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COST Action Participation – Through the eyes of an SME
Dr Antonis TOUMAZISDinner Debate, European Parliament, 29 January 2013
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Presentation Overview Who I am The firm / SME COST experience Innovation through EU Projects SME role Constraints Suggestions
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Antonis TOUMAZIS Civil Engineer PhD Hydraulics Partner in an Architects’ and
Consulting Engineers’ firm Visiting Lecturer UCY, CUT Vice-President Nicosia - Kyrenia
Branch of CACE
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Dion Toumazis & Associates
4 Partners 3 Professional Staff 2 Technical/ Administrative
staff
Fields: Structures Water Transport Energy
Architects and Consulting Engineers
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COST Action C22 ‘Urban Flood Management’ 2006-2009
COST Action ES0901 ‘European procedures for flood frequency estimation’ (FloodFreq) 2010-2013
COST Actions
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FloodFreq
Reliable estimates of expected extreme flood events
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COST: benefits for SMEs
1. Networking:
COST C22 FP7 SMARTeST Project
2. Exchange (STSM):
Firm staff member trained for 2 weeks in another organisation Knowledge applied in actual projects
3. Training School in Cyprus
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Benefits for COST from SMEs
1. Transfer of real-life challenge to the research world
2. Adaptation and implementation of research findings to actual challenge
3. Direct contact with industry, small business, home owners
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Importance of Research
Applied Research Important to SMEs
Dissemination: Universities Research organisations Practising firms Industry / users
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Innovation potential
Flooding is a natural risk
Floods become: More frequent More intense
Living with Floods
Recent Concept - Potential for new products, more jobs, less damage
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Innovation potential
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Barrier development
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Barrier development
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CONFERENCES Vs. COST
Conferences: OK…
…While COST: Enhances networking Cooperation Exchange of staff Advancement of Science and
Technology
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COST Vs. FP7 Project
Applying/ Joining Networking Learning/ Sharing Knowledge Inspiration/ Perspiration European Integration Administration/ Financial Issues
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Challenges – How to overcome them?
1. Main participation: universities and Large Research Organisations
2. Advise COST to increase promotion to SMEs - focus on mutual benefits
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Suggestions
More COST Actions on applied research Increase SME participation and lead
Balanced Mix of Proposal Evaluators More Evaluators from SMEs?
What about…
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Conclusions
SMEs can offer much, much more: European Innovation Competitiveness Economic Growth
Some variations in rules can help us achieve this…
COST Actions are a huge success.
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Dr Antonis TOUMAZIS
Civil Engineer
Partner
Dion. Toumazis & Associates
Cyprus
COST Action ES0901
www.cost-floodfreq.eu
Thank you!
www.cost.eu