The 22th session of the French-Hungarian Inter-governmental Joint Committee on Science & Technology (S&T) was held on April 23rd 2015 in Paris. During a fruitfull meeting, the Parties scrutinised Hungarian and French project proposals submitted in the latest call for proposals, published in the framework of the bilaterally-coordinated Balaton Integrated Action Programme.

Learn more about Europe’s low-carbon future, decentralised energy, smart-energy solutions, sustainable mobility, renewables, smart cities, energy efficiency, energy-intensive sectors, the Energy Union, energy democratisation … and many other topics. Join the debate and take an active part in shaping the Energy Union! This year's event will focus on the role of responsible consumers in the new Energy Union and in driving the EU towards its sustainable energy goals in areas such as energy efficiency, renewables or greenhouse gas emissions.
Source: eusew.eu

The international event, Nordic Wood Biorefinery Conference (NWBC), is the leading meeting forum for wood biorefinery professionals. The next event will be held in Helsinki in October, 2015. This conference is jointly organised by VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd and Innventia. The conference language will be English.
Source: vttresearch.com

Celtic-Plus is organising a Proposers Day co-located with the EuCNC 2015 conference in Issy-les-Moulineaux, close to Paris. The Celtic-Plus Proposers Day is a platform for organisations related to telecommunications interested to participate in a Celtic-Plus project, and wanting to benefit from performing collaborative research through the EUREKA Cluster Celtic-Plus. It is an ideal opportunity to discuss project ideas with potential partners and to learn about the funding possibilities.
Source: celticplus.eu

An international event focused on innovation in the field of light, integrating academic research, industrial development, end-users perspectives. CM&L 2015 is an international event organized by the CNR-DSCTM and CNR-ISMN in the framework of the IYL2015 to brainstorm and share views on research and innovation challenges in material chemistry for lighting technologies and applications.
Source: cml2015.it

Water Innovation Europe (WIE) is the annual stakeholder conference of WssTP. Over the last few years WIE has brought together a variety of stakeholders from utilities, research, water using industry, technology suppliers with representatives from regional, national, and European policymakers to address key challenges and opportunities for RTD and innovation dealing with water. WIE2015 will be dedicated to ‘the role of water in the circular economy’.
Source: waterinnovationeurope.eu

COST are delighted to host the Introduction to the COST Framework Programme, an information session exclusively dedicated to researchers, engineers and scholars of all scientific and technology fields working in Hungary, on 16 June 2015, at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics (Hungary).
Source: cost.eu

First Monday is the monthly gathering of the Budapest startup community, organised by the European Entrepreneurship Foundation. Participants of the EEF accelerator course started the movement, 3 years ago. Since then, First Monday events have become the ultimate networking platform, where startuppers, wannabees meet business angel, venture capital guys and serial entrepreneurs who typically become entrepreneurial investors themselves.
Source: startupcafe.hu

The Hungarian Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (HVCA) is pleased to announce its 2015 conference on Private Equity, Venture Capital and Corporate Finance in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). This year’s event is titled, “Certainty in Uncertain Times.” The keynote speaker will be George A. Papandreou (former Prime Minister of Greece from 2009 to 2011). Date of the conference: June 11, 2015
Source: hvca.hu

The eDigiregion International Conference is an annual event supported by the European Commission that presents novel approaches of businesses and policy makers to reap the benefits of the digital innovation ecosystems. The eDigiregion International Conference will exchanges experience on smart specialisation initiatives, and business models that have contributed to boosting regional innovation ecosystems based on advances in information and communication technologies.

A comprehensive assessment of the European environment's state, trends and prospects, in a global context. The synthesis report informs future European environmental policy in general and its implementation between 2015 and 2020 in particular. It includes a reflection on the European environment in a global context, as well as chapters summarising the state of, trends in, and prospects for the environment in Europe.
Source: eea.europa.eu

The French and UK National Contact Points for NMP and Enterprise Europe Network Pays de la Loire organise a European Brokerage Event with the objectives to draw lessons from the first Horizon 2020 calls in 2014-2015 and anticipate the second round of calls for 2016-2017. It is the opportunity for all participants to inform their peers in the European community about their project ideas and expert profiles, and to meet with representatives from SMEs, large enterprises and academics who could become future partners.
Source: b2match.eu

The EuroNanoForum 2015 is a meeting point for industry, science and policy. Strengthening European competitiveness and supporting its re-industrialisation, it showcases innovation as driver for economic growth, presents new technologies arising from nanotechnologies and advanced materials, and discusses the new applications and commercialisation potential for these technologies.
Source: euronanoforum2015.eu

Factories of the Future is a public-private partnership between the European Commission and the research and innovation community aiming at delivering the technologies needed for the new sustainable and competitive manufacturing in Europe. Factories of the Future initiative is implemented under Horizon 2020 Framework Programme. International Networking Day on Factories of the Future co-organized by National Center for Research and development (NCBR) and the National Contact Point for Research Programmes of the EC (KPK PB UE) aims to present the European and Polish research and innovation opportunities in the area of manufacturing, as well as to increase synergy between EU and national funds.
Source: b2bharmo.com

The European conference on digital and key enabling technologies skills aims to become an interactive platform for exchanging opinions and co-creating solutions on the skills issues in key enabling technologies (KETs) and ICT and to bring together the representatives of all key stakeholder groups. The conference is organised in the context of two initiatives of the European Commission, namely KETs skills and e-leadership initiatives.
Source: leadership2015.eu

The Commission organises a next session of the external user group for the Participant Portal on 27 May 2015, 14.00-17.00. Like the earlier meetings, this session will be broadcast over the Internet via a live stream and remote users can participate in the discussion via a Web forum.

The General Assembly of the European Innovation Partnership on Smart Cities and Communities (EIP-SCC) will be held on 21 May in Berlin (Germany) at the Metropolitan Solutions Trade Fair 2015. The EIP-SCC is Europe's key initiative to create a common Market Place for Smart City solutions. In this context, the morning session will convene high-level speakers from city halls, leading companies and the European Commission to examine achievements of Smart Cities in Europe, actions to increase synergies between policies and funds to boost demand and good practice to create solutions that meet cities’ and citizens’ needs.
Source: eu-smartcities.eu

First Monday is the monthly gathering of the Budapest startup community, organised by the European Entrepreneurship Foundation. Participants of the EEF accelerator course started the movement, 3 years ago. Since then, First Monday events have become the ultimate networking platform, where startuppers, wannabees meet business angel, venture capital guys and serial entrepreneurs who typically become entrepreneurial investors themselves.
Source: startupcafe.hu

The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) organizes every year the Telecom World Conference and for 2015 Hungary has been selected as host country. The event will take place in Budapest from 12 to 15 October.

The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy (MOTIE) and the Korea Institute for Advancement of Technology (KIAT) will hold Korea Eureka Day 2015 in Seoul, Korea for three days from 20 to 22 May. This event will focus on exploring the ways to enhance Korea-Europe technological collaboration and generate joint R&D projects among industry, academia and research organisations.
Source: eureka2015.kr