The EC has taken the unusual step today of postponing the deadline for the Marie Curie Fellowship schemes by one day due to IT difficulties. Here’s the message which currently appears on the Participant Portal: Due to an IT issue…
New UKRO Advisor for the University
UKRO recently contacted us to let us know that Chloë Somers, the new UKRO European Advisor for East Midlands universities, will be joining the office on 5th September. Chloë takes over from Amy Williams who left earlier this year. UKRO continue…
ERC Budget Increase: Good News for “Blue Skies” Research
The Times Higher Education reports today that the “blue skies” focused European Research Council will have an annual budget increase of 23% to €1.6bn: Funding for the highly regarded European Research Council, which finances “frontier” research, will rise by 23…
HEEFS Final Bulletin
HEEFS (Higher Education European Funding Services) has today released its final bulletin on European funding for UK Universities. HEEFS July 2011 Bulletin [PDF] This issue covers statistics on UK HEI involvement in non-FP7 funding, news on successful Lifelong Learning Programme…
FP7 2012 Calls Open
Last week the EC launched 39 calls for proposals under Framework Programme 7. The full list is below, with links to the relevant documents available on the Participant Portal: Specific Programme – Cooperation Health FP7-HEALTH-2012-INNOVATION-1 FP7-HEALTH-2012-INNOVATION-2 Food, Agriculture and Fisheries…
UKRO on the future of Marie Curie Fellowships in Horizon 2020
UKRO (UK Research Office) recently attended a workshop in Brussels on the future of the Marie Curie Actions within the new Horizon 2020 programme (effectively FP8, plus CIP and EIT). Their report is useful reading for anyone with an interest…