Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren,

mein Name ist Helen Kim, ich bin Research Scientist am KIST (Korea Institute of Science and Technology) Europe in Saarbrücken.

Ich kontaktiere Sie im Rahmen des “2nd KESTCAP Top Down Forum“, das am 29. April in Saarbrücken stattfindet.

KESTCAP (Korea EU Science and Technology Cooperation Advancement Programme) ist das vom 7. EU Rahmenprogramm (FP7) unterstützte Kooperationsprogramm, das vom NRF (National Research Foundation) vom Koreanischen Ministerium für Bildung und Forschungund dem durch die Zusammenarbeit von koreanischen und deutschen Regierungen gegründeten KIST Europe Forschungsinstitut durchgeführt wird.

Anbei sende ich Ihnen das detaillierte Veranstaltungsprogramm und das Anmeldungsformular.

Sie und Ihre Mitarbeiter sind zum ersten KESTCAP Top-down Forum herzlich eingeladen.

Wir bedanken uns auch sehr für die Weitergabe dieser Informationen an Ihre Mitglieder und die Unternehmen, Firmen, Verbände und Personen, die sich für die Kooperation mit Korea interessieren.

Ich danke Ihnen im Voraus.

Mit herzlichen Grüßen

Helen Kim

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Invitation Letter: The 2^nd KESTCAP Top Down Forum

Dear Sir or Madam,

I am sending you this letter to kindly invite to the 2^nd KESTCAP Top Down Forum which will be held on 29^th April 2010 in Saarbruecken, Germany. This forum has its aim to promote Korean S&T/RTD and Korea-EU Cooperation in Europe and provide many useful facts and information in order to enhance R&D collaboration between Korea and EU.  

KESTCAP, Korea EU Science and Technology Cooperation Advancement Programme, is based on the Agreement on Science and Technology cooperation between Korea and the EU signed in 2006. It is one of the EU Framework Programme to support S&T cooperation and has been launched on July, 2008. The Main goals of KESTCAP are to: provide a platform to strengthen the S&T cooperation between Korea and the EU; and improve this cooperation by identifying the common interests of the S&T fields of Korea and the EU.

KESTCAP is based on joint Korea-EU interest and aims at mutual benefit by strengthening the S&T agreement between Korean and the EU. In order to provide the best solution for the advancement of cooperation between Korea and the EU, the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) in coordination with the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (MEST) of Korea and KIST-Europe in Germany propose a cooperative framework of the KESTCAP.

The forum consists of two sessions, Energy & Environmental technology and Bio & Nano technology. The lectures will provide the present status and prospective of the research area, examples of cooperation with Korea and expectations to foster the collaboration with Korea. You can find the detail of the program on the attached file.

The summarized information of the forum is as follows:

l  Date: 29^th April 2010 (Thursday)

l  Place: KIST Europe, Saarbruecken, Germany

l  Time: 9:40 ~ 17:00

l  Theme: Ⅰ: Energy & Environment technology / Ⅱ: Bio & Nano technology

If you are interested and think it as a good chance to understand Korean and European RTD and cooperate with many great Korean and European institutions or scientists/researchers, please fill in the registration form and send it tokestcap2010@kist-europe.de until 9. April. 2010. For more information, please refer the KESTCAP program.

If you have further questions or need more information, do not hesitate to contact me.

Thank you very much for your attention.

Best regards,

Helen Kim

Research Scientist 
KIST EUROPE Forschungsgesellschaft mbH 
Knowledge Research Group 
Universitaet des Saarlandes Campus E71 
66123 Saarbruecken, Germany 

Tel.: +49 (0)681 9382 344
Fax: +49 (0)681 9382 319 
Email: helenkim@kist-europe.de