The Fraunhofer Gesellschaft, Germany, signed Framework Contract with EMDESK® on August, 20, 2009
Today the Fraunhofer Gesellschaft has signed a Framework Contract with EMDESK®. Under this agreement, all 57 Fraunhofer Institutions will be able to take advantage of the EMDESK® Proposal Writing and Project Management Platform for the creation of proposals, the negotiation stage as well as the implementation and management of research projects in the European Union 7th Framework Programme.
EMDESK® will support the Fraunhofer Gesellschaft in its capacity as coordinator to manage its project data, write proposals, collaborate and comply with the requirements and administrative obligations of the 7th Framework Programme efficiently.
"There are many reasons why the Fraunhofer Gesellschaft has decided to conclude a framework contract with EMDESK®. A main advantage of EMDESK® is that it is especially tailored to the requirements of research projects in the 7th Framework Programme - thus it is possible to administrate the proposal creation as well as the negotiation and project implementation with only one system. After the evaluation by the project management team of the Fraunhofer EU-Network and the Fraunhofer SIT (Institute for Secure Information technology) EMDESK® clearly convinced us because of its usability. It also fulfills the strict data-protection standards of the Fraunhofer Gesellschaft.” |
Maximilian Steiert, EU Project Officer at the Fraunhofer Gesellschaft. |
The Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft (FhG) was founded in 1949 and is the leading organisation for applied research in Europe with a staff of some 15,000, predominantly qualified scientists and engineers and an annual research budget of around €1.4 billion. The majority of the activities are contracted research including numerous FP7 research projects.
