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FP7 ENV-1 CA BIOETP.org invitation to build an European Platform in BioTechnology (-40d)

consen — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 14:04:56 +0100

Dear partners,
We were working in the past months with Mustafa for presenting a proposal in the area of agri-foods and biotechnology. At the present, the Barley+ (global breeding of Barley for bio-fuel and health) idea is not ready to prepare a proposal for the next month.

For this reason, we want to encourage you to participate in the FP7-ENV-1 call building the European Platform of Bio-Technology.
BIOETP project is a Coordination Action (CA) (100% funded) of two years of duration based mainly on cross-sectoral, such as agriculture, food-science, medicine or other, and multidisciplinary support actions of gathering data, enabling repositories of information, exchanging experience and points of views, arranging meetings and networking sessions, also address other issues of common interest such as education and training needs, opportunities and strategies for international cooperation, communication and societal dialogue, lead market initiatives etc., organization of open discussions, workshops and S&T events, building working-groups, constituencies, networks and committees to drive and constitute the future BIOETP organization of European and National public and private (industrial) research institutions and companies, in order to contribute in the redaction of the SRA Research Strategic Agenda in Biotechnology and to promote the implementation of the Bio-Technological SRA including the role and active participation of SME's.

The deadline is next month, for this reason all bio-technological actors, interested in participate please join us (BIOCITY, BIOFORUM and CONSEN) in BIOETP.org
After to create a new account in BIOETP.org, we will send you the next steps and instruction and the cordis EPSS keys.
cordially,
Ferran

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Call-KBBE-2008-2B EUR 96ME - Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, and Biotechnology <26Feb08

consen — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 13:58:41 +0100

Start: 2008-02-26 17:00

Indicative budget for the “Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, and Biotechnology”
Theme for 2008:
Budget 20082223
Call KBBE-2007-2A (now closed) EUR 110.00 million
Call-KBBE-2008-2B EUR 96.85 million
Call-ERANET-2008-RTD (cf Annex 4) EUR 1.00 million
General activities (cf Annex 4) EUR 3.25 million
• Call identifier: FP7-KBBE-2008-2B
Deadline: 26 February 2008 at 17.00.00 hrs (Brussels local time).
• Indicative budget: 96.85 M€ from 2008 Budget26 27
• The budget for this call is indicative. The final budget awarded to this call, following the
evaluation of projects, may however vary by up to 10% of the total value of the call. All
budgetary figures given in this call are indicative. The repartition of the sub-budgets
awarded within this call, following the evaluation of projects, may vary by up to 10% of the
total value of the call.
Activity Funding Schemes Indicative amount
(EUR million)
Activity 2.1: Sustainable production and Small collaborative projects and CSAs EUR 48.21 million
management of biological resources from land, forest and aquatic environments
Activity 2.2: Fork to farm:
Food (including seafood), health and well being Small collaborative projects and CSAs EUR 25.58 million
Small collaborative projects and CSAs excluding the topics: KBBE-2008-3-1-04 and KBBE-2008-3-2-01 EUR 17.56 million
Activity 2.3: Life sciences, biotechnology and biochemistry for sustainable non-food products and processes Coordinated co-funded Small collaborative projects with Russian participants for the topics KBBE-2008-3-1-04 and KBBE-2008-3-2-01 EUR 4 million
Activity 2.4: Other activities CSA EUR 1.50 million
• Topics called:
Activity/ Area Topics called Funding Schemes

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FP7-KBBE InfoDays Transnational Cooperation in Food, Agriculture and Fisheries and Biotechnology 29-30Nov07

consen — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 07:44:20 +0100

Start: 2007-11-28 00:22

FP7 European Information and Brokerage Days
Transnational Cooperation in Food, Agriculture and Fisheries and Biotechnology
29th & 30th November, Brussels

Transnational cooperation with New EU Member States and Candidate Countries within Europe, as well as international cooperation between EU and non-EU countries is an important aspect of FP7 and is an integral part of Theme 2 on Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, and Biotechnology. International cooperation is implemented in Theme 2 via two mechanisms:

Opening up all research activities to researchers and research organisations from third countries. Moreover, several topics in the Work Programme, where mutual benefit is envisaged, specifically encourage participation of third countries participants.
Specific International Cooperation Actions (SICA). SICA projects, where third country participation is a requirement, aim to generate, share and apply knowledge through research partnerships with third countries in selected areas, where mutual interest and benefit from such actions is known to exist.

