IGLO OPEN Meeting ‘The state of play and results of the co- design consultations on the upcoming programme Horizon Europe’

On 5th November 2019 next IGLO OPEN session will be held in KOWI Office. This time the guest will be Mr. Clement Evroux from the “Strategic Planning and Programming for Horizon Europe” (DG Research and Innovation, Directorate A – Policy and Programming Center, Unit A.3), who will present the current situation and the results of consultations on of the Horizon Europe program.

Welcome coffee will be served from 11.00 and the session in itself will start at 11.30 am.

The meeting is open, but registration is required through link.

SwafS Knowledge Day and Brokerage Event – H2020

On 14-15 October, 2019, SwafS (Science with and for Society) Knowledge Day and Brokerage Event will be held in the Copernicus Science Center in Warsaw. The event is organized by SiS.net, the international network of National Contact Points (NCPs) in the field of Science with and for Society in Horizon 2020 in cooperation with the European Commission.

The knowledge day on day 1 will highlight all topics covered within the Horizon 2020 SwafS call for proposals and will target SwafS applicants as well as SwafS stakeholders (including NCPs). It will serve as an information day including training elements on most useful topics important for SwafS applicants.

The brokerage event on day 2 provides a matchmaking session which will give participants the opportunity to join pre-arranged meetings with other participants in order to identify possible collaborators to facilitate the setup of SwafS project consortia.

During the brokerage event coordinators actively looking for project partners, will have the possibility to present their project idea during a flash presentation session.

The registration is open until 8th October!

More information can be found here.

Conference ‘The Future of the EU, Military Cooperation and Transatlantic Relations’ (Paris)

On 10th October 2019 the conference ‘The Future of the EU, military cooperation and transatlantic relations from Polish and French perspective” will be held in Scientific Centre of PAS in Paris. Director of the Polish Science Contact Agency, prof. Małgorzata Molęda-Zdziech will participate in the first discussion panel ‘A landscape after elections to the European Parliament: convergences, differences, challenges of Polish and French European policy’.

The aim of the conference is to allow experts and academics from Poland and France to exchange analyzes and experiences on three central topics for both countries and societies. The panelists will present the facts and perspectives on the future of the EU, military cooperation of both countries, and relations between Europe and the USA, which are changing so dynamically.

Selected topics are not only fundamental for the future of Europe or transatlantic relations, but above all are of key importance for bilateral relations. Both Poland and France cooperate closely with the military, but they can also boast of good relations with the United States, which makes these countries potential partners caring or mediating for the best transatlantic relations, despite the unpredictability of President Donald Trump. In addition, the policy of recent years has caused the growth of stereotypes and misunderstanding in bilateral relations. First of all, the conference will be an opportunity to exchange observations by panelists from both countries. Secondly, the audience invited to the event at the Polish Academy of Sciences will be able to familiarize themselves with the in-depth Polish and French perspective on topics as current as the future, reforms of the EU and its relations with the United States.

A detailed programme can be found here: http://paris.pan.pl/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Program_Paris_10_10_19.pdf.

The co-organizers are The Polish Science Contact Agency in Brussels and The Polish Institute of International Affairs.

International Brokerage Event H2020 – Circular Economy & Transforming Industry

On 9th October 2019, an international brokerage event on circular economy and transforming industry will take place at the Centre for Innovation and Technology Transfer Management of Warsaw University of Technology.This event is a great opportunity to find partners for last calls under the Horizon 2020. Participants of the meeting will have the opportunity to shed a light on their research ideas in flash presentations and to discuss on future cooperation during previously scheduled individual meetings (B2B) .

It is co-organised by the EU-funded projects NCPs CaRE and NMP Team and Enterprise Europe Network Central Poland (IMBiGS) with support from BioHorizon, C-ENERGY , N4Society and Enterprise Europe Network – Sector Group Environment.

The event is focused on the Horizon 2020 topics on the circular economy and transformating industry from the SC5 Social Challenge (Climate, environment, resource efficiency and raw materials) and the LEIT NMBP area (Nanotechnologies, advanced materials, advanced production and processing systems, biotechnology), as well as related topics in the areas of SC2 (Bioeconomy), SC3 (Energy) and SC6 (Societies).

If you are interested, please register before 2^nd October!

More details can be found here.

