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Deliverable / Document Title D3.4 The Networking Event 2016

Deliverable Lead: CNI

Related Work package: WP3

Author(s): Nesrine Hamaici (CNI)

Dissemination level: PU

Due submission date: 31/1/2016

Actual submission: 12/7/2016

Version: 0.5

Project Number 611433

Instrument: Specific Support Action (SSA)

Start date of Project: 01/01/2014

Duration: 30 months

Abstract:

This deliverable provides a report of the 2nd Networking Event, held in Tunis, Tunisia, from May 17 – 19, 2016

This project is co-funded by the European Union, Framework Programme 7, ICT, Grant Agreement 611433.

D3.4TheNetworkingEvent2016

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Versioning and Contribution History

Version Date Modification reason Modified by 0.1 29/5/16 Document created CNI 0.2 24/6/16 First version CNI, F. Kamoun 0.3 28/6/16 Additions ITC 0.4 8/6/16 Adding observations ITC 0.6 9/7/16 Final Version ITC, CNI


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Table of Contents

1. Executive Summary ............................................................................................................ 52. Objectives and Methodology .............................................................................................. 73. Participants .......................................................................................................................... 84. The Agenda ........................................................................................................................ 105. Networking and Impact .................................................................................................... 15

5.1 Research Ideas .................................................................................................................................. 155.2 Evaluation .......................................................................................................................................... 16

6. Gender Distribution .......................................................................................................... 217. Conclusion .......................................................................................................................... 22


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1. Executive Summary

This document describes the activities and the outcome of the second Networking Event of MED-Dialogue project. Originally this event had been planned for May 16-18, 2016 in Rabat, Morocco, but due to unexpected circumstances, the event has been moved to Tunis, from May 17 to 19, 2016. The National Centre of Informatics was pleased to receive such great event; especially that Tunisia had recently become an Associated Member in H2020 programme.

The networking event took place at Regency hotel in Gammarth. The event was held with the partici-pation of more than 90 experts from Europe and the MPC regions. More than 40 ideas were formally presented and discussed in the Networking Sessions (and subsequently made available at the pro-ject’s website) and many more informally during the ‘social networking’ opportunities offered during the three days. The discussions were of high quality and extremely energetic; running long after the scheduled closing time. Many groups emerged, and engaged actively in discussions to explore poten-tial collaborations that could lead to H2020 proposals submissions.

This event is considered as a highly successful one, not only by the project partners, but also by the participants, the Tunisian ministry of communication technology and digital economy, who was repre-sented by the general director of cooperation with UE in the opening ceremony.

The evaluation collected showed also excellent reaction from participants. The event took place over three days during which many sessions were organised (see Table 1).

Table.1: Event summary Name of Event MED-DIALOGUE 2nd NETWORKING EVENT

Date of Event May 17 to 19, 2016

Event Organizer CENTRE NATIONAL DE L’INFORMATIQUE

Contact Person NESRINE HAMAICI

Venue TUNIS, REGENCY HOTEL GAMMARTH

Participants ICT researchers from TUNISIA (expected 30-40) ICT researchers from MPC (expected 20-25 attendees) ICT Researcher from Europe (expected 10-16 attendees)


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Main Sessions Session 1: H2020 and the main ICT Work Programme Session 2 - IoT (3 presentations) Session 3 - Innovation and Entrepreneurship (3 presentations) Session 4 - Smart Anything Everywhere Initiative (4 presentations) Session 5 - Future Internet and 5G (8 presentations) Session 6 - Future Internet and Collective Awareness Platforms for Sustaina-bility and Social Innovation (5 presentations) Session 7 - Big data PPP (6 presentations) Session 8 - Content (10 presentations) Session 9 - “City of the Future” (2 presentations)


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2. Objectives and Methodology

The objectives of the Networking Event, the format and the selection process have been described before; see D3.2 Networking Action Plan 2.

Some short explanation about the change of the location

This 2nd Networking event had been originally programmed for May 16-18, 2016 in Rabat, Morocco, but the director of University Sidi Mohammed Ben Abdellah, our partner from Morocco, changed the place of the event to Fes without the agreement of MED-Dialogue consortium. As a consequence the coordinator of the project after consulting all partners requested The National Centre of Informatics (CNI) to host this Event.

