Calls and Tenders

The European Commission has, together withThe European Cluster Collaboration Platformand the How to Grow Platform launched a design contest.

This invitation is targeting innovation support organisations at both national and regional level. Expressions of interest are welcome from organisations that are willing to work to improve their organisational efficiency and effectiveness and that are interested in joining the INNO-Partnering Forum for an effective introduction of the use of the EFQM Excellence model. Organisations may either

Call for country correspondents for the Eco-Innovation Observatory

… in Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Ireland, Slovakia,Slovenia, and Romania.

The Eco-Innovation Observatory is inviting experts to prepare an Eco-innovation country brief for one or several of the selected EU member states. The country brief is envisaged to be a stand-alone document of about ten to fifteen pages.

Launch of open call on peer review round 2

Invitation to peer review

After a first round of peer reviews and follow-up activities in 2010 (see http://www.proinno-europe.eu/partnering-forum ),INNO-Partnering Forum (IPF) hereby invites once again innovation agencies in Europe to express their interest in participating in peer reviews in support of the development of better innovation programmes for European SMEs. Activities will encompass peer reviewing and the preparations for transfer of existing agency support measures.

On 20 July 2010 the European Commission has published a new call for proposals under the programme "Regions of Knowledge" inviting trans-national consortia of regional research driven clusters in the domain of sustainable transport to submit proposals for co-ordination actions.

The call is open until 9 December 2010 and has a total budget of 18.66 M€. For further information and downloading the call documents please visit the following web site:

http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/dc/index.cfm?fuseaction=UserSite.CapacitiesD...

The ip4inno project, which is providing training materials on IP strategies for business advisors, technology transfer professionals and other intermediaries to support notably SMEs, has launched a call in view of the creation of teaching modules in the field of (i) business planning with IP and (ii) IP enforcement.

The call for proposals proposals "PRO INNO Europe®: Better policies and instruments in support of eco-innovation" aims to set up a consortium to expand the knowledge base on the role to be played by public policies and actors in the field of eco-innovation, in particular innovation agencies and programmes, most efficient approaches and results to be expected.

The action will identify best practice in the participating countries in the fields of recycling, Green Public Procurement and international actions and prepare the ground for their extension. The action will set up a Reflection Group to analyze latest eco-innovation policy development in the European Union, raise awareness and promote promising eco-innovation policy approaches.

The value of the call is 3 million Euro for up to 36 months, the EU financial contribution is up to 95%. The action will be part of the PRO INNO Europe® initiative.

Application deadline: 30 September 2010, 17.00h Brussels time

More information: More : http://ec.europa.eu/environment/etap/funding/instruments_en.html

The European Commission and the European Patent Office have agreed to run another two year project, intending to increase the range and reach of existing ip4inno teaching materials. New modules are proposed, as well as updates, translations and e-learning versions, as listed in the Description of Work.

Call for Experts for Expert Panel on Services Innovation in the EU The European Commission has decided to establish an Expert Panel on Services Innovation in the EU, whose mandate will be to explore how services innovation policy challenges can be addressed, at which level and through which policy means and, where relevant, through which (financial) instruments.

The INNO-Learning Platform has launched a call for experts for panel discussion on 'impact assessment and performance measurement of European innovation policy cooperation initiatives