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| March 23/24 2010 - Brusseles |
| ERA-NET on stage |
The 23 & March 24, 2010, Brussels will host ERA-NET on stage a major event for decision makers and program managers of national and regional RTD. The 2010 edition will focus on interaction and mutual learning by offering eight different workshops dealing with issues of coordination and cooperation between national research programs and regional:
- Workshop 1: Making NETWATCH a robust tool - inviting feedback on the functionality of the website
- Workshop 2: ERA-NET under FP7 - lessons learnt from the thematic integration
- Workshop 3: Smart coordination - positioning of the ERA-NET scheme and future trends in the coordination of national and regional research programmes
- Workshop 4: Cross-border financing in times of economic crisis
- Workshop 5: ERA-NET Plus - hands-on experience
- Workshop 6: Coordination of SME related programmes (FP7, ERA-NETs, Eurostars, others)
- Workshop 7: Evaluating ongoing ERA-NET collaboration - what types of analysis should NETWATCH offer?
- Workshop 8: The road ahead for ERA-NETs.
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| March 22/25 2010 - Liege, Belgium |
| European Conference on Nanofilms 2010 |
The European Conference on Nanofilms (ECNF 2010) will be held in Liege, Belgium from 22 to 25 March 2010.
The event will centre on technical talks, poster sessions and thematic roundtables, as well as numerous networking opportunities. Participants will also have the opportunity to select and meet scientists and/or business partners in one-to-one meetings.
Topics covered by the event will include:
- advanced nanocoatings for mechanical and tribological applications;
- recent progress in biomedical coatings;
- stimulus responsive and multifunctional coatings for a smarter world;
- nanosystems: fundamental approaches towards understanding;
- from nanoparticles to nanofilms: manufacturing methods & processes;
- from science to society : mass production and integration of nanofilms.
For further information, please visit:
http://www.vinf.eu/ecnf/
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| March 26th, 2010 - Brussels |
| Conference What future for Milk? |
The objective of the conference is to discuss the following issues:
- Contractual relations between milk producers and dairies to better balance supply and demand on the dairy market
- What can be done to strengthen the bargaining power of milk producers?
- Are the existing market instruments appropriate?
- Transparency for the benefit of milk producers, dairy industry and consumers
- Information on markets and products (quality, health and labelling issues)
- Innovation and research with a view to render the sector more competitive
- A futures market in dairy?
- Experience of systems in place in countries outside the EU
The conference will be held on Friday 26 March 2010 in the Charlemagne Building, GASP Room, Rue de la Loi 170, Brussels, Belgium.
The conference will bring together leading representatives from:
- The High Level Group
- Producers/cooperatives
- Trade/retailers
- Industry
- Workers
- Consumers
- The European institutions
The languages of the conference will be English, French, German, Spanish, Italian and Polish.
Participation to the conference is on invitation only.
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| March 22/26 2010 - Brussels |
| European weel for sustainable energy |
The 2010 european wekk for sustainable energy will take place in Brissels, on 22-26th March 2010.
Organised by DG TREN since 2005, it gathers every union and numerous entities around events dedicated to the promotion of efficient energy and renewable energy.
Apart from these 3 days of meetings, DG TREN offers the local authorities to organise energy days during that week.
Last year, the event gathered more than 300 people in Brussels. DG TREN supports the organisation of EUSEW labeled events around Europe.
More information:
http://www.eusew.eu/
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| March 25/26 2010 - Angers |
| National Meeting for communication and sustainable development |
Two days to meet and be informed on the communication strategy in a context of sustainable development.
March, 25th and 26th in Angers.
Local authorities are mainly the ones concerned by this event.
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| March 29/30 2010 - Berlin |
| Human Centred Design for Intelligent Transport Systems Conference |
Due to the non-existence of a specific conference focused on safety and usability of vehicle information and communication technologies, the HUMANIST NoE decided in 2008 to set up a European conference on Human Centred Design for Intelligent Transport Systems.
The aim is to gather the community of Human Factors researchers, to offer an overview of the current developments and trends and to create an area for discussions and debates on these topics.
The first conference was held on 3 and 4 April 2008 in Lyon, France. It was successful with 120 participants from Europe but also from Japan, Australia, Canada, USA.
The second European conference on Human Centred Design for Intelligent Transport Systems will be held in Berlin on 29 and 30 April 2010.
Registrations now opened!
Registration to the conference is now opened. Please fill in the registration form and send it back to lucile.mendoza@inrets.fr.
