Online ITEA PO Days 2021

By and for the ITEA Community

300+ potential project partners | presentations of innovative project ideas | constructive consortium building | dynamic online workgroup sessions | interactive networking opportunities

ITEA projects make a difference! This has once again been underlined through the approval of ITEA 4. Fourteen ITEA Board members endorsed the application and already sixteen countries committed to support ITEA 4 projects in the future. So, we are very pleased to announce ITEA 4’s first Call, which will be launched on 13 September 2021 in conjunction with the Online ITEA Project Outline (PO) Preparation Days 2021 that will take place from 13 to 16 September 2021. This four-day networking event is the perfect opportunity to pave the way for your ITEA Call 2021 project proposal!

Country information sessions – an early dialogue to improve success rates

ITEA projects are publicly funded at a national level. Each partner of a labelled ITEA project can apply for funding from their own national Public Authority. An early dialogue between project consortia and Public Authorities from the involved countries supports an alignment with national priorities and the best possible opportunities for funding.

ITEA supports this early dialogue by offering our Public Authorities the chance to present their national priorities, eligibility criteria and funding outlook in the week before the Online ITEA PO Days 2021. On Friday 10 September, a set of interactive ‘country information sessions’ will be organised, during which participants can learn more about the conditions and outlook for funding and will have room for questions. This will help consortia to focus their efforts on eligible partners during the Online PO Days 2021, which is beneficial for everyone.

How to be a winner

Each year, the ITEA Board Support Group and ITEA Steering Group nominate outstanding ITEA projects for the ITEA Award of Excellence. During the ITEA Award of Excellence ceremony, which will take place on Wednesday 15 September from 14:00-15:30 CEST, project leaders will share their success stories as well as their recommendations on managing a project successfully.

This year, these awards will focus on the key achievements for ITEA: Innovation, Business impact and Standardisation. Four projects were selected for the 2021 Award of Excellence:

• BIMy will receive the ITEA Award of Excellence 2021 for Innovation:
  BIMy provides a platform for different stakeholders to share different building and city models. Several tools and a guideline book have been developed to support the exchange of different models on the platform. This BIMy innovation opens the door to strong cooperation and new innovations in the smart city domain.
• PARTNER is the winner of the ITEA Award of Excellence 2021 for Business impact:
  PARTNER has demonstrated important outcomes with a strong impact on the businesses of the project partners in the healthcare domain. The project has created solutions to share patient data in order to optimise the patient journey through the health system. This helps to give better care while managing privacy issues.
• VMAP will receive the Award of Excellence 2021 for their Standardisation efforts/impact:
  VMAP has made a great effort to promote its results as a standard and will continue this after the end of the project with the creation of the VMAP Standard Community e.V.
• EMPHYSIS will receive the special ITEA Vice-Chairman Award of Excellence 2021 for outstanding results in all three categories:
  EMPHASIS has achieved great results with important innovations for embedded systems, significant business impacts for the automotive industry and a strong contribution to standardisation.

Join us and register now!

Join us at the Online ITEA PO Days 2021 and become part of ITEA 4’s first Call! Block your calendar from 13-16 September and register now. The participation fee for the Online ITEA PO Days 2021 is EUR 100 but if you register before 1 August 2021, you can benefit from the early bird fee and only pay EUR 75! Fees are non-refundable.

For more information and registration, visit: https://itea4.org/onlinepodays2021/index.html

We look forward connecting (with) you!