tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32178346181305453952024-03-13T10:30:16.164+01:00SOS Researchers - EU funding@sosresearchersAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10260943186976100959noreply@blogger.comBlogger324125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3217834618130545395.post-85452923180037234472015-03-16T17:22:00.002+01:002015-03-16T17:22:53.366+01:00Course: International financial instruments for enterprises<pre style="background: white; text-align: center;">
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competitiveness and continue to innovate. IGC has studied a path to access the
international financial instruments on ongoing basis, to support the company
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(EIB, EBRD), international tenders, international awards: how to get grant
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Cooperation, Transactional funds: how to build a network of international
partners and/or fit into a European cluster, by protecting your own know-how. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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headquarters of IGC in <st1:placename w:st="on">Brussels</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Bridge</st1:placetype> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Building</st1:placetype>,
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consultancy, to assess the feasibility and sustainability of your innovative
solutions and your plans.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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participate in another course of IGC; <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10260943186976100959noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3217834618130545395.post-78456704600675952992015-02-05T10:45:00.004+01:002015-02-05T10:46:52.427+01:00Fast Track for Innovation<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 13px/17px Arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">The Fast Track to Innovation (FTI) pilot is testing a new approach to give the development of innovations the last push needed before their introduction to the market. It is the only fully bottom-up measure in Horizon 2020 promoting close-to-market innovation activities and open to all types of participants.</span><br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10260943186976100959noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3217834618130545395.post-23553599911403930022015-02-04T17:47:00.000+01:002015-02-04T17:47:02.030+01:00HORIZON 2020 DEDICATED SME INSTRUMENT <div style="text-align: center;">
<b><span style="color: #38761d;">Boosting the potential of small businesses for eco-innovation and a sustainable supply of raw materials</span></b></div>
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This topic is targeted at all types of eco-innovative SMEs in all areas addressing the climate action, environment, resource efficiency and raw materials challenge, focusing on SMEs showing a strong ambition to develop, grow and internationalise. All kinds of promising ideas, products, processes, services and business models, notably across sectors and disciplines, for commercialisation both in a business-to-business (B2B) and a business-to-customer (B2C) context, are eligible.</div>
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The SME instrument consists of three separate phases and a coaching and mentoring service for beneficiaries. Participants can apply to phase 1 with a view to applying to phase 2 at a later date, or directly to phase 2.</div>
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In phase 1, a feasibility study shall be developed verifying the technological/practical as well as economic viability of an innovation idea/concept with considerable novelty to the industry sector in which it is presented (new products, processes, services and technologies or new market applications of existing technologies). The activities could, for example, comprise risk assessment, market study, user involvement, Intellectual Property (IP) management, innovation strategy development, partner search, feasibility of concept and the like to establish a solid high-potential innovation project aligned to the enterprise strategy and with a European dimension. </div>
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Funding will be provided in the form of a lump sum of EUR 50.000. Projects should last around 6 months.</div>
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In phase 2, innovation projects will be supported that address the Societal Challenge 'Climate action, environment, resource efficiency and raw materials' and that demonstrate high potential in terms of company competitiveness and growth underpinned by a strategic business plan. Activities should focus on innovation activities such as demonstration, testing, prototyping, piloting, scaling-up, miniaturisation, design, market replication and the like aiming to bring an innovation idea (product, process, service etc) to industrial readiness and maturity for market introduction, but may also include some research. For technological innovation a Technology Readiness Level of 6 or above (or similar for non-technological innovations) are envisaged. </div>
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Proposals shall be based on an elaborated business plan either developed through phase 1 or another means. Particular attention must be paid to IP protection and ownership;</div>
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Proposals shall contain a specification for the outcome of the project, including a first commercialisation plan, and criteria for success. </div>
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Project budget: EUR 0.5 a- 2.5 each</div>
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Projects should last between 12 and 24 months. </div>
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In addition, in phase 3, SMEs can benefit from indirect support measures and services as well as access to the financial facilities supported under Access to Risk Finance of the programme. </div>
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Successful beneficiaries will be offered coaching and mentoring support during phase 1 and phase 2. This service will be accessible via the Enterprise Europe Network and delivered by a dedicated coach through consultation and signposting to the beneficiaries. </div>
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Specific challenge: The competitiveness of European road vehicle manufacturers is based on technological leadership particularly on system optimisation and affordability, particularly with respect to powertrains. The challenge is to recover a leading position in hybrid technology. The technology will also have positive effect on the reduction of CO2 emissions from road transport and air quality.</div>
