New Frontier Services brings 16 experts to Cairo to Evaluate Grant Applications under the Government of Egypt’s Research and Development Programme II

March 2013

New Frontier Services, working in partnership with HTSPE Ltd., has just completed a demanding mission in Cairo, where an NFS team of 16 experts provided technical assistance to the European Commission and the Egyptian Ministry of Scientific Research in the evaluation of Grant Applications under the Government of Egypt’s Research and Development Programme II (Egypt Innovation Fund). The evaluation work was carried out under Scheme 2 of the Programme, and covered a wider range of sectors - Energy, Water, Food and Agriculture, Manufacturing Industries, Health, Education, Information and Communication Technologies, Biotechnology, Nanotechnology and new materials, Transportation and Logistics, Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship, Technology Transfer and Commercialization of patents/ideas, and Knowledge Exchange and Science communication. A big thank you to all of the expert team for their hard work during the day and good spirits during the active social programme during the evenings!