Valencia - From ecoomic recovery to sustainability

The IV Conference on FP7 in Valencia, Spain on 13-14 April 2010 collects communities working within RTD for Framework Programmes for interaction. The whole week in mid-April is dedicated to EUROPEAN INNOVATION AND RTD TRANSFORMING SECTORS’ WEEK. The European Economic Recovery Plan seeks a new deal on vital new and traditional industrial sectors in order to foster economic growth and creation of employment, as well as maintaining our high standards of quality of life. Knowledge, technology, innovation and new markets have complementary roles for reaching these goals.

The Conference “The European Framework Programmes: From Economic Recovery to Sustainability” will be the key public event in a series of new Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) as cornerstone of the smart investments of the European Economic Recovery Plan:

• Factories of the Future (FoF)
• Energy Efficient Buildings (EeB)
• Green Cars (GCI)
• Future Internet (FI)

April 13th will be devoted to Energy Efficient Building PPP and Factories of the Future (FoF) PPP, and April 14th will cover Green Car PPP and Future Internet (FI) PPP.

Plenty of Side Events at the same week

In addition to the bouquet of seminars around the RTD on sustainability listed above, the side events within the week include

• meetings of E2B Association and EFFRA on April 12th,
• EUREKA Celtic Event between April 12th and April 16th,
• the 4th Future Internet Assembly on April 15th and 16th and other co-located events organized together with the European Commission, and
• Future Internet and Living Labs networking: ENoLL 4th wave launch on April 13th and 14th