Meetings could be organised in the NACs to inform on details of successful and not successful proposals in the first call. As especially NACs do not have a tradition in building RTD consortia it was suggested to support specific training into building RTD consortia. A large event could be organised where NACs countries and actors could present their IST RTD capacity, and similar to the information day in Paris at the beginning of the IST programme. Reverse' fairs could be organised in the NACs in order to obtain better impact and larger coverage of the NACs, technology fairs could be organised in each individual country to which EU organisations should be invited. Fairs could be used by large EU industries where they try to identify partners to outsource their RTD work.
More emphasis is needed in partner search and consortium building.
A SWOT analysis could be used for defining national priorities in the longer term. The SME awards could be advertised more actively in the NACs, and organisations in the NACs could take advantage of the situation in order to find partners and build consortia. Such programmes could emphasise the local impact and spin-off of the actions, they could involve national and EU organisations.