INFORMATION DAY  on
“1st FP7 joint call for ICT and Security thematic areas ”

Organized by: ARIES – the Romanian partner of the “HAGRID”  Project

Date: Tue. 18th  September, 2007    

Place: Hotel “Monte Nelly”, 1st  floor, 30, Corbeni St., Bucharest

Program:

Registration and welcome coffee  - 9:00 – 9:30

Part I – 9:30 - 11:00 – Chairman  Alexandru Borcea, president of ARIES
Opening session
•	Opening speech of the President of ARIES
•	Welcome speech of the representative of Delegation of the European Commission in Romania - Lucian Jega- Task Manager  ITC  
•	Brief  Overview of the HAGRID project – Dimitris Papageorgiou – General Manager of the project coordination institution- Q-Plan LTD.
•	About the importance of the security themes for the European research- Angelo Marino - Research Programme Administrator - European Commission (Information Society and Media DG)
•	Romanian Research within the security area, Marius Piso – President of the National Coordination Group for Research in the Security Area (Chief Executive Officer of the Romanian Space Agency)

Coffee break –11:00 - 11:15

Part II (11:15 – 13:00)- Chairman Dimitris Papageorgiou – Q-Plan- Greece 
•	Presentation of the Joint Call ICT-Security, Iulia Simion – NCP- for Security FP7, Ministry of Education and Research   
•	Practical aspects related to the Joint Call – Angelo Marino - Research Programme Administrator - European Commission (Information Society and Media DG)
•	Discussions

Launch break –13:00 - 14:00

Part III (14:00 – 16:00) - Chairman Angelo MARINO - EC
•	Presentation on ideas generation –(proposal development through some case studies) – Dimitris Papageorgiou  - Q-Plan LTD. 
•	Two Romanian selected proposals for the Call
•	Conclusions and closing speeches (Dimitris Papageorgiou, Angelo Marino)