India and the European Union face common timely challenges in the very important and potential field of networked monitoring and control system technologies, which create a favorable environment for strategic collaboration. Consequently, the main aim of EUCLID is to increase co-operation in this field between Indian and European R&D specialists, ensuring mutual benefits.The two-year project will start its analysis from industrial needs in 4 application domains - (1) transportation; (2) energy management; (3) industrial automation; (4) water supply / treatment. In parallel, industrial needs in the relevant application domains in Europe will be identified as well, and cross-mapped with the findings in India, paving way to further strengthen R&D collaboration.The international Expert Group – 10 high level specialists – will work jointly with the consortium and will provide their expertise to project implementation and assistance to the development of long term EU-Indian monitoring and control collaborations.The EUCLID project will map Indian monitoring and control competences, will compare them with the identified industrial needs both in India and in Europe and European research priorities, and will map potential collaboration opportunities. As a result, Catalogue of Indian R&D organisations will be prepared. The EUCLID project team will assess EU-India collaboration potential and will prepare an Opportunity Report and a roadmap for EU-Indian collaboration in the field of networked monitoring and control system technologies. The project plans to implement two awareness raising events, and a Delegation tour in India. It will aim to strengthen the industrial competitiveness in both India and the EU and to increase skills of R&D specialists. The mutual actions between EU and India will contribute to the inter-disciplinary excellence in control systems technologies.