This event is organised by TrainNet Future in cooperation with Injoy&Train, Food-n-Co, EU-Balkan-Fabnet, Meda Go to Europe and PAEPARD projects with the support of the European Commission.

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FP7 Cooperation Energy call 147ME <8Oct08

ferran — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 08:28:24 +0200

Start: 2008-10-08 00:00

Identifier: FP7-ENERGY-2008-TREN-1

Publication Date: 29 April 2008

Budget: € 147 000 000

Deadline: 08 October 2008 at 17:00:00 (Brussels local time)

OJ Reference: OJ C108 of 29 April 2008

Specific Programme: Cooperation

Theme: Energy

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ERA-NET / ERA-NET PLUS Call 2008

ferran — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 07:42:04 +0200

Start: 2008-08-12 17:00

ERA-NET / ERA-NET PLUS Call 2008

Identifier: FP7-ERANET-2008-RTD Budget: € 29 300 000

Deadline: 12 August 2008 at 17:00:00 (Brussels local time)

WORK PROGRAMME 2008 COOPERATION
THEME 2 FOOD, AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES, AND BIOTECHNOLOGY

Specific Programme: Cooperation
Themes: Coordination of Research Activities Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, and Biotechnology Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies Socio-economic sciences and Humanities Transport (including Aeronautics)

2. FOOD, AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES, AND BIOTECHNOLOGY
2.1.4 - Socioeconomic Research and support to KBBE-2008
1.4.10 Agriculture and sustainable development in a rural development context. approx.1.0ME

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European Forum for Industrial Biotechnology 15-17Sep08 Brussels

consen — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 07:42:28 +0200

Start: 2008-09-15 00:00

End: 2008-09-17 00:00

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.simpledocumen...

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FP7 Cooperation ERA-NET Pre-Proposal service of 12th August 2008, open until 11th July 2008

mostafakamel — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 19:21:33 +0200

Start: 2008-07-11 00:00

Objectives

The objective of Community actions in this field is to help structure the European Research Area. A first group of actions aims to reduce the fragmentation of the European Research Area resulting from the coexistence of several national and regional public research programmes by favouring actions supported together by several Member States and the Commission (such as joint calls, joint programmes, etc.).

Actions

ERA-NET

The objective of the ERA-NET scheme is to develop and strengthen the coordination of national and regional research programmes through two specific actions:

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Cooperation: Call for Proposal - FP7-ERANET-2008-RTD <12Aug08

mostafakamel — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 12:32:42 +0200

Start: 2008-08-12 00:00

Cooperation: Call for Proposal - FP7-ERANET-2008-RTD

Coordination of Research Activities

Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, and Biotechnology

Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies

Socio-economic sciences and Humanities

Transport (including Aeronautics)

Identifier: FP7-ERANET-2008-RTD

Publication Date: 30 November 2007

Budget: € 29 300 000

Deadline: 12 August 2008 at 17:00:00 (Brussels local time)

OJ Reference: OJ C288 of 30 November 2007

Specific Programme: Cooperation

Themes: Coordination of Research Activities Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, and Biotechnology Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies Socio-economic sciences and Humanities Transport (including Aeronautics)

Restrictions to Participation: see eligibility criteria in the work programme

Additional Information:

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symposium Medicinal plants in 27-28 June, in Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

ferran — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 20:22:43 +0200

Start: 2008-06-27 00:00

End: 2008-06-28 00:00

Symposium Medicinal plants in 27-28 June, in Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
contact: Marcel M. DUDA
USAMV Cluj-Napoca, RO

http://www.usamvcluj.ro/en/index.html

The University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine, Cluj Napoca is a modern institution, which through its achievements along the decades, obtained an outstanding reputation both at national and international level. UASVM is one of the oldest and greatest academic institutions in Romania. At present, there are four faculties, each of them providing long and short-term academic studies, Master and PhD studies.

