Wednesday September 8^th 2010, 14:30 – 18:00 

Effective networking is crucial for successful collaboration at European level for research and innovation activities. The present session will focus on the presentation of different networks allowing stakeholders to find suitable partners for collaborative research, to have access to the latest information available on research call topics, to prepare successful proposals or simply to establish bilateral or multilateral collaborations in research activities related to Industrial Technology research.

The session will focus on the following questions:
- Which are the major remaining barriers still preventing or hindering the full potential of successful collaboration in industrial research?
- What are the main characteristics of the existing network opportunities in your opinion?
- In which way the network will make easier the collaboration for an EU project or the application of research results?
- What are the short and long-term benefits the network is able to provide the members with?
- Which additional features and measures should be developed?

Speakers

• Eldaw Eldukhri, Cardiff University on "The NoEs: which durable impact on the ERA? How to make them sustainable?" (UK)

• Arun Junai, TNO on "The ETPs networks: How foster the collaboration among ETPs?" (The Netherlands)
• Anastasia Constantinou, "The NCP Network and the Enterprise Europe Network for SME support, research and innovation" (Greece)

• Peter Krüger, Bayer (NANOfutures) on "Cross-sectoral innovation issues through joint initiatives" (Germany)

• Christian Wögerer, "The EUREKA network: the trans-national networking" (Austria) 
• Franco Jovane, SINTESI, POLIMI on "Eureka-Cluster 'Manufuture Industry' for complementing the Factory of the future" (Italy)

• Andere Goirigolzarri, Innobasque on " ERANET networks and the success of Manunet" (Spain)
  

• José Caldeira, INESC on "Successful cooperation between networks ETP and ERANETs" (Portugal)

• Eduard Chlebus, Wroclaw University on " East/West cooperation"(Poland)