The European Union and the Republic of India have been collaborating to promote and encourage mutual research cooperation since the early 1960s. The India EU Strategic Partnership Joint Action Plan, launched in 2005, puts a strong emphasis on cooperation across collaborative activities and research projects in the ICT domains.
In this context Euro-India SPIRIT offers an important opportunity to consolidate existing research cooperation in ICT and put in place durable foundations for the future.
By bringing together all major stakeholders, Euro-India SPIRIT will ensure active participation in the policy process to shape future R&D roadmaps.

Euro-India SPIRIT is:

• Building an international dimension into your research agenda

• Seeking international funding for your research project

• Delivering your views to develop research enabling policies

The ongoing Euro-India SPIRIT project, which includes four of the partners of the present proposal among its six-partner consortium, has the following key focus areas:

• Analyse the research dimension of Indian ICT policy, encompassing ICT technologies, applications, user industry and domain implications

• Organise and probe stakeholders to identify medium to long term vision and perspectives and reveal complementarities with EU priorities, notably the i2010 strategy and objectives and updates

• Update, Assist and Enrich the Policy Dialogue process and meetings between the EU and India with periodic reports, surveys and position papers encompassing findings from policy research and stakeholder views dealing with common R&D perspectives, priorities, opportunities and challenges

• Organise synchronized stakeholder events and domain experts deliberations to enhance the profile and communicate the utility of the policy dialogue process

• Recommend future co-operation initiatives and identify matching counterpart funding to leverage Indian research capability and capacity and to engage in projects in common priority areas

• Develop synergies with activities underway in India covering Capacities, People and INCO-NET dimensions