The second call for proposals of the CIP ICT Policy Support Programme will open on 29 April 2008 and close on 9 September 2008. The evaluation of the proposals, assisted by independent experts, will take place in early October. Communication of selection results to proposers and start of negotiations are foreseen for November 2008.

The draft work programme which has been approved by the programme committee can be downloaded from the ICT PSP website. The opening of this second call will follow the formal adoption by the European Commission of the Work Programme for 2008.

Please pencil in your agenda 23 April 2008 as the date for an Information Day on the ICT PSP call for proposals 2008, which will be held in Brussels.

More information can be obtained from the ICT PSP website at: http://ec.europa.eu/ict_psp