10-13 May 2010

6th INSME Association Annual Meeting 

"SME Innovation: boosting development and growth
in times of change"

Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
Venue: Sofitel Hotel, Copacabana

Book your agenda on May from 10-13, 2010 for the next 6th INSME Annual Meeting to be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The event is being co-organised by the SEBRAE, INSME Member.

More details on the 6th INSME Annual Meeting are available on the event's dedicated website at: www.annualmeeting2010.insme.org or on the information flyer.

No participation fee is foreseen for INSME Members; participants from organisations based in Latin American, Caribbean and Central American Countries, from both public and private sector; and International Governmental Organisations.

Participation fees for other participants:
> 250.00 Euro for delegates from OECD Countries
> 150.00 Euro for delegates from non OECD Countries

Registration is mandatory to confirm your participation in the event
>INSME Association Member registration form
>General registration form

 Download a list of recommended hotels, all very close to the conference venue in Rio

For information, please contact the INSME Secretariat at:
 insmerio2010@insme.it  

EUREKA's Eurostars Programme – call for applications

EUREKA's Eurostars Programme, the first European funding and support programme specifically dedicated to SMEs, opens the 4^th Eurostars Cut-Off.

 To view the participating countries visit the dedicated section of the Eurostars website.

Application submission deadline: 25^th February 2010.

 To find out more, please, visit the following website: http://www.eurostars-eureka.eu/

ERA-NET CORNET 9^th joint call 

The 9th Joint CORNET Call for Transnational Collective Research Project proposals will be open until 31^st March, 2010. Proposals can be submitted in any industrial field by consortia composed of enterprise associations from at least 2 different CORNET countries.
The following countries and regions have already confirmed their participation in the 9th call: Austria; Belgium-Flanders; Belgium-Wallonia; Czech Republic; Germany; Hungary; Slovenia; Spain-Valencia; The Netherlands; Turkey (to be confirmed).

 For more information on CORNET and the 9th Joint Call please visit:
http://www.cornet-era.net/

The International Network for Small and Medium sized Enterprises (INSME) is a non for profit Association that promotes transnational cooperation and public-private partnership for  innovation in SMEs, involving  main stakeholders dealing with competitiveness issues: governmental bodies, international organisations, business support intermediaries and their associations/networks at subnational, national, regional and international level. The Network comprises at present 75 members based in 31 countries in 5 continents.