Presentations of the SMEs go Health International Information and Training Workshop in Istanbul now available online

Date: 27/04/2009

SMEs go Health held its 4^th Information and Training Workshop in Istanbul, Turkey, on 27 April 2009. This training day was addressed to companies, Research Institutes, Universities, Hospitals and other fields of Health, Life Sciences, Genomics and Biotechnology.

The event took place at the occasion of the12^th World Public Health Congress

The presentations offered a broad overview on the 7th Framework Programme and the Health theme as they contained information on successful proposal preparation, evaluation procedures, success stories and specific knowledge of upcoming initiatives in the area of Health to name but a few.

87 participants from 22 countries attended the meeting.

SMEs were also given the possibility to present their project objectives and they could find researchers with whom they examined possibilities for consortium building with a view to preparing an application to the FP7 fourth call in the Health theme.


The presentations can be downloaded by clicking the links below (note that some files are large and may take some time to download):

• 01 - Welcome by SMEs go Health
  (Ines Haberl, Austrian Research Promotion Agency, Austria;
  Melike Sevimli, Scientific and Technological Research Council, Turkey)
• 02 - The 7th EU-Framework Programme with the focus on "Health"
  (Beatrice Lucaroni, Genomics and Systems Biology Unit, Health Directorate, DG Research – European Commission)
• 03 - SMEs go Health: A support action to participate in FP7 Health projects
  (Argo Soon, Archimedes Foundation, Estonia)
• 04 - Success Story: Benefits and challenges of participating in an EU-funded project – an experience report from a Coordinator
  (Gérard Brugal, University Joseph Fourier, France)
• 05 - Life cycle of an EU-funded project: From the idea to a successful project
  (Martijn de Jager, SenterNovem, The Netherlands)
• 06 - Experiences of an FP7 project Evaluator: Critical points of a project - Dos and Don’ts in a proposal
  (Mustafa Culha, Yeditepe University, Turkey)
• 07 - Successful conceptual design of an EU-Project: Tips for planning your next proposal including an exercise
  (Crispin Kirkman, Emerging Technologies Network Agency, UK)
  
  

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