You are what you read - November 2020

Published: Fri, 11/27/20

The EPN Consulting Newsletter No. 123 | Nov 2020

Editorial

Dear Colleague,

At the beginning of last week I was busy attending (virtually) three conferences in the same days. When these heavy "learning" sessions ended, I felt exhausted and it was only Wednesday!

I guess that many of us are having this kind of experience in this period of jeopardised lockdowns across Europe. As we were easily predicting during last Spring when the first 2020 conferences started being cancelled or postponed, it was clear that either the 2020 editions should have been allocated to the 2nd semester of the year or being postponed to 2021. The obvious consequence has been an unusual congestion of professional events in...Read More

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Upcoming Professional Events

Find more in our Events section

01 Dec 2020 – Deadline to submit proposals to the H2020 [EDIDP-SME-2020] call (EDIDP Action Grant – Innovative and future-oriented defence solutions)

02 Dec 2020 – Deadline to submit proposals to the COSME [COS-CLUSINT-2020-3-01] call (Clusters Go International)

17 Dec 2020 – Deadline to submit proposals to the H2020 EIC Prize on “Innovative Batteries for eVehicles”

12 Jan 2021 – Deadline to submit proposals to the H2020 [DT-TRANSFORMATIONS-24-2020] call (CSA – European Museum Collaboration and Innovation Space)

19 Jan 2021 – Deadline to submit proposals to the COSME [COS-PPI-2020-2-04] call (Co-financing of public procurement of innovation consortia – Stage 1)

26 Jan 2021 – Deadline to submit proposals to No. 20 topics of the H2020 European GREEN DEAL call

02 Feb 2021 – Deadline to submit proposals to the COSME [COS-CLUSTER-2020-3-03] call (European Cluster Excellence Programme with ClusterXchange scheme connecting ecosystems and cities)

02 Feb 2021 – Deadline to submit proposals to the COSME [COS-STRAT-2020-3-05] call (Strategic alliances for the uptake of advanced technologies by SMEs on the economic recovery)

16 Feb 2021 – Deadline to submit proposals to the H2020 EIC Prize for 'Early Warning for Epidemics'

16 Feb 2021 – Deadline to submit proposals to the H2020 [EMFF-BEW-2020] call (EMFF-Action Grant – BlueInvest Grants: Investing in Blue Innovation)

30 Nov-01 Dec 2020 – Brussels (BE) – 4th Edition of H2020 Road Transport Research European Conference

01-02 Dec 2020 – WEB ONLY – RAIL LIVE! – Technology, Innovation & Strategy for the entire Rail Supply Chain

01-02 Dec 2020 – WEB ONLY! – THE FUTURE OF FOOD Conference 2020

01-03 Dec 2020 – WEB ONLY ! – IT-TRANS 2020 – International Conference and Exhibition

01-04 Dec 2020 – WEB ONLY ! – OEE 2020 – Ocean Energy Europe Conference & Exhibition

02-03 Dec 2020 – WEB ONLY ! – eBridges Scotland 2020

02-04 Dec 2020 – WEB ONLY ! – FT Event: FUTURE OF THE CAR – Unpacking the complex interplay of forces changing the automotive industry forever

15-17 Dec 2020 – WEB ONLY ! – 2020 STAR (Scottish Transport Applications and Research) Conference

27-28 Jan 2021 – Rotterdam (NL) – 9th Ship Recycling Congress

27-29 Jan 2021 – Brussels (BE) – CDCP 2021- 14th International Conference on Computers Privacy and Data Protection

10-11 Feb 2021 – Helsinki (FI) – LIGNOFUELS 2021

10-11 Feb 2021 – Barcelona (ES) – 6th Future of Surfactants Summit

Please note that many conferences are being cancelled, postponed or converted in Virtual events due to the Covid-19 outbreak.
Visit our Events section for updated information.

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