2-day orientation workshop for R&D project proposals that have potential to be funded within R&D calls for proposals
The main aim of the workshop is to establish creative thinking in the R&D project development team, taking into account their suggestions and ideas to substantially improve products/services/processes, or to develop new ones.
Day 1 - Analysis of R&D projects, including "challenges" in relation to achieving internationally competitive R&D projects
Programme:
- Short presentation of eligibility criteria for R&D projects
- Project results – how to define a project proposal that is suitable to be submitted to a R&D call for proposals
- Problems/challenges, addressed by the project
- Comparison with relevant existing solutions on the market - joint overview (analysis of implemented projects or projects under implementation CORDIS, joint comparison with relevant solutions available on the market…)
This workshop is based on two-way interaction. The development team in the company presents possible improvements of existing products/solutions and new solutions which can provide a company the possibility to achieve international innovation and competitiveness on international level.
Duration: 4 hours
Participants:
Obligatory:
- researchers and developers,
- marketing/sales representative with in-depth knowledge about the relevant market
Recommended:
- Director
- (Senior) Project Manager
Results:
- The contractor prepares a report (meeting minutes) and guidelines for the further development a a R&D project that could be eligible to be submitted to a EU call for proposals. The report contains questions and challenges for the development team that will further elaborate the project proposal and analyse the relevant market and relevant existing solutions.
- Meeting minutes are to be sent to the client within 3 working days after the workshop.
Day 2 - Assessment of results of Day 1 and preparation of a summarised project proposal that can be submitted to a call for proposals
Programme:
- Comparison with relevant existing solutions on the market – joint overview regarding the proposed solutions and finding of unique selling points - bringing focus into the project idea;
- Project definition in line with general guidelines for R&D projects and detailed definition of:
- Innovation
- Impacts
- Market potential
- Implementation
- Assessment of options for a potential project consortium - profile of partners, needed to implement the project and finding the appropriate partners (preparation of a summary to be sent to potential partners) - importance of intellectual property rights;
Duration: 4 ure
Participants:
Obligatory:
- researchers and developers,
- marketing/sales representative with in-depth knowledge about the relevant market
Recommended:
- Director
- (Senior) Project Manager
Results:
- The contractor prepares a report (meeting minutes) and a summarised version of a possible project proposal latest within 3 working days after workshop.
- Assessment of possible and appropriate calls for proposals for the concrete project proposal.
Price
The price includes preparation of the co nsultant(s) for the workshop, the implementation of the workshop, the preparation of the report and travel costs within a 200-km-radius from Maribor. The client can decide to opt in for more than one workshop, depending on the complexity of the project proposal and the the work flow.
Payment conditions: 50% upon contract signature and 50% after workshop delivery, within 8 days
OBLIGATIONS OF THE CLIENT FOLLOWING CONTRACT SIGNATURE
Before the start of the activities the client has to provide a concise description of the R&D project in order to make it possible for the Tiko Pro experts to prepare for the workshop and to perform preliminary analyses of the state-of-the-art in the relevant market. In case these preliminary information is not provided prior to the workshop, is the first part of it dedicated to the short presentation of the project proposal (innovation, impacts, market potential and implementation).
The contractor has to make sure that the participants in the workshop are developers who have in-depth knowledge about the technological development in the company. In case developers cannot take part in the workshop, the worshop is not delivered on the arranged date, respctively it is re-scheduled to a later date.
