EUROPA
EVENTI
25 – 26 August 2011 Debrecen, Hungary Fifth Central and Eastern European Conference on Software Engineering Techniques. The main focus of the event will be ‘Software in the age of the cloud’. Cloud computing refers to the provision of computational resources on demand via a computer network. For some businesses and other customers, this has a benefit of allowing them to scale and expand operations without having to invest significant resources into infrastructure. The resources are shared with others, which allows overall costs to decline. http://cordis.europa.eu/search/index.cfm?fuseaction=events.document&EV_RCN=33378
30 – 31 May 2011, Vienna, Austria. eSafety Challenge Annual Event 2011. The eSafety Challenge is an annual event that promotes and highlights the life-saving potential of advanced vehicle safety technologies. An array of activities is being prepared to show delegates the potential of eSafety systems to save lives on the roads. A point of attraction will be the technology demonstrations opened by celebrity drivers, including Formula 1 Champion Sebastian Vettel, 8-times 24h Le Mans Winner Tom Kristensen, and racing driver Alexander Wurz. http://www.esafetychallenge.eu/en/esafety_challenge/esafety_challenge/esafety_challenge_2011/
NEWS
Commission selects six future and emerging technologies (FET) projects to compete for research funding. Six research projects selected to compete for two top spots in the area of research into future and emerging technologies (FET) have been announced today by the European Commission at the FET11 conference and exhibition in Budapest. The six contenders will receive around €1.5 million each to refine their proposal for one year, after which only two will be selected. The aim of these flagship initiatives will be to deliver major breakthroughs in information and communication technologies (ICT), with the potential to provide solutions to some of society’s biggest challenges. The two initiatives selected for long-term funding will run for 10 years, each with a total budget of up to €100 million per year. http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/11/530&format=HTML&aged=0&language=en&guiLanguage=en
CALL
Call for proposals — EAC/18/11 Preparatory action in the field of sport (Open call) (2011/C 131/09) Budget EUR 2 000 000 Deadline 29 July 2011 http://ec.europa.eu/sport/preparatory_actions/doc1009_en.htm
Call for proposals EAC/19/2011 – Pilot project for the development of knowledge partnerships. European Commission (DG EAC) has published a pilot call for testing out the model of Knowledge Alliances, that will be structured partnerships between education institutions and innovation players. According to the decision of the EP, 1 Million eurosl. The deadline for sending the proposals is 30 June 2011. http://ec.europa.eu/education/calls/doc2905_en.htm
EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF VOCATIONAL TRAINING (CEDEFOP) Open call for proposals — GP/RPA/ReferNet-FPA/001/11 ReferNet — Cedefop’s European Network for Vocational Education and Training (VET) (2011/C 136/08) Deadline 8 July 2011 http://www.cedefop.europa.eu/EN/working-with-us/public-procurements/calls-for-proposals.aspx
Premio RegioStars 2012: sono aperte le candidature. Avete intenzione di realizzare un progetto innovativo e desiderate che diventi un esempio a livello europeo? Siete responsabili di un progetto basato sull’innovazione, sullo sviluppo sostenibile, sul cambiamento demografico o sullo sviluppo urbano? Avete creato un sito Internet per informare il grande pubblico in merito ai progetti sostenuti dalla politica regionale dell’unione europea? Vi invitiamo a consultare il sito Internet Regio Stars 2012 per scaricare i moduli di candidatura e partecipare all’assegnazione di un premio per la vostra regione. Deadline 15 luglio 2011 http://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/cooperation/interregional/ecochange/regiostars_12_en.cfm?nmenu=4
FILAS
NEWS
Le idee globali girano veloci. Adesso che la Cina è il quarto Paese al mondo per brevetti (e pretende che siano rispettati), è ora di mettere il sistema mondiale delle «patent» al passo con il ritmo accelerato della ricerca scientifica e tecnologica. Lo scorso 14 aprile la World lnternational Property Organization (Wipo) ha registrato il duemilionesimo brevetto internazionale. Ci sono voluti 27 anni perché venisse registrato il primo milione di brevetti e solo 6 anni per arrivare a quota due milioni. L’accelerazione, a partire da quando la Wipo ha varato il trattato per la cooperazione sui brevetti (Patent cooperation Treaty, o Pct) nel 1978, è stata rapida. E il Pct, che peraltro ha efficacia in 1.42 Paesi, è solo l’ultimo anello di una catena molto più lunga: i brevetti vengono registrati in ambiti diversi su scala nazionale sia dalle grandi aziende che da quelle più piccole o dai singoli. E gli ambiti di registrazione, le lingue con le quali i brevetti vengono scritti, la loro trasportabilità al di fuori dei confini nazionali e la loro interpretazione costituiscono una delle maggiori rigidità sia in termini di costi che di tempi per l’economia della conoscenza. http://www.filas.it/News.aspx?IDNews=489
