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UKCGE events

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The UK Council for Graduate Entrepreneurship has published its events calendar for the 2013/14 academic year.Topics cover a variety of areas and include The Challenges of Working with International Postgraduate Students, Impact in Research, Research Ethics, and Using new technologies in delivering Research Skills and Professional Development Training.  Some are free to attend and the type of event varies from workshops, conferences to study trips.

Further information at http://www.ukcge.ac.uk/main/events. 

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Webinar: New Participant Portal for Horizon 2020, 9th September

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The Participant Portal, the central web platform for the EC research and innovation funding, is improving its user-friendliness and functions for H2020 and this webinar will highlight its main features.

All the grant-related online exchanges of EC research and innovation funding are managed on the Participant Portal. To make the system as user-friendly as possible and to prepare it for Horizon 2020, the Commission seeks continuous advice from the actual users. The next meeting of an external user group is planned for Monday 9th September 2013 (3pm – 6pm UK time) in Brussels and at this meeting, discussion points will include:

  • The improved version of the Participant Portal for Horizon 2020
  • The approach for completely paperless management of Horizon 2020 grants
  • New online functions for the appointment and payment of experts
  • Improvements to the system of registering organisations

To allow maximum participation and input from a wide audience, this meeting will be webcast with a live stream. Additionally, a web forum will be used where questions and comments can be posted, either during or after the meeting.

The video link for the live stream will be available from 14.00 Brussels time (3pm UK time) on the 9th September, with a recording of the meeting available shortly after the meeting. To access the webinar and a draft agenda, please click here.

Visit from The Leverhulme Trust – save the date

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Jean Cater, Assistant Director of The Leverhulme Trust will be visiting Staffordshire University on Wednesday 25th September to give a presentation to colleagues about funding opportunities with the Trust and the application process. There will be a Q&A session and small group discussions with Jean, following the presentation.

The event will take place in Court Room 2 in the Law School and will commence at 2.00pm.

If you would be interested in attending the event, please would you contact externalprojects@staffs.ac.uk

http://www.leverhulme.ac.uk/

LEP Challenge Sessions

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You may have seen a previous blog about the Stoke on Trent & Staffordshire LEP area being given an indicative allocation of €161.6m for the next EU funding phase 2014 – 2020.  This allocation is to cover ERDF (European Regional Development Fund), ESF (European Social Fund) and EAFRD (European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development) priorities. Over the next few weeks the LEP is running a series of stakeholder challenge sessions to explore and define key elements to be included in their preparing a European Structural and Investment Fund Strategy, which will plan for how the €161.6m will be spent here in Staffordshire.

The following sessions have been arranged to date:

  • Business Development – Wednesday 7th August, 3:30 pm Staffordshire University
  • Sectors & Innovation – Friday 9th August, 9:30 am Keele Sustainability Hub
  • Inward Investment – Friday 16th August, 2:00 pm Staffordshire place 1
  • Skills – Monday 9th September, 9:30 am Rodbaston College
  • Quality of Life / Sites & Infrastructure – Wednesday 11th September, 2:00 pm CoRE

We are keen to get appropriate unviersity representation at these events, please contact externalprojects@staffs.ac.uk if you would like to attend.

Reduced rate for EU funding training

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The External Projects Team have been offered two places for a Moderngov training session on accessing European funding.  The session will be held in London on 9th July. Full details of the programme are available by clicking this link http://www.moderngov.com/courses/sector-specific/accessing-european-funding-09-07-2013/. The reduced rate is £395 + VAT  per delegate – please contact externalprojects@staffs.ac.uk by 4pm Friday 28th June for details on how to secure this reduced rate. The External Projects Team will be running internal events on EU funding in the Autumn so if this course is of interest to you but you are unable to attend, please keep an eye out for further updates.

University attends the 5th University Business Forum, Brussels

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On 4th and 5th June the European Commission hosted the 5th  University Business Forum.  Over 300 registered delegates from across the EU listened to a number of high profile speakers including Jan Truszczyński, Director General of DG EAC and Androulla Vassiliou, European Commissioner for Education, Culture, Multilingualism and Youth.  From the UK perspective Sir Tim Wilson, author of A Review of Business–University Collaboration, February 2012 (click here to view) also gave a key note which was well received by the audience.

The role of University Business collaborations for growth was central to discussions.  The Commissioner highlighted the importance of University Business collaborations to address the challenges of high the levels of youth unemployment and an increasing skills gap facing Europe today.  Successful initiatives evolving from previous forums were also presented, including details of the Knowledge Alliance funding calls and the “Guiding Framework for Entrepreneurial Universities”; an online self assessment tool developed in cooperation with the OCED.