The National Centre of Informatics was very pleased to organise such event, particularly that Tunisia had recently become an Associated Country in H2020 programme. This event gives to the participants an opportunity to get to know each other and share research interests and current research activities. In fact, it enables strong networking among participants from research and enterprises opening the way to potential collaborations among MPC partners which may lead to H2020 proposals submis-sions.


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3. Participants There were more than 90 participants who attended the event from 15 different MPC and European countries (see Figure 1).

Figure 1. Participants Distribution

During the registration phase we received 163 registrations from researchers and experts from the SME’s throughout the MPC and Europe. As our aim was to ensure the participation of recognized ex-perts and promising researchers, we had asked all registered persons to provide us 1) with an outline of a proposal idea that would fit in the current ICT work-plan, and 2) a brief CV explaining their back-ground.

Out of these registrations we selected the top 38 experts, 16 from Europe and 22 from the MPC. The project provided funding to experts from MPC’s.

Croatia,2Cyprus,1

France,4

Greece,5Italy,1

Moldova,1UK,2Algeria,4Egypt,6Jordan,4

Lebanon,4

Morocco,5

Palestine,5

Syria,2

Tunisia,41


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4. The Agenda To achieve the maximum impact during the three days, the event was organised in sessions. The frist one sat up the scene while the 8 following networking sessions focused on the themes that where ad-dressed by the proposal ideas submitted by the participants, with a total of 41 presentations of pro-posal ideas:

• Session 1: The Overall Context: A brief introduction to H2020 with a specific focuses on ICT.

• Session 2 - IoT (3 presentations) Chair: Raphael Koumeri, PLANET SA

• Session 3 - Innovation and Entrepreneurship (3 presentations)

Chair: Thies Wittig, IT Consult

• Session 4 - Smart Anything Everywhere Initiative (4 presentations) Chair: Mokhtar Ben Abdelatif, ISGP

• Session 5 - Future Internet and 5G (8 presentations)

Chair: Alaa Al-Din Al-Radhi, IPv6

• Session 6 - Future Internet and Collective Awareness Platforms for Sustainability and Social Innovation (5 presentations) Chair: Hicham Hajj Hassan, CNRS

• Session 7 - Big data PPP (6 presentations)

Chair: Ahmed Shawky Moussa, Cairo University

• Session 8 - Content (10 presentations) Chair: Muhanna Muhanna, PSUT

• Session 9 - “City of the Future” (2 presentations)

Chair: Imad Khatib, PALAST

A detailed program is presented below.


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ICT Networking Event Tunis, Tunisia

17-19 May 2016

DAY 1

9:00 Registration & welcome

9:30 Opening Session Thies Wittig, MED-Dialogue Coordinator

9:45 Welcome Address Insaf GARGOURI, Ministry of communication technology and digital economy Sofiene Hemissi, DG CNI

10:15 Networking Events: Our objectives for the coming days Thies Wittig, IT Consult, Germany

10:45 Coffee Break Session 1: H2020

Chair: Nikoletta Psalti, PLANET SA

11:15 H2020 and the main ICT Work Programme in “Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies (LEIT)”

12:00 MED-Dialogue Achievements 12:30 Discussion: Setting up the Workgroups and Session for this event 13:00 Lunch Break

Session 2 - IoT Chair: Raphael Koumeri, PLANET SA

14:00 1. Introduction: Sam, François-Rabelais Tours University, France – Combining IoT and Semantic Web technologies for building smart solutions allowing continuous monitor-ing of elderly people

14:30 2. Mohammad Hammoudeh, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK - Change4Life aim to deal with the new era of technology-driven attitude and behaviour changes to help people to remain active and healthy.

14:45 3. Sana Belguith, Polytechnic school of Tunisia, Tunisia - Intelligent framework for protecting user’s privacy in e-health

Session 3 - Innovation and Entrepreneurship Chair: Thies Wittig, IT Consult

15:00 1. Introduction: Haytham Hijazi, Palestine Al-Ahliya University, Palestine - Pre-senting the NETKITE project: Cross-border NETwork to foster Knowledge-intensive busi-ness Incubation and TEchnology transfer.

15:30 2. Joumana Dargham University of Balamand, Lebanon. Entrepreneurship chal-lenges

15:45 3. Mohamad Nawar AL-AWA UN-ESCWA, Lebanon - Enhancing the Commercializa-tion Capacity of Research, Development and Innovation in ICT in the Arab Region

16:00 End of Day 1


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DAY 2

9:30 Overview of the MED CBC Programme - Thies Wittig, IT Consult Session 4 - Smart Anything Everywhere Initiative

Chair: Mokhtar Ben Abdelatif, ISGP

10:00 1. Introduction: Salim Bitam, University of Biskra, Algeria - Customised and low power computing

10:30 2. Djamel DJENOURI, CERIST Research Center, Algeria - IoT Solutions and envi-ronment energy harvesting technologies for preserving the environment: Towards zero emission cities.

