Proposal writing workshops - Information Technologies and Life Sciences

The Institute of European Trade and Technology (IETT) in the UK is organizing a series of workshops on proposal writing for Community research programmes in the fields of Information Technologies (ESPRIT) and Life Sciences (BIOMED, BIOTECH and FAIR).

The workshops are scheduled as follows:

- ESPRIT (Information Technologies): London, 22 January 1997 and Bristol, 19 February 1997;

- Life Sciences (the BIOMED, BIOTECH and FAIR programmes): London, 24 January 1996 and 26 February 1997.

The workshops will consist of a detailed briefing in the morning and development of proposals in the afternoon. The agenda will include:

- Selecting projects for funding (type of projects, EC objectives and criteria);
- Call summary (key points to bear in mind);
- Evaluation of proposals (evaluation criteria, evaluator's advice);
- Application form and project summary (common mistakes and pitfalls);
- Main part of the proposal: the work programme (technical aspects, milestones, costings);
- Socio-economic criteria and exploitation plans (understanding EC objectives);
- One-to-one consultations (advice to proposers).

Speakers will include EC evaluators (independent experts employed by the EC to evaluate proposals) and proposers having written successful proposals under the Fourth Framework Programme.
For further information, please contact:

IETT
Ms. Mary Marshall
29 Throgmorton Street
London EC2N 2AT
United Kingdom
Tel. +44-171-6289770; Fax +44-171-6287692