Pongratz Consulting and Eurida Research Management in collaboration with EUCOPE are organizing a two-day Horizon 2020 workshop “En Route to Horizon 2020” to provide you with what you need to successfully apply for Horizon 2020 funding.

To find out more and to register, please go to the Workshop Homepage. We will provide comprehensive information on Horizon 2020 funding and discuss the different topics and calls recently published by the European Commission. Speakers include representatives from the European Commission DG-Research and Innovation, EUCOPE, Eurida Research and Pongratz Consulting.

On 31 January 2014, there will be an Information Day presenting the Future Internet topics within Call 1 (opened on 11 December 2013, closing date: 23 April 2014) of the new EU framework programme for Research and Innovation, Horizon 2020.

In connection with World Cancer Day 2014 (http://www.worldcancerday.org/), the European Technology Platform on Nanomedicine (ETPN) and its partners would like to invite you to the Nano World Cancer Day on the theme  "Shedding light on Nanomedicine and Cancer".

The objective of this pan-European event is to hold several press conferences simultaneously in different leading regions of Europe to emphasise the role of nanomedicine in the fight against cancer.       

Organisers' Websites :

NAMDIATREAM at www.namdiatream.eu

MULTIFUN at www.multifun-project.eu

ETP NANOMEDICINE at http://www.etp-nanomedicine.eu/public

Are you interested in finding how the EU can help ICT entrepreneurs and innovative SMEs under Horizon 2020? Come and find out how the Open Disruptive Innovation Scheme and Innovation and Entrepreneurship Support -announced in the Horizon 2020 Work Programme - will operate.

The first day of the event is dedicated to the conference Horizon 2020 Connections – a solemn launch of Horizon 2020 in the Slovak Republic with key-note speeches by Mrs. Máire Geoghegan-Quinn, European Commissioner for Research, Innovation and Science and Minister for Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic – Mr. Dušan Čaplovič. On the second day a matchmaking event will take place. The matchmaking is for researchers and research active SMEs only. The official language of the Conference and Matchmaking is English. The speeches and presentations will be held in English without interpretation to Slovak.

FET organised an Information Day for the Work Programme 2014-15 on 20 January 2014 in Brussels to present the following open Calls:

What’s in Horizon 2020 for you? What are the new calls and how to apply for funding?
We invite you to the Info Day 2014 in Brussels, on 17 January, to get first-hand information on the new EU funding instrument and to find the answer to these and many other questions.

The infoday will include a general introduction on Public-Public Partnerships under Horizon 2020 and provide you with detailed information on the features of the ERA-NET Cofund actions including the provisions from the model grant agreement, the relevant calls in 2014 and 2015 and information on proposal submission, evaluation, grant preparation and reporting.

The Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Unit and the Research Executive Agency (REA) are organising a web-streamed training on the 2014 calls for the Innovative training Networks (ITN) and the Research and Innovation Staff Exchange (RISE) on Wednesday 15 January from 2 to 6 pm.

Here is the list of upcoming infodays on MSCA!

On December 19, VINNOVA invites you to an Information meeting about the first calls on Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies - NMP within Horizon 2020. The first deadline for proposals is expected as early as by spring 2014.

The European Green Vehicles Initiative (EGVI) contractual Public-Private Partnership (cPPP) will be launched on Tuesday 17 December 2013 in Brussels, with the signature of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU).