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[Général] Cordis 27/01/2012

The new CORDIS Projects Service was launched recently and is available for the public. The development and the implementation of the service were based mainly on the recommendations of the client forum and the needs expressed by the research DGs and Agencies.  The main purpose of the Projects Service is to enhance the visibility of project-related information to users, and to ensure that all available information on CORDIS on a given project is tied together in a clear manner in one place. The Projects service was given high visibility, featuring as a new ‘tab’ in the common header, and thus being directly accessible from any current CORDIS page.

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[Général] Gender dimension in R&I 27/01/2012

Invitation to sign the Manifesto for Integrated Action on the Gender Dimension in Research and Innovation Over 700 European stakeholders have helped to formulate the Manifesto for Integrated Action on the Gender Dimension in Research and Innovation through their input to the public consultation and the discussions at the European Gender Summit. This Manifesto is a work in progress to be advanced through evidence based actions and cooperation between scientists, policy makers and gender research scholars. It represents the knowledge and ideas of European organisations & individuals who believe that concrete actions are needed to enhance research and innovation in Europe by addressing gender equality issues. Join them, and more than 900 signatories to date, and help changing the research and innovation systems in Europe.

[Affaires financières et juridiques] Research clearing committee 27/01/2012

In the context of the simplification initiatives for EU research and innovation funding, the Research Clearing Committee (RCC) was set up to ensure the uniform interpretation of the research rules among the different Commission services. RCC may be consulted on any legal, financial and management matter for which there is no common position among the European Commission's implementing services empowered to take final decisions on matters related to the implementation of the whole project cycle, as well as on all management matters related to FPs projects. The RCC Secretariat would like to let you know that as of 2 January 2012, the FP7 participants may contact the Committee and bring their requests to its attention. More precisely, any participant in the Research Framework Programmes facing a situation where there appears to be different interpretations/implementations of the FP7 Research Framework Programmes rules or procedures between the Commission services is encouraged to communicate this situation and contact the RCC Secretariat. To this end, the 12th Entry "Research Clearing Committee: Non-coherent application of FP7 rules and procedures" is now available and can be selected from the dropdown list of subjects in the Research Enquiry Service available on Europa Research Website at the following address http://ec.europa.eu/research/index.cfm?lg=en&pg=enquiries. Also, a Frequently Asked Questions document will be uploaded shortly on the Europa website and on the Participant portal which will contain more information on the procedure to be followed.

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[Horizon 2020] Rapporteurs Horizon 2020 27/01/2012

Horizon 2020 Framework: rapporteur: Riera Madurell (S&D), shadows: Ehler (EPP), Johansson (ALDE), Ford (ECR) Rules for Participation: rapporteur: Ehler (EPP), shadows: Glante (S&D), Johansson (ALDE), Ford (ECR); EIT SIA: rapporteur: Matias (GUE), shadows: Van Nistelrooij (EPP), Merkies (S&D), Johansson (ALDE), Chichester (ECR) EIT Regulation: Lamberts (Greens), shadows: Tsoukalas (EPP), Merkies (S&D), Johansson (ALDE), Chichester (ECR)

[ERC] Synergy call 27/01/2012

The pilot ERC Synergy Grant call attracted 710 applications, out of which the ERC will be able to fund ca. 10-15.

[Affaires financières et juridiques] Participant portal 27/01/2012

Please see the document entitled “Changes of the identity and access management on the Participant Portal” (January 2012). The exact date of the changes will be communicated on the Portal a few days before the actual changes happen.

[ERC] Outcomes of calls 27/01/2012

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[People] Marie Curie Success Stories 20/01/2012

Booklet: Impacts of Marie Curie Actions on Fellows and host organizations with respect to NCP services

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[People] Workshop - researcher's careers 20/01/2012

International Workshop “How to track Researchers’ Careers”, Conference Centre of the Chamber of Commerce, Luxembourg, 9-10 February 2012. The event is organised by the European Science Foundation and the Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR). The workshop is held under the auspices of Mr François Biltgen, Minister of Higher Education and Research of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and organised in the framework of the ESF Member Organisation Forum European Alliance on Research Career Development. Workshop goals ∙        bringing together leading experts from all over the world with a track record and long-term experience in following up the career paths of researchers ∙        featuring a mix of theory and practice through presenting career tracking initiatives, their purposes and methodologies as well as their major findings ∙        providing a forum of learning how to set up a tracking of researchers in a funding agency, institution, region or country ∙        offering the opportunity to present tracking studies not yet included in the programme via poster presentation Register no later than 15 January 2012.  Please note that available places are limited.

