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EARMA 2012 to Focus on EU’s Horizon 2020 Programme

The 18th annual conference of the European Association of Research Managers and Administrators (EARMA), taking place from 8th – 11th July 2012 in Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, will include a keynote address by Maire…

Dear collegues and EARMA members - As you probably already are aware, the next EARMA Event 29 February:

From Ideas to Products: The Future of European Innovation process for universities and enterprises

will be held at the

OECD Headquarters, 2 rue André Pascal, 75116 Paris…

Dear Colleagues, we thank you all for a fantastic 2011 - And welcome to 2012 with wishes for a good and prospering 2012!

EARMA took some major steps ahead with a successful Annual Conference 2011 in Braganca Portugal as a cornerstone.

A special welcome the many new members - especially to Bettina Uhrig - member no 400 - we invite you to contribute influence and change EARMA to fulfill its purpose of facilitating world class research.

Happy New Year!

Jan…

Dear Colleagues,

Thanks to all of you who participated in the EARMA event 29 in Brussels. More than 30 participants had the opportunity to meet our colleague Dr.Thomas Brunotti, from the Volkswagen Stiftung and hear his excellent presentation on working with private foundations. Our Board member Dr. John Donovan lead the following discussion on funding and strategy. Our collaboration partners from EUA, Dr, Thomas Estermann joined the afternoon session on Horizon 2020, thanks to him…

Registration reminder :

The EARMA November event and EGA will be held 29 November 2011.
Please register here RSVP.

See you in Brussels

EARMA Board

earmaorg@gmail.com

Dear members

This is just to remind you that the call for Topics for Dublin 2012 is now open.  We warmly welcome your suggestions.

Before submitting a topic, please download  the Instructions and read carefully prior to submission.  

In particular, you…

The European Research Area Committee (ERAC) organised a stakeholder meeting on Sept 13 to launch the public consultation on the European Research Area (ERA).

In her motivation speech to approx. 100 participants representing the member states and European stakeholder organisations, Commissioner Máire GEOGHEGAN-QUINN stressed that in the present difficult times she was determined to arrange the widest ever consultation of stakeholders in shaping her directorate's work for the…

NCURA-EARMA International Research Management Fellowship Program 2011

Dear EARMA members, here are the potential host institutions for the EARMA NCURA Fellowship Program:

NCURA Host Institutions 2011.See link to a detailed description here

A call for fellows will be launched soon!

Please do not forget to apply for becoming host institution: Deadline 21 June 2011

Jan Andersen, EARMA…

The Board elected on the General Assembly 23 June in Braganca Portugal held its first face to face meeting in Berlin 17-18 August.

Among the issues on the agenda was the division of responsibilities in the Board:

Jan Andersen, Chair

Susanne Rahner, Treasurer

John Donovan, Secretary

David Lauder, ERA-WG and Annual Conference Committee

Milly Perry, Communication

Ivo Bezecny, Project development

Also the revision of the statutes…

EARMA Newsletter August issue…

Dear Colleague,

EARMA has now launched the call for the EARMA NCURA Fellowship Programme.

See here for all the details.

Looking forward for your application!

Jan Andersen

Dear EARMA members, dear Participants of the 17. Annual Conference in Braganca Portugal,



On behalf of the EARMA Board, The Annual Conference Committee and our Host in Portugal and at IPB I hereby thank you all for your participation and contribution.



The EARMA AC 2011 was held with more than 220 Participants from 31 Countries. From the Pre-conference event 22 June to the EARMA Policy Forum 25 June, members, guests, chairs and speakers made a fantastic effort to contribute…

I represented EARMA at Framework an the Innovation Union, Wed. 1^st June 2011, an event organised by Research Europe. 

Since I wrote this there will have been further developments with regard to the Innovation Union.  It has been a busy (but also rewarding) period so sorry for the delay in sending this. (Alas the train in which I wrote this has no Internet connection!)

Speakers included Robert-Jan Smits, Director of DGResearch, as well…

Welcome to the General Assembly of EARMA 24 June, Braganca Portugal.

If you are an EARMA member you should have received an invitation to the Forum, where all documents are to be found.

The deadline for standing for EARMA Board member and for Auditor, are prolonged until 17 June 2011 - find the call in the Forum. If you  have any question please write to…

We are pleased to provide you with LINK June special issue.

Looking forwards to see you all at the intriguing AC in…

Delegates can expect a conference to remember this June: that was the conclusion following a visit to finalise arrangements for the Annual Conference in Braganaca.  Representing the Board, Jan Andersen (Chair), local organiser Jose Leite and David Lauder together with Anna Groeninx, Chair of ACC (Annual Conference Committee) met with the President of the local municpality, Jorge Nunes, and also João Sobrinho Teixeirathe President of IPB Instituto Politecnico de Bragança, the venue for the…

Call for expressions of interest to participate in the EUA study visit to

Technische Universität Dresden

Deadline for applications:Monday, 2 May 2011, 12.00h CET…