ETP Nanomedicine Newsletter Nr. 4/2010

Content of this newsletter issue

• European Commission launches European Innovation Union Initiative

• ETP Nanomedicine is contributing to the consultations on the Innovation Partnership on active & healthy ageing launched by the European Commission

• Launch of the NanomedicineTV

• Retrospective: ETP Nanomedicine General Assembly and Annual Forum 2010
• Featured News
• Featured Events
  

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! 

Christmas is approaching rapidly and the year is slowly coming to an end. 

For the ETP Nanomedicine a very active year with many new developments and a number of challenges is ending. Many important things happened in the course of this year as e.g. a new Executive Board has been elected and Bertrand Loubaton as new chairman of the ETPN has taken up his work. Furthermore, the ETPN was able to provide input to the next work programme in the NMP area as well as to possible future activities and actions in the framework programme in general. Last but not least the ETPN can proudly look back to a very succesfull General Assembly and Annual Forum that was just recently held in Milan, Italy.

With the European Commission planning for the next framework programme (FP8), next year will surely by as interesting and challenging for the ETPN as well as for the Nanomedicine community in general. We are looking forward to an interesting CLINAM 2011 conference in May 2011 which will be co-organised by the ETPN for the first time as well as to the next Annual Forum of the ETPN in Fall 2011.

With this outlook we, the secretariat of the ETPN, would like to take the opportunity to thank all of you for actively contributing to the success of the ETP this year and are looking forward to working for and with you next year. 

We wish you and your family a merry christmas and a very happy new year 2011!

The Secretariat of the ETP Nanomedicine

Sebastian Lange, Nicolas Gouze, Idoia Valencia 

European Commission launches European Innovation Union Initiative

The European Commission's "Innovation Union", launched on 6.10.2010, sets out a strategic approach to innovation, driven by the highest political level. The Innovation Union will focus Europe's efforts – and co-operation with third countries - on challenges like climate change, energy and food security, health and an ageing population. It will use public sector intervention to stimulate the private sector and to remove bottlenecks which stop ideas reaching the market. These include lack of finance, fragmented research systems and markets, under-use of public procurement for innovation and slow standard setting. The Innovation Union is a "flagship" in the Europe 2020 Strategy. 

ETP Nanomedicine is contributing to the consultations on the Innovation Partnership on active & healthy ageing launched by the European Commission

>>> 101108_ETPN_European Innovation Partnership in the area of healthy ageing_v8.pdf

Launch of the NanomedicineTV

Retrospective: ETP Nanomedicine General Assembly and Annual Forum 2010

The 2010 edition of the General Assembly and Annual Forum of the European Technology Platform on Nanomedicine took place in the Congress Centre of the Cariplo Foundation in Milan on 14th and 15th October.