[Horizon 2020] EXCELLENCE REVISITED – THE VALUE OF EXCELLENCE, Aarhus University, 18 – 20 April 2012 20/01/2012

Excellence Revisited – The Value of Excellence is one of the major events of the Danish EU Presidency. The ambition of the conference is to highlight current European positions on research, higher education and innovation policies, since European policymakers and stakeholders within these areas are becoming increasingly aware of the importance of excellence. OBJECTIVE OF THE CONFERENCE •             The objective is to discuss what excellence is, why excellence is important and how excellence is created, supported and applied at every link of the innovation and research chain. •             Discuss ways for Europe to stimulate excellence. •             Exchange ideas on how Europe can perform excellent research and how it is transformed into innovative solutions. SELECTED KEYNOTE SPEAKERS AND CONTRIBUTORS •             Helga Nowotny, President of the European Research Council •             Wilhelm Krull, Secretary General of the Volkswagen Foundation •             Sir Adrian Smith, Director General, UK Department for Business, Innovation and Skills •             Jerzy M. Langer, Professor, Foreign Secretary of Academia Europaea •             Claus Hviid Christensen, CEO, Lindoe Offshore Renewables Center •             Frank Ziegele, Professor, Centre for Higher Education, Germany Excellence Revisited – The Value of Excellence will bring together policymakers, stakeholders, researchers, senior university administrators and students to discuss excellence and exchange ideas. Please join us at Aarhus University and share your thoughts and ideas. Participation in the conference is free, but participants are expected to cover their own travel and accommodation expenses.

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[Général] Manifesto gender 20/01/2012

Manifesto for Integrated Action on the Gender Dimension in Research and Innovation The Manifesto was launched on the 16th December 2011, when Dr Elizabeth Pollitzer, director of Portia (genSET coordinator) presented it to the Commissioner for Research, Innovation & Science, Máire Geoghegan-Quinn.   If you haven’t already, we invite you to read and sign it by going to http://bit.ly/rLS7cn  as an expression of your continued support and to ensure that the gender dimension remains firmly integrated within policy discussions that will take place throughout the 2012 across Europe as part of the negotiations over the EC proposed framework for HORIZON 2020, leading to its approval by the EU Council and Parliament. We hope that you will encourage others in your networks to add their name to the Manifesto as well, to help maximise its lobbying power!

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[Général] Séminaire éthique - FUNDP - Nov. 2011 20/01/2012

Here is a follow-up text intended as a brief synthesis of themes explored in the course of the workshop. Some presentations are available at: http://ec.europa.eu/research/conferences/2009/rtd-2009/presentations/ethics/james_houghton___ethics_review_and_the_fp7_ethics_framework.pdf http://www.b2match.eu/securingeurope/system/files/Conflict%20Conference%20July%202011_Karatzas.pdf Public deliverable of the ETICA and EGAIS projects: http://ethics.ccsr.cse.dmu.ac.uk/etica http://www.egais-project.eu/

[Général] Programme travail - PDCE DK 20/01/2012

Le programme de travail de la Présidence danoise du Conseil de l'Union européenne (premier semestre 2012) peut être téléchargé à l'adresse suivante : http://eu2012.dk/fr/NewsList/Januar/~/media/CADAF84ED34E4CB18697BB8421886A4E.ashx La recherche figure en pages 39 et 40 de ce document. Vous trouverez également une présentation ppt en annexe sur le Programme de Travail de la Commission pour l’ensemble de l’année 2012 (présidence danoise et chypriote). Enfin, Mr Iskren Kirilov (DG RTD) a présenté le PT 2012 d’un point de vue plus théorique lors du dernier Iglo Open (10 janvier).  Vous trouverez sa présentation à cette adresse : http://www.polsca.eu/ppt/120110/IK.pdf

[Général] Call - Russian Federation 20/01/2012

open Call/Tender for joint international research in 2012-2013, Ministry of education and science (Russian Federation). The Call was announced in the framework of the Federal targeted program “Research and development in priority areas of Russia’s scientific and technological complex 2007-2013” in the line 1.9 “Conducting scientific and research work together with foreign scientific organizations”. This call is aimed at promoting development of international integration processes in S&T and building strong cooperation between Russian and foreign scientific and research organizations and universities. Heads of Russian and foreign scientific and educational organizations and research groups are welcomed to form joint applications for participation in this Call. Evaluations will start at the end of January. Contact details: konkurs@fcntp.ru;  ignatuschenko-ei@mon.gov.ru; kuklina@mniop.ru

