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The Innovation Union – European Commission – Europe 2020 – What is happening?

Last week marked the first anniversary of the Innovation Union flagship initiative, one of the cornerstones of the Europe 2020 strategy for growth and jobs, prompting the European Commission to summarise progress to date. A more comprehensive progress report is … Continue reading

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European Commission FP7 Funding for Media Projects

Development of Production Projects (including animation, creative documentaries and drama): One of the objectives of the programme is to promote, by providing financial support, the development of production projects intended for European and international markets presented by independent European production … Continue reading

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European Union becomes the Innovation Union (Europe 2020 Strategy)

As part of the Europe 2020 Strategy, the European Union is seeking to transform itself into an Innovation Union. Europe has a large ageing population and this along with pressures from globalisation show the need for innovation that will precipitate … Continue reading

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FP7 Funding – Objective ICT-2011 9.6: FET Proactive: Unconventional Computation (UCOMP)

 Open promotes the exploration of radically new ideas and trends for future research and innovation and provides sustained support to emerging areas that require long-term fundamental research. FET-Open welcomes submission of proposal ideas for long-term visionary research related to ICT, … Continue reading

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Who can apply to Framework Programme 7 (FP7) Funding?

The types of participants Participation in FP7 is open to a wide range of organisations and individuals: research groups at universities or research institutes companies intending to innovate small or medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) SME associations or groupings public or governmental … Continue reading

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Framework Programme 7 (FP7) ICT Call 8 – Cloud Computing, Internet of Services and Advanced Software Engineering

This call focuses on technologies for the networked, distributed dimension of software and access to services and data. It will support long-term research that enables software developers to easily create interoperable services based on open standards, with sufficient flexibility and at a … Continue reading

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European Commission Framework Programme 7 (FP7) Funding (Grant) Programme – 7 year budget

  Total budget distribution of all activities within FP7 Funding Programme I) COOPERATION Themes Total Budget FP7 Mil € Health 6 Food, Agriculture and Biotechnology 1.9 Information and Communication Technologies 9.1 Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies 3.5 Energy … Continue reading

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Understanding the structure of FP7 Funding Programme

European Commission FP7 Funding Programme is primarily composed of four specific programmes. These can be summarised as below: Cooperation Programme: The largest specific programme and covers a variety of topics and functions as the core of FP7. The ten themes … Continue reading

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