2nd ICT Brokerage Event of FP6 EASIER Project, ICT Conference on Research and Development, will be held in Aalborg, Denmark, on November 22nd and 23rd, 2007. The conference is open to all ICT companies who wish to build new international collaborations and develop European wide RTD projects. The 2 day conference will give the participants the opportunity to present and discuss innovative ideas to develop new projects.
ICT conference aims to develop transnational cooperation between ICT companies for new partnerships and encourages SME participation in European research programmes. The event registration ended by October 31st, 2007 and the ICT conference seems to attract more than 200 representatives from the ICT sector of different European countries.
The 2 day conference will give to participants the chance to introduce and discuss new project ideas in networking sessions, matchmaking and elevator pitch events. In the conference, the representatives of the European Commission will inform participants about EU Framework projects and the companies who have already presented a project will share their experiences on project writing and partnership building.
You can reach the name of the participant companies by November 1st, 2007 through the following link:
http://www.be2-aalborg.dk/en/participating_companies/
If you present a project idea in the conference, your accomadation expenditures -up to 30 companies and the priority is given to the SMEs- will be financed by the EASIER project. Transportation, visa applications and accomodation will be organized by the Turkish EASIER project team. TAGES, as a partner in the EASIER project with TÜBİTAK and TBV from Turkey, will support you in meeting new partners and building new cooperations.
Please contact Selen Akçalı from TAGES in case of questions and for more information.
2nd ICT Brokerage Event is part of the FP6 EASIER project www.eti-easier.org, funded by the European Union, which seeks to increase the ICT research activity and strengthen the competitiveness of ICT SMEs. The thrust of the project is to deliver new RTD collaborations for FP7 and other European-wide opportunities with special emphasis on SMEs. Working in sixteen European regions, EASIER will catalyse EU RTD projects by drawing on the strengths of existing regional networks and building a new trans-national partnership to boost ICT SME participation in European research programmes.
