Net4Society Project

Digital Agenda for Europe 2020

Maria Samara — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 09:53:19 +0000

The 2nd Digital Agenda Assembly is taking place in Brussels today and tomorrow.

This is the list and the hashtags of the 8 thematic workshops:

01. Anytime, Anywhere, Any Device ? Converged Media Platforms (#Da12converge) 02. High-speed connections (#Da12bb) 03. Trust What You Buy, Choose How to Pay ? The Future of e-Commerce in Europe (#Da12ecom) 04. Social Media: Social Networking for Economic Recovery, Jobs and Growth (#Da12social) 05. Data (#Da12data) 06. Clouds for Europe: From Cloud-friendly to Cloud-Active (#Da12cloud) 07. Security: Secure Digital Future: building on growth, innovation and confidence (#Da12trustsec) 08. Innovation and entrepreneurs (#Da12innov).

This is the link to the DAA 2012 webpage: http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/digital-agenda/daa/index_en.htm

This is the link to where you will find the webstreaming on the day: http://webcast.ec.europa.eu/eutv/portal/index.html

Participant Portal – External User Consultation with LEARs

Maria Samara — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 10:34:56 +0000

The European Commission organises a training for LEARs on the 29th of March in Brussels. More information is included in the following link:

http://scic.ec.europa.eu/str/index.php?sessionno=c1502ae5a4d514baec129f72948c266e

Investing in Success - Highlighting 15 successful projects

Maria Samara — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 13:09:21 +0000

http://ec.europa.eu/research/horizon2020/pdf/success-stories-h2020_2012.pdf#view=fit&pagemode=none

30 years of EU investment in Research and Innovation!

Maria Samara — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 11:32:15 +0000

Tables and graphs show how the budget has grown over the life of seven Framework Programmes from 1984 to 2013. More information is available at: http://ec.europa.eu/research/fp7/index_en.cfm?pg=budget

Factsheet: FP7 Cooperation themes in Horizon 2020

Maria Samara — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 11:31:45 +0000

6 new factsheets related to the following themes of Horizon 2020: SMEs, International Cooperation, ICT funding, Regions' participation and Industrial participation, are published in the following link: http://ec.europa.eu/research/horizon2020/index_en.cfm?pg=press#other

Web-streaming of the meeting on 15.12.2011

Maria Samara — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 09:54:01 +0000

Dear NCPs,

If you did not have the possibility to watch the web-streaming of the meeting on 15th December, or missed some parts of the presentations, a video of the meeting is available on the following page - starting from the 22nd minute of the recording: http://scic.ec.europa.eu/str/index.php?sessionno=ade55409d1224074754035a5a937d2e0.

A web-forum is already available with all the presentations until the end of February: https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/fpfis/forums/research/participants/portal/viewforum.php?f=22.

Web-streaming of the meeting on the planned electronic-only submission of Forms C in the Participant Portal (15 December)

Maria Samara — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 09:52:52 +0000

Dear FP7 National Contact Point,

The Commission plans a next major step towards a fully electronic administration of EU research and innovation grants. In 2012 the paper-signed financial statements (the so-called “forms C”) for grants in the 7th Framework Programme (FP7) should be replaced by electronic-only forms submitted via a secured IT system in the Participant Portal. For preparing its introduction, the Commission services want to discuss the main features of the planned new approach and the potential impacts on internal processes of beneficiaries. A meeting with a representative group of future users will take place in Brussels on Thursday, 15 December 2011 from 14:00 to 17:00.

To gather feedback from a broadest possible number of interested parties, the event will be webcast. The video will be available during and after the meeting (for a duration of two months) at the following location:

http://scic.ec.europa.eu/str/index.php?sessionno=ade55409d1224074754035a5a937d2e0

Anybody can contribute to the discussion during the meeting, by sending e-mails to the address indicated next to the video stream. There will be a questions& answers session towards the end of the meeting where we will react to the contributions.

It will also be possible to give feedback after the meeting; a Web forum specifically dedicated to the follow-up of this event will be available at the following location:

https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/fpfis/forums/research/participants/portal/viewforum.php?f=22

Please note that this forum will be locked at the end of February 2012.

Please distribute this information as widely as possible to FP7 beneficiaries in your constituency. We are looking forward to receive the broadest possible feedback so that the future processes and IT systems for electronic-only submission of FP7 financial statements ("forms C") can be prepared according to the needs of the users.

European Alliance for Social Sciences and Humanities, Amsterdam (NL) 20-12-2011

Maria Samara — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 09:04:29 +0000

http://www.allea.org/Pages/ALL/32/352.bGFuZz1FTkc.html

Commissioner at ALLEA/British Academy meeting: SSH crucial for Europe, 10 Nov 2011, London

Maria Samara — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 08:41:38 +0000

Máire Geoghegan-Quinn, European Commissioner for Research, Innovation and Science, gave a keynote speech on "The future of Social Sciences and Humanities in Horizon 2020" at the meeting organised at British Academy.

More information available at: http://www.allea.org/Pages/ALL/32/068.bGFuZz1FTkc.html

Máire Geoghegan-Quinn, Commissioner for Research, Innovation and Science, talks about Horizon 2020

Maria Samara — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 10:10:27 +0000

Video available in the following link:http://ec.europa.eu/research/horizon2020/index_en.cfm?pg=press

Horizon 2020 time line

Maria Samara — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 10:09:19 +0000

A time line for Horizon 2020

From 30/11: Parliament and Council negotiations on the basis of the Commission proposals

Ongoing: Parliament and Council negotiations on EU budget 2014-20 (including overall budget for Horizon 2020)

Mid 2012: Final calls under 7th Framework Programme for Research to bridge gap towards Horizon 2020

By end 2013: Adoption of legislative acts by Parliament and Council on Horizon 2020

1/1/2014: Horizon 2020 starts; launch of first calls

Next steps

From 30/11: Parliament and Council negotiations on the basis of the Commission proposals

5-6 December 2011: Competitiveness Council

5-6 December 2011: Innovation Convention

Ongoing: Parliament and Council negotiations on EU budget 2014-20 (including overall budget for Horizon 2020)

Mid 2012: Final calls under 7th Framework Programme for Research to bridge gap towards Horizon 2020

By end 2013: Adoption of legislative acts by Parliament and Council on Horizon 2020

1/1/2014: Horizon 2020 starts; launch of first calls

More information: http://ec.europa.eu/research/horizon2020/index_en.cfm?pg=home

SSH experiences with FP7 – A commentary "NET4SOCIETY survey report

Maria Samara — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 10:04:37 +0000

Within the context of the EU-funded project NET4SOCIETY a survey-based report entitled: "SSH Experiences with FP7 – a Commentary" was launched in Summer 2010. The overall learning objective of the SSH commentary is to capture a vivid picture of SSH researchers’ opinions and – if possible – experiences on the general structure of Theme 8 “SSH” and on the integration of SSH aspects in the other nine research Themes of the Cooperation programme.

More information on the Net4Society project: www.net4society.eu , the CORDIS website: ftp://ftp.cordis.europa.eu/pub/fp7/ssh/docs/net4society-fp7-commentary_en.pdf and the Europa website: http://ec.europa.eu/research/social-sciences/books47_en.html