing
resources for research, in order to facilitate funding processes to foster project
development in industry and academia, within the framework of international
cooperation. CINTEL sent to the task leader information about the main funding
agencies in Colombia.
ALETI Not involved in this activity
2.2.3.3 T4.3: Concertation Workshop with ongoing projects and national
funding agencies
Task description
The Concertation Workshop will be organised in M17 in Brazil and has a dual purpose: a) to bring
together and enhance dialogue between the facilitators of international cooperation (projects) and the
owners of funding programmes (national agencies); b) to stimulate the national funding agencies from
the five target countries to share experiences and practices in order to facilitate the emergence of
common positions and encourage the synchronisation of support instruments to international
cooperation in ICT research.
Work will be based on data provided by D4.2 on the current forms of funding to ICT research adopted
by the target countries. This will be the “starting point” to motivate representatives of national funding
agencies to take position on scenarios on jointly funded activities with the EU.
The Concertation Workshop will be organised over two days:
o Day one will be open to participation by all projects representatives and by representatives
of the national funding agencies;
o Day two will be restricted to the funding agencies’ representatives in order to stimulate a
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more in-depth discussion among the funding agencies to identify future joint challenges and
to generally improve the national and international mechanisms to support research
cooperation.
In this respect, representatives of the funding agencies will be provided, at the end of the two-day
workshop, with a summary of key challenges and conclusions to be dealt with at policy level. These will
be the main issues around which T4.4 will evolve.
The ICT Policy Dialogue Support Council, set up during WP3, will take place at the same location as
the Concertation Workshop either prior to or after that event.
Expected participation: 1 or 2 high profile representatives per country of the main national research
funding agencies
Status: On-going
USP
Task Leader
The Concertation Workshop is foreseen in September 2011, in the city of Brasília.
Exact date will be communicated in the upcoming weeks. USP is currently working
on the exact location and on a preliminary list of stakeholders that will be invited to
participate. The proposed agenda is that on the 1st day Ministers and/or Secretaries of
Science and Technology from the 5 LA target countries discuss and define guide
lines for a roadmap for strategic joint actions concerning ICT. On the 2nd
day it is
proposed a session with the representatives of funding agencies from the 5 LA
countries to plan how to implement the guide lines defined in the previous day. A
report will be written at the end of the Workshop containing the guide lines and the
actions to be performed. Methodology to implement the concertation meeting is
under discussion and will be finalised during March 2011.
TESEO TESEO has agreed with task leader the tentative date and has taken part to discussion
leading to a preliminary methodology. TESEO will collaborate on agenda definition.
EFB Given the correlation with Task 4.1, EFB has kept contacts and exchanged
information with USP and will be involved in the methodology definition of the
workshop.
ROSE ROSE provided suggestions about the main alliances in order to shape the
concertation workshop.
ITESM ITESM has been involved in organization of events to foster the International
cooperation of R+D for ICT between Mexico and the European Union (Mexico ICT
Day in collaboration with PROIDEAL PLUS/FIRST) and has maintained a close
relationship with representatives of national agencies in charge of funding
programmes (UEMEXCYT and NCP) that has allowed to identify and contact
national key stakeholders that can attend the concertation meeting. Currently ITESM
is evaluating a first draft of proposed candidates.
UP Not involved in this activity
UTEM We have identified the key national ICT stakeholders. We have identified and
contacted with a possible candidate for the Council and there is permanent dialogue
with representatives of the Funding Agencies (CONICYT) to coordinate the various
activities in the ICT field in 2011.
CINTEL CINTEL identified the main national funding agencies which have worked with
international cooperation. Currently, CINTEL is in the process of identifying the
high profile representatives per funding entity or funding program, to be considered
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as part of the Concertation Workshop, taking into account the new staff of the
entities which are part of the new National Government.
ALETI Not involved in this activity
2.2.3.4 T4.4: Follow up and roadmap for the synchronisation of research
funding
Task description
The purpose of work done in WP4 is to influence future cooperation among funding agencies as key
actors of research policies. In short, the FORESTA consortium wants to make sure, through T4.4 that
policy makers are encouraged to translate their commitment to advance the status of international
R&D cooperation into concrete actions. This will be encouraged through a structured follow up to
work done in the workshop in M17.
The national agencies which have participated in the M17 Concertation Workshop will be contacted by
the FORESTA consortium at two-month and four-month intervals after the event in order to verify the
progress they have made in changing their national positions on any of the key issues related to
international cooperation in ICT research which were identified in the studies of national, regional,
international and bilateral support projects and mechanisms for ICT research and in the report
summarising the related key challenges and conclusions for ICT policymakers delivered by T4.1, T4.2
and T4.3.
Their positions will be collected and analysed by USP and summarised into a strategic roadmap for the
synchronisation of research funding that will be delivered to the European Commission. When drawing
up the roadmap, appropriate consideration will also be taken of the findings emerging from T3.3 and
contained in D3.3 (Strategic Recommendations on key priorities to be jointly addressed by the EU and
Latin American countries). This roadmap will summarise the obstacles, set out the current trends in
target countries and in Europe as well as proposing ways to synchronise better the policy dialogue in
support of international research cooperation, so that the use of current or future instruments to
support cooperation can be optimised.
Status: Not started
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2.2.4 WP5: Dissemination and communication
2.2.4.1 T5.1: Dissemination and communication plan
Task description
A dissemination and communication plan will be produced in the first phase of the project, in order to
guide all dissemination and communication activities of the project. It will precisely identify the target
audience and information to be communicated and design the most appropriate actions to convey the
project message in the most efficient way. The Dissemination and Communication Plan will also set out
recommendations on the design and production of communication tools to be used in the project and
will deliver clear procedures for all partners when involved in communication activity in order to
ensure a high level of homogeneity in communicating with external counterparts.
Status: On-going
ITESM
Task Leader
ITESM has drafted the Communication and Dissemination Plan deliverable, which
served as guideline and reference in terms of communication and dissemination
strategy for all relevant information related to FORESTA. The plan has been
circulated to all partners to be used as the guide to perform communication in the
course of the project. This plan will be revised at M14, to follow the needs for an
update and adaptations emerged during the life time of the project.
On-going communication is maintained with partners in order to know their
dissemination activities. Among the specific communication activities in Mexico it is
worth to mention the participation at ICT Mexico Day and Mexican International
Conference on Artificial Intelligence/SMIA, and the presentation of FORESTA via
personal meetings with members of Red TICS.
The FORESTA project has completed the first phase and the immediate next
communication tasks will be to give wide dissemination of outputs from these
activities, in particular the results emerging form WP3, WP4 and WP2.
TESEO The project coordinator has given guidelines and supported the WP leader, ITESM in
the drafting of the communication plan. This was done through extensive emailing
and conference calls to provide specific feedback on submitted drafts.
In its capacity as coordinator and taking advantage of being based in Brussels,
TESEO has taken care of the organisation of FORESTA participation in the ICT
2010 “Digitally Driven” (27-29 September, 2010, Brussels) and of the related
dissemination activities. FORESTA coordinator has jointly worked with the
coordinators of PRO-IDEAL PLUS and FIRST projects to arrange the activities of
the three projects‟ cluster branded under the name of EU-LAC ICT Gateway. The
activities are below outlined:
TESEO was in charge for the cluster to submit the stand proposal: the
proposal has been successfully selected and the cluster was granted an
Exhibition Stand – the EU-LAC ICT Gateway stand – for the three days of
the exhibition. TESEO has then taken care of all necessary arrangements
following instructions by the ICT event organiser to prepare the stand. The
stand, which was located in the International Village, served as a one-stop
stand for EU-Latin America cooperation and a meeting point between
delegations of Latin America ICT stakeholders with European researchers
and potential partners
"Empowering EU-LA ICT Collaboration" Networking Session dedicated to
researchers, industries and policy makers involved or interested in
cooperation activities with Latin America under the ICT Programme.
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Agenda is attached.
EU-LAC ICT Gateway Workshop organised in the aftermath of the ICT
event in collaboration with DG Research project EULARINET also in
support of research policy dialogue with Latin America. The workshop
hosted presentations on future opportunities with Latin America as well as a
brokerage session, the Project Café, dedicated to matchmaking and screening
of project ideas for next FP7 calls. Agenda is attached.
Dissemination material produced by TESEO for FORESTA activities at ICT2010
and pictures from the events are attached.
TESEO also disseminated FORESTA in other events attended, including the NEM
summit in Barcelona in October 2010 and the Future Internet Assembly in Valencia
in April 2010.
EFB EFB has contributed to the general communication of FORESTA in its early stages
and will continue throughout the project this involvement.
ROSE ROSE has contributed to the dissemination of the FORESTA events and participated
directly in some of the dissemination and public activities.
Briefings on the project made at the Barcelona NEM Summit. Support to the
inclusion of FORESTA among the key projects developing policy and research
dialogue with Latin America particularly by disseminating FORESTA goals within
the GlobalNEM Activity (an international cooperation position paper for cooperative
research around the NEM Technology Platform.)
USP USP worked on a presentation for an internal workshop, realized in March 17, 2010.
Based on this presentation, and the feedback received, professor Moacyr Martucci Jr.
participated in an event in the city of Aracaju (Sergipe state) in March 25-26, 2010
with a presentation called “Paving the technologic link between Latin America and
Europe”, that covered the project FORESTA and its objectives.
USP agreed to providing speakers for the EU-LAC ICT Gateway Networking
Session within ICT 2010 on 27-29/09/2010.
The project FORESTA was also disseminated during the opening session of the two
project FIRST Workshops, by professor Moacyr Martucci Jr., carried out at USP on
Sep 16 and Nov 18. A project FORESTA folder was given to participants. Both
Workshops were also broadcasted by IPTV.
UP UP presented the FORESTA project during Jornada de Cooperación Unión Europea -
Argentina en el campo de Internet del Futuro y Componentes TIC which took place
on 20/04/10. UP also presented the Project in the below conferences:
- First Argentinean Conference on Information and Communication Technologies
(http://www.copitec.org.ar/catic/) – 21/10/10
- XVI Argentine Congress on Computer Science (http://www.cacic2010.edu.ar/) –
18-22/10/10
- Argentinean Conference on Electronic Services (http://www.jase2010.com.ar/) – 3-
5/11/10
UTEM During the first year of FORESTA project ProteinLab UTEM has developed the
following dissemination actions:
1- UTEM has identified the Chilean target audience, to whom the project has been
presented using the templates provided by ITESM. Digital social networks are used
to expand the dissemination of the project and the websites of the collaborators of
FORESTA. The FORESTA website has been included in the different
communications and we are planning the development of graphic support for events
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and meetings.