Staffordshire University’s Catherine Fehily also presented at one of the workshops ‘Design – a vital part of Innovation’, providing an overview of the excellent staff-student enterprise activity that FACT has achieved through Flux, High House and SPoTS atelier.  The Commission also paid for two of our FACT students to attend along with a handful of students to provide real time illustrations of the workshops to support the feedback process.

Should you wish to find out more information the event website has a full list of the speakers and recordings of the main sessions http://ubforum2013.teamwork.fr/.

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Digital NHS conference

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Digital NHS – Delivering 21st Century Healthcare
19th September 2013, The Barbican, London

At the Digital NHS – Delivering 21st Century Healthcare event, the impact on services of moving the NHS into a digital era will be explored. Case studies will share best practice initiatives, allowing delegates to assess how digital services may both enhance their professional roles and the patient experience

Confirmed speakers to date include;
Dr Charles Gutteridge, National Clinical Director for Informatics, Department of Health
Jon Lindberg, Associate Director, Intellect Healthcare Programme
John Cruickshank, Consultant Director, 2020 health
Rachel Neaman, Deputy Director for Digital, Department of Health
Dr Jeremy Wyatt, Leadership Chair in eHealth Research, University of Leeds

Further information is available at the conference website: http://www.regonline.co.uk/Register/Checkin.aspx?EventID=1214728&lbrd=1&rtypeid=285239.  Fees are £395 plus VAT.

European Cyber Security Month: October 2013

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October sees the start of the European Cyber Security month (ECSM).

Public and private sector organisations in the area of Network and Information Security are invited to get involved. This year’s programme will be based around the EU Cyber Security Strategy.

The event aims to promote public awareness of cyber security issues and to provide up to date security information through education, good practice example and competitions. Activities will take place throughout October all over Europe.

The call for expressions of interest is now open and the organisers want to hear about activities planned in member states – social media campaigns, news articles, student fairs, road-shows, information sessions by Computer Emergency Response Teams (CERTs), round-table discussion sesions etc.

To share ideas of events visit the website http://www.enisa.europa.eu/media/news-items/european-cyber-security-month-2013-get-involved

You can subscribe to their RSS feed to get news on the events that will be taking place http://www.enisa.europa.eu/media/news-items/news-wires/RSS

NESTA’s Future Fest Event

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This event looks like it could be of interest to a number of departments in the University. The website has details on who is speaking, plus hopefully the prices will be there soon.

Title: Future Fest
Date: 28 and 29 September 2013
Location: Shoreditch Town Hall, East London
Cost: To be confirmed
More Details: Come and shape the future at a festival of ideas that will fire your imagination.
Some of the planet’s most radical thinkers, makers and performers are gathering in East London this September to create an immersive experience of what the world will feel like over the next few decades.
From the uplifting to the dystopian, FutureFest will inspire and challenge you.

Website: http://www.futurefest.org/?utm_source=Monthly+Newsletter&utm_campaign=2926441021-May_2013_update5_22_2013&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_d17364114d-2926441021-180786294

The biggest ICT event in Europe: ICT 2013 – Create, Connect, Grow in Vilnius on 6-8 November, 2013

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More than 4000 researchers, innovators, entrepreneurs, industry representatives, young people and politicians are expected in Vilnius.

The “ICT 2013 – Create, Connect & Grow” event combines a conference, an exhibition, networking sessions, an investment forum and activities for students and young researchers.

The conference will address a range of issues across the ICT sector varying from cloud computing, broadband and ICT infrastructures to ICT skills, cyber security and long term visions on the future.

The plenary sessions are organised thematically:

  • Create: Disruptive and inspirational ICT research and innovation;
  • Connect: Breaking silos, building bridges, exploiting synergies; and
  • Grow: Start-ups, SMEs and the role of clusters.

Experts will present details on how to participate in the three parts of the Horizon 2020 programme through dedicated sessions on ICT for Excellent science, ICT for Industrial Leadership and ICT for Societal challenges.

The exhibition will showcase latest findings in advanced research, technologies, new systems, innovation in services & business and ICT products just coming to market. The exhibition runs under five themes:

  • Digitally empowered citizen;
  • Smart and sustainable cities for 2020+;
  • Industry and business for tomorrow;
  • Intelligent connecting intelligence; and 
  • Culture, science and creativity.

Register for the ICT 2013 http://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/events/cf/ict2013/register.cfm

Practical information https://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/ict-2013-practical-information