The Use and Diffuse Project is funded by the EU under the FP7 research grant programme. The project will shortly publish its report, guiding Universities and SMEs on how to apply for, manage and exploit EU grants for research.
The report quotes four projects and profiles them as case studies of best practice in order that others may be better equipped to take advantage of EU support.
Happily Avert-IT is one of the four case studies. Here’s the foreword from the draft report, soon to be published.
Foreword
This Guide is intended to provide Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs), as well as Universities, Institutes and other Research Technology Development organisations (RTDs) with practical, useful and easy to follow advice on how to maximize the impact of Research and Development projects involving SMEs by ensuring that the results are effectively used and disseminated.
The Guide has been produced as part of Coordination and Support Activities being carried in the “USEandDIFFUSE” Project (Support of dissemination and exploitation of results obtained in research projects realized with the participation of the SME sector), that is funded under the European Commission’s 7th Framework Programme (FP7), and more specifically under “Research for the Benefit of SMEs”.
Input for the manual has been based on 2008 research conducted on Research and Development projects carried out in Health and ICT sectors. Although it has not been explicitly validated, it is likely that these findings are equally applicable for other sectors too. Neither the authors nor any person acting on their behalf may be held responsible for the use that may be made of the information contained therein.
The USEandDIFFUSE project…
aims to support the dissemination and exploitation of results of research projects involving SMEs, based on an analysis of current practices in the use of RTD results in projects involving SMEs in order to draw upon best practice and guidelines that can be carried forward and disseminated to benefit existing and future R+D efforts involving industry.
In addition to this Guide, the project website http://www.useanddiffuse.eu offers a good source of information about using and disseminating RTD results and also provides the contact details of the Project Coordinator and the consortium of partners.
