International scientific cooperation in FP6

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International scientificco-operation in FP6
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Three major routes for international scientific
co-operation in FP6

• Opening of Focusing and Integrating Community
  Research to third country organizations (with
  substantial funding)
• Specific measures in support of international
  co-operation
• International mobility of researchers
• Over and above these three major routes, the
  international dimension is a cross-cutting issue
  which concerns the whole Framework programme

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Opening of Focusing and Integrating Community
Research to third country organizations (1)

• Participation to Community activities
• participation of researchers, teams and
  institutions from third countries in projects
  within
• the Priority Thematic Areas of Research,
• Specific activities covering a wider field of
  research
• Budget of 285 million Euro for third country
  participation

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Opening of Focusing and Integrating Community
Research to third country organizations (2)

• Strategic objectives
• To help European researchers, businesses and
  research organisations in the European Union and
  in the countries associated with the Framework
  programme to have access to knowledge and
  expertise existing elsewhere in the world
• To help ensure Europes strong and coherent
  participation in research initiatives related to
  issues arising at the world level and being the
  subject of international or global efforts
• Overall focus
• Community interest

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Opening of Focusing and Integrating Community
Research to third country organizations (3)

• Who can participate?
• Third countries in addition to minimal number
  of participants from Member States and Associated
  countries
• Who can be funded?
• Third countries
• INCO target countries (developing countries,
  Mediterranean partner countries, Western Balkan
  countries, Russia and the other NIS) within
  limit of budget (285 million Euro)
• Other third countries if provision is made in
  work programme or if necessary to carry out the
  RTD activity

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Specific measures in support of international
co-operation (1)

• Dedicated international cooperation activities
  which are relevant to some groups of countries or
  regions with own calls for proposals
• Budget 315 million Euro
• Strategic objective
• To lend support, in the scientific and
  technological field, to the implementation of the
  Communitys foreign policy and development aid
  policy
• Overall focus
• mutual interest

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Specific measures in support of international
co-operation (2)

• These activities will be carried out
• To complement the activities in the thematic
  priorities
• By means of specific targeted research projects
  of a limited scale, actions to coordinate
  national efforts and, specific support measures
• Problem oriented approach on a regional basis,
  policy dialogue and prioritization
• Research priorities defined on the basis of
• the interests and objectives of the Communitys
  political partnership with the different groups
  of countries
• the particular economic and social needs of
  countries and regions concerned

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International mobility of researchers (1)

• A coherent set of actions to support
  international mobility of researchers in the
  framework of the specific programme Structuring
  the ERA.
• With a view to further reinforcing the human
  potential for European research, these actions
  will aim to
• attract the best and most promising researchers
  from third countries
• promote the training of European researchers
  abroad
• Two main types of grants
• incoming fellowships with possibility for return
  ticket
• outgoing fellowships

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International mobility of researchers (2)

• Incoming fellowships with possibility for return
  ticket
• to work and undertake research training in Europe
  
• provision to assist fellows to return to their
  countries of origin in case of emerging and
  transition economies and developing countries
• Outgoing fellowships
• to be awarded to research workers from EU and
  Associated Countries to work in established third
  country research centres
• requires submission of a coherent individual
  training programme involving a first phase abroad
  followed by mandatory second phase in Europe

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International Scientific co-operationMechanisms
for priority setting

• Co-ordination with Member States to identify
  national policies and enhance existing
  initiatives, with a view to achieve
  differentiated objectives according to needs of
  EU and its partners
• Bilateral agreements for scientific and
  technological co-operation between the EU and the
  country wishing to strengthen and formalize its
  links with the European scientific community
• Bi-regional dialogues between the EU and a group
  of countries on the basis of jointly identified
  objectives.
• International forums dealing with global problems
  (e.g. AIDS, global climate change, feeding the
  world and fighting hunger)

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Further information

• General information on research
  http//europa.eu.int/comm/research
• General information on the Sixth Framework
  Programme http//europa.eu.int/comm/research/nfp
  .html
• INCO infodesk and infopoint inco_at_cec.eu.int
• International Scientific Cooperation
  Policy http//europa.eu.int/comm/research/iscp/i
  ndex_en.html
• Information requests
• research_at_cec.eu.int
• Information on research programmes and projects
  http//www.cordis.lu