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Scope: Proposals should develop new knowledge on hybrid components (storage system power electronics, etc.) and system engineering, simulation and technology integration with the aim of achieving hybrid powertrain weight and cost reduction, increased functionality, simplification of complex systems, efficiency and affordability while decreasing emissions and improving performance, comfort and functional safety. For light vehicles, preference would be given to concepts providing significant zero emission ranges. The research should be validated through at least one demonstrator for each platform subject of research.</div>
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<i>Source: European Commission official website</i>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10260943186976100959noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3217834618130545395.post-36014629188747915712014-02-14T15:54:00.004+01:002015-02-05T10:50:36.499+01:00FUNDS FOR INNOVATION<div style="text-align: center;">
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The challenge is to reach the fleet level of 95g CO2/km and 147g CO2/km emissions targets for passenger cars and light duty commercial vehicles respectively (according to the new Worldwide harmonised Light Vehicle Test Procedure), through the development of advanced engine and after-treatment concepts adapted and optimised to use natural gas. Significant reductions in terms of real driving emissions of NOx and PM are also expected.<br />
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The technology needs to be competitive with respect to current vehicles using conventional fuels. Therefore the challenge can only be reached if vehicles demonstrate a driving range of at least 600 km with no space penalty in comparison to gasoline vehicles.</div>
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<i>Source: European Commission official website</i>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10260943186976100959noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3217834618130545395.post-31084338696398641182014-02-12T11:48:00.000+01:002014-02-12T11:48:00.613+01:00FUNDS FOR RESEARCH AND INNOVATION <b><span style="color: #660000;">Reducing impacts and costs of freight and service trips in urban areas</span></b><br />
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• Assessing innovative policies and solutions to ensure a better use of infrastructure (e.g. delivery spaces, off peak deliveries, non-road modes, urban waterways) and vehicles (types, load factors); improve network management; address demand side measures, innovative use of transport modes, new ways of stakeholder collaboration; and provide policy frameworks that allow sustainable business models for urban logistics solutions. </div>
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• Assessing innovative policies and solutions on consolidation and distribution centres in urban areas, including design (e.g. cross-docking); business models for consolidation schemes (including fleet and freight sharing and pooling and adequate collaboration frameworks); integration of direct and reverse logistics; tools to identify and measure consolidation opportunities; and governance models.</div>
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Project Budget: between EUR 2 to 4 million each<br />
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Funding rate: 100% <br />
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Source: European Commission official websiteAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10260943186976100959noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3217834618130545395.post-33778460095282264522014-02-10T11:24:00.001+01:002014-02-10T11:24:19.381+01:00FUNDS FOR RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT<div style="text-align: center;">
<b><span style="color: #660000;">Transforming the use of conventionally fuelled vehicles in urban areas</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #660000;">Deadline: 18th March 2014</span></b></div>
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Proposals should address one of the following domains:</div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTlyU0OwHuTGNkAgO5IBeBvACs17CuIv98MMdTMURrwC0gITu2yhOj3CqH8iKz0Jv0bl6bmA5HVES28wVhsgqcR_8EkxUfSAICVvbz-hSAQSSSZ0PutANHVnpluWV1mYAiXI7SqVCp_4fQ/s1600/horizon_2020_1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="funds for research" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTlyU0OwHuTGNkAgO5IBeBvACs17CuIv98MMdTMURrwC0gITu2yhOj3CqH8iKz0Jv0bl6bmA5HVES28wVhsgqcR_8EkxUfSAICVvbz-hSAQSSSZ0PutANHVnpluWV1mYAiXI7SqVCp_4fQ/s1600/horizon_2020_1.jpg" height="90" title="horizon 2020" width="200" /></a>• Comparing innovative policies, measures and tools that will, inter alia, halve the use of conventionally fuelled vehicles in cities, while increasing accessibility of urban areas and improve air quality and road safety. This could include:</div>
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– Assessing the role of regulatory measures, demand side measures, innovative mobility services and the promotion of alternative modes as part of wider package of technologies, policy-based and soft measures with a strong potential for replication. The related consensus building, information and communication activities should be fully integrated in the work.</div>
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– Exploring how changes in mobility behaviour, individual choices, and social norms can be catalysed, accelerated and guided towards modal shift, changing vehicle use or ownership, reducing the need for travel, new mobility patterns, or their combination. Relevant drivers and barriers could be identified. The research should gather, evaluate and disseminate techniques that can be employed, including approaches that use social media.</div>
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• Exploring policy frameworks and measures to ensure the uptake of alternative fuelled vehicle fleets in urban areas. This could include:</div>
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– Assessing the opportunities for large scale deployment of alternative fuel distribution infrastructure, including for electric vehicle recharging. This could include a comparative assessment of deployment approaches combined with the adequate vehicles. Research on partnerships, business models and planning/rollout approaches could be undertaken and standardisation aspects could form part of the work. Pre-commercial procurement initiatives could be facilitated.</div>
