This is the Europe’s largest event which takes place once in two years. This is the third in its series, which anticipates to bring about 4000-5000 delegates all over the world from ICT communities including researchers and innovators, engineers, public policy and business decision-makers working in the field of digital technologies and innovation. There would be the following three main opportunities to participate and explore through: Conference, exhibition and Networking.

Conference: It shares vision of current and future research trends and exploring key policy options. The key themes involved for the 2010 conference are:

• The potential of digital solutions to promote sustainable growth in a low carbon economy
• The continuing constructive role of ICT in the daily life of citizens
• The importance of public participation in the innovation process

Exhibition: Researchers from all parts of Europe and beyond will present their latest work in upstream ICT innovation as well as close-to-market projects. This is an opportunity to explore at the coal face in your area of interest and to find potential future collaborators.

Networking: ICT 2010 will host dozens of networking sessions designed to facilitate contacts between researchers and innovators, engineers and investors from all fields of digital innovation. This is your chance to build future partnerships with the right people in your field.

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Under the FP7 programme, Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) theme of Cooperation Programme will soon announce its Seventh round of Call for proposals by late July 2010 given with a deadline of January 2011.

The following table depicts ICT theme focusing on seven strategic challenges with various objectives:

The call also promotes research in the areas of Future and Emerging Technologies Open with its 4 new objectives and FET Proactive

The Work programme helps mobilize necessary resources around key ICT research challenges and objectives. Draft ICT Work Programme for 2011-12 is now available. For more information contact us.

Partner Search tools allow you to find potential project partners and to network with others. 3 most popular partner search tools are:

• Ideal-IST for ICT area
• EUINEC for INCO area
• BIOCIRCLE for Food Agriculture & Biotech

Ideal-ist, the successful international partner search network for Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) is open for the 6th ICT call of the EU Framework Program and will very soon publish partner searches for ICT call 7.

The unique feature of Ideal-ist is to provide quality procedure applied and quality labeling for the Partner Searches.

The fifth call for proposals, which closed on 27th October 2009, Ideal-ist received 118 partner search forms through the Ideal-ist web site, 50 Partner searches were published after revision by their National Contact Point together with the Ideal-ist quality team.

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EUINEC, partner search allows you to find potential project partners, to upload your own profile, and to network with others. Registration is free and upon registration, you will receive an email with log in details.

EUINEC offers partner searches in the following areas: Health, ICT, Transport, Environment, Nanotechnologies, Food agriculture biotechnology, Social science and humanities, energy, space and security.

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Partner Search on BIOCIRCLE

BIOCIRCLE, partner search allows you to collaborate internationally with all the partners. The partner search database provides a great opportunity for third countries researchers to present themselves to European proposal coordinators. This offers partner search in Food agriculture fisheries and biotechnology area.

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PPP is a new type of instrument introduced mid-FP7. In this instrument/funding scheme, the European Commission foresees to provide a contribution of 50% to the total R&D budget from the budget of the 7th Framework Program, with matching investment coming from the private sector.

• ITSMA - Bangalore
• CDAC - Pune
• IIIT-B

• Introduction into Frame work Programme
• Roadmapping: Charting organizational competencies against FP priorities
• Benchmarking of project ideas against relevant past and current frontier research
• Conducting training and workshops
• External assistance to proposal writing
• Project partner search
• Consulting on the programme
• Networking
• Project management.