10:45 3. Abdelilah Maach, Ecole Mohammadia d'Ingénieurs - EMI, Morocco - sys-tems/applications that use (wide area) networks for communication. Measurement equipment to collect high temporal resolution and accurate wind and solar data

11:00 4. Abderrazak JEMAI, National Institute of Applied Science and Technology - Open Cloud for Things

11:15 Coffee Break and Networking Session 5 - Future Internet and 5G

Chair: Alaa Al-Din Al-Radhi, IPv6

11:45 1. Introduction: Alaa Al-Din Al-Radhi IPv6 Forum, Jordan. IPv6: Where we stand today and what needs to be done.

12:15 2. Tamer ElBatt Cairo University and Nile University, Egypt - Paradigm Shift for 5G 12:30 3. Kostas Giokas AiM Research Team, Biomedical Engineering Laboratory - Insti-

tute of Communications and Computer Systems - NTUA, Greece - of using 5G tech-nologies to train, initiate, coordinate and facilitate first responders

12:45 4. Tawfik Ismail National Institute of Laser Enhanced Sciences, Cairo University, Egypt – Prototype for C Ran

13:00 5. Lamia CHAARI ep FOURATI ISIMS, Tunisia - New access mechanism providing quality of services for 5G networks supporting M2M and IoT communications

13:15 6. Ahmad Rahil Lebanese University, Lebanon - Improving the communication pro-tocols such as MIPV6, FMIPV6, HMIPV6, algorithm to select a destination network based on Multi Attribute Decision Making (MADM).

13:30 7. Houda Chihi, Tunisia - Presenting new approaches allowing energy per bit minimi-zation which improves the energy efficiency which is the requirement for 5G.

13:45 8. Mohamed Swillam, The American University in Cairo, Egypt 14:00 Lunch Break

Session 6 - Future Internet and Collective Awareness Platforms for Sustainability and Social Innovation

Chair: Hicham Hajj Hassan, CNRS 15:00 1. Introduction: George Angelos Papadopoulos University of Cyprus - Depart-

ment of Computer Science, Cyprus. C@ARE Citizens T@ke Responsibility


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15:30 2. Hajer Baazaoui Riadi Laboratory/ISAMM, Tunisia - Contribution to crisis situa-tions identification based on social and geographic data

15:45 3. Faiza Khebour Institut des Sciences Agronomiques de Chott Meriem, Tunisia - partnership for applying Geomatics for Assessment of Landscape Degradation, in the southern Mediterranean zone, for accelerating Sustainable Development.

16:00 4. Samia Moussa Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, Egypt MCIT/ITIDA is proposing to design and develop a new program about “Cyber Space Education & Training”

16:15 5. Žitinić Danko University of Rijeka – Kampus ltd., Croatia. TST UNIRI. – ELearn-ing system - lifelong learning modules. Also working on Innovative Bio-based Materials for the department of Biotechnology and Health topics.

16:30 End of Day 2

DAY 3

Session 7 - Big data PPP Chair: Ahmed Shawky Moussa, Cairo University

9:00 1. Introduction: Silvia Boi Engineering Ingegneria Informatica, Italy - BD4Me - large scale piloting elaborating, analysing and understanding different media data to au-tomate and simplify the process of data analysis

9:30 2. Jean-Pierre LORRE LINAGORA, France - Enterprise computing migrates to social computing models, we build upon the leveraged capabilities issued from the analysis of the interaction data

9:45 3. Laila Benhlima Ecole Mohammadia d'Ingénieurs - EMI, Morocco - Monitoring health system for elderly person or patient that can move from a smart home to the hospi-tal using equipped vehicles

10:00 4. Rachida Houssa Institut National de Recherche Halieutique (INRH), Morocco - The big data in the service of preserving marine biodiversity at the regional level

10:15 5. Amira Cheniour and Sinda Soussia , I.T.Grapes, Tunisia - How IOT, Big Data & Artficial intelligence can be the solution for providing sustainable agriculture & water con-sumption.