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– Analysing the potentials for upgrading and/or regenerating electric public transport systems (i.e. trolleybus, tram, light rail and metro) while ensuring the safe integration of electric vehicles into infrastructure, in line with the trend towards electromobility. This could include the evaluation of costs and benefits of development schemes, also addressing noise aspects, as well as knowledge transfer, exchange of experience and preparing policy recommendations. Activities to improve the operational potential and energy performance of electric public transport may be included.</div>
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Project Budget: between EUR 4 to 6 million each<br />
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Funding rate: 100% <br />
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Source: European Commission official website<br />
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<b><span style="color: #660000;">Towards the energy efficient and emission free vessel</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #660000;">Deadline: 18th March 2014 (for pre-proposals)</span></b></div>
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The challenge is to support developments that make new and existing vessels used in maritime operations (including leisure) and in inland navigation significantly more efficient and less polluting through solutions addressing four ship sub-systems: engine, pollution abatement systems, propulsion, energy sources and management including the efficient operation of on-board systems</div>
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: In order to meet this challenge, proposals should address one or several of the following aspects:</div>
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• Optimisation of conventional ship engines, including fuel flexibility, new materials, lifetime performance and near zero emissions engines.</div>
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• Development of low-maintenance, affordable off-the-shelf retrofit solutions for emission reductions of existing engines.</div>
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• Development of Liquified Natural Gas/dual fuel powered engines for small and mid-size ships, including the specific aspects of retrofitting, fuel supply and storage, safety (on-board and on-shore) and classification, and solutions to address the risks of methane slip.</div>
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• Design and demonstration of new and improved propulsion means and vessel configurations that include the entire drive train and the propeller and hull optimisation for vessels, including applied research in Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD).</div>
• Use of new energy sources including renewables, alternative fuels, hybrid and electric solutions with the aim to demonstrate the feasibility of the zero or near-zero emissions vessel.<br />
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Project Budget: between EUR 8 to 17 million each<br />
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Funding rate: 70% (except for non-profit legal entities, where a rate of 100% applies)<br />
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<i>Source: European Commission official website</i>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10260943186976100959noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3217834618130545395.post-23675899283881678292014-02-05T16:28:00.000+01:002014-02-05T16:28:00.045+01:00FUNDS FOR RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT<div style="text-align: center;">
<b><span style="color: #660000;">Smart Rail Services</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #660000;">Deadline: 18th March 2014 (pre-proposals)</span></b></div>
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Proposals should address one of the two main challenges:</div>
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1) Seamless multimodal travel</div>
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2) Logistic Services</div>
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Regarding <b>Seamless multimodal travel</b>, research and innovation activities should aim at conceiving and prototyping an on-line, mobile, suite of integrated facilities providing a whole new traveller experience throughout the journey (namely planning and reservation of user-friendly multimodal trips and services, including information related to the specific needs of persons with reduced mobility and to the environmental impact of user choices), easily accessible entitlements, validation and control for all transport modes, en-route assistance including re-accommodation. The whole process should be further supported by the necessary business analytics providing relevant feedback of traveller data with the aim of ensuring more robust and responsive transport operations. Developments should evolve on the basis of robust business models capable of guaranteeing the economics of these e-services in the long-term. </div>
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Regarding <b>Logistic Services</b>, proposals should aim at addressing the key challenges of freight through a systematic "top-down" approach that backtracks from the performance indicators to be achieved – either in a geographical reach perspective (i.e. applicability of the solutions on a European scale) or in market segmentation (e.g. trainload/intermodal/wagonload or commodity-based segments) - and define the optimal combination of business, operational and technological solutions that are required for their delivery. In view of the significant financial fragility of the sector, priority should be given to those aspects that maximise potential returns in the short-term and require only moderate investment.</div>
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<b>Project Budget:</b> around EUR 12 million for the first challenge (Seamless multimodal travel) and around EUR 6 million euro for the second challenge (Logistic services) </div>
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<b>Funding rate: 100%</b></div>
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<i>Source: European Commission official website</i></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10260943186976100959noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3217834618130545395.post-36485548122155620612014-02-03T08:30:00.000+01:002014-02-03T08:30:02.545+01:00FUNDS FOR RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT - AVIATION<div style="text-align: center;">
<b><span style="color: #660000;">Competitiveness of European Aviation through cost efficiency and innovation</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #660000;">Deadline: 18th March 2014 (for pre-proposals)</span></b></div>
