Selection criteria for Project Outlines and Full Project Proposals

ITEA Project Outlines and Full Project Proposals will be evaluated and selected according to the following criteria:

• Relevance to the ITEA Programme
  
  
• State-of-the-art:
  • Is the technology state-of-the-art properly described?
  • Does the proposal document how the project relates to and/or builds on results of, and differentiates from, other (completed or running) cooperative projects?
  • Is there an adequate “Market Analysis” section (including competitors’ description)?
  • Are the market opportunities clearly documented for each partner?
    
    
• Innovation:
  • Is the innovation described in relation to the State-of-the-Art and is the project innovative enough?
  • Are the future potential products or services identified?
      
• Expected impact:
  • Are the objectives clearly quantified and is it explained how results will be measured?
  • Are the concrete final results as well as the expected impact clearly described and credible?
    
    
• Exploitation
  • Is there an adequate description of the exploitation prospects?
  • Are the management expectations from, and involvement with, software- or system-engineering related activities clearly described for the companies that are not software tool vendors?
  • Is there an adequate description of a standardisation plan (whenever standardisation is a key factor for successful exploitation)?
  • Is there an adequate description of the dissemination plans (e.g. communication towards future customers, publications, etc.)?
    
    
• Consortium (key players and co-operation added value)
  • Is the value chain properly described?
  • Is the positioning of the participants along the described value chain documented?
  • Is there sufficient R&D competence and business power in the consortium?
  • Is the mix of partner types (i.e. large industrial players, SMEs and universities or research institutes) appropriate?
  • Is the mix of countries in accordance with the EUREKA rules?
  • Is the added value of each partner's contribution described and convincing?
  • Does this consortium help the partners to achieve their goals (business and technological)?
  • For projects having software- or system-engineering related activities: are software tool vendors participating? If not, is a justification provided?
    
    
• Project management and work plan
  • Is there an adequate work plan?
  • Is there an adequate project management plan?
  • Are the role and contributions of each partner clearly defined?
  • Is it planned to update/extend, in the course of the project, the state-of-the-art described in the FPP and to make its latest description a public deliverable?
     
• Effort justification
  • Is there a convincing “Rationale for Funding” in each country in the project?
  • Is the total effort in line with the work and the objectives to be achieved?
  • Is the effort of each partner in line with the work to be done?
     
• Contacts with Public Authorities
  • Were the Public Authorities contacted?