10:30 6. Faten Chaieb, CRISTAL Laboratory, Tunisia - Image based Social Network Analy-sis for medical (e-health) Data

10:45 Coffee Break and Networking Session 8 - Content

Chair: Muhanna Muhanna, PSUT

11:15 1. Introduction: Amr Ahmed , University of Lincoln, UK - Real-time Image and Video matching and similarity detection, for copyright/credits, annotation, indexing, search and retrieval of visual contents.

11:45 2. Walid Barhoumi, RIADI, Tunisia - Cross Media Translation 12:00 3. Andrina Granic Faculty of Science, University of Split, Croatia - Effective User

Sensitive Technologies for Mediating Communication Experiences


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12:15 4. Asma Sbeih, Al-Ahliya university , Palestine - Medical Images Cloud Centre Semantic medical image & video diagnoses.

12:30 5. Maged Farrag, Fifth Dimension - 5d, Egypt - ARCH5 5th dimension - ICT-20-2017: Tools for smart digital content in the creative industries – Commercialising of AR and VR

12:45 6. Mahmoud Hawamdeh Al-Quds Open University, Palestine - 5G C Ran 13:00 7. Sonia Zgarni, National agency for the promotion of scientific research, Tunisia

- Technologies for Learning and Skills

13:15 8. Shadi Aljawarneh, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan - Blended learning

13:30 9. Kinj Amani and Aya Saleh bey Kinj, GWA, Syria - Provide students with unique mobile services to fill the gap between University and working life.

13:45 10. Lilia Sfaxi, INSAT, Tunisia - Behaviour Analysis for Higher Education

13:45 Lunch Break Session 9 - “City of the Future”

Chair: Imad Khatib, PALAST

14:45 1. Introduction: Mehdi Nafa, University Badji Mokhtar, Algeria - Research of Standardisation in Smart Cities

15:15 3. Arwa Zabian, Jadara University, Jordan - Project idea consist on roads illumina-tion and power saving

15:30 Final Discussion and Conclusions Closing statements:

• Thies Witting • Raphael Koumeiri • Farouk Kamoun

16:00 End of Day 3


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5. Networking and Impact

5.1 Research Ideas

During the networking sessions, a number of ideas for project proposals for the next call were pre-sented and discussed by the invited experts. The MED-Dialogue website contains a copy of all presentations presented at the event. Table 3 summarises those ideas discussed in the event. Cer-tainly the time given for this activity was in no way sufficient to develop a concrete proposal, but this was not intended anyway: the aim was to connect researchers, i.e. to create or expand networks amongst them in order to further develop future cooperation.

Table 2. Proposal Ideas per theme

1- IoT 1 - Yacine Sam - Combining IoT and Semantic Web.

2 - Mohammad Hammoudeh - Behaviour Profiling in IoT. 3 - Sana Belguith - Intelligent framework for protecting data security. 3 - Sana Belguith - Proposal - Intelligent framework.

2 - Innovation and Entrepreneurship 1 - Haitham Hijazi - Smart Business and Innovation Centre Model - NETKITE.

2 - Joumana Dargham - Effective implementation of ideas. 3 - Nawar AL-AWA - Enhancing the Commercialization Cycle.

3 - Smart Anything Everywhere 1 - Salim Bitam - Customised and low energy computing.

2 - Djamel Djenouri - IoT Solutions and Energy Harvesting. 3 - Abdelilah Maach - Agile platform. 4 - Abderrazak Jemai - Open Cloud for Things.

4 - Future Internet and 5G 1 - Alaa Aldin Al Riadhi - IPV6.

3 - Kostas Giokas - A framework for crisis and emergency management. 4 - Tawfik Ismail - Heterogeneous C-RAN Architecture.

5 - Lamia FOURATI - Quality of services for 5G. 6 - Rahil Ahmad - Handover challenges in 5G mobile Network

7 - Houda CHIHI - New approaches For Energy per Bit Minimization

8 - Mohamed Swillam - On Chip system for Biomedical and safety applications. 5 - Collective Awareness 1 - George Papadopoulos - Collective Awareness Platforms.

2 - Faiza Allouche - Geomatic and ICT for Assessment of Landscape Degradation. 6 - Big data PPP 1 - Silvia Boi- Big Data PPP topics.