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Regarding aircraft, research and innovation actions could target the development of technologies and methodologies which have the potential to save costs and time across the whole life cycle of the aircraft (design, production, maintenance, overhaul, repair and retrofit), including for certification aspects. Research and innovation actions could also target the integration of additional functions (e.g. sensing, actuating) or materials in structural components of the aircraft, the increased use of automation and artificial intelligence in control systems allowing versatility and new capabilities or to provide passenger with additional services on-board of the aircraft or at the airport.</div>
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Regarding air transport operations, research and innovation actions could target cost efficiency of ground operations, as well as innovative approaches which can reduce the needs or accelerate the pace of the training of personnel.</div>
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<b>Expected impact:</b> Actions will demonstrate in a quantified manner their potential to mature the Technology Readiness Level in the range 1-6, of technologies and concepts that can make a significant contribution towards the following high level goals by 2050 with reference year 2000:</div>
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The whole Europe aviation industry is strongly competitive and retains leading edge design, manufacturing and system integration capabilities and associated jobs thanks to significantly decreased development costs (including a reduction of costs of certification by 50%).</div>
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Actions will also provide ad-hoc indicators to measure the expected progress in terms of, for example, reduction of production or certification times and costs, when comparing the situation before the start of the action and after the implementation of its results. In the case of novel products and services, the potential markets will be identified together with the potential corresponding volumes / value.</div>
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Project budget: 5-8 million EUR each<br />
Funding rate: 100%<br />
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<i>Source: European Commission official website</i>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10260943186976100959noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3217834618130545395.post-82297450815209395392014-01-31T16:17:00.002+01:002014-01-31T16:17:41.645+01:00Funds for innovation actions <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTlyU0OwHuTGNkAgO5IBeBvACs17CuIv98MMdTMURrwC0gITu2yhOj3CqH8iKz0Jv0bl6bmA5HVES28wVhsgqcR_8EkxUfSAICVvbz-hSAQSSSZ0PutANHVnpluWV1mYAiXI7SqVCp_4fQ/s1600/horizon_2020_1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTlyU0OwHuTGNkAgO5IBeBvACs17CuIv98MMdTMURrwC0gITu2yhOj3CqH8iKz0Jv0bl6bmA5HVES28wVhsgqcR_8EkxUfSAICVvbz-hSAQSSSZ0PutANHVnpluWV1mYAiXI7SqVCp_4fQ/s1600/horizon_2020_1.jpg" height="90" width="200" /></a><br />
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<b><span style="color: #660000;">Technologies for “super” low “real world” CO2 and polluting emissions</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #660000;">Deadline: 18th march 2014 (for stage 1</span></b>)</div>
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Proposals for research and demonstration activities should address one or more of the following domains:</div>
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• Future spark-ignited non-hybrid engines and their pollution abatement systems for gasoline and bio-based liquid fuels for passenger cars and light freight vehicles focussing on the optimal combination of innovative engine and after-treatment technology and of modelling, sensing on-board emission monitoring and testing to improve the design and control capability.</div>
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• Future diesel non-hybrid engines for cars and vans also focussing on the combination of the most appropriate engine and after-treatment technologies and on modelling, sensing on-board emission monitoring and testing to improve the overall design and control capability.</div>
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• Preparation of the life-cycle assessment of proposed technology combinations to quantify their environmental impacts along the entire well-to-wheel chain if not already covered by existing studies in the field.</div>
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• Low environmental impact brake systems to reduce micro and nano particles emissions while improving the measurement and understanding of their effects on health and the environment.</div>
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Project budget: 4-10 million EUR each<br />
Funding rate : 70% (except for non-profit legal entities, where a rate of 100% applies)<br />
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<i>Source: European Commission official website</i>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10260943186976100959noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3217834618130545395.post-62523794256482138042013-12-16T11:49:00.000+01:002013-12-16T11:49:00.752+01:00European programme "Fundamental Rights and Citizenship"<div style="text-align: center;">
<b><span style="color: #660000;">Call for proposals for action grants: support to transnational projects</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #660000;">Call deadline: 12 March 2014 </span></b></div>
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The call is targeted at European Union citizens or third countries nationals legally residing within the European Union territory and civil society associations, among other groups active in promoting the objectives of the programme. The beneficiaries of the call could be institutions and public or private organisations, universities, research institutes, non- governmental organisations, national, regional and local authorities, international organisations and other non-profit organisations established in the European Union.</div>
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The proposals under this call shall focus on the following priorities: <br />
• Rights of the child <br />
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• Information on where the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights applies and where to turn to if fundamental rights are violated </div>
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• Combating different forms and manifestations of racism and xenophobia </div>
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• Fighting homophobia: Enhanced/improved understanding and tolerance </div>
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• Training and networking between legal professions and legal practitioners </div>
