Eurostars 7th Call

CDTI is organizing a new series of informative workshops to promote participation in the Eurostars Programme between November 17th and December 1st, a European funding programme specifically targeted to SMEs with intensive R&D activities. This programme is open to all fields and research areas.

The next workshops will be held at:

• Vigo: November 17th
• Almería: November 22th
• Jaen: November 23th
• Las Palmas: November 29th
• Lleida: November 30th
• Pamplona: December 1 st

Each workshop will consist of three parts:

• Eurostars Programme overview by the CDTI.
• Practical presentation, including exercises on the preparation and submission of a proposal EUROSTARS.
• Personal interviews (optional) of companies with representatives of the CDTI to contrast concrete ideas about potential projects for EUROSTARS

All workshops take place during the morning (between 9:00 and 12:00) and interviews with technicians CDTI will be developed on request between 12:00 and 14:00 hours.

Wellness Telecom has actively participated in this program in their previous calls, with several proposals submitted and a high success rate. Wellness Telecom is willing to both collaborate and support new project ideas for the next call, which deadline is 1^st of March 2012 at 20:00 CET.

If you are willing to participate you can count with Wellness Telecom's experience. Please contact us at factoriainnovacion@wtelecom.es

Partner Search Space in Wellness Telecom's Web

Dear Bloggers,

We announce the opening of new R&D partner search space on the Wellness Telecom's Web.

This Space in entitle to offer our followers, a aggregated source to find partner searches to participate in different R&D project, funded through different programmes, from Enterprise European Network, NCP SME, Idealist, our customers, etc, of you interest.

Up to know searches are only available in Spanish, but we will offer you soon the service in English.

We hope you enjoy it!

Are you looking for an FP7 partner?

As you may know the new FP7 calls have been published recently, so from Wellness Telecom we are analysing and evaluating possible collaboration under this programme.

Wellness Telecom is an SME that was born as a telecommunication company and assist it clients throughout the lifecycle of a telecommunication project with consulting, engineering, implementation, maintenance and optimisation. However, Wellness Telecom is sponsoring investment in Research, Development and innovation (R&D&i) to create or improve advanced, innovative products and services in four main lines ( Telecommunications, Smart and Sustainable City, Communication Platform, Healths and Well-being).

• Objective ICT 2011.1.2 Cloud Computing, Internet of Services and Advanced Software Engineering
• Objective ICT 2011.6.1 Smart energy grids
• Objective ICT 2011.6.3 ICT for efficient water resources management.
• Objective EEB-ICT- 2011.6.5 ICT for energy positive neighbourhoods
• Objective ICT 2011 6.7 Mobility
• Objective HEALTH.2012.3.2-3: Social innovation for active and healthy ageing
• Objective ENERGY.2012.8.8.1: Strategic sustainable planning and screening of city plans 1.
• Objective EEB.ENERGY.2012.8.8.3: Demonstration of nearly Zero Energy Building Renovation for cities and districts

The team of professionals of Wellness Telecom is qualified in Telecom management support for implementation of R&D&i. Wellness Telecom has the experience and ability to handle projects in multiple programs:

• The Seventh Framework Programme (FP7)
• And Innovation Framework Programme (CIP)
• JTIs
• EUREKA and umbrella set of clusters, IBEROEKA, LIFE +, AAL, PLAN AVANZA, CDTI,INNPACTO, INNPLANTA, TORRES QUEVEDO, IDEA, CTA, ADEuropa

We offer also different consultancy services from the Factory Innovation Department. When the plan of action has been defined, this service makes it possible to have access to different financing programmes that meet the needs of the individual customer and his ideas. The ideas become project proposals and their technical and administrative aspects are adapted to the requirements of each of the bids for financing selected. Should the proposals require the ideas to be presented jointly with other associates, Wellness Telecom is responsible for seeking partners who can form a coherent joint venture covering the whole idea value chain.

We are open to all type of collaboration where we can fit as potential partner in the areas we are experienced (telecommunication, collaborative platforms, smart cities, and eHealth).

Please if you need further information contact us factoriainnovacion@wtelecom.es

CIP Eco-innovation European Info Day

The CIP Eco-innovation initiative is managed by the Executive Agency for Competitiveness and Innovation on behalf of the European Commission.

Through the Eco-innovation funding scheme, the EU wants to support innovative products, services and technologies that can make a better use of our natural resources and reduce Europe's ecological footprint. With its objective to bridge the gap between research and the market, CIP Eco-innovation contributes to the implementation of the Environmental Technologies Action Plan (ETAP).

There is nearly € 200 million available to fund Eco-innovation projects between 2008 and 2013.

The launch of the next Call for proposals is foreseen for 13 April 2010, the deadline for submission of proposals is foreseen to be 9 September 2010.

