Boosting Urban Mobility Plans

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'.

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.

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

Participation is reserved to local authorities with a population ranging from 40.000 and 350.000. All services will be provided free of charge 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. 

The project will part-fund the participants' travel, subsistence and accommodation cost.

European funds for ICT research project

EU Financial Contribution within the VII Framework Programme - ICT

Deadline: 17th April 2012

Call topics:

1) Cognitive systems and robotics

2) Technologies for Digital Content and Languages - Digital Preservation

3) ICT for Health, Ageing Well, Inclusion and Governance -Virtual Physiological Human

4) ICT for Learning and Access to Cultural Resources -ICT for access to cultural resources

5) Future and Emerging Technologies

• Quantum ICT (QICT) including ERA-NET-Plus

• Fundamentals of Collective Adaptive Systems

• Neuro-Bio-Inspired Systems

• Coordinating Communities, Identifying new research topics for FET Proactive initiatives and Fostering Networking of National and Regional Research Programmes

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European funds for voluntary corps

European funds for pilot projects for the European voluntary himanitarian aid corps

Deadline: 5th March 2011

The objective of this call is to select pilot projects that will support the Commission in the process leading-up to the establishment of a European Voluntary Humanitarian Aid Corps through the implementation of pilot actions.

The pilot actions shall test some of the possible modules of the future Corps and inform the European Commission's work setting up the Corps.

For the purpose of this call, three different Lots shall be attributed to achieve results in the following areas:

• Lot 1: Strengthening resilience
• Lot 2: Building civil protection capacities
• Lot 3: Responding to disaster

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Research on Environment (including climate change)

Two calls are expected under the FP7 Environment Theme targeting five challenges, including climate change, sustainable use and management of land and seas, improving resource efficiency, protecting citizens from environmental hazards, and mobilizing environmental knowledge for policy, industry and society.

Specific objectives for the environment and climate research are:

• Provide knowledge-based options for addressing major societal challenges notably climate change, biodiversity loss, land and sea management and resource efficiency.
• Develop and strengthen European leadership in innovation including key environmental technologies pursuing a broad concept of innovation, both research driven innovation and new business models, eco-design, services (e.g. ecosystem services) and innovation in policy, governance and consumption behaviour.
• Promote and facilitate knowledge transfer, assessment, uptake and exploitation of scientific data and results, in particular through demonstration and delivery of innovative tools and services such as ecosystem services and earth observation systems.

Publication Date: 20/07/2011

European Grants for transnational cooperation

European funding: TRANSNATIONAL COOPERATION PROJECTS WITHIN THE CENTRAL EUROPE

DEADLINE: 14th October 2011.

BENEFICIARIES:

Partnerships consisting of public and private representatives of at least three member states have the possibility to submit their project proposals with the aim to improve quality of life of Central European citizens.
List of the eligible countries/regions

ACTIVITIES:

Projects partners are invited to submit their projects within one of the four project priorities:

• innovation,

• accessibility,

• environment

• competiveness of cities and regions

Areas of Intervention.

• Fostering knowledge development

• Promoting information and communication technology

• Supporting environmentally friendly technologies and activities

• Developing polycentric settlement structures and territorial cooperation.

• Capitalising on Cultural Resources

Partner search for EU funded project - SWITCH ASIA PROGRAMME

PROFILE:

• Not-for-profit intermediary (business) organisations and networks (e.g. chambers of commerce or industry associations)
• Not-for-profit organisations aiming at pursuing sustainable development
• Governmental institutions at the regional and local level

The project deals with new technologies for sustainable energy (e.g for buildings) or fuel production from organic compost/biological waste.


PARTNERS MUST BE FROM ONE OF THE FOLLOWING COUNTRIES:
Afganistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China (excluding Hong Kong, Macau, and Chinese Taipei), India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Maldives, Mongolia, Nepal, DPR Korea, Pakistan, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Vietnam
 
More information on the Switch Asia programme can be found here


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2 PROJECTS WERE SUBMITTED FOR THIS CALL!

CULTURE – COOPERATION PROJECTS WITH MEXICO

DEADLINE: MAY  3^RD, 2011.

The Programme aims to enhance the cultural area shared by Europeans, which is based on a common cultural heritage, through the development of cooperation activities among cultural operators from countries taking part in the Programme, with a view to encouraging the emergence of European citizenship.

BENEFICIARIES:

The only eligible applicants are public or private organisations with legal personality whose main activity is in the cultural field (areas of cultural or creative activity) and whose head office is in one of the following countries:

•  the Member States of the European Union,
• Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway
• Croatia, Turkey, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Serbia and Montenegro. 

 Projects must involve cultural cooperation with at least one partner from Mexico

Cultural organisations are given support for projects to work together across borders and to create and implement cultural and artistic activities.

The aim is to help organisations, such as theatres, museums, professional associations, research centres, universities, cultural institutes and public authorities from different countries participating in the Programme to cooperate so that different sectors can work together and extend their cultural and artistic reach across borders.

Objectives:

• promotion of the trans-national mobility of people working in the cultural sector;
• support for the trans-national circulation of cultural and artistic works and products;
• promotion of inter-cultural dialogue.

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