Horizon 2020 Funding Opportunities Seminar, 7th November, CIT
A seminar targeted towards SMEs interested in finding out about funding opportunities in Horizon 2020 will take place in the Nimbus Seminar Room, CIT on Friday, 7th November. The event will focus on optimising Irish and International funding for your business, with an emphasis on the Horizon 2020 SME Instrument. Paul Healy of the Rubicon Centre will speak about ‘Non-EU sources of Funding’. The national contact point for Horizon 2020 in Ireland, Enterprise Ireland’s Sean Burke will give an overview of Horizon 2020 and discuss the SME Instrument. Sean will then proceed to discuss the ‘Fast Track to Innovation Programme’ under Horizon 2020 and will speak about Horizon 2020 Innovation Vouchers. The event will conclude with a Q&A session. Places are limited for this event but to register one, please contact Maria.Horgan@rubiconcentre.ie.
Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) – Have your say
The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) is a trade agreement that is presently being negotiated between the European Union and the United States. It aims at removing multi-sector trade barriers behind the customs border (e.g. technical regulations, standards and approval procedures) to make it easier to buy and sell goods and services between the EU and the US. The current trade barriers often cost unnecessary time and money for companies who want to sell their products in both markets. The TTIP negotiations will also look at opening both markets for services, investment, and public procurement.
As the EU-US trade relationship is already the biggest in the world, this agreement could result in millions of euros of savings to companies and create hundreds of thousands of jobs. The extra economic growth will benefit everyone; boosting trade is a good way of boosting our economies by creating increased supply and demand without having to increase public spending or borrowing. To read more about the TTIP, please click here.
If you would like to give your opinion the TTIP trade agreement, click on the following link: http://ec.europa.eu/trade/policy/in-focus/ttip/have-your-say/