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• Awareness-raising about Union citizenship and the rights attached to it and identification of obstacles to their effective exercise </div>
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• Awareness-raising and information about the EU rules on free movement, in particular Directive 2004/38/EC </div>
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• Facilitation of the sharing of knowledge and exchange of best practices on acquisition and loss of Union citizenship </div>
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• Address the gender imbalance in participation in the European Parliament elections </div>
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• Data protection and privacy rights</div>
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All proposals must demonstrate that they will generate an added value at EU level as opposed to national or regional level.</div>
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Projects should have an initial duration not exceeding 24 months.<br />
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<b>Budget</b>: EUR 10 900 000. <br />
The grant cannot constitute more than 80% of overall eligible project costs <br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10260943186976100959noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3217834618130545395.post-46151411967506728882013-12-13T10:48:00.000+01:002013-12-13T10:48:00.382+01:00Creative Europe Programme - Call for proposal <div style="text-align: center;">
<b><span style="color: #660000;">Organisation and implementation of an annual European Union Prize for rock, pop and dance music: The European Border Breakers' Awards</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #660000;">Deadline 31 January 2014</span></b></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtkTNF0P5qG93C9B5ktgi4Iq7cvA3Vokd4VeZpeS4CXzO7XAbwchNFNZxnFzeLOY8kxLTgGppdx_2sr_Cxqrs53x6h2H9D6MiSKsgJ5CxNQnlY4IN-F8QLA9tsZagIxFvtKZkPb1gM0WJG/s1600/logo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="166" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtkTNF0P5qG93C9B5ktgi4Iq7cvA3Vokd4VeZpeS4CXzO7XAbwchNFNZxnFzeLOY8kxLTgGppdx_2sr_Cxqrs53x6h2H9D6MiSKsgJ5CxNQnlY4IN-F8QLA9tsZagIxFvtKZkPb1gM0WJG/s200/logo.jpg" width="200" /></a>The purpose of this call for proposals is to select an organisation/consortium capable of organising the European Border Breakers' Awards (EBBA) for the European Commission for the period 2014-2018 (as of the 2015 edition with preparatory work in 2014). The work entails the organisation of procedures for the selection of the award winners, the organisation of the award ceremony and the promotion of the awards and their winners. The successful applicant will be invited to sign a framework partnership agreement for a maximum period of four years</div>
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The EBBA awards aim to <b>recognize and reward the success of emerging talents in the pop, rock and dance music</b>, who manage to achieve success with their first international release in Europe beyond their home country. </div>
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The <b>objectives</b> of the EBBA awards are:</div>
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• further increase the visibility and cross-border success of the winners,</div>
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• inspire other emerging artists so that they can achieve international success, as well as</div>
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• raise broader awareness in the music industry and among the broader public of the large amount of high quality musical talent in Europe that deserves to be better known and promoted both across the continent and beyond</div>
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<b>Budget </b>for the co-financing of this action is estimated at <b>€ 400.000</b>. This will cover the work plan for the 2015 edition of the prize.</div>
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The call is open to<b> public or private organisations whose chief activity lies in the field of rock, pop and dance music</b> and which have at least five years proven experience in organising activities and events at a European level in this field.</div>
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Organisations have to be established in the 28 EU Member States or in Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, Switzerland, Montenegro, Serbia, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Turkey, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, Ukraine, Algeria, Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Palestine, Syria and Israel.</div>
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<b><span style="color: #660000;">CHIST-ERA - <i>European Coordinated Research on Long-term Challenges in Information and Communication Sciences & Technologies ERA-Net</i></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #660000;">Call deadline: 21st January 2014 </span></b></div>
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CHIST-ERA is a coordination and co-operation activity supported by the European Union scheme of the FP7. The aim is to reinforce the transnational collaboration between Member States in challenging multidisciplinary research in the area of ICST with the potential to lead to significant breakthroughs. The partner organisations identify emergent scientific fields allowing European researchers to engage in high risk, high impact projects that will bring some advance in science by launching each year a transnational call for research proposals.</div>
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The Call 2013 addresses two topics:</div>
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1) <b>Adaptive Machines in Complex Environments</b>: Research in this topic addresses this challenge by developing autonomous systems that are perceptive to human requirements and that have the ability to continuously learn, adapt and improve in “real world” complex environments. These systems should be capable of continuous learning, such that they are able to work alongside humans in a reliable, safe and trust-worthy manner. </div>
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2) <b>Heterogeneous Distributed Comput</b>ing: The increase in the number of devices per capita and the challenge of processing ever-increasing amounts of data require new approaches involving researchers working across system levels. For example, hardware and software researchers working together to develop new approaches leading to improved performance, optimisation, reliability, fault tolerance and energy efficiency of distributed systems. </div>
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Proposals must be submitted by international consortiums with research partners in at least three </div>
