Part I - IPA SA

REVISTA ROMÂNĂ DE AUTOMATICĂ
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initiative development through innovation
• to collect information and to spread
out opportunities for partnership and
business development
IRC Romania team will act to support
Romania for European Integration. Just for
that the TTT and Innovation process will be
focused on the co-operation between
Romanian and European partners. The target
group is officials from the government,
central and local public authorities, research
organisations, universities, SMEs and civil
society. The main target of the IRC is to
couple efforts (technically and financially)
coming from institutions and persons in
charge for the local development. IRC
Romania will provide its services at national
level, covering all of Romanian territory
using a network of 7 regional partners. Each
partner will provide information to SMEs,
universities and research organizations
situated in the Development Regions defined
through the Law 151/1998.
The proposed project promotes the
innovation and trans-national technology
transfer, in line with one of the main
objectives of the framework programme.
Also, IRC Romania will provide costeffective
services that promote trans-national
cooperation, respecting the real regional
needs and that will be in synergy with
national and regional support scheme.
The main objective of this project is to
develop and maintain a high level of IRC
Romania services capability in delivering
successful transnational technology transfer
(TTT) to the local clients whilst addressing
capacity deficits and encouraging the
attainment of economic benefits for clients
through successful agreements. For Romania,
the target group will be especially the SMEs
sector, but other organizations will be also
targeted (such as universities, research
centres, larger companies, professional and
trade association, development agencies).
1. Promoting the IRC Romania, its services
and IRC Network in Romania, by:
a) Organizing and participating at events
(9 press conferences/one per
Development Region; participating as
speakers at conferences, exhibitions, fairs,
seminars)
a) Elaborating presentation and
information materials (IRC Romania
newsletter – IRC Romania News; 12
issues/year; 500 copies/month; IRC
Romania web-page; articles in
professional papers)
b) Contacting people (by phone, email,
mail, fax, direct – meetings)
2. Supporting the Romanian SMEs
development by implementing
innovative/modern technologies, by:
a) Identification of technology needs and
their promotion through IRC network
b) Promotion of technology offers
received from the IRC network or from
other sources
c) Provide assistance for developing TT
projects between identified partners
3. Assisting the national technology providers
to promote at European level their innovative
products and technologies, by:
a) Identification of national technology
offers and promotion using the IRC
network
b) Promotion of technology requests
received from the IRC network members
(or from other sources) to local providers
matching the external needs with the local
offer
c) Providing Assistance for developing
technology transfer projects between
identified partners
4. Promoting the trans-national dissemination
and exploitation of the Community research
results in order to improve the economic and
social impact of framework programme
research activities and to enhance public
awareness of the benefits of innovation, by:
a) Identification of Community research
results, especially those results identified
as suitable for third party exploitation,
and including cooperation especially with
EUREKA representatives
b) Promotion of research results to local
industry or to external partners