ERANIS international brokerage event, Warsaw, Poland

The EU-funded ERANIS ('Strengthening cooperation between European Research Area and Newly Independent States (NIS)') project is organising an international brokerage event on 10 October in Warsaw, Poland.

The event is directed at organisations from ERANIS partnering NIS including Ukraine, Russia, Belarus and Moldova and interested scientific institutes and enterprises from the European Union.

In four parallel thematic sessions, it will cover four research themes, namely:
- information and communication technologies (ICT);
- nanosciences, nanotechnologies, materials and new production technologies (NMP);
- food, agriculture, fisheries and biotechnology (KBBE);
- energy.

The objectives are:
- to create the possibility for NIS organisations to establish new strategic research, technology and development (RTD) partnerships to realise their ideas and scientific potential;
- to present concrete project ideas seeking to utilise their competence in cooperation with scientific institutes and enterprises from European Union;
- to bring together the skills and knowledge of the potential consortia members from the EU and NIS;
- to give partners from NIS the possibility for an adequate international exploitation of their research results, benefiting Europe at large;
- to promote and facilitate technology transfer from NIS to the European Union and vice versa;
- to transfer the experience, expertise and contacts between successful project coordinators from other Member States to NIS.For further information, please visit:
http://www.kpk.gov.pl/eranis/brokerage2008/index.html(opens in new window)