http://www.frenz.org.nz/Calls/OpenCalls.aspx Mon, 30 Aug 2010 12:30:00 +1200 New Research Calls and Information frenz.org.nz180 http://ec.europa.eu/research/science-society/document_library/pdf_06/mml-leaflet_en.pdf Mon, 30 Aug 2010 12:30:00 +1200 The Science in Society Work Programme invites research and civil society organisations to collaborate on the following societal challenges: moving towards a low-carbon society, reconciling food innovations and health concerns, preserving our marine and maritime resources. frenz.org.nz179 FRENZ: http://www.frenz.org.nz/Calls/OpenCalls.aspx Tue, 3 Aug 2010 14:00:00 +1200 FRENZ (Facilitating Research cooperation between Europe and New Zealand) is pleased to announce that on 20th July, the European Commission launched 51 calls for proposals in relation to their Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Development (FP7). The calls cover all of the ten themes of the Cooperation element of FP7, through which several large, multi-national, collaborative research and networking projects will be funded; as well as calls in the Capacities and People (mobility) programmes. The launch of the new calls sees a host of new, 2011 workprogrammes being launched to highlight the new priority topics and strategies of the EU, including aspects of their Europe2020 document. If researchers have been using draft versions of work programmes to develop initiatives, these should be replaced with the new official texts. Only those topics in the official texts are open. Please note that in the 17 new workprogrammes (soon to be on the FRENZ website) and calls, there are five topics which specifically call for New Zealand engagement: three in the Food, Agriculture and Fisheries and Biotechnology programme, and two in the ICT programme (Summary attached). Their titles are: KBBE.2011.4-02: Support to European Commission (EC) activities related to international co-operation with Australia-Canada-New Zealand and with the USA, KBBE.2011.2.2-02: New technologies and tools and their potential application to nutrition research, KBBE.2011.1.3-03: European interprofessional network addressing zoonotic diseases transmitted via companion animals, Objective ICT-2011 9.6: FET Proactive: Unconventional Computation (UCOMP), and Objective ICT-2011.5.2 Virtual Physiological Human. In both programmes, the possibility for NZ funding has been mentioned. In the FAB programme, there is a statement in the introduction to highlight that funding is possible for necessary elents of the work; and in the Virtual Physiological Human part of the ICT call, the funding for industrialised third countries has been limited to 3 million Euros. Please view details at: FRENZ: http://www.frenz.org.nz/Calls/OpenCalls.aspx frenz.org.nz178 http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/dc/index.cfm?fuseaction=UserSite.FP7CallsPage Mon, 19 Jul 2010 11:30:00 +1200 Identifier: 2010/S 132-201606, Publication Date: 29 June 2010, Budget: € 100 000, Deadline: 08 September 2010 at 16:00:00.