The FET BRIEFING - Bridging the FET Innovation Gap project is a Coordination and Support Action (CSA) that received funding under the Horizon 2020 call FETOPEN-02-2018. “BRIEFING leverages different ways of exploiting FET research by supporting researchers in their innovation exploration and fostering the connection between the worlds of researchers and different business stakeholder groups. The BRIEFING portfolio comprises various trainings services for researchers and to-be entrepreneurs from FET Open projects ranging from research communication trainings to innovation opportunity workshops, business trainings as well as matchmaking with industry.” On 4 March a matchmaking event is organized for FET/EIC Pathfinder projects in the field of energy and environment, which can present their research ideas and findings to business stakeholders (industry representatives, Venture Capitalist and investors). Furthermore it is an opportunity to meet two EIC programme managers in the field of energy.   Registration for the matchmaking event is required: FET/EIC Pathfinder projects need to register till the 7th of February. Business stakeholders need to register till the 1st of March. All information can be found on the webpage of the matchmaking event.

The Department of Economy Science and Innovation (EWI) , together with NCP Flanders, will provide answers to (almost) all your questions about the Horizon Europe work programmes (the current, still provisional state of play). (*) During this online information session from 10:00 till 13:00 via GoToWebinar, where the various programme committee representatives will take the floor, we provide a time slot for each theme that we will inform in advance. Interested? Detailed information and registration (in Dutch) can be found here.  Subscribe before 2 March. Once registered, you will receive the link to presentations on 4 March about: the global picture 'Horizon Europe' (the latest state of play); the new implementation rules of Horizon Europe; the various workprogrammes (in the current, still provisional state of play). In order to make the online information session as smooth as possible, questions can be sent in advance on the web page or by email to internationaal.ewi@vlaanderen.be Questions which will be received before 11 March will certainly be discussed on 16 March.  (*) The language of the information session is Dutch. The slides are in English.

This info session on Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) in Horizon Europe is organised by the National Contact Points (NCPs) for MSCA in Belgium (NCP Federal BE, NCP-FNRS, NCP Flanders) to inform future potential applicants and host institutions coming from both the academic and non-academic sector on the different actions and calls for proposals under MSCA. The MSCA has the aim to create an excellent research base in Europe by offering research and training grants to equip researchers with new knowledge, skills, international as well as inter-sectoral experience. It is open to any research domain and researchers with any nationality. Research and training grants can be applied for through five actions, in short: Doctoral Training Networks aimed at PhD students; Postdoctoral Fellowships aimed at postdoctoral researchers; Staff Exchanges for any type of research staff; Co-funded (inter)national and regional training programmes aimed at (post)doctoral researchers; and public outreach events which aim to bring research and researchers closer to the general public. During this information session, an overview of the different actions and calls for proposals will be provided and opportunities for business-academia collaboration will be highlighted. Due to the measures with regard to the ongoing covid-19 pandemic, this info session is completely virtual. Participation to this webinar is free and open to any researcher in any career stage wishing to apply with a Belgian host institution or any staff member of a Belgian host institution (both from the academic and non-academic sector). Registration is mandatory and open until the 12th of March. You have the possibility to write any question you might have at this stage in the registration form. Please take this opportunity, as all the questions raised beforehand will be addressed in the relevant presentations. There will be time for Questions and Answers after each presentation by chat, however, more questions will probably be answered in the timeframe of the webinar if most of the questions have already been raised in advance. The programme and registration form are available on the webpage of the info session