The University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine, Cluj Napoca is the successor of the prestigious high school of agriculture of Cluj, founded more than 130 years ago, in October 1869, under the name of Institute of Agronomic Studies, Cluj-Manastur. In 1906, the Institute reached the level of Academy, becoming the Academy of Agriculture, Cluj. The history of the University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine, Cluj Napoca began in October 1869 when, on the former domain of Manastur, was founded one of the oldest higher schools specialized in agriculture in Europe.

http://www.usamvcluj.ro/simpozionhpm/index_en.html

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The EU-funded Match2BioSME is organising a coaching workshop in Brussels 26Jn08

ferran — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 11:27:27 +0200

Start: 2008-06-28 00:00

Match2BioSME coaching workshop, Brussels, Belgium

The EU-funded Match2BioSME is organising a coaching workshop in Brussels, Belgium, on 26 June.

The workshop will provide information about funding for biotechnology research under EU's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) and other European funding channels.

Taking place at the same time as a Match2BioSME partnering event, the workshop will also give advice on how to initiate partnerships with academia, small and mediums-sized enterprises (SMEs) and investors.

Match2BioSME is a European project, whose aim is to stimulate innovation in the European biotechnology industry by matching the activities of SMEs and academic institutions.

Contact person:
For further information, please visit:
http://www.match2biosme.com

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Call for proposals CIP Eco-innovation - 11 September 2008

consen — Wed, 07 May 2008 18:18:56 +0200

Start: 2007-10-03 19:30

End: 2007-10-05 19:30

Deadline for submission of proposals (electronic only): 11 September 2008

Total financial resources available for the 2008 Call: approx. € 28 million
Expected number of funded projects: approx. 40
Funding rate (as % of total eligible costs): 40 to 60%
CIP Eco-Innovation will support projects: Concerned with the first application or market replication of eco-innovative techniques, products, processes or practices, which have already been successfully demonstrated, but due to remaining risks need incentives to penetrate significantly the market.

Read this call of tenders, this time I send you the proposal because you have problems with the website
Dont hesitate to ask me any doubt about this call of proposals
Ferran

Want to see your Eco-Innovation project funded?

Learn more at the European Info Day (Brussels - 8th May, 2008)

Applying
for Eco-Innovation funding is a competitive process, and only the best
project proposals will be selected for funding. The European Info Day
2008 will give you essential information and advice on how to develop a
good project proposal and apply successfully. It also offers the chance
to find project partners from across Europe, exchange views and share
expertise.

Who should attend?

Anyone
who wants to set up a project and would like to know more about the
application procedure. More than 300 participants are expected coming
from SME associations, businesses, companies, European and national
trade associations, chambers of commerce, European institutions and
many more…

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lidaoliang - EU-China Center for Information & Communication Technologies

consen — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 17:56:55 +0100

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"BANK of IDEAS" Envisions of futurits - Promote your project

consen — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 08:42:49 +0100

The 5 points for proposing an idea for a research, technological development and innovation project to INNOVANET - CONSEN Grouping in order to be prepared and presented in EU programmes requesting funds are the following: IDEAS, Where everything starts. Promote your IST RTD+I EU funded project and CONSEN will advise and support you to bring IDEAS to EXCELLENT REALITY!!

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Improving barley production for maintaining healthy immune system and increasing biofuel productivity

mostafakamel — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 13:07:00 +0200

Improving barley production for maintaining healthy immune system and increasing biofuel productivity.
Our objectives are :
1- Imroving barley production by traditional and biotechnological
methods.
2-Maintaining the healthy immune system through :
a)Preparing natural therapeutic product for clinical use .
b)Preparing functional food.
3- Ethanol production by using differnt varieties of barley.
4-Utilization of residual wastes for production of very valuable compounds
(enzymes, antibiotics, high quality fodder, etc) and environmental safe.

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Tuesday Web-Meeting 10:00 CEST - FP7 - Agrifood

mostafakamel — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 08:57:12 +0200

Start: 1970-01-01 02:00

Tuesday meeting 10:00 CEST - FP7

10:00 Intrdoductions

10:10 Activities and Ideas (bio-fuel) for FP7 call2

10:20 Other programmes

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INTERNATIONAL INTERDISCIPLINARY XII CONFERENCE IPSAPA Udine, Italy, October 25-26th, 2007

ferran — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 20:08:49 +0200

Start: 1970-01-01 02:00

CALL FOR PAPER OF THE INTERNATIONAL INTERDISCIPLINARY XII CONFERENCE IPSAPA
/ ISPALEM:

