In the context of the EU's Bilateral Cooperation with Industrialised Countries, the Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA) will organise the next Project Directors' Conference in Brussels on 21-23 March 2012, at the European Management Centre (Rue de l'Aqueduc 118).

Those projects that have been funded by the following bilateral programmes: EU-US ATLANTIS, EU-Canada or ICI ECP (EU- Australia/Japan/New Zealand/ Republic of Korea) and are still on-going, are invited to the conference (namely the following projects: US ATLANTIS TD and US EIM 2008, 2009 and 2010, POM 2010, EU-CANADA CANTEP and CANTDP 2009 and 2010 and ICI ECP 2009 and 2010).

The objective of this event is to share experience and achievements of the bilateral projects funded by the bilateral cooperation programmes. This conference will also facilitate organising of consortia meetings and meeting of representatives from the funding offices.

The conference will start on 22 March at 9.30h. and finish on 23 March towards 16h. On the EU side, the conference will be preceded on 21 March in the afternoon (as of 14.30 h.) by the meeting with the EU's project coordinators to brief them about contractual and administrative requirements.

The University of Granada, as the representative of the EU Lead organisation, will receive an official invitation. Please note that the number of participants will be restricted to 4 persons per project.