Recognizing and treating employees as a source of quality is one of the key drivers for organizational excellence. In global contexts, the need for talented employees has increased drastically. In Partner Country HEI, the probability that the talented employees (academic and also administrative staff) leave the HEI for better opportunities is very high. So these HEIs need to fight harder to attract, recruit and retain these employees in a systematic way. The overall aim of the project is to improve the activities and processes that involve the systematic attraction, identification, development, engagement, retention and deployments of those talented employees in order to create strategic sustainable success. To achieve this aim, this proposal suggests three main outcomes/outputs: The first one is to build a toolkit that allows HEIs to design their own strategies on HR for talented employees. The second one is to train a set of managers to share the concepts, principles and techniques for talent management to other managers. Finally, the third one is to build an on-line observatory of strategies and practices for talent management in Asian HEIs. This observatory also offers courses for developing managerial skills for talent management.The scope of this proposal is quite broad. On the one hand, their results offer the possibility of introducing a completely different approach to people management in these HEIS. Over time, these practices could also reach private companies in PCs. On the other hand, major efforts will be made to involve researchers (as well as research centres) in the creation of new lines of research on human resources in PCs.

Europe and China are at the forefront of technological advances in areas related to the Future Internet (especially 5G and IoT). While both parties share common technological objectives, there is still room for improvement in what concerns bilateral co-operation. As a result, the main purpose of EXCITING is to support the creation of favourable conditions for co-operation between the European and Chinese research and innovation ecosystems, mainly related to the key strategic domains of IoT and 5G. EXCITING will study the research and innovation ecosystem for IoT and 5G in China and compare it with the European model. EXCITING will identify and document the key international standards bodies for IoT and 5G, as well as other associations and fora where discussions take place and implementation decisions are made. Going beyond standardisation, interoperability testing is a key step towards market deployment. EXCITING will identify and document the key international InterOp events at which European and Chinese manufacturers can test and certify their IoT and 5G products. It will also explain the rules for engaging in these events. EXCITING will produce Best Practice guidelines for establishing and operating practical joint collaborations, in order to stimulate further such co-operations in the future on IoT and 5G Large Scale Pilots. As a result of the above investigations EXCITING will produce a roadmap showing how research and innovation ecosystems, policy, standardisation, interoperability testing and practical Large Scale Pilots should be addressed during the H2020 timeframe, and make recommendations for optimising collaboration between Europe and China for IoT and 5G.