Les conventions d'affaires européennes organisées par le réseau des Centres Relais Innovation.

Si vous souhaitez en savoir plus ou participer aux événements ci-dessous, n'hésitez pas à nous contacter (medin@mediterranee-technologies.com) ou à contacter directement les organisateurs.

Les événements à venir de nos partenaires CRI par thématiques :
- Technologies Navales - Mission d'entreprises - Espagne
- Agro alimentaire - HEALTH & FOOD Days - La Rochelle
- Environnement - Green Ventures - Allemagne
- Optique / Optronique - OPTATEC 2006 - Allemagne
- Biotechnologies - FARMAMEETINGS (Espagne) - Genetics of Industrial Microorganisms (Republique Tchèque) - Biodundee (Scotland).

Technologies Navales

Naval technology mission in Madrid - 22/23 June 2006.

IRC Madrid and IRC Norway are organising a Technology Transfer Mission to promote technological cooperation processes between Spanish and Norwegian companies working in the naval sector. Other public bodies involved in the organisation are the Norway Embassy, CDTI, CSIC, SEPI, the shipbuilder Navantia and the Chamber of Commerce of Madrid.
Invited are also other IRC’s, companies and research institutions working in this sector wishing to transfer or acquire new technologies through direct meeting of potential partners from Spain and Norway.

The event will be held on 22 and 23 June 2006 in Madrid (Spain). During these days, the participants will have the opportunity to make presentations of their own technologies, meet possible partners in bilateral business meetings and visit local companies they will be interested in.

Selected sectors of interest for the mission are: ICT, materials, naval and defence technologies including aerospace, medicine (instruments and biotechnology).

All the technology and company profiles will be compiled in a catalogue and bilateral meetings will be scheduled according to individual interests.

Dead-lines:
- Registration & submission of profiles: 15/05/2006
- Selection of one-to-one meetings: 15/06/2006

Contact :
Ricardo Rubianes
Email : ricardo.rubianes@madrimasd.org

Agro-alimentaire

6th HEALTH AND FOOD DAYS - La Rochelle - 14/15 Juin 2006.

Building on the on-going success of the former sessions, the IRC South West of France (OSEO anvar Poitou-Charentes) is co-organising the 6th Brokerage Event on Health And Food together with CRITT Agro-Alimentaire Poitou-Charentes.

Highlights of next Health And Food Days 2006:
600 expected participants: food producers, ingredient suppliers, pharmaceutical and cosmetical companies, technical centres and research laboratories, equipment suppliers, distributors and retailers, etc.
This major event gives opportunities for SMEs to develop their technology, know-how and business:

- One-to-one meetings for joint technological, industrial and commercial projects. A catalogue will be set, describing each participant profile and business expectations. This catalogue will help SMEs to identify potential partners and thus to organise added value meetings.

- Round table discussions & conferences will be organised throughout the event on latest news about food and health matters, legislation, marketing tools, etc.

- An innovation exhibition gathering new technologies and new products representing latest trends of the “Health Food” sector.

Brokerage event's website: http://www.crittiaa.com/CSA/uk/07+journeesalimentssante/index.asp

Contact :
Nancy Tessier
Email : Nancy.teyssier@oseo.fr

Environnement

International Cooperation Forum for Environmental and Energy Technologies in Potsdam, Germany, from June 7-9, 2006.

The Potsdam Chamber of Commerce - in cooperation with the IRC North Germany - proudly announces the international partnership forum for energy and environmental technologies "Green Ventures". The event will take place from June 7th - June 9th for the ninth year in row in Potsdam, Germany's Capital Region. In the last years, about 2.200 firms representing 86 nations participated in the event in Potsdam. In 2002 and 2004 the "Green Ventures" also took place for the first time outside of Germany in Shanghai.

This year’s partnership forum, emphasising soil, water, air, energy, construction, recycling, and renewable materials will feature business-to-business talks, presentations, and excursions. A regional focus will be Italy.

Participants select their desired partners for the business-to-business talks by a catalogue of participant profiles before the event. The main organiser, the Potsdam Chamber of Commerce and Industry, provides each participant with an individual appointment plan based on these selections. This makes the "Green Ventures" an efficient forum for establishing business contacts to firms, institutions and local and national authorities worldwide.

Firms and institutions from China, Italy, Poland, the Baltic Countries, Belgium, Great Britain, Scandinavia, Tunisia, the Czech Republic, Germany and further countries are expected to participate.

Green Ventures is supported by: the European Commission, the Federal State of Brandenburg, the Potsdam Mittelbrandenburgische Sparkasse, Rimini Fair SpA, the Brandenburg Economic Development Board, ifus and friends and the Italian Chamber of Commerce in Germany.

More information on the Internet at http://www.green-ventures.com

Optique / Optronique

OPTATEC 2006 – International Partnering Event Optics/Optoelectronics - Frankfurt - 22/23 June 2006.

