New Delhi, Jan 6 (KNN)  The European Union and its Member States are jointly organising information seminars throughout India for the Indian research and innovation (R&I) community about EU-India co-operation opportunities in R&I and higher education, including mobility schemes open to Indian students and researchers.

Horizon 2020, the EU's new Research and Innovation Framework Programme, has been launched in December 2013.  Like the previous Framework Programmes, Horizon 2020 will offer a broad range of collaboration opportunities to Indian researchers from the public and private sectors.  More information on Horizon 2020 can be found at http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/.

Speakers from the Delegation of the European Union to India, European Member States R&I Counsellors and representatives of their research organisations, industry, the European Research Council, Euraxess-Links India, the European Business and Technology Centre, and more, will make presentations in 16 cities across India.
The roadshow will take place around India from 9th January to 31st March 2014
 

Venue	Date	Timing
Delhi – IIT	9th Jan	14 – 17 h
Trivandrum – Taj hotel	30th Jan	10 – 17 h
Chennai – Taj Connemara hotel	31st Jan	10 – 17 h
Jammu University (ISC 2014)	4th Feb	am or pm (tbc)
Bangalore – India Bio	10th Feb	14 – 17 h
Ahmedabad – Gateway hotel	18th Feb	10 – 17 h
Mumbai – IIT	19th Feb	am or pm (tbc)
Pune – Blue Diamond hotel	26th Feb	10 – 17 h
Goa – NIO	28th Feb	am or pm (tbc)
Varanasi – Taj Ganges hotel	10th March	10 – 17 h
Kanpur – IIT	12th March	am or pm (tbc)
Chandigarh – Taj hotel	18th March	10 – 17 h
Kharagpur – IIT	21st March	am or pm (tbc)
Kolkata – Taj Bengal hotel	24th March	10 – 17 h
Bhubaneswar – Trident Hotel	28th March	10 – 17 h
Hyderabad – IICT	31st March	am or pm (tbc)

Participation will be free-of-charge but registration will be required. The registration portal will be available in early January 2014. More information and updates @ http://eeas.europa.eu/delegations/india/eu_ india/research_innovation/2014_en.htm)  (KNN)