Monthly Archives: June 2011

About CO2 capture and storage technologies for zero emission power generation

Posted on June 24, 2011 by Cagri Yilmaz

This activity pursues research, development and demonstration of technologies to drastically reduce the adverse environmental impact of fossil fuel use aiming at highly efficient and cost effective power and/ or steam generation plants with near zero emissions, based on CO2 … Continue reading →

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Technology Strategy Board (TSB) – Exploring the Opportunity for a Photonics TIC

Posted on June 22, 2011 by Cagri Yilmaz

The Strategy and Implementation Plan for Technology and Innovation Centres published by the Technology Strategy Board on 26 May identified a candidate list of 10 areas for possible investment in the next phase of its programme and said that TSB … Continue reading →

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Framework Programme 8 (FP8) Budget of €140 billion

Posted on June 21, 2011 by Cagri Yilmaz

The Commission is currently wading through more than 2,000 responses to its proposals for the next Framework R&D programme, due to run from 2014 – 2020. With a proposed budget of at least €140 billionthere is much to fight for… … Continue reading →

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EU funding for Indian Organisations

Posted on June 20, 2011 by Cagri Yilmaz

The first relationship between the European Union (EU) and India dates from the 1960s and has today developed to cover a wide spectra of areas, including scientific cooperation. Cooperation in Science and Technology (S&T) started in mid-1980s and many joint research … Continue reading →

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European Union and Russia Link for S&T co-operation in the area of the environment

Posted on June 19, 2011 by Cagri Yilmaz

The concept E-ural is a consortium of partners from Europe and Russia, funded by FP7 support actions, that aims at improving quantity and quality of participation of Russian researchers and SMEs in the “environment (including climate change)” thematic priority of … Continue reading →

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Emerging Technologies – Wireless Energy Transfer / Wireless Power

Posted on June 18, 2011 by Cagri Yilmaz

Wireless energy transfer or wireless power is the transmission of electrical energy from a power source to an electrical load without interconnecting wires. Wireless transmission is useful in cases where interconnecting wires are inconvenient, hazardous, or impossible. The problem of … Continue reading →

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Overview of FP7 call 8 in ICT workprogram 2011 – 2012 (agreed version)

Posted on June 17, 2011 by Cagri Yilmaz

Call title: ICT call 8 Call identifier: FP8-ICT-2011-7 Date of publication: 26 July 2011 Deadline: 17 January 2012, at 17:00.00 Brussels local time Indicative budget71,72: EUR 785.5 million Called topics: Objectives Funding schemes Challenge 1: Pervasive and Trusted Network and … Continue reading →

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Framework Programme 7 (FP7) Budget Breakdown

Posted on June 16, 2011 by Cagri Yilmaz

At the EU Competitiveness Council Meeting held in Brussels on 24th June, the Council of the European Union reached, by qualified majority a political agreement on the FP7 proposal. They also reached a unanimous political decision on Euratom (2007 – … Continue reading →

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Framework Programme 7 (FP7) – Innovative Medicine Initiative

Posted on June 15, 2011 by Cagri Yilmaz

The Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI) is Europe’s largest public-private initiative aiming to speed up the development of better and safer medicines for patients. IMI supports collaborative research projects and builds networks of industrial and academic experts in order to boost … Continue reading →

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FP7 Project – ISLE : International Standards for Language Engineering

Posted on June 14, 2011 by Cagri Yilmaz

Project Objectives EU-US cooperation on HLT standards will build on joint preparatory work, to support all IST themes, HLT RTD and national projects, and HLT industry, by developing, disseminating and promoting widely agreed and urgently demanded HLT standards and guidelines … Continue reading →

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