IRC Hessen/Rheinland-Pfalz and EIC Wiesbaden are partners in the EU project “Arca Nova“ and organisers of a partnering event in the field of optical technologies. The event takes place in parallel to the fair Optatec (www.optatec-messe.com) in Frankfurt, Germany from 22 to 23 June 2006.

“Arca Nova” aims to initiate business relations among companies from the old and new EU member states - between Western and Eastern Europe. 21 partners, mostly EICs from 11 different countries - Bulgaria, Denmark, Germany, France, Great Britain, Italy, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Hungary - are working together on the project.

Topics of the event are optical components, fibre optics, laser and fibre optics light guides as well as optical measurement and testing techniques. One focus is the application of optical systems in medical technology.

Interested companies are asked to register and to inform on their co-operation requests and ideas until 10 May 2006. The participation fee for the two-days-event is € 150.00 (plus VAT) and contains the catering during the days of the event, a dinner of all participants as well as the bus transfer from the hotel at Oberursel to the fair in Frankfurt.

Contact person :

Dr. Claudia Männicke
Project Manager
Email : claudia.maennicke@hessen-agentur.de
Phone: +49 (0)611 774-8631

Biotechnologies

FARMAMEETINGS - 2nd Edition - Exhibition for Pharmaceutical, Biopharmaceutical and Laboratory Providers - Madrid (Spain) - 29 June 2006.

The Exhibition for Pharmaceutical, Biopharmaceutical and Laboratory Providers (FARMAMEETING) will have its 2nd edition at Recinto Ferial Casa de Campo, Madrid between 28th and 30th June 2006. This exhibition has been prepared to attract pharmaceutical industry decision-makers and highly qualified buyers involved in any stage of pharmaceutical product development, from research to commercialisation. Chief executives from research, clinical or analytical laboratories, scientists, biologists, chemists, biochemists, physicians, engineers, bioinformatics, pharma marketing experts and representatives from different Life Science Areas are also invited to come to this exhibition. Other people interested in this exhibition are technical directors from pharmaceutical production areas interested in cutting-edge technologies, products and services in automation, filling, packaging, etc. and also finance managers, consultants or government officers from public or private institutions from pharmaceutical and health-related industries.

In the frame of this exhibition, Madrid IRC will organise a Brokerage Event (29 th June 2006) structured around the publication of a technological catalogue and carrying out bilateral meetings between interested actors (researchers and enterprises) looking for opportunities to make business.

- Deadline for submitting company profiles: 31 May 2006
- Dealine for requesting meetings: 15 June 2006
- Brokerage day: 29 June 2006

For further information in http://www.farmameeting.net/eng/index.htm

Contact person :

Name: Sanz
First Name: Oscar
Telephone: +34 91 889 50 61
Email: irc@aedhe.es

BioDundee Conference and Partnering Event 2006 - 15/17 June 2006 - Dundee (Scotland).

BioDundee, representing one of Europe's leading life sciences clusters, will hold its sixth international conference and associated events in Dundee, Scotland between 15 and 17 June 2006.

For the participants, this is an opportunity to make new contacts, to reinforce old contacts, and to initiate discussions to build technological partnerships.
BioDundee is hosting the event with international speakers and experts on biotechnology from the UK and around the world attending. This is an unmissable opportunity to network and learn while staying in one of Scotland's key centers for life sciences. Scotland has a strong network of companies engaged in the life sciences network, the sector employs twenty eight thousand people across Scotland, 3900 of which are based in the Tayside region. A full agenda for BioDundee Conference 2006 will be posted shortly.

IRC Scotland Partnering Event
In cooperation with BioDundee 2006, IRC Scotland is hosting a one-day partner brokerage event on 15th June 2006. This event offers participants a platform to profile their expertise, technologies and products and to meet international providers of technologies or those with in-licensing needs, with a view to striking immediate or future collaborations – all in one location!

Contact : IRC Scotland
Carrie Saunderson
Email : carrie.saunderson@scotent.co.uk

GIM 2006 - 10th International Congress on the Genetics of Industrial Microorganisms - Czech Republic - 24/28 June 2006.

The Technology Centre and the Institute of Microbiology of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic hold an international brokerage event, which is part of the 10th International Congress on the Genetics of Industrial Microorganisms, June 24-28, 2006.

At the following web-site :
http://www.innovationrelay.net/bemt/home.cfm?eventid=1382
you will find information on the brokerage event (27th June 2006) and the registration form. For the tentative scientific programme of the conference, which has been prepared with the advice of members of the local and international scientific communities visit www.gim2006.org. The congress will also include plenary lectures, symposia, round table discussions and poster sessions.

The event will provide a stimulating forum for comprehensive discussion of current research in the genetics of industrial microorganisms and of the future development. The event will promote cooperation between academia and industry. And it will provide an excellent opportunity for innovative companies and research organisations active in the field of industrial uses of micro organisms to meet, exchange ideas and initiate collaborative scientific programmes.

Contact:
Ms. Tereza Matouskova
tel. +420 234 006 140
matouskova@tc.cz