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Frequentely Asked Questions (FAQs)

1. What’s Eumedis?

2. Who Can Apply?

3. Conditions for an application to be eligible?

4. Way of Participation

5. Who are the Euro-Mediterranean Region Countries Covered by EUMEDIS?

6. Eumedis Budget

7. Evaluation and Selection of Applications

8. Final Date for Submitting Detailed Project Proposal

9. Where is my Local Focal Point?

10. Download Guidelines for applicants

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1. What’s Eumedis?

It's the largest program ever undertaken by the European Commission in the development of the global information society with the following objectives:

  1. Funding the creation of a network of Mediterranean information society focal points, which will develop a harmonized governmental strategy for the development of the Euro-Mediterranean information society.
  2. Funding an Internet based interconnection between the European research networks and the Mediterranean research network, creating a high bandwidth ring all around the Mediterranean region.
  3. Funding regional pilot information society projects in five sectors of intervention:

1. Education.

2. Electronic Commerce.

3. Industry ,Business and Innovation.

4. Health care Network.

5. Tourism and Cultural heritage.

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2. Who Can Apply?

  1. Organizations and companies (governmental, non-governmental, private) working in the field of healthcare, electronic commerce, tourism, culture, industrial development, or education.
  2. Information technology companies.
  3. Universities, research and educational institutes.

For an application to be eligible, it should be presented by a European partner along with a Euro-Mediterranean consortium composed of at least two European countries and the largest possible number of Mediterranean regional entities.
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3. Conditions for an application to be eligible?

For an application to be eligible, it should be presented by a Euro-Mediterranean consortium composed of at least two European countries and the largest possible number of Mediterranean regional entities.

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4. Way of Participation

Participants can initiate one or more projects. However, each project should fall within one or more of the five sectors mentioned above, but each project should fall only in one sector. Furthermore, participants can join existing projects ideas. Projects should be of regional and international interest for the Euro-Mediterranean region.

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5. Who are the Euro-Mediterranean Region Countries Covered by EUMEDIS

Any country of the European Union (Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Irland, Italy, Luxembourg, Portugal, Spain, Sweeden, The Netherlands, UK) or one of the 12 Mediterranean partner countries of the Barcelona Political Dialogue (Algeria, Cyprus, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Malta, Morocco, the Palestinian Authority, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey).

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6. Eumedis Budget

The overall budget made for the EUMEDIS pilot project is 35MEuro.Every sector of intervention has an indicated allocated budget of 7MEuro. The minimum amount for each grant is 1MEuro

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7. Evaluation and Selection of Applications

Applications will be examined and evaluated with the possible assistance of external experts; applicants may also be contacted for clarification of the application admitted. All applications projects will be evaluated according to

  1. Administrative compliance
  2. Eligibility
  3. Technical evaluation

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8. Final Date for Submitting Detailed Project Proposal

22nd January 2001

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9. Where is my Local Focal Point?

EUMEDIS Focal Points

 

COUNTRY

KEY PERSON

CONTACTS

ALGERIA

Mr. Moussa Benhamadi, Directeur
Mrs Yasmina Berraoui

Centre de Recherche sur l'Information Scientifique et Technique (CERIST)
5 rue des Frères Aissou, BP143 -
16030 Ben Aknoun, Alger
Tel : 213 291 21 36 - Fax : 213 2 91 21 26
moussa@wissal.dz

berraoui@wissal.dz

CYPRUS

Dr Stelios D. Himonas




Mrs Marilena Paraskeva

Ministry of Communications and Works
CY1424 Nicosia
Tel. : 357 2 800203 - Fax : 357 2 776254
himonas@mcw.gov.cy

Research Promotion Foundation
Tel. : 357 2 660 292 - Fax : 357 2 666 117

marilena@research.gov.cy


EGYPT

Dr. Sherif Hashem

Ministry of Communications and information, ISDO
Ahmed Orabi Street, Mohandeseen, Agoza,
Giza, Egypt
Tel. : 202 3444546 - Fax. : 202 3444534
shashem@mcit.gov.eg
http://www.isdo.gov.eg

ISRAEL

Mr Marcel Shaton




Mr Dov Winer

ISERD
29 Hamered Str. – 61500 Tel Aviv, Israel
Tel. : 972 2 5118 122 - Fax : 9726 517 50 20
maecel@iserd.org.il

Tel. : 972 2 533 22 86 - Fax : 972 2 33 33 269
dovviner@post.tau.ac.il

JORDAN

Dr Yousef Nusseir, President

National Information Centre
PO Box 259 - Al Jubeiha, 11941 - Amman, Jordan
Tel. : 962 6 5337184 – Fax :962 6 5337168
ynusseir@nic.gov.jo

LEBANON

Mrs Rizkallah Rana

Ministry of Industry
Sami Soleh Av. , Facing Adlieh, Badaro,
Beirut, Lebanon
Tel. : 00961 1 423338 / 427006 / 427046 - Fax : 00961 1 427113
ministry@industry.gov.lb

MALTA

Mr Joe Vella





Dr Stephen Calleya

Ministry for Transport and Communications
House of the Four Winds, Hasting Gardens,
CMR02 Valletta, Malta
Tel. : 356 246735 – Fax :356 248937
joseph.vella@magnet.mt

