SMEs go LifeSciences Newsletter

Newsletter No 3,
January 2005
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In this issue

“SMEs go LifeSciences” database is currently providing more than 300 European company and researcher profiles

FORUM LIFE SCIENCE 2005, International Congress and Exhibition taking place in Munich, Germany, between February 16th and 17th, 2005

“Congress of the Spanish Proteomics Society” to take place in Córdoba between 14 and 17 February, 2005: “SMEs go LifeSciences” is contributing with a transnational training session for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) and researchers

Successful "SMEs go LifeSciences" Workshop on the FP6 Information Day of Steinbeis-Europa-Zentrum in Pforzheim, Germany, on December 10th, 2004

Successful "SMEs go LifeSciences" Training Session at the Flemish Free University of Brussels on December 8th, 2004!

Currently open Calls in Life Sciences related areas of Thematic Priority 2 (TP2), Thematic Priority 3 (TP3) and Thematic Priority 5 (TP5)

Project coordinator is
FFG-Austrian Research Promotion Agency
Division for International Research and Technology Cooperation
(BIT)

The SMEs go LifeSciences project is
co-funded by the European Commission

“SMEs go LifeSciences” database is currently providing more than 300 European company and researcher profiles
“SMEs go LifeSciences” database is currently providing more than 300 company and researcher profiles from all over Europe in the areas of Life Sciences, with more than 180 SME profiles.
In respect of the Fourth Life Sciences Call in FP6 by the European Commission, to come in Summer 2005, the time is more than suitable to project an international innovation. The European Commission has set aside a remarkable budget for funding SME research project participation. Read more >

FORUM LIFE SCIENCE 2005, International Congress and Exhibition taking place in Munich, Germany, between February 16th and 17th, 2005
FORUM LIFE SCIENCE 2005 will be a central platform for science and industry in the Biotech area, focussed on Biotech for Pharma, Food&Nutrition and Bioengineering.
"SMEs go LifeSciences" will be represented with a booth providing information about the initiative and about FP6 participation in TP1, and supporting participants to enter their profiles into the online company/researcher profile database.
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“Congress of the Spanish Proteomics Society” to take place in Córdoba between 14 and 17 February, 2005: “SMEs go LifeSciences” is contributing with a transnational training session for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) and researchers.
The “Spanish Society of Proteomics” (SEProt), constituted in April 2004, is organising its “First Congress of the SEProt” in Córdoba, between 14th and 17th of February, 2005. On 17th of February “SMEs go LifeSciences" will hold a transnational training session for SMEs and researchers on the funding possibilities in Life Sciences within the Sixth EU Framework Programme (FP6), on successful proposal preparation and legal/financial issues.
For downloading the draft agenda of the transnational training and for event details. Click here >

Successful "SMEs go LifeSciences" Workshop on the FP6 Information Day of Steinbeis-Europa-Zentrum in Pforzheim/Germany on December 10th , 2004
The FP6 Information Day was organised by IRC Steinbeis-Europa-Zentrum
focussing on participation opportunities for SMEs.
Approximately 50 SME representatives attended this national event.
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Successful "SMEs go LifeSciences" Training Session at the Flemish Free University of Brussels on December 8th, 2004!
On December 8th, 2004 the Brussels Enterprise Agency organised a training seminar at the Flemish Free University of Brussels (VUB), drawing on the experience and the support of the consortium of the initiative “SMEs go LifeSciences”. The European Commission was also represented.

The goals of this workshop, which gathered around 50 participants, both SMEs and researchers from across Belgium, were numerous. Read more >

Currently open Calls in Life Sciences related areas of Thematic Priority 2 (TP2), Thematic Priority 3 (TP3) and Thematic Priority 5 (TP5)
In the Thematic Priority 1 (TP1) “Life sciences, genomics and biotechnology for health” there are currently no open calls. Nevertheless, currently open calls in Life sciences related areas can be found in TP2 “Information society technologies”,
TP3 “ Nanotechnologies and nano-sciences, knowledge-based multifunctional materials and new production processes and devices“
and TP5 “Food quality and safety”. click here >