Le 7ème PCRD

Budget total : 50,5 Milliards d’euros (2007-2013)

L’Union Européenne apporte un soutien financier aux projets innovants dans le cadre du 7ème Programme-Cadre pour la recherche et le développement technologique (7PC), dont le budget total s’élève à 50,5 Milliards d’euros (2007-2013).

Les Programmes proposés dans le cadre du 7PC répondent aux besoins économiques et sociaux de l’Union et ont pour but, en accord avec la stratégie de Lisbonne et de Göteborg, de renforcer la compétitivité et le développement durable de l’Union Européenne en y associant les pays nouvellement entrés dans l’UE. L’objectif du 7ème PC est également de poursuivre les efforts lancés dans le 6ème PCRD pour construire l’Espace Européen de la Recherche, avec un volet nouveau destiné à renforcer les liens avec la Politique de Cohésion de l’Union.

Les Programmes Spécifiques sont présentés dans la version anglaise de cette Page.

Les informations présentées proviennent du site Cordis : http://cordis.europa.eu

The 7th Framework Programme (FP7)

Total budget 50,5 billion euros (2007-2013)

European funding is available through proposals submitted to the European Commission in all economic areas as outlined in the seventh Framework Programme (FP7), which represents a budget of 50,5 billion euros (2007-2013). Global objectives of FP7 are to meet the major societal and economic challenges of the EU integrating the new members, and to reinforce the competitiveness and the sustainable development of the EU in line with the Lisbon and Göteborg strategy. Another key objective is to continue the building up of the European Research Area (ERA) and especially to strengthen the links with the Cohesion Policy of the Community (support the research potential of European regions undergoing structural and economic changes).

• COOPERATION : cooperation between industry and academia in key technology areas subdivided in 10 themes related to the most important fields of knowledge and technology :
  - health
  - food, agriculture and fisheries, biotechnologies
  - information and communication technologies
  - nanosciences, nanotechnologies, materials and new production technologies
  - energy
  - environment (including climate change)
  - transport (including aeronautics)
  - socio-economic sciences and the humanities
  - space
  - security
• PEOPLE : support for mobility and career development of researchers
  continuing the successful experience of Marie Curie actions, with a new focus on industrial participation
• IDEAS : support frontier research
  supporting creative scientific research, more risky in its nature
• CAPACITIES : enhance research and innovation capacities
  6 broad areas, among them establishing tight links with Objectives of the Cohesion Policy (see Page on Regional Development) :
  - research infrastructures
  - research for the benefit of SMEs
  - regions of knowledge
  - research potential of CONVERGENCE regions
  - science in society
  - support to the coherent development of research policies
  - international cooperation

• WHO MAY PARTICIPATE ?

The origin of the present information is the Cordis website :http://cordis.europa.eu

See hereunder the summary of 6FP for information :

• Thematic Areas eligible for funding under FP6 were :

- Life sciences, genomics and biotechnology for health
- Information society technologies
- Nanotechnologies and nano-sciences, knowledge-based functional materials, new production processes and devices
- Aeronautics and space
- Food quality and safety
- Sustainable development, global change and ecosystems
- Citizens and governance in a knowledge-based society

• Structuring the European Research Area (ERA) was a central focus of FP6 :

It comprised Marie Curie actions – activities concerning human resources and mobility of researchers.

• Cross-cutting Research activities

They were also part of FP6, with specific SME activities (such as CRAFT) and specific international activities (INCO).

• Calls were open to :

All countries belonging to the European Union and to those which are associated to Framework Programme : Israël, Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Republic of Cyprus, Bulgaria, Romania…

Enlargement became a reality with all Candidate Countries participating on an equal basis with EU countries.

• FP6 differed from FP5 on several aspects, among them :

The implementation of new instruments such as Networks of Excellence and Integrated Projects broadened international scientific cooperation, for example :

Participation of Russia and New Independent States :

- Consortium of FP6 projects could include participants from these countries but their financing was supported in the limits of the budget available for international cooperation activities in the context of thematic priorities. It means that this was checked project by project.

- Concerning Marie Curie actions : participation and funding of researchers from these countries was foreseen in most mobility schemes.