I am writing to inform you that the European Commission has launched its latest call for proposals under what is known as the 7th EU Research and Technological Framework Programme 2007 - 2013, between known by the acronym FP7.
The call for proposals under this prorgamme that was published on July 19th last supports research in a range of different areas including in the fields of agriculture, food, fisheries, biotechnology, nano-technology, environmental sciences, climate change issues, health, transport , security and space.
Organisations from research, educational and private sector companies can participate within these funding programmes. There must be a minimum of three partners participating within any of these specific programmes to be successful.
I would urge your university or research centre to look very carefully at this latest calls for proposals.
The relevant information can be found at http//ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/page/home or at http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/home_en.html
Always feel free to contact the local European Commission delegation office in your country for further information.
Kind Regards.
DAVID HARMON
European Commission
Member of the Cabinet of Commissioner Máire GEOGHEGAN-QUINN
Research, Innovation and Science
BERL 10/400, B-1049 Brussels
Phone: +32 2 29 50321
Fax: +32 2 29 81499
E-mail: david.harmon@ec.europa.eu
