Over 4,200 migrants trying to reach Europe rescued from boats in Mediterranean

May 31,  8:36 AM More than 4,200 migrants trying to reach Europe have been rescued from boats in the Mediterranean in last 24 hours, the Italian coastguard said. In some of the most intense Mediterranean migrant traffic of the year, a total of 4,243 people have been saved from fishing boats and rubber dinghies in 22 operations involving ships from nations including Italy, Ireland, Germany, Belgium and Britain. The Italian navy said 17 corpses had been found on one of the boats off Libya. Details of the nationalities of the victims and how they died have not yet been released. The bodies and more than 200 survivors were brought to the port of Augusta in eastern Sicily aboard the Italian navy corvette Fenice, the coastguard said.

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EBTC Newsletter MAY 2015 / ISSUE 37   The European Business and Technology Centre (EBTC) supports EU clean-technology companies and researchers on their market entry to India with a focus on Biotech, Energy, Environment, Transport. View this email in your browser EBTC Newsletter Share Tweet Share Forward EBTC was at the heart of activities @ Smart Cities India 2015 Expo 20th – 22nd May 2015 saw EBTC at the centre of activities for EU SME’s interested in Smart Cities in India.  Highlights at the European Pavilion: 43 European companies, from 11 EU countries (UK; France; Sweden; Germany; Belgium; Spain; Poland; Slovenia; Finland; Netherlands, and Hungary) were represented at the expo.   305 business meetings for the delegates with Indian counterparts.  22 smart city experts from Europe shared insights during the two-part workshop which attracted more than 200 participants. 4 EU-India cooperation agreements were exchanged. Read more... View photos from the event... Contact us... A busy European Pavilion inaugurated by 4 European Ambassadors was the hub of EU-India B2B’s organised by EBTC under the Enterprise Europe Network (EEN India) consortium.  EBTC organised a two-partworkshop to share European best practices, was on the panel of a seminar on solutions from Poland,  and also chaired a special session on 'Smart cities urban planning -Session with the National Institute of Urban Affairs'. 4 EU-India cooperation agreements: Research and Innovation Management Services (RIMS) with FINIBIS (Belgium) entered into 3 collaborations with Sustainable Reference and GM Hitech facilitated by EBTC Kolkata, and a third with AeroDef. The two-part workshop provided a platform for Basildon Borough Council and Aluva Municipality of Kerala to exchange an MoU facilitated by the British High Commission. Upcoming IPR Events with the European Patent Office (EPO) Kolkata, Bhubaneswar and New Delhi One day workshops on ‘Using patent information for business intelligence and IPR commercialisation’ 1st June 2015, Hotel ITC Sonar, Kolkata 3rd June 2015, KIIT University, Bhubaneswar Indo-European Conference on Fostering Co-operation in Research, Innovation and IPR 5th June 2015, Long Champ Hall, Taj Mahal Hotel, Delhi Contact us... 5 EU-India Co-operation Agreements facilitated by EBTC this month From ICT solutions and smart street lighting, to wastewater treatment, May 2015 saw exciting EU-India collaborations take place facilitated by EBTC. EBTC Kolkata facilitated four agreements: Telensa (UK) and Adapt Solutions (P) Ltd. (Kolkata, India) Oxymem (Ireland) and Qualicom Solution (P) Ltd. (Bhubaneswar, India) Research and Innovation Management Services (RIMS) / FINIBIS (Belgium) with Sustainable Reference (Delhi, India) Research and Innovation Management Services (RIMS) / FINIBIS (Belgium) with GM Hitech (Alwar, India) A fifth agreement was signed between: Research and Innovation Management Services (RIMS) / FINIBIS (Belgium) with AeroDef Solutions (New Delhi, India) Read more... Other News Connecting with cleantech SME's, clusters and innovators in Italy & Greece April 2015 saw EBTC's Regional Director from Kolkata, Mr. Suman Lahiri, head to Italy and Greece to connect with European cleantech companies and clusters and develop channels to support European organisations considering internationalising. As a result, approximately 75 SMEs have been brought inside EBTC’s network. Read more... EBTC supported Busworld India 2015 EBTC was a key supporter of Busworld India 2015 - a two day seminar ‘In the footsteps of Prime Minister Mr. Modi (India) – increasing mobility via cleaner, safer and effective bus and coach services'. Amongst other esteemed speakers, Mr. Dibyendu Sengupta (Transport Sector Specialist, EBTC) addressed India-EU collaborations in cleantech related to the transport sector. Read more... Can innovation be frugal? Thoughts from the Indo-German Economic Forum in Leipzig ‘Frugal innovation’ is a buzzword when looking towards India, however European SMEs can find it hard to internalise the ‘less is more’ approach. This was one of the outcomes of the 1st Indo-German Economic Forum in Leipzig organised by EBTC’s partner Fraunhofer MOEZ along with the German Indian Round Table (GIRT). Read more... Events Calendar 2015 View the full list of events and bookmark the EBTC Calendar Contact info@ebtc.eu In India One day workshop on ‘Using patent information for business intelligence and IPR commercialisation’ – Kolkata 1 June 2015 Hotel ITC Sonar, Kolkata One day workshop on ‘Using patent information for business intelligence and IPR commercialisation’ – Bhubaneswar  3 June 2015 KIIT University, Bhubaneswar Indo-European Conference on Fostering Co-operation in Research, Innovation and IPR 5 June 2015 Long Champ Hall, Taj Mahal Hotel, Delhi 9th Renewable Energy India (REI) Expo 2015 23-25 September 2015 India Expo Centre, Greater Noida International Railway Equipment Exhibition (IREE) 2015 14-16 October 2015 Pragati Maidan, New Delhi Intersolar India 2015 18-20 November 2015 Mumbai In Europe EU-India Smart Grids Workshop 11-12 June 2015 Nice, France CIRED - International Conference and Exhibition on Electricity Distribution 15-18 June 2015 Lyon, France Interop / TechMatch 2015 (An EEN event) 16-18 June 2015 Excel, London Trade and Investment Partnership Summit (TIPS) 2015 30 September 2015 Brussels, Belgium

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