NMP TEAM · Improving the services of the NMP NCP Network through Trans-national Activities

The NCP TeAm project aims at an improved NMP NCP service across Europe therefore helping simplify access to FP7 calls, lowering the entry barriers for newcomers, and raising the average quality of submitted proposals through closer collaboration between the NMP NCPs and normalisation of the differences in knowledge and quality of provided services across the NCP Network in Europe and beyond. To this effect the four main objectives of this project are to optimise the tools at hand to the benefit of the networks clients, such as the adoption of a partner search system tailormade to the NMP needs and the creation of an NCP NMP Network website, to maximise the impact and add value to organised National and European events with organising parallel brokerage (partnership building) events, joint NMP NCP stands and joint awareness campaigns (including visits to researchers and industries), to standardise the Network skills and provided services through the creation of a charter of services, an operational manual, twinnings and targeted trainings and to forge stronger links with all NMP related Networks, Technology platforms and other EC initiatives and programmes.