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Research Infrastructures EC NCP meeting

05/07/2011
NCP / Country : Belgium

On July 5th 2011, an FP7 NCP meeting was organised in Brussels, where EC officers presented the forthcoming RI programme Call topics. Presentations are available .


EuroRIs-Net in WIRE2011

09/06/2011
NCP / Country : Hungary

The project EuroRIs Net is going to have a booth at the WIRE 2011 conference. In parallel, the RESPOTNET Project, funded by the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Commission, has the pleasure to invite you to participate at the Workshop on Assessment and new challenges of Research Potential. For more information, please visit: http://www.wire2011.eu 

 

 


International Conference on Research Infrastructures, Rome, 30 September 2010

13/01/2011
NCP / Country : Greece

EuroRIsNet co-organized the International Conference on Research Infrastructures, held on September 30th, in Rome, Italy. Agenda and Presentations are available at:

http://www.apre.it/lucidi/infrastrutture2011/default.html. Main conclusions are available . The following day, the 3rd Annual Meeting of the project was organized in Rome, with the presence of almost all partners and DG INFSO representative.

 


EuroRIs-Net and SEERA_EI signed an MoU

13/01/2011
NCP / Country : Greece
Last November, EuroRIs-Net and SEERA_EI, having identified activities of common interest and scope, have signed an MoU in order to align project resources towards mutual benefit, for the provision of advantageous services to RI community and policy maker. 
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EuroRIsNet pushes for a more effective Research Infrastructures Programme

17/09/2010
NCP / Country : Bulgaria
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The 2nd Annual Meeting, Warsaw, 27 October 2009

27/10/2009
NCP / Country : Poland
The EuroRIs-Net project 2nd Annual Meeting was organised in 27 October 2009, in the premises of the Institute of Fundamental Technological Research in Warsaw. The goal of the 2nd Annual Meeting was to give each project participant a good overview of last year’s activities and develop a vision for next year.
The 2nd Annual Meeting was combined with the training workshop the day before and the participants could benefit not only from the exchange with their colleagues, but also from the expertise of the external speakers. Case Studies completed the set of instruments that a Research Infrastructures NCP should be able to use to help a client in the best possible way.

The EuroRis-Net project promoted at International Workshop-Exhibition “Strategy of Development of Large-scale Research Infrastructures of the Russian Federation & Cooperation with the European Union"

07/09/2009
NCP / Country : Denmark

Presentations- Part A

Presentations- Part B


The EuroRisNet project: Broadening the scope

13/07/2009
NCP / Country : Bulgaria
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The EuroRis-Net project promoted at the Conference "Research Connection 2009", Prague, 7-8 May 2009

07/05/2009
NCP / Country : Greece
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The EuroRis-Net project promoted at the conference “Research Infrastructures and the Regional Dimension of ERA – RIC”, Prague, 24 - 25 March, 2009

24/03/2009
NCP / Country : Czech Republic
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Interview with Mr. Fiorenzo Scaroni, Vice-chair of the e-IRG,By Sandra Habegger & Juliane Sauer, Euresearch Head Office

13/01/2009
NCP / Country : Switzerland

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The 1st EuroRIs-Net Workshop, Paris, 12 December 2008

29/12/2008
NCP / Country : Greece
The aim of the 1st EuroRis-Net workshop, organised at CNRS, Paris, France on December 12th 2008, was to create a brainstorming among relevant bodies (NCPs for RIs and other NCP network coordinators, EC representatives, ESFRI members, Programme Committee members, as well as RI project coordinator representatives) in order to explore the current role of NCPs in FP7. This will provide a starting point for dialogue on our future role towards FP8 and ERA.
Mr Herve Pero welcomed the EuroRis-Net project representatives, explaining the links between the ESFRI Members, Programme Committee Members, National Contact Points, I3 Project Coordinators and the European Commission in the framework of the European Research Area. Mrs. Maria Douka, EuroRIs-NET project officer, opened the workshop presenting the EuroRIs-NET project aims and objectives, viewed from the scope of policy development and programme implementation.
The DG INFSO was represented from Mr Wim Jansen, who highlighted the importance of collaboration with all related NCPs as well as the necessity for exploitation of the knowledge base generated by the network. Mr Alan Cross, EC (DG RTD A1: Inter-institutional Relations and coordination of the 7thFP) presented the future activities for encouraging collaboration of coordinators of all NCP networks.
The existing EuroRIs-NET services were presented, after the statement of requirements coming from representatives from I3 Project coordinators (Hydralab III Project and COPAL Project). The EuroRis-Net workshop representatives committed themselves to more efforts for a better communication flow between the Project Coordinators and the RI NCPs, while expressing the need for stronger links with ESFRI members, in order to support as well as possible the user communities of research infrastructures to access all relevant information and be aware of RI priorities in a constructive way.
Representatives of other NCP Networks (Ideal-Ist, INCONTACT, NET4SOCIETY, TransRegNCP, ResPotNet) discussed about future coordinated activities, while Mr. Jean- David Malo, Head of Unit 4: Regions of Knowledge and research potential, encouraged information exchange between NCPs from the Regional and Research Infrastructures Specific Programme.  International cooperation issues were also addressed and the whole discussion will be continued within the Discussion Forums of the project.

The Annual Meeting, Athens, 21 October 2008

29/12/2008
NCP / Country : Greece

The EuroRIs-Net project Annual Meeting was organised in 21 October 2008, in the premises of the National Hellenic Research Foundation in Athens. 36 partners from 29 countries participated in the meeting.At the opening of the meeting, representatives of the project coordinator (National Documentation Centre - EKT/NHRF) welcomed the members of the Consortium, and reaffirmed the commitment of the institution to the success of the project.
The results of the Questionnaire, aiming at identifying the level of experience of the RI-NCPs, revealed the high "fluctuation" of NCPs, a fact which demonstrates the importance of the Virtual Helpdesk and the necessity to further emphasise on training issues within the project. The key challenge is the provision of a high-quality, consistent RIs NCP service across Europe via the management of knowledge generated in project, as a result of the use of the Virtual Helpdesk and the exploitation of the Handbook for the Good Practices in NCP work (to be produced at the last stage of the project). Discussion was raised about continuous effort for a fruitful and continuous information flow between RIs NCPs network and ESFRI during the project lifecycle, cooperation with other Networks and identification of relevant Calls and Specific transnational awareness activities for target groups less familiar with the Research Infrastructures Specific Programme.
Finally, all present partners unanimously welcomed the UK NCP in the project, which expressed the intention to participate as observer, as previewed in the Technical Annex.


The Kick-off Meeting, Brussels, 13 November 2007

29/12/2008
NCP / Country : Greece
On 13 November 2007, the Kick-off Meeting of the EuroRis-Net project was held in the premises of the European Commission, in Brussels. In the Meeting participated and delivered relevant speeches Ms. Maria Douka, Scientific Project Officer in the DG Research of the European Commission as well as RI NCPs of 32 partners/countries.
During the meeting, representatives of the project coordinator (National Documentation Centre - EKT/NHRF) discussed about administrative issues and collaborated with participants to set up a plan for implementation of future activities.

First year of the EuroRisNet Project

19/12/2008
NCP / Country : Bulgaria
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The EuroRis-Net Project: 1st Press Release

04/09/2008
NCP / Country : Greece
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