2- UTEM has developed contact with ALETI, coordinating specific actions and
participating in diverse meetings coordination with projects PRO IDEAL PLUS and
FIRST.
3- On March 25th, 2010, FORESTA team attended the event "Challenges and
Opportunities for ICT Cooperation between Chile and the European Union"
organized by IDEAL PRO PLUS with support from CONICYT. (See agenda in the
annex)
4- On April 22nd
, FORESTA project participated in the launching workshop of the
FIRST project in Chile. The proposals and main objectives of FORESTA were
presented and highlighted by Dr. Héctor Torres. In this meeting all the companies
and institutions present were invited to participate actively and contribute to the
development of the ongoing FP7 support actions in Chile. In this occasion the
"FIRST" project was launched highlighting the several opportunities that arise for
ICT research community to participate in FP7 with ICT proposals. (See agenda of the
workshop in the annexes)
5- A meeting was also held by UTEM with the officials of the European Union
Program in Chile, which is the main coordination unit for EU affairs at the National
Commission of Science and Technology CONICYT. In this occasion we updated the
information they managed about FORESTA and agreed to carry out a series of
coordination meetings with project representatives of FIRST and PRO IDEAL
PLUS, in order to collaborate and promote the coordination between projects
regarding the various activities in each of the support actions funded by FP7.
6- Another relevant meeting took place with representatives of the Executive
Secretariat of Digital Strategy, which is the main state policy official stakeholder,
dependant of the Economy Ministry of Chilean Government. Digital Strategy staff is
the official advisory committee to the President and coordinates the elaboration of
Digital Development Agenda towards 2013 for the country. At this meeting, the
Digital Strategy staff was provided with an insight to the FORESTA activities and
after reviewing many converging interests we agreed to work together in the analysis
of ICT policies in Chile. Digital Strategy has offered us its official sponsorship for
the project in order to facilitate and reinforce visibility for our work with the different
key actors in the country. This sponsorship allows us to use the logo of Digital
Strategy and support the various activities and contact needs of the project trough
their valuable social networking resources and capacities.
7- On 29 April UTEM had a meeting with the Director of the National University
Network REUNA (Universities consortium for Internet2 and advanced academic
networks accessing) which has also offered active collaboration in the project.
REUNA has offered support to organize a workshop by videoconference with the
different national universities that belong to this consortium to promote analysis of
ICT research in Chile. The Workshop was scheduled for June 2010.
8- On June 2th, 3th and 4th 2010, FORESTA attended the “Cumbre Latinoamericana
de Tecnologías de la Información” organized by ALETI, GECHS, CORFO of
Government of Chile, and others. For three days, representatives of major ICT
associations of the LA continent and Spain met in Santiago to define a challenges
and projects. Working together is the main goal.
9- On July 6th the team FORESTA attended the briefing and training workshop on
"Opportunities for Cooperation in Information Technologies (ICTs) in the context of
the Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development
(FP7) of the European Union" organized by the liaison office of CONICYT. On that
occasion Dr. Hector Torres explained about the objectives and scope of FORESTA
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project to an audience composed of ICT researchers and NCP Ignacio Casas.
10- On September 7th 2010, FORESTA Chile organized a workshop with FIRST
project, with the main objective of getting a preliminary idea about the interest and
knowledge that the Chilean ICT research community, has regarding the FP7 or others
funding programs for cooperation. The conference included representatives of
national research universities in person as well as connected by videoconference,
streaming and twitter. (See agenda, presentation and invitation letter in the annexes.)
The aim of the meeting was successfully achieved, with the presentation on three key
axes:
a). FORESTA Project Presentation, objectives and work plan
b). Introduction to the research opportunities offered by the 7th Framework
Programme of the European Union
c). Discussion of participants on key indicators collected by the project
FORESTA about Chilean participation in FP7, with emphasis on government
policies, financing mechanisms and critical factors that affect national
participation in EU projects.
In this workshop the FIRST project, “Implementing Cooperation on Future Internet
and ICT Components between EU and LatAm”, was launched highlighting the
several opportunities for the ICT research community to participate in the FP7 by
developing ICT proposals.
In the meeting six Videoconference rooms at different universities along Chile were
connected to the REUNA network:
• Center for Mathematical Modelling of the U. de Chile
• University of Santiago de Chile (USACH)
• Department of Computer Science U. de Chile
• Universidad del Bio Bio. Campus Chillán.
• Universidad Tecnológica Metropolitana (UTEM)
• Video Conference Room REUNA
As well as a large number of researchers were connected via streaming by REUNA
website: 136 connections over videoconferencing.
11- In this year‟s edition of ICT 2010, which took place from 27th to 29th of
September in Brussels, FORESTA Chile was represented by two researchers from
UTEM, Dr. Hector Torres and Dr. Hugo Durney who participated between 27-29
September at the ICT Forum. Also they participated in the EULARINET workshop
which was held the evening of 29 and 30 September.
12 - In November 2010 FORESTA participated in two events organized by Pro-Ideal
Plus. The first of them was the conference "ICT Forum in support of the political
dialogue between Chile and the EU R&D in the ICT sector" held in Santiago on
November 3rd 2010 which was attended by the European delegation participating in
the Steering Committee, where one of its members was our Project Officer, Mr.
Klaus Pendl, together with other important government officials and national
companies representatives. The second event was the "InfoDay" related to the ICT
Call 7, held on November 5th 2010 in Valparaiso Chile.
13 - It is worth to mention the participation of FORESTA project in the meeting with
officials of the Directorate General for Research of the European Commission,
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organized by CONICYT for researchers involved in FP projects, held on November
3th, which was attended by Mr. José Manuel Silva Rodríguez (Advisor to the
Director General of DG Research and International Cooperation of the European
Commission) along with the remaining members of the Steering Committee.
14 - In December 2010 FORESTA-CHILE actively collaborated with the FIRST
project, towards the organization of the event "Second National Workshop
Implementing International Cooperation Chile-EU for R&D in Future Internet, ICT
Systems and Components", held at the central building of the UTEM, in Santiago,
Chile. In this event the many representatives from academic and industrial sector
established a collaborative network for R&D in Future Internet declaring their
commitment in the creation of four Chilean technology platforms.
Pictures from the above-mentioned events are available as annexes.
Attached are also screenshots of webpages disseminating FORESTA
CINTEL CINTEL initially worked on a presentation of the project for the different types of
stakeholders. This has been updated in line with project progress.
CINTEL has been organizing meetings and has participated in internal workshops
with the purpose to present the main activities and objectives of FORESTA. The
main stakeholders identified for the project participated to these meetings and
CINTEL kept in touch with them:
- Meeting with the Minister of ICT
- Meeting with the National Planning Department (DNP)
- Meeting with COLCIENCIAS
- Meeting with the Council of Electronics, Telecommunications and Informatics -
ETI (Program from COLCIENCIAS)
- Meeting with EPM – Empresas Públicas de Medellín
- Meeting with the coordinator of PRO IDEAL PLUS in Colombia
- Meeting with the Innovation Committee - CINTEL
- Individual meetings with specific stakeholders from the academy, industry and
government
Additionally, in order to coordinate the events between FORESTA and PRO IDEAL
PLUS, CINTEL organized a dissemination event, which was held on September 15th
2010 in Bogota. It was attended by representatives of the main government entities
related with the design and implementation of ICT and S&T policies, and entities in
charge to fostering the international cooperation. During this event, both FORESTA
and PROIDEAL PLUS projects were presented and promoted the participation of the
stakeholders in both next events and activities.
Other dissemination activities are the notes published in NotiCINTEL the CINTEL‟s
electronic newsletter, which is sent to the whole data base of CINTEL and
ANDICOM, once a week.
Furthermore, in order to promote the FORESTA Conference in Colombia, CINTEL
published information of the project through ANDICOM website.
In addition, CINTEL has used the social networks as Facebook to show the different
activities and meetings of the FORESTA project, through “CINTELColombia”
group.
Pictures on the meetings abovementioned as well as press releases and web
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screenshots are available as annexes.
ALETI ALETI is responsible for the dissemination plan for the Other Latin American
Countries under task 5.3 and coordinated with ITESM so that the two plans are
consistent and complementary.
2.2.4.2 T5.2: Website creation and management
Task description
The web-site will be created and hosted by ITESM. It will be the main access point to information
about the scope and activities of the project and will clearly indicate contact points for all researchers
or other organisations willing to cooperate with the project.
As well as the necessary sections related to the specific ICT cooperation frameworks between the
target countries and the EU, the web-site will feature a brokerage section where project ideas or other
initiatives will be posted that are likely to be further developed in a cooperative way in the two regions.
Researchers from the target countries and from Europe will be encouraged to look for partners and to
share plans for new projects with assistance from the FORESTA consortium.
Special coordination will be encouraged with the communication activities run by ITESM in its
capacity as the ICT national contact point for Mexico.
One section of the project website will be devoted to the ICT Policy Dialogue Support Council and will
handed over upon project completion to the organisation(s) that will develop the Council activities in
the future (see T3.4 and D3.4)
Status: Ongoing
ITESM
Task Leader
FORESTA Website originally included the following sections: Home, About
FORESTA, Results, News, ICT Policy, Brokerage, Events, Contact, Workspace,
Video, Forum and Wiki. In the above structure, FORESTA website was online since
the first months of the project. Description and presentation of the website have been
delivered in D5.2 and in the specific attachment to the communication plan
describing the functioning of the website from a technical point of view. Manuals
and guidelines on the usage of the website have been circulated to consortium.
Following discussion within the consortium, the structure of the website has
undergone changes and improvements. After a consensus with partners, ICT policy,
Brokerage and Wiki sections were omitted from website. The main goal of this
decision was not to give partners different tools repeating same task, e.g. the use of
Forums can cover sections as Wikis, the works of the ICT Policy Dialogue Council
and Brokerage. The coordinator suggested renaming the „About FORESTA” section
as “The Project” and “Workspace” as Private Section. Video section is little used and
ITESM is therefore working in a new way to use videos on website. Forum Section
will host interactive discussions of the Council (T3.3) and will be developed in
parallel to task activities. The Results section will include deliverables resumes.
A new simplified tutorial about how feeding news to site was sent to partners to ease
partners‟ contribution to website.
Major adjustments (apart from mentioned section modifications) since start of
operations are:
Allow users option to receive newsletters or not when creating account. (now
only needs one register against the two previous needed)
A more visible forum with dynamic use was installed.(new Kunena version)
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The news section was amended; registered users use self-published news
feature that appears news title on the main page
Calendar looks was changed to make it more attractive.
