
Date: 13/09/2007
Information and Training Workshop on the 7th EU-Framework Programme for Research and technological development will be organised by the SMEs go Health network on 13 September 2007 at the International conference “Baltic Dynamics’07”, Riga, Latvia
The aim of the 1st Information & Training Workshop was to provide comprehensive information and to train Health and Biotech SMEs, researchers, industry, associations, representative of Bio Clusters and Bio Incubators for successful participation into FP7 Programme projects.
The plenary session in the morning was dedicated to topics about funding opportunities of the 7th EU-Framework programme, life cycle of an FP7 project, benefits and challenges of participation in EU-Framework programme – case studies of successfully participated SME and the coordinator of the research project, European Technology Platform-Innovative Medicine Initiative.
After theoretical part in the morning, participants have been trained on practical issues in 2 parallel sessions – Health and Biotechnology. Subjects focused on research areas in Health and BIO themes in FP7, processing of project proposal, financial issues and evaluation aspects.
The event was organized by two European initiatives “SMEsgoHealth” and “Match2BIOSME”, whose networks consist of experienced partners from more then 27 European countries.
Contact:
Mrs Diana Krievina
Latvian Technological Center (LTC)
Aizkraukles 21, LV-1006, Riga, LATVIA
Tel: +37/1/7558754
dianak@edi.lv