1st announcement, 15th June, 2007
deadline 15th August, 2007

WILL, FREEDOM AND NECESSITY FOR THE CREATION OF THE LANDSCAPE AND CULTURAL
MOSAIC

Udine, Italy, October 25-26th, 2007

Prof. Romano Giovanardi (President of the IPSAPA / IPSALEM Interregional
Society for the Participation in Agribusiness Landscape and Environmental
Management),

Prof. Margherita Chang Ting Fa (Director of the Department of Biology and
Agro-Industrial Economy). Prof. Chang is responsible for the Research
Project of the FVG Region Methodological Innovation and Empirical Evidence
for the valorization of agro-food products of quality in the FVG Region
between territorial identity and environmental safeguards),

Prof. Frederick Mario Fales President of the CCL Cultural Heritage,

Prof. Piero Susmel President of the Scientific Committee for the
"Agribusiness, Landscape & Environment" magazine.

The invitation is open to all those who wish to present scientific papers
and contributions (which are related to theories, methods, solutions and
results of the applied research) and that can contribute to a further
knowledge of the state of the art and to open new developmental perspectives
regarding relations, communications or poster forms based on the following
themes:

WILL, FREEDOM AND NECESSITY FOR THE CREATION OF THE LANDSCAPE-CULTURAL
MOSAIC

As far as any ideas regarding papers or posters are concerned, the
illustrative report on the conference held by Prof. Livio C. Piccinini, Head
of the University of Udine's Superior School, has been enclosed for your
information. The interdisciplinary sessions which will be discussed at the

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Blogging our teleconference of June 29th, 2007

HelgeKeitel — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 16:38:05 +0200

OUR TELECONFERENCE TODAY with some creative Storytelling included...

We had a conference meeting over Skype today about Wp1 and Wp2. Ferran wanted to cover some urgent questions. He will be negotiating with Catalonia next week. I try to figure out what we covered. One of the participants represented information technology from Bulgaria.

Participants: Germany, Bulgaria, Holland, Spain, Greece, Finland and... I couldn't catch you all. Please add your own comments to make it more live.

“Let me study and read,” The Bulgarian participant said. “I like to get a clearer picture.”

“This is the first draft of the proposal, first draft of participants” mister Ferran told. “This is what we have outlined to get started.”

“There is a lot of work to be done.” Someone comments.

Ferran continuous, “This is how to transfer all the knowledge to correspond with European Innova.”

The generation of the basic information and let it grow into basic knowledge, to include the knowledge stake holders. We talk about actors, participants, trainers, coaches, mentors and incubators participating in an annual European contest. “What do they want from this service?”

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Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, and Biotechnology FP7 Call-2, 11Sep07

consen — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 13:34:24 +0200

Start: 1970-01-01 02:00

General call 2 - Identifier: FP7-KBBE-2007-2A
Deadline(s): 11 September 2007 at 17:00:00 (Brussels local time)
Budget: ? 110 000 000
19 February 2008 at 17:00:00 (Brussels local time) - Stage 2 (only for proposals retained at stage 1
Specific Programme: [Cooperation]
Theme: [Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, and Biotechnology]
Objective:
Building a European Knowledge Based Bio-Economy by bringing together science, industry
and other stakeholders, to exploit new and emerging research opportunities that address
social, environmental and economic challenges: the growing demand for safer, healthier,
higher quality food and for sustainable use and production of renewable bio-resources; the
increasing risk of epizootic and zoonotic diseases and food related disorders; threats to the
sustainability and security of agricultural, aquaculture and fisheries production; and the
increasing demand for high quality food, taking into account animal welfare and rural and
coastal contexts and response to specific dietary needs of consumers.
International Cooperation
International cooperation with participants from third countries is supported and encouraged
throughout all areas of this Theme, and all topics are open to cooperation with third countries.
In addition, a series of "Specific International Co-operation Actions" (SICA) will be
dedicated to international co-operation with partners from International Cooperation Partner
Countries (ICPC) - see Annex 1- to jointly address, on the basis of mutual benefit, problems
of shared interest, or that third countries face or that have a global character. Firstly, cooperation
with ICPC will be supported, taking into account their needs with a view to
contribute to the UN Millennium Development Goals of eradicating extreme poverty and

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Enterprise 2.0 Finland

HelgeKeitel — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 11:07:40 +0200

Sunday, June 17, 2007

Enterprise 2.0 - Finland

Let me comment about the social media and enterprise 2.0 applications in Finland. We’re a group of 20 people, academics, consultants, knowledge workers, writing a book about the evolution and use of Web 2.0 and social media in SME’s and large companies.

