1. EuroCenter Services and Grants Christian Holstein cho@fi.dk ph:+45 35 44 62 95

2. EuroCenter is: Information Center for the Danish Ministry of Science in relation to EU Part of the Agency for Science, Technology and Innovation National Contact Point (NCP) for EU’s 7th Framework Program

3. How may we help? Pamphlets Information meetings Courses and workshops Reading proposals Individual meetings Phone and e-mail www.rammeprogram.dk Newsletter from the Agency’s (FI’s) website Quarterly Journal ”EU-INFORMATION”

4. Pre-evaluation of ICT proposals Idea: A critical review of near-finished proposals done by experienced evaluators will help more proposers to be sucessful So far only FP7 ICT Call 4 Registration: March 3, 2009 Submission of full proposal for pre-evaluation: March 23, 2009 Evaluation Summary Report from pre-evaluators within 5 working days

6. Opportunities for (pre-contract) grants 1 Forprojektordningen for SMV’er (SME Proposal Preparation funding scheme) Koordinatorpuljen (Coordinator funding scheme)

7. Opportunities for (pre-contract) grants 2 START-funds (mostly for public researchers) from Danish Independent Research Council Network funds from the Danish Strategic Research Council

8. EuroCenter Forsknings- og Innovationsstyrelsen (Danish Agency for Science, Technology and Innovation) Bredgade 40 1260 Copenhagen K. Phone: 3544 6240 E-mail: eurocenter@fi.dk Web: www.rammeprogram.dk or www.fi.dk