[cooperation-wg] Possible agenda topic - EU funded research

I would be interested in attending such a session.
--Richard


On Jan 10, 2012, at 9:09 AM, Gordon Lennox wrote:

> The Commission like other similar organisations has its “cycles”. Some
> are fairly clean-cut such as the Commission itself – the College, the
> 27 Commissioners. Others are overlap to an extent. This coming year is
> perhaps more interesting than most when it comes to our research
> funding. We are coming towards the end of Framework Programme 7 - FP7
> - and a proposal has been developed for what should happen next -
> Horizon 2020.
> 
> For details on FP7:
> 
> http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/page/home
> 
> And for some information on Horizon 2020:
> 
> http://ec.europa.eu/research/horizon2020/index_en.cfm?pg=h2020
> 
> A lot of the topics which have been and are being funded and which
> indeed may be funded are of relevance to this community – work on the
> “future internet” and on IPv6 to mention but two.
> 
> It ought to be useful therefore to see if people from the research
> side of INFSO could come to a RIPE meeting to present what has been
> achieved and the Commission’s proposal for the future.
> 
> If there is interest then I am sure the co-chairs can take this forward.
> 
> In the meantime - happy new year!
> 
> Gordon
>