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Businesses based within Cambridgeshire have the opportunity to gain support focused on the needs of potential high growth Businesses. This inspirational free programme includes a number of business support workshops and the opportunity to undertake a 1:2:1 business advice session with an experienced adviser from St John’s Innovation Centre, who specialise in supporting high-growth and high-tech businesses. Vist the St John's Innovation Centre website for further details: http://www.stjohns.co.uk/events

We often see the "CE marking" on some of the products we buy, but what does it really mean? Under the slogan "CE marking makes Europe's market yours!", the European Commission is carrying out an information campaign on the CE marking.

Local businesses and budding entrepreneurs from across the East of England can secure up to £20,000 to help test the commercial potential of new products or processes.

The 2011 FP7 Energy Call for Proposals have been launched by the European Commission.

The Technology Strategy Board is to invest up to £3 million in innovative collaborative research, development and demonstration in the area of wave and tidal stream energy technologies.

East of England businesses can apply for a £3,000 consultancy voucher and benefit from up to one week's consultancy at Anglia Ruskin University. The voucher can be used for in-house training, technical or business support consultancy, R&D or testing.

You know your high tech products but do you understand how to market them effectively? If you’re an innovative high tech company based in the East of England, then Exemplas can offer you a free Sales and Marketing training programme aimed to strengthen your market proposition, and enable you to communicate more effectively with customers. The programme is also designed to help you market and sell your products/services successfully.

CEBN, the UK National Partner to 2010 MSV International Engineering Fair and B2Fair matchmaking event, invites you to join them on a business mission to Brno. MSV is the leading industrial trade fair in Central Europe, with 1,500 exhibitors and 85,000 visitors.

The Technology Strategy Board, together with co-funders the Economic and Social Research Council and the Department of Health's National Institute for Health Research, is to invest up to £10 million in new research that will help underpin the development of innovative, cost-effective user-centred services for independent living.

Every quarter, we shortlist free publications on EU subjects relevant to local businesses. Read our latest selection and select the ones you would like to receive free of charge and email or fax the form back to us. Contact us to receive the quarterly selection by email.

What is an RSS Feed?

An RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is way to get an extract of the latest items from a website you want to follow. It saves you having to go back to the website and search for new items.

Enterprise Europe Partnering Opportunities

The network publishes around 50 new Opportunities each week.  They cover a wide range of sectors and they can be commercial, technical or R&D opportunities.

Up to now it’s been possible to subscribe to our website and create a keyword based profile. If you do this you get email alerts according to the sectoral keywords you have ticked. This is good, but the sectors are fairly broad and you may prefer not to get alerts by email. Everyone’s inbox is increasingly overloaded.

As an alternative we can set up a tailored RSS feed for you, based around a free text filter rather than sectoral keywords. So for example if you were interested in developing a new type of wind turbine, we can create a feed that sends you only opportunities with the words “wind turbine” in it, rather than everything from the Renewable Energy sector.

First  you need to identify the feed you want. On our website, wherever you see the RSS logo  it means you can use that feed in the reader of your choice. However if you want a feed of new Partnering Opportunities you'll first need to register on our website and then contact us so that we can can set it up for you. We will then email you the RSS URL (like a website address). Click here to register, but note that if you're interested in getting a tailored RSS feed, but not the email alerts you don't need to select any sector areas during the registration, but you'll need to give us a call to set up your feed:

Contact Andrew Goldsbrough 01707 398716 (a.goldsbrough@eeneast.org.uk) to set this up.

Once you have the URL of the feed, you can do a lot of different things with it. That’s the beauty of RSS – it gives you the flexibility to read it when and where you want.  For example you can view the feeds throuhg your internet browser or through a feed reader, or you can view the feed through you emai system (depending on which emai system you use).

The European Commission has launched a call for proposals for international projects to prepare the ground for a future EU sport programme.

The Technology Strategy Board has committed up to £8m to fund the costs of building performance evaluation studies on domestic and non-domestic buildings.

The Energie Helpline has announced three support services to assist UK organisations that are preparing a proposal for the Intelligent Energy Europe call deadline of 24th June 2010.

A list of current and forthcoming funding competitions has been announced by the Technology Strategy Board.

A new Eco-Innovation call for proposals has been released by the European Commission with a €35 million budget to support eco-innovation pilot and market replication projects.

The Energy Technologies Institute (ETI) has issued a request for proposals for a validation and demonstration project to accelerate the development of next generation technology for carbon capture through physical seperation.

The Technology Strategy Board (TSB) is to invest up to £30 millions, in coming months, in six new research and development competitions.

The Technology Strategy Board is to invest up to £10 million in new research projects that will help accelerate the development and deployment of more secure and trustworthy information systems within Digital Britain and the wider global economy.

A £6.14m project (AIMC4) coordinated by the Building Research Establishment (BRE) is engaging with suppliers across the UK to source the best housing innovations, technologies and products.

A new funding round for the SME friendly Eurostars scheme is now open. Eurostars takes a ‘bottom-up' approach to project generation. Projects can address any technological area and should be aimed at the development of a new product, process or service. Eurostars is the first European funding and support programme open to all sectors to be specifically dedicated for innovative intensive and research performing SMEs.