1. CONTEXT
PRO INNO Europe® is an initiative of Directorate General Enterprise and Industry
aiming at innovation policy analysis and cooperation in Europe, with a view to
learning from the best and contributing to the development of new and better
innovation policies in Europe.
Launched in 2006, PRO INNO Europe® has supported closer cooperation between
innovation policy makers at different levels, thus contributing to the creation of a
European Innovation Space. New innovation policy concepts were jointly
developed and tested which helped improve their efficiency and more rapid
implementation throughout Europe. PRO INNO Europe® assists participating
countries and their regions to better invest in innovation, by learning from others
and sharing experience.
With this new phase starting in 2009, PRO INNO Europe® is launching a new set
of initiatives that will focus on specific priority areas, such as clusters, ecoinnovation
and services. The identification and further dissemination of “good
practice” is no longer good enough. To make real progress, participating countries
and regions have to work closer together in search of “better practice” in support of
innovation and to undertake concrete steps to put this into practice. The proposed
actions closely reflect the recommendations of the Communication "Putting
knowledge into practice: A broad-based innovation strategy for the EU"1, notably in

COMPETITIVENESS AND INNOVATION FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME (CIP)

ICT POLICY SUPPORT PROGRAMME DRAFT ICT PSP WORK PROGRAMME 2009

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Next Generation Public Safety Communication Networks and Technologies (NGenSafe'09)

In conjunction with the IEEE International Conference on
Communications (IEEE ICC 2009), Dresden, Germany,

18 June 2009

Public Safety Communication (PSC) is currently receiving increasing attention of research community world wide. The performance and resilience of PSC systems directly impacts the level of coordination and efficiency of public safety agencies. The efficient communication is probably among the most important parts of emergency response and could affect the number of human lives saved in many parts of the world.

The PSC Europe Forum is promoting research interest and needs of public safety commmuniction.

Workshop Motivation

-  PCS communication today is mainly based on several different analog (VHF) and first generation digital radio access technologies (TETRA, TERAPOL, P25). The technological diversity creates an interoperability problem at different levels that reduces the efficiency of emergency operations; it increases the market fragmentation and equipment costs. It is important in the early research stages to consider the development of interoperable and harmonized technologies.

- There are cases when pubic safety agencies are using existing public communication networks and there is an obvious need of research towards the use and optimization of existing technologies that will take into account private public safety user requirements.

FP7-ICT Proposers' Day 2009 - 22 January 2009, Budapest, Hungary

Organised by The European Commission's Information Society and Media Directorate-General, in cooperation with the Hungarian National Office for Research and Technology

Information and Communication Technologies Research 2009-2010:

The 2009-2010 work programme of the European Union's 7th Framework Programme will be unveiled at the end of 2008. The work programme will set out the challenges and objectives for ICT research funding for the next two year.

Planning a research project in ICT? Looking for potential partners?

Are you interested in responding to calls for proposals for projects in the field of Information and Communication Technologies? Would you like to meet other people having similar or complementary research interests?

This one-day event is specially designed for you!

The event is designed to help you meet potential collaborators and facilitate the formation of research consortia. European Commission staff will also be present to advise on the specifics of the 2009-2010 work programme, and on the general rules and procedures for participating in calls for proposals.

Advance preparation: use this website to make the most of the Proposers' Day

Forthcoming features on this site will allow prospective participants to present proposal ideas and express interest in those of others in advance of the Event itself. This will be possible using "comment" facilities relating to specific fields of research. Through these comments, participants will be able to view each other's public profiles and establish advance contact through the site's messaging system.

September 30, 2008 (11:59pm, EST)

We are working with the Georgia Tech Research Institute (http://www.gtri.gatech.edu/) on pre-award contracting activity for a grant with the United States Department of Homeland Security that requires international collaboration. After visiting your web site, we believe you and/or your institution might be a great value add to our team. I've inserted a brief description of the program below for your review. If interested, please reply to adam AT hunterwellman.com for more detail on our team and approach. It is a great opportunity to develop an international partnership for this and other funding opportunities!
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology (S&T) Directorate is soliciting applications for international research projects aligned with the mission and requirements of DHS S&T. These projects should be designed to augment and complement, through international research and collaboration, the depth and breadth of homeland security science and technology research. Specifically, the S&T Directorate seeks proposals that will contribute to homeland security science and technology, including but not limited to:
* Evaluation of novel tools or approaches to confronting homeland security challenges;
* Basic research to provide data, understandings, or models that support S&T efforts or policy decisions; and
* S&T and operations research evaluations to support revolutionary improvements in DHS's mission and its component agencies' operations.
Link to full announcement - http://profiler.bgu.ac.il/Funding%20Sources/Homeland%20Security/Homeland...
Adam Ishaeik
adam AT hunterwellman.com
703-869-5109

ePARTICIPATION PREPARATORY PROGRAMME (Deadline: 2008-08-22)
The deadline is going on and it should be suitable to have as soon as possible the final call text.
Meanwhile please could you send us the in digital format (pdf) the draft of the call
It should be also convenient to publish it at the community
http://www.epractice.eu/community/eParticipation
thanks in advance,
Ferran

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To this call we are studying to promote and participate the following proposals:
1) Objective 1.4 ePetitions


Background:

One of the most traditional ways for the general public to try and influence decision-making is by organising a petition. E-petition systems have been introduced in some Member States in order to make it easier to gather signatures from a wider audience. The Lisbon Treaty introduces the idea of the citizen's initiative8, whereby citizens will have the opportunity to call on the Commission to bring forward new policy proposals if they have the support of 1 million people from a significant number of EU Member States.

Tools should be developed that could be used to allow the public from across the EU to discuss ideas and create an online petition on EU issues. Such tools can also be used in a number of cross-border decision-making cases and therefore are relevant not only in the context of the
Lisbon Treaty but also in many legislative and decision-making processes.

III.1 Security Research Call 2 (FP7-SEC-2009-1)

· Call identifier: FP7-SEC-2009-1
· Date of publication: 3 September 200818
· Deadline: 4 December 2008, at 17.00.00 h Brussels local time
· Indicative budget: EUR 117.9 million 2021

· Date of publication: early July 2008
· Deadline: 27 November 2008, at 17.00 h Brussels local time

Indicative timetable for this call

• Publication of call 3 September 2008
• Deadline for submission of proposals 4 December 2008, 17h00
• Evaluation of proposals January / February 2009
• If applicable, Invitation letter to oordinators highly rated proposals to appear before the evaluation panel ogether with member of the consortium
• (hearings1)  February 2009
• If applicable, Hearings2 16-20 February 2009
• Evaluation Summary Reports sent to proposal coordinators ("initial information letter") March / April 2009
• Security scrutiny3 April 2009
• Invitation letter to successful oordinators to launch grant agreement negotiations with Commission services From June 2009
• Letter to unsuccessful applicants From June 2009
• Signature of first grant agreements 2nd half 2009