Events

FP7 Health - Open Information Day & Partnering Event

European Commission, Brussels 09 and 10 June 2011

On 9 June 2011, the European Commission (Research and Innovation DG - Directorate Health) organised an Open Information Day on FP7 Health research at the Charlemagne Commission Building in Brussels.

This event presented the FP7 Health 2012 call orientations and highlighted the priorities and specificities of the next Health call for proposals due to be published later in July.

The programme consisted of plenary sessions and several parallel workshops providing some insights in the planned call topics and guidance on how to participate in FP7 Health:

Opportunities for SMEs, Focus on Clinical Trials, International Cooperation and Communicating EU Research.
594 stakeholders from industry and academia and various information multipliers attended the open day and profited from networking and information exchange.

Maíre Geoghegan-Quinn, the Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation opened the Conference: "Europe's drive to push research and innovation to the forefront of our economic and political priorities is our best way of getting jobs and growth that Europe badly needs, and of getting the answers to some of the biggest challenges we face, including the challenges to improve health and quality of life."

Conference programme: here. ( 602KB)
FP7 Health - 2012 orientation paper here ( 578KB)

You can access the recordings of the plenary sessions in the room Gasperi here

Related Events

>> FP7 Health - Partnering Event

HEALTH-NCP-Net and Fit-for-Health jointly organized a separate partnering event on 10 June 2011 at the Radisson Blu Royal Hotel, Rue du Fossé-aux-Loups (Wolvengracht) 47, 1000 Brussels, Belgium.

More information can be accessed here.

>> Satellite event: Access4EU

Crowne Plaza Europa Hotels, 107 Rue de la Loi, 1040 Brussels, Belgium

09 June 2011, starting time is 18.00

This event informed about third country funding mechanisms that are accessible for European researchers doing health research in Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand, Russia, South Africa and the USA. The session was organised by seven Access4EU projects and was coordinated by the Agency for the Promotion of European Research (APRE), Italy.

More information can be accessed here.
Contact: kubbinga@apre.it