The tenth InnovaWood General Assembly was held in Ghent on 29th February and 1st March 2012. The first day included a workshop on the InnovaWood Divisions and the “Early Stage Researchers presentation Forum”, where the members of InnovaWood presented their research. The second day included a seminar on the “Trees4Future” project and offered an excursion to the laboratories of the Ghent University and furthermore, a visit in the wood trading company “van Hoorebeke”.

On 15 May 2012 the FTP and COST together with InnovaWood, EFI and EFPRO organise the next FTP-COST brokerage event at Munich Airport.

The focus of the event is to provide opportunities and information to about EU funding research programmes like FP7, COST and other. On the event the participants will obtain preliminary information on the FP7 last call for proposals to be expected to be launched this year.

This week the European Commission has launched a new series of calls open for proposals in the FP7 framework. We provide you herewith an overview of the submission deadlines for the different themes that can be of interest to you.