[Innovation] Committee of regions 20/01/2012

M. Kitson, EU research and innovation: What role for regions and cities after 2013?

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[ERC] Newsletter 22/12/2011

The december edition is available at the following address

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[Affaires légales et financières] Participant portal 22/12/2011

A quick info on all changes that will enter into force as of January 2012 is available here

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[Horizon 2020] Fact sheets 22/12/2011

De nouvelles fact sheets sont disponibles à cette adresse

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[Innovation] Innovation convention 22/12/2011

On 5 December 2011, Máire Geoghegan-Quinn, European Commissioner for Research, Innovation and Science, delivered a speech at the first Innovation Convention which was held in Brussels ion 5-6 December. The Commissioner explained that the aim of the Convention was to show “innovation in action”.

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[Programmation conjointe] Report JP Event 2011 19/12/2011

The report to annual joint programming event 2011 is available on the NETWATCH page

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[ERC] Calls 2012 - KUL/FNRS, 8 december 2011 19/12/2011

Please find the presentations of the info meeting on following webpage: http://www.kuleuven.be/research/erc_workshop.html.

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[ERC] Consultation on the future members of the ERC Scientific Council 19/12/2011

The research community in Europe is being consulted on potential candidates for membership of the Scientific Council of the European Research Council (ERC). Scientific Council members are appointed by the European Commission on the recommendation of an independent Identification Committee, which is conducting the consultation exercise. The consultation contributes to the upcoming renewal of the Scientific Council, at the end of the term of office of a number of serving members.

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[Programmation conjointe] Annual Joint Programming Event 09/12/2011

Annual Joint Programming Event, Brussels,  9-10 November 2011 The conference has become the major event for research funders and offered opportunities to discuss the latest policy thinking as regards Joint Programming of research and innovation in Europe and Public to Public Partnerships in general. The 2-day conference integrated the former "Annual ERA-NET events" and was targeted at policy makers and research funders in Europe, as well as related stakeholders (GPC members, JPI representatives, ERA-NET coordinators and participants, representatives from Art.185, ETP, JTI, PPP, EIT, EIP etc.). Following the positive experiences from past events the programme offered a mix of plenary sessions, including overview presentations providing a common forum for all participants, and interactive smaller sessions with working groups around key issues related to Public Public partnerships in the context of the upcoming Horizon 2020. The event brought more than 350 new and old stakeholders to keep them abreast of the latest policy thinking, to review progress in terms of the development of the platform, and to elicit their views on future activities. The report on the event and its outcomes will be published in early December.

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[General] Publication 09/12/2011

New Online Guide: "Science at the Service of Europe" (25 Nov 2011) The European Commission published an Internet presentation of the brochure: "Science at the Service of Europe" - A guide to the 2010 Annual Activity Report of the EC's Directorate-General for Research and Innovation.

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[General] Annual Growth 2012 09/12/2011

Earlier than last year, the Commission presented the Annual Growth Survey (AGS) 2012 as a pre-opening of the European Semester 2012. While AGS 2011 was criticised by member states for not sufficiently addressing the smart, sustainable and inclusive growth aspects of Europe 2020 and their enablers, the new AGS 2012 notes that fiscal consolidation now has to be accompanied by measures to initiate growth.  and . In its Annexes, the AGS 2012 presents macro-economic analysis and the Commission’s view on the progress made at implementing the EU flagship initiatives (Annex 1, 5pp Innovation Union). While Annex 1 notes Europe’s loss of innovation competitiveness vis-à-vis China and Brazil, the AGS 2012 main document again largely fails to address the smart growth dimension and the link of science, research, technology and innovation to the EU’s growth potential.

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[Coopération Internationale] Horizon 2020 09/12/2011

Cliquez sur "more info" pour télécharger une présentation ppt de Laurent Bochereau (RTD) sur l’INCO dans le programme Horizon 2020.

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[ERC] ERC AdGr – Synergy – INFO DAY, KUL 09/12/2011

Cliquez sur "more info" pour télécharger le programme et les présentations ppt de l’Info Day consacré aux Advanced et Synergy Grants organisé par la KUL et le FNRS (Leuven, 8 décembre 2011) : http://www.ncp.fnrs.be/NCP-FNRS/files/KUL-FNRS_ERC_Advanced_and_Synergy_Grants.zip

[ERC] Horizon 2020 - Proposition budget 09/12/2011

La COM propose une grande augmentation du budget ERC pour le futur programme Horizon 2020 (2014-2020) : 80b€ (soit une augmentation de 13,2b€ par rapport au FP7).

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