Workshop on the FP7 call for "Industry-Academia Partnerships and Pathways"
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| Luxinnovation, the National Agency for Innovation and Research, and the National Research Fund, Luxembourg's two National Contact Points (NCP) for PEOPLE programme (FP7), have the pleasure of inviting you to a workshop on "Industry-Academia Partnerships and Pathways" (IAPP / Actions Marie Curie), an initiative designed and funded by the European Commission to spark collaboration between companies and universities. The workshop will take place on the 12th of June 2009, from 14:00 until 17:00 at the Chamber of Commerce, Training Centre (room F14). |
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Public-private partnerships in the FP7
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Participants will have the opportunity to learn more about how private firms and public research groups of all sectors can resort to European funds to set up public-private partnerships for joint research activities.
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The European Commission's 7th Framework Programme for Research and Development is the major public contributor to R&D projects in Europe. FP7 notably provides financing to collaboration initiatives between private firms and universities as concerns Marie-Curie projects and IAPPs (Industry-Academia Partnerships and Pathways).
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IAPPs aim at bolstering long-term collaboration between the public and private research sectors by on the one hand stimulating the mobility and education of scientists and on the other hand enabling companies, in particular SMEs, to benefit from the finest in research expertise.
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An IAPP partnership binds at least one public entity (university or research centre) to one private party from another country in a joint research project lasting four years at the most. European funds may cover up to 100% of the project's overall cost, and typically average 1 million EUR. In spite of a high 40% acceptance rate, IAPP projects remain relatively unheard of.
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IAPPs - Call for proposals
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A call for proposals regarding IAPPs published on April the 24th is now currently open and will be closed on July the 29th. In case you are already in the process of fostering a project and would like to talk about it publicly, you may want to fill in the template attached to this mail and send it to us together with the registration form. During the event, a senior programme representative of the IAPP scheme from the European Commission shall be available to further discuss your potential proposals in detail.
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Programme
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- 13h45 - 14h00 - Registration and coffee
- 14h00 - 14h10 - Welcome speech
- 14h10 - 14h20 - Presentation of the services of Luxinnovation, Stephanie DE GEETER, Luxinnovation
- 14h20 - 14h45 - Presentation of the AFR scheme: Grants for higher education and research, Ulrike KOHL, National Research Fund of Luxembourg
- 14h45 - 15h30 - 2009 IAPP Call, David PINA, European Commission
- 15h30 - 15h45 - Questions and answers
- 15h45 - 16h00 - Coffee break
- 16h00 - 17h00 - Presentation and discussion on IAPP project ideas
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Free Entrance - Registration mandatory.
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The workshop will be held in English.
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Application
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Please send back the registration form attached to this email at events@luxinnovation.lu before the 10th of June 2009.
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| For further information, please contact: |
| Mme Stephanie DE GEETER |
| Luxinnovation |
| Tel. : +352 43 62 63 1 |
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| Mme Ulrike KOHL |
| National Research Fund |
| Tel. : +352 26 19 25 32 |
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