Dear Members,

 

I just had a meeting with Dr Nieves Muñoz-García, International Project Officer at the University of Jaén (Spain) about a R&I Project Info & Networking Event on the Olive Sector that will be held in Brussels on 29 June 2017.

 

The event is organised by the University of Jaén, which is the main producer of olive oil in the world. This Event will count on the advice of EC representatives and will focus on the funding opportunities (H2020, PRIMA, LIFE, INTERREG, BBI, etc.) for the olive sector experts in the following areas: Analytical Chemistry, Biochemistry, Biomass, Automation, Robotics, Economy, Ecology, Health, Process Engineering, etc. 

 

The organisers are looking for partners from Cyprus and Greece (researchers, SMEs, public administrations, municipalities, universities and research institutes), who could share their expertise, and present their projects related to the olive oil. The allocated time is 3-5 min. without power point presentation in order to allow time for networking.

 

Despite the short notice, and the fact that each participant should cover their own travel costs, this is an opportunity for the following reasons:

-       The purpose of the event is to build a consortium of experts who will work and apply together for funding under different European programmes;

-       Build a platform of olive oil experts that will be strong to influence the policy at EU level (i.e. having more topics on olive oil in the next framework programme for research and innovation).

 

There will be a second meeting of experts after the publication of the new H2020 WPs in autumn. The meeting will be hosted by the University of Jaén, in Dec 2017 or beginning of 2018. For that meeting we could eventually arrange to have covered the costs of your participation through the Erasmus+ mobility scheme for staff exchange.

 

The event will be attended by the Rector, the Vice Chancellor and 8 researchers from the University of Jaén, other universities, SMEs, and city councils mainly from Spain and Italy.

 

Further information and the link to the registration form are available at http://ec.europa.eu/research/index.cfm?pg=events&eventcode=464984D5-EAC0-A4FC-08998BFD5B014C73. 

 

Please, have a look and let me know if you are interested in attending the event that has a lot of potential for future cooperation. In case you cannot attend, please inform me about any projects related to olive oil sector, in which your organisation is involved, in order to facilitate me in the promotion of your expertise.

 

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Thank you very much for your consideration and response.

 

Best regards,

Rosemary

 

 

Rosemary STREVINIOTI

Head of Brussels Office
European Office of Cyprus
Rue du Luxembourg 3, 2nd floor
B-1000 Brussels
Tel./Fax: +32 (0) 2 280 22 85
E-mail: strevinioti.rozamaria@ucy.ac.cy

 

From: mnmunoz@ujaen.es [mailto:mnmunoz@ujaen.es]
Sent: 19 June 2017 22:14
To: eoc.brussels@ucy.ac.cy
Subject: Appointment request