A new ICT Cluster initiative, launched in late July 2009, specifically to assist West Midlands ICT SMEs – and other stakeholders – optimise the opportunities available to them for European funded collaborations.   

Participants will initially be drawn from those working in Mobile & Wireless and RFID fields, subsequently extending to other ICT Cluster networks such as Informatics and ICT Security. Support will be available in a variety of forms including:

-       enhanced and personalised information service so recipients can learn about new and relevant funding and partner opportunities;

-       assistance with identifying potential regions and partners with whom to collaborate;

-       travel & subsistence funding to support visits to (and from) potential partner regions;

-       personalised signposting to regional, national and/or European support contacts who can assist on a one-to-one basis with your role in proposal development;

-       identifying & promoting to relevant expert stakeholders from the region specific opportunities and benefits for joining European evaluation panels, EC working groups.  

The project, which is supported by ERDF funding under Priority 4, will run to the end of March 2011. If you want to know if you can benefit or just gain more detailed information please email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it