CORDIS
EVENTI
7 – 8 June 2011 Copenhagen, Denmark. ‘Flood management, flood defence, flood risk’. Coastal lowland areas are widely recognised as highly vulnerable to the impacts of tsunami, climate change, particularly sea-level rise and changes in runoff, and stresses imposed by human modifications of water catchment and delta plain land use. http://cordis.europa.eu/search/index.cfm?fuseaction=events.document&EV_RCN=33372
16 July 2011 Barcelona, Spain. Workshop on social choice and artificial intelligence. Computational social choice (CSI) is an interdisciplinary field of study which combines computer science, artificial intelligence, logic, political science and economic theory, among others. The field is concerned with the application of techniques developed in computer science, such as complexity analysis or algorithm design, to the study of social choice mechanisms, such as voting procedures or fair division algorithms. CSI also deals with importing concepts from social choice theory into computing. http://cordis.europa.eu/search/index.cfm?fuseaction=events.document&EV_RCN=33361
CALL
Call for proposals under the Implementation Plan of Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Joint Undertaking. Identifier: FCH-JU-2011-1 Budget: € 109 000 000 Deadline: 18 August 2011 http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/dc/index.cfm?fuseaction=UserSite.FP7DetailsCallPage&call_id=401
EUROPEAN SCIENCE FOUNDATION
CALL
Call for ESF Research Conference Proposals. The European Science Foundation invites researchers to submit proposals for high-level research conferences to take place in 2013 within the framework of its Research Conferences Scheme in the following scientific domains:
- Molecular Biology+
- Physics/Biophysics and Environmental Sciences
- Social Sciences and Humanities
2011 Call for Proposals for workshops to be held in 2012, across all scientific domains. The ESF invites proposals across all scientific domains under the 2011 Call for Exploratory Workshops.The focus of the scheme is to foster meetings that aim to open up new directions in research or to explore emerging research fields with potential impact on new developments in science. http://www.esf.org/media-centre/press-releases/ext-single-news.html?tx_ttnews[tt_news]=656&cHash=a592dd68e75e3baf8c0dd4dedc387ec4
CZELO
CALL
Research Fellow positions in Intelligent Information Technologies. The Faculty of Automatic Control and Computers (A&C) of University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania, invites applications for 5 full-time Research Fellow positions in Intelligent Information Technologies. The positions are in the framework of the FP7 project “ERRIC: Empowering Romanian Research on Intelligent Information Technologies”. The duration of the posts is 24 months, starting the 1st of September 2011 (or later). http://erric.eu/researchjobs/
NEWS
Strategy Report on Research Infrastructures. The European Strategy Forum for Research Infrastructures (ESFRI) has published the „Strategy Report on Research Infrastructures – Roadmap 2010” in March 2011. The first part of the document contains the work programme of ESFRI for the coming years and the second part an updated roadmap for 48 European research infrastructures (for the next 10 – 20 years). Six more infrastructures were added, 3 in the area of Energy and 3 in the field of Biological and Medical Sciences. http://ec.europa.eu/research/infrastructures/index_en.cfm?pg=esfri
MONDOGIS
BANDO
Comune di Acireale (CT) . Settore LL.PP. e manutenzioni. Incarico professionale per la realizzazione del progetto di attivazione in modalità web gis dei servizi territoriali urbanistici. Importo onorario € 60.096. Scadenza 9 maggio 2011.
LAIT – Lazio Innovazione e Tecnologia SpA . Progettazione e realizzazione di un sistema informativo in continuità operativa per la Protezione Civile della Regione Lazio, nonchè dei servizi di manutenzione, formazione, gestione e integrazione. Importo € 650.000 + iva. Scadenza 20 giugno 2011.
FIRST
EVENTI
8 – 9 giugno 2011 Bologna. Al via l’edizione 2011 di R2B – RESEARCH TO BUSINESS . R2B RESEARCH TO BUSINESS, la manifestazione nata nel 2005 da un’idea della Regione Emilia-Romagna insieme ad ASTER, Bologna Fiere, e ICE, quest’anno si arricchisce con la prestigiosa collaborazione di SMAU Business Bologna, il Salone dedicato alle tecnologie digitali per il business, per rafforzare il legame della Regione Emilia-Romagna con il tessuto produttivo e il coinvolgimento delle imprese. http://first.aster.it/news/show_news.php?ID=23942
10 maggio 2011 Bruxelles ‘How to unleash Europe’s ICT innovations? – discuss with politicians, researchers and entrepreneurs’. L’innovazione è uno dei punti centrali della strategia Europa 2020 per una crescita intelligente, sostenibile e inclusiva. Sia l’Unione dell’innovazione che l’Agenda digitale enfatizzano l’importanza delle tecnologie dell’informazione e della comunicazione (TIC) come motore per l’innovazione e la competitività – non solo in questo settore in rapida evoluzione e basato sulla ricerca, ma anche in altri settori dell’economia europea.