ITESM was also in charge to develop the common entry page to the EU-LAC ICT
Gateway cluster.
TESEO TESEO has repeatedly stressed the need to have a perfectly running and functional
website able to report punctually on the project activities and results. The coordinator
and highlighted the website deficiencies and, in its capacity as coordinator, TESEO
has supported WP leader, responding to his queries and giving suggestions and
proposing correction measures to optimise the website and its content, whose
development and maintenance is nevertheless under the control of the WP leader.
TESEO has sent to the WP leader contribution to content from the deliverables under
its responsibility.
Additionally, TESEO was in charge of buying the www.forestaproject.eu and
www.lac-ictgateway.eu domains, since it had to be done by a European organisation
in order to get the .eu domain.
EFB Even though involved in the activity, EFB has given contributions concerning
structure and contents of the web site.
ROSE ROSE has provided some guidelines for web site design regarding the structure for
ICT policies presentation
USP For this task, USP was responsible for translating to Portuguese the content of
FORESTA website, which was provided to the task leader.
UP UP contributed sending content for the website and taking part to the discussion
defining its structure. UP is maintaining a permanent and fluid dialog with ITESM
regarding this task.
UTEM UTEM has developed constant efforts to disseminate the project FORESTA by
suggesting or resorting to the official web site in several presentations, meetings and
almost in every communication. The aim has been to increase the number of web site
visits of national stakeholders. The FORESTA staff in Chile has used the material
into the "Private Section" as a source of accessing official documentation related to
the project for the development of its activities and reports.
CINTEL Even though CINTEL is not involved directly in this activity, it has submitted
information and pictures of the events. CINTEL has given feedback and suggestions
to the WP leader regarding the website and its performance. Currently, CINTEL is
collecting pictures of recently meetings and news of the ICT sector for the
FORESTA website.
ALETI For this task, ALETI has developed some specific contents in order to attract more
visitors to the website. Firstly, ALETI contributed with photographs of the
dissemination done of the FORESTA project in the event BIZ FIT 2010 at Panamá.
Additionally, videos were recorded with testimonies from Perú, Ecuador and Costa
Rica. Secondly, ALETI is creating specifics articles that describe the biography of
key stakeholders in the other Latin American countries under the heading People
who do something to improve their environment make the difference. Discover what
they do in their countries to distinguish. January was the turn for Panama.
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2.2.4.3 T5.3: Dissemination campaign to other Latin American countries
Task description
One particular aspect of project dissemination will target the policy-making institutions and the
scientific communities of other Latin American countries. The idea is to contribute to accelerate their
synchronisation with European ICT research policy. To do so, ALETI, which is a regional association
covering Central and South America, will deliver a communication plan specially conceived for Latin
American countries not directly involved in the project. ALETI will also identify a series of conferences
in which its members participate, in order to represent the FORESTA project and deliver presentations
about the scope and activities of FORESTA.
Status: Ongoing
ALETI
Task Leader
ALETI has developed a Dissemination Plan for other LA countries in order to create
consciousness-raising of R&D public policy dialogue between R&D community and
policy makers of each country (D5.3). The countries selected for this dissemination
are the ones that have more potential in the R&D field. For example, Costa Rica is
not part of FORESTA target countries, but it is included in this section since it has a
Ministry of Science and Technology.
In order to be synergetic with the general communication strategy designed under
T5.1, the plan has been developed taking in consideration D5.1, while providing
additional and complementary information (like for example a section about best
practices in Latin America).
ALETI organized several dissemination activities in different countries. ALETI
participated different meetings, skype calls and workshop in Panama, Peru, Costa
Rica and others.
In addition to this, ALETI worked to make the FORESTA project as public as
possible by including its description in as many newsletters as possible. In addition to
the official FORESTA newsletter, ALETI included information of the project in its
own newsletter and the newsletter of the entities that integrate ALETI.
ALETI contacted key stakeholders from Peru, Panama, Costa Rica, Uruguay and
Ecuador in different meetings or workshops, and also by e-mail in order to present
the project. In these situations, the FORESTA project was presented and all the
stakeholders were invited to be informed of the progress of the project and also were
invited to cooperate with it in the case of any possible R&D initiative or a specific
vision regarding the ICT policies for the country.
During 2010, ALETI participated in key regional events where the FORESTA
project was disseminated. The key message was that it is of main importance to other
LA countries to be informed about the experience gained by the countries having
signed and implemented S&T Agreement with the EU (Brazil, Chile, Mexico and
Argentina), or by countries which are intensifying their policy dialogue with the EU
(Colombia), can be beneficial in accelerating policy dialogue, and thereby aid the
development of research cooperation between the rest of the region and the EU.
So, besides of sending the newsletter to other Latin American countries, the face to
face contact in events resulted of capital relevance. Full list of stakeholders
contacted by ALETI are available in the Annexes to this report.
ALETI has also participated in other events where the FORESTA project was
disseminated to other Latin American Countries. The importance of this fact is that
ALETI started networking actions in order to send them key information of the
FORESTA project, as deliverables information, short report of LatAm Best
Practices, FORESTA conferences results. The events where ALETI participated
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were:
Tercera Cumbre Empresarial UE-ALC, Cumbre Empresarial Unión Europea
- América Latina y Caribe 2010. May 2010 - Madrid 2010 -
http://www.uealc2010.org/programa.html
III Conferencia Ministerial sobre la Sociedad de la Información de América
Latina y el Caribe. http://www.eclac.cl/elac2015/
Encuentro Científico Empresarial Europa América Latina, held in Ciudad del
Saber, Panamá, June 15-17, 2010. http://www.ciudaddelsaber.org/sala-
prensa/noticias/encuentro-cientifico-empresarial-europa-america-latina-
panama-junio-2010
BIZ FIT Panamá, where ALETI´s BoD Meeting took place, held in Panamá
City on August 25-27, 2010. http://bizfitpanama.com/index.php?Itemid=32
PRO-IDEAL PLUS event held in Montevideo, Uruguay on August 31,
2010.The event was a good opportunity to meet key actors of the ICT sector
of Uruguay. In addition to this, it was a useful circumstance to enhance the
coordination between the FORESTA and PRO-IDEAL PLUS goals.
Scientific Journalism Workshop, organized by OAS, held in Buenos Aires on
October 15. - http://www.scientificjournalism.org/event-detail/15 .
Diálogo Regional para las Políticas de Cooperación Tecnológica
Internacional- IADB, held in Buenos Aires on November 16-17.
http://events.iadb.org/calendar/eventDetail.aspx?lang=en&id=2604
Pictures from the events and meetings, press releases, invitation letters, and
screenshots of dissemination activities of ALETI are available in the annexes.
TESEO The project coordinator has monitored the development of the plan, triggering
synergies and collaboration between ITESM (the communication WP leader as well
as the partner in charge of the overall project communication plan) and ALETI, the
task leader. TESEO held numerous conference calls with the WP leader and ITESM
to facilitate this synergy and to provide guidelines and feedback on the ongoing
work.
EFB Not involved in the activity
ROSE Not involved in the activity
USP Not involved in the activity
ITESM Being the partner in charge of the overall communication strategy, ITESM has
coordinated with ALETI and discussed the structure of the plan to be coherent and
complementary to the overall communication and dissemination plan (D5.1).
A wide communication has been maintained specially on inputs (related to ALETI
diffusion activities) for Newsletter and Website.
UP Not involved in the activity
UTEM Not involved in the activity
CINTEL Not involved in the activity
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2.2.4.4 T5.4: Production of dissemination tools and templates
Task description
The project will use a series of communication tools such as its Internet website, leaflets, brochures,
posters, newsletters, press releases, etc. The tools will be set out in the Dissemination and
Communication Plan (see T5.1 and D5.1). T5.4 will follow the recommendations resulting from T5.1
and define the graphical layout and generic templates. These will be made available to all project
participants. While the production of most communication material (general presentations) will be
centralised by ITESM, other actions that require a deeper level of localisation (e.g. production of press
releases for the media of a given country) will be carried out by the FORESTA partner of that
particular country.
Status: Ongoing
ITESM
Task Leader
ITESM has developed templates for power point presentations, press release, and
official communication letter. A PPT general presentation of FORESTA has been
developed and can be downloaded from the website.
Logo and an Identity Manual of the project are also available. This manual describes
the main rules to be observed by the FORESTA consortium to produce dissemination
material. The quality assurance of the content in the dissemination material is
described in the Communication Plan (D5.1 Communication and Dissemination
Plan).
3 Newsletters have been produced and disseminated to more than 4000 contacts
throughout Latin America, mostly including SME‟s and Universities. Big support
was received from TESEO for content, layout and editorial guidance. Newsletter 04
is under development. Feeding issues has become a main challenge to deliver on
time. ITESM detected a need for a more structured process beyond that process
referred on Dissemination Plan. For each issue ITESM ask now for topics to include
on Newsletter and sets due dates. New sections have arisen from the partners
suggestions as ICT news on Latina America suggested by Argentina. Newsletter
layout was changed to new two columns format following suggestion from the Brazil
partner
The elaboration of a project brochure was accompanied by an intensive discussion
process between the task leader and the project coordinator, which lead to a delay in
the production of it. A first brochure version was released to partners via air courier
and a digital version could be accessed via website and email. UPS worked jointly
with ITESM on Portuguese version and an extra review was requested from
copyeditor for English and Portuguese versions.
TESEO TESEO contributed to the development of the necessary templates for
communication. Project reporting templates were provided by TESEO as the project
coordinator.
TESEO has designed the project‟s logo and has contributed to the design and
development of content for the FORESTA newsletter (structure, design, revision of
content and preparation of editorial) and the FORESTA brochure (reviewing draft
structure and content of brochure submitted by WP leader).
TESEO has designed and produced the dissemination material for the ICT2010
“Digitally driven” event. This material includes:
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Banner poster, branded as EU-LAC ICT Gateway stand, to decorate the
stand and the networking session room
Visual presentation displayed on the stand screen
Press releases issued during the three days of the event to punctually
informing media and attendants of the project activities and results during the
exhibition
Printing and distribution of FORESTA leaflets and newsletters
EFB Even though involved in the activity, EFB has given suggestions for newsletter
contents.
ROSE ROSE has cooperated in the revision of FORESTA Newsletters number 1, 2 and 3
before its final issue.
USP USP contributed to the newsletter as per request of the task leader. It was also part of
our responsibility, translating to Portuguese the content of a brochure drafted by the
communication partner.
UP UP contributed to the newsletter as per request of the task leader.
UTEM UTEM maintained contacts with ITESM to deliver the required information and sent
the information requested on ICT Policy for Newsletter No. 2, under the theme of
Government IT Policies. Actually we are working in the information requested for
the Newsletter Nº4.
