COP21, United nations conference on climate change, is the 21st Conference of the Parties, i.e. the annual meeting of all countries which want to take action for the climate. It will be held in Le Bourget, France, from 30 November to 11 December. How will the negotiations be organized during COP21: 29 NOVEMBER: ADP OPENING...
The final event of the i-ECOS project is now taking place. Numerous regional and national stakeholders are participating in the event, such as: Quadrifoglio SpA, Publiambiente SpA, Progetto Italia Servizi, ACAM SpA, Ergon srl, SEI Toscana, UDOO and many others. For updates on the event stay tuned and check on the project website. All the...
Responsible ICT Stakeholder Event, Toulon, 26th – 27th November 2015, Maison du Numérique et de l’Innovation. 40 people from several European countries met in Toulun to discuss about the future trends and challenges on CSR in the ICT sectors. After a set of presentation and from TVT Innovation, Region PACA, Green City Zen, ENERCOOP, DCN...
INNOVATE UK – SMART UK based small and medium enterprises carrying out R&D projects can access the SMART funding competition. The SMART programme is managed by INNOVATE UK, with three types of grant available: • Proof of market – up to 9 months, maximum grant £25.000, funded 60% • Proof of concept – up to...
The INTERREG ADRION Programme Kickoff event, “Let’s celebrate the launch of the INTERREG ADRION – Working together for the Adriatic Ionian Challenges” will be held in Bologna on 9th and 10th December 2015. Online registration is through the official programme website. Places are limited but you can follow the plenary sessions of the two-day event...
576 Expression of Interest (EoI) submitted under the first call for proposals. After an initial evaluation, sorting out the duplications and invalid EoI, 547 proposals have been considered for further assessment. The majority of proposals address the Specific Objectives 2.1 (strengthen transnational water management and flood risk prevention) and 1.2 (increase competences for business and...
A new call for proposal has been launched by Tuscany Region, supporting investment projects for young innovative start-ups. The call is aimed at supporting young and innovative micro and small enterprises located in Tuscany born in the last years, through vouchers and soft loans. The typology of services that can be financed are included in...
The PHD ITalents project supports Italian enterprises that hire PHD researchers for a period of 3 years by covering their costs up to the 80% (for the first year, 60% and 50% for the second and third year, respectively). Enterprises carrying out R&D activities in the following sectors can apply: Energy, Food, Cultural heritage, sustainable mobility,...
The project SOLE-CUT Shape memOryaLloys for stonEmaChining and compUter aided Technology, led in Tuscany by Magenta srl, in partnership with Frosini Pietre srl, was evaluated at the European level, as a project to be included among the success stories of the call MANUNET 2012. SOLE-CUT project, at Tuscan level, developed a monitoring system of stone cutting, exploiting machine vision. The system includes an...
The first call for MED Horizontal projects of the 2014-2020 programming period is now open to programme priority axes 1, 2 and 3 and their specific objectives. The indicative ERDF allocation for this call is 9.0M€ (3,6M€ for priority axis 1, 3M€ for priority axis 2 and 2,4M€ for priority axis 3). The indicative IPA allocation for this...
