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

I also find this interesting.

It can be a bit challenging sometimes to understand what is going on and when.

So why not try to do something here?

More support, questions, suggestions?

   Patrik

On 10 jan 2012, at 15:50, Richard L. Barnes wrote:

> I would be interested in attending such a session.
> --Richard
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> On Jan 10, 2012, at 9:09 AM, Gordon Lennox wrote:
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>> 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:
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>> http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/page/home
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>> And for some information on Horizon 2020:
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>> 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
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