Ideal-ist is the most successful international partner search network for Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) projects in the 7th EU Framework Programme (FP7). Ideal-ist supports research organisations worldwide to find partners for their FP7 project ideas. With the start of the first ARTEMIS and ENIAC calls on 8 May 2008, Ideal-ist opens its online partner search tool for project ideas relating to this call. A similar service for ENIAC is under negotiation.

The Joint Undertakings of ARTEMIS and ENIAC aim to tackle the research and structural challenges faced by the industrial sector in the areas of Embedded Computing Systems and Nanoelectronics. The Joint Undertakings will manage and coordinate research activities through calls for proposals, with the first calls opening on 8 May 2008. The programmes are open to organisations in European Union Member States and Associated Countries. Selected projects will be cofinanced by the Joint Undertakings and the Member States that have joined ARTEMIS and ENIAC.

With the start of the ARTEMIS and ENIAC calls on 8 May 2008, Ideal-ist opens its online partner search tool for project ideas relating to these calls. “Finding the right international project partners has always been a challenging task for proposers to European Framework funds”, says Mohsine Chefki, coordinator of the EU-funded Ideal-ist project. “By offering our well-established and successful partner search tool we want to make it easier for proposers to find appropriate research partners for their ARTEMIS and ENIAC projects.”