On July 27, 2010, the Joint Undertaking Clean Sky has published its new call. Deadline for the submission of proposals is October 12, 2010. more »

The Directorate General for Research will hold a special Infoday for the cross-thematic call “The Ocean of Tomorrow” on September, 9 2010 in Brussels. more »

The European Commission has published an updated version of the 'Guide to Financial Issues related to FP7 Indirect Actions’. more »

The DG Research has announced a special Information Day on open FP7 calls with particular focus on collaborative research with the cooperation regions of Latin America and the Caribbean. The Information Day is scheduled for September 29, 2010 in Brussels. more »

On July 20, 2010, the European Commission has published several calls for proposals within the Specific Programme ‘Cooperation’ of the 7th Research Framework Programme (FP7). more »

The European Commission has published two calls for proposals in the Specific Programme ‘People’ – for the Initