Announcement of 4th PRO INNO Europe® Annual Partnering Event

Announcement of 4th PRO INNO Europe® Annual Partnering Event

5-7 April 2011, Munich – Germany

4th PRO INNO Europe® Partnering Event is now open for registration – agenda outline also available now.

Dear Members of the PRO INNO Europe® community,

It is our pleasure to confirm to you the dates and place of the 4th PRO INNO Europe® annual partnering event.

The 4th PRO INNO Europe® annual partnering event will be hosted by the European Patent Office (EPO) and is organised in close collaboration with the European Commission’s DG Enterprise and Industry. It will take place between 5 and 7 April 2011 in Munich (Germany) at the Hilton Munich City Hotel.

The event takes “knowledge transfer” in all its facets as its lead theme. The objective is to identify existing and upcoming challenges for technology transfer, knowledge transfer and access to creativity in order to identify better support practices.

The event is primarily intended for participants in the 2009-2012 generation of INNO-Nets and INNO-Actions and their Reflection Groups, Think Tanks and Councils. For these policy cooperation projects, the event will be an opportunity to share experiences and findings from the ongoing activities, and to discuss and disseminate lessons in promoting transnational cooperation in support of innovation and in developing new forms of innovation support. In addition, the event will be open to partners from the policy analysis strand (INNO-Grips and INNO-Metrics) and to other stakeholders in innovation support (e.g. innovation agencies, cluster organisations and innovation support providers) with an interest in the PRO INNO Europe® initiative or in innovation policy and innovation-related transnational learning and cooperation.

The 4th PRO INNO Europe® partnering event will consist of an outdoor excursion on the 5th of April to a vanguard centre with regard to ‘Holistic Innovation Excercises’ and of plenary presentations and discussion on the 6th and 7th of April; see the corresponding agenda outline via: http://www.proinno-europe.eu/proinno-partnering-event/

The partnering event is now also open for registration. Booking your place to participate in the 4th PRO INNO Europe® annual partnering event can be done via: http://www.proinno-europe.eu/proinno-partnering-event/content/partnering...

For your stay at the Hilton Munich City Hotel, where the plenary part of the partnering event will be held, there is a special tariff of 149 euros per night for a single room with breakfast buffet included.

To make your reservations at the Hilton Munich City Hotel; please visit:

http://www.hilton.com/en/hi/groups/personalized/M/MUCCHTW-GEURB-20110330...

A further elaborated version of the agenda will follow soon as well as further practical information with regard to logistics etc., so please keep an eye on: http://www.proinno-europe.eu/