EC announces €30 million for joint research programming in metrology and the Baltic ecosystem
The Commission announced that it will contribute 30 € million to two new and
important joint programming activities involving a substantial number of
Member States (MS). These activities will ultimately result in a
considerable number of MS organising joint calls in the areas of metrology
and the Baltic sea. These actions, known as ERA-NET Plus and
developed under the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7), will help to
structure the European Research Area and enhance the scale of Europe's
common research efforts. iMERA-Plus, bringing together 32 national metrology
institutions, will receive €21m from FP7, with Member States contributing a
further €42 to carry out research into precise and reliable measurements.
The European Commission will also allocate €9 million to BONUS+, a research
programme to develop an ecosystem-based approach to management of the Baltic
Sea, which will involve 8 Member States that border the Baltic, and Russia.
The countries concerned will contribute a further €18.7 million.
The ERA-NET scheme is designed to develop and strengthen the coordination of
national and regional research programmes through two specific
actions:
* 'ERA-NET actions' - providing a framework for actors
implementing public research programmes to coordinate their activities e.g.
by developing joint activities or by mutually supporting joint calls for
trans-national proposals.
* 'ERA-NET Plus actions' - providing, in a limited number
of cases with high European added value, additional EU financial support to
facilitate joint calls for proposals between national and/or regional
programmes.
Under the ERA-NET scheme, national and regional authorities identify
research programmes they wish to coordinate or open up mutually. The
participants in these actions are therefore typically ministries or regional
authorities defining research programmes or research councils or other
research funding agencies managing research programmes.
For more information on the ERA-NET Plus Actions please visit the FP7
website: http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/coordination/home_en.html
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News type | Inbrief |
File link |
http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/08/9&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en |
Source of information | RAPID press releases |
Keyword(s) | EU-INCO-MED, FP7, ERA-NET plus |
Subject(s) | POLICY-WATER POLICY AND WATER MANAGEMENT , RISKS AND CLIMATOLOGY |
Relation | http://www.emwis.net/documents/fol195274/infosyst/doc414460 |
Geographical coverage | Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Sweden, Russian Federation |
News date | 14/01/2008 |
Working language(s) | ENGLISH |