EU Policy

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EU Policy Funding Programmes

• Heather Broomfield
• hbr_at_vestforsk.no

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Presentation

• Contextualise Programmes with a little on EU
  policy
• Only general information at this stage
• Culture Programme only on culture specific
• 7th Framework Research Programme
• Interreg
• eContent Plus
• eTen
• Education Programmes
• EU Programmes not just a source of funding but
  also a source of inspiration, knowledge and ideas
• Majority only 50 funded - find projects which
  complement existing work

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Lisbon Strategy

Research
Growth Jobs
Education
Innovation
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Research Framework Programme 7 2007-2013

• First call early 2007 Launch Oct. 2006 - 54
  Billion Euros
• EU goal of 3 of GDP spent on Research, USA
  currently spend 2.59, Japan 3.12, EU 1.97
• Research Programmes building towards ERA
• Cooperation Collaborative Research
• Integrated projects, STREPs,
• Ideas Frontier Research
• Executive agency, individual teams etc.
• People Human Potential
• Training Mobility for Researchers - young,
  lifelong, International.
• Capacities Research Capacity
• Building up capacity such as Regions of
  knowledge, SMEs etc.

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Themes

• Health
• Food, agriculture and biotechnology
• Information and communication technologies e.g.
  ODIN Mobile
• Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new
  Production Technologies
• Energy
• Environment and Climate Change
• Transport and Aeronautics
• Socio-economic sciences and the humanities
• Space and Security Research

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CIP Competitiveness Innovation Programme

• Brings together
• Entrepreneurship and Innovation programme
• ICT Policy Support Programme
• Intelligent Energy Programme
• 2007-2013 4 Billion Euros

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Interreg IV/Objective 3

• Goal to stimulate interregional cooperation to
  strengthen economic social cohesion
• Interreg North Sea Region
• new round of funding Mid 2007
• Themes
• Environment,
• Innovation,
• Accessibility
• Sustainable Communities

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Interreg Northern Periphery

• First call Early 2007
• New programme for SFj
• Themes
• Innovation,
• Technology Transfer,
• Environment,
• Accessibility
• Sustainable Urban Development.

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e-contentplus

• Making digital content more available
  accessible
• content enrichment making content more user
  friendly
• Enabling infrastructure
• providing the basis for the provision of the
  content challenging the legacy systems
• Digital Libraries (Major EU goal) (Museums,
  libraries Archives) Written and Audiovisual
  heritage on internet
• Up to 5 million euro, deadline October 31
• Users, content providers, technology companies

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e-Ten

• Deployment of e-services with a Trans-European
  dimension
• Exploiting services with European potential
• Bringing RD to market
• i.e. Bring the Geoshare service to other regions
• Micheal Plus distributed platform to provide
  access to cultural collections

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Lifelong Learning

• Comenius To involve at least 5 of EU school
  pupils in joint educational activities.
• Erasmus To provide EU study abroad opportunities
  for a total of 3 million university students by
  2011.
• Leonardo da Vinci To increase training
  placements in enterprises and training centres in
  another EU country to 150,000 in 2013.
• Grundtvig To help 25,000 adult education
  students benefit from studying abroad in 2013.

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Youth Programme

• Current Call - Deadline 1st July
• Innovative co-operation, training and information
  projects
• Contribute to strong cooperation between youth
  orgs and local/regional authorities
• Aged between 15 and 25 years
• 18-36 months
• Aims to develop a sense of
• personal responsibility,
• initiative,
• concern for others, citizenship and active
  involvement at local, national and European level
  among young people. 
• The programme will also help to improve support
  systems for youth activities.

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Youth Contd.

• Max grant 300k euros
• Activities
• conferences
• training activities
• seminars
• youth exchanges
• voluntary service activities
• information activities
• networking activities
• other activities

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Euro Info Centre

• Role of EIC
• EU Programmes
• Rules and regulations
• EU policies
• Can help to find partners in 300 locations around
  Europe and beyond
• Proposal writing editing
• When specific culture opportunites come up, we
  can circulate this information
• Feel free to come with ideas

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Urls

• 7th FP www.cordis.lu
• Interreg
• North Sea www.interregnorthsea.org
• Northern Periphery - www.northernperiphery.net
• eContentplus - europa.eu.int/econtentplus
• eTen - europa.eu.int/eten
• Youth - europa.eu.int/youth
• Education do google search Long urls!!