The 7^th EU-Framework Programme (FP7) for Research and Technological Development

SMEs go Health will hold its 5^th Information and Training Workshop in Stockholm on November 25^th, 2009. This half-day workshop addresses companies, research institutes, universities, hospitals and other fields of health, life sciences, genomics and biotechnology.

The workshop will take place at the occasion of BioTech Forum, the biotech and medtech partnering event: http://www.biotechforum.org/.

The workshop will provide information on successful proposal preparation, a panel discussion with proposal evaluators,  and present the servcies offered by SMEs go Health.

Agenda

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10.30 - Registration and coffee
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11.00 - Welcome by SMEs go Health
Ines Haberl, Austrian Research Promotion Agency, Austria.

11.05 - SMEs go Health: A support action to participate in FP7 HEALTH projects
Gunnar Sandberg, VINNOVA, Sweden

11.20 - SwedenBIO Support Office
Per Lindquist, SwedenBIO, Sweden

11.40 - Success Story: Benefits and challenges of participating in an EU-funded project: APO SYS – experience report from a Coordinator
Prof. Boris Zhivotovsky, KAROLINSKA  Institute, Sweden

12.10 - Why participating in FP7? - Recommendations on financial issues
Martin Baumgartner, NCP for financial and legal matters, Austrian Research Promotion Agency, Austria

13.00 - Evaluating “HEALTH” proposals: how does it really work?
Panel Discussion with evaluators from the FP7-“HEALTH”-programme
Karin Aase, SwedenBio, Sweden; Joakim Björkegren, KAROLINSKA Institue, Sweden

14.05 - Closing remarks
Ines Haberl, Austrian Research Promotion Agency, Austria
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Registration

Please register to SMEs go Health Information & Training Workshop by clicking on online registration box hereunder