+ ERA-Can+ in a nutshell: watch the 3-minute video
Learn about ERA-Can+ and opportunities for Canada-EU collaboration by watching this new video: http://www.era-can.net/canada/era-can-in-3-minutes/
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The Canadian partners to ERA-Can+ invite European and Canadian researchers to participate in a live webinar, which will focus on the opportunities to collaborate in EURAXESS programs. EURAXESS – Researchers in Motion is a unique pan-European initiative providing access to a complete range of information and support services to researchers wishing to pursue their research careers in Europe or stay connected to it.
Canada’s Public Policy Forum and Universities Canada will host a webinar to introduce the ERA-Can+ project and Horizon 2020-the European Union’s current Framework Programme for Research and Innovation. The second part of the webinar will feature EURAXESS and explore its research opportunities open to Europeans and Canadians.
Webinar Date: December 10, 3:00pm – 4:30pm Central Europe Time (9:00am – 10:30am Eastern Standard Time)
Speakers: Viktoria Bodnarova, Regional Representative, EURAXESS Links North America
For more information and to register, please visit : http://ppforum.ca/events/ra-can-webinars-opportunities-european-and-canadian-participation-euraxess-programs
More information on the + ERA-Can+ program:
ERA-Can+ publishes Report on Science Technology and Innovation Cooperation between Europe and Canada
This report provides an overview of the EU-Canada collaboration in science and technology and compares the innovation measures in the EU and Canada. It contains information and data for researchers, research or innovation organizations, funding organizations and political stakeholders in the field of science, technology and innovation that are considering trans-Atlantic linkages.
More details and download: http://www.era-can.net/about/sti-observatory-report/
The European Commission’s Horizon 2020 program is continuing where the Seventh Framework Program (FP7) left off; it serves as the main funding mechanism through which the EU supports research and development activities covering almost all scientific disciplines. Projects and other activities funded by Horizon 2020 must be led by EU partners (in consortia comprising a minimum of 3 EU institutions), however, international collaboration with third countries such as Canada is actively encouraged. Canadians can be eligible for EU financial support, although the EU proponents must make a convincing case that the Canadian contribution to a particular research project is essential to the project’s success, and that the expertise brought by the Canadians cannot be found within the EU.
In October, a series of calls were announced for Horizon 2020’s various Work Programmes for 2016-17 (the Work Programme is an annual plan for a particular thematic area under Horizon 2020 that translates the strategic direction of the European Commission into action items for that year). The folllowing programmes will be of most interest to researchers:
Industrial Leadership Pillar
Societal Challenges Pillar
The italicised calls above are those which have specifically indicated that Canadians should be included in project consortia.
A press release with details of the new Work Programmes (valued in total at nearly 16 million euro), and links to the calls themselves, is available at: http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_MEMO-15-5832_en.htm
Brescia faculty working in these areas, who have existing collaborative relationships with colleagues in the EU, are encouraged to investigate whether any of the calls might provide an opportunity for a proposal they have in mind with their European partners. If so, the next step would be to contact their European counterparts to signal their interest in collaborating on these proposals. Interested faculty are encouraged to contact Elizabeth Russell-Minda, Research Officer to obtain additional information.