On the 2nd of October 2015, Anamaria was one of the guest speakers at the SME Week 2015 Info Day on the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme for Research and Innovation and its funding schemes for SMEs and enterprises. As an independent expert evaluators engaged by the European Commission on a number of its hallmark funding Read more about SME Week 2015: Horizon 2020 funding opportunities for innovative enterprises[…]
On 19-20 June 2015, Anamaria Magri Pantea will be participating in the SMEs Innovation Days Oradea, Romania. She will be discussing the importance and practical ways of building and developing an innovation culture at community, organisational and company levels. Organized by Oradea Community Foundation and Smartfin Consulting, with support from Hasselt University, Belgium, this event Read more about SME Innovation Days Oradea (RO)[…]
TV news coverage of the event During 17th to 20th May, Anamaria Magri Pantea participated in the second edition of the Innovation Days organised by the Elgazala ICT Technopark in Tunis. As one of the main guest speakers, Anamaria delivered presentations during two sessions of the event, outlining the various funding support opportunities that the Read more about Elgazala Innovation Days 2015[…]
ICT companies with expertise in one or more of the below areas are sought as partners in a Horizon 2020 project proposal aimed to develop and pilot a generic tool set enabling grassroot initiatives related to environmental or sustainability issues. sensors for traffic, air pollution, noise, gps, etc. to be used in urban areas programming Read more about Partner search: H2020 project – Collective Awareness Platform pilot[…]
The EU funded RADICAL project is calling for additional partners, offering them up to EUR90,000 for the piloting of innovative applications and services in the framework of the Smart City paradigm supported by Internet of Things and Social Networks technologies. RADICAL enables the rapid development, deployment and adoption of sustainable socially-aware and intelligent sensing services for emerging Read more about 90,000 euro EU funding for piloting innovative applications integrating IoT and social networking aspects[…]
In 2015, the EU will continue to make available grants to individual SMEs demonstrating capability to develop innovative technological processes, products, services, solutions, or business models with a strong EU and/or global relevance. Project proposals in the following areas are now being invited: ICT Open Disruptive Innovation (focus on the application of new sets of Read more about The second year of novel EU funding support for innovative SMEs[…]
The FTI pilot has been launched in January 2015 by the European Commission to facilitate and support increased innovation within the European industry. Scope The FTI is a bottom-up programme, project funding proposals being invited for any ideas of developing sustainable innovative products, processes and services that both address societal challenges and/or are highly competitive in Read more about Fast Track to Innovation – the latest EU funding scheme for industry[…]
With over 99% of enterprises in Europe being SMEs and over 92% microenterprises with less than 10 employees, one cannot question the need for clusters and for business networks that can facilitate collaboration frameworks for knowledge transfer, economies of scale and scope. This is even more so in today’s context, one of internationalization and global Read more about Clustering for excellence and internationalisation[…]
Tourism is a very important pillar of the economies of most of the European countries, but one strongly affected by seasonality, as well as by stereotypes. For example, whilst Malta’s culture & heritage offering is getting traction, it is still mostly known internationally as a sea & sun destination. Save for Vienna, Austria is typically Read more about EU support for tourism diversification – sport & wellness, jewellery focus[…]
Overview of discussions at 11th April TAP Knowledge B2B networking and Partnering Conference Anamaria Magri Pantea The Economic Update, April 2014 More and more often we realise nowadays that pooling capabilities and efforts is no longer a choice but an imperative in the current economic environment. The increasing global competition in all fields and from Read more about Networking and collaboration: today’s must-do to for grasping opportunities[…]