I’m writing about “Virtual Organizations 1970 – 2010”. The idea is to span pre-web 2.0 social media and networking tools and applications and compare them to the easy to use and cost-effective tools of the present Web 2.0.

There is a big change in the making. Large companies like Nokia are opening up, changing from command – control towards co-creation and collaboration, even beyond. Working together on a global scale is key to success.

The borders of the company are becoming more fluent. The Prosumer idea is invading business processes. Prosumers are more and more participating in the making of the whole supply chain. We see much more self-servicing and do-it-yourself.

The SME Enterprises can be big beneficiaries while they can multiple their size through global open innovation and co-operation with partners and clients.

The future Virtual Organizations will be much different in their working styles. Strangers from all over the world can embrace a common goal and start to work out new solutions. People who hasn’t met before, face to face, write the book. Our meeting place is a working platform with wikies and blogs. The work process and collaboration is very fluent.

WEBminar

ICT for Sustainable Growth Unit

consen — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 13:26:27 +0200

Dear Expert,

The European Commission is establishing two different databases of independent external experts to provide assistance in the evaluation of proposals, the review of projects and other tasks related to the implementation of the Seventh Framework Programme and the ICT Policy Support Programme.

If you or your colleagues are interested to assist us in any of these tasks, please register:

- for the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) at https://cordis.europa.eu/emmfp7/index.cfm

- for the ICT Policy Support Programme (CIP) at http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/ict_psp/cf/expert/log...

Please note that in case you are interested in both programmes, you should register in each database separately.

We will soon start planning our forthcoming FP7 and CIP evaluations. To consider your candidacy we would appreciate if you could send us your registration number (EX…….) to INFSO–ICTforSG AT ec.europa.eu as soon as possible within this month .

ECO-SUST-ENERGY

EUROPEAN RURAL DEVELOPMENT NETWORK CONFERENCE 13th – 16th September 2007 - Sinaia/Predeal, Romania

consen — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 20:53:24 +0200

Start: 1970-01-01 02:00

NEW DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS SUBMISSION - 11 OF MARCH

5th EUROPEAN RURAL DEVELOPMENT NETWORK CONFERENCE 2007

Romanian Academy - Institute of Agricultural Economics

&

Romanian Association of Rural and Agrifood Economy “Virgil Madgearu”

13th – 16th September 2007

Sinaia/Predeal, Romania

VALUES AND CHALLENGES IN DESIGNING THE EUROPEAN RURAL STRUCTURES

- RESEARCH NETWORK EXPERIENCE -

Agriculture and rural area are going through rapid and substantial structural changes, driven by the evolving of development patterns, consumer lifestyles and by the growing of globalization and integration from local and global problems. The main effect of these changes has been a much greater emphasis on the role of Values, Networks, Knowledge and Strategies, in the future rural development.

The complexity of the structural changes going on in the rural area will require improving the debate on these factors of development and their different influence on the life of the inhabitants. We will welcome comparative analyses between structures, strategies and challenges of the economies inside EU and different countries in transition.

EU combines different structures and many countries that are on a different level of development. The structures are being recognized from different science: economy, sociology, geography, agronomy, ecology, policy makers, rural planers and others. The way the problems are investigated in one country may be valid for another one. Combining the knowledge in most cases creates added value that is of interest for all stakeholder. Most of the processes that take place in rural areas in one country are in some level of similarity with the processes that occur in other European countries. That is why investigation done in one country is corresponding to other states and regions. Capacity of scientist (their value) by direct work is more than doubled.

Objectives

The Conference aims to stimulate theoretical and empirical contributions on the role of Networks, Knowledge, Strategies and Values and brings together economists, social scientists, or policy makers and managers, in order to discuss and assess new perspectives in the future rural development plans. The new idea of the ERDN is to present articles written by at least two authors from different countries (when is possible). The process of the review, references and publishing will be also made in a mix team.

In the same time, we intend to extend our preoccupations and sphere of interest by attracting new members in ERDN, to deliver new outputs of our activities, to promote and share the results of our preoccupations with other participants, networks and actors, to create a rich and favorable background for future collaborations and applications in different projects and programs.

