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In order to provide the Australian research community with best practice advice on engagement with the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme for research and technological development (FP7), FEAST has conducted a comprehensive survey of Australians involved with FP7 project proposals, both successful and unsuccessful. These interviews enable FEAST to present robust evidence of successful strategies and tactics, and practical advice on how to engage with FP7. Alongside this publication, FEAST has discussed, and will continue to discuss, the results and issues raised during this survey with researchers, research managers, and policy makers.

This report highlights the high potential of earth observation for consistent and objective monitoring of elements at risk at various spatial scales. The product portfolio of EO derived geo-products ranges from global low resolution land cover datasets to high resolution spatially accurate building inventories on a local scale. Despite the importance of adequate data for a comprehensive risk analysis as a critical factor affecting the constraints and requirements for the scientific community, end-users, stakeholders and policy makers, an immense discrepancy exists between data-rich countries of the developed world where extensive geospatial information is available, and less-developed data-poor countries. While data-poor countries mainly rely on international efforts to provide low resolution land cover / use maps of global coverage, significant international efforts to provide geo-products of medium to high resolution on a regional scale have only been undertaken in data-rich countries of the developed world such as Europe in the past. With regard to user-oriented product generation in project SENSUM, a multi-scale and multi-source reference database has been set up to systematically screen available products with regard to data availability for the three project test sites of strongly differing data availability: Cologne (data-rich), Izmir (intermediate), Isfara/Batken (data-poor). At a later stage, these data will serve as a reference to evaluate and document the capabilities and limitations of the proposed products and range them with regard to the current GMES product portfolio. From the final database content, it becomes clear that data-poor countries of Central Asia mainly rely on coarse resolution products of global coverage which, however, provide multi-categorical thematic detail. In contrast, medium and high resolution datasets are spatially restricted to the European test sites due to trans-European mapping efforts initiated there. However, two currently developed global products – namely DLR's Global Urban Footprint as well as JRC's Global Human Settlement Layer – will be a major leap forward regarding the derivation of high resolution and accurate reference data for human exposures on a global scale – as they will provide consistent and geometrically detailed land cover information at unprecedented spatial resolutions. Furthermore, a viable option for future research and applications is presented, namely Volunteered Geographical Information (VGI) by crowd-sourcing of extensive mapping communities such as the Open StreetMap project. However, as remote sensing methods alone cannot provide all information needed for a comprehensive vulnerability and risk estimation, especially when political or socio-economical vulnerability is considered, the call for future research is on the integration of EO and in-situ data. Furthermore, the higher-ranking goal of activities in project SENSUM should address potentials for integration of the proposed products and methodologies in the GMES service offer, particularly envisaging the future expansion of the existing GMES service and product offer to further non-European countries.

PurposeThe EU Framework Programme and the foresight community are both focusing on future developments in innovation. This paper seeks to answer the questions: How much can they learn from one another to enhance their visions on the future? Are both perspectives aligned?Design/methodology/approachThis research used the Dynamo approach, which analyses the match and mismatch of innovation entities by characterising both by a codified taxonomy on innovation. This taxonomy is based on the experience of TNO in innovation. In total, 140 flagship foresight activities from the EFMN database are analysed, as well as the Working Programmes 2007‐2008 from FP7 Cooperation.FindingsThe findings show that the perspectives of FP7 and the foresight community on innovations in health are highly aligned. Some interesting mismatches are identified that can be taken up by FP8 and the foresight community. Only a limited number of innovation themes are not addressed by both perspectives.Practical implicationsThese results can help the foresight community to focus on important innovation themes in health not generally addressed and give input to the new FP7 working for 2009‐2013.Originality/valueThe results of the study show a more detailed insight into what innovation topics foresight and FP7 are mentioning/addressing.

17th International Conference on Science and Technology Indicators (STI), 5-8 September, 2012 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. (13 p.) ; Open access repositories are a reliable source of academic items that can be used for testing the capabilities of the webometric analysis. This paper deals with actions needed for extracting web indicators from bibliographic records in open access repositories, provides guidelines to support a further webometric study and presents the results of a preliminary web impact evaluation carried out over a sample of 1386 EU FP7 output papers available from the OpenAIRE database. The European Commission project OpenAIRE aims, among other objectives, to provide impact measures to assess the research performance from repositories contents and, especially, of Special Clause 39 project participants within EU FP7. Using URL citations, title mentions and copies of titles as main web impact indicators, this study suggests that a priori the implementation of the mandatory clause SC39 to encourage open access to European research may be resulted indeed in a greater and more immediate web visibility of these papers. ; This work is supported by OpenAIRE project, grant agreement number 246686, under the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) of the European Union (EU). ; Peer reviewed

FP7-CHEETAH is a combinat ion of a collaborat ive project (CP) and a coordinat ion and support act ion (CSA), receiving funding from the European Union under grant agreement No 609788. The project aims at solving specific R&D issues to overcome fragment at ion of European PV R&D and to accelerate the indust rializat ion of innovat ions by intensifying the collaborat ion between R&D providers and indust ry. This proceeding reports on the st rategy and key tools brought by the CHEETAH project to improve the state of the art in knowledge exchange on PV RTD. It s CHEETAH Knowledge Exchange Plat form (KEP) features a dynamic database, a powerful build-in search engine, the dedicated e-learning plat form for on-line meet ings with internal and external stakeholders, webinars, on-line tests and experiments. The portal profits from the best pract ice in more efficient social and professional networks web portal by represent ing a significant step forward in knowledge exchange for the European photovoltaics community to support t raining, share knowledge and research infrast ructures and foster collaborat ion opportunit ies at EU scale

This study provides an in-depth examination of the publications and patents reported through the yearly survey waves undertaken by DG CONNECT for the Framework Programme 7. It represents an analysis of the productivity and quality of the research output of projects funded under FP7 ICT