1. National Contact Points Austria: FFG: Birgit Mayer, birgit.mayer@ffg.at; +43 5 7755 1305 BMWA: Christian Listabarth, christian.listabarth@ffg.at; +43 5 7755 1701 Finland: Tekes: Raimo Pakkanen, raimo.pakkanen@tekes.fi; +358 10 605 5829 France: Oseo: Marielle Mailhes, marielle.mailhes@oseo.fr; tel. +33 1 41 79 91 35 Germany: FZJ: Stefan Lampel, s.lampel@fz-juelich.de; +49 2461 61 4817 Hungary: Not available yet Italy: IPI: Valentina Milazzo, info-etb@riditt.it; +39 06 809 72 517 MSE: Vanda Ridolfi, vanda.ridolfi@sviluppoeconomico.gov.it; +39 06 549 27 728 The Netherlands: SenterNovem: Yulia Gerhardt, y.gerhardt@senternovem.nl; +31 70 3735 904 SenterNovem: Elvis Biekman, e.biekman@senternovem.nl; +31 70 373 5223 Basque Country (Spain): Innobasque: Garbiñe Larrauri, glarrauri@innobasque.com; +34 94 420 94 88 ITT: Arturo Antón, aanton@spri.es; +34 94 403 70 38 Catalonia (Spain): ACC1Ó-CIDEM: Ivón Landa, ilanda@cidem.gencat.net; +34 93 476 73 19 Madrid: Not available yet Flanders (Belgium): IWT: Dirk Veelaert, etb@iwt.be; +32 2 788 15 65 Wallonia (Belgium): DGTRE: Julie Jasmes, j.jasmes@mrw.wallonie.be; +32 (0) 474 58 02 39, ETB Office: ETB-Office: Johanna Furuhjelm, johanna.furuhjelm@innomedica.fi; +358-9-5637 3208 4 th Call for Proposals EUROpean network of TRANS-national RTD for SME’s in the field of BIOtechnology The EUROTRANS-BIO Members Contact EUROTRANS-BIO http://www.eurotransbio.net ETB Office (Helpdesk)

2. The EUROTRANS- BIO Initiative EUROTRANS-BIO 4 th Call Key-data EUROTRANS-BIO (ETB) was established as an ERA-NET initiative of the European Commission. EUROTRANS-BIO is an initiative between government research and development funding bodies in Austria, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, The Netherlands, Basque Country and Catalonia and Madrid (Spain), Flanders and Wallonia (Belgium). EUROTRANS-BIO’s goal is to establish cross-border partnerships between SMEs, improve and accelerate technology transfer, strengthen European efforts to achieve sustainable industrial development in the field of biotechnology. EUROTRANS-BIO launches common calls for industry-driven trans-national R&D projects to create an integrated funding programme for biotech SMEs. Since 2004 three common calls with an overall budget of >104 Mio € have been implemented. The 4th joint call for international projects of the EUROTRANS-BIO initiative will open on January 7 th 2009. The deadline for submitting proposals is April 27 th 2009. Funding will be offered to excellent innovative industrial R&D and applied research projects in all fields of biotechnology. Consortia consisting of at least two SMEs from two different participating countries can apply for ETB funding. The overall budget of the call is more than 30 million Euros. Each applicant should have contacted his/her national funding agency before submitting. EUROTRANS-BIO 4 th Call Application Procedure Project Planning Deadline: 27 April 2009 September 2009 Project Building Applicants contact National Agency Electronic Submission of PROPOSAL to ETB Office Eligibility Check International Technological and Economic Evaluation ETB Recommendation for Funding National Funding Decision Project Start From October 2009 http://www.eurotransbio.net Call opens January 7 th 2009