The National Documentation Centre and the Research Committee of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki are organising an information day on the 7th Framework Programme for Research of the European Commission. The event will take place on 22 September 2006, in Thessaloniki (Makedonia Palace Hotel).

The officials of the European Commission (DG Research and DG Information Society and Media) will present analytically the following programmes/thematic areas:

• The programme "Ideas" and the role of the European Research Council. The programme will be implemented for the first time under the EU Framework Programmes and will support investigator-driven “frontier research” carried out by individual teams competing at European level, as well as by entirely national teams.
   
• The programme "People" for the mobility of researchers and the Marie Curie Actions.
   
• The programmes "Cooperation" and "Capacities" and, specifically, the following research areas: Health, Information and Communication Technologies, Socio-economic Sciences and Humanities, Research Infrastructures.

The event will offer the opportunity to experts from academia, research institutes, industry and governmental organisations, to be informed about the 7th Framework Programme before the announcement of the first calls for proposals at the end of 2006.

Participation will be free of charge