2 - Jean-Pierre LORRE - Social Analytics Platform for InterAction Data. 3 - Laila Benhlima - Smart health monitoring. 4 - Rachida HOUSSA - Big data services to manage marine fisheries resources. 5 - Amira CHENIOUR - Smart solution that combines AI and Image processing. 6 - Faten Chaieb - Image based Social Network Analysis for medical Data.


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7 - Content 1- Lilia Sfaxi - Behaviour Analysis in Higher Education.

2 - Walid Barhoumi - Hybrid Media-based Machine Translation. 3 - Andrina Granic - Effective User Sensitive Technologies. 4 - Asma Hassan Sbaih - Biological and Medical Informatics Research Centre. 4 - Asma Sbaih - Research Center for Medical Imaging over Cloud. 5 - Maged Farrag - ARCH5. 6 - Mahmoud Hawamdeh - Online Animation and Simulation Library. 7 - Amani Kinj - Career Path.

8 - City of the Future 1 - Mehdi Nafa - SCcube Secure Connected Smart Cities.

5.2 Evaluation

All the participants and partners claimed that this was indeed a very successful and fruitful event based on the following observations:

1. An excellent organization

2. A great number of high quality presentations (more than 40 presentations).

3. The seriousness of the participants in presenting their ideas and participation the Q&A ses-sions

4. The intensity of group discussions in the hotel lobby or during the social activities

5. A large majority of participants showed their satisfaction and sent mails to congratulate the team of MED-Dialogue project about the great success of the meeting.


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To complete the evaluation we asked the European experts about their impressions with regards to:

1) How do you rate the quality of the proposals presented?

• A few were timely, specific to a H2020 topic and had scientific merit. However, others were related to past calls or did not fully justify why they should be the basis for applying for H2020 funds.

• The quality of the proposals was good but it was evident that some participants have not completely grasped the required complexity of an EU proposal idea

• In my opinion, around 30% of the presented proposals were at the right level. The majori-ty of the presentations were about one's research capacity and expertise. Other presen-tations described generic ideas rather than concrete project.

• I globally find the quality of the proposed ideas more and more interesting and mature, even if the requirement level of EU projects would require some more of work. This is I


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think mainly the fruit of EU-ICT-projects awareness work done by your team (Join-Med and Med-Dialogue), but also due to the interest and effort of every participant.

• The quality of the proposals definitely increased and had a broader coverage which makes them more interesting for the European partners.

• The scientific level was good, however I think with the risk of being wrong, that the need was not well understood by all stakeholders. The majority of the proposals can’t lead to products or services that can be marketed.

• Since I was attending a few previous networking events organized under an umbrella of both projects, I can notice that the quality of presented proposals is much better in gen-eral. This fact of course is directly influenced by methodically conducted relevant activi-ties. However, unfortunately there was still a number of participants who were simply “falling from the sky” (sorry, we have such kind of expression in Croatian so I hope that you understand what I mean).

2) How would you rate the scientific level of the participants from the MPC that you met and discussed with?

• Most of the participants I talked to had high scientific level and were active researchers in state-of-the-art research fields.

• The scientific level of participants I talked to was really good not different to that of a non-MPC partner.

• As good as any non-MPC participants.

• The discussions with MPC colleagues were very interesting and there is for me no differ-ence between their scientific level and that of the Non-MPC partners.

• The scientific level of the participants is much appreciated and we had very interesting discussions.

• As I mentioned earlier the scientific and academic level was quite high. The industrial and commercial approach was less pronounced.

• I cannot say that there was a kind of difference in the scientific level of MPC participants.


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3) Do you think that networking events like this one can really help creating partnerships with MPC researchers for H2020 proposals?

• Yes. I fact, I think that this is the most effective way for MPC researchers as well as in-dustry to understand how they can be involved in EU funding initiatives and create con-tacts with EU researchers.

• Yes, these events are absolutely crucial and do raise the awareness on the requirements of challenging proposals. Also it helps the non-MPC partners build some very interesting collaboration.

• Yes, and it actually did. I'm currently in the early stages of forming a consortium, which will be lead by a colleague in France.

• These events allow establishing contacts and potential collaborations with MPC partners. This can lead to H2020 proposals submissions.

• Definitely these networking events are a great opportunity in creating partnerships with MPC researchers for H2020 proposals.

• In my opinion, it is necessary to continue this experience with the involvement of more enterprises.

• I am positive that this kind of networking events are more than welcome in order to pro-vide concrete occasions where potential future collaborations could be established. Face-to-face meeting are simply irreplaceable and crucial in order to make first steps in possible future joint work.

