The Information Day on the 4th Call for Proposals, based on WP2010, will be held on 14 January 2010 in Brussels (Charlemagne building - rue de la Loi 170).

Please find below the draft agenda.

For more information and to register online to the event, please, click here.

The Idealist project under the Seventh Framework Programme (http://www.ideal-ist.net/about-ideal-ist) has been performing Partner Search for Information and Communication Technologies Policy Support Programme Calls CIP-ICT PSP-2009-3 and CIP-ICT PSP-2009-3bis (http://www.ideal-ist.net/partner-search). The project intends to continue offering the Partner Search service also for CIP-ICT PSP 4th Call in 2010.

In order to explain current possibilities, to hear about your needs and to discuss them with the Commission, the Idealist project organises:

In the framework of the 2nd Cycle of the eServices Europa project an informative and networking event will take place in Oeiras, Lisboa (PT), on 26 and 27 of November 2009. The event is co-hosted by the Portuguese ICT PSP National Contact Point (NCP).

In line with the eServices Europa project’s major goal of supporting the network of NCPs, the event will give to NCPs – in the framework of the ICT PSP NCPs network - the chance to strengthen their relationship, share information, exchange ideas for the continuous development and professionalization of the network.

The eServices Europa 2nd Cycle training course will be held on the 30th of October 2009 in Brussels.

The training is addressed to ICT PSP CIP projects, which have been selected to be part of the 2nd cycle of the eServices Europa project.

Aim of the training is to provide participants with information and methodologies to further exploit their projects' results.

The international EGOV conference 2009, organized within the DEXA conference cluster , presents the state of eGovernment and eGovernance research and practice, providing valuable guidance in this fast-developing sector.

The EGOV conference brings together leading researchers and professionals from all over the globe and from many disciplines. The 2008 conference attracted some 130 participants from more than 30 countries from all over the world including developing countries.

The PEPPOL project (Pan-European Public Procurement Online) is arranging an international conference in Oslo on 18 – 20 May 2009 in collaboration with BUSINESSEUROPE.

We hereby invite you to participate, please register before 7th May 2009!

Main topics that will be addressed:

The NETC@RDS Mid-Term workshop is announced in the frame of MEDeTEL, the International eHealth, Telemedicine and Health ICT forum, Luxembourg 1-3 April 2009 (www.medetel.lu).

Partnerships for Innovation and Competitiveness

About Forum:

The International Forum “Baltic IT&T” has long traditions. It is one of the largest and most significant ICT events in the Baltic Sea Region, bringing together senior government representatives, experts from European Commission and international organisations, as well as top level executives from the world’s leading ICT companies and other business sectors.

The Procure European project has confirmed interest of sharing model for the regional public market places. Furthermore, without forgetting the interoperability issues allowing local solutions to exchange in order to overcome borders remaining in the domain of public purchasing. Wider concurrence allowing better use of public money, reducing of costs thanks to a multi-entity base and open-source solutions, cutting of red tape for small and medium enterprises – these objectives may be now easily addressed by the European regions!

Increasing attention is being paid to ethical issues relating to research and innovation as society, investors and research funders have become more critical of the implications of new developments.

In areas such as life sciences the ethical issues are well communicated, but for many engaged in ICT these may not be so obvious.