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01/02/2012 London The 2012 Intelligent Energy Europe (IEE) Call for Proposals was launched on 20th December 2011. The Call budget is 67M€ and the Call deadline is 8th May 2012. The Call is focused on defined priority areas and the Commission is seeking high quality, ambitious projects with significant European impact.
The IEE Programme aims to tackle non-technological barriers to the uptake of energy efficiency measures and renewables. The programme cannot fund technological research and demonstration activity. A factsheet that sets out the key requirements for IEE proposals is attached. More information on the Programme including examples of funded projects can be found at http://ec.europa.eu/energy/intelligent/index_en.html
The UK Information Day on the IEE Programme 2012 Call for Proposals will take place in London on Wednesday 1st February 2012. The event will start at 10am and will finish by 2.30pm.
The presentations at the UK Information Day will cover topics including:
· the 2012 Call priorities
· the administrative and financial arrangements
· tips on how to prepare a successful proposal
The UK Information Day is free to attend, is funded by DECC and organised by the EU Energy Focus team.
If you have already registered for the Information Day you will receive the joining instructions later this week.
02/02/2012 Dundee This half-day interactive workshop will help you identify the key intellectual assets operating as value drivers in your business and develop strategies for their management and protection. The workshop will address a number of areas critical to business success including: understanding and managing both intellectual property and wider intangible assets and how to audit these assets effectively to help grow your business.
The workshop will also act as an introduction to further, free support from the IA Centre to help you manage and commercialise your intangible assets and intellectual property by working with one of our specialist advisers
Registration: http://www.ia-centre.org.uk/news_and_events/events/viewer.cfm?intItemId=291
This event is also running in Glasgow on 17th February
08/02/2012 BIS Conference Centre, 1 Victoria Street, London SW1H 0ET This information day will address new opportunities for collaborative pilot activities deploying ICT solutions in:
“Smart” cities - energy efficiency, internet enabled services, etc.
Health, ageing well and inclusion - integrated care, independent living etc.
Innovative government and public services - cross sector services, eCODEX, HeERO
Digital content, open data and creativity - Using cultural material for creativity, Geographic Information Systems, Enhancing the European Digital Library etc.
Trusted eServices and other actions - Cyber security, mobile cloud, satellite for broadband coverage
Grants worth over 127M€ will be available from the Commission’s ICT Policy Support Programme following its next call in early February for real world deployment pilots. These will demonstrate and assess the utility and long term viability of ICT based services in these areas, which are described in The Commission Workprogramme .
The principal speaker at this free event will be Loris di Pietrantonio from DGINFSO, European Commission, who will explain the Workprogramme and the associated processes. Further speakers will describe their experiences of participating in existing projects, together with the proposal submission and evaluation processes in which they have been personally involved.
There will be ample opportunity for questions and answers, networking and sharing of ideas.
The event is open to delegates from other countries and follows the Commission Information Day that is scheduled to take place on 3 February in Brussels.
Please note that spaces are limited. Following receipt of your completed registration form, confirmation of your booking will be provided.
09/02/2012 EICC Edinburgh
http://www.eicc.co.uk/
The Enterprise Europe Network (EEN) in Scotland supported by Scottish Enterprise and the Scottish Life Sciences Industry Association (SLA) will host its 2012 Life Sciences Scotland company partnering event on the afternoon of Thursday 9th of February 2012 at the EICC in Edinburgh.
The day will commence at 12:30PM with a networking lunch sponsored by The Scottish Life Sciences Industry Association.
In parallel to the B2B partnering Enterprise Europe Network Scotland will run information surgeries on European Funding Opportunities, specifically the TSB Eurostars programme and FWP7 2012 Health call.
The EEN Scotland partnering event will offer innovative Scottish Life Sciences companies an opportunity to debate, collaborate and innovate with potential partners from Scotland, UK and Europe.
The Partnering is open to delegates from any life sciences sector in any country and will focus on one-to-one 20-minute pre-scheduled company meetings. Last year's event attracted companies from throughout Europe and across the world, including Belgium, France, Germany, Portugal, Spain Greece and USA. Over 150 meetings were held on the day, with very positive feedback.
