Topical Seminar on SME involvement in R&D calls
14 January 2008
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Topical Seminar on ICT Security
15 January 2008
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Are you interested in
- exchanging views on future challenges of the EU R&D ecosystems
- discussing new financing schemes for R&D
- discussing future research challenges requiring trans-national and multi-stakeholder coordination, as ICT Security
- facilitating the participation of SMEs in ICT-oriented initiatives in Europe
The CISTRANA consortium invites you to join the network of active stakeholders in the process of shaping the European Research Area in the field of Information and Communications Technology.
For this purpose a series of two topical seminars is organized in Brussels as a final conference of the CISTRANA project:
The seminar dedicated to SMEs will address the specific difficulties encountered by small ICT enterprises to take a significant part in public-funded projects at the national and European level. The floor will be first given to SMEs from various ICT sectors describing barriers and opportunities they have met in recent cases. In a second session, institutional funding bodies will expose their solutions to lower the obstacles to a better SME participation in the ICT field. A final session will address the different tracks envisaged to go forward in the harmonisation of supporting measures for SMEs between European, national and regional initiatives.
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The ICT Security seminar invites programme managers to exchange information on objectives and portfolios of European and National programmes in ICT security, and offer their views on current gaps and common future challenges. This will be complemented with the industrial perspectives of European Technology Platform representatives, highlighting R&D needs and challenges in ICT Security from revised strategic research agendas. The afternoon session will proceed by narrowing in on a research topic of such ”global” concern: identity management - an issue that serves as a common layer to both network security and the security of services, is a significant element of a wide array of application areas, and concerns a variety of stakeholders, including researchers, industrial actors, governments and users.
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The seminars are free of charge!
Online registration now open
http://www.cistrana.org/