Category Archives: European Commission Funding (FP7)

Ideas & Information on European Commission FP7 Funding Programme and Calls

Overview of FP7 call 8 in ICT workprogram 2011 – 2012 (agreed version)

Call title: ICT call 8 Call identifier: FP8-ICT-2011-7 Date of publication: 26 July 2011 Deadline: 17 January 2012, at 17:00.00 Brussels local time Indicative budget71,72: EUR 785.5 million Called topics: Objectives Funding schemes Challenge 1: Pervasive and Trusted Network and … Continue reading

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Framework Programme 7 (FP7) Budget Breakdown

At the EU Competitiveness Council Meeting held in Brussels on 24th June, the Council of the European Union reached, by qualified majority a political agreement on the FP7 proposal. They also reached a unanimous political decision on Euratom (2007 – … Continue reading

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Framework Programme 7 (FP7) – Innovative Medicine Initiative

The Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI) is Europe’s largest public-private initiative aiming to speed up the development of better and safer medicines for patients. IMI supports collaborative research projects and builds networks of industrial and academic experts in order to boost … Continue reading

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FP7 Project – ISLE : International Standards for Language Engineering

Project Objectives EU-US cooperation on HLT standards will build on joint preparatory work, to support all IST themes, HLT RTD and national projects, and HLT industry, by developing, disseminating and promoting widely agreed and urgently demanded HLT standards and guidelines … Continue reading

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Third International Workshop on Semantic Web Information Management, Athens, Greece

The Third International Workshop on Semantic Web Information Management will be held from 12 to 16 June 2011 in Athens, Greece. As the internet grows, it is becoming increasingly complex for humans to efficiently find and exploit the information. To … Continue reading

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Understanding FP7 Capacities Programme

Capacities is one of the four main support programmes of FP7. With a budget of €4.09 billion, it is intended to develop the research community throughout Europe by enhancing the overall capacity for research and innovation and ensuring their optimal … Continue reading

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FP7 Funding – Objective ICT-2011 9.6: FET Proactive: Unconventional Computation (UCOMP)

 Open promotes the exploration of radically new ideas and trends for future research and innovation and provides sustained support to emerging areas that require long-term fundamental research. FET-Open welcomes submission of proposal ideas for long-term visionary research related to ICT, … Continue reading

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FP7 Funding – New ERC Initiative

Innovation is high on the EU agenda, and the European Research Council (ERC) is helping secure this target by introducing a new funding initiative called ‘Proof of Concept’. Under this new initiative, funded under the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7), researchers … Continue reading

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Europe 2020 Strategy – Smart, inclusive, sustainable growth

Europe 2020 is the EU’s growth strategy for the coming decade. In a changing world, we want the EU to become a smart, sustainable and inclusive economy. These three mutually reinforcing priorities should help the EU and the Member States … Continue reading

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Applying New Thinking to Counter Terrorism – A Complex Adaptive Systems Approach

Counter-Terrorism (CT) and Counter-Insurgency (COIN) are challenging complex adaptive systems in that they are non-linear, dynamic and rich in emergent properties. This competition seeks innovative approaches that strengthen the ability of decision-makers to: detect, recognise and predict strategic shocks and … Continue reading

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