European Commission FP7 Funding Programme is primarily composed of four specific programmes. These can be summarised as below:
Cooperation Programme: The largest specific programme and covers a variety of topics and functions as the core of FP7. The ten themes supported are: Health, food, agriculture and fisheries and biotechnology, information and communication technologies (ICT), nanosciences, nanotechnologies, materials and new production technologies, energy, environment, transport, socia economic sciences and humanities, space and security.
Capacities Programme: To support European research, this programme assists the development of 7 key areas: Research infrastructure, research for the benefits of SMEs, regions of knowledge, research potential, science in society, support to the coherent development of research policies and International Cooperation.
People Programme: The programme aims at bolstering the careers and training researchers. This programme is widely known due to Marie Curie actions.
Ideas Programme: A unique FP7 programme, it functions as a bottom-up approach towards research, encouraging researchers to advance their ideas through European Research Council Starting Grants and Advanced Grants.
Apart from the four main programmes above, there are also 2 other programmes that worth mentioning. These are:
Joing Research Centre (JRC): Research areas for this programme are wide ranging and take a customer-driven approach supporting EU policies.
Euratom: Programme: The European Atomic Energy Community is designed to develop a market for nuclear energy across the EU and the neighboring states.
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