Registrant : Organisation or self-employed individual
| Name/company name: |
Connect-EU Materials Group |
| Acronym: |
Connect-EU Materials
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| Legal status: |
Regional R&D Platform Grouping
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| Website address: |
http://www.connect-eumaterials.eu
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Sections
| Section: |
IV - Think tanks, research and academic institutions |
| and more precisely: |
Think tanks and research institutions |
Person with legal responsibility
| Surname, Name: |
Mr
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| Position: |
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Permanent person in charge of EU relations
| Surname, Name: |
Mr
Juanjo Martin
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| Position: |
Manager |
Contact details:
| Contact details of organisation's head office: |
1 Av. Bases de Manresa
Manresa 08242
SPAIN
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| Telephone number: |
(+34) 938777373 |
| Fax number: |
(+34) 938777374 |
| Other contact information: |
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Goals / remit
| Goals / remit of the organisation: |
Connect-EU materials was designed to promote the participation of Catalonia in the EU’s Seventh R&D Framework Programme and specifically in the field of materials technology.
This initiative, run by the Government of Catalonia through ACC1Ó and AGAUR, addresses the main innovation stakeholders of Catalonia:
-Companies
-TECNIO agents
-Universities and public and private research centres
Goals
- To promote the participation of Catalan businesses in the Seventh Framework Programme.
- To increase the number of projects led by Catalonia.
- To favour the training of project managers and their involvement in international R&D projects.
- To create a stable mechanism that facilitates the definition of the European R&D strategy in Catalonia.
- To become an active region in the European Research Area and increase the number of joint R&D activities with other regions and states.
- To favour the internationalisation of Catalonia’s technology agents.
- To boost knowledge transfer between the academic and business worlds.
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The organisation's fields of interests are:
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Number of persons engaged in activities falling under the scope of the Transparency Register
| Number of persons: |
2
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Complementary information:
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2 persons managing the preparation of the contributions, who are at the same time the coordinators of Connect-EU materials' activities.
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Persons accredited for access to European Parliament premises
Activities
Main EU initiatives covered the year before by activities falling under the scope of the Transparency Register:
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none
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Fields of interest for e-mail alerts on consultations and roadmaps;
| Fields declared by the organisation: |
- Research and Technology
- Trans-European Networks
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Structure
| Total number of members that are natural persons: |
100 |
| Number of member organisations: |
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| Member organisations (Number of members) : |
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| The organisation has members/is represented in the following country(countries): |
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Complementary information:
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Networking
Information on (i) organisation's membership of any associations/federations/confederations or (ii) relationships to other bodies in formal or informal networks.
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Financial data
| Financial year: |
12/2010
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11/2011
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Total budget:
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1
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€
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of which public financing:
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1
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€
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- from European sources:
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- Procurement:
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1
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€
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- Grants:
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0
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€
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- from national sources:
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0
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€
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- from local/regional sources:
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0
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€
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from other sources: |
0
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€
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- donations:
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0
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€
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- contributions from members:
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0
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€
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Estimated costs to the organisation directly related to representing interests to EU institutions in that year:
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Other (financial) information provided by the organisation:
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We are just a group, without legal statutes. We are coordinated by the Catalan Government and we represent all Catalan organisations working on R&D in materials technology.
We are a kind of technology platform without legal statutes but regulated by the government.
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