CINTEL CINTEL made contributions to the three editions of the newsletter. Furthermore,
CINTEL collaborated with the editorial for Newsletter 3, regarding ICT projects in
the framework of FP7.
ALETI Contribution to the newsletter content. ALETI has worked to make FORESTA
project visible in many newsletters. This is a strong tool in order to make the project
public and help the policy dialogue in the target countries.
In addition to this, ALETI used its extensive contacts database in order to send a
specific notification with the FORESTA‟s news to each of the following countries:
Ecuador; Peru; Uruguay; Costa Rica; Panama.
This represents a total of 150 key contacts of these countries. This was the main
dissemination tool used but not the only one. ALETI also held personal meetings
with the different stakeholders of the countries in project events, public events or any
other celebration related to the ICT sector.
2.2.4.5 T5.5: Final conference in Brussels
Task description
A final conference will be organised in Brussels in M22. The conference will target the European
stakeholders and the European Commission and will provide an insight on the evolution of EU-Latin
America cooperation in ICT research in connection with the activities run by FORESTA. It will also
summarise lessons learned and recommendations which have been drawn up during the project on how
to improve policy support to research and on how to stimulate the international dimension of ICT
research.
Status: Not started
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Project management
FORESTA held its Kick-off meeting in Brussels in January 2010 (project start date:
01/01/2010). The FORESTA project decided to organise Kick-off activities with those of the
FIRST project since a significant number of partners are in both projects, and following
indications by the EC to coordinate activities so as to investigate on possible collaborations
and synergies while avoiding any overlapping. Activities took place over 4 days from 18 Jan
to 21 Jan and included an important meeting at the EC premises with the FORESTA Project
Officer Mr. Klaus Pendl and the Head of International Relations Unit at the DG INFSO Mr.
Jean-Francois Soupizet. Mr. Soupizet wished the best of success to the two newly launched
projects and stressed on the importance the two consortia are playing in promoting dialogue
between EU and Latin America.
The meeting in Brussels was successful in providing partners with a clear explanation of
duties and responsibilities of each as concerns the work plan and it also represented a valuable
opportunity for partners‟ to share their views with EC stakeholders and representatives of
other initiatives in the region in order to align activities and understand the framework in
which to operate. The overall programme for the week is summarised in the table below.
Agenda and minutes of FORESTA kick-off meeting are attached.
Monday 18
January
Tuesday 19
January
Wednesday 20
January
Thursday 21
January
FORESTA
KICK-OFF
MEETING
FIRST
KICK-OFF
MEETING
Meeting with EC
Additional day to
be used for
bilateral meetings
and specific work
as required.
FORESTA Wrap-up
FIRST Wrap-up
Breakdown of activities for FORESTA & FIRST Kick-off
As from the kick-off meeting of Brussels, and as confirmed at the progress meeting held in
October 2010, a great team atmosphere has been produced within the consortium. Generally
WP and task leaders have taken on their role of activity leader with commitment and
responsibility.
Coordination with Work Package leaders has always been effective: the project coordinator
has been informed on the activity progressing within WP and communication among task
leaders and partners involved in each specific task. Regular skype calls were held, both on the
initiative of coordinators and partners, and partners coming occasionally to Brussels for
specific needs unrelated to FORESTA were nonetheless ready to take advantage of these trips
to meet the coordinator and discuss issues related to the project.
To set a straightforward and common framework as concerns roles and responsibilities of
each partner, in particular WP and task leaders, a Quality Assurance Plan has been drafted by
project coordinator and circulated within the consortium: this plan represents the reference
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document setting the guidelines and recommendations as concerns the monitoring of the work
and stating the criteria for the quality and timing check of the deliverables.
Partners who have experienced initial difficulties in delivering as agreed in the work plan
have nonetheless demonstrated a high commitment to overcome this situation: following
coordinator‟s indications and suggestions, conference calls as well as personal meetings were
held and additional staff was devoted to project‟s activities in order to catch up with the
delays and improve work quality.
The FORESTA consortium brings together a team of highly experienced organisations and
leading academic institutions representing the excellence of the ICT research in the Latin-
American targeted countries: working in collaboration with the European partners, that are
organisations with a long track of cooperation with Latin America, they are able to pull
together an extended and high-profile network of stakeholders in the sector, be aware of
major events taking place in their countries, lobby government representatives and they have
expertise in gathering and process information and perform punctual and careful research.
The partners have been indeed carrying out these tasks as envisaged in the DoW: on the other
hand, activities that demand specific skills and with which even high-profile organisations can
be less familiar with, notably communication and production of promotional material, have
suffered some difficulties in being delivered and therefore required a strong involvement from
the coordinator to improve work quality and achieve the planned objectives.
In case of delay and difficulties in managing the task, discussion took place between the
coordinator and task leaders in order to deliberate on how to proceed to overcome critical
situations. It was discussed with task leader and assessed on a case-by-case basis whether a
delayed submission of the deliverable would have negatively affected the development of
other activities of the project. Once the risk was deemed minimum, in general terms it was
preferred to dedicate additional time and effort on the deliverables even extending their
submission beyond the scheduled date if this proved necessary to get in-depth and well
balanced studies. It has to be noted that the year 2010 underwent a number of changes in the
political scenario of Latin America which in certain cases required partners to spend more
time and effort to reach stakeholders and obtain complete and updated information to perform
the associated studies.
These deliverables provide a comprehensive and articulated assessment the EU-LA research
cooperation framework taking into consideration national, bilateral and international
agreements and funding instruments, investigating synergies and possible coordination
between the different initiatives; these studies constitute the core of Year 1 and aim to provide
recommendations and inputs to be brought at policy level mainly in the course of Year 2
taking advantage of the FORESTA conferences.
The occasion to fine-tune project development and launch next activities after all tasks for
Year 1 had started and were running was the project consortium meeting held on October the
1st, 2010, which was organized taking advantage of the whole consortium coming to Brussels
to participate to the ICT2010 event and related activities in the week.
Below you find the breakdown of the FORESTA activity in the week.
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Sunday, 26
Sept. 2010
Monday,
27 Sept.
2010
Tuesday 28
Sept. 2010
Wednesday
29 Sept. 2010
Thursday 30
Sept. 2010
Friday, 01
Octob. 2010
Preparatory
bilateral
meetings
between
FORESTA
partners and
coordinator
EU-LAC ICT Gateway Stand at ICT2010 EU-LAC at
EULARINET
Workshop
Project Café
and brokerage
FORESTA
consortium
meeting ICT2010
ICT2010
Networking
Session
“Empowering
EU-Latin
America ICT
Collaboration”
ICT2010
EU-LAC at
EULARINET
workshop
The project meeting on the 1st October was a full day of intense consultation during which
each partner delivered on the activities they were leading and launched and asked for
partners‟ opinion on specific issues. The meeting was the occasion to check the progress of
the various tasks against the timing schedule in order to verify which one should be pushed
further and avoid delays that could have harmed the achievement of certain project objectives.
Agenda and minutes of FORESTA project meeting are attached.
The project meeting was useful to involve partners on the discussion of certain activities with
which they might not be formally and directly involved and to give the whole consortium a
comprehensive picture of the status of the project, as well as reassert short and long-term
objectives.
In addition to coordinating project-specific activities within the FORESTA consortium, the
coordinator represents the project in front of the EU-LA projects‟ cluster also including
FIRST and PRO-IDEAL, branded under the name EU-LA ICT Gateway. In particular,
TESEO has been intensively involved in the submission of stand and networking session
proposals for the ICT event “Digitally Driven”, taking the lead for the stand submission. Both
proposals were successfully selected and the cluster has been awarded a joint stand and a
networking session. The EU-LAC ICT Gateway, including FORESTA, proved successfully in
catalysing participation of Latin-American representatives at the event and in arranging many
brokerage and networking opportunities where they could showcase their ideas and
excellences and launch joint research initiatives with European counterparts.
The project coordinator has also engaged in relations with the coordinator of EULARINET
project (DG RTD EU-LA INCO NET) with which a specific workshop has been organised in
correspondence with the ICT Event. The FORESTA partners participated to the session
debating on future perspectives for ICT cooperation and in particular, FORESTA animated
the session named „Project café‟ where a number of project ideas mostly originated from
Latin America where showcased. Brokerage is in fact deemed instrumental to stimulate
concrete cooperation and contacts between Latin American and European organizations and
give evidence of strong interest on certain ICT topics. As an immediate action following this
joint activity, FORESTA coordinator drafted and circulated templates for pre-proposal check
to the coordinator of EULARINET and the clustered projects in order to support the follow up
with workshop participants. Follow-up template is attached.
It is the intention of the FORESTA project to continue relations with the clustered projects
with a view to creating other key synergies between these initiatives: partners have
demonstrated to have understood the importance of setting relations with the concurrent
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INCO projects and, as described in this report, they have taken the initiative in the
organization of coordination meetings with the two projects‟ local partners in order to
complement and reinforce respective activities. Events organized by each project have been
open to participation of representatives of the clustered projects and reference to the cluster is
given in each communication action taken by FORESTA. Collaboration will continue in the
second year: the three projects‟ coordinators will exchange results coming from respective
studies and deliverables and will keep each other properly informed about initiatives each
project is planning in the LA region so as to coordinate the events‟ organization.
In the second year of the activity, the coordinator will continue to drive the project and assist
partners in the solution of management-related issues as well as supervise all activities in
order to prevent bottlenecks and assure achievement of project‟s objectives.
3. Deliverables and milestones tables
Table 1: Deliverables
Del. no. Deliverable name
WP
no.
Lead
Beneficiary Nature
Disseminat
ion level
Delivery
date
from
Annex I
Delivered
(Yes/No)
Actual/
Forecast
delivery
date
Comment
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Del. no. Deliverable name
WP
no.
Lead
Beneficiary Nature
Disseminat
ion level
Delivery
date
from
Annex I
Delivered
(Yes/No)
Actual/
Forecast
delivery
date
Comment
D2.1 Calendar of
Conferences 2 TESEO O PU M3 YES 09/06/10
Not all partners
were able to set a
fixed date for
events, so calendar
will be revised and
submitted towards
beginning of Year
2. Submission of
this deliverable
suffered a delay in
order to for partners
to check tentative
dates against the
concurrent relevant
events in the
region, but this has
not impacted on the
actual organisation
of the conferences
which was kicked
off on the second
half of the year.
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Del. no. Deliverable name
WP
no.
