Euresearch Info - February 2019

Thu Feb 14 10:17:31 CET 2019

Subject: 	Euresearch Info - February 2019
Date: 	Thu, 14 Feb 2019 00:08:24 +0100
From: 	Euresearch Newsletter <enewsletter at euresearch.ch>

EURESEARCH Newsletter

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    Ethics and Data Protection in Horizon 2020

      Personal data provide great opportunities for European research
      and innovation. At the same time, there are considerable privacy
      risks. It is thus crucial to comply with ethical and legal standards.

The protection of personal information is a fundamental human right. 
Recently, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has come into 
force, which aims at harmonising data privacy laws across Europe.

Against this background, Horizon 2020 projects are often confronted with 
legal and ethical challenges. For example: How should personal 
information be transferred to non-EU countries? Should data be deleted 
when a research project has come to its end, or stored so that other 
researchers can verify the results? How should the principle of informed 
consent be dealt with when it comes to publicly available information on 
the internet? And what should be done when children and other vulnerable 
groups are involved?

Fortunately, there are different resources that can help in finding the 
best answers to such questions: your institution may have a Data 
Protection Officer who is qualified to provide specific guidance, 
guidelines of the European Commission 
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or other institutions can facilitate your decision making, and last but 
not least, do not hesitate to contact the Euresearch Office in your 
Region or your dedicated National Contact Point for further information. 
We will be happy to support you.

/Joël Graf, National Contact Point//, Euresearch
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    HORIZON 2020 NEWS

      Social Sciences and Humanities Research Matters

The conference on the Impact of SSH for a European Research Agenda 
(Vienna, November 2018) was a success. Its main outcomes have now been 
summarised in guidelines that focus on the design and implementation of 
SSH in mission-oriented research programmes. One of the key demands 
states that SSH should be considered from the very beginning when 
addressing global challenges. The document contains specific 
recommendations for programme officers, panelists and programme evaluators.

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      Follow-up on Horizon Europe Workshop

Stakeholders representing European R&I umbrella organisations engaged in 
discussion at a workshop 
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held on 30 January. This event marked the kick-off for discussions on 
the implementation strategy of Horizon Europe and will be followed with 
more dedicated consultations/meetings with stakeholders. All the 
presentations, background papers and preliminary reports are available 
on the Funding & Tenders Portal news page (see 5 February).

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    HORIZON 2020 CALLS

      Approval of 40 new COST Actions

Participants are invited to submit COST (European Cooperation in Science 
and Technology) Action proposals that contribute to the scientific, 
technological, economic, cultural or societal knowledge advancement and 
development of Europe. Multi- and interdisciplinary proposals are 
encouraged.

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      Calls for Proposals for 3 Joint Technology Initiatives

The transport-related Joint Technology Initiatives SESAR (deadline 16 
April), Fuel Cells and Hydrogen (deadline 23 April) and Shift2Rail 
(deadline 18 June) have launched their call for proposals. Check under 
"Further European Programmes" on the Euresearch Open Calls page.

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      Call for Proposals – Innovative Medicines Initiative 2

The call has topics in 3 areas: Optimising future obesity treatment, 
Open access chemogenomics library and chemical probes for the druggable 
genome, and Intelligent prediction and identification of environmental 
risks posed by human medicinal products.

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    FOR COMPANIES

      SIFER 2019 – 11th International Exhibition of Railway Technology

Held every 2 years since 1999, France's B2B international industry 
exhibition, brings together suppliers and manufacturers of the very 
latest in railway technology, products and services aimed at meeting the 
needs of main line and urban networks. Meet partners at the matchmaking 
event 27-28 March 2019.

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      Transport Experts Needed

The Single European Sky ATM Research (SESAR) Joint Technology Initiative 
is looking for external experts with different expertise in the 
transport sector to help in the evaluation of Horizon 2020 applications, 
projects and tenders. Join the database of external experts by 
registering now on the Funding and Tenders Portal of the European 
Commission.

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      Up to €200 000 Equity-free for Best-in-Class Innovators

LEDGER, a European project financed by the EC, is looking for 32 
human-centric innovators to develop minimum viable products and 
services. The aim is to achieve new models that preserve citizens’ 
digital sovereignty, where data is a common good owned by citizens and 
wealth created by data-driven platforms is equally distributed.

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    EURESEARCH EVENTS

      Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) for Companies

Are you an R&D intensive company that would like to benefit from an 
excellent, fully funded researcher joining your team? Or would you like 
to participate in an innovative joint research project hosting/training 
PhD students? Join us at our Infoevent to find out more about funding 
opportunities in the MSCA.
*19.03.2019, St. Gallen**
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    OTHER EVENTS

      DMEA Business Meetings – Connecting Digital Health

The DMEA Business Meetings during the DMEA 2019 conference serve as an 
international partnering platform for the healthcare IT sector. 
Representatives of companies, universities and research centres will get 
the opportunity to discuss their ideas and projects face-to-face in the 
pre-arranged meetings.
*11.04.2019, Berlin
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      Webinar – Digitising European Industry

A web-based information session on various aspects of digitisation of 
the European industry in relation to the upcoming calls on digitisation 
and manufacturing. All presentations will focus on the context of the 
calls and their expected outcomes. The session will be web-based only 
but questions can be asked using the chat function.
*18.02.2019, Webinar*

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