CISTER researcher Luis Miguel Pinho participated in the ICT Proposers’ Day 2016, an event that took place in Bratislava, Slovakia on 27th and 28th September 2016 to promote European ICT Research & Innovation, focusing on the Horizon 2020 Work Programme for 2017.
The event offered an exceptional opportunity to build quality partnerships as it connected academia, research institutes, industrial stakeholders, SMEs and government actors from all over Europe. Several thousand participants discussed the 2017 ICT project calls, including topics in Leadership in Enabling and Industrial Technologies, such as low-power embedded computing, big data research, internet of things, and in Societal Changes, such as energy efficiency and smart cities.
During the event Miguel also participated in several meetings related to the ongoing initiatives targeting some of the calls of the work program, also taking the opportunity to discuss and clarify with European Commission and Portuguese officials the Work Programme.