Lead
Beneficiary Nature
Disseminat
ion level
Delivery
date
from
Annex I
Delivered
(Yes/No)
Actual/
Forecast
delivery
date
Comment
D5.1 Dissemination and
Communication Plan 5 ITESM O CO M3 YES 09/06/10
Final deliverable
was submitted with
a delay due to
needed
improvements that
emerged in the peer
review process.
To the deliverable
are also attached
the communication
tools and material
developed and used
by all partners since
the first months of
the project.
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Del. no. Deliverable name
WP
no.
Lead
Beneficiary Nature
Disseminat
ion level
Delivery
date
from
Annex I
Delivered
(Yes/No)
Actual/
Forecast
delivery
date
Comment
D5.2 Web-site 5 ITESM O PU M3 YES M3
Website online
www.forestaproject
.eu as well as the
common entry
point www.lac-
ictgateway.eu since
M3.
CD collecting files
of the website was
delivered in
November 2010.
The structure of the
site has evolved to
take into account
partners
suggestions and
parallel project
development
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Del. no. Deliverable name
WP
no.
Lead
Beneficiary Nature
Disseminat
ion level
Delivery
date
from
Annex I
Delivered
(Yes/No)
Actual/
Forecast
delivery
date
Comment
D5.3
Dissemination Plan for
other Latin America
countries
5 ALETI O CO M4 YES 09/06/10
D5.3 builds on
D5.1 and has to
deliver a consistent
and complimentary
communication
strategy to the
general project
communication
plan, therefore it
has been submitted
together with D5.1
D1.1 Progress Report I 1 TESEO R CO M6 YES 06/08/2010
Delivered within 60
days as of the end
of the reference
period according to
the rules governing
report submission.
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Del. no. Deliverable name
WP
no.
Lead
Beneficiary Nature
Disseminat
ion level
Delivery
date
from
Annex I
Delivered
(Yes/No)
Actual/
Forecast
delivery
date
Comment
D3.1 National ICT Policies
analysis 3 ROSE R PU M6 YES 24/11/2010
Delays occurred in
the collection of
contributions for
certain countries.
Various peer-
review stages were
necessary to
harmonise its
content and come
to an agreement
among partners on
the additional
inputs needed.
Task leader took
care of managing
the task in order not
consequently delay
the connected tasks
and harm the
project objectives.
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Del. no. Deliverable name
WP
no.
Lead
Beneficiary Nature
Disseminat
ion level
Delivery
date
from
Annex I
Delivered
(Yes/No)
Actual/
Forecast
delivery
date
Comment
D4.1
Study on FP and other
projects in international
research
4 EFB R PU M6 YES 24/11/2010
The deliverable has
been completed
within M6, as
scheduled, but has
suffered a delivery
delay in the
revision phases.
Various careful
revision and peer-
review stages were
necessary to
harmonise
contributions and
get to a consistent
and well
argumented
document.
The project
development has
not suffered from
the delayed
submission.
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Del. no. Deliverable name
WP
no.
Lead
Beneficiary Nature
Disseminat
ion level
Delivery
date
from
Annex I
Delivered
(Yes/No)
Actual/
Forecast
delivery
date
Comment
D4.2 Study on national
support mechanisms 4 USP R PU M6 YES
12/01/2011
A delay occurred
because some
partners needed
additional time to
collect information
and validate their
contribution since
they encountered
difficulties to
justify the
arguments about
what were the key
factors which
influence the
performance of
research
organizations.
The delayed
submission did not
impact on
concurrent project
tasks.
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Del. no. Deliverable name
WP
no.
Lead
Beneficiary Nature
Disseminat
ion level
Delivery
date
from
Annex I
Delivered
(Yes/No)
Actual/
Forecast
delivery
date
Comment
D5.4 Communication tools
templates 5 ITESM O CO M6 YES 02/09/2010
All necessary
material to support
FORESTA
communication
strategy was
available since the
first months of the
project already and
have been shared
within consortium
and used. A second
batch of
communication
material has been
produced for the
ICT2010 event and
more are planned to
promote suitably
the FORESTA
conferences. This
material will be
delivered in an
updated version of
the deliverable to
be submitted at the
beginning of Year 2
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Del. no. Deliverable name
WP
no.
Lead
Beneficiary Nature
Disseminat
ion level
Delivery
date
from
Annex I
Delivered
(Yes/No)
Actual/
Forecast
delivery
date
Comment
D1.2 Progress Report II 1 TESEO R CO M12 YES M12
The report will be
given within 60
days as of the end
of Year 1, as per
rules governing
report submission.
D3.2
Report on the status of
ICT research
cooperation
3 ROSE R PU M12 NO M13
The deliverable has
been submitted in a
draft version. It is
currently under
finalisation and
peer-review among
partners. Expected
date for final
delivery: M13
D2.2 Report on Conference in
Mexico 2 ITESM R PU M14
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Del. no. Deliverable name
WP
no.
Lead
Beneficiary Nature
Disseminat
ion level
Delivery
date
from
Annex I
Delivered
(Yes/No)
Actual/
Forecast
delivery
date
Comment
D2.3 Report on Conference in
Colombia 2 CINTEL R PU M15 NO M13
The conference,
currently planned
for M15, has been
anticipated to M10.
Relevant
deliverable is
currently being
reviewed and
finalised and will
be submitted in
M13
D2.4 Report on Conference in
Brazil 2 USP R PU M17
D1.3 Progress Report III 1 TESEO R CO M18
D3.3
Strategic
recommendations on
key research priority
issues
3 ROSE R PU M18
D4.3 Report on the
Concertation Workshop 4 USP R PU M18
D2.5 Report on Conference in
Argentina 2 UP R PU M19
D2.6 Report on Conference in
Chile 2 UTEM R PU M19
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Del. no. Deliverable name
WP
no.
Lead
Beneficiary Nature
Disseminat
ion level
Delivery
date
from
Annex I
Delivered
(Yes/No)
Actual/
Forecast
delivery
date
Comment
D2.7 Aggregated Report on
FORESTA conferences 2 TESEO R PU M20
D2.9
Summary of Strategic
indications from the EU
industry
2 TESEO R PU M20
D4.4
Roadmap for the
synchronisation of
support instruments to
research
4 USP R PU M21
D5.5 Report on Final
conference 5 TESEO R PU M22
D2.8 Report on Follow up
activities 2 EFB R PU M24
D5.6
Report on overall
dissemination and
communication
activities
5 TESEO R PU M24
D1.4 Final Progress Report
(IV) 1 TESEO R CO M24
D1.5 Final Management and
Activity Reports 1 TESEO R PU M24
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Table 2: Milestones
Milestone
number Milestone name
Work
package
no
Lead
beneficiary
Delivery
date
from
Annex 1
Achieved
(Yes/No)
Actual /
Forecast
achievem
ent date
Comment
1
Kick-Off Meeting WP1 TESEO 1 YES 1
Synergic meeting with FIRST project. All
partners participated except UTEM due to
national election in Chile. FORESTA
consortium also participated to meeting with
Head of Unit at EC premises. Minutes sent to
EC.
2 Conference in
Mexico WP2 ITESM 14
3 Mid-Term Review WP1 TESEO 14
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Milestone
number Milestone name
Work
package
no
Lead
beneficiary
Delivery
date
from
Annex 1
Achieved
(Yes/No)
Actual /
Forecast
achievem
ent date
Comment
4
Conference in
Colombia WP2 CINTEL 15 YES 10
The Conference has been scheduled ahead of
the forecast date in the work plan to take
advantage of the major Colombian event
ANDICOM , the International ICT Congress,
organized by CINTEL in Cartagena de Indias,
Colombia. The event was participated by high-
profile stakeholders representing both industry
and academia as well as government, and
successful collected valuable inputs and
strategic recommendation for EU-CO policy
dialogue for research cooperation. This
Conference successfully achieved the
objectives of the event.
5 Conference in
Brazil WP2 USP 17
6 Concertation
workshop in Brazil WP4 USP 17
7 Strategic
Recommendations
on ICT priorities
WP3 ROSE 18
8 Conference in
Argentina WP2 UP 19
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Milestone
number Milestone name
Work
package
no
Lead
beneficiary
Delivery
date
from
Annex 1
Achieved
(Yes/No)
Actual /
Forecast
achievem
ent date
Comment
9 Conference in
Chile WP2 UTEM 19
10 Roadmap to
optimise
international
cooperation
instruments
WP4 USP 21
11 Final Conference WP5 TESEO 23
12 Final Project
Review WP1 TESEO 24
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4. Explanation of the use of resources
TABLE 3 – PERSONNEL, SUBCONTRACTING AND OTHER MAJOR COST ITEMS FOR
YEAR 1
TESEO
Work
Package
Item description Amount Explanations
WP1
WP2
WP3
WP4
WP5
Personnel cost € 54.460,70
= 10.30 pm
WP1: 3,18 pm
WP2: 1.74 pm
WP3: 0.45 pm
WP4:0.19 pm
WP5:4.74 pm
WP2
WP5
Travels € 2.778,90 (1)
Subcontracting € 0
WP1
WP5
Other costs:
€ 5.335 (2)
Indirect costs
declared OH 20%
€12.514,92
Indirect costs
funded OH 7%
€ 4.380,22
TOTAL COSTS € 75.089,52
REQUESTED CONTRIBUTION
FORM C
€ 66.954,82
REMAINING BUDGET
CONTRIBUTION
€ 53.625,62
(1) Total amount of travel costs of 2.778,90€ are subdivided in:
1.025,21 € for travel to Valencia – Spain 13-20 April – Mr. Mosca for R2S
Event & FIA divided in: travel 381, 22 + 643,99 € for 6 nights at the hotel
and subsistence. (WP5)
1.753,69 € for travel meeting in Cartagena- Colombia for ANDICOM Event
in October - M. Bianchi – for flight ticket 1.187,75 + 565,94€ for 6 nights at
the hotel and subsistence (WP2)
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(2) 5.335 € - are related to other costs subdivided in:
840,61 € - are related to the Kick-off Meeting held in Brussels the 18-21
January 2010
4.391,55 € - are related to the organisation of the FORESTA activities in the
ICT2010 event and EULARINET workshop that took place in Brussels the
27-30 of September; the costs are related also to the production of
dissemination materials such as posters, brochures and press release and
communication release distributed during the event and after.
102,84 € website costs such as URL and Domain name.