Networking and Brokerage Event H2020 – Transport

On 7 October, 2019, the Transport Info Day – within H2020 – will be held in Brussels. This networking and brokerage event is focused on the topics covered by the Transport Work Programme 2019-2020. This event will present upcoming funding opportunities of approximately €356 million under the Mobility for Growth (MG), Automated Road Transport (ART), Green Vehicles (GV), and Next Generation Batteries (BAT) calls. It will also give an overview of the application and evaluation process, and present tips for writing a good proposal.

In the afternoon, in the same place, a brokerage session will take place, which will be an excellent opportunity to establish contacts and find partners to form a consortium.

You can register for the event here.

Next meeting from the series ‘Discussion on Horizon in the PolSCA’ – guest: Mrs. Aleksandra Schoetz-Sobczak (Research Executive Agency)

The next meeting for representatives of Polish regional offices from the ‘Discussions on Horizon in the PolSCA’ series will take place on 4th October (Friday) at 9.30 am at PolSCA premises at Rue du Trone 98. This time the guest will be Mrs. Aleksandra Schoetz-Sobczak, Project Officer at the Research Executive Agency (REA) of the European Commission.

The subject of the meeting will be Marie Skłodowska-Curie grants, and more specifically the RISE (Research and Innovation Staff Exchange) program, which aims to exchange employees dealing with research and innovation in various sectors and from different countries. You will be able to find out what is the RISE program, what are the application criteria and what does the participation of Polish entities in the program look like. During the meeting, the next calls will be presented, as well as examples of projects with Polish participants.

Registration for the meeting until October 2.

V4 Breakfast

On 2nd October 2019, at 9.30 V4 Breakfast – a working meeting of representatives of liaison offices in the field of research and innovation from Visegrad Group (V4) – will be held at the Polish Science Contact Agency’s premises. Apart from PolSCA team, representatives of SLORD, CZELO and the Permanent Representation of Hungary to the EU in Brussels are participating in the meeting. In addition, our guest will be Mrs. Ewa Kocińska-Lange from Science & Business Poland.

National Reading 2019 in Brussels

Polish institutions in Brussels were invited to participate in the National Reading campaign – Polish Novellas, organized by the Polish School – Daskalia and the Polish Library in Leuven.
To read, novels chosen by the Presidential Couple, from Romanticism to the interwar period, representatives of science, diplomacy and European institutions were invited. Among them were: Dr. Ewa Synowiec, Director of Trade at the European Commission; HE Artur Orzechowski, Ambassador of the Republic of Poland to the Kingdom of Belgium; dr Alicja Gęścińska, philosopher, writer; Monika Pruska, director of Polish School in Antwerp; prof. Jan Dierick, coordinator of the Polish section of the University of KU Leuven; prof. dr Kris van Heuckelom, Polish philologist at the University of KU Leuven; Agnieszka Walter-Drop, director general in the European Parliament and prof. Małgorzata Molęda-Zdziech, director of the Polish Science Contact Agency PolSCA, who read “The Plowing” of Władysław Reymont.

European Research and Innovation Days

On 24-26th September 2019 the first European Research and Innovation Days, organized by the European Commission, will take place in Brussels (Kanal Center Pompidou). The purpose of the event, which is to bring together over 3,000 participants, including scientists, representatives of research and non-governmental organizations, is to discuss the shape of the next EU framework program for research and innovation ‘Horizon Europe’.

The event is divided into three parts: Policy Conference, Innovative Europe Hub and the exhibition ‘Science is Wonderful’. The European Research and Innovation Days will be also a great chance  to take part in meetings with representatives of the European Commission, which are organized within Horizon Village.

More information on the strategic planning process of Horizon Europe and the co-design process is provided below:

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Detailed information about the event can be found here.

PolSCA actively participates in the Second World Forum of Polish Science Beyond the Borders, Pułtusk 2019

On 11-14^th September 2019, the director of the Polish Science Contact Agency in Brussels, prof. Małgorzata Molęda-Zdziech with dr habil. Monika Kwoka, from the Academy of Young Scholars of the Polish Academy of Sciences, participated in the Second World Forum of Polish Science Beyond the Borders, organized by the Association “Polish Community”, headed by Mr. Dariusz Piotr Bonisławski, president of the Association “Polish Community”. in cooperation with the Polish Polonia Council and the Senate of the Republic of Poland.