'European Industrial Initiatives' and 'Joint Technology Initiatives' are not enough. The EC has added a third variety to implement its science and technology policy.
FP7 Energy draft 'Work Programme' for 2009 amended and call for proposals postponed
Thursday, 17 July 2008
Renewable energy stakeholders interested in the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) will have to wait until early September to see the next relevant Calls for Proposals published, EUREC Agency has learned. Both the DG RTD and DG TREN “ENERGY” calls are planned to be launched on 3 September (they were originally scheduled for 24 July).
2010-2020: a decade when renewables research takes centre stage?
Monday, 14 July 2008
The interest generated by the Strategic Energy Technology Plan, ‘ERENE’ and the European Institute of Innovation and Technology is setting the scene for an auspicious decade for renewable energy research.
Fraunhofer opens "Center for Sustainable Energy Systems" next door to the MIT
Wednesday, 28 May 2008
This is the seventh Fraunhofer institute to open stateside, and is closely allied with the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ("Fraunhofer ISE") based in Freiburg in Germany.
European Institute of Innovation and Technology- call for candidatures for the Governing Board
Friday, 18 April 2008
The European Commission
is calling for candidates for the Governing Board of the European Institute of
Innovation and Technology (EIT), which will be composed of eighteen experts
coming from the higher education, scientific and business
worlds.