Newsletter issue n° 7 -
January 08
NEWS:
FP7 - Environmental Research - calls for proposals FP7-ENV-2008-1
and the joint call FP7-ENV-NMP-2008-2
The Electronic Proposal Submission Service (EPSS) for these two calls is
available since 20 December 2007 on
http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/dc/index.c ...
.
Candidates are kindly asked to register their interest by submitting a
proposal as early as possible in view to receive the necessary login in
time. It is the co-ordinator's responsibility to ensure that he/she has
sufficient time to prepare and submit the proposal through EPSS once
his/her username and password have been received.
Proposals must be submitted on or before 25 February 2008 (17:00). The
EPSS system will be closed for this call on this set deadline. As the
system allows the submission of successive drafts for one same proposal,
it is advisable not to wait until the last moment for doing so (each
successive submission overwrites the previous version).
FP7 - Environmental Research - next call for proposals:
The EC services intend to publish the next call for proposals in July 2008.
The estimated budget for the Theme 6 Environment (including Climate
Change) will be likely similar to the 2007 budget.
Follow-up of the Info Day FP7- 2nd Call 2008 - Environmental
Technologies, 13th December 2007, Brussels, Belgium
The information day took place as planned on 13 December at the
Borschette Conference Centre in Brussels. The event was attended by
over 250 delegates representing researchers, research institutions,
companies, SMEs, National and Regional Contact Points interested in the
FP7 2nd Call 2008 on the activity 6.3 'Environmental technologies'.
General and detailed information was provided by the Commission officials
on the various topics of the call including the lessons learnt from the first
call.
The programme was followed by four separate sessions covering the
various areas and topics of the Environmental Technologies activity in
more detail:
•waste technologies and clean processes;
•water, soil and marine technologies;
•built environment and cultural heritage; and
•technology assessment, verification and testing.
The sessions provided specific information on the topics and allowed
participants to make a brief presentation related to their project's ideas, to
their competence in the specific field or to their interest to join consortia
on a given subject. The open brokerage event completing the parallel
sessions was followed by a wrap-up summarising the outcome of the
discussions.
You can download the final agenda, the list of participants and all the
presentations that were made on that specific day from the following
CORDIS webpage:
http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/environmen ...
For additional information, please contact Javier Peinado (
javier.peinado@ec.europa.eu).
EC funded research and SMEs:
A new service is available on-line on
http://ec.europa.eu/research/sme-techw ...
. The aim is to provide to SMEs targeted information about research
opportunities in Europe. A 15% share of the overall FP7 budget will
support the participation of SMEs which are eager to grow and develop
their capacities. Up to 75% of the costs exposed in carrying out research
and development activities can be refunded by the 7th Framework
Programme.
PUBLICATIONS and AVAILABLE DOCUMENTS
Environmental research: The catalogue of FP7 selected projects is
available:
Following the completion of the evaluations related to the FP7-ENV-2007-1
call, the Commission has opened negotiations with 72 new projects. A
draft version of the catalogue destined to provide basic information on the
selected projects (including the objectives, partners and resources) is
available on:
http://circa.europa.eu/Public/irc/rtd/ ...
.
The preliminary information presented in the mentioned document is based
on the proposals' evaluation results and shall be considered as provisional
and subject to potential modifications in the course of projects'
negotiation.
The Newsletter of the European Commission Scientific Committees
The Newsletter of the European Commission Scientific Committees (
http://ec.europa.eu/health/ph_risk/new ... is published
three times a year (January, May and September). It provides updates on
the work of the European Commission Scientific Committees managed by
the Directorate-General for Health and Consumer Protection.
The Scientific Committees provide the Commission with the sound
scientific advice it needs when preparing policy and proposals related to
consumer safety, public health and the environment. The Committees also
draw the Commission's attention to the new or emerging problems which
may pose an actual or potential threat.
For free online subscription to the Newsletter, please go to
http://ec.europa.eu/coreservices/maili ...
•The Scientific Committee on Consumer Products (SCCP) is
systematically consulted on the safety of cosmetics under the
Cosmetics Directive and other consumer products such as toys, sun
beds etc).
•The Scientific Committee on Health and Environmental Risks
(SCHER) provides advice on risk assessment of chemicals, health
and environment issues like effects of atmospheric pollution, indoor
air quality on the health, etc.
•The Scientific Committee on Emerging and Newly Identified Health
Risks (SCENIHR) covers broad multidisciplinary issues and
examines new issues like potential electromagnetic fields risks of
nano-technology.
LIFE and waste recycling: Innovative waste management options in
Europe
A new LIFE-Focus brochure on “LIFE and waste recycling. Innovative
waste management options in Europe” is available on
http://ec.europa.eu/environment/life/p ...
. It presents 20 LIFE projects co-funded by the European Union which
represent a small but valuable selection of the numerous successful
waste-related LIFE initiatives that support the EU’s evolving waste policy.
Covering the wide range and scope of activities carried out over the years,
these projects not only refer to solutions to waste as a problem, but also
to opportunities to see waste as a valuable resource for industry,
generating jobs and businesses. The projects help to highlight some of the
key principles around which European environment policy is built. They
underline the value of sharing and exchanging information and have the
potential to contribute to the European Union’s long term vision: to
become a recycling society that seeks to avoid waste and to use it as a
resource.
EU Report Series available from IWA Publishing:
This EU Reports series resulted from a special agreement between the
International Water Association and the European Commission and its
Directorate-General for Research, aiming to articulate to researchers,
policy makers and water practitioners scientific knowledge and innovative
technologies for the sustainable management of natural resources,
generated by multidisciplinary research projects supported in successive
European Union's environmental research programmes.
This series als
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