Ministero Affari Esteri
Bando

La Commissione Europea invita a presentare candidature per Esperti Nazionali Distaccati (END).Deadline 06-11-2009 http://www.esteri.it/MAE/IT/Ministero/Servizi/Italiani/Opportunita/Nella_UE/Nelle_Istituzioni/EspertiNazionaliDistaccati/Ricerca_EspertiNazDistaccati.htm

Sviluppo Lazio
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Regione approva piano investimenti Sviluppo Lazio per Pmi. Trentotto milioni di euro in tre anni: a tanto ammontano gli investimenti per lo sviluppo del tessuto produttivo laziale approvati il 13 ottobre 2009 dalla Commissione Bilancio, programmazione economico finanziaria e partecipazione. Nel corso della seduta, la commissione presieduta da Carlo Umberto Ponzo ha infatti dato parere favorevole al piano triennale 2009-2011 di Sviluppo Lazio. http://www.sviluppo.lazio.it/news.asp?id=3365

Lazioeuropa
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Una volta si usava l’email come mezzo preminente per comunicare e per tenersi in contatto con gli altri. Adesso, al tempo dei social network, Twitter e Facebook sembrano insidiare la posta elettronica e configurarsi come i mezzi di comunicazione più utilizzati dagli internauti.A rivelarlo è il Wall Street Journal, che ha preso in considerazione i dati che rigurdano la crescita delle reti sociali negli ultimi mesi e arrivando alla conclusione che, come la posta elettronica ha rappresentato una sorta di rivoluzione compiutasi circa dieci anni fa, oggi le reti sociali stanno cambiando in maniera profonda il nostro modo di comunicare.

ESRI
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ESRI Increases Access to GIS Software Training. ESRI now offers access to more than 40 beginning, intermediate, and advanced instructor-led GIS courses through a variety of training alternatives. There’s good news for people who want to learn how to use geographic information system (GIS) software close to home. ESRI now offers access to more than 40 beginning, intermediate, and advanced instructor-led GIS courses through a variety of training alternatives and venues including:

  • Video-recorded training at all ESRI learning centers in the United States
  • Video teleconferencing training at the ESRI learning centers
  • Virtual Classroom online training delivered to students’ own workplaces or home computers

http://www.esri.com/news/releases/09_4qtr/training-access.html

Lazioside
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YouTube annuncia oggi il lancio dei Video Sponsorizzati, un nuovo formato pubblicitario che porta in YouTube le caratteristiche di precisione della Search. Attraverso i Video Sponsorizzati, chiunque potrà incrementare le visualizzazioni dei propri video all’interno della piattaforma di condivisione video più famosa al mondo.Per creare una campagna con un video sponsorizzato, è sufficiente accedere all’interfaccia AdWords, impostare la spesa giornaliera con un costo per clic massimo e selezionare una lista di parole chiave a cui associare il video da promuovere. Il video sponsorizzato potrà così comparire sia sulle pagine di YouTube, a seguito di ricerche legate a quelle parole chiave, sia all’interno dei siti partner della rete di contenuti di Google.

Bando
Pubblicato il nuovo bando promosso dalla Camera di Commercio di Roma, che prevede un contributo alle imprese di 5mila euro per ogni dipendente assunto a tempo indeterminato, per un massimo di 25mila euro. La difficile congiuntura economica ha aggravato il problema della disoccupazione, tanto in Italia quanto nel resto d’Europa. Un problema grave che la Camera di Commercio di Roma cerca di contrastare, incentivando le imprese ad assumere a tempo indeterminato, con 25mila euro in contributi a fondo perduto. Budget € 3.500.000,00 Deadline dal 12/10/2009 al 31/12/2009 http://www.rm.camcom.it/download/oggetto_modulistica/Bando%20a%20sostegno%20occupazione.pdf

Europa
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Call for proposals — JLS/2009/ERFX/CA – (2009/C 243/06)The European Commission has launched a call for proposals to award grants to actions in support of the asylum policy.Budget  EUR 9 176 666,67.http://ec.europa.eu/justice_home/funding/refugee/funding_refugee_en.htm

