News & Announcements

The European Research Council (ERC) is looking for EIRMA Members to join the ERC Selection Panel.

ERC aims at stimulating investigator-initiated frontier research across all fields of research, on the basis of excellence.   To assess the projects, panel members evaluate the excellence of the submissions of individual teams.   Panel members should have a strong scientific expertise/excellence, as well as, generalist competence and be open to interdisciplinary approaches.

The Panels of each grant are grouped into three disciplinary domains that cover the entire spectrum of science, engineering and scholarship:

• Social Sciences and Humanities (SH)
• Life Sciences (LS)
• Physical and Engineering Sciences (PE)

To join an ERC Panel, please contact Mr Michel Judkiewicz, Secretary General at EIRMA.

Find out more on:

• European Research Coucil (ERC)
• Starting and Advanced Grants
• Panel Structure

We are proud to present the annual programme of activities for the coming year.

As a member-led association, the programme for 2012 has been designed by the members of EIRMA to tackle the innovation challenges R&D Managers are facing today.

The best way to benefit from EIRMA is to take part to the networking and knowledge sharing among members at the round-tables, conferences, outreach activities...

Have a look at the programme and save the dates of the Round-Tables and Meetings you or your colleagues should attend.
Fell free to spread this information around: all employees of a member company are allowed to join the EIRMA Meetings, and there are about 120 member companies!

We hope to welcome you soon to an EIRMA Event and wish you a very innovative year with EIRMA!
Download the 2012 EIRMA Programme

Debates, discussions, exhibition and social events will be organised to represent changes and new opportunities of innovation in a new industry and academia context at the European Academia to Industry Forum wich will take place on 7th December 2011 at the European Parliament in Brussels.The Forum is being held during Polish Presidency of the European Council 2011 and organised by the EIRMA Member EIT+.It is co-financed by the European Union through the European Regional Development Fund.

The Forum will be co-chaired by

• Lidia Geringer de Oedenberg, Member of the European Parliament, Quaestor in the European Parliament

and

• Mirosław Miller, The President of Wrocław Research Centre EIT+

Registration and Information

• Read the programme of the European Academia to Industry Forum
• Venue: European Parliament in Brussels (Space Balcony, 3rd floor, ASP building)
• Registration and Information

EIT+

Wroclaw Research Center EIT+ is a member of EIRMA.During the Polish Presidency of the European Council, they take an active role in organising Industry and Innovation related events, such as the European Academia to Industry Forum and the European Research Infrastructures for Innovation and Development Forum.

• More about EIT+

The European Research Infrastructures for Innovation and Development Forum will take place in Brussels from 1 to 8 December 2011.

The EIRMA member Wrocław Research Centre EIT+ will take this opportunity to organise a series of events that will take place both in the European Parliament as well as in Wroclaw, Poland. Programme of the ERIFID conference

The aim of these events is to discuss and exchange experiences on management and operations model of large R&D projects, as well as to discuss on European and World's research infrastructure for innovation & development progress.

More information on Wrocław Research Centre EIT+ and EIRFID Conference

The European Gender Summit 2011 will take place on 8 and 9 November 2011 in Brussels.More information available at http://gender-summit.eu/ or here.

For the first time, this Summit will bring together key stakeholders from research, industry, innovation management and policy to discuss how European innovation and research systems can benefit from more effective mainstreaming of the gender dimension. Projects, organisations and companies are invited to present their initiatives and contribute to the shaping of future models for research and innovation. Link to registration & project submission.

The Summit discussions will feed into the Policy Manifesto on Integrated Action on the Gender Dimension in Research & Innovation, to be presented to the European Commission and other key policy actors. 

Japan Research Industries and Industrial Technology Association (JRIA) hosted its Memorial Symposium on Otober 28, 2011 in Tokyo, Japan.

Michel Judkiewicz, Secretary General of EIRMA,  was invited to give a "Special Speech" to our sister organisation's audience.

The 2011 Symposium reflected on "R&D in Global Competition Era" with a focus on "Reinforcement for Japanese Industries by Innovation"

More information on JRIA

We are pleased to inform that Barrick Gold Corporation has decided to join EIRMA.

The EIT is organizing its next conference under the auspice of the Polish Presidency of the Council.It will take place in Krakow on 19 to 21 October 2011. Registration for the event has opened here.

By placing much stronger emphasis on entrepreneurship and the next generation of young European entrepreneurs, in particular students, the EIT believes that it can significantly contribute to a more competitive and innovative Europe.The overall aim of the conference is to promote an entrepreneurial mindset and culture in Europe and to receive input to further develop the EIT’s entrepreneurship and education agenda.

Should you have a request for further information or any questions, please do not hesitate to contact the EIT Headquarters by e-mail at caroline.vandenplas@eit.europa.eu

EIRMA Secretary General Michel Judkiewicz participated as a Speaker to the 2011 KAI Summit in Warsaw on October 10, 2011. On the topic "European Governance", he presented "Policies & Instruments for Research and Innovation: Necessary Synergies"

This yearly summit was partly organized in Warsaw (Poland hosting the current president of the EU) and partly at the European Parliament in Brussels.

The high level speakers came from academia and industry, as well as from the EU authorities, making it a high level information exchange and networking event. This is a large scale key event where some EIRMA members participated as well as.

More on Knowledge 4 Innovation

Release of Dr. Scott J. Edgett’s latest research report: New Product Development: Process Benchmarks and Process Metrics.The report reveals the most current and comprehensive innovation performance indicators used today, allowing companies to benchmark their performance against top organizations. With data from over 200 global companies, this research report also provides detailed examples of best practices at top innovating companies, showing organizations how they can achieve product innovation success.Additional information and resources regarding this research report is available here.

Dr. Edgett is recognized as one of the world’s foremost experts in product innovation through his award-winning research, best-selling publications and extensive work with top performing businesses around the world.As one of the creators of the world’s most widely implemented innovation process, Stage-Gate®, Dr. Edgett’s best practice research and resulting methodologies have lead to some of the most important discoveries in product innovation today.

We are pleased to inform that V-Zug has joined EIRMA. Learn more about the company here!

We are pleased to inform that Gravit has decided to join EIRMA. Learn more about the Grenoble-Alpes Innovation et Incubation here!

This confirms that their Workplace Design enables individuals and their organisations achieve their potential, raise their game and accelerate their innovation processes.

More information about the winners of this award from EIRMA member DSM can be found here.The DSM Science & Technology Awards (North) are part of the DSM Innovation Awards Program. They are awarded for outstanding PhD research conducted by doctoral students from two European regions: the Netherlands, Belgium and Northern Germany (North) and Switzerland, Austria, Northeastern France and Southern Germany (South).Over the years, they have gained a high reputation in academic circles and the contest is a major event on the international calendar.

We are pleased to inform that Hitachi Europe Ltd has decided to join EIRMA.

We are pleased to announce that Fraunhofer Gesellschaft has decided to join EIRMA.

Rob Kirschbaum, EIRMA Representative at DSM, has been awarded Giulio Natta Awards 2010. More information here.

EIRMA Individual Member Dr Georges Haour, Professor of Innovation & Technology Management at IMD in Switzerland, has published a new book. See here for more details.

EIRMA welcomes Wroclaw Research Center EIT+ Ltd as a member

EIRMA welcomes Ahlstrom Research and Services as a member

Andrew Dearing, EIRMA Secretary General since 2000, has passed away. See his Obituary here.

EIRMA welcomes SABIC Europe B.V. as a member

The European Patent Office has published a ready-to-use introduction to patents.
More information available here. (148 Kbytes)

The toolkit is available through the EPO website at www.epo.org/teaching-kit.