Partner search for EU project in the field of environment

Call title: ENVIRONMENT 2012: TWO-STAGE
Call identifier: FP7-ENV-2012-two-stage
Deadline: First stage: 20 October 2011 at 17.00.00 for preproposal
Indicative budget: EUR 50 million for the activity “Improving resource efficiency”

About the call

ENV.2012.6.3-1 Innovative resource efficient technologies, processes and services

Natural resources including fuels, mineral resources, but also water, air, soils, biomass or land are facing higher demand and intensification of use. Therefore greater efforts have to be made to fully valorise their potential and avoid growth ruptures while mitigating unsustainable pressures on the environment. New innovative solutions are essential for the necessary transition towards a more resource-efficient and circular economy.

European funds for research

European funds for the Resarchers' Night 2012
Deadline: 10th January 2012

Objective of the action
This action aims to bring the researchers closer to the public at large, so enhancing their role in the mainstream of society. .

Projects and participants: The Researchers' NIGHT will take place on Friday 28th September 2012, and will be the next occasion for a European wide public and media event for the promotion of research careers. It is intended to ensure as large a geographical coverage as possible, involving the maximum number of Member States and associated countries.
Participants can be any legal entity in the Member States and associated countries, and/or if relevant, constituting a partnership at regional, national or international level. Preference should be given to those projects within which a regional, local or national financial involvement exists (without excluding those requesting 100% funding).
Activities organised will have to be focused on the public at large, and be organised with researchers being actively involved and directly in contact with the public. .

European Union Contribution, Rates and Evaluation Criteria:

European funds for social experimentations

European grants in the field of social experimentation
Deadline:  15/12/2011.

This call offers to applicants the possibility to develop social experimentation projects according to the following protocol/steps:

• Design of the policy intervention: a rigorous description of the logically structured set of actions envisaged as part of the policy reform should be provided. It should ensure that the different incentives, opportunities, or constraints to which the population will be confronted with are identified and described

• Design of the experimentation method: preference will be given to the random assignment method that randomly assigns the potential beneficiaries of the policy/interventions to either a treatment group or a comparison group. Other evaluation method such as the quasi-experimental design (non-randomized assignment) may be considered as long as the impact of the interventions being tested is credibly ascertained. The expected outcomes of the interventions should be stated in clear and measurable terms to serve as yardsticks for determining the extent of the policy intervention's success.

• Lessons for policy design: a rigorous analysis and interpretation of the results should be put in place with a view to arriving at shared conclusions about the up-scaling potential of the tested policies taking into account elements such as the context, in which the policy has to be implemented, the feasibility, the acceptability and the timeliness of the proposed solutions.

Scope

European funds for prevention and fight against crime

European funds - Targeted call for proposal -Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear materials

Deadline: 17.10.2011

Expexted results:• The proposed projects should provide for a concrete contribution to the implementation of the actions identified in the EU CBRN Action Plan, either in the form of direct implementation or in the form of activities aimed at the preparation of their implementation.
• The expected results should contribute to the overall implementation of the EU CBRN Action Plan, and in particular the actions which have been identified as Key Actions, and other actions of which the
implementation is foreseen to start in 2011 or 2012. 
• The proposed projects should provide for a concrete contribution to the implementation of the actions identified in the EU Action Plan on enhancing the Security of Explosives, as far as these have not yet been implemented

Eligible applicants:

European funds for creation and promotion of audiovisual content

European Support for the development of on- and off-line interactive work

 

Eligible applicants

This notice is aimed at European companies and in particular to independent production companies.

Applicants must be established in one of the following countries:

— the 27 countries of the European Union,

— Croatia and Switzerland.

Eligible actions

The activities for the following interactive works are eligible:

The concept development (up to a first playable application) of digital interactive content complementing an

audiovisual project (drama, creative documentary or animation) specifically developed for at least one of the

following platforms:

• Internet,
• PC,
• console,
• handheld device,
• interactive television.

This digital content must present:

• substantial interactivity with a narrative component,
• originality, creativity and innovation against existing works,
• European commercial potential.

Only the following types of audiovisual project intended for commercial exploitation can be complemented by the submitted interactive work:

• a drama of at least 50 minutes (the total length of the series in the case of a series),
• a creative documentary of at least 25 minutes (length per episode in the case of a series),
• an animation of at least 24 minutes (the total length of the series in the case of a series).

The call for proposals has two deadlines.
25 November 2011
13 April 2012

European grants for security and justice

European grants for “Prevention, Preparedness and Consequence Management of Terrorism and other Security related risks”
Deadline: 12 October 2011

Priorities. 