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Funding is based on national rules.<br />
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BUMP will organize a series of visits to townsn and cities where BUMP projects have been put into practice. Inviting national and international delegations, BUMP will manage and lead these visist to 'BUMP Pioneers'.</div>
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These visist aim to enable the knowledge, learning and experience gained through the BUMP project to be shared beyond the participating group and to inspire other authorities to develop their own SUMPs.</div>
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Visits will provide a great opportunity for host towns and cities to raise their profile nationally and internationally. By attending these visists, guest delegations will be able to see exemplar mobility projects in action, learn how they developed and understand the conditions needed to replicate such projects where they live. These visits also present attractive opportunities for networking and international cooperation, both for the delegates and the host towns and cities involved</div>
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Participation is reserved to local authorities with a population ranging from 40.000 and 350.000. All services will be provided <b>free of charge</b> to the local authorities selected as beneficiaries through a public call. Local authorities will then appoint their representatives as participants in project activities among their planners, environmental and technical officers. </div>
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<b>The project will part-fund the participants' travel, subsistence and accommodation cost.</b></div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10260943186976100959noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3217834618130545395.post-65932310026353150342013-12-04T17:19:00.000+01:002013-12-04T17:19:00.520+01:00WP2014-15 Web Entrepreneurs Challenge<b>Deadline: 23/04/2014</b><br />
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This objective calls for projects to create an environment in Europe that encourages more web entrepreneurs to start a business in Europe and scale it up. The focus of this topic is on entrepreneurs who use web and mobile technologies as main components in their innovation with a positive impact across the continuum of actors for entrepreneurship.</div>
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The forthcoming €10M funding will be allocated to projects to accelerate web entrepreneurship in Europe by using new cross-border services co-developed by several local web entrepreneurship ecosystems and hubs working together. Coordination activities to strength the environment for web entrepreneurship in Europe and that exploit synergies across stakeholder communities will also be funded.</div>
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The expected impact is to support the emergence of dynamic European ecosystems for web entrepreneurs that also contribute to shaping future web entrepreneurship specific policies, in particular for the implementation of Startup Europe EU initiative</div>
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a. Accelerate web entrepreneurship in Europe: Online platforms with new services<br />
b. Coordination activities in the area of web entrepreneurs <br />
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Grants: 70% of total eligible costs<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10260943186976100959noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3217834618130545395.post-43072853408374663382013-12-02T14:37:00.000+01:002013-12-02T14:37:00.402+01:00Call for proposals for 'Career Development'<div style="text-align: center;">
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The European Commission has published a call for proposals for 'Career development'.</div>
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The European Union needs highly trained and qualified researchers to improve the well-being of its citizens and ensure economic growth. In this context, this new call aims to support the EURAXESS Services Network and to complement the efforts made so far in support of researchers' career development in an academic environment. </div>
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The call builds on the principle that - based on the knowledge, behaviour and characteristics of an individual researcher - career development advice, coaching, and training could further enable a researcher to aspire to excellence, whether inside and outside academia. Researchers will be provided with tools, best practices, advice and training, and they will be able to set personal targets and demonstrate evidence of achievements.</div>
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Indicative budget: EUR 0.96 million </div>
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Beneficiaries: At least 3 independent legal entities, each of which is established in a EU member state or Associated country, and no 2 of which are established in the same EU member state or Associated country.</div>
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The programme's specific objectives are: </div>
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— to promote structured cooperation between higher education institutions and an offer of enhanced quality in higher education with a distinct European added value, attractive both within the European Union and beyond its borders, with a view to creating centres of excellence,</div>
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— to contribute to the mutual enrichment of societies by developing the qualifications of women/men so that they possess appropriate skills, particularly as regards the labour market, and are open-minded and internationally experienced through promoting mobility for the most talented students and academics from third countries to obtain qualifications and/or experience in the European Union and for the most talented European students and academics towards third countries,</div>
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— to contribute towards the development of human resources and the international cooperation capacity of higher education institutions in third countries through increased mobility streams between the European Union and third countries,</div>
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— to improve accessibility and enhance the profile and visibility of European higher education around the world as well as its attractiveness for third-country nationals and citizens of the Union.</div>
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The Erasmus Mundus Programme 2009-2013 is open to higher education institutions and to any organisation active in the field of higher education and research as well as to students, doctoral candidates, teachers, researchers and university staff (academic and/or administrative) from any part of the world.</div>
