Title: EU & international science: FP7 Information Day
Location: Aston University, Lakeside Centre, Birmingham
Date: 17th July 2009, 10:15 – 16:00
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Description:
Anyone with an interest in food research is invited to find out more about funding opportunities and ongoing European research projects at a seminar in Birmingham on Friday 17 July.
The event is organised by Defra in collaboration with the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) and the Food Standards Agency. It will explore the funding opportunities available under the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7), its main funding for scientific research.
This funding programme has a budget of more than €50 billion between 2007 and 2013, the largest funding allocation yet for such programmes.
The seminar is free to delegates. It will focus on developments so far, as well as future priorities for two particular funding streams under the programme – Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, and Biotechnology (FAFB) and Environment, including Climate Change (ENV).
It will also look at the Ideas and People programmes, National Contact Point activities, and the ERA-NET mechanism for the co-ordination of national programmes and give information on opportunities in the DG Environment LIFE+ Programme.
Among the speakers are: Tim Hall and Kirsi Haarvisto from the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Research; Clare Mills from BBSRC; Sonny Rathod from NERC and Jo Frost, European Advisor at the Brussels-based UK Research Office, which offers advice on European Union funding opportunities.
Although free of charge, delegates must register if they want to attend, using the form on the Defra website via link above.