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IPMA ITALY Journal of Applied Project Management
Volume 1 no. 2 (July 2015)
projects with positive margins e) The opportunities arise by the
then the EC projects have low
priority and often the Company profitable work of the project
revises the economical effort to
assign to the internal research manager being him/her the
(R&D budget) penalizing the EC
projects. Moreover within the only point of contact of the
EC projects all the sustained
costs should be necessary entire consortium and being
declared because the received
contribution is regulated on the very often called by the
declared costs: less costs
fewer contributions! Commission to interfaces with
c) In the EC project cannot be
individuated a “client” being other analogous projects and
the EC out of all the
proprietaries of the outcomes. to disseminate also the partial
The real “clients” are all the
involved stakeholders and the results obtained during the
Partners of the consortium who
remain proprietaries of the project evolution
outcomes of the project overall
and of their own activities in the Form the above considerations it
projects. In this view each
participating Partner can have results evident that these research
the same objective of the
project but can also be projects could constitute an anomaly
interested only in development
of a part of it. in an industrial framework, especially if
d) Research Project’s risks are
often underestimated due to they are tightly bonded to the
the simple fact that they are
not based on specific and standard of the Project Management
stringent contracts and
consequently an industrial lower of the Company. As already reported
priority. This approach can lead
to exploding the costs, missing above, the main issue of the EC
the primarily objective of the
research, failing the project. The projects resides in the opportunity for
second, but the most frequent
risk, is to not be able to declare the industry to increase the
all the costs and to not reach
the maximum EC contribution capabilities optimizing the internal
foreseen during the proposal
preparation (see point b) resources and develop the needed
skills, industrial stability and expanding
their European and International
market.
In this view it is important since the first
stages of the project, to individuate
all the stakeholders and to involve the
Users: EC encourages the
dissemination of results by means of
publications, events participation and
organization, round tables, forums,
workshops, etc creating a complex
net of interactions at all the levels
(research entities, industries,
institutions, etc). Nowadays each EC
project builds and maintains a
dedicated web site in which all the
updated information are reachable,
creating a constant virtual meeting
point for the continuous exchange of
information and comments. This
approach constitutes a peculiarity of
EC projects in the industrial framework
where the industrial research is usually
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