EU: Call for proposals on industry-academia partnerships

The European Commission Directorate-General for Research has issued a call for proposals under the 2009 work programme 'people' of the Seventh Framework Programme, reports Cordis News. The budget amounts to EUR65 million and the deadline for proposals is 27 July.

The "Marie Curie Action: Industry-academia partnerships and pathways", or IAPP, seeks to open and foster dynamic pathways between public research organisations and private commercial enterprises, in particular small and medium-sized enterprises, based on long term cooperation programmes with a high potential for increasing knowledge-sharing and mutual understanding of the different cultural settings and skill requirements of both the industrial and academic sectors.

The action will be implemented through targeted and flexible support for human resources initiatives within cooperation programmes between at least two organisations, one from each sector and from at least two different Member States or Associated Countries, the call states.
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