Sunday, May 8, 2011

Open information day and brokerage event for FP7 Health in Brussels

An Open Information Day and brokerage event on the 'Health' theme of the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) will take place from 9 to 10 June 2011 in Brussels, Belgium.


The Directorate General - Research and Innovation of the European Commission is organising the information event to highlight the 2012 Work Programme of FP7 Health, which is due to be published in July 2011.

The programme will consist of plenary sessions and several parallel workshops on participating in FP7 Health. Participants will also be able to exchange information and network at a special session where various service providers will be present.

Session topics are set to include:

- 'FP7 Health planning 2012';
- 'Participating in an EU funded project: challenges and opportunities' with parallel workshops on: 'Opportunities for small and medium-sized enterprises','Focus on clinical trials', 'International cooperation', 'Communicating EU research';
- 'Participating in an EU-funded project: running and managing a project'.

A related partnering event will take place on 10 June 2011. It will be organised by the FP7 support services Health-NCP-Net and Fit-For-Health at a different location. It will focus on building consortia and bilateral meetings between researchers from SMEs and academia with an intrest in specific topics in the upcoming call.

More information is available at http://ec.europa.eu/research/health/events-05_en.html.

Source:Directorate General - Research and Innovation, CORDIS, Record control number:33071

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