• Facilitating the implementation of Council Directive 2008/114/EC on the identification and designation of European critical infrastructures and the assessment of the need to improve  their protection (energy and transport sector);

• Preparing/contributing to the review of Council Directive 2008/114/EC on the identification  and designation of European critical infrastructures, with a particular emphasis on the sectors  covered and the criteria used to identify European Critical Infrastructures;
• Supporting the policy initiative and the action plan on Critical Information Infrastructure  Protection

• Robustness of (global) ICT networks, including implications of a failure of these networks on  critical infrastructures, as well as dependencies of critical processes in critical infrastructures  on such (global) networks;
• Emergency communication in crisis situations, including with the general public and when  standard ICT networks are not available;
• Supporting Member States by enhancing communication in order to strengthen cooperation  between the public and the private sector (regular meetings to discuss issues of common  interest) as well as by improving international cooperation and a cross-border exchange of  information between these stakeholders and the relevant institutions at European level;
• Interdependency analysis;
• Compilation of a comprehensive all-hazards catalogue for critical infrastructures;
• Monitoring and assessment of evolving threats with a view to securing critical infrastructures,  as well as a common understanding in relation to sectoral, intersectoral and cross-border risk management;

• Increasing the security awareness of critical infrastructure operators;
• Improving information management with regard to critical infrastructures;
• Increasing critical infrastructure protection capability in the transport, energy, ICT, chemical, financial, water, food, health, space, research and nuclear sectors.

European grants for audiovisual industry

Call for proposal: Support for the development of production projects — Animation, creative documentaries and drama

Single Projects, Slate Funding and Slate Funding second stage

 

Eligible applicants
European companies and in particular to independent production companies.
Applicants must be established in one of the following countries:
— the 27 countries of the European Union,
— Croatia and Switzerland.

Eligible actions
The development activities for the following audiovisual works (one-offs or series) are eligible:

• drama projects intended for commercial exploitation of no less than 50 minutes,
•  creative documentaries intended for commercial exploitation of no less than 25 minutes (duration per episode in case of series),
• animation projects intended for commercial exploitation of no less than 24 minutes.

The call for proposals has two deadlines.

25 November 2011

13 April 2012

Training for europe: courses

IGC organises two courses on European funds and project techniques in November 2011

The courses will be held in Turin, Italy and delivered in Italian.


For further information please visit www.corsoeuroprogettazione.blogspot.com

European call for proposal: Audiovisual festivals

European funds for the audiovisual industry

Objectives

• facilitating and encouraging the promotion and movement of European audiovisual and cinema works at trade shows, fairs and audiovisual festivals in Europe and around the globe, insofar as such events may play an important role in the promotion of European works and the networking of professionals,
• improve access to European audiovisual works for the European and international public.

Eligible applicants

European organisations from the Member States of the European Union and Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, Croatia and Switzerland.

Eligible actions

Such organisations must implement audiovisual festivals which contribute to the aforementioned objectives  and which screen a minimum of 70 % European films from at least 10 States participating in the MEDIA  programme, in their total programme

Deadline

31 October 2011: for projects starting between 1 May 2012 and 31 October 2012,

30 April 2012: for projects starting between 1 November 2012 and 30 April 2013

European funds for Security (3)

European funds for research and development: Security

Deadline: 23rd November 2011

BENEFICIARIES:
Any legal entities established in a Member State or Associated country

MAIN AREAS OF INTERVENTION:
Activity: Security systems integration, interconnectivity and interoperability
Secure Communications

• Preparation of the next generation of PPDR communication network
• Interoperability
• Embedded protection of security systems and anti-tampering technologies
• Establishment of a first responders platform for interoperability
• Establishment of a interoperability platform/centre for testing and validating decision and intelligence systems
• Global solution for interoperability between first responder communication systems

Activity: Security and society

Citizens, media and security

• Methodologies to assess the effectiveness of measures addressing violent radicalisation
• Tools and methodologies, definitions and strategies for privacy by design for surveillance technologies, including ICT systems
• Use of new communication/social media in crisis situation

Foresight, scenarios and security as an evolving concept

• Developing an efficient and effective environmental scanning system as part of the early warning system for the detection of emerging organised crime threats
• Criteria for assessing and mainstreaming societal impacts of security research activities

Security economics

• Fight against corruption

Ethics and Justice

• Legitimacy and effectiveness of legal measures against security threats

Activity: Security Research coordination and structuring

Small and Medium Enterprises

• Advancing contemporary forensic methods and equipment

Other coordination

• Coordination of national research programmes in the area of security research
• Networking of researchers for a high level multiorganisational and cross-border collaboration

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