Extra support now available from InterTradeIreland
The InterTradeIreland cross-border collaboration voucher scheme has recently been extended to include North South applications to the SFI-DEL Investigators Programme (IvP) on the basis that IvP applications have a Horizon 2020 submission as a mandatory component.
Also the EU Travel voucher has now been extended to support successful North South partnerships with the costs of travel and accommodation during the grant agreement phase.
Enterprise, Trade and Investment Minister Arlene Foster and Employment and Learning Minister Stephen Farry have highlighted the importance of research and innovation to driving growth in the economy.
The Ministers were speaking at the launch of the Northern Ireland Horizon 2020 strategy in Belfast on 31st March. The strategy sets out the key actions to help local researchers across academia and business win €145million from Horizon 2020, the European Union’s €79billion flagship research and innovation programme.
Researchers at Dublin City University, led by DCU’s Dr Kieran Moran (Head, School of Health & Human Performance; Funded Investigator - Insight Centre for Data Analytics), are leading a €4.9m research project which aims to improve the rehabilitation experience of patients recovering from Cardio-Vascular Disease (CVD), the leading cause of premature death and disability in Europe and worldwide, which costs the EU economy almost €196 billion every year.
European Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation Carlos Moedas said: "Growing resistance to antibiotics is one of the biggest challenges to public health today. We need to find new ways to prevent people from dying from infections that have been treatable for decades, until resistance rendered our drugs ineffective.
We need to bring new classes of antibiotics to market and we need to take preventative measures to stop antibiotics being over-prescribed and over-used. Under Horizon 2020 we are continuing to help save lives and reduce the €1.5 billion in healthcare expenses and productivity losses the EU incurs each year from drug-resistant infections.
Do you want to join the growing community of 580 users from industry and academia now using the InterTradeIreland Horizon 2020 App? Watch a short video of how the App can benefit you or to access the App now please visit our website.
The App is also available to download onto mobile devices at the various App stores.
North South collaboration in Horizon 2020 really makes sense, so InterTradeIreland has developed two travel schemes to help Horizon 2020 participants with the cost of establishing North South and European partnerships.
Access a copy of our 3rd EU Partnership Guide for Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) which aims to facilitate the creation of partnerships between scientists and SSH researchers on the island of Ireland by providing easy access to the expertise required to build consortia to apply to Horizon 2020.
Societal Challenge 7 - Secure Societies 2015 calls - 13th April Venue: Queen's University Belfast
The Northern Ireland Contact Point Network are arranging an Information Day on the upcoming 2015 calls for Societal Challenge 7 - Secure Societies - Protecting freedom and security of Europe and its Citizens. This event is open to all stakeholders on the island of Ireland.
On the day you will hear about the open 2015 calls from Helen Almey UK National Contact Point (NCP) for Secure Societies and the 2016/2017 Work Programme from Ireland's NCP Michael Murphy. To register for this event please email Dajana Dzanovic at d.dzanovic@qub.ac.uk
Join Europa Media’s Horizon 2020 Proposal Development training course and gain hands-on knowledge on how to submit competitive project proposals under the new EU research and innovation programmes, in particular under Horizon 2020.
The training provides a basic understanding of project management and administration issues in H2020 MSCAs. The focus of the day will specifically be on Innovative Training Networks (ITN), Individual Fellowships (IF) and Research and Innovation Staff Exchange (RISE).
Risk Assessment & Cyber Insurance workshop - 27th April (satellite event to CSP conference) Venue: MCE, Brussels
Business companies and individual users can resort to cyber-insurances to protect themselves from risks relating to cyber-attacks, basically the very same they do with respect to the physical goods. While the market is rapidly growing for cyber-insurance (especially in the US soil), showing that there is a strong interest, the adoption is still low and the maturity of the offer pretty at early-stage.
This important event, which is organised by the European Commission, DG CNECT and the CSP Forum, will provide a unique opportunity for like minded Industry, academics,policy makers and business investors to come together for fruitful networking opportunities. The 2 day event is where real Cyber Security & Privacy research success stories, future upcoming challenges/research priorities and opportunities for investment stemming from mature research activities will be highlighted and discussed in depth.
InterTradeIreland are offering travel support to this event
After the evaluation of the first proposals received in June 2014 EASME published a list of tips for potential applicants to the SME Instrument. These pointers received such a warm welcome that they decided to work on a new version building on the experience gained during the evaluation of around 2,500 new proposals.
Some of these tips may seem obvious but, believe us, they can make a huge difference to the success of your project!
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