Budapest ICT Proposers' Day 2009
The European Commission’s Information Society and Media Directorate-General, in cooperation with the Hungarian National Office for Research and Technology organised the FP7 ICT Proposers’ Day 2009.
This event, which took place in Budapest on 22 January 2009, was a unique opportunity for the attendees to familiarise themselves with the research challenges and objectives of the ICT Work programme 2009-2010 and to form project consortia for participating in calls for proposals. In addition, the EC staff present at the event provided advice on the specifics of the ICT WP09-10 and on the general rules and procedures for participating in FP7.
This ICT Proposers´ Day 2009 , which was attended by more than 1600 registered participants, was organised in parallel sessions which covered, among other R&D objectives, the areas of " Flexible, organic and large area electronics ", " Microsystems and smart miniaturised systems ", and "Organic Photonics and other disruptive photonics technologies ".
The R&D objective on "Flexible, organic and large area electronics" was represented by the EC scientific officers Marc Boukerche and Raquel López-Lozano, who were available on 22 January at the information booth of this objective to provide details on the contents of this research objective as well as clarify and discuss administrative and technical issues concerning participation in FP7.
In addition, a detailed presentation of this R&D objective, including target outcomes, expected impact, and use of instruments and call planning, was given in a specific parallel session, which was attended by more than 30 participants. This session concluded with a presentation of potential proposals in this R&D objective and Q&A.
For further details on this session, please visit the session site or the event website