TRANSNATIONAL COOPERATION (TNC)

PROJECT FICHE

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Remember: the better your description is, the bigger chance to find a proper partner for your project!

Name of institution: / National Institute for Research and Development in Electrical Engineering ICPE-CA
Type of institution (tick one right answer): / □Administration
□Private
□Consultancy
□NGO
□Education and training organisation
□Employment agency or service
X University, research institution
□Social economy institution
□Others (please specify what)
Contact person: / Gabriela Iosif
Address, phone, e-mail, website: / Splaiul Unirii Street, nr. 313, sect.3, Bucharest, Romania, +4021.346.72.31, fax +4021.346.82.99, ,
MemberState: / Romania
Region (NUTS 2 or 3)[1]: / 2
Stage of implementation: (tick the right answer): / X Project Idea (projects in preparation phase without grant awarded)
□Project under implementation
Title of the Project: / Regional human resources of the economy
Approximate budget of the project: / 1.800.000 Euro
Budget of transnational activities: / 1.500.000 Euro
Durationof the project – starting date(in months): / From January 2012 to December 2013
Duration of the transnational activities within the project – starting date(in months): / From August 2012 to August 2013
Thematic scope[2] of the project (tick the right answer – maximum 2): / □Workers and new skills
□Businesses undergoing change
□Access to employment and social inclusion
X Education and training
□Women and jobs
□Fighting discrimination
X Working in partnership
□Better public services
□Others (please specify)
Target group(final beneficiaries, not stakeholders) for transnational cooperation (tick the right answer): / □Unemployed
  • Long term unemployed
X Persons not actively at work
Including those who are learning in school or university
□Employed
  • Farmers
  • Self employed
  • Employed in micro enterprises (less than 10 employees)
  • Employed in small enterprises (between 10 and 50 employees)
  • Employed in SMEs (between 50 and 250 employees)
  • Employed in big enterprises (over 250 employees)
  • Employed in public administration (public entities including Public Employment services)
  • Employed in NGOs
  • In particularly disadvantaging conditions
□NGOs (Associations, Foundations) / □Other persons:
  • Ethnic or national minorities
  • Immigrants Ex-offenders
  • Persons from deprived rural areas
  • Persons from deprived urban neighbourhoods
  • Children
  • Women
  • Young people (under 25 years old)
  • Older persons (over 50 years old)
  • Persons with mental or physical disabilities
  • Enterprises[3] covered by support
  • Social enterprises
  • Micro enterprises (less than 10 employees)
  • Small enterprises (between 10 and 50 employees)
X SMEs (between 50 and 250 employees)
  • Big enterprises (over 250 employees)
  • Administration (public entities including Public Employment services, education and training institutions)

Brief description of the Transnational cooperation:
  1. Problems to be solved (justification of the need of the transnational cooperation)
NationalResearch and DevelopmentInstituteforElectrical EngineeringICPE-CAis a nationalinstitutethatcarries out activitiesin the field ofelectricalengineering,located inBucharest,Romania.
Taken into consideration that theInstitute activityisfundamental and appliedscientific research,innational and internationalcontext,withdirectbenefitstowards the economy, we want to develop,incollaborationwith universitiesabroad,the posibility for polishstudentsto be abletoperformthe practiceoutlinedinthe Institute,on thelatest equipment. Also, the institutehas developed aTechnology TransferCentrewhichconstantly pursuecloser tiesbetween enterprises, universities andresearch institutes, enablingthe facilitation oftechnology transfers, from researchtoindustry. Last, but not least, the Institute wants to supportsocialeconomydevelopment, humanresourcetraining orretrainingand integration of human resource intomanyaspects ofsocial life.
  1. Objectives to be achieved
The development of those youngsters who work in the research labs and the young students who will be able to integrate in the research field.
The development of the collaborations networks and exchange information between science and business areas.
Informational campaigns for the know-how in the scientific area and for developing partnerships and communications.
  1. Main transnational activities (as provisionally planned, to be confirmed with partners)
Organization of conferences, meetings and work-shops
Research activities
Doing practice in the Institute
Consulting, experience exchange
The development of new solutions and the implementation of the new solutions in other countries
The development of the collaborations between science and business areas
The development of the communication network
The transfer of know-how in the industrial area
  1. Planned outputs, deliverables, results of TNC; expected outcomes (effects)
The results will be the development of new solutions and the implementation of the new solutions in other countries,
a tight collaboration between science and business areas, development of the communication networks and transfer of know-how in the industrial area.

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[2]Source: ESF web page on

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