To complete this day of Life Sciences collaboration, and to further maximise networking opportunities, an evening of informal networking will be held at the Scottish Enterprise Annual Life Sciences Awards Dinner, also at the EICC in Edinburgh http://www.ecs-events.co.uk/lifesciences/index.asp
14/02/2012 IA Centre, Skypark 2, 12 Elliot Place, Glasgow G3 8EP
This half-day interactive workshop will introduce you to the IA Pathway to creating new revenue streams (identify, record, protect, communicate and commercialise) to help you find new routes to revenue generation including: sales of products/services; trading your IA (through assignation, licensing, franchising); joint ventures/collaborations; securing investment; succession planning; and developing new business models.
You will learn how to develop key IA messages for different purposes, designed to support your own key business objectives, and will come away from the workshop with increased knowledge of how to use your IA to increase both business opportunities and income. It will also enable you to consider how best to present your IA, tailored to your chosen means of business generation.
Registration : http://www.ia-centre.org.uk/news_and_events/events/viewer.cfm?intItemId=290
This workshop is also running in Dundee on 8th March
16/02/2012 Cowan House
Inverness Retail and Business Park
Inverness
IV2 7GF
Highlands and Islands Enterprise and the China-Britain Business Council (CBBC) invite companies to find out more about the increasing number and variety of business opportunities that exist in China's regional cities at this FREE one day event in Inverness on Thursday 16th February.
CBBC will present the findings of a new key report commissioned by UK Trade and Investment (UKTI): Opportunities for UK Businesses in China's Regional Cities 2011.
Free export training support will also be available to delegates at this event, through Smart Exporter, enabling them to gain the appropriate skills and knowledge to successfully trade to new markets.
27/02/2012 Brussels, Belgium The 'Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI) open info day for the Fifth IMI Call for Proposals' will take place on 27 February 2012 in Brussels, Belgium.
The event will include an overview of IMI's funding and intellectual property rules, tips and testimonies from people involved in ongoing IMI projects. There will also be a presentation of the Fifth IMI Call topic 'European lead factory: Joint European compound library and screening centre'. The event programme will also include networking opportunities and information sessions with IMI staff.
Expected attendees will include small and medium-sized enterprises, patient organisations, regulatory authorities, academic teams, industry, hospitals and other stakeholders with an interest in IMI projects.
27/02/2012 - 29/02/2012 Mobile World Congress fair, Fira de Barcelona.
With nearly 1,400 exhibitors and more than 60,000 visitors in 2011, the Mobile World Congress has cemented its reputation as the world's largest mobile technology fair.
The Brokerage Event is ideal for:
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small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), offering and / or looking for new technologies
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scientists / research institutes offering innovative RTD results
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start-up companies and entrepreneurs
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operatorswilling tomeetinnovators and added-value service providers
28/02/2012 Dundee This half-day interactive workshop will introduce the key concepts of brand perception and brand value and will show how you can manage your intangible assets in order to actively build your brand, as well as how to use intellectual property in order to protect both the brand itself ... and your brand investment!
The workshop will help you learn how to use your assets to manage, protect and enhance your brand and to develop a "take-away" action plan tailored to your own business needs. It will also help you develop strategies for influencing how your business offering and reputation is perceived externally by existing and potential customers - and internally by employees - so you can be sure that your brand message is consistent.
Registration : http://www.ia-centre.org.uk/news_and_events/events/viewer.cfm?intItemId=292
This event is also running in Glasgow on 24th January
29/02/2012 - 20/02/2012 Brussels, Belgium As part of the European project REStARTS, four European Research Establishments in aeronautics have developed a set of educational materials for teachers and students of primary and secondary schools.
The tools developed for teachers to use in the classroom are directly related to aspects of research in aeronautics.
This afternoon will be an opportunity to demonstrate the developments resulting from a close collaboration between the world of research and education.
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