Proposal writing
 
 

 

Consortium building: EU-VRi seeks for and proposes partners that enrich your consortium and bring added value to your approach in order to form a strong partnership that is capable of implementing your project ideas.

 

Proposal writing & submission: EU-VRi will provide you with good templates and provides help and guidance for generic aspects related to proposals for research projects and for the administrative submission process. EU-VRi will review your proposal and provide you with valuable recommendations on how to improve it.

 

Positioning your project: In the light of given expectations derived from the call text and information retrieved from our contacts and network partners, EU-VRi will provide lobbying activities to possibly increase the success chances for your future project.
 
   
 
 
Project implementation
 
 

Management & coordination: EU-VRi provides day-to-day administrative and financial project management in close collaboration with the scientific leader of the project (partner #1) so you can focus on your research and technical contributions

Stakeholder involvement and liaison: EU-VRi provides management of stakeholder platforms (advisors/experts, end-users, technology providers etc.) by reaching out to its network partners from academia, research and industry to ensure active participation of relevant groups, to obtain needs & requirements and to establish research priorities through surveys, focus groups or group-Delphi-excercises.
EU-VRi will liaise with relevant externals from public, industry and academia/research to gather feedback to the project plans and/or results and to promote them. This includes informing policy makers and regulators about the results of the project and, based on such results, formulate recommendations on necessary or desirable regulatory conditions.

 

Targeted dissemination: EU-VRi plans targeted dissemination activities in close alignment with your project goals and followed according to a frequently updated dissemination plan. Dissemination activities include the creation and maintenance of a dedicated project website, distribution of newsletters, organization of international conferences, workshops or summer schools etc.

 

Exploitation & Implementation: EU-VRi develops exploitation strategies tailored to your project results and project consortium by carefully considering Intellectual Property Rights. This includes drafting of business plan in close collaboration with all partners interested in using the results to ensure take-up of your results.

 

Standardization: EU-VRi acts as ”standardization help desk” in your projects to increase impact and visibility of your research results. This includes identification of standardization opportunities, mapping of standards on specific topics, liaison with relevant Technical Committees, clustering of initiatives to reach critical masses necessary for developing new standards, development of CWA business plans as well as informing the project partners about standardization procedures.

 

Mapping of knowledge & resources: According to the area of research, the scientific disciplines involved and policies addressed by your project, EU-VRi offers intelligent mapping solutions to organize, visualize and make available existing knowledge and resources.

 

Education & Training: In cooperation with your consortium and renown academic and industrial partners, EU-VRi organize the development of education and training programs based on your project results and possibly link them to existing and already successful programs or schemes.