M-BIO-POWER empowers SMEs in biomedical engineering to participate in EU research. The consortium of ten partners helps SMEs to get their voice heard at the European Commission and gain international visibility for their company. SM-BIO-POWER also provides information on the latest trends in EU support for biomedical engineering research together with best practice examples from other SMEs in EU projects.

Experts in the Health industry

The Health Directorate at the European Commission is currently seeking top industrial/scientific experts to support the selection of the best FP7 proposal

You are welcome to check this event, the International Funding Forum.
Thanks for your support in advance!

http://www.fundingforum.eu/newsletter/newsletter20090403.html

Social Networking: Commission brokers agreement among major web companies

© European Commission

In support of the Small Business Act strategy implementation, the Commission Services have organised the workshop “SMEs in Health Research - Maximising outcomes of EU funded research projects - Tools for success” in Brussels on 26 February 2009, tageted to research-intensive SMEs participating to Health related EU funded projects.

Prague, Czech Republic
European and International Forum on Nanotechnology organized by the Technology Centre of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic with the support of the European Commission under the auspices of the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic as an official event of the Czech Presidency of the Council of the European Union.

For further information:
CZECH-In s.r.o.
Lukas Marecek
Prague Congress Centre
5. kvetna 65
Prague 4, CZ 140 00
Phone: +420 261 174 304
Fax: +420 261 174 307
e-mail: info@euronanoforum2009.eu

EuroBio2008
The European Federation of Bioetchnology is organizing the 2nd annual “Tech Transfer Summit”, a two-day keynote presentations and debates on technology transfer. The event will take place in Paris, on 6-7 October at EuroBio2008.
EuroBio is organized in four interesting and different parts:

1. Conference
2. Partnering
3. Career Fair
4. Exhibition

For information about Eurobio2008, go to www.eurobio2008.com
For information about The Tech Transfer Summit, go to www.efb-central.org/tts

SMEs go Health - International Information and Training
Workshop on the 7th EU Framework Programme
at EuroBIO 2008 7th October 2008 – Paris!

EuroBIO 2008 is The Life Sciences Event of the EU French Presidency.

wawelDear Madam, dear Sir,

If you are working in the field of Health and Biotechnology and are interested in EU funding for research & technology development, get a 1 day training by experts on participation in FP7 research projects - free of charge!
Date and location :
7th October 2008 - PALAIS DES CONGRÈS DE PARIS - ROOM N°10

an updated document on IP policy of the IMI JU research actions has been recently published by the IPR- Helpdesk and is downloadable under the following link:

http://imi.europa.eu/docs/ipr-helpdesk-doc-on-imi-ipr-policy.pdf

Best

Hicham

First call for Innovative Medicines Initiative a success[Date: 2008-07-22]The first stage of calls for the Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI), which is supported by the EU with €1 billion in funding, was recently closed and is already being regarded as a success by many of those involved.

In the beautiful harbor city of Dalian, China, the 13th International Biotechnology Symposium (IBS) will be held from October 12th to 17th, 2008. The IBS has been held every four years since 1960 and it has become the premier International Chinese conference in the growing field ok biotechnology.
The exhibition will provide opportunities to the participants to the latest developments in biotechnologies, bio-products and instruments, as well as a platform to foster collaborations.

For registration: www.ibs2008.org or email loc@ibs2008.org

EuroBIO is The Life Sciences Event of the European Union Presidency.

EuroBIO is The Life Sciences Event of the European Union Presidency.

If you are working in the field of Health and Biotechnology and are interested in EU funding for research & technology development, get a 1 day training by experts on participation in FP7 research projects - free of charge!

Draft Agenda (speakers to be announced soon)

09:30 – 10:00 Registration and coffee
10:00 – 10:10 Opening
10:10 – 10:45 FP7 with the focus on Health
10:45 – 11:00 SMEs go Health: a support action to participate in FP7 Health projects
11:00 – 12:30 Industry and Innovation

Dear all,

The European project LifeCompetence was presented at the Bio 2008 in San Diago by COM. In this online platform, you can view all projects funded in the FP6 program with a categorisation according to instruments and with an overview of the organisations participating in these projects. This could be a good source for a search for results to be exploited but also for potential partners and expertise for new projects.

You can access the website under:
http://www.lifecompetence.eu/

Best regards,
Hicham

ICT BIO 2008 - Registration is now open
23 October 2008 - 24 October 2008 Brussels, Belgium
Medical research at crossroads: combining the power of Information and Communication Technologies with Biomedical Sciences. For details on the different sessions of the conference and the parallel workshop on Multiscale Cancer modelling, check the website regularly.
Contact: infso-ictbio2008@ec.europa.eu

Forum MedTech Pharma e.V. of the Bayern Innovativ GmbH is organising the Congress ´Medizin Innovativ`
that will take place on 9 and 10 July 2008 in the CCN East (Fairgrond) in Nuremberg and to which
we would kindly invite you to participate.

