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The European Commission has presented its plans to double the share of e-commerce in retail sales by 2015 through 16 targeted initatives.

The new IEE call for project proposals is open! In 2012, there will be €67 million available for funding. Do not miss the opportunity to submit your ideas for projects in areas such as energy efficiency, renewable energy sources, clean transport and local energy investments!

For further information on this call and on other EU funding opportunities please contact sarah@dublinchamber.ie

Business disputes can have a high cost when court proceedings are the only options. Proposals for an ‘out of court’ (or Alternative Disputes Resolution) in Europe are now being looked at by the European Commission. But will they be worth the paper they are written on? Give your views and experiences so that legislation will help rather than hinder your business. The Dublin Chamber would like you to fill in this short questionnaire about your experience and engagement with "Business to Business Alternative Dispute Resolution" (ADR).

This questionnaire should not take more than 5 minutes.

Minister for Research and Innovation, Seán Sherlock T.D.  announced today (12.01.12)  that the latest “Building a Business on Your Ideas” free seminar will take place in Cork Institute of Technology on Thursday 26th January 2012.

Promote access to finance and encouraging an entrepreneurial culture, including the creation of new enterprises are the core issues of the new financial support programme, tabled by the European Commission in Brussels recently.

Giving entrepreneurs a second chance at success and encouraging the handover of businesses are crucial ingredients in ensuring Europe’s long-term prosperity, according to a new study. These issues were also highlighted during the recent European SME Week 2011.

Simultaneously with the first calls of the Work Programme 2012, the European Commission is launching a new contest to reward women innovators who have achieved outstanding innovations and brought them to market. The EU Prizes for Women Innovators aim to raise public awareness on the needs for more innovation and more women entrepreneurs. Three women, who were at some point during their careers beneficiaries of projects under the RTD Framework Programmes or the Competitive and Innovation Framework Programme, will be rewarded for their accomplishments.

A small Italian cheese company supplies mozzarella to a frozen pizza maker in France. After the French company falls behind on its payments, the Italian firm stops the shipments, but it’s stuck with thousands of euros of unpaid bills. How will the Italian company recover the debt? Fraudsters can easily move money from one Member State to another, stashing funds in several accounts in multiple countries. Citizens also suffer when goods bought online are never delivered or an absent parent fails to pay maintenance from abroad. At the moment, it’s up to national law to require a bank to pay the money from a client’s bank account to a creditor. 

Ireland has just passed the €300 million point in drawing down EU Research funding from Framework Programme Seven (FP7), Commissioner Máire Geoghegan-Quinn said in Dublin at the weekend.

With effect from 1 July 2011 to 30 June 2012 EU mobile operators will again be obliged to lower retail prices for roaming calls in line with EU rules first introduced in 2007 and amended in 2009. Consumers opting for the EU-regulated "Eurotariff" will pay no more than 35 cents per minute for calls made and 11 cents per minute for calls received while abroad in the EU. This is the last in the series of regulated price cuts under the current EU Roaming Regulation, which expires end June 2012.

Since late March 2011, public procurement contracts calls are available in English on the Japanese website of Japanese External Trade Organisation (JETRO). The database uses the information published in the Kanpo, the Japanese Official gazette. Please Click here to access the database .

The Taoiseach, Mr Enda Kenny, T.D. attended the first meeting of the Small Business Advisory Group which is being chaired by John Perry, T.D., the Minister For Small Business.  The Taoiseach welcomed the initiative taken by John Perry in establishing the Small Business Advisory Group and thanked the members for agreeing to participate. The Minister for Small Business, John Perry said that “it is vitally important that as a Government we communicate what we are doing and that we hear close hand what issues need to be addressed more urgently and what measures can be considered to further support small business.”

The Ambient Assisted Living programme has recently launched its third call for proposals entitled ‘’ICT-based Solutions for Advancement of Older Persons’ Independence and Participation in the Self-Serve Society’’.

A call was launched on 22 May to support transnational projects based on the 2010 Annual Work Programme for the ‘Preparatory Action in the field of Sport’ (published on 26 April).

The latest version of the Blue FX Markets and Enterprise Europe Network Markets Currency Report is available for download.

Enterprise Europe Network Dublin would like to invite you to take part in a study that is currently running on corporate insolvencies and business transfers. If you have specific expertises in corporate insolvency, start-up procedures, business transfers and second chance, have sold your company or restarted a business and are willing to take part in this study...

The latest version of the Blue FX Markets and Enterprise Europe Network Markets Currency Report has been published.

Life + 2010 call for proposals is now open!

The latest edition of the Blue FX Markets and Enterprise Europe Network Markets Currency Report has been published.

The latest version of the Blue FX Markets and Enterprise Europe Network Markets Currency Report has been published.

The latest version of the Blue FX Markets and Enterprise Europe Network Markets Currency Report has been published.

There are many untapped opportunities to save energy and encourage the use of renewable energy sources in Europe, but market conditions do not always help. The Intelligent Energy - Europe programme is the EU's tool for funding action to improve these conditions and move us towards a more energy intelligent Europe.

Situated at the south-eastern tip of China, Hong Kong is ideally positioned at the centre of East Asia to serve as 'a Gateway to China' and other burgeoning Asian economies. On Wednesday 31st march Enterprise Europe Network Ireland and the Ireland Hong Kong Business Forum organised a business briefing on "Hong Kong - Your gateway to success". You can now download this presentation here.