Successful R&D in Europe - 04.03.2009 Meet in Germany - Events - The International NanoScience Community

Mar 4, 2009 all day
Location: Düsseldorf International Airport
Latest Activity: Aug 21, 2019

European Networking EventBringing together regional and national R&D partnerships with transnational playersFollowing a series of regional events in 2008, in which some 100 researchers from universi-ties and enterprises in North Rhine-Westphalia were successfully brought together to form R&D consortia, a major transnational event will take place in 2009. The conference invites researchers from North Rhine-Westphalia and partner regions in Luxemburg, the Nether-lands, Belgium and Poland to present project ideas in order to find new international R&D partners for FP7 projects. The partner search process will be structured in brokerage ses-sions focussing on three topics: Life Science/Biotechnology, Energy, and Nanotechnology/ Production Technologies/New Materials. The event is interesting for the clients – in particu-lar small and medium-sized enterprises and smaller universities - of regional partners of the Enterprise Europe Network in Luxemburg, the Netherlands, Belgium and Poland who will assist in its organisation. Keynote speakers are Prof. Andreas Pinkwart, Minister for Innova-tion in North Rhine-Westphalia, and the former Prime Minister of Poland, Prof. Jerzy Karol Buzek, Member of the European Parliament. The event will take place on the 4th of March 2009 in Düsseldorf, Germany.A key aspect of the event will be the presentation of success stories from European re-search projects which made a significant positive impact on economic development in North Rhine-Westphalia in terms of new enterprises and employment.Participation in the event offersSupport in creating and managing networks between researchers, entrepreneurs, multipliers and political players,Intensification of contacts to individuals and institutions from partner regions in Po-land, Belgium, Luxemburg and the NetherlandsGreater involvement in particular of smaller universities and enterprises in FP 7 pro-jects or other European R&D consortia,Formulation of new proposals for FP 7 and other programmes,Links to ‘large-scale’ (integrated) European R&D projects based in North Rhine-Westphalia,Information on Enterprise Europe Network (400 partners in 44 countries) and ways to integrate universities and enterprises.Partners: Conference organisation partners: European Commission; European Agency for Com-petitiveness and Innovation; Enterprise Europe Network, in particular NRW.Europa and its partners in Poland, Belgium, Luxemburg and the Netherlands; Ministry of Innovation, Sci-ence, Research and Technology of North Rhine-Westphalia; Ministry of Economic Affairs and Energy of North Rhine-Westphalia; regional FP 7/CIP steering committee; universities and universities of applied sciences; chambers of commerce and business clusters in North Rhine-Westphalia, InnovationsAllianz NRW, etc.Conference fee: 35 € per person incl. VAT.Free participation for speakers in workshops of session 3 and 4.Online registration is recommended for this event.Hotel accommodation:For only 65 €/night (breakfast incl.) rooms can be booked at the 4 stars Lindner Hotel (www.lindner.de/en/AIR, phone: +49-1805-463637 , Fax +49-1805-563638, Email: info.airport@lindner.de), Düsseldorf Airport. Please book asap, the number of rooms is limited! Codeword is "network". Rooms are available for the 3rd and 4th of March 2009.

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