Mediterranean Academy of Diplomatic studies
University of Malta - Msida, MSD 06, Malta
Tel. : 356 483090 – Fax : 356 483091
stcalley@diplomacy.edu

MOROCCO

Mme Najat Rochdi, Directeur du Département Affaires générales et Coopération

Secrétariat d'Etat à la Poste et aux Technologies de l'information
Avenue Moulay E. Hassan
Rabat - Maroc
Tel. : 212 37 26 04 45 – Fax : 212 37 26 04 47
najat@fusion.net.ma

PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY

Dr Ghassan Z. Qadah
Mr Hussam Husseini, IT Coordinator

Ministry of Planning and International Co-operation
Government Computer Centre
Abu-Khadra Government Complex,
Gaza City - Palestine via Israel
Tel. : 970 2 296 1866 – Fax : 970 2 29 618 65/67
qadah@hally.net
hhusseini@gov.ps

SYRIA

Dr Mouaffak Daaboul
Mr. Nael Al Lahham

Syrian Computer Society
Tishreen park - PO box 33492
Damascus, Syria
Tel. : 963 11 3736156 - fax : 963 11 3737558
scs@net.sy

TUNISIA

Mr Boussema, Directeur de la Prospective, de la Planification et de l'Evaluation

Secrétariat d'Etat à la Recherche scientifique et à la Technologie
18 rue 8010 Cité Montplaisir, 1082 Tunis
Tel. : 216 179 5414 – Fax : 216 1 796165
rached.boussema@serst.rnrt.tn

TURKEY

Mr Atila Celik, Assistant Director general




Mr Altan Küçükçinar, Senior researcher

Information Technologies and Electronics Research Institute
Tubitak -Bilten, ODTÜ
Inönü Bulvari, 06531, Ankara
Tel. : 90 312 212 03 66 – Fax : 90 312 212 17 75
acelik@ubak.gov.tr

tel. : 90 312 210 13 11/131 – Fax : 90 312 210 13 15Altan.kucukcinar@bilten.metu.edu.tr




EUROPEAN UNION COUNTRIES

COUNTRY

KEY PERSON

CONTACTS

AUSTRIA

Dr Hans SCHLAEGER

Federal Ministry for Science and Transport
Dep. V/B/11, Rosengasse 2-6,
1010 Wien
Tel. : 43 1 53120 5170 – Fax : 431531206480
hans.schlaeger@bmwf.gv.at

BELGIUM

Mr Guido Pouillon, Conseiller

IBPT
Avenue de l'Astronomie 14 bte 21
1210 Bruxelles
Tel. :32 2 226 87 99 – Fax: 32 2 226 88 04
guido.pouillon@bipt.be

DENMARK

To be nominated

FINLAND

Ms Anu Lamberg, Technology counsellor

Tekes
Finnish liaison office for EU R&D -
Avenue des Arts 58, 4th floor
1000 Bruxelles
Tel. : 32 2 548 96 01 - Fax: 32 2 548 9617
Anu.Lamberg@tekes

FRANCE

Mr. Pierre Fontaine, Adjoint du chef du bureau bilatéral

Ministère de l’Industrie, Sous direction des activités internationales du service des technologies et de l'information
DIGITIP 3
Le Bervil, 12 rue Villiot
75572 Paris cédex 12
Tel. : 33 1 53 44 97 47 – Fax: 33 1 53 44 90 02 pierre.fontaine@industrie.gouv.fr

GERMANY

Mr. Bernd Neujahr

Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Technologie
VI B1 - Scharnhorststr. 34-37
10115 Berlin

Tel.: 00 49 30 2014 6016

Fax: 00 49 30 2014 5362

e-mail: neujahr@bmwi.bund.de

GREECE

Mr Ioannis Makris

General Secretariat of Industry
80 Street Machalakopoulou
11527 Athens
Tel. : 301 779 69 52 – Fax: 301 779 11 11
Makrisi@ypan.gr

IRELAND

To be nominated

ITALY

Dott. Giuseppe Rao
Dott.ssa Benedetta Rivetti

Presidenza del Consiglio dei Ministri
Via Barberini 47, 5° piano
00187 Roma
Tel. : 3906 4811634/626 – Fax: 3906 67794812
g.rao@palazzochigi.it
b.rivetti@palazzochigi.it

LUXEMBOURG

Mr. Serge Allegrezza, Attaché du Gouvernment

Ministère de l'Economie
19-21, boulevard Royal
2449 Luxembourg
Tel. : 352 478 4110 – Fax: 352 460 448

PORTUGAL

Prof. Jose Dias COELHO

jdcoelho@fe.unl.pt

SPAIN

Sr Ignacio Atorrasagasti Tellería

 

Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología

Dirección General Sociedad de la Información
C/Alcalá 50

E-28071 Madrid
Tel.: 34-91-3462922 - Fax: 34-91-3462674
ignacio.atorrasagasti@setsi.mcyt.es

THE NETHERLANDS

To be nominated

UNITED KINGDOM

Mr. Adrian Brazier

CIID, DTI
151 Buckingham Palace Road
London, SW1W 9SS
Tel. : 44 20 7215 1295 – Fax: 44 20 7215 1370

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More information

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Fax: +20-2-3444534


E-mail: shashem@mcit.gov.eg

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