Report on international brokerage events

International brokerage events will be organized back to back to the Open Info Day organized by the EC, usually once per year. In total 3 of these partnering events will be organized within the lifetime of the project. One of the major reasons of success gained by brokerage events organized within the “Health NCP Net” project was the very good cooperation with the EC and the Fit for Health project. The same approach will be continued in the HNN 2.0 project and the events will be organized in close cooperation with Fit for Health 2.0. Because in 2014 the first brokerage event is foreseen to be organized by Fit for Health 2.0 in mid/end November, presumably little after the HNN 2.0 project will have started, HNN 2.0 will step in and collaborate as much as possible, although the biggest efforts for the organization of this type of events will be reflected in the three following years. These brokerage events will bring together potential project coordinators and potential project partners, and the estimated number of participants will be 200 per event. The focus will be on matchmaking between relevant parties in order to meet the objective of supporting the formation of high quality consortia. All areas relevant to the current call will be addressed every year with special focus on the ICT sector related to the Health area. The impact of this activity will be based on the evaluations submitted by participants. Special attention will be paid to stimulate EU-13 participation. Since the general interest in Brussels brokerage event is usually very high and all sits are booked within a very short time, it might be difficult for EU13 community to react and guarantee the necessary travel funds. To achieve the objective of wide European participation certain number of places will be reserved for researchers and SMEs coming from EU-13 countries. Successful applicants from EU-13 will also be invited as speakers. One of the main objectives of the HNN 2.0 project is to improve the NCP services and knowledge under H2020. In order to achieve this task the less experienced partners (less experienced in terms of brokerage event organization) will be involved and perform minor tasks (learning by doing effect).