N° 1 December 2008Welcome to the new Enterprise Europe Network, this is the first of our regular newsletters alerting you to the work of our team based in North East England.
Your feedback or suggestions for our future editions is most welcome and may we take this opportunity to wish you a Merry Christmas and look forward to hearing from you in the New Year. |
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At the new Enterprise Europe Network for North East of England, OmniRead was our first clients seeking finance for innovation. We assisted OmniRead to successfully secure a £91,000 Grant for Research and Development from One NorthEast - for their new product development activities. more... |
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The Enterprise Europe Network North East is pleased to announce the winners of Newcastle University Business School’s ‘Innovation Creativity and Enterprise’ awards, David Findlay and Amelia Henderson. more... |
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The “Small Business Act” for Europe is the European Commission’s ambitious plan to address the needs of Europe’s small and medium-sized businesses and a major step to make Europe more entrepreneurial and help businesses thrive. more... |
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The Enterprise Europe Network North East are looking to identify UK companies interested in participating in a workshop on Hard Coatings which will take place in Bangalore, India in the New Year. The annual workshop is intended to help forge links between UK and Indian and hopefully leading to successful long term commercial agreements. more... |
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Protect your business in Europe The small claims procedure is intended to simplify cross-border small claims litigation in civil and commercial matters and reduce costs. A step by step system has been created to help small and medium sized enterprises to pursue an action against a business based within another member state. more.... |
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Bring your ideas to our R&D Clinics Over the forthcoming months the Enterprise Europe Network for North East England will be running a series of R&D proposal clinics to enable regional organisations to come along and discuss their R&D ideas on a one to one and confidential manner. The clinics aim to provide guidance on your project and help identify possible sources of funding from the region, nationally or from the European Commission and are completely free. More...
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The Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) is a €53 billion funding programme over 7 years designed to support participants from multinationals to small enterprises in their research and development activities. Our team has successfully supported a number of regional organisations in securing FP7 funding. Check out our website for forthcoming calls. |
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The Carbon Trust recently announced its plans to double the size of grants available under its flagship Applied Research Scheme from £250k to £500k. The grant is to benefit organisations developing carbon saving technologies. more... |
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Want to know more? To learn more about any of the above articles or to speak to one of our representatives please call 0191 4909358 or email enquiries@een-northeast.co.uk |
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| The Enterprise Europe Network is a merger of the former Innovation Relay Centres (IRC) and the European Information Centres (EIC) | ||
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