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The 4th FP7 ICT call is supposed to be announced on November 19 with the deadline of April 7, 2009 and with the budget of 801 Meur (5th call expected in July 2009). The first opportunity to discuss the details and find project partners could be the traditional ICT conference held this time in Lyon on November 25-27.

Another pan-European event designed to help R&D partners to form FP7 consortia is the ICT Proposers Day to be held in Budapest and organised by The European Commission’s Information Society and Media Directorate-General, in cooperation with the Hungarian National Office for Research and Technology on January 22. As this event will be hosted by the Centrope country we may take a chance to join forces and network our SMEs within a special CITT session.

Looking back to the 3rd ICT call there was 829 project proposals submitted in total, out of 307 (37%) got through all the criteria (of course not all of them made it above the “funding line”). 54 project proposals with the Czech participation was submitted (four of them coordinated by a Czech organisation), out of 20 were ranked. 5 out of 14 project proposals with Czech SMEs were ranked. We are going to look at some of those funded and bring their stories.