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ELENA - European Local Energy Assistance Facility Launched - 01/02/10
The European Investment Bank (EIB), backed by the European Commission, has launched ELENA - the European Local Energy Assistance Facility, which is financed through the European Commissions Intelligent Energy Europe programme.
ELENA support covers a share of the cost for technical support that is necessary to prepare, implement and finance investment programmes at the local level; it is therefore meant as a stepping stone for cities' and regions' sustainable energy projects to become EIB funded. The support can cover feasibility and market studies, structuring of programmes, business plans, energy audits and preparation for tendering procedures.
For further information or to apply for to the ELENA programme please see the EIB's webpage on ELENA: http://www.eib.org/products/technical_assistance/elena/index.htm
Commission launch of 53 FP7 calls for proposals - 24/08/09
On 30th July, the European Commission published a wide range of calls for proposals in various thematic areas of the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7)
Thematic areas in the Cooperation Specific Programme include:
● Health
● Food, agriculture and fisheries
● Biotechnology
● Information and communication technologies
● Nanosciences, nanotechnologies, materials and new
production technologies
● Energy
● Environment (including climate change)
● Transport
● Socio-economic sciences and humanities
● Space
● Security.
Further calls have been published under the Capacities Specific Programme, dedicated to the following themes:
● Research infrastructures
● Research for the benefit of SMEs
● Regions of knowledge
● Research potential
● Science in society
● Activities of international cooperation.
Finally, the European Research Council (ERC) Starting Independent Researcher Grants aim to support up and coming researchers to establish or consolidate research teams. For further information, please see Cordis
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