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Even though there are not too many new call for proposals published recently, the September issue of our Project Development Newsletter is worth a look. A lot of exciting events are coming up the next months – like the international conference “Creativity, the Energy of Success” in Košice, Slovakia or Europe’s forum for ICT research and innovation “ICT 2010: Digitally Driven” in Brussels, Belgium.

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Promoting creative industry in the Eastern part of Central Europe: this is the aim of the international conference “Shaping the future – Creativity and Innovation as an engine for growth in the cities and region of eastern Slovakia” that will be held in Košice on the 9^th and 10^th September 2010.

The conference wishes to introduce examples of projects and strategies in creative industries being developed throughout Europe, showing their impact on those cities and regions. This in order to demonstrate that there is a clear link between a creative economy and the development of a territory.

One of the main issues concerning the development of creative industry in Košice and, at the same time, the crucial investment made within the project Košice INTERFACE 2013, is the creation of a special space that will help enhance the building of innovative start-ups in this sector.

You can find the whole programme in this brochure. For further information on the conference as well as on Košice 2013, please visit http://www.kosice2013.sk/en

This year’s German Multimedia Congress DMMK (Deutscher Multimedia Kongress) will share the stage with Create10 on November 10 and 11, 2010.

At Römerkastell, Stuttgart’s exciting creative centre, the creative scene will be linked to the digital economy.

Advertisers, designers, programmers, communication professionals and marketing experts will be get together with thought leaders in the European digital industry and forge direct contacts with industry representatives.

“By uniting DMMK 2010 with Create10, MFG will make an important contribution towards strengthening the international competitiveness of the region as a creative centre”, explains MFG CEO Klaus Haasis.

For more information read press release (pdf).

Create10, the European Future Conference for Digital Trends in the Creative Industries, will be staged for the first time on November 10 and 11, 2010.

Media pioneers, creative thought leaders and IT experts from all over Europe are expected to attend Create10 in Stuttgart, Germany.

The conference will be divided into three parts. The CReATE Forum will introduce the five most promising research fields that will play a leading role the European creative industries in the next ten years (CReATE is an EU research project led by MFG). Various interactive workshops will present outstanding trends in the digital creative industries and collaboratively develop new ideas.

Read more in MFG’s press release (pdf).

Another month is passed by and it’s again time to look for new ideas and funds! In May there are still a lot of calls which are claiming for brilliant, innovative projects in Europe. We have choosen the most interesting for you:  if you are an ICT expert or a young entrepreneur there are some opportunities waiting for you!

Beyond calls, funds and awards in our Project Development Newsletter you can find, as usual, a selection of conferences happening around Europe which deal with European Grants, ICT as well as with many other topics.

If  you want to have a quick overview of all these opportunities, download our May newsletter now! It’s free and useful: Newsletter May 2010

And in case you have some questions or suggestions, you can contact us anytime

The KIS Mobile Convention on 18 May 2010 (13:00-18:00) deals with this question. Focussing on Knowledge Intensive Services and Applications for Mobile Devices regional stakeholder will be brought together in Stuttgart.

The event is organised by Ministry of Economics of the federal state of Baden-Württemberg and MFG Baden-Württemberg – Innovation Agency for ICT and Media. Partners are FZI – Forschungszentrum Informatik and Forum SatNav MIT BW e.V.

Become member of the Linkedin-group “KIS Mobile Convention Stuttgart” and meet participants and presenting companies already before the event.

More information and registration…

Interested in the Central Europe Programme? Curious about Innovation, eGovernament and ICT? Are you maybe looking for some conferences on these topics but you don’t know where to start? Then we have something useful for you! Our monthly project development newsletter: a quick but exhaustive overview of all the funding opportunities, awards and chance of networking happening all around Europe.

Our April newsletter is now out. You can download it for free here Newsletter_Apr_2010

And if you have some comments, suggestions, or project ideas you can contact us anytime

It’s not so easy to be constantly up to date regarding conferences, events and calls for proposal in Europe. If many websites provide information on these topics, it’s quite harder to have a short overview on what is going on in the European Union month by month. By now, you can get all this information simply reading our monthly project development newsletter. A short, easy guide for people, SMEs and institutions looking for funding opportunities and important occasions for networking and knowlegde exchange.

The February newsletter is out now. You can download it for free here:

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Today at 2 p.m. in the fascinating Turin the International Conference “CReATE: CONNECTING ICT RESEARCH AND CREATIVE ENTERPRISES” will start. For two days (4th-5th November) the conference will be the meeting point for experts, coming from several countries and different background, to discuss the state of the art of ICT innovation in creative industries and cluster development.

Experts, entrepreneurs, public decision makers, academics will share their experience during thematic workshops addressed to discuss the CReATE research priorities. A round table about IT research policy for creative industry will provide a multiple approach on public actions to innovate and make competitive the creative sector and will give inputs to the upcoming CReATE Joint Research Agenda.

Many ispiring speakers are attended, here the full program. If you are not in Turin, you can follow the conference for free in streaming on WIPIE TV.

For the third consecutive year, MFG has now had an active presence at the eChallenges conference, this year for the first hosted in Istanbul. Once again, an inspiring conference, though it was apparent, that due to the crisis, frozen budgets limited participation especially among the delegates from industry. Nevertheless, both panels with MFG contributions had an interested and broad audience.
From our perspective, we particularly enjoyed the input all around the Living Lab issues. Of course, Istanbul itself provides for a wonderful setting during the evenings.