Notifications of acceptance/non acceptance
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| April 14/16 2010 - Valencia |
| The European Framework Programmes: From Economic Recovery to Sustainability |
The Conference The European Framework Programmes: From Economic Recovery to Sustainability will be the key public event in launching a series of new Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) as cornerstone of the smart investments of the European Economic Recovery Plan:
- Factories of the Future (FoF)
- Energy Efficient Buildings (EeB)
- Green Cars (GCI)
- Future Internet (FI)
The Conference will be the core of the FP7: EUROPEAN INNOVATION AND RTD TRANSFORMING SECTORS' WEEK, whose venue will be the city of Valencia. April 13th will be devoted to Energy Efficient Building (EeB) PPP and Factories of the Future (FoF) PPP, and April 14th will cover Green Car (GC) PPP and Future Internet (FI) PPP. Side events within the week include meetings of E2B Association and EFFRA on April 12th, the 4th Future Internet Assembly on April 15th and 16th and other co-located events organized together with the European Commission.
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| April 15/16 2010 - Madrid |
| ECO-INNOVATION & REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT GREEN TO GROW |
Eco-innovation is becoming a priority to foster economic development at all different stages of public administration: EU, State, Region, City. Hopes are linked to the business flows and jobs that might be generated by greening all industrial sectors and innovative start-ups.
If you wish to share your experience and your thoughts in the field of eco-innovation, join your colleagues in Madrid.
SESSION TOPICS
* State of the play
* Regional strategies
* Enhancing eco-innovation support at regional level
* The way forward
The format will allow discussions with experts, world café discussions, speed presentations as well as networking opportunities.
Working languages: English & Spanish
VENUE
HOTEL VILLAREALPlaza de las Cortes, 10
E – 28014 MADRID
PARTICIPATION FEE
* Eurada members € 175.00
* Non members € 350.00
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| November 24 2009 - April 20 2010 - Depending on training session |
| Gender in EU-funded research |
Interested in what gender-sensitive research practically means?
These one-day training sessions are intended for anybody interested in rendering research gender-sensitive: researchers, project managers, National Contact Points, expert evaluators,..
The sessions will provide practical guidance on how the gender dimension can be integrated in research, using clear examples of how gender is relevant to existing FP7 projects.
Programme of the day:
- The morning is devoted to a general introduction to gender in research.
- In the afternoon, there are two parallel sessions in which two specific research fields are addressed with practical exercises (cases). When registering for a training, please indicate which afternoon session you wish to attend.
Training sessions will take place at different locations across Europe, and will run till October 2010.
Participation in a training session is FREE.
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| April 20/21 2010 - Bilbao |
| 8th ETAP Forum on Eco-Innovation |
Overcoming barriers to SMEs in eco-innovation
Eco-innovation is essential to respond to major current and future societal challenges, particularly in terms of the environment. The creativity and dynamism of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) means they have a crucial role to play in this area - both as eco-innovators and as recipients of green technologies. Eco-innovation is key to supporting our society over the next 50 years and to minimise the gap between environmental pressures and a standard of living with which we will feel comfortable in our society. Technology will have to bridge that gap and the development of that technology involves eco-innovation in products, processes and – increasingly – services, much provided by SMEs.
According to European Commission figures, more than 99% of all European businesses are SMEs. They provide two out of three of all private-sector jobs and contribute to more than half of the total value-added created by businesses in the EU. Moreover, SMEs are the true backbone of the European economy, being primarily responsible for wealth and economic growth, in addition to their key role in innovation and R&D.
All these enterprising companies are trying to find their niche in the economy and respond to needs in society. But, while they are creative and dynamic, their size is such that their market influence is very small. Equally SME capabilities for developing new products are inevitably restricted. In the same way, even earlier in the chain of knowledge and innovation, their access to expertise, finance and markets is similarly circumscribed. However, the brightest ideas come from small and medium-sized companies.
Moreover, different policies are necessary to support the crucial front runners that have the creative ideas and equally important late adapters that take such ideas and help society arrive at its goals. The front runners have already shown their willingness and readiness to think ahead of environmental legislation. They help policymakers formulate new policies, whereas the late adapters need to be brought in to adapt existing knowledge. So we need them all.
The Bilbao Forum is intended first of all to get entrepreneurs themselves to speak about their specific needs and the barriers to their development. These will be examined against the background of what governments and other organisations are already doing to support SMEs in the eco-innovation sector.
Concrete examples will be presented of best experiences and best practices of how SMEs can respond to develop their niche in the economy. The intention is to elaborate recommendations for more effective government policies at the regional, national and European level. Participants will include a number of specific SMEs together with policymakers, finance institutions, research institutions and relevant non-governmental organisations.
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