The project will capitalise on the investment of EU on the recently established Information Points which are located in non EU member or Candidate or Associated countries of the Mediterranean region and will achieve the following aims:

• To strengthen the ERA and FP7 in the Med. countries

• To realise a mapping exercise of the R&D national Programmes in order for EC to have a view of national priorities and their possible “matching” with the participation in FPs. The mapping will result in a “model/prototype” database containing the profiles of the key players/organisations involved in the national priorities.

• To produce an assessment report on social, cultural and scientific support across the MPC which are not EU countries. The Med. NCPs will ensure the verification of the data.

• To achieve the integration and coherence of Med. NCPs of MPC into the EU/European networks dedicated to FP7 and to ERA

• To establish and implement a promotion/dissemination mechanism in order to keep the Scientists, Researchers and stakeholders of the EU and MPC aware of the possibilities of identifying their counterparts for collaboration in the Research Projects and activities of FP7

• To inform and create awareness among EU Scientific communities of the potential added value to be gained by collaborating with their counterparts in Med. Countries.

• To prepare the Scientific and Researchers’ communities in Med. Countries through Thematic workshops which will be well-focused on specific thematic areas of FP7 according to their needs and priorities. Short updating training seminars to Med. NCPs of MPC will also be provided.

The consortium includes partners from: France, Italy, Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and Palestinian Authority. The coordinator is the Greek National Documentation Centre (EKT).