Author Archives: Cagri Yilmaz

Ambient Assisted Living – Technology Strategy Board Funding Call

Ambient Assisted Living Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) will address the needs of Europe’s ageing population, reducing innovation barriers of forthcoming promising markets, and lowering future social security costs. AAL aims – through the use of intelligent products and the provision … Continue reading

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The Seventh Annual Public Conference of the European Technology Platform for the Future of Textiles and Clothing

The Seventh Annual Public Conference of the European Technology Platform for the Future of Textiles and Clothing will take place from 29 to 30 March 2012 in Brussels, Belgium. The event will feature presentations from a wide variety of textile … Continue reading

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New Innovation Partnerships – the key to the competitive European Union

The European Commission suggests redoubling the efforts on innovation, in three key areas for future growth and employment: the supply of raw materials, sustainable agriculture, and active and healthy ageing. To do so, the Commission has set up two new … Continue reading

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European Commission (EC) Microloans for Businesses and Individuals

The EU does not directly provide microloans (loans up to €25 000) to individuals or businesses, but provides guarantees, loans and equity to intermediaries who can then lend to small businesses or make available equity finance. As a (future) entrepreneur … Continue reading

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TSB Funding: Marine energy: Supporting array technologies

The Technology Strategy Board, Scottish Enterprise and the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) are to invest up to £10.5m in collaborative research and development to support successful deployment and operation of the first series of wave and tidal energy arrays. … Continue reading

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SMART – The old GRD funding gets a new name

Smart (previously known as Grant for Research and Development) is a Technology Strategy Board scheme offering funding to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to engage in R&D projects in the strategically important areas of science, engineering and technology, from which successful … Continue reading

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Call for Proposals – Theme 4 – NMP – Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies – SMEs 2012 – FP7-NMP-2012-SME-6

The objective of the Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and New Production Technologies (NMP) work programme is to improve the competitiveness of European industry and   generate knowledge to ensure its transformation from a   resource-intensive to a knowledge-intensive industry, by generating step   changes … Continue reading

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FP7 Model Grant Agreement and other useful documents in 22 EU languages

The European Commission adopted on 10 April 2007 the general model grant agreement to be used in research projects funded under the 7th Framework Programmes. This model grant agreement is applicable to the indirect actions under the ‘Cooperation’ and ‘Capacities’ … Continue reading

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FP7 Energy Call Part 2 (FP7-ENERGY-2012-2)

This is a general call focusing on research with a short-term horizon and on demonstration. Date of publication: 20 July 2011 Deadline: 8 March 2012 Indicative budget: EUR 81 million Activity and topics called Funding Schemes Indicative Budget (EUR million) … Continue reading

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FP7 Recycling Research – What happens to your Christmas Wrapping Paper?

Today is Christmas and under our trees are stacks of presents waiting to be ripped open by people of all ages. But what about all that paper that conceals our gifts? Britons use about 120 grams of plastic wrapping on … Continue reading

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