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TABLE 3 – PERSONNEL, SUBCONTRACTING AND OTHER MAJOR COST ITEMS FOR
YEAR 1
ROSE
Work
Package
Item description Amount Explanations
WP1 WP2
WP3 WP4
WP5
Personnel cost
3,98 pm =
40.729,93€
WP1: 0,19 pm =1.536,16 €
WP2: 0,84 pm =10.153,11€
WP3: 2,32 pm =22.452,70€
WP4: 0,30 pm =3.598,09€
WP5: 0,33 pm =2.989,87€
(1)
WP1 WP2
WP5
Travels €5.200,64 (2)
Subcontracting €
Other costs €
Indirect costs
declared OH 20%
€9.186,11 €
Indirect costs
funded OH 7%
€3.215,14
TOTAL COSTS €55.116,68
REQUESTED
CONTRIBUTION FORM C
€49.145,71
REMAINING BUDGET
CONTRIBUTION
€35.025,09€
(1) Overall: 3,98 pm corresponding to the participation of Dr. Julián Seseña, Ms.
Andreia Moreira, Mr. Tomás Cid, and Mr. Javier S. Palomar
(2) 5.200,64 € for travels category comprise the following costs:
1.479,70 € Travel Cost: Kickoff Meeting (Brussels 18-20/01/2010)
Mr Javier López and Ms. Andreia Moreira
3.180,34 € Travel Cost: Bogota, (26-29/10/2010), corresponding to 50% of
the overall cost. Mr. Julián Seseña
540,60 € Travel Cost: Brussels, Eularinet Foresta (28/09/2010-
2/10/2010) Mr. Tomas Cid
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TABLE 3 – PERSONNEL, SUBCONTRACTING AND OTHER MAJOR COST ITEMS FOR
YEAR 1
EFB
Work
Package
Item description Amount Explanations
WP1 WP4
WP5
Personnel cost 4,25pm =
€25.500
WP1: 0,10 for management
activities
WP4: 4,00 for D4.1
WP5: 0,15 for T5.2 (1)
Travels €
Subcontracting €
WP1 Other costs € 135,00 Contribution to project
consortium meeting (2)
Indirect costs
declared OH 20%
€ 5.127,00
Indirect costs
funded OH 7%
€1.794,45
TOTAL COSTS €30.762,00
REQUESTED CONTRIBUTION
FORM C
€27.429,45
Remaining budget CONTRIBUTION
€16.858,92
(1) For WP 1 - management activities: 0,10 person months have been spent in order to
fulfil the tasks related to project reporting and administrative activities. This
represents 40% of the total person months on this WP which are 0,25 for the whole
project duration.
For WP4: 4 person months have been spent for the elaboration of D 4.1 which has
occurred mainly in the first semester 2010. The foreseen person months for this task
was of 1,25 but the complexity and dimension of the study which has been carried out
has requested a more extensive work, also in consideration of the reviewing phase
which has changed in several phases the structure and contents of the study.
For WP5: even though EFB is not involved in the foreseen activities, contributions
have been given for structure and contents of the web site, for a total of 0,15 person
months.
(2) Within Management – other direct costs, the 135,00 € claimed refer to costs incurred
in occasion of the second Project Meeting.
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USP
Work
Package
Item description Amount Explanations
WP1
WP2
WP3
WP4
WP5
Personnel cost € 25.164,49 =
9,32 pm
Of which only €
167,70 will be
claimed
WP1: 0,95 pm = € 3,320.46
WP2: 0,33 pm = € 647.23
WP3: 2,17 pm = € 6,210.78
WP4: 3,70 pm = € 9,402.66
WP5: 2,17 pm = € 5,583.36
(1)
Travels €9,336.92 (2)
Subcontracting
Other costs €819,35 (3)
Indirect costs
declared OH 20%
€2.064,79 Calculated only on travels +
other costs + only the claimed
personnel (167,70€)
Indirect costs
funded OH 7%
€722,68 Calculated only on travels +
other costs + only the claimed
personnel (167,70€)
TOTAL COSTS €12.388,76 Calculated only as a sum of
travels + other costs + the
claimed personnel + indirect
costs OH 20%
REQUESTED CONTRIBUTION
FORM C
€11.046,65
REMAINING BUDGET
CONTRIBUTION
€45.867,08
(1) Personnel costs corresponding to the work done in the project from 1st January to 31
st
December 2010 of Moacyr Martucci Jr, André Riyuiti Hirakawa, Arthur Battaglia,
Julia Botessini, Cecilia Matsumura, Luiz Fernando Buffolo , Caio Cesar , Leticia
Oliveira. The full total amount is not is claimed to be reimbursed by the European
Commission, except for the cost corresponding to Julia Botessini whose total is
167,70 Euros.
(2) Travel to the Kick of meeting in Brussels 01 people airplane(1.604,51 €), Travel
meeting CNPQ in Brasilia 02 night at hotel (208,36 €) Travel to meeting Call for
Proposals FP7 in Brussels 01 people airplane ticket + 5 nights at the hotel +
subsistence (3.046,06 €), Travel to meeting in Itamaraty - Brasilia 02 people +
airplane ticket + 02 night at the hotel + subsistence (519,06 €) 02 Travels meeting
Brazilian committee in Embassy and Dublin + 06 night at hotel (3.958,92 €)
(3) Miscellaneous expenses related to external meetings.
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1
ITESM
Work
Package
Item description Amount Explanations
WP1; WP2;
WP3; WP4;
WP5
Personnel cost € 26.215,00 =
7,49 pm
WP1=0.27pm;
WP2=0.26pm;
WP3=1.16pm;
WP4=0.39pm;
WP5=5.41pm (1)
WP1; WP5 Travels € 4.187,00 (2)
Subcontracting € 0
WP5 Other costs € 1.962,00 (3)
Indirect costs
declared OH 20%
€ 6.472,80
Indirect costs
funded OH 7%
€ 2.265,48
TOTAL COSTS € 38.836,80
REQUESTED CONTRIBUTION
FORM C
€ 34.629,48
REMAINING BUDGET
CONTRIBUTION
€ 28.650,91
(1) The total personnel costs are: 26.215,00 € for a total of 7.49 person-months used in the
first year. They are divided according to the amounts reported in Form C into 0.27 man-
months corresponding to 945,00€ under the activity management (WP1) and 7.22 man-
months corresponding to 25.270,00 under the activity “coordination and support” (WPs
2, 3, 4 and 5).
(2) Total travels costs are: 4.187,00 € subdivided in:
1.591,00 € corresponding to travel expenses for the participation of Isabel Kreiner
in the Kick-Off Meeting in Brussels from 18th to 22nd of January 2010.
- Flight costs for 1 person from Mexico-City to Brussels: 727 €
- Hotel costs for 6 nights: 598 €
- Subsistence expenses: 266 €
2,596 € corresponding to travel costs expenses of Jorge Ramirez Medina for his
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participation in ICT2010, the EULARINET Workshop and the project
consortium meeting of FORESTA in Brussels (from the 27th of September to the
1st of October 2010).
- Flight costs for 1 person from Mexico-City to Brussels: 1277,50 €
- Hotel costs for 5 nights: 459 €
- Subsistence expenses: 859.50 €
(3) Total Other Costs are: 1.962,00 € subdivided in:
1.190,00 € corresponding to costs for webpage-design of the project
772,00 € corresponding to costs for designing & printing 1000 project flyers
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YEAR 1
UP
WP Item description Amount Explanations
WP1 Personnel cost € 375.00
Pm 0,13
Administrative and operational
management. Preparing the
Progress Report I and II
WP2 Personnel cost € 500.00
Pm 0,10
Working on the list of people that
will be invited and also preparing
a short survey to send them in
advance. (1)
WP3 Personnel cost € 1,800.00
Pm 0,60
Preparing the National ICT
Analysis and the status of ICT
research in cooperation (2)
WP4 Personnel cost € 3,000.00
Pm 1,00
Preparing the Study on Latin
America national funding
agencies action in international
cooperation projects (3)
WP5 Personnel cost € 300.00
Pm 0,10
Preparing information for
newsletter (4)
TOTAL
PERSONNEL COST
€ 5.975,00
Pm 1,93
WP1
WP5
Travel expenses
€ 4.300,00 Kick off meeting (5)
ICT 2010 (6)
Subcontracting €
Other costs €
Indirect costs
declared OH 20% €2.055,00
Indirect costs
funded OH 7% €719,25
TOTAL COSTS €12.330,00
REQUESTED
CONTRIBUTION FORM C
€10.994,25
REMAINING BUDGET
CONTRIBUTION
€31.635,62
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(1) For WP2 the total worked hours have been 15 and the total cost for that WP has been
500,00 €. The detail is the following:
Mr. Esteban di Tada has worked 5 hours for a total of 200 €
Mr. Uriel Cukierman has worked 10 hours for a total of 300 €
(2) For WP3 the total worked hours have been 55 and the total cost for that WP has been
1.800,00 €. The detail is the following:
Mr. Esteban di Tada has worked 15 hours for a total of 600 €
Mr. Uriel Cukierman has worked 40 hours for a total of 1200 €
(3) For WP4 the total worked hours have been 90 and the total cost for that WP has been
3.000,00 €. The detail is the following:
Mr. Esteban di Tada has worked 30 hours for a total of 1200 €
Mr. Uriel Cukierman has worked 60 hours for a total of 1800 €
(4) For WP5 the total worked hours have been 6 and the total cost for that WP has been
300,00 € The detail is the following:
Mr. Esteban di Tada has worked 2 hours for a total of 80 €
Mr. Uriel Cukierman has worked 4 hours for a total of 120 €
(5) WP1 - Travel costs for the project Kick Off meeting in Brussels – January 2010:
Total 2.100,00 €
Airplane ticket for Mr. Esteban di Tada (Buenos Aires, London, Brussels and
return) : 1.250,00 €
5 Nights hotel & subsistence for Mr. Esteban di Tada : 170,00 € x 5 nights =
850,00 €
(6) WP5 - Travel costs for participating to the event called ICT 2010 in Brussels -
September 2010: Total 2.200,00 €
Airplane ticket for Mr. Esteban di Tada (example: Buenos Aires, Paris,
Brussels and return) : 1.250,00 €
5 Nights hotel & subsistence for Mr. Esteban di Tada : 190,00 € x 5 nights =
950,00 €
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UTEM
Work
Package
Item description Amount Explanations
WP1, WP2,
WP3, WP4,
WP5
Personnel cost 2,48 pm =
8.713,75 €
WP1: 0,125 pm
WP2: 0,95 pm
WP3: 0,86 pm
WP4: 0,25 pm
WP5: 0,295 pm
(1)
WP1 WP5 Travels 4.432,99 € (2)
Subcontracting
Other costs
Indirect costs
declared OH 20% 2.629,35€
Indirect costs
funded OH 7% 920.27€
TOTAL COSTS 15.776,09€
REQUESTED CONTRIBUTION
FORM C
14.067,01€
REMAINING BUDGET
CONTRIBUTION
28.884,87€
(1) Personnel Costs: Mrs. Andrea Ordenes is the only professional related to this item of
cost within the FORESTA Chile. She worked as main project executive during the 12
first months (year 2010). Her person month figure for this period is 2.48. Hence, the
total cost we declare for this item is 8.713,75 €.
