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INFORMATION SOCIETY NEWSROOM UPDATE
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-- PRESS RELEASE
Boosting the participation of acceding and candidate countries in EU
research (28/11/03)
On Friday 28 November, European Research Commissioner Philippe Busquin met
in Brussels Ministers and High Level Representatives of the 13 acceding and
candidate countries. They will discuss their participation in the EU's Sixth
Framework Programme for research 2002-2006 (FP6) and, more specifically,
their response to the first calls for proposals. Data available shows that
the participation of acceding/candidate countries in FP6 could be improved.
Out of more than 100 000 applications for participation in FP6, only 13 000
are from acceding/candidate countries, barely 12.7%. And only 1500
organisations were eventually retained for funding, mostly in
nanotechnology, information society, energy and transport projects. Earlier
this year the Commission launched EUR13 million worth of "specific support
actions" to stimulate, encourage and facilitate the participation in FP6 of
the 13 acceding/candidate countries: Bulgaria, Cyprus, the Czech Republic,
Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Romania, Slovakia,
Slovenia and Turkey.
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-- 1 - 2 December 2003
Manufuture 2003 - European Manufacturing of the Future: role of research and
education for European leadership
Milan, Italy
This conference is organised by the Council Presidency (Italian Ministry of
Research) in co-operation with Eureka Factory, the Research Directorate
General and the Information Society Directorate General (e-Business unit) of
the European Commission. Its purposes is to help catalyse the dialogue
between the major stakeholders in Europe on scientific, technological,
organisational and industrial issues related to manufacturing. More
specifically, this event seeks to verify interest in forming a common
European vision on the future of Manufacturing Technologies leading to a
possible Action Plan for Manufacturing Technologies, including the
identification of Technology Platform(s). The working document and agenda
can be found on the web pages.
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-- 2 December 2003
The Broadband Revolution takes shape
Concert Noble, Brussels, Belgium
Erkki Liikanen will be a keynote speaker at this event. Fabio Colasanti,
European Commission, Director General for Information Society and a panel of
high-level experts & specialists will also take part in this one day
conference focusing on three key issues:
1) Are winners emerging in the race to develop new business models? The
relationship between content & infrastructure providers
2) Has the new regulatory framework contributed to the development of
broadband? The conditions to deliver broadband (multi-platform competition)
3) Are the Broadband strategies on target to meet the Lisbon process
objectives? What is being done at member state level to promote its
development?
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-- 2 - 3 December 2003
"Knowledge and content technology research - the past and the future"
Luxembourg
This workshop is organised by KT web, in conjunction with the European
Commission (Directorate General Information Society, Unit E2, Knowledge
Management and Content Creation) Highlights include keynote addresses by
leading industry players, details of the plans for future research
opportunities in the EC's Sixth Framework Programme, project presentations
and case studies, together with parallel demonstrations and poster sessions.
Attendance is free of charge.
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