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27th October 2011

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Funding opportunities

FP7 Funding calls

There are 7 open calls for proposals under the Seventh Framework Programme, (FP7). This programme supports collaborative projects which focus on research and development in the following subject areas:

Food, Agriculture and Fisheries and Biotechnology
Health
Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)
Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies
Energy
Transport (including Aeronautics)
Socio-Economic Sciences and the Humanities
General activities
Joint technology initiatives
ERC
Marie Curie Actions
Activities of International Cooperation
Nuclear Fission and Radiation Protection

For further information contact fp7@gle.co.uk. Browse FP7 proposals and deadlines here.

Marie Curie Actions

Marie Curie Industry-Academia partnerships and pathways (IAPP): IAPPs are partnerships between public and private research organisations based on a common research project and aims to increase the exchange of skills between the two sectors.

Funds are sought in order to link researchers from universities (and the corporate world) to a concrete project where the programme funds expenses for a two-way job-posting, including salary.

Deadline: 19th April 2012

Marie Curie Initial Training Networks: ITN are networks of academic and private research organisations which collaborate to train researchers in order to improve their research and entrepreneurial skills, help them join established research teams, and enhance their career prospects in both the public and private sectors.

Funding covers recruitment of researchers and networking activities.

Deadline: 12th January 2012

Media

Funding for film festivals

Funding for film festivals which feature at least 70% of their content from ten, or more, European countries is available.

This can be used for costs such as subtitling, translation, catalogue printing and travel costs for professionals accompanying a film at the festival.

Deadline: 31 October 2011, for festivals taking pace between 1 May 2012 and 31 October 2012.

Deadline: 30 April 2012, for festivals taking place between 1 November 2012 and 30 April 2013.

Development funding for fiction, creative documentary or animation projects

Development funding for fiction, creative documentary or animation productions is available for projects intended for European and international markets, presented by independent European production companies, in the following categories: animation, creative documentary and drama.

Deadline: 25 November 2011

Funding for the development of interactives which complement an audiovisual project

Funding for the development of interactives which complement an audiovisual project is available.

This fund may cover the development of production projects intended for European and international markets, presented by independent European production companies, in the following categories: animation, creative documentary and drama.

Deadline: 25th November 2011

Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies

The NMP funding call aims at providing strong support to SME participation by using SME-targeted collaborative projects and appropriate topics. €48M will be available.

Deadline: 8th November 2011

Research for the benefit of SMEs

Research for SMEs aims to support small groups of innovative SMEs to address technological issues and to acquire know-how relating to this.

Deadline: 6th December 2011

For questions related to any of the above calls contact innovation@gle.co.uk.

Business events

Partner events

7th November, Libya, Back to Business
12-19th November, Trade mission to Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi. Email worldtrade@londonchamber.co.uk for more details.
14-15th November, London MOBIP Innovation &Investment Event 2011 – European Mobile Services & Apps.
16th November, The Defence and Security Industry in Asean: opportunities and potential for UK 16 November companies. For more details download http://www.londonchamber.co.uk/DocImages/9600.pdf.
6th December, Asian Business Association Winter Reception. For more details download http://www.londonchamber.co.uk/docimages/9241.pdf.
12th December, Build Qatar: Property and Construction Opportunities Event. Please contact rdeb@londonchamber.co.uk for more details.

EU press releases

EU legislation and consultations

Environment

Consultation on reducing CO2 emissions from road vehicles

Read the EC consultation
This consultation seeks to collect opinions on EU strategy and options for reducing CO2 emissions from road vehicles.

Consultation on reducing fluorinated greenhouse gas emissions – Further action at EU level

Read the EC consultation
This consultation seeks to collect opinions on the need and possible actions to be taken to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from fluorinated gases.

Health

Implementing measures for the performance of pharmacovigilance activities

In order to harmonise the performance of the new pharmacovigilance activities introduced by the amended pharmacovigilance legislation the Commission shall adopt several implementing measures.

Those measures supplement essential details of the new pharmacovigilance system with the more technical details that have to be observed by marketing authorisation holders, national competent authorities and the European Medicines Agency in the daily practice of applying the new provisions.

Internal Market

Green Paper on the online distribution of audiovisual works in the European Union: opportunities and challenges towards a digital single market

EC consultation
The Green Paper looks at the ways in which the audiovisual sector is changing in response to technology developments and consumer expectations. It invites stakeholders to comment on the challenges and opportunities facing audiovisual media service providers, and in particular whether the regulatory and legal framework poses barriers to the cross border availability of online services in the EU.

Justice

Public Consultation on Directive 2006/114/EC concerning Misleading and Comparative Advertising and on unfair commercial practices affecting businesses

EC Consultation
The Commission is preparing a Communication on a Directive concerning Misleading and Comparative Advertising.

This Communication will give an overview of how the Directive is currently implemented in the Member States, identify any problematic issues in the interpretation or application of the Directive and explore options for its possible review, including measures which could enhance cooperation between national authorities in the enforcement of cross-border cases.

Research and Technology

Areas of untapped potential for the development of the European Research Area

EC consultation
The consultation aims to reinforce the Commission analysis of the key issues to be addressed as well as to gather views on their importance: researchers' careers and mobility, research infrastructures, cross-border operation of research actors, knowledge circulation, International cooperation and cross-cutting governance issues.

Transport

Review of the internal market in road freight transport

EC consultation
As a consequence of the Commission’s reporting obligation under Regulation (EC) No 1072/2009, a High Level Group was set up in June 2011 by the Vice-President of the European Commission and Commissioner responsible for transport to assess the state of the EU road haulage market and make published recommendations about what course of actions should be pursued to further integrate the market.

The aim of the present consultation exercise is to collect the views of the stakeholders as part of the High Level Group's enquiries.

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