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Towards enhanced EU-US innovation collaboration through policy measures

The BILAT-USA 2.0 project is pleased to organize the event “Towards enhanced EU-US innovation collaboration through policy measures - Pre-conference policy workshop” to be held on January 14th, 2015 morning in Brussels.

H2020-MSCA-ITN-2015 MARIE SKLODOWSKA-CURIE INNOVATIVE TRAINING NETWORKS (ITN)

The EU Joint Programme – Neurodegenerative Disease Research (JPND) has announced that it will launch a joint transnational call for proposals in January 2015. This will be the first cooperative call with Horizon 2020. It is designed to address the global threat of neurodegenerative diseases.

IMI has launched a €280 million Call for proposals focusing on Ebola vaccines and diagnostics.

The Call includes five topics:

·         Topic 1: Vaccine development Phase I, II, and III

·         Topic 2: Manufacturing capability

·         Topic 3: Stability of vaccines during transport and storage

In his speech of September 24, 2014, Jacek Dominik, Commissioner for Financial Programming and Budget, addresses the latest budget shortages for 2014 which lead to practical consequences in various EU-level funding programmes, among those Horizon 2020 and Erasmus+.

The BILAT USA 2.0 initiative is organizing a “Europe tour” on US funding programmes in Brussels, Oslo and Berlin. There are specific opportunities in the health field.

The second Call  is scheduled to be launched in December. The topics will be presented briefly during the Open Info Day on 30 September. More information on the topics will be released closer to the Call launch.

The following topics are under consideration for the upcoming Call:

RADAR: Remote assessment of disease and relapse

EuroMOTOR is a European collaborative project (FP7) dedicated to discover new causative and disease modifying pathways to pave the way for novel therapies for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis.

Erwan Martin Communication Officer at European Commission

euMatch is the new matchmaking tool supporting partnering and partner search for your efficient participation in EU Horizon 2020 programme.