Eureka Tourism - Innovation in Tourism presented in Alandroal, Portugal

Last May 25th, at the Auditorium located in the Municipality of Alandroal, Portugal, the Initiative EUREKATourism, Innovation in Tourism has been presented.
The audience was composed of businessmen from the area of tourism, public organizations and companies from the R&D sector.
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New Call for R&D Projects: Turkey - Israel

Turkey - Israel, 4th Call for Proposals for Joint R&D Projects
Following the outstanding success of the previous calls, Turkey and Israel are announcing the 4th Call for Proposals for joint R&D projects, focusing on development of innovative products and applications in all technological domains. Applicants are expected to develop ready to market solutions or products having strong market potential for Turkey and Israel.

Although projects from all technological domains are welcome, special focus will be given to the following domains:
• ICT – Information and Communication Technologies
• Biotechnology and Medical devices
• Bio-Agro – Agriculture and Food Technologies
• Automotive

More information here.
Source: www.eurekanetwork.org

New Call: Sweden - Israel

Sweden - Israel joint R&D Projects in Life Sciences - Call for proposals

Sweden and Israel announced recently a new initiative within EUREKA with the purpose of promoting bilateral EUREKA projects between Israeli and Swedish Life science companies. The objective of this new call for joint R&D project is to stimulate generation of EUREKA projects with joint participation from the two countries and thereby increase the number of successful EUREKA projects.

It is mainly focused on promoting Individual EUREKA & Eurostars projects in Life Sciences however, according to EUREKA regulations, project proposals in other thematic fields will also be considered. Project participants can be funded through the national programs managed by respectively: the Office of the Chief Scientist (OCS) in Israel and VINNOVA in Sweden.

The call is managed and implemented in the framework of EUREKA. The deadline for submissions is 15 July 2010.

More information here and here.

Call: Germany - Israel

Germany - Israel Call for proposals for Joint R&D Projects

Germany and Israel are announcing a Call for Proposals for joint R&D projects, focusing on developing innovative products and applications in all technological and application areas. Applicants are expected to develop ready to market solutions or projects which have strong market potential for Germany, Israel and Europe and will be labeled in EUREKA, a pan European network for market oriented R&D.

MATIMOP and BMWi will provide access to public funding for joint projects provided by OCS (Office of the Chief Scientist of the Ministry of Industry & Trade and Labor, Israel) and by the BMWi’s ZIM program (Central Innovation program for SMEs), respectively.

Submissions should be done by June 25th, 2010.

More information here.

Call: Hungary - Israel

Call for proposals between Hungarian and Israeli partner entities

The Israeli Industry Center for R&D (MATIMOP) and the Hungarian National Office for Research and Technology (NKTH) are pleased to announce the opening on March 25th of the first call for joint call proposals between Hungarian and Israeli partner entities.

More information here.
Contact: hungary@matimop.org.il

EUREKATourism Event in Portugal - 25 May 2010 -

EUREKATourism Event on May 25th, at Fórum Cultural Transfronteiriço de Alandroal.

Organized by Rede de Turismo de Aldeia do Alentejo (Genuineland) & INESC INOV – Instituto de Novas Tecnologias
And thanks to the kind support and participation of TGLA Turismo Terras do Grande Lago Alqueva & Câmara Municipal de Alandroal

Themes to be treated:
- The EUREKA Programme
- Eurostars
- Funding scheme in Portugal
- The EUREKATourism initiative
- How to setting up a EURKEKA / EUREKATourism project
- Innovation in Tourism: critical factor for success
- Networking and Brainsurfing


Information and Register:
Tel: (+351) 266 106 144
Fax: (+351) 266 744 325
e-mail: genuineland@gmail.com & genuinelandantonia@gmail.com

Full Programme

Event: INES Platform, Bilbao

EUREKATourism will be represented during the INES Platform General Assembly that will be celebrated from June 9th to June 11th in Bilbao, Spain.

INES (Iniciativa Española de Software y Servicios) is the Spanish Technology Platform in the domain of Software Systems and Services, and is a network for the Cooperation of Science and Technology integrated by the Relevant Technological Agents (companies, universities, technological centers, etc.)

INES' objective is to increase the competitiveness of the Spanish industry, positioning it between the European leaders amongst Software Services y Systems.

Programme outline:
Wednesday 9 June 2010
“Track I: The role of IT in future challenges”

Thursday 10 June 2010
“Track II: Activity, impact and opportunities for INES”

Friday 11 June 2010
“Track III: Working Groups meetings”

Website
Programme

Photos of the last Consulting Committee #2 - Nice, France -

A special thank you to "Team Côte d'Azur".

Photos of the last Consulting Committee #1