4) Do you think MPC researchers have a chance in H2020 and if not, what should be done to increase the chances?

• I believe that a number of MPC researchers could be involved in H2020 proposals. The main challenge (and the way to increase their chances of participation) is for them to identify those cases where the MPC participation is added value to the EU. This means that they have to analyse the calls and associated topics, assess the relevant strong points of their participation and thus establish that there is added value. Then, it will be easier for them to be accepted into consortia but also for these consortia to demonstrate that MPC participation is appropriate and necessary.

• Some of them do have a chance yes. There were some interesting ideas presented. However, I believe that more H2020 awareness is required. Maybe not so at a European level (e.g. the structure of H2020 and its funding instruments) but rather the proposal de-velopment and methodology. Some ideas would be as follows: how to find the appropri-


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ate partners based on their ability to contribute (not their name value), how to work on scientific methodology, how to produce valid impact figures, etc.

• I think they have a very good chance. They need to be proactive and identify prob-lems/challenges in their region that are related to H2020 calls, which can be picked up by researchers from multiple disciplines. For instance, if there is an IoT call to address soci-etal challenges in the MPC, as someone who has been only one time in that part of the world I would struggle to develop a proposal or identify collaborators. To increase their chances, I think they need more visibility and they should be proactive in targeted calls.

• Yes, some of MPC researchers have very good scientific and technologic background; they can have chance in H2020. They however need may be more H2020 ICT aware-ness and training to master proposals development, focusing on their strengths when contributing within consortia, show the socioeconomic impact, etc. It can be interesting if, in addition to the very interesting efforts of Thies, Raphael and their team, if each country will organize its local H2020 awareness and training events in order to give access to more researchers and create an interesting dynamic.

• Of course they have! More confidence and actions to enter in "Consortium" and to start to gain experience.

• This will certainly depend on the evaluation commissions. But I believe that it’s necessary to select the best proposals and improve them with fewer interventions than last time.

• We are all aware of the fact that in H2020 it is extremely tough to get funding. There is still no formula to help us with the preparation of competitive project proposal, provided that we have that “innovative” aspects also fulfilled. In that respect not quite sure what to suggest except some activities/events to be undertaken in order to build on the aware-ness and acquisition of related knowledge at local/national level.


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6. Gender Distribution

Only 30% of the around 7 million people working in the information and communication (ICT) sector are women. They are under-represented at all levels in the ICT sector, especially in decision-making positions.1

Women are still underrepresented in the ICT sector. Out of 1,000 women with a bachelor degree in Europe, only 29 hold a degree in ICT (compared to 95 men) whilst only 4 eventually work in the ICT sector. To compound the problem, women leave the sector mid-career (leaky pipeline) to a greater extent than men. Indeed, 20% of women aged 30 years with ICT related bachelor degrees work in the sector, whilst only 9% of women above 45 years old with these degrees do so2.

Women are also particularly underrepresented in managerial and decision making positions. Although this is a general problem, the percentage of female bosses in ICT is much smaller than in other sec-tors: 19.2% of ICT sector workers compared to 45.2% of non-ICT sector workers have female boss-es3.

The same picture in Europe, US and MENA region: the “gender digital divide” means that there are fewer women than men accessing and using ICT.

Our Networking Event fared quite well with the gender distribution. Only 34 % of the partici-pants are women. However, this rate still better than the rate of the first Networking Event 26%.

1 https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/women-ict 2 Data elaborated in house (Economic case 2) based on the European Labour Force Survey 2011. ICT refers to J sector. Microdata necessary for this study is not available for Cyprus and the Czech Republic, therefore 25 countries from EU27 have been included, together with Switzerland, making 26 in total. 3 Data elaborated in-house based on Survey on Working Conditions (2010)


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7. Conclusion

The 2nd Networking Event of MED-Dialogue was a very fruitful and successful event. Among the key success factors are:

• The large number of attendees from Europe and the South Med region who intensively dis-cussed more than 40 proposal ideas for the upcoming H2020 calls in ICT.

• The high participation level of recognized experts and promising researchers from both the EU and MPC region.

• The event allowed participant to establish contacts and potential collaborations between EU and MPC. This can lead to H2020 proposals submissions in the near future.

However, there is still a need for more H2020 ICT awareness and training actions to master proposals development and methodology. Combined with Networking Events like this one, they can clearly help to establish strong relationships for future H2020 proposals.

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