Tender: comparative scoreboard and performance indicators in NMP research activities between EU and third countries.The contractor is to compare, assess and monitor the implementation and progress of European strategic initiatives in the field of research funding (public and private) in industrial technologies through the use of indicators. Comparison and assessment must be done vis-à-vis third countries (associated states or other third countries). Budget 325 000 EUR.http://ted.europa.eu/Exec?DataFlow=N_one_doc_access.dfl&Template=TED/N_one_result_detail_curr.htm&docnumber=274167-2009&docId=274167-2009&StatLang=EN

Call for proposals:The European Investment Bank proposes a new EIBURS sponsorship within its EIB-Universities Research Action (2009/C 246/06) Deadline 30.11.2009 http://www.eib.org/about/partners/universities/index.htm

CALL FOR PROPOSALS 2010 — EAC/41/09 Lifelong Learning Programme (LLP) (2009/C 247/09)Budget EUR 1 016 million http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:C:2009:247:0013:0015:EN:PDF

CALL FOR PROPOSALS — EACEA/26/09 European Associations active at European level in the field of Education and Training (2009/C 247/10) Budget EUR 600 000 deadline 10 December 2009 http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:C:2009:247:0016:0018:EN:PDF

Call for tender: Ex-ante advertising for a negotiated procedure for a contract of a total value below Euro 60,000 for support to the development of the transition strategy to the low carbon economy.Deadline: 6 November 2009 http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/eeurope/i2010/contact/index_en.htm

Eventi
22 October 2009, Brussels, Belgium.CALLIOPE Open Session – Call for eHealth Interoperability in Europe.This session, organised within the EHTEL symposium, will be the first public opportunity to observe achievements and progress in the establishment of a cross-border access to patient and medication summaries as foreseen in the EU funded large scale pilots and discussed with European Stakeholder organisations in the “CALLepSO” joint work group. At the same time, the audience will learn about recent EU Commission and Member States eHealth interoperability initiatives and cross-border eHealth projects with political impact as well as how to interact with them with the help of the CALLIOPE Network. http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/newsroom/cf/itemdetail.cfm?item_id=5316&utm_campaign=isp&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=newsroom&utm_content=type-news

21 – 23 October 2009, Istanbul, Turkey. eChallenges e-2009. This is the nineteenth in a series of annual conferences supported by the European Commission, which bring together over 650 delegates from leading commercial, government and research organisations around the world to bridge the Digital Divide, by sharing knowledge, experience, lessons learnt and good practice. http://www.echallenges.org/e2009/default.asp?page=home

12 November 2009, Brussels, Belgium.SciTech Europe 2009 – Innovation accross Europe.This event will bring together industry stakeholders, academic experts and policy makers to outline a collaborative approach to European science and technology frameworks. The conference will provide an opportunity to create new networks, promote debate and propose a better understanding of how initiatives can benefit science and technology strategies, knowledge and prosperity. http://www.publicserviceevents.co.uk/main/overview.asp?ID=94

18 – 21 November 2009, Salzburg, Austria. AmI-09: Roots for the Future of Ambient Intelligence.The conference aims to bring together researchers from academia and industry from various disciplines to present the latest results, discuss the state of art and think about the future. http://www.ami-09.org/

27 November 2009, Brussels, Belgium Final conference of the Senior project – ICT for an ageing society, an ethical approach.The project consortium will present its key results to a wider audience of stakeholders: a comprehensive collection of good ethical practices; a comprehensive collection of industrial ethical codes; a set of recommendations towards an operational roadmap. Two sessions of lectures will address the state of the art about: promoting an all inclusive digital society and monitoring privacy and ethical values. A concluding session will explore the priorities for future action. http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/einclusion/docs/senior_final_conf.pdf

20 November 2009, Brussels, Belgium. European e-Skills Conference. The European e-Skills conference will address: The crucial importance of ICT professionalism for the EU economy and society; The progress of the implementation of the e-skills strategy and projects; The road ahead for a coordinated strategy to foster ICT professionalism, e-skills and innovation for economic recovery. The conference is organised by the European Commission and the European Economic Social Committee in partnership with CEPIS and in cooperation with the e-Skills Industry Leadership Board. http://www.eskills-pro.eu/

