The European Commission's premier R&D initiative, Framework Programme 7, is now more than a year old. So how is it doing? Is the paperwork any easier for participants? Is the selection of projects any fairer?
The European Commission's premier R&D initiative, Framework Programme 7, is now more than a year old. So how is it doing? Is the paperwork any easier for participants? Is the selection of projects any fairer? Is the quality of R&D better? And is the potential economic impact any greater than prior Framework programmes?
Peter Dröll, chef de cabinet for the EU's research and science commissioner, would like to give a short outlook on the next policy projects and hear preliminary feedback from the Brussels R&D-funding community from the national research agencies, the Brussels liaison offices and project participants.
Science|Business, an independent R&D-investment news service, and the Brussels representation of the Helmholtz Gemeinschaft, one of Germany's leading research organisations, invite you to join in a live roundtable discussion and reception.
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