FEAST email news — December 2007
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New FP7 calls for 2008
The European Commission (EC) has recently opened a large number of FP7 calls for the 2008 work programme. These calls include the following areas:
- ERC Advanced Grant: Physical Sciences & Engineering, Social Sciences & Humanities, and Life Sciences
- Marie Curie: Co-funding of Regional, National and International Programmes
- Marie Curie: International Research Staff Exchange Scheme
- Aeronautics and Air Transport
- Energy
- Environment (including Climate Change)
- Euratom: Nuclear Fission and Radiation Protection
- FET Open
- Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, and Biotechnology
- Galileo
- ICT
- Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies
- Science in Society
- Transport
Further details about these calls can be found on the FEAST website (www.feast.org/fp7/?calls) or on the official FP7 pages (cordis.europa.eu/fp7/calls).
New ISL strategy
In November DEST announced a new strategy for the Competitive Grants in International Science Linkages (ISL). The number of calls per year has been reduced from two to one (open in February 2008), and the scope for collaboration has been focussed towards specific countries and themes (summarised below for collaborations with Europe).
- European Union Framework Programmes
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- Clean energy technologies
- Bioeconomy (including industrial biotechnology and agriculture)
- Climate change
- Germany
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- Nanotechnology
- Water resources
- Clean energy technologies
- United Kingdom
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- Climate change
- Biosciences
- Clean energy technologies
Further information is available from sciencegrants.dest.gov.au/ISL.
FEAST roadshow presentations
Research collaboration with Europe:opportunities, prospects
and challenges
FEAST seminar series 2007
Between July and September the FEAST Secretariat and the Delegation of the European Commision to Australia and New Zealand conducted a roadshow called Research collaboration with Europe: opportunities, prospects and challenges. This highly successful series of seminars was attended by approximately 600 researchers and administrators. The slides from each of the presenters are now available for download from www.feast.org/seminars/2007.
Web 2.0 features on the FEAST website
In order to make it easier for our members to alter the details of their membership, we have made some significant changes to the way in which they can enter these details. When you next log in to your account, www.feast.org/members, you will notice that all of the long lists of universities, countries, research disciplines, etc., have now been replaced by more dynamic features which allow you to directly search for the information you wish to incude with your account.