22 – 25 November 2009, Brussels, Belgium. ICT that makes the difference : The Future of Ambient Intelligence and ICT for Security – Conference announcement and call for papers. For more than 30 years, industry, R&D, science policy authorities and analysts of Ethical, Social? economic, and Legal Aspects (ESLA) of science accumulated experience in dealing with powerful developments in biotechnology and biomedicine. Stakeholders in ICT can learn from successes and failures in dealing with biotechnology and biomedicine. http://www.ictthatmakesthedifference.eu/

6 – 7 April 2010, Paris, France.Health 2.0 Europe.The conference will integrate the best of European web/mobile based technologies, and compare, contrast and contextualize them with leading examples of Health 2.0 from North America. It will show what works in the context of Europe’s evolving health care systems, whether there are commonalities across European systems that can lead to economies of scale and what the “boundary-less” online world means for consumers and physicians working in distinct health care systems. http://www.health2con.com/paris2010/

14 – 16 April 2010, Luxembourg Med-e-Tel 2010.Med-e-Tel focuses on ehealth and telemedicine applications and a wide range of other medical ICT applications and on the convergence of information and communication technology with medical applications, which lead to higher quality of care, cost reductions, workflow efficiency, and widespread availability of healthcare services.

CORDIS
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Call for proposals FP7-PEOPLE-2010-NIGHT under the 2010 work programme ‘People’ of the Seventh EC Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2009/C 245/09) ‘European Researchers’ Night’ is a pan-European event involving a wide range of scientific and research organisations, including museums, laboratories and academic institutions, which host a variety of entertaining and fun events planned to run late into the night. The aim is to give the public, and in particular young people, the opportunity to meet researchers within the context of festive and ‘fun’ activities and to highlight the appeal of pursuing a research career.Budget: € 3 500 000 Deadline: 13 January 2010 http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/dc/index.cfm?fuseaction=UserSite.PeopleDetailsCallPage&call_id=249#infopack

News
Un World Wide Web più realistico Alcuni ricercatori finanziati dall’Unione europea hanno sviluppato una nuova forma di comunicazione tra macchine basata su una rete chiamata ‘Triple Space’, che potenzierà i servizi web, il Semantic Web e le tecnologie tuple-space. Il progetto TRIPCOM (‘Triple space communication’) ha ricevuto 3,65 milioni di euro in riferimento all’area tematica dedicata alle tecnologie della società dell’informazione del Sesto programma quadro (6° PQ) dell’UE. http://first.aster.it/news/show_news.php?ID=20780

RIDITT
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FIT: 200 milioni per ricerca e sviluppo.Sbloccati 200 milioni di euro a favore della attività di ricerca e sviluppo svolte dalle imprese ubicate nei territori delle Aree obiettivo Convergenza (Campania, Calabria, Puglia e Sicilia).Previsti contributi a fondo perduto fino al 40% in abbinamento a finanziamenti agevolati fino al 50%. Potranno accedere alle agevolazioni le imprese di qualsiasi dimensione appartenenti al settore industriale, al settore dei trasporti, al settore agro-industriale e all’artigianato. I progetti di ricerca possono averea un costo minimo di un milione di euro ed il finanziamento è concesso  fino ad un costo massimo di 3 milioni di euro.Dei 200 milioni messi a disposizione 100 milioni sono stati assegnati ai progetti di ricerca e sviluppo riferiti a specifici settori tecnologici quali il settore dell’energia da fonti rinnovabili, dell’efficienza energetica, delle nanotecnologie e dell’ICT. I restanti 100 milioni di euro sono stati assegnati ai progetti di innovazione che riguardano tutti i rimanenti settori tecnologici. http://www.gazzettaufficiale.it/guridb/dispatcher?service=1&datagu=2009-10-14&task=dettaglio&numgu=239&redaz=09A11948&tmstp=1255681360236

FIRST
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Il Programma ICT Policy Support è uno dei tre sotto Programmi compresi nel Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme (CIP 2007 – 2013). Il CIP – ICT ha lo scopo di sfruttare pienamente il potenziale delle tecnologie ICT a supporto della crescita e competitività europea e favorire l’interoperabilità dei sistemi, come indicato dal quadro strategico i2010.Attualmente siamo in attesa della pubblicazione del bando 2010 che avverrà presumibilmente a gennaio con scadenza giugno 2010.L’Italia si contraddistingue come primo Paese in termini di partecipazioni nelle proposte ammesse a finanziamento nel bando CIP ICT 2009. http://first.aster.it/news/show_news.php?ID=20793