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Newsletter #8, August 2010
Example project proposals - a helpfool tool for applicants
In the frame of the TransCoSME project 2 example project proposals has been produced: EDIPAC (Research for SMEs) and EDIPAFF (Research for SMEs Associations). These fictitious project proposals incorporate many features that a real structured, designed and formal project application would contain. They should be treated as a reference documents which will help would-be project applicants format their own submissions.
More info:
http://www.ncp-sme.net
EAI - European Alliance for Innovation
The EAI initiative is a pan-European movement which will work as a unique Innovation Society composed of professionals at all levels of the Innovation Cycle. The unique approach of EAI consists of involving active participation of member organizations and empowering their communities through a grassroots paradigm, thus promoting effective technology transfer, entrepreneurial mindset in education, and increased competitiveness of European companies.
The EAI started as a follow-up of a European Commission sponsored meeting which took place in Lyon (ICT2008), in which the idea of forming a European Alliance for Innovation was put forward, consisting of a partnership of ICT key actors. The principal objective is to address the issue of the fragmentation of R&D efforts, and to represent the European ICT sector as one.
More info:
http://www.eai.eu/about/
SMEs research and innovation. From idea to market: Turning knowledge into profit.
In the framework of the Belgian Presidency of the Council of Europe, WALLONIA (DGO6-Research), organises, in collaboration with the European Commission (DG Research), a conference focusing on the needs of "Small and Medium-sized Enterprises" around the twin themes of "Research" and "Innovation" as a background.
This conference will take place on November 17th and 18th 2010 at Hotel Dolce La Hulpe (Brussels) and a total of 400 participants is expected, most of whom representing a variety of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises.
The two-day debates will concentrate on the following three central themes:
Step 1 - I have an idea !
From the idea to the launch of a project/company
Step 2 - How to turn that idea into reality?
Creating your innovative environment and personal network for success
Step 3 - Meeting market and societal challenges
Is market driven innovation the way to success?
Each of these sessions will be launched by a well-known visionary speaker whose role will be to elaborate on the traditional horizons dealing with research and innovation within European Small and Medium-sized Enterprises, therefore helping the audience to put aside all pre-conceived ideas and thus hopefully leading the audience to start opening-up to current visions.
Each of these sessions should give plenty of opportunities to help European Small and Medium-sized Enterprises to describe as well as share their own experiences with the audience, under the guidance of two experienced moderators who would conduct the debates, draw a number of conclusions and perhaps offer new ways to reassess and/or reflect upon the debated topics.
More info:
http://www.smeconference2010.be/
Second European Innovation Summit
On 13 and 14 October 2010 the second European Innovation Summit (EIS) will take place at the European Parliament. The event will be dedicated to present and discuss the grand challenges Europe is facing and to put forward recommendations on what is needed to overcome these challenges in a global and highly competitive environment.
More info:
http://www.knowledge4innovation.eu/k4i/programme_eis_2.aspx
OECD innovation strategy
The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development-OECD Council Meeting at Ministerial Level "From Recovery to Sustained Growth" held on 27th-28th May 2010 in Paris, France, focused on the key challenges facing governments, including ways to promote green growth and boost innovation.
Within this framework, the OECD published the following documentation related to the development of its Innovation Strategy:
- Analytical report on Innovation Strategy: Getting a Head Start on Tomorrow
- Compendium of statistical indicators Measuring Innovation: A New Perspective
- Innovation Strategy key findings
More info:
http://www.oecd.org/site/0,3407,en_21571361_45014763_1_1_1_1_1,00.html
FP 7 - calls open
On 20 of July European Commission has lunched 51 new calls in FP7 under the "Cooperation', "Capacities', "People' and 'Ideas'. Under the Cooperation Programme are some calls dedicated especially to SMEs. One can find them within Health, Environment, ICT and KBBE Work Programmes.
Also in Capacities a call has been open under the 'Research for the benefit of SMEs' scheme. Special attention should be paid to the new pilot action - demonstration action. The only entities eligible for participation in the new scheme are SMEs which have successfully participated in a Cooperative/Collective project in FP6 or in a 'Research for SMEs' project in FP7. Apart from that projects must be centered on the needs of SMEs to carry out demonstration activities before being able to enter the market. Activities can include testing of the product-like prototypes, scale-up studies, performance verification and implementation on new technical and non-technical solutions.
More info:
http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/dc/index.cfm
Catalogue of FP 7 environmental projects 2007-2010
This 325-page document includes all the projects which have so far been funded under the Environment (including climate change) theme in FP7 (2007-2010), presenting them according to key research areas.
More info:
http://ec.europa.eu/research/environment/index_en.cfm?pg=publications
Information about eu funds beneficiaries revealed
The Financial Transparency System (FTS), launched in 2008, discloses information on the beneficiaries of budget lines managed directly by the Commission and its executive agencies. The data are accessible through a web-based search engine with various search criteria such as the country of the beneficiary, the name of the programme or the amount.
More info:
http://ec.europa.eu/beneficiaries/fts/index_en.htm
http://ec.europa.eu/contracts_grants/beneficiaries_en.htm
IPREG2 Project - "Entrepereneurship and sme policy across Europe"
The idea of IPREG (Innovative Policy Research for Economic Growth) was launched by the Swedish Entrepreneurship forum. The vision of IPREG is to undertake research that can facilitate the formation of an efficient entrepreneurship and innovation policy as a basis for sustainable economic growth in Europe's different regions and in Europe as a whole.
The present research Programme of IPREG contains three subprojects ongoing up to late spring 2011, i. e. one project concerning the costs of entrepreneurship and SME policies, one project of what countries are doing in these policy areas and one project of to what extent policy-makers take into account the context of a region or nation when formulating policy measures.
More info:
http://www.ipreg.org
Forthcomming Events:
Coordinating FP7 Research Projects
BFood, Agriculture and Fisheries and Biotechnology Info Day and Brokerage Event on Call FP7-KBBE-5-2011
Central European Congress of Life Sciences Eurobiotech 2010
European Cluster Conference 2010
eChallenges 2010
Reshaping Europe - adressing societal challenges through Entrepreneurship and Innovation
