EU-JordanNet FP7	Start: 01.12.2009   Finish: 31.05.2012	Number of Partners: 6	Total Budget in kEuro: 499
Project site	Role of IT Consult:	Partner	Management, Training
Enhancement of Jordan-European S&T Partnerships	Summary:
	EU-JordanNet will carry out a Capacity Building Programme to support the Jordanian NCP and the national network of FP7 contact points in universities and research centres to enhance their understanding of the structure and the procedures of the FP7 Co-operation and People Programmes. EU-JordanNet will carry out a major S&T Awareness and Co-operation campaign on FP7 in Jordan addressing Jordanian researchers and the private industry. It will focus on three Thematic Areas: Health, ICT and Environment.
Join-MED FP7 ICT	Start: 01.02.2009   Finish: 31.07.2011	Number of Partners: 11	Total Budget in kEuro: 910
Project site	Role of IT Consult:	Partner	Policy Development
Establishing the EU-Mediterranean ICT Research Network	Summary:
	The first objective of Join-MED is to create a sustainable network of ICT research organisations in the Mediterranean Partner Countries (MPC) and Europe, reinforcing the Research Cooperation between these two regions on a wider scale. To achieve this, Join-MED will organise a series of networking events in the MPC that will bring researchers from different MPC and EU together. Furthermore, it will support the creation of institutionalised networks on a cross-regional basis, suggesting appropriate methodologies for accomplishing this. To help unfold the potential of the research capacity across the MPC, where R&D is still driven by national initiatives with very little cross-regional co-operation, Join-MED will promote closer research co-operation across the region. This will achieved by moving from country-focused networking events to cross-regional ones. The second objective of Join-MED is to support the Information Society policy dialogue and the co-ordination of national policies on international S&T co-operation in the MPC. This will be achieved by formulating a harmonised MPC ICT policy and through an open dialogue, among the MPC as well as with Europe.
BPO Africa ACP	Start: 01.08.2008   Finish: 30.11.2009
	Role of IT Consult:	Expert	Outsourcing
Strategic Development for BPO to Africa	Summary:
	The aim of this study was to develop a strategy to foster Business Process Outsourcing between European and African SME. According to the study, the global off-shoring market has reached an estimated volume of $30 billion (€22.3 billion) in revenues over the past two years, where India and the Philippines account for 50% of the world BPO market. Nonetheless, in spite of its huge population, it is interesting to note that the demand for call centre agents in India has grown so fast that the labour supply has been unable to keep up with it. Therefore, at present India is increasingly moving into the domain of Knowledge Process Outsourcing (KPO) where the main indicator of competitiveness is not the labour rate as for BPO but the skill level of the local workforce.
IT-UPGRADE ASIA-INVEST	Start: 01.02.2007   Finish: 22.09.2008	Number of Partners: 3
	Role of IT Consult:	Expert	Cluster Formation
IT-UPGRADE	Summary:
	Clustering has become a well-established instrument all over the world to generate competitive advantages of all kinds of industries, particularly for outsourcing and offshore development. There is a strong potential for clustering in the Bangladeshi Multimedia and Software Development Industry. In this regard, a three-day-long seminar on "Clustering for the Multimedia and Software Development Industry in Bangladesh" was held on July 16, 17 and 19, 2008 as a follow up of an initial training session in Paris at the CCIP in March 2008. At the end of this seminar a Declaration of Interest to create a cluster organisation was signed by 18 participating software companies, representing a development base of well over 500 developers.