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<b><span style="color: #660000;">Deadline for presentation of concept notes: 30 January 2014</span></b></div>
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The global objective of this Call for Proposals is: to support actions, presented and implemented by </div>
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Non-State Actors and Local Authorities, aiming at raising public awareness of development issues and promoting development education in the European Union (EU) and acceding countries, to anchor development policy in European societies, to mobilise greater public support for action against poverty and for fairer relations between developed and developing countries, and to change attitudes to the issues and difficulties facing developing countries and their peoples. </div>
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Proposals must address one or several of the following issues:<br />
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<li>Basic living standards</li>
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<li>Sustainable management of natural resources</li>
<li>Equality, equity and justice</li>
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<b><span style="color: #660000;">Deadline Friday, December 20, 2013</span></b> </div>
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The aim of the present call is to select organisations with European outreach which, through their permanent, usual and regular activities, make a tangible contribution to the objectives of the ‘Europe for citizens’ programme.</div>
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• To contribute to citizens’ understanding of the Union, its history and diversity,</div>
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• To foster European citizenship and to improve conditions for civic and democratic participation at Union level.</div>
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For 2014, the following thematic priorities have been adopted:</div>
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• Strand 2: Democratic engagement and civic participation.
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To be eligible for a framework partnership, the organisations must belong to one of the following
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C. European public policy research organisations (think tanks) (strand 1 and 2)</div>
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D. Platforms of pan-European organisations (strand 2)</div>
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Budget: 6.76 M€</div>
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Applications from non-profit legal entities established in one of the following countries are eligible:</div>
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Civitas - an acronym for "cities, vitality, and sustainability" - is an initiative funded by the EU's research framework programme to support cities in their efforts to innovate for more sustainable urban mobility.</div>
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Since the start in 2002, Civitas has supported more than 700 demonstration activities in around 60 cities (within a total network of 200 cities who learn from those demonstration activities), with a total investment of more than €200 million from the EU. This leveraged an additional investment of close to €1 billion from local and regional authorities, and from private partners.</div>
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On the 30th of September, European Commission signed a grant agreement worth €4 million with a consortium of 14 European research institutes, associations and consulting companies - including 10 SMEs - for a three-year project known as "Civitas Capital".</div>
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Civitas Capital will:</div>
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- issue recommendations on future Research and Development priorities which the Commission will integrate in its 2014–2020 research programme;</div>
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- develop training packages and organise placement and exchange of urban mobility professionals — around 500 professionals will be trained or offered a placement;</div>
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- manage an activity fund of close to €500,000 to support the transfer of measures to other cities, allowing more cities to implement successful urban mobility measures;</div>
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- create five additional national and regional networks and continue to manage the five existing ones — these networks increase the dissemination of know-how and best practice within their language group or geographical group;</div>
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- develop a knowledge centre that will be available to all stakeholders through the Civitas website — a one-stop-shop where all material produced for and by Civitas will be available to all, for learning and reapplication. </div>
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Horizon 2020, the new EU's research framework programme will support several initiatives on sustainable mobility and transport </div>
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<a href="http://www.civitas-initiative.org/sites/default/files/Results%20and%20Publications/CIVITAS_Initiative_Leaflet_EN.pdf" target="_blank">Civitas Brochure</a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10260943186976100959noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3217834618130545395.post-73312264877996450542013-11-18T14:50:00.000+01:002013-11-18T14:50:01.017+01:00Promoting sexual and reproductive health and rights — universal access to reproductive health<div style="text-align: center;">
<b><span style="color: #660000;">Deadline for submission of Concept note: 10 December 2013 </span></b></div>
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The overall objective of this call for proposals is to contribute to poverty reduction and to improving the wellbeing of populations in developing countries through better reproductive health and informed family planning choices. </div>
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Priority will be given to measures that </div>
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Contribution : € 2 000 000 - € 6 000 000 </div>
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In addition to the categories listed above, applicants from the following countries are also eligible: Iceland, Lichtenstein and Norway; Turkey, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia.
