BOOSTING BALTIC FP6
9 Lipca 2005 - 9 Lipca 2005
Germany
Its aim is to facilitate mutual exchange and learning process for successful participation in EU Sixth Framework programme (FP6) projects for research and technology development.,"Boosting Baltic FP6" constitutes an integrated set of networking, training and coaching measures covering two target groups:, ,- National Contact Points of FP6 of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland ,- Research community in Life Sciences , ,1. Successful project events in May-June 2005, ,- BIOEVENT in Poland, 20th May, 2005 organized by National Contact Point of Poland.,In the workshop: "Getting funding for Life Science projects", which took place in Warsaw, 20th May, researchers from Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania and Poland were grouped according to relevance to different sections of the Life Sciences Call. Proposal abstracts and outline of work packages were prepared under the supervision of experienced experts. In the "round table discussion" all applications were discussed and valuable conclusions were made.,Workshop included presentations of experienced collegues: G.Sandberg EU R&D Council, Sweden: "Building a strong consortium, communicating your partnership" and L.Vinkel Clausen, ScanBalt: "The application puzzle: EU's 6th Framework programme".
- BIOEVENT in Estonia, June 1-3, 2005, organized by EU R&D Council (Sweden) together with Archimedes Foundation (Estonia) ,Main objective of the workshop : "Presentation and peer-review of project proposals". ,2 project proposals and 2 abstracts were presented in 2 working groups. Invited experts from Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia and Poland participated in valuable discussions detailed analysis of proposals was made. Recommendations for more competitive proposals followed in round table discussion with reports from both groups. SWOT analysis about work of National Contact Points was presented by EU R&D Council (Sweden). Introduction to the Electronic guide for FP6/FP7 presented by Archimedes Foundation (Estonia) also was of great interest for all participants.
2. Forthcoming project event in July
The next workshop "Getting started - Proposal preparation for 6FP" will take place in Jelgava, Latvia, 9th July, 2005 and will be organized by the National Contact Point of Latvia. Workshop is planned as a satellite event of International conference "OPTIMIZING AGRICULTURAL OUTPUT PRODUCTION: THEORY AND PRAXIS" (more in: http//www.llu.lv/konferences/konf_26-28082005/index.htm)
The following issues will be focused: ,- the next call of thematic priority "Food quality and safety", ,- structuring a project, ,- building strong consortia, partner search. ,The workshop is practical with presentations of shorts case studies followed by concrete and practical EU application preparation in small groups supervised by experienced guides. The target groups are researchers within agriculture and life sciences from new member state countries. The prepared material will be analyzed and evaluated by experienced experts. Such approach will help further development of proposals.
http://www.scanbalt.org/sw227.asp,Coordinator of project: Frank Graage, Steinbeis Transferzentrum, Germany, graage@stw.de, ,For further information please contact:
Dace Tirzite,Latvian National Contact Point for 6th Framework Programme,Skunu str.4 Riga LV-1050, Latvia,Tel.,fax: +371-7229727,e-mail: tirzite@latnet.lvThe Project "Boosting Baltic FP6" organizes events - training workshops to facilitate the successful participation of new EU member countries (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland) in the FP6.
- BIOEVENT in Estonia, June 1-3, 2005, organized by EU R&D Council (Sweden) together with Archimedes Foundation (Estonia) ,Main objective of the workshop : "Presentation and peer-review of project proposals". ,2 project proposals and 2 abstracts were presented in 2 working groups. Invited experts from Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia and Poland participated in valuable discussions detailed analysis of proposals was made. Recommendations for more competitive proposals followed in round table discussion with reports from both groups. SWOT analysis about work of National Contact Points was presented by EU R&D Council (Sweden). Introduction to the Electronic guide for FP6/FP7 presented by Archimedes Foundation (Estonia) also was of great interest for all participants.
2. Forthcoming project event in July
The next workshop "Getting started - Proposal preparation for 6FP" will take place in Jelgava, Latvia, 9th July, 2005 and will be organized by the National Contact Point of Latvia. Workshop is planned as a satellite event of International conference "OPTIMIZING AGRICULTURAL OUTPUT PRODUCTION: THEORY AND PRAXIS" (more in: http//www.llu.lv/konferences/konf_26-28082005/index.htm)
The following issues will be focused: ,- the next call of thematic priority "Food quality and safety", ,- structuring a project, ,- building strong consortia, partner search. ,The workshop is practical with presentations of shorts case studies followed by concrete and practical EU application preparation in small groups supervised by experienced guides. The target groups are researchers within agriculture and life sciences from new member state countries. The prepared material will be analyzed and evaluated by experienced experts. Such approach will help further development of proposals.
http://www.scanbalt.org/sw227.asp,Coordinator of project: Frank Graage, Steinbeis Transferzentrum, Germany, graage@stw.de, ,For further information please contact:
Dace Tirzite,Latvian National Contact Point for 6th Framework Programme,Skunu str.4 Riga LV-1050, Latvia,Tel.,fax: +371-7229727,e-mail: tirzite@latnet.lvThe Project "Boosting Baltic FP6" organizes events - training workshops to facilitate the successful participation of new EU member countries (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland) in the FP6.