Transnational exchange of experiences and dissemination of best practices can constitute an important supporting element in the work which should be provided by the SiS NCPs, and at the same time can contribute to the realisation of the concept of the Science in Society. The experiences of the benchmarking exercises within the activities that take place can make clear that the SiS might be served as a source of stimulation. Very important activities are also several activities like training and info workshops and the development of databases.

SiS NCPs have a very demanding role as there have a wide area to cover with all the scientific issues included. The National contact Points are established in order to help each country’s organisations to participate in a program with a variety of activities and objectives. Also they have the role to communicate all the initiatives and events that are taking place all over Europe in order the organisations (targeted user groups) to be informed. Further more it is needed to have an overview of the initiatives that are undertaken both in their countries and in the rest of the EU countries in order to give adequate information to the interested parties.

EUROSiS is bringing together all the NCPs for the Science in Society program in order to create a networkand will continually improve their services through the exchange of good practices, the communication of all the representatives and the creation of a well structured partner search tool. Furthermore a lot of events will be organised in order to train both the new NCPs as well as the already experienced. One of the most important activities of the project will be the survey of the competence of the already nominated NCPs. This will be performed through mapping the SiS NCPs’ competences and stakeholders’ needs in order to launch the first knowledge management tool for the SiS NCP services.

The main aim of the EUROSiS project is to create the needed infrastructure in order the newly formed SiS NCP network to set a basis and also in order the nominated NCPs to start working so that they have common benefits in their work and at the same time to provide the effective services to the stakeholders. As the project will last for two years the main effort will be allocated in order to create the framework and establish the basic procedures and framework so that there is a future collaboration within the NCP community. It has to be noted that SiS NCP Network is established for the first time to the basic issues for the period of the proposed project in order to establish the needed communication in a very well structured way.