How to Write Competitive Proposal

How to Write the ‘Project Management’ of the Proposal

• Templates for Project Management
  http://www.hyperion.ie/templates.htm

How to Write the ‘Impact’ of the Proposal

Defining the State of the Art

• Existing EU R&D Contracts
  http://dbs.cordis.lu/fep/FP5/FP5_PROJl_search.html
• The European Patent Office
  http://www.european-patent-office.org/espacenet/
• For Life Sciences use PUBMED
  http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/

Impact on Technology

• The Futures Report
  http://futures.jrc.es/
• The Institute for Prospective Technologies and Studies Reports
  http://www.jrc.es
• The R&D Scoreboard (Published annually by DTI, UK)
  http://www.innovation.gov.uk/finance/
• European Information Technology Observatory
  http://www.eito.com
• Foresight in Framework 6
  http://www.cordis.lu/rtd2002/foresight/home.html

Impact on the Economy and the Market

• Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development
  http://www.oecd.org (Brilliant!)
• The Economist
  http://www.economist.com

Market Research Organisations

• Dataquest
  http://www.dataquest.com
• Frost and Sullivan
  http://www.frost.com
• Ovum
  http://www.ovum.com
• IDC
  http://www.idc.com
• Forrester Research
  http://www.forrester.com

Impact on Standards

• EU Standards Cooperation
  http://europa.eu.int/comm/enterprise/standards_policy/index.htm#guidelines
• CENORM and CENSTAR
  http://www.cenorm.be
• CENELEC
  http://www.cenelec.be
• ISO
  http://www.iso.ch
• ETSI
  http://www.etsi.fr
• ASTM
  http://www.astm.org
• Academic Institutions involved in research and training on standardization
  http://europa.eu.int/comm/enterprise/standards_policy/
• Study on the Impact of Standardization
  http://www.standardsimpact.org
• IEEE Standards in Information Technology
  http://www.siit2003.org
• IST and Starndards
  http://www.w3.org/2004/copras

How to Write the ‘Social Impact’ of the Proposal

• OECD
  www.oecd.org/els/social
• The Futures Project
  http://futures.jrc.es/menupage-b.htm has four reports dealing with social issues and R&D.
• Society, the Endless Frontier (1996! but ideas are still valid)
  http://europa.eu.int/comm/research/publ/society_en.html
• EU and NGOs
  http://europa.eu.int/comm/secretariat_general/sgc/ong/en/index.htm

How to Write the Impact on ‘EU Policy’

• Europa (Official EU Website)
  http://europa.eu.int
• Europa General Search Engine
  http://europa.eu.int/geninfo/query_en.htm
• EU Studies and Legislation (ECLAS,IDEA,EUR-LEX)
  http://europa.eu.int/geninfo/search/databases_en.htm
• White Papers
  http://europa.eu.int/comm/off/white/index_en.htm
• Green Papers
  http://europa.eu.int/comm/off/green/index_en.htm
• Treaties
  http://europa.eu.int/abc/obj/treaties/en/entoc.htm
• Eurostat
  http://europa.eu.int/eurostat.html
• Europe Action Plan
  http://europa.eu.int/comm/information_society/eeurope/actionplan/
• European Commission (DG Research)
  http://europa.eu.int/comm/research/index_en.html
• European Parliament
  http://www.europarl.eu.int/home/default_en.htm
• Council of Ministers
  http://ue.eu.int/en/summ.htm
• STOA
  http://www.europarl.eu.int/stoa/publi/default_en.htm
• CONECCS Database (Lobby Groups)
  http://europa.eu.int/comm/secretariat_general/index_en.htm
• The Centre for European Policy Studies
  www.ceps.be

Strategy for Writing Proposals

• The One Page Proposal
  http://www.hyperion.ie/onepageproposal.htm