ESCMID Online News 4 October 2006

Dear ESCMID member
Dear member of an affiliated society


We would like to take this opportunity to alert you to important approaching deadlines and to recent udates related to European funding. For online access to the newsletter, please consult the ESCMID website at www.escmid.org/onlinenews.

From the ESCMID Executive Committee

  1. Last Call for ESCMID Awards and Fellowships 2007. Application and nomination deadlines are approaching soon: 15 October 2006. We are looking forward to receiving your submissions for the following: ESCMID Excellence Award, Young Investigator Awards, Research Fellowships, and the ESCMID and bioMérieux Award for Advances in Clinical Microbiology!
     
  2. Deadline for abstract submission 17th ECCMID / 25th ICC 2007: All participants are invited to submit abstracts for presentation at the 17th ECCMID / 25th ICC (Munich, Germany, 31 March - 3 April 2007).
    Deadline: 16 November 2006
     

European Funding Opportunities

  1. Framework Programme 7: First drafts of Work Programme 2007 have been released by DG Research of the European Commission. The very preliminary drafts of these first Work Programmes for Health (Cooperation - Theme 1), Food, Agriculture and Biotechnology (Cooperation - Theme 2) and People (former Marie Curie Programme) in FP 7 have been circulating informally. The drafts identify the content of the first calls in 2007. For details please send an email to karin.werner@escmid.org.
     
  2. Tempus Programme: Call for Joint European Projects (JEP 06): The Tempus Programme is a Higher Education Co-operation scheme between EU member states and partner countries in Western Balkans, Eastern Europe and Central Asia, and the Mediterranean countries.
    Deadline: 15 December 2006
     


Best regards,
ESCMID Executive Committee