Companies providing new and innovative technologies have quite an opportunity in a growing market.

SecureCHAINS is a project and a consortium of 11 companies within the European 7th Framework

Research program with three main objectives:

• To identify gaps in the European Security Technology Supply Chain

• To engage companies to fill those gaps providing innovative technologies

• To promote the participation of SME`s in FP 7

The CSP EU Forum is a European conference on Cyber Security and Privacy organized by Effectsplus, in coordination with the Trust and Security Unit of DG INFSO.

The CSP EU Forum aims to bring together Cyber Security and Privacy experts in academia, industry and government as well as practitioners, standards developers and policy makers, in order to engage in a discussion about common goals and explore important research directions in the field. The CSP EU Forum also serves as a venue for learning about state-of-the-art in security and privacy research, giving delegates the opportunity to network with experts in the field.

The event will take place from 24th to 25th April in Berlin, Germany.

Further information:

www.cspforum.eu

On November 30th the European Commission has adopted its proposal for the next Framework Programme for Research and Innovation “Horizon 2020” that will run from 2014 to 2020 with a proposed total budget of €80 billion.

Horizon 2020 shall have the three mutually reinforcing strategic objectives described below, supporting the whole spectrum of activities of research, technological development, demonstration and innovation, including the dissemination and optimisation of results.