This call is dedicated to a specific SME innovation initiative designed to encourage stronger SME efforts towards research and innovation. SMEs need to have a leading or coordinating role in the consortium and 50 % of EU funding requested going to SMEs or SMEs joint venture.

Are you thinking about setting up your own business or are you already a successful entrepreneur? The Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs exchange scheme offers an excellent opportunity for new entrepreneurs to acquire relevant skills for managing a small or medium-sized enterprise (SME).

Young European entrepreneurs will be able to spend up to six months working with an experienced entrepreneur in another EU country and learn how to better manage and grow their own business. This is the concept of "Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs", a new exchange programme financed by the European Union and launched today in all the 27 Member States.

ICT for Health (eHealth) is looking for experts related to four objectives addressed by the call 4 (& 6 to be launched end 2009) for proposals (1 - Personal Health Systems; 2 - Patient Safety; 3 - Virtual Physiological Human; 4 - International Cooperation in VPH).

The European Commission has published a number of calls for proposals under the specific programmes Cooperation and Capacities of the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7). The calls address the following areas:

ICT for Health (eHealth) is looking for experts related to three objectives addressed by the call 1 & 2 for proposals (1- personal health systems; 2- patient safety; 3- biomedical informatics and modelling and simulation of physiology and disease related processes).

Calls for proposals under the provisional work programmes of the 7th EC Framework Programme for Research, Technological Development and Demonstration Activities and the 7th EURATOM Framework Programme for Nuclear Research and Training Activities: