Invitation for participation of ICT Proposers' Day, 19th - 20th of May 2011

Dear all,

We invite you to register for participation in the ICT Proposers' Day 2011 event through this website.

ICT Proposers' Day 2011 is the second major biennial event organised by DG INFSO after the ICT Event promoting ICT in general and networking in particular.
Under the auspices of the Hungarian EU Presidency, the event will take place in Budapest at Hungarexpo Fair Center from 19th to 20th of May.
The event is dedicated to networking and partnership building for ICT calls 8 and 9 of the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Commission offering more than 1 billion euros of EU funding.

Unit F3 "GÉANT & e-Infrastructures" is organising a special networking session on e-Infrastructures from 10:45 till 12:15 on 20 May 2011.The session will address priorities in the Research Infrastructures/e-Infrastructures Work programme 2012 for Coordination and Support Actions proposals. The related call is expected to open at the end of July 2011 and close in November 2011.

The networking session will focus in particular on e-Infrastructure services for simulation and prototyping.

If you are interested in presenting your proposal idea in this session, you can submit a short presentation until 6 May 2011 through the event website. European Commission staff will inform you whether your presentation will be added to the event programme shortly before the event. Invited speakers will be given a 10-15 minute timeslot. All presentations, selected and non-selected, will be published on the event website.

The remaining part of the event is dedicated to networking among the participants.
You are also invited to promote your proposal ideas through distribution of your dissemination materials at the e-Infrastructure booth, located in front of the meeting rooms "Einstein" and "Fermi". The European Commission stuff will be happy to assist you in that.

From our side Kostas Glinos, Timothy Heap and Sonia Spasova will be present during the event to answer all your questions about e-Infrastructures.

We look forward to meeting you in Budapest.

Yours faithfully,
Sonia Spasova
On behalf of
Kostas Glinos
Head of Unit
GEANT and e-Infrastructures
DG INFSO - European Commission