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News archive - [Event Announcement] 2013 EARTO Annual Conference

The theme of this year’s EARTO (European Association of Research and Technology Organisations) conference is “New Horizons for 2020 and Beyond: Croatia and South East Europe in the European Union”. The conference, jointly hosted by Brodarski institut and Rudjer Boskovic Institute, takes place within just a few weeks of Community Europe extending its frontiers south-eastwards to embrace Croatia, with other southeastern European countries wishing also to join the Union in the years ahead.

2013 is also the year when the current EU Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development reaches the end of its seven year term, to be followed by a new research and innovation programme, Horizon 2020.

These major changes mark the conference programme, which will have a triple focus:

• Horizon 2020: How it will differ from FP7 in its objectives, its instruments, and its operational practice;

• Structural Funds: How EU Structural Funds can be effectively deployed to support research and innovation, not only but also in Croatia and southeastern Europe, as well as in complement to Horizon 2020 funds;

• Meeting Place: A forum where research organisations from southeastern Europe and EU countries can meet and begin building mutually beneficial relationships. To facilitate this, southeastern European research organisations will have an opportunity to make a short presentation at various points in the conference programme and to have a stand at the conference venue.

The European Commissioner for Regional Policy, Johannes Hahn will address a video message to the conference on the important role that the Structural Funds have to play in supporting R&D and innovation as motors of sustainable regional development

EARTO invites to discover the programme by visiting the dedicated conference website: http://www.penta-pco.com/EARTO2013/

Non EARTO members interested in attending the Conference should contact Kadija Taffah from EARTO Secretariat at taffah@earto.eu

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Entry created by Desiree Pecarz on April 8, 2013
Modified on April 8, 2013

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