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Furthermore, for actions proposed and taking place exclusively in the least developed countries, applicants from Australia, Canada, Japan, New Zealand, Switzerland and United States may also apply.
The specific objective is to contribute to improved universal access to reproductive health, in
developing countries which have the worst indicators.<br />
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10260943186976100959noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3217834618130545395.post-342989043365159282013-11-15T15:12:00.000+01:002013-11-15T15:12:16.574+01:00European Internship in Cultural Heritage & Virtual Museums<div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Within V-MOVE, the international training programme undertaken by V-MUST.NET, 8 Internship placements are offered by Europe partner institutions of the European Transnational Virtual Museum Network in the field of digital Cultural Heritage or Virtual Museum development.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;">Beneficiaries will be worldwide post-graduate or early career professional/ researcher, not applying for position offered with their own country.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;">The Funding amount will be up to € 2000 towards travel and accommodation costs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;">Registration Deadline must be completed by <strong>15th December 2013</strong>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;">Application Form and more Details about the Call for Applications are available at: </span><a href="http://www.v-must.net/opportunities/call-mobility-2013-2014" style="color: #0000cc; outline: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">www.v-must.net/opportunities/call-mobility-2013-2014</span></a> </div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10260943186976100959noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3217834618130545395.post-52150727963431419372013-11-13T15:23:00.000+01:002013-11-13T15:23:00.074+01:00The YouPro Project – Helping Young People to Promote EU Businesses through Social Networking<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The You.Promote Business Project (YouPro Project) pairs young people not employed or in education or training (NEET) who have social media marketing skills with small-to-medium sized enterprises who are seeking to improve their competitiveness. </div>
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The project aims to get NEETs back into work by training them as social media marketing and promotion consultants for SMEs. The project involves six educational institutions across Europe and is funded by the European Community. </div>
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The purpose of the project is to tackle three of the European Union’s biggest challenges: </div>
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- Inclusion of young people in society </div>
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- Competitiveness of small-to-medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and micro-sized organisations </div>
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The project aims to tackle these issues by creating a training and work placement scheme that pairs young people not in education, training or employment (NEETs) with SMEs seeking to create or improve their presence in online and social media.</div>
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<a href="http://youproeurope.com/" target="_blank">More information</a></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10260943186976100959noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3217834618130545395.post-4835336801221283762013-11-11T11:40:00.000+01:002013-11-11T11:40:00.318+01:00Eurotransbio programme<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #660000;"><b>Deadline</b> for submitting the project proposals is <b>31st January 2014 </b></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLYqCzq-ftsrHObYIoAweTo4ff05wUNAvap15g0fgoAPCmFr3aiHG5E5Jgp8vNkKBE-H_kj1uf7xjFZgKMkAlOlZTBagS9DlE8fa-C4YLdvUItUoV2iHJ-lODkFVUXVC7O01xDHCcBzGaE/s1600/logo_etb.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="96" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLYqCzq-ftsrHObYIoAweTo4ff05wUNAvap15g0fgoAPCmFr3aiHG5E5Jgp8vNkKBE-H_kj1uf7xjFZgKMkAlOlZTBagS9DlE8fa-C4YLdvUItUoV2iHJ-lODkFVUXVC7O01xDHCcBzGaE/s320/logo_etb.jpg" width="320" /></a>Eurotransbio (ETB) programme calls for innovative near to the market Research, development and innovation projects in all fields of modern biotechnology (health, agro/food, industrial biotech, environment, marine/aquatic solutions) </div>
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ETB’s mission is to foster the competitiveness of the European biotechnology
industry by supporting research intensive SMEs and their strategic partners (large
industries, public and private research organizations/universities) with the aim of
achieving a thriving European biotechnology industry. </div>
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Consortia coordinated by an SME and consisting of at least two enterprises belonging to two different countries participating in the 9th ETB Call [Austria, Belgium (represented by the regions of Flanders and Wallonia), Finland, France (represented by the region of Alsace), Germany, Italy, Russia, and Spain (represented by the regions of Andalusia and Basque Country)] and coordinated by an SME can apply for ETB funding.</div>
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A consortium may involve as many additional partners (e.g. SMEs, Large Industries (LI), and Research Organisations (RO) belonging to the participating countries/regions) as necessary to achieve the project goals. </div>
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Budget: EUR 21.000.000<br />
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