The objectives of the Conference are:

Results of the Inter-collaboration between networks and Intra-collaboration inside networks

Networks’ structural and functional principles - European rural connections

Analysis and refining common goal systems for agriculture and rural development (determination of specific social needs) in the new member states, at different stages of development and integration with the EU, and other transition countries

Identification of challenges, opportunities and risks for sustainable rural development

Best practice in rural development.

Topics

During the two full days of the Conference, three thematic sessions are planed. The number of thematic sessions may be changed according to your requests and preferences. The topics are:

I. Heritage and Rural Values - Promoters for Durable Rural Development

II. Challenges for Rural Development in EU 27, in the period 2007-2013

III. European Research Networks Experience vs. Local Networks Experience.

Important Dates

The deadlines for the Conference are:

30 .01 Call for papers

11.03 Submission of abstracts (partnership for articles)

31.03 Notification of acceptance

15.04 Registration and submission of grant (travel) applications

01.05 Notification of grant acceptance

30.06 Submission of full paper

13-16.09 Conference

Guide for authors

Proposals must take the form of a detailed abstract that should not exceed 2 pages (1.5-spaced) written in English (Times New Roman 12). Only Word or PDF documents are accepted.

Proposals will be evaluated by a scientific board according to the usual academic criteria: originality of the problems and the expected results, theoretical foundation, quality of the empirical instruments and compatibility of the topic with the general themes of the conference. Selected papers must be presented during the conference. Decisions will be announced to the potential contributors by e-mail.

Full papers should be in English, a maximum of 15 pages including title, authors, affiliation, contact address, abstract, keywords, figures, tables and references. Computer files should be in MS Word format, Times New Roman 12 pt, simple spaced.

Abstracts and Full Papers should be sent to: ERDN2007@home.roThis email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it

Before the Conference the participants will get proceedings of abstracts and CD with papers. After the Conference the participants will have two weeks of revision of their papers and then will get proceedings of all full papers.

Presentations

All speakers will have an oral presentation of 20-30 min. with slides that should be made in PowerPoint format. For technical reasons, the presentation will be send to organizers one week before Conference, by e-mail ( ERDN2007@home.roThis email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it ).

Conference Language

The conference language is English.
Conference venue

Sinaia/Predeal City, Prahova Valee, Carpathian Mountains, Romania Place: Enescu House
Accommodation

Hotel Roberto, Sinaia/Predeal
Registration fee

Speakers, invited guests and sponsors of the conference will be exempted from the registration fee. For the rest of the participants will be a fee of 30 EUR.
Transportation and Grants

There is a possibility to support the travel cost from your country to Romania by train, bus or by booking low costs flights in advance, due to a limited amount of money. If you are interested in this, please apply for a Travel grant.

The arrival will be in Bucharest on 13th. On that day, the participants will meet for the departure from Bucharest to Sinaia/Predeal and the transportation will be provided by organizers. The hour and other details will be provided later.

On the last day of the conference (16th September), the field-trip for those of the participants interested in will be done in the first part of the day and the return to Bucharest is forecasted for afternoon, in due time for taking off from the airport. Participants who need additional nights in Bucharest, after or before the Conference, have to arrive in Romania later than 13th or depart from Romania earlier than 16th must announce the organizers.

Scientific and Organization Committee
Scientific Committee (Provisional):Violeta Florian (President ARERA), Romanian Academy-IEA, RomaniaZbigniew Florianczyk (Secretar ERDN), IAFE - NRI, PolandGabriel Popescu, ASE, RomaniaValentin Bohateret, ICES, Romania Joszef Popp, AKI, HungaryKlaus Wagner, AWI, AustriaFilon Toderoiu, Romanian Academy-IEA, Romania

Organization Committee:Dan Marius Voicilas, Romanian Academy-IEA, RomaniaMonica Tudor, Romanian Academy-IEA, RomaniaElisabeta Rosu, Romanian Academy-IEA, RomaniaMihai Chitea, Romanian Academy-IEA, RomaniaLorena Chitea, Romanian Academy-IEA, RomaniaFlorentina Constantin, ASE, RomaniaTeodora Bontoi, ASE, Romania

Editors:

