 While the possibility to create international partnerships are allowed by every research program of the European Commission and some US programs (such as the NSF and NIH), not all programs foresee the possibility to fund overseas organizations taking part in the project.
ICG has been working to help facilitate increased R&D project collaboration between the US and Europe. US and Europe have a long-standing relationship in R&D cooperation.
European R&D Funding Opportunities:
The European Commission’s Seventh Framework Programme
The Framework Programmes (FPs) have been the main financial tools through which the European Union supports research and development activities covering almost all scientific disciplines. The FP is proposed by the European Commission and adopted by the Council and the European Parliament following a co-decision procedure.
The 7th Framework Program is the actual version of a series of multiannual FPs promoted by the EU since 1984. Until now, the FPs had covered a period of five years, but the FP7 will cover a period of seven years.
FP7 has passed through significant changes in relation to its predecessors by simplifying its procedures. FP6, previous version of the Programme, finished at the end of 2006.
What is FP7?
FP7, the EU’s latest research programme, is divided into four specific programmes:
- Cooperation (32.4 bn): building European leadership in ten key Themes through funding research carried out by organizations working together across European national borders
- The ICT element: with a budget of 9.1 bn, the ICT Theme is the largest
- Capacities (4.1 bn): building world-class infrastructure for European researchers
- The ICT element: the e-Infrastructures strand has a budget of 600m
- Ideas (7.5 bn): an autonomous European Research Council to reinforce European science
- People (4.7 bn): strengthening the human potential of European research
Countries participating in FP7
- 27 EU Member States (MS)
- 8 Associated Countries (AC)
- International Cooperation Partner Countries/ICPC (receive funding)
- Industrialized countries, like the United States (funding only exceptionally)
Learn more about FP7 on the EU CORDIS FP7 Home Page
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