The FP6 consortium “Boosting Baltic FP6” is organizing a workshop “Getting funding for the Life Sciences projects - part II” that will be held in Warsaw (Poland) on 4th October. The aim of workshop is to promote successful project proposals for the last calls under “Life sciences, genomics and biotechnology for health”. The workshop target audience is researchers in the process of setting up FP6 proposals and National Contact Points from EU new member countries (Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia and Poland) and Ukraine.

The workshop is a real hands-on practical work-shop: case study presentations,  supervised group work on concrete and practical EU application preparations will be carried out. The prepared material will be analyzed and evaluated by experienced experts, supporting further development of the proposals.

The following issues will be covered:
 the current calls FP6-2005-LIFESCIEHEALTH-6, FP6-2005-LIFESCIEHEALTH-7
 planning of project budget – practical exercise
 electronic proposal submission system –computer exercise
 submitting a good proposal – comments on specific proposal evaluations

Read more here.

Coordinator of project: Frank Graage, Steinbeis-Transferzentrum, Germany

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