The Eco-Innovation European Info Day will take place on 13 April 2010 in Brussels (Charlemagne Building, Rue de la Loi 170, 1040 Brussels, Room S3).

Access to the registration link

Nuevas condiciones financieras para proyectos de I+D+i de Cooperación internacional del CDTI

Los proyectos Eureka, Iberoeka y Bilaterales financiados por el CDTI se beneficiarán de un tramo no reembolsable del 33 % de la ayuda concedida a partir del mes de Marzo.

Dada la importancia estratégica que tiene para las empresas españolas la colaboración tecnológica con compañías de otros países, el Consejo de Administración del Centro para el Desarrollo Tecnológico Industrial (CDTI), aprobó una importante mejora de las condiciones financieras que se aplicará a los proyectos Eureka, Iberoeka y Bilaterales que se aprueben a partir de marzo. Esta mejora se traduce en un incremento del tramo no reembolsable desde el actual 25% al 33%.

El CDTI ofrece a las empresas españolas participantes en los proyectos Eureka, Iberoeka y Bilaterales financiación privilegiada por medio de créditos a tipo de interés cero, amortizables en 10 años, y que cubren hasta el 75% del presupuesto total del proyecto.

Con esta medida, los proyectos que obtengan financiación de este organismo podrán beneficiarse de un tramo no reembolsable del 33% del valor del crédito concedido.

Eurostars Programme

The EUREKA's Eurostars Programme is the first European funding and support programme to be specifically dedicated to SMEs. Eurostars stimulates SMEs to lead international collaborative research and innovation projects by easing access to support and funding.

The 2nd Call of proposals has been opened. Registrations and project application submissions will be accepted until the cut-off deadline on the 25th February 2010 at 20h00 CET.

Wellness Telecom will participate in this 2nd call with innovative proposals aligned with our R&D&i key objetives.

ICT Policy Support Programme Infoday

The European Commission will held the Information Day on 14th January 2010 in Brussels about the 4th Call for Proposals of the ICT Policy Support Programme based on WP2010.

Link to the Agenda

Link to the registration form

Following this ICT PSP Call 4 Information Day, a specific constituency building workshop will be organised for the Theme 4 of the Work programme 2010 - Open Innovation for Future Internet-enabled services in "smart" cities. It will be held on Friday 15th January 2010 in Brussels. To participate in this event send a registration message with your name, organization and email address to INFSO-F4- EVENTS@ec.europa.eu latest by 8 January 2010.

Infoday Challenge 2 of FP7-ICT call 6

On 14th January 2010, the European Commission will organise an Info Day in Luxembourg focused on Challenge 2 - Cognitive Systems and Robotics - of the ICT WorkProgramme.

Challenge 2 objectives are outlined in the current ICT Work Programme 2009. The budget and target topics are:

STREPs (min 23.4 M € – max 39 M €):

• New approaches towards artificial cognitive systems (STREP) (target a)

IPs (min 39 M € – max 54.6 M €):

• New Complete Robotic Systems (IP) (target c)
• Cross-fertilization between academic and industrial research efforts in robotics (IP) (target e)

CAs (max 2 M €).

• Fostering an artificial cognitive systems research community in Europe (CA) (target h)

The information day aims at helping participants to better understand the work programme and criteria for the evaluation of proposals, to facilitate sharing of ideas and experiences, and to find partners for project consortia.

Link to the Agenda.

Link to the registration form

ICT call 6 of FP7 have been published

The European Comission has released the ICT Call 6 last 24th of November and will close the next 13rd of April. The call has a total budget of 286 M€.

The topics called are:

Challenge 2: Cognitive systems, interaction, robotics

ICT 2009.2.1 Cognitive Systems and Robotics CP, CSA (CA Only)

Challenge 4: Digital Libraries and Content

ICT 2009.4.1 Digital Libraries and Digital Preservation CP, NoE, CSA

Challenge 5: Towards sustainable and personalised healthcare

ICT 2009.5.3 Virtual Physiological Human CP, CSA

Challenge 6: ICT for mobility, environmental sustainability and energy efficiency

ICT 2009.6.2 ICT for Mobility of the Future CP, CSA

Future and emerging technologies

ICT 2009.8.7 Molecular Scale Devices and Systems CP

ICT 2009.8.8 Brain-inspired ICT CP

ICT 2009.8.9 Coordinating Communities, Plans and Actions in FET Proactive Initiatives CSA

ICT 2009.8.10 Identifying new research topics, Assessing emerging global S&T trends in

ICT for future FET Proactive initiatives CSA

Horizontal support actions

ICT 2009.9.1 International Cooperation CP (STREP/SICA only)

ICT 2009.9.2 Supplements to support International Cooperation between ongoing projects CP

To see more details about the contents of the call see CORDIS