Euro Trans Day

Date: 17 October 2007
Time: 17 - 18 October 2007
Location: Warsaw, Poland
Website: www.euro-trans.info
Contact: Mr Zbigniew zbigniew.turek@kpk.gov.pl (+48 22 828 74 83)

Euro-Trans is a working conference aiming at encouraging, facilitating and enhancing cooperation between SMEs and the major European R&D players and Industrial Stakeholders of Surface Transport (road, rail, waterborne and intermodality).

This event is organised in the framework of the European Project EUROTRANS- days funded by DG Research (thematic priority Surface Transport, 6th Frame Work Programme)

EURO-TRANS_Days will focus on :
• Perspectives of cooperation with Polish industrial key players
• announcement of topics/research areas of the 2nd FP7 Surface Transport call
• parallel road, rail, maritime and intermodal sessions
• Research agendas of the European Technology Platforms focused on the needs for SMEs
• workshops aiming at the set-up of projects for the 2nd FP7-ST call
• project management and coordination issues
• one-to one meetings
• individual coaching appointments

During the conference you can :
• present your project idea for collaborative and transnational cooperation
• participate in workshops focusing on project definition and consortium building
• present your successful project
• offer your technology for industry or express your technology need
• promote your organization (e.g. using posters)
• meet project coordinators and experts

Target audience :
SMEs, large companies, RTD providers (research and technical centers), professional organisations

Speakers :
European Commission (eg. DG Research, DG TREN), European Technology Platforms (ERRAC, ERTRAC, EIRAG, WATERBORNE), European Associations (CLEPA, EARPA, EMEC, COREDES, UNIFE, UIC, EIA)