This document outlines the external review process for Partnering Opportunity Database (POD) profiles on the Enterprise Europe Network website. Reviewers are asked to score profiles on 4 categories and can select a score between 0-5. Scores are then used to determine if a profile is published, put on hold, or rejected. A score of 0 in any category means automatic rejection. Reviewers also leave comments in a text field to explain scores. The document provides criteria reviewers use to evaluate different parts of a profile like the title, summary, description, and partnership opportunities.

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External review
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The scoring system
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• Advantages and innovative aspects
• Clarity, coherence and understanding
• Cooperation expectations
• Guidelines and linguistic accuracy

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The scoring system
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0 – 5 points for each category:
0 Blocking
1 Insufficient
2 Rather poor
3 Sufficient
4 Good
5 Excellent

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Score Status
17 - 20 Excellent
Published15 - 16 Good
10 - 14 Sufficient
5 - 9 Rather poor On hold
0 - 4 Insufficient Rejected
• 2000 character text field to provide comments
and explain the score

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The use of the ‘0’
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• If the ER gives a ‘0’ for any single
category it indicates that he/she
considers the profile should be put on
hold irrespective of the scores for the
other categories because it fails to
meet minimun requirements for that
specific category.

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The use of the ‘0’
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• BO submitted as a BR
• BR submitted as a BO
• TO submitted as a TR
• BO submitted as a TO

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Profiles placed on hold
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• Returned to profile creator’s dashboard with
status ‘On hold from external review’
• The profile creator takes note of the ER’s
comments and re-submits
• The profile returns to the External review
dashboard (the 1st ER receives an e-mail
notification)

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Review criteria
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• Title:
 Must be completely free from typos and
grammatical errors
• Reviewers can make small changes and accept the profile, but should
explain this in their comments and give a lower score.
 Must be meaningful and understandable

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Review criteria
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• Summary:
 Must be completely free from typos, grammatical errors and
unexplained acronyms
• Reviewers can make small changes and accept the profile, but
should explain the changes and give a lower score.
 Must describe the key partnership types and these must be
consistent with what is written in the description and under
‘Types of Partnership Considered’
 Must make sense and be plausible

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Review criteria
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• The profile must be anonymous with no
obvious reference to the company
behind the profile, the product or brand
name
• RDR profiles must state the EOI
deadline.

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Review criteria
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• Description
 The opening paragraph must not be a
verbatim repeat of the summary
 Must be clear and understandable
 The types of partners and partnerships
envisaged must be discussed
 Must be written in the 3rd person

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Review criteria
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• Innovations and advantages
 Should not simply be a list of features, i.e.,
it should be clear why a stated advantage
is an advantage (e.g. comparative,
quantitative statements)
 For TOs, the innovation/s should be
defined

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Review criteria
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• IPR
 If ‘Other’ is selected, comments field must
be completed to explain what is meant by
‘other’
 Patent numbers or titles must not be
disclosed

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Review criteria
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• Type and role of partner sought
 Can either be used to expand on, or
summarise what has been written in the
description re type and role of partner.
• Type/s of partnership considered
 Must be consistent with the summary and
description.

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