FP7 is composed of four key elements (aka Specific Programmes):
Co-operation
Budget: 32,365 million Euros Aim: to address
issues of fragmentation in research across Europe Mechanism:
Major collaborative research, networking and support activities
bringing together multi-disciplinary, multi-sectoral, multi-national
consortia to respond to a prescribed workprogramme of projects
to address the economic, environmental, public health and
industrial challenges that face Europe in its bid to become
the most dynamic knowledge based economy. Ten research themes
identified as priorities, as illustrated in the programme
structure below.
Ideas
Budget: 7,460 million Euros Aim: to address
the need for competition between European research teams
Mechanism: Successive Framework Programmes have encouraged
the best European research teams to collaborate. However,
if was felt that if Europe wants to increase the excellence
of its best research teams, a new mechanism was needed.
Through the FP7 Ideas programme, the European Research Council
(ERC) will seek to encourage the best researchers in Europe
to compete against each other, across borders to carry out
high-risk, high-impact, frontier research.
People
Budget: 4,728 million Euros Aim: to address
the need for more and better trained researchers in Europe
Mechanism: Building on the experiences of the Marie Curie
Actions in previous Framework Programmes, the People programme
aims to promote excellence in research training and offer
researchers the best opportunities for career development
from through international mobility and transfer of knowledge
between countries and sectors.
Capacities
Budget: 4,217 million Euros Aim: to address
the need to consider social and policy issues both in and
through research
Mechanism: Through a seven point programme
brings together various activities to structure the European
research landscape. The Capacities programme includes activities
toward the development of European research infrastructures;
to better link SMEs to research providers; to enhance networking
at both regional and international co-operation levels;
to better integrate issues of society and science; and to
provide overall support to policy development.
A detailed breakdown of the areas included
in each of the specific programmes is provided below, with
links to relevant pages on each activity. |