(2) Travels:
4.432,99 € - are related to travel costs subdivided into:
Travel to Brussels to attend the FORESTA meeting, ICT FORUM 2010 and
EULARINET workshop (September, October 2010)
1.722,01€ of 1 people airplane ticket + 1.189,25€ for 8 hotel nights + 61,81€
for travel insurance + 1.009,92€ for subsistence.
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CINTEL
Work
Package
Item description Amount Explanations
WP1 WP2
WP3 WP4
WP5
Personnel cost 3,90pm =
€7.335,09
WP1: Pm 0,19
WP2: Pm 1,82
WP3: Pm 0,79
WP4: Pm 0,29
WP5: Pm 0,81
(1)
WP1
WP5
Travels €5.612,58 (2)
Subcontracting €
WP2
WP5
Other costs €10.253,67 (3)
Indirect costs
declared OH 20%
€4.640,27
Indirect costs
funded OH 7%
€1.624,09
TOTAL COSTS €27.841,61
REQUESTED
CONTRIBUTION FORM C
€24.825,43
REMAINING BUDGET
CONTRIBUTION
€13.312,04
(1) Personnel cost
Personnel costs corresponding to a total of 3.90 person month, this due to some WP needed
more time than budgeted because, CINTEL attended the ICT 2010 event and held some
coordination meetings with PROIDEAL PLUS project which were not considered within the
project (activities for WP1 and WP5), with the aim to coordinate, promote and disseminate the
events of these projects. Additionally, CINTEL held the FORESTA Conference in the first
period even though it was originally scheduled for May 2011.
Also, activities for WP3 and WP4 have taken more time than expected, because it has not
been easy to collect all the information for these deliverables taking into account that due to
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the change of government in the country, most of the entities have had several internal
changes, delaying the delivery of information.
(2) Travels
€5.612,58 - are related to travel costs (these included airplane tickets, hotel and subsistence)
subdivided in:
Travel to the Kick Off meeting in Brussels, Belgium in January 2010, 1 person
airplane ticket €1.256,23 + €756,43 for 7 nights at the hotel + €1.198,98
subsistence.
The Kick Off meeting travel is higher than the budget, however, the reason for
this is that by that time it was high season and it was difficult for arranging the
dates of the travel.
Travel to the ICT 2010 event in Brussels, Belgium in September 2010, 1 person
airplane ticket €1.272,83 + €821,32 for 6 nights at the hotel + €306,80
subsistence
(3) Other costs
€10.253,67 - Are related to “other costs”: organisation of the FORESTA Conference and other
events:
Coordination Meeting PRO IDEAL PLUS and FORESTA in Bogota, Colombia
in September 2010, € 464,23.
Preparation of ICT 2010 event - Brussels, Belgium in September 2010: €504,08
for ICT 2010 event registration + €56,36 expenses for Schengen Visa.
FORESTA Conference in the framework of ANDICOM 2010, the International
ICT Congress, Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, in October 27 and 28 2010:
Venue: €2.292,82, included conference rooms, translations,
audiovisual equipment.
Travels speakers:
1 person airplane ticket €2.546,06 + €258,22 for 3 nights at the hotel
1 person airplane ticket €2.749,52 + €476,79 for 3 nights at the hotel
and subsitence
1 person €477,44 for 3 nights at the hotel and subsistence
1 person airplane ticket €143,23
Coordination:
1 person subsistence €99,06
CINTEL paid 2 intercontinental travels for 2 out of the 5 European
speakers; just hotel and subsistence for 1 of the European speakers (the
other 2 came by their own expenses), and the airplane ticket for 1 of the
National speakers. For the 2 intercontinental travels of the speakers for
the FORESTA Conference, the costs exceeded the initial budget
because there was a delay in the definition of the final agenda, and
CINTEL scheduled the trips very close to the date of the event, so the
prices were high, even though CINTEL did its best effort to get the
most better prices. Additionally, October is considered high season for
travels to Cartagena de Indias.
PRO IDEAL PLUS Conference in Medellin, Colombia, in November 11, 2010:
1 person airplane ticket €158,46 + €27,40 subsistence.
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ALETI
Work Package Item description Amount Explanations
WP1, WP2,
WP3, and
WP5
Personnel cost 4,85 pm =
€ 9.215,00
WP1: 0,19 pm for an amount of
€ 361,00
WP2: 0,16 pm for an amount of
€ 304,00
WP3: 1,5 pm for an amount of
€ 2.850,00
WP5: 3 pm for an amount of
€ 5.700,00
WP1 and WP5 Travels € 3.626,00 (1)
Subcontracting € 0,00
WP5 Other costs € 1.499,00 (2)
Indirect costs
declared OH 20%
€ 2.868
Indirect costs
funded OH 7%
€ 1.0003,8
TOTAL COSTS € 17.208
REQUESTED CONTRIBUTION
FORM C
€ 15.343,8
REMAINING BUDGET
CONTRIBUTION
€ 15.703,32
(1) Details of travel costs and description.
€ 3.626,00 is the total for travel costs, these are subdivided in:
€ 2.141 - Travel from Buenos Aires, Argentina, to Brussels, Belgium, to attend
FORESTA Kick Off Meetings. 1 Person: Silvia Bidart - January 2010. Airplane
cost: €1725. 3 nights of hotel: €326. Subsistence: €90
€ 355 - Travel to assure FORESTA WP5 activity in the FP7 LATU and Proideal
Plus Event held in Montevideo, Uruguay, on August 2010. Two people: Nicolás
Handelsman and Silvina Bidart. Two Tickets, €95 each ticket and hotel (two
rooms), €55 each room, plus €55 expenses.
€ 91 - Minor FORESTA expenses held during travel to BIZ FIT Panama
International event, in August 2010, organized by CAPATEC, with the support
of SENACYT and the City of Knowledge of the Technology Park of Panama,
where video was produced to disseminate FORESTA´s activities. Ticket and
hotel were not charged to FORESTA´s budget as ALETI assumed the cost.
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€ 161 - Progress Meeting FORESTA – October 1 – € 141 for 1 night hotel + €
20 of expenses.
€ 878 - Participation to Third Ministerial Conference on the Information Society
in Latin America and the Caribbean held in Lima, Peru, on November 2010,
organized by ECLAC-UN and ALIS 2 Program. This meeting was the most
important of the region on Digital Agenda during 2010, and brought together
relevant stakeholders for FORESTA Dissemination actions. ICT official
representatives and authorities in Latin American and the Caribbean approved
the eLAC2015 Action Plan. One Person, Silvia Bidart traveled – Air Ticket €
386, plus hotel € 293 (3 nights) plus expenses € 199.
(2) Total amount of other costs and detailed description division:
1.499,00 € - are related to other costs subdivided in:
220 € - FORESTA printing costs in order to provide printed materials during the
dissemination travels to Panama, Peru and Uruguay, and sent to ALETI´s
contacts in other countries.
1279 € - web communications services, antispam newsletters services, and
expenses for FORESTA dissemination.
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5. Person-month table
TESEO ROSE EFB USP ITESM UP UTEM CINTEL ALETI TOT
Planned 4.00 0.25 0.25 0.25 0.25 0.25 0.25 0.25 0.25 6.00
Used P1 3.18 0.19 0.10 0.95 0.27 0.13 0.13 0.19 0.19 5.33
Used P2 0.00
Planned 4.25 1.50 3.00 2.50 2.50 2.50 2.50 2.50 0.50 21.75
Used P1 1.74 0.84 0.00 0.33 0.26 0.10 0.95 1.82 0.16 6.20
Used P2 0.00
Planned 0.50 3.00 0.00 1.10 1.10 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.50 10.20
Used P1 0.45 2.32 0.00 2.17 1.16 0.60 0.86 0.79 1.50 9.85
Used P2 0.00
Planned 1.00 0.50 2.25 3.00 0.25 1.00 0.25 0.25 0.00 8.50
Used P1 0.19 0.30 4.00 3.70 0.39 1.00 0.25 0.29 0.00 10.12
Used P2 0.00
Planned 4.00 0.50 0.00 0.50 6.00 0.50 0.50 0.50 5.50 18.00
Used P1 4.74 0.33 0.15 2.17 5.41 0.10 0.30 0.81 3.00 17.01
Used P2 0.00
Planned 13.75 5.75 5.50 7.35 10.10 5.25 4.50 4.50 7.75 64.45
Used P1 10.30 3.98 4.25 9.32 7.49 1.93 2.48 3.90 4.85 48.50
Used P2 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Total 10.30 3.98 4.25 9.32 7.49 1.93 2.48 3.90 4.85 48.50
% use 74.91% 69.22% 77.27% 126.80% 74.16% 36.76% 55.11% 86.67% 62.58% 75.25%
TO T
WP5
WP1
WP2
WP3
WP4
5.1 Comments on the person-month table
Partner P/M status Comment on major diversion if any
TESEO A larger amount of p/m has been
consumed than the one planned at
the beginning of the project.
A larger amount of work was done in Y 1
then the one planned. A special mention
on WP5 ICT 2010 activity has to be made
as reason for this consumption. However,
overall costs are in line with the estimated
budget: the reason is that the p/m rate has
resulted inferior then the one estimated at
the beginning of the project, therefore
there is even the margin for additional
p/m for Y2 if needed.
ROSE A larger amount of p/m has been
consumed than the one planned at
the beginning of the project.
The workload is in line with work plan, as
most of work under ROSE responsibility
was carried out in Y1.
EFB A larger amount of p/m has been
consumed than the one planned at
the beginning of the project.
In line with work plan, as most of work
under EFB responsibility was carried out
in Y1.
USP The p/m used exceeds the p/m
planned for the project.
This excess is recorded to be a cost but
only a small percentage of this p/m cost
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under personnel is claimed in the FORM
C. Therefore there are largely enough
resources left to carry out remaining
activities as planned.
ITESM Consumption of p/m is above the
average planned for the period
Communication strategy is under
substantial revision to make
communication more efficient.
UP In line with work plan. NA
UTEM In line with work plan. NA
CINTEL A larger amount of p/m has been
consumed.
In line with work plan as the substantial
effort due to Colombian conference
organisation was anticipated to Y1.
ALETI Consumption of p/m is above the
average planned for the period.
Costs claimed are in line with the
estimated budget for the period.