During these 2 days decision-makers from research, development, production, services and clinical applications
will hold lectures and plenary speeches in pioneering thematic areas such as Process Optimization in hospitals,
Biomaterials, Computed Tomography, Diagnostics etc. in order to discuss current trends and push ahead project ideas.

This VIRTUAL BROKERAGE EVENT (VBE) is designed to help identify research interests in the Health area at the European level and maximise the involvement of SMEs and academic organisations in research projects in the field of Health/Life Sciences of the 7th Framework Programme (FP7).
http://www.smesgohealth.org/common/articles_details.asp?arid=92

The Eu Workshop on Molecular Targets for Cancer will be held in Bergen, Norway, on July 11-12, 2008. It is organised by the European Commission DG RTD and the University of Bergen.
The aim of this workshop is to identify possible bottlenecks and put forward solutions that boost the commercial value of potentially innovative findings on molecular targets, emanating from European research on cancer.

The programme is focused on childhood cancers and cancers with a poor prognosis (pancreatic, ovarian, mesothelioma, esophageal/gastric and glioma).

For more information:

EuropaBio,
the European Association for Bioindustries, is delighted to introduce you to
the European Forum for Industrial Biotechnology 2008 which will take place this
15-17 September in Brussels, Belgium. This inaugural event will feature two
workshops and a forum with approximately 30 industry leaders who will assess
the prospects for industrial biotechnology in Europe, through presentations,
question-and-answer sessions and panel discussions. The European Forum for
Industrial Biotechnology 2008 will, for the first time, bring together the

A new draft (#3) of the work programme exist. It seems quite stable. Not much changes since last draft.

The current information about the next Call for proposals: there will be two calls: FP7-HEALTH-2008-A (one-step submission)/ HEALTH-2008-B (two-stage submission). Call budget: €590 million. Call publication: End July 2008. Estimated Call deadlines: HEALTH-2008-A: One-step: November 2008; HEALTH-2008-B: October 2008 first stage/ 2nd stage closure February-March 2009. Next call Health: Automn 2009.

“European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership“ (EDCTP) opened a call for grants with a budget of 5 MIO. with a deadline of 5 June 2008. The objective of the call is to bring into concert the research done at the member states of EDCTP and the African partner countries in matters HIV, malaria, tuberculosis.

You can find further information under the following link:

http://www.edctp.org/JP_Activities.336.0.html

Best,

Hicham 

The 43rd Annual Meeting of the European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL) will take place in the beautiful and sunny city of Milan, Italy, April 23 – 27, 2008.

The European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL) is the leading Association in Europe in the field of liver research. EASL brings clinicians and scientists interested in the liver together, providing an outlet for networking and learning.

Call for Proposals 2008

New financial mechanisms and funding opportunities in 2008

A major information dissemination event is to be held in Brussels on Wednesday 30 April to allow all key stakeholders find out more about the Innovative Medicines Initiative. The one-day event will provide potential stakeholders with full details of the scientific priorities of the IMI. Participants will get initial guidance on the application procedures for consortia considering making applications for funding under the first IMI Call for proposals.

SMEs go Health

The 3-years initiative, co-financed by the European Commission, is based on the successful project “SMEs go LifeSciences” which was carried out with the focus on Life Science topics in the 6th EU Framework Programme.

Match2BioSME coaching workshop to be held on the 21st and 22nd of February 2008 in Sophia Antipolis, FRANCE
Dear All,

It is our great pleasure to invite you to the Match2BioSME coaching workshop to be held on the 21st and 22nd of February 2008 in Sophia Antipolis, FRANCE.

The European Commission, Directorate F of the DG Research, has been fully devoted to the evaluations of a large number of proposals corresponding to the second call of FP7 Health  during the months of November and December 2007. The evaluation procedures were finished with the final meeting of the ranking panel composed by external

For FP7 participants: the IPR
help-desk will continue through a new project funded last November,
called IP-base, that will last 3 years and includes 26 partners with
Alicante. So the same web-site will be kept alive, no apparent change
for the end user, and the new project will provide additional and more complete IPR supprort

http://www.ipr-helpdesk.org

Cordis has lauched a new health research web service for
FP7. The portal informs about the highlights & Co of the Health theme.

The site can be accessed under:

http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/health/home_en.html