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In addition to the internal co-ordination between Key Actions on specific themes, wider co-ordination arrangements will be put in place to maximise the benefits of an integrated IST Programme.
International Co-operation The strategic objectives will be to encourage the widest possible international co-operation to: achieve upstream global consensus for interoperability and standardisation; promote exchange of scientific information and best technological know-how world-wide; strengthen scientific and technological co-operation with the "accession" countries on their way to full participation in the European Union programmes; and to strengthen business co-operation, in particular in the future free-trade zones, while protecting European IPR.Participation in the IST Programme is open to entities from associated states, other European countries, Mediterranean partner countries, international organisations and entities in countries with S&T agreements with the EU in the area of information society technologies, and on a project-by-project basis in all other cases. In 1999, accompanying measures to encourage stronger participation from, in particular, associated states and from countries with co-operation agreements will include “information and partnership” events and facilities, and support for regional information centres and web-sites, organised in conjunction with the horizontal programme on “international co-operation”.
Cross participation and co-ordination with other major RTD frameworks (such as the ATP programme in the US, the new “Electronic Commerce programmes of MPT and MITI in Japan, and established frameworks such as IMS and HFSP) on specific Action Lines in the programme will be stimulated through accompanying measures, including support for EU-US, EU-Canada and EU-Japanese “partnership workshops” in 1999, the co-ordination/synchronisation of focused Calls for Proposals, and support to accompany the participation of EU entities in relevant programmes in third countries.
Co-ordination with the EUREKA and TEN-telecom frameworks will also be used to encourage industrial co-operation in down-stream product and pan-European service innovation. Information about emerging EUREKA projects and about calls for proposals for TEN-Telecom support will be made available to all IST programme participants.
Co-operation with actions in the COST framework will be strengthened with links to all IST-related COST actions, including the established COST-telecom set. In view of the more upstream and non-competitive nature of COST actions, co-operation will be co-managed with the “Future and Emerging Technologies” in the IST Programme. COST action co-ordinators will be invited to join related IST concertation meetings and RTD workshops.
International consensus and standardisation will be a priority in IST work and in international co-operation. In 1999, accompanying measures will be established within Key Actions to stimulate and co-ordinate European input to ETSI, CEN/CENELEC, ITU working groups, and to industry consensus frameworks (DAVIC, DVB, OMG, IETF, W3C, etc.). Measures will also be established to support European involvement in the Global Business Dialogue focused on the global regulatory environment and common business guidelines for electronic commerce.
Wider information exchange at the international level on the development of the information society will be initiated in liaison with national foresight organisations, for example: the Club of Rome; the Smithsonian and Futures Institutes in the USA, and with other similar organisations in for example the Mediterranean countries, China, Japan and Russia. Focused workshops will be used to bring key contributors together and to consolidate ideas. In 1999, priority will be given to wider international concertation on the implications of electronic commerce for international trade, taxation and economic governance (in conjunction with the activities of the Global Business Dialogue), and on the impacts of globalisation and delocalisation of economic activity in both industrialised and developing countries. Also, accompanying measures will be used to maintain links with EU-trained IST specialists in third countries; in 1999 these will target emerging economies.
Innovation and Special Measures for SMEsThe IST programme will play a central role in promoting technology, business and work innovation, particularly for SMEs, in moving towards a sustainable information society. In 1999, this will involve a pro-active identification of innovation opportunities arising from ACTS, ESPRIT and Telematics RTD, and the establishment of accompanying measures, complementary to those of the “Innovation and the participation of SMEs” Programme, to bring these to the attention of SMEs and SME organisations.
Specific workshops with “risk capital” investment fund managers will be organised to stimulate and facilitate private financing of RTD result exploitation. A first “Investment Forum” was part of the IST Conference in December 1998 (Vienna).
Measures will be established to support first use of innovative information-society technologies in SMEs, and best practice identification and dissemination.
The participation of SMEs in RTD projects will be facilitated by support measures for partnership brokerage between ongoing projects and new SMEs active in related RTD, and by CRAFT-type measures such as “exploratory awards” to cover part of the cost of developing SME partnerships and RTD ideas. The implementation of these specific measures will be in line with the common approach established with the horizontal programme “Innovation and the participation of SMEs”, in order to ensure transparency for the beneficiaries.
Key Action I
Key Action II
Key Action III
Future and Emerging Technologies
