Examples of using Knowledge communities in English and their translations into Polish
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The Knowledge Communities.
The Commission suggests that all these options should be open to the EIT and the Knowledge Communities.
Knowledge communities are themselves legally part of the EIT.
The identification of the knowledge communities should start in 2009.
Knowledge Communities represent the operational heart of the EIT.
The tasks- that is to say the research, the innovation,the teaching of postgraduate students- would be carried out by the Knowledge Communities.
The knowledge communities will be selected for support by the EIT on a competitive basis.
The Governing Board should define a global framework within which individual Knowledge Communities could address the issue.
Knowledge Communities should be selected through a process that is both top-down and bottom-up.
At all stages, the Governing Board would oversee the monitoring and evaluation of the knowledge communities against precise benchmarks.
First, private companies which are part of the knowledge communities will from the beginning second resources to the EIT, like other partners.
The cement for the programme discussions, for which much credit is due to the rapporteur, was the idea of innovation,which is to become a reality through the knowledge communities.
Some guidance as to the specific criteria to select the Knowledge Communities may be given in the legal instrument.
It will do this through a series of integrated partnerships with existing universities, research centres or companies(‘partner organisations'),creating“knowledge communities”.
Making the EIT visible by labelling the qualifications added through such knowledge communities is likely to bring further added value.
There is also a key difference between the knowledge communities and other networks inside Europe created with EU support- such as the networks of excellence under the 6th Framework Programme.
The process should also be top-down, in that the Governing Board would define the strategic interdisciplinary areas of operation in which the Knowledge Communities need to be established.
It should decide upon the overall EIT budget and allocate it to the Knowledge Communities on the basis of the progress demonstrated by monitoring and evaluation.
Knowledge communities will specialise in trans-disciplinary areas, such as mechatronics or bio-informatics, or inter-disciplinary fields such as green energy, climate change, eco-innovation or an ageing society.
I therefore warmly support the decision of the authorities in Wrocław who are seeking to get the Governing Board or one of the knowledge communities to set up their offices in the city, where as many as 140 000 students are studying.
The EIT would make financial resources available to Knowledge Communities; participating universities and research centres could thus do more, more rapidly, than would have been possible without these additional resources.
The EIT is an institution which identifies strategic scientific challenges of potential economic interestsin interdisciplinary areas and selects and funds Knowledge Communities to address them.
In the EIT, institutions andcompanies involved in the knowledge communities will have to second resources to the EIT: they will cease to be part of their home organisation, and will become legally part of the EIT.
The Governing Board should define the EIT's overall policy and strategic agenda, identifying the main thematic areas within which it should work, and selecting, establishing,monitoring and evaluating the Knowledge Communities.
In the February Communication the Commission suggested that those working within Knowledge Communities- researchers, lecturers, those working on innovation or technology transfer- should be seconded to the EIT and employed by it.
Knowledge communities would be selected by the EIT Governing Board following a competitive process based on peer evaluation, to identify the potential of each proposed partnership to deliver in its field within a medium-term time-frame of 10-15 years.
While initially it would be necessary to provide substantial public core funding, as knowledge communities develop, the EIT is expected to raise resources from other competitive Community and national funding sources as well as from businesses, foundations, fees, etc.
Its knowledge Communities are integrated partnerships, consisting of teams put together by universities, research organisations and industry to carry out research, education and innovation in these areas in order to meet the objectives laid down by the EIT.
The EESC recommends that an"instruction manual" be drawn up for end users of the various EU instruments for innovation, and the various forms of partnership, joint initiatives,flagship initiatives, knowledge communities, platforms and other similar Community actions in the area of R& I.
A fundamental difference between an ordinary‘network' and these knowledge communities is that while in ordinary networks, the partners merely agree to cooperate, in the EIT knowledge communities, they will second resources- infrastructure, staff, equipment- to the EIT.