BIULETYN INFORMACYJNY O PROGRAMACH BADAWCZYCH KOMISJI EUROPEJSKIEJ
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The five general evaluation criteria are defined as:

• Scientific and technological (S&T) quality and innovation
• Community added value and contribution to EU policies
• Contribution to Community social objectives
• Economic development and S&T prospects
• Management and resources

In addition to these general criteria and the specific requirement for the appropriate industrial participation in IST projects, there are a number of further specific evaluation criteria relevant to the shared-cost RTD actions defined in this workprogramme.

• Meeting of the objectives of the IST Programme and the Action Line addressed.
• Appropriate participation of relevant users or user organisations in all research and technology development, to ensure both that user-requirements are addressed throughout a project and that the exploitation route for the results can be validated.
• A well-defined channel of communication to industrial consensus and/or standardisation frameworks, where interoperability or coherence is a goal.
• Provision, where appropriate, for addressing the economic and social issues.
• Attention to the policy and regulatory aspects of the RTD proposed.

For accompanying measures additional and/or customised evaluation criteria will be set out in specific information documents. These measures concern in particular, assessment, user-support, first-use, best-practice and other take-up actions.

All projects will be expected to make adequate provision for participation in concertation with other projects in the same Key Action and, when appropriate, in the framework of cross-programme themes.