in the name of the SME UNION of the EPP, The European Health Forum Gastein
we kindly invite you to our Working Breakfast on "The Cross-Border Healthcare Directive – Chances and challenges for patients and providers"

The Working Breakfast to which you are all kindly invited will take place on Tuesday, 15 July 2008, 8.00 – 9.30h, European Parliament, Salon des Membres, Rue Wiertz, 1047 Brussels

*If you do not have an access badge to the European Parliament, please
send us your full name, place of residence and birth date as soon as
possible.

Please find details below and attached.

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The Cross-Border Healthcare Directive – Chances and challenges for patients and providers

Tuesday, 15 July 2008, 8.00 – 9.30h
European Parliament, Salon des Membres
Rue Wiertz, 1047 Brussels

*Welcome and Moderation
Paul RÜBIG MEP, President of SME Global, Member of the EP Industry, Research and Energy Committee

*Keynote speech
Robert MADELIN, Director General, European Commission – DG Health and Consumers

*Impulse Statements
Miroslav MIKOLÁŠIK MEP, Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety
Frank NIGGEMEIER, Head of Unit, Z32 EU Coordination, Federal Ministry of Health, Germany

*Conclusion
Matthias SCHUPPE, Secretary General, International Forum Gastein

Followed by a discussion with the participants.

We are looking forward to seeing you!
RSVP until Friday 11 July 2008 to
sme AT sme-union.org, Fax: +32 2 230 92 18 or call +32 2 233 38 - 30
Project Manager: Cleopatra RUSU - DEACONU
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We are looking forward to seeing you!

please take the opportunity to be protagonist in the public consultation on information and Communication Technologies enabling energy efficiency

    http://ec.europa.eu/yourvoice/ipm/forms/dispatch?form=ICT4EE

and, besides filling in the consultation questionnaire with your ideas, enjoy
also your participation in the Idea Market for enabling energy efficiency. This
is our first attempt to engage our community in a purposeful collective Living
Lab initiative.

Idea Markets rest on the concept of bringing a group of participants together
via the Internet and allowing them to express their opinions through trading
idea-contracts. You can buy contracts of ideas you believe will be successful
and sell them if you believe that will not perform as well as others or even
fail. Your goal is to maximize your portfolio, by buying low and selling high!
Winners are rewarded!

By simply clicking at

    http://ictenergy.game-host.org/

you can insert your ideas (title + max 10 lines description) and buy/sell
contracts of ideas.

We draw your attention on the time duration of the market: it opens today on 4th
of July and ends on 21st of July. It will operate 24/7 so that you may access
it whenever you have time. You should follow the market and buy and sell as many
times as you can before market closure day.

The purpose of deploying IDEM in this context is to allow you to submit and
evaluate ideas (potential proposals to the EC) in the area of ICT for Energy.

Capitalising commercially on excellent research capacities is a key European
challenge to be responded to. Representing advanced user-driven open innovation
methodology, Living Labs pro-actively bridge this innovation gap between

Forum Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) 2008 – Space in the service of the environment and security      2008-09-16 - 2008-09-17      Lille - Palais des congrès

The European Union and its member states have been working for 10 years on a major public initiative to provide information on the environment and safety : for better husbandry of the planet’s resources, improved understanding and knowledge to help in decision-making, advance warning of any threat to the safety of the population and ways of reacting more effectively.

As a part of its forthcoming Presidency of the European Union, France and the European Commission are jointly organising a Forum to mark the launch of the first GMES services in pre-operational mode.

These services include fields such as territorial management, the marine environment, air quality and emergency situations, whether created by natural disasters or human activity.

 The GMES Forum 2008 is intended to present GMES and its earliest services both to end-users and to the intermediary companies providing services based on this type of information and wishing to use the results of this public investment to develop new markets.

We thank you in advance for your interest in this event. If you wish to participate in the Forum we would like to encourage you to register on line if you have received a written invitation, or to contact the organisers.

Towards intensive knowledge growth. European strategies in the global economy – Conference [2008-07-07 - 2008-07-09, Toulouse]

Aims and Scope

Title: European Forum for Industrial Biotechnology, Brussels, Belgium Summary: The European Forum for Industrial Biotechnology 2008 (EFIB2008) will take place from 15 to 17 September in Brussels, Belgium. Organised by EuropaBio, the European Association for Bioindustries, the event will feature two workshops, networking sessions and... Link to record: http://cordis.europa.eu/search/index.cfm?fuseaction=events.simpledocument&EV_RCN=29610

III.1 Security Research Call 2 (FP7-SEC-2008-1)

· Call title: Security Research Call 2
· Call identifier: FP7-SEC-2008-1
· Date of publication: early July 2008
· Deadline: 27 November 2008, at 17.00 h Brussels local time
· Indicative budget: 119 M€

II.1 Security Research Call 2 (FP7-SEC-2008-1)
Activity 1: Increasing the Security of citizens
Activity 2: Increasing the Security of infrastructures and utilities
Activity 3: Intelligent surveillance and enhancing border security
Activity 4: Restoring security and safety in case of crisis
Activity 5: Improving Security systems integration, interconnectivity and interoperability .
Activity 6: Security and society
Area 6.1: Citizens and Security
Area 6.2: Understanding organisational structures and cultures of public users
Area 6.3: Foresight, scenarios and security as an evolving concept
Area 6.4: Security Economics
Activity 7: Security Research coordination and structuring

Stuart Campbell

NESSI SME Lead

TIE CTO

Stuart.campbell AT tieglobal.com

Dear Colleagues

It has been quiet, I know, on the SME front after the December NESSI GA, the SME session and of course the Xmas break. The main reason for this has been the ramping up of the NESSI projects under FP7 which has been taking place during the last quarter and which can now have a positive impact on our community. In particular it was appropriate to wait for the inauguration of projects NEXOF-RA (The NESSI Reference Architecture) and NESSI 2010 (The NESSI Coordination action) and to resolve some administrative matters on this note as you will see in this mail.

I will leave you to read about the full details of the projects on the URLs but what I would like to introduce to you in this document is the open ICT SME component of both projects which whilst difficult to achieve, especially considering significant budget cuts, have managed to be inserted.

BIOFORUM fifth edition 1st and 2nd October, Milano, Palazzo Stelline
www.bioforum.it/en

This edition of Bioforum is organized in collaboration with Assobiotec,
the Association of the field, that is involving its own national and
international relationship network and is defining a masterplan with
opening and closing plenary sessions.
Bioforum also relies upon an influential honour committee; meetings
1to1; business presentations; Bio&pharma Days for young graduates and
researchers...

I think that the participation to the two events dedicated to the
innovation of small and medium-sized enterprises and to the spread of
this knowledge can be very important and I'm grateful for your help in
the communication and I'm at your full disposal for further information.

Domenico Piazza
senior partner ITER www.iter.it/en
Via Rovetta 18, 20127 - Milano
tel +39 02.28.31.16.1 - fax + 39 02.28.31.16.66