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6. Cost Budget Follow-up table
248676 F O R E S T A Start/End: 01/01/2010 31/12/2011
PERCENTAGE
REMAINING
BUDGET
SPENT
(EUR)
Period 1 Period 2 TOTAL TOTAL
e a1 b1 e1 a1+b1+c1+d1/e e-e1
13.75 10.30 0.00 10.30 74.91% 3.45
88,000.00 54,460.70 54,460.70 61.89% 33,539.30
14,700.00 2,778.90 2,778.90 18.90% 11,921.10
0.00 0.00 0.00% 0.00
9,992.00 5,335.00 5,335.00 53.39% 4,657.00
22,538.40 12,514.92 0.00 12,514.92 55.53% 10,023.48
7,888.44 4,380.22 0.00 4,380.22 55.53% 3,508.22
135,230.40 75,089.52 0.00 75,089.52 55.53% 60,140.88
120,580.44 66,954.82 0.00 66,954.82 55.53% 53,625.62
5.75 3.98 0.00 3.98 69.22% 1.77
60,375.00 40,729.93 40,729.93 67.46% 19,645.07
16,300.00 5,200.64 5,200.64 31.91% 11,099.36
0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00% 0.00
1,990.00 0.00 0.00% 1,990.00
15,733.00 9,186.11 0.00 9,186.11 58.39% 6,546.89
5,506.55 3,215.14 0.00 3,215.14 58.39% 2,291.41
94,398.00 55,116.68 0.00 55,116.68 58.39% 39,281.32
84,170.80 49,145.71 0.00 49,145.71 58.39% 35,025.09
5.50 4.25 0.00 4.25 77.27% 1.25
31,991.00 25,500.00 25,500.00 79.71% 6,491.00
8,400.00 0.00 0.00% 8,400.00
0.00 0.00 0.00% 0.00
0.00 135.00 135.00 -135.00
8,278.20 5,127.00 0.00 5,127.00 61.93% 3,151.20
2,827.37 1,794.45 0.00 1,794.45 63.47% 1,032.92
49,669.20 30,762.00 0.00 30,762.00 61.93% 18,907.20
44,288.37 27,429.45 0.00 27,429.45 61.93% 16,858.92
7.35 9.32 0.00 9.32 126.80% -1.97
29,390.40 167.70 167.70 0.57% 29,222.70
6,800.00 9,336.92 9,336.92 137.31% -2,536.92
0.00 0.00 0.00% 0.00
17,000.00 819.35 819.35 4.82% 16,180.65
10,638.08 2,064.79 0.00 2,064.79 19.41% 8,573.29
3,723.33 722.68 0.00 722.68 19.41% 3,000.65
63,828.48 12,388.76 0.00 12,388.76 19.41% 51,439.72
56,913.73 11,046.65 0.00 11,046.65 19.41% 45,867.08
Total Costs (OH 20%)
Overheads (7% funded)
Subcontracting
USPOverheads (20% declared)
Overheads (7% funded)
Requested Contribution (OH 7%)
TESEO
ROSE
Subcontracting
Other costs
Overheads (20% declared)
Adjust. from prev. Period
Total Costs (OH 20%)
Total Costs (OH 20%)
Overheads (20% declared)
Adjust. from prev. Period
Adjust. from prev. Period
Personnel costs
Total travels
Total Person-month
Personnel costs
Overheads (7% funded)
Total travels
Requested Contribution (OH 7%)
Overheads (20% declared)
Adjust. from prev. Period
Cost Budget Follow-up Table
Grant Agreement No:
PARTICIPANTS
TYPE of EXPENDITURE
BUDGET(as defined by participants)
ACTUAL COSTS
(EUR)
Total Person-month
Requested Contribution (OH 7%)
Total travels
Subcontracting
Other costs
Overheads (7% funded)
Personnel costs
Other costs
Total Person-month
EFB
Other costs
Total Costs (OH 20%)
Requested Contribution (OH 7%)
Total Person-month
Personnel costs
Total travels
Subcontracting
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10.10 7.49 0.00 7.49 74.16% 2.61
35,340.55 26,215.00 26,215.00 74.18% 9,125.55
6,800.00 4,187.00 4,187.00 61.57% 2,613.00
0.00 0.00 0.00% 0.00
17,000.00 1,962.00 1,962.00 11.54% 15,038.00
11,828.11 6,472.80 0.00 6,472.80 54.72% 5,355.31
4,139.84 2,265.48 0.00 2,265.48 54.72% 1,874.36
70,968.66 38,836.80 0.00 38,836.80 54.72% 32,131.86
63,280.39 34,629.48 0.00 34,629.48 54.72% 28,650.91
5.25 1.93 0.00 1.93 36.67% 3.33
15,741.00 5,975.00 5,975.00 37.96% 9,766.00
9,100.00 4,300.00 4,300.00 47.25% 4,800.00
0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00% 0.00
15,000.00 0.00 0.00 0.00% 15,000.00
7,968.20 2,055.00 0.00 2,055.00 25.79% 5,913.20
2,788.87 719.25 0.00 719.25 25.79% 2,069.62
47,809.20 12,330.00 0.00 12,330.00 25.79% 35,479.20
42,629.87 10,994.25 0.00 10,994.25 25.79% 31,635.62
4.50 2.48 0.00 2.48 55.11% 2.02
15,741.95 8,713.47 8,713.47 55.35% 7,028.48
9,400.00 4,432.99 4,432.99 47.16% 4,967.01
0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00% 0.00
15,000.00 0.00 0.00 0.00% 15,000.00
8,028.39 2,629.29 0.00 2,629.29 32.75% 5,399.10
2,809.94 920.25 0.00 920.25 32.75% 1,889.68
48,170.34 15,775.75 0.00 15,775.75 32.75% 32,394.59
42,951.89 14,066.71 0.00 14,066.71 32.75% 28,885.17
4.50 3.90 0.00 3.90 86.67% 0.60
11,242.50 7,335.09 7,335.09 65.24% 3,907.41
9,400.00 5,612.58 5,612.58 59.71% 3,787.42
0.00 0.00 0.00% 0.00
15,000.00 10,253.67 10,253.67 68.36% 4,746.33
7,128.50 4,640.27 0.00 4,640.27 65.09% 2,488.23
2,494.98 1,624.09 0.00 1,624.09 65.09% 870.88
42,771.00 27,841.60 0.00 27,841.60 65.09% 14,929.40
38,137.48 24,825.43 0.00 24,825.43 65.09% 13,312.04
7.75 4.85 0.00 4.85 62.58% 2.90
14,725.00 9,215.00 9,215.00 62.58% 5,510.00
6,800.00 3,626.00 3,626.00 53.32% 3,174.00
0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00% 0.00
7,491.00 1,499.00 1,499.00 20.01% 5,992.00
5,803.20 2,868.00 0.00 2,868.00 49.42% 2,935.20
2,031.12 1,003.80 0.00 1,003.80 49.42% 1,027.32
34,819.20 17,208.00 0.00 17,208.00 49.42% 17,611.20
31,047.12 15,343.80 0.00 15,343.80 49.42% 15,703.32
64.45 48.50 0.00 48.50 75.24% 15.96
302,547.40 178,311.89 0.00 178,311.89 58.94% 124,235.51
87,700.00 39,475.03 0.00 39,475.03 45.01% 48,224.97
0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00% 0.00
98,473.00 20,004.02 0.00 20,004.02 20.31% 78,468.98
97,944.08 47,558.19 0.00 47,558.19 48.56% 50,385.89
34,210.43 16,645.37 0.00 16,645.37 48.66% 17,565.06
0.00
587,664.48 285,349.12 0.00 285,349.12 48.56% 302,315.36
524,000.08 254,436.30 0.00 254,436.30 48.56% 269,563.78
TOTAL
Total Person-month
Personnel costs
Total travels
Subcontracting
Other costs
Overheads (20% declared)
Total Costs (OH 20%)
Requested Contribution (OH 7%)
UP
Total Person-month
Personnel costs
Total travels
Subcontracting
Other costs
Requested Contribution (OH 7%)
Personnel costs
Adjust. from prev. Period
Overheads (7% funded)
Total travels
Requested Contribution (OH 7%)
Total Person-month
Personnel costs
Adjust. from prev. Period
Other costsITESM
Subcontracting
Total travels
Total Person-month
Requested Contribution (OH 7%)
Total Person-month
Total Costs (OH 20%)
Overheads (20% declared)
Overheads (7% funded)
Overheads (7% funded)
Adjust. from prev. Period
Total Costs (OH 20%)
Other costsUTEM
Adjust. from prev. Period
Adjust. from prev. Period
Total Costs (OH 20%)
Overheads (20% declared)
Overheads (7% funded)
Requested Contribution (OH 7%)
Overheads (20% declared)
Total travels
Subcontracting
CINTELOther costs
Overheads (20% declared)
Overheads (7% funded)
Adjust. from prev. Period
Total Costs (OH 20%)
Requested Contribution (OH 7%)
Personnel costs
Subcontracting
ALETI
Total Person-month
Personnel costs
Total travels
Subcontracting
Other costs
Overheads (20% declared)
Overheads (7% funded)
Total Costs (OH 20%)
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6.1 Comments on the cost-budget follow up
Partner Cost-budget status Comment on major diversion if any
TESEO Budget consumption is in line with
the estimated plan and the activity
performed for the period.
NA
ROSE A larger amount of budget
resources have been used than the
one planned, in particular for the
personnel.
The consumption is in line with the
activity performed since the workload
in year 2 is foreseen to be lower than in
year 1. The partner is committed to
achieve the goal of the project within
the resources allocated.
EFB A larger amount of budget
resources under personnel have
been used in year 1 than the one
planned.
More effort was necessary to overcome
some obstacle encountered during the
task and to finally produce high-quality
results. The partner is committed to
achieve the goals of the project within
the resources allocated.
USP The personnel costs incurred in the
period are not claimed. This will
make it possible to claim more
travel costs than personnel.
USP is investing in the project as part
of an organisation‟s strategy, therefore
only a percentage of personnel cost is
claimed in FORM C.
ITESM Budget consumption is above the
average planned for the period.
Communication strategy and actions is
under substantial revision to make
communication more efficient. The
partner is committed to achieve the
goals of the project within the resources
allocated.
UP In line with the estimated budget
for the period.
NA
UTEM In line with the estimated budget
for the period.
NA
CINTEL A larger amount of budget has been
consumed in year 1 than the one
planned.
In line with the actual activity carried
out in year 1, since a substantial effort
was devoted to the organisation of the
Colombian conference organisation
which was anticipated from Y2 to Y1.
The resources left of year 2 will be
sufficient to reach the project goals.
ALETI In line with the estimated budget
for the period.
NA