Dear Sir or Madam,

The European Commission supports projects, such as Hungary for FP6 and IST-BONUS, whose primary aim is that of helping researchers to build consortia, prepare and submit successful proposals for the published calls. 'Hungary for FP6' and IST-BONUS are co-organizing a brokerage event in the IST field in order to ensure the success of Hungary, as well as new member states and candidate countries, regarding submissions in the IST calls. The event will take place on 16 February 2006 in Budapest. IST-BONUS is also organizing an Information Day on 15 February 2006 on the open IST calls and other related topics. The partnering event starts at 10.00 a.m., the registration at 9.30 a.m.

The EC published its 6th Call in the IST field on 22 December 2005, the deadline of which is the 25 April 2006. Proposals under this call relate to the following objectives:

•     2.6.1 Advanced robotics
•     2.6.2 Ambient assisted living (AAL) in the ageing society
•     2.6.3 Search Engines for Audio-Visual Content
•     2.6.4 Accompanying actions in support of participation in
       Community ICT research
•     2.6.5 International Co operation

Both projects offer the opportunity for the interested researchers to financially support their participation at the event. For further information on how you can benefit from this support please contact the national consultant (see the contact details below).

For participation at the event kindly fill in, and return to the undersigned, the registration form which is attached or register directly on-line at http://www.ist bonus.net/budapest. Registration is open until the 4th of February (please indicate also if you would like to participate at the Information Day). You are invited to visit the same home page between 4 and 11 February and select those proposal ideas which are interesting to you.

The objective of the Hungary for FP6 project ( http://hufp6.tetalap.hu/) is to raise the quantity and quality of research projects with Hungarian participation as partners or coordinators in all types of instruments of the 6th EU Framework Programme.

The IST-BONUS project ( http://www.ist bonus.net/) aims to upgrade the participation of competent organisations in the EU-funded research programmes in two broad areas: e- business and e-work. IST BONUS targets competent research organizations (universities, institutes, centres, etc.), innovative SMEs and mid range and large enterprises from the New Member States (NMS) and Accession Candidate Countries (ACC) of the EU.

We wish you a successful cooperation and look forward to meeting you in February!

Yours sincerely,

Klara Heilingbrunner
Budapest University of Technology and Economics
H 1011 Budapest, Gyorskocsi 5-7.
Tel.: +36-1-457-53 61
Fax: +36-1-457-53-41
hklara@info.omikk.bme.hu