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European Commission to invest €11 billion in new solutions for societal challenges and drive innovation-led sustainable growth

On July 2, 2019, the Commission announced the budget plan for the final year of the programme Horizon 2020, which has also the biggest annual tranche - €11 billion - out of the total budget of €77 billion allocated to the programme for the period 2014-2020. Aiming at achieving greater impact of its...
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Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions to fund more than 10 500 researchers in 2020

On July 2, 2019, the Commission announced the budget plan for the final year of the programme Horizon 2020, which has also the biggest annual tranche - €11 billion - allocated. Under this programme, the annual Work Programme of the European Research Council for 2020, adopted on July 2nd, will enable...
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Have your say on future objectives for EU-funded research and innovation

The European Commission is preparing the implementation of Horizon Europe, the next and most ambitious EU research and innovation programme (2021-2027) with a proposed budget of €100 billion, in an intensive co-design process. As part of the process, the Commission has launched an online...
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2019 European Research and Innovation Days

The EU’s main funding instruments for research and innovation in Europe are the successive multiannual framework programmes. The current framework programme Horizon 2020 will be succeeded by Horizon Europe (2021-2027), the European Commission's proposal for the next EU research and innovation...
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EIC Pathfinder pilot (FET-Proactive) Boosting emerging technologies

Deadline: 03 September 2019 17:00:00 Brussels time Call ID: H2020-FETPROACT-2019-2020 Type of action: RIA Research and Innovation action FET Proactive aims to identify the future and emerging technological paradigms with highest potential for Europe's economy and society. For each of them, it looks...
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2019 RISE Call - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Research and Innovation Staff Exchange 

Organisations such as universities, research centres and companies that want to offer a short-term exchange to their staff can now apply on the Funding and Tenders Portal. If you need advice for your application, please contact the National Contact Point (NCP) in your country (select "Marie...
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Cluster Excellence Management Course 2018

Cluster initiatives around the world have proven their ability to tackle the complex discipline of organising public, private, academia and civil society in strong platforms for job creation, SME support, R&D, business collaboration, exports and investment promotion. In collaboration with Oxford...
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Launch of BLUEMED Start-up Actions

The BLUEMED CSA Consortium is pleased to announce the opening of its Call for Strategic Start-up Actions on Blue Growth in the Mediterranean. The Call is open to entities who are willing to partner up with other organisations (to form a partnership of (min.) three entities from two different EU...
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Senegal: West Africa’s future scientific and technological pole under construction

As promised in the “Emerging Senegal Plan”, Macky Sall, President of Senegal, wants Dakar to become a regional campus of reference. To achieve his vision, the president has launched the construction of a major site, dedicated to research and innovation, as reported by Jeune Afrique. The scientific...
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Korea: LG Group opens Korea’s largest private research hub in Seoul

The opening of LG Group’s largest research hub in Korea last month was driven by the power of clustering minds and companies. It will host 17,000 researchers from eight LG group affiliates. It encourages researchers to collaborate by introducing support centre where employees from all eight involved...
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Evaluation of BSR Stars Innovation Express 2015 programme

Aimed at addressing the policymakers' demand for understanding the type of results that SMEs have from BSR Stars Innovation Express projects, as well as the role that cluster organizations play in catalyzing SME internationalization, this evaluation report provides an overview of activities and...
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ERA PERMED 1ST JOINT TRANSNATIONAL CALL FOR PROPOSALS

For clusters involved in personalised healthcare “RESEARCH PROJECTS ON PERSONALISED MEDICINE – SMART COMBINATION OF PRE-CLINICAL AND CLINICAL RESEARCH WITH DATA AND ICT SOLUTIONS” Call Deadline: 10 April 2018 ERA PerMed is an ERA-Net Cofund, supported by 31 partners of 22 countries and cofunded by...