Lithuanian participation in 5FP IST program

Ramunė Petuchovaitė,

Vilnius University E-mail: ramune.petuchovaite@kf.vu.lt

5FP Information Society Technologies

• Promoting the user-friendly Information Society

• KA1 Systems and Services for Citizen• KA 2 New Methods of Work and

Electronic Commerce• KA 3 Multimedia Content and Tools• KA 4 Essential Technologies and

Infrastructures

IST implementation in 1999-2002

Area/year WP1999

WP2000

WP2001

WP2002

Total

KA1 212 171 118 51 552

KA2 193 132 102 40 467

KA3 178 155 111 38 481

KA4 485 283 253 142 1.163

FET 80 89 75 55 300

RN 90 21 21 4 136

CPA 71 141 170 42 424

Total IST 1.308 992 849 373 3.522

# calls 2 3 2 1 8

Source: EU-Bureau of the BMBF web-page. http://www.dlr.de/isa

LT performance in 5FP IST

• 133 proposals, statistically about 33 proposals and 7.5 retained projects per annum– 30 retained– 3 were reserved

• Over 65 participants• Above 50 % proposals by higher education

institutions

Lithuanian participation by IST calls

18 1114 8 2 18 1942

0

10

20

30

40

50

Proposals

Call1

Call2

Call3

Call4

Call5

Call6

Call7+7bis

Call8

Lithuanian success in IST program

76%

15%

7% 2%

Failed Contracted In negotiation Reserved

LT performance by types of actions

17 11

2 2

663

2

1 45

12

9

0%

20%

40%

60%

80%

100%

Retained

Reserved

Failed

LT performance by IST KA

KA # proposals

Retained Reserved

KA1 25 5 1

KA2 35 9 -

KA3 31 6 -

KA4 15 5 -

Other 27 5 2

Total 133 30 3

LT success rate by KA

19 26 2510 20

5 9 65

5

21

0%

20%

40%

60%

80%

100%

KA1 KA2 KA3 KA4 Other

Retained

Reserved

Failed

IST participants in Lithuania

SME's14%

Large enterprises

4%

NGO's and public

agencies13%

State enterprises

10%

Universities51%

Research institutes

8%

Coordinating countries

4 14

13 12 9

1 1

21

9

7

1

1

37

1

1 3

3 2

11

1

5

20

1

2

0%

20%

40%

60%

80%

100%

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Failed Reserved Retained

Successful projects: examples • CHIMER – using IT tools to encourage schoolchildren in

Europe to participate in building local cultural heritage - http://www.chimer.lt/ – Institute of Mathematics and Informatics

• BALTPORTS-IT – dissemination of knowledge about IT solutions and simulation for harbour managing and control - http://www.baltports-it.com/– Kaunas University of Technology– Klaipeda State Seaport Authority

• GEANT - the creation of a trans-European data communication network with a capacity of 2.5 Gbps for the support of education, research and development work. – Litnet Network Operating Centre

At the start of FP6: achievements and problems • Clear political priorities• Developed higher

education and research system

• Research, business and education cooperation:– INFOBALT– Knowledge economy

forum

• Developing innovation system

• Experience in FP5 IST

• Low LT GDP expenditures for R&D

• Drain away of specialists

• Insignificant business investments in R&D

• Slow R&D results transfer into economic growth

• Few RTD projects

Source: Musée Rodin http://www.musee-rodin.fr

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