Chamber of Commerce of Milan will host the 2nd Europe INNOVA Annual Partnering Event on 14-16 October 2007. The event will link the activities and results of Europe INNOVA to major trends in society where innovation can play a role.

Europe INNOVA is an initiative for innovation professionals supported by the European Commission which objectives are focusing the priority of "Structuring the European Research Area" of the FP6. Europe INNOVA is addressed to inform, assist, mobilise and network all the key actors of entrepreneurial innovation.

INNOVAFUN belongs to the Europe INNOVA initiative through the Standards Networks (http://standards.eu-innova.org) together with other five networks DEPUIS, BIOHEALTH, EUROMIND, STAND-INN AND STEPPIN. All of them are dedicating their resources to demonstrate the advantages of innovating through applying standards and become more competitive.

More information on the Europe INNOVA Annual Partnering Event, its programme and registration is available here. INNOVAFUN will be present at the event and specially recommends the Standards parallel Session entitled "Stimulating Lead Markets through Standardisation" that will take place on October 15th from 14:30 up to 17:15.