On the 13th March the Basque Government, UPV/EHU and Ikerbasque are organizing a seminar on the funding program "Future and Emerging Technologies (FET)".  This programme is found within the H2020 pillar of "Excellent science", and the actions are designed to initiate radically new lines of technology through unexplored collaborations between advanced multidisciplinary science and cutting-edge engineering. The actions aim to detect and seize opportunities of long-term benefit to citizens, the economy and society. 

More about the FET program can be found here:  http://ec.europa.eu/programmes/horizon2020/en/h2020-section/future-and-emerging-technologies

The Conference is aimed mainly at managers and researchers/research groups in universities, research centres, technology centres and companies.

Date and place: 13th March, Bilbao. Ikerbasque building. María Díaz de Haro, 3

Agenda:

10: 00 Opening remarks, Amaia Esquisabel. Director of Research of the Basque Government
10: 10 Future and Emerging Technologies program: open calls and announcements 2018-2020, Nicolas Ojeda, NCP - FET
11: 10 Coffee
11: 30 Roundtable exchange of experience, José Antonio Lozano: UPV/EHU-BCAM. Expert evaluator FET; Mikel Sanz: UPV/EHU; Nicolas Ojeda: NCP-FET
12: 30 Meeting with NCP - on previous request

Please reply to euraxess@ikerbasque.net before March 6th. If you require a meeting with the NCP please send a summary of the project idea to the same email address.