The Co-operation Agreement
A co-operation agreement is hereby concluded between:
Ministero per i Beni e le Attività culturali, Via del Collegio Romano, Roma (“the co-ordinator”)
of the one part,
and
…… Name (acronym), address, country,…..(“the new member”)

of the other part,
collectively “the parties”, represented by their authorised representatives.
In the framework of the specific programme for research, technological development and demonstration on a user-friendly information society (1998-2002), the “IST Programme”, the Ministero per i Beni e le Attività culturali concluded a contract No IST-2001-35461 to realise a Thematic Network entitled MINERVA.
In the light of the activities foreseen within the MINERVA Network, the parties have agreed to co-operate as it follows:
Article 1 - Subject matter of the co-operation agreement
The purpose of this agreement is to enable the new member to participate in the MINERVA Network and to contribute to its implementation in accordance with the conditions provided for in this agreement. 
Article 2 - Scope
The new member shall perform his share of the work pursuant to this agreement in compliance with the requirements of the Technical Annex of MINERVA. The new member shall co-operate with the co-ordinator and with the other members of the MINERVA network on the following topics, in particular:
1.	to contribute to the benchmarking on programmes and policies in digitisation of cultural and scientific content, in the country of origin of the new member;
2.	to participate to the MINERVA working groups, namely: 
-	inventories of running and completed projects, available digitised cultural content and multilinguism;
-	interoperability;
-	quality of the cultural web-sites.
3.	to provide references to examples  of good practices and to competence centres, which are known by the new member but not yet included in the MINERVA reports;
4.	to participate to the MINERVA dissemination activities (e.g. public presentations, training seminars, etc.) and to the initiatives aimed at the enlargement of the MINERVA network.
The new member may be invited to participate in meeting organised by MINERVA, following the schedule of activities indicated in the Technical Annex and others possibly agreed with the European Commission.
In the framework of co-operation, the new member will also be invited to contribute to the MINERVA reports, by the provision of specific content, after having discussed and agreed with the co-ordinator their nature and scope.
Article 3 - Entry into force of the co-operation agreement
The agreement shall enter into force from the date of its signature. 
Article 4 - Completion, expiry or termination of the co-operation agreement
1.	The present co-operation agreement shall automatically terminate on the date of completion or termination of the basic MINERVA contract. 
2.	After the completion of the project, new forms of co-operation will be established among all the interested parties, in order to make the network stable and to guarantee its continuity.  Renewal of the present agreement is therefore foreseen and expected.
2.	Each party may terminate this agreement subject to two months’ written notice. 

For the parties	Signature and title	Date

Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali
Via del Collegio Romano, 27
00186 Roma, Italy
(please return a signed copy to this address)
	
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Supported by (*)

	
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	Name of the new member
	(written out in full)
	
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(*) Please include this section if you sign the agreement on behalf on the Italian Ministry