News from the programme 2009

Following a midterm evaluation in 2005, the final evaluation of the eTEN Programme has been published, covering the period from 2002 until programme end in December 2006. A team of contracted independent evaluators has assessed the relevance of the programme's objectives, priorities and means of implementation, the effectiveness and impact of the programme, its efficiency and cost effectiveness, its utility and sustainability, and causal links from resources used through to activities and presumed impacts.

The Commission considers that this is a very positive report confirming both the effectiveness of the programme management and the utility of the programme. The results provide also evidence that the Policy Support Programme of the Competitiveness and Innovation Programme (CIP) can be expected to build on the results of eTEN.

Work will continue into 2009 by both the evaluators and the Commission to determine the impact of projects from later years of the eTEN Programme.

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Full report, Memorandum and Communication

Practical Guide to EU funding for research, development and innovation

The Commission launched the "Practical Guide to EU funding opportunities for Research and Innovation" to help all stakeholders to find their way into the different existing EU funding. EU support for research, technological development and innovation is provided mainly through the 7th Research Framework Programme (FP7), the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme (CIP) and the Structural & Cohesion Funds. If their impact is to be maximised, it is essential that these sources of funding are used in a coherent way. The Practical Guide provides user-friendly information on combining the different funding sources; it includes a description of each fund, advices for policy makers and an innovative Checklist and Scorecard, which allow potential beneficiaries to quickly identify exactly how they can access European funding at every stage of the development and implementation of a project.

Practical Guide to EU funding for research, development and innovation

ICT Results

ICT Results is a service launched by DG Information Society and Media in 2002 to increase the visibility of research achievements and to help promote awareness and take-up of results. Features produced by ICT Results are published on the ICT Results website and are actively marketed to a range of audiences for maximum republication and amplification.

ePractice.eu is an interactive initiative of the European Commission providing a broad range of services, targeted to the communities of eGovernment, eInclusion and eHealth professionals including on- and off-line activities. The portal was launched in April 2007 and has become an interactive meeting point to the constantly growing number of ePractice.eu community members.

With a large knowledge base of real-life case studies submitted by professionals from across Europe, ePractice.eu is committed to be a strong point of reference for the exchange of practical eKnowledge.

The ePractice.eu initiative currently comprehends over 15,000 members, over 1,000 real-life cases, 19 communities, 34 country factsheets and over 3,000 news items. Other portal services are a weekly newsletter, a worldwide events agenda, the online publication European Journal of ePractice and free off-line workshops available to all members.

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