Ms Máire GEOGHEGAN-QUINN delivers closing speech at the Joint Technology Initiatives (JTI) launch event, Brussels - Main contents
| date | July 9, 2014 02:00 |
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| city | Brussels, Most, Belgium |
| attending | N. (Neelie) Kroes i, S. (Siim) Kallas i, M. (Máire) Geoghegan-Quinn i et al. |
| organisation | European Commission (EC) i |
The news:
Joint Technology Initiatives (JTIs), public-private partnerships set up under EU's new research and innovation programme Horizon 2020, will launch the first calls for research projects on 9 July 2014. The partnerships work in strategic areas such as medicines, fuel cells, air and rail transport and electronics. They represent an essential investment into Europe's economy and in a better quality of life.
The background:
Through partnerships with industry and Member States, Horizon 2020 pools Europe’s resources to tackle the biggest challenges and to support competitiveness of sectors that deliver high quality jobs.
Eleven partnerships with the industry and Member States are being launched under Horizon 2020. The overall investment over the next seven years is worth more than €22 billion, where the EU's contribution of €9 billion will unlock an equivalent investment from the private sector and €4 billion from Member States.
Most of the funding will go to Joint Technology Initiatives (JTIs). These are run as Joint Undertakings that organise their own research agenda and award funding for projects on the basis of open calls. The first round of these calls will be now launched by most of the seven public-private partnerships.
The event:
Stakeholder conference with addresses by President of the European Commission José Manuel Barroso (to be confirmed), Vice-Presidents Neelie Kroes and Siim Kallas, and Commissioner Máire Geoghegan-Quinn on 9 July.
IP and Memo will be available on the day.
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The sources:
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EU : Research - Horizon 2020 - 2013 (Part 1) (Reference: I-075812)
http://ec.europa.eu/avservices/video/player.cfm?ref=I075812
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EU: Research - Horizon 2020, 2013 (Part 2) (Reference: I-077412)
http://ec.europa.eu/avservices/video/player.cfm?ref=I077412
The contacts:
Michael Jennings +32 2 296 33 88
Monika Wcislo +32 2 298 65 95
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