Dan Marius Voicilas, Institute of Agricultural Economics, Romania

Monica Tudor, Institute of Agricultural Economics, Romania

Contact

Monica Tudor & Dan Marius Voicilas

Romanian Academy, Institute of Agricultural Economics

“Casa Academiei”, Calea 13 septembrie no. 13, sector 5

Cod: 76117, Bucuresti, Romania

Tel: +40721744655; +40722398119

Fax: +40314083355

www.arera.ro

ERDN2007@home.roThis email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it

dmvoici@yahoo.com

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FP7 - EC grants in Agricultural and Med

consen — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 20:44:20 +0200

Yes of course, Mostafa,
There is a new FP7 call in the area of Agriculture
Try to register and create a new group at this website
http://ecentres.net/My_new_group
We have to work through the website

Look at
http://ec.europa.eu/europeaid/projects/foodsec/programme_en.htm
in concrete
http://ec.europa.eu/europeaid/projects/foodsec/programme_en.htm

Explore funding and granting opportunities
http://coompeutition.com/node/114

Ferran

mostafa ahmed wrote:
Dear Ferran
I am very glade to receive your message and I asked
the egyption contact point to help me . Could you be
a partner please?
Deep thanks

--- "Ferran Cabrer i Vilagut (CONSEN.org)"

Mostafa,
great to hear from you,
I am Agronomist engineer and i like too much this
issues.
The proposal seems coherent, but the problem is to
fit with some call of
proposals. I the area of research i think that it
not convenient place
to look for, maybe Euro MED programme will the
correct.
Ask to the Egyptian national contact point, it will
provide you a better
advise,
BR,
Ferran

mostafakamel31 AT yahoo.com wrote:

Barley is a very important grain in the world
today. It is very versatile in every way. It has
been well adapted through its evolution. Now
however, barely has become well known and so have
its many uses. Barley, which is of the genus
Hordeum, is a cereal that belongs to the grass
family Poaceae. Barley has many different varieties.
The most common is Hordeum vulgare, which is a
six-rowed type of barley that has a spike notched on
opposite sides with three spikelets on each notch.
At each notch there is a flower or floret that later
develops into a kernel.

Barley is very adaptable to various environments.
In fact, it is the most adaptable of the cereals.
Barley is an annual grass that has two growing
seasons, winter and spring. . Barley also has a very
good resistance to dry heat compared to other small
grains. This feature allows it to grow near desert
areas such as North Africa. Barley contains some
substances increase immunity in human body.

Barley is widely and is currently a major crop of
the temperat and tropical areas. Barley ( Hordeum
vulgare L.) is the main cereal crop grown in the
rainfed areas of Egypt . It occupies about 300,000
feddans ( c . 126000 ha) in the Northwest coast .
Epanding the agricultural land base to the drier
arable land in Egypt , ? especially the north . west
costal region is becoming a necessity to meet the
food demands of the growing population . Northwest
coast . more desert areas , either sandy or
calcareous, have to be put under cultivation. Such
soils are poor with respect to their
physico-bio-chemical properties, soil water ? plant
relationships as well as their nutritional status .
Reclamation and land utilization of such soils are
faced by several difficulties Under such severe
conditions, desired yield levels are difficult to
attain. Proper management of these calls for
specialized approaches for sustainable productivity.
The practical proper management using organic or
inorganic chemical amendments. . The aim of this
proposal is to improving barley production in the
North ? west coastal of Egypt by using agronomic
treatments and other treatments such as organic
manure to satisfy the local demand and export to
europe. Egyption Bedouins in the north-west coastal
used to cultivate barley with very primerval
methods. The forseen impact of the project is to
improve the methods and the treatments to cultivate
barley with recent activity and recovery of some
substances usefull for immunity for human body . The
direct cntact with those people may elaborate their
life completely. We are at the National Research
Center have various experiences , beside our
agriculture division we have medicine division and
another divisions on all branches of science . All
these divisions could cooperate with our project to
make rural development in the area of northern west
coast of the mediterranean   located in Egypt . We
aim to improve barley productivity in this area to
satisfy the local demand and export to Europe . We
may produce a good material for biofuel.

Prof.Dr.Mostafa Kamel Abdel-dayem Ahmed
National Recearch Center ,Agricultural Division , Agronomy Department.
Egypt , Cairo.
Mobile : 0020127364129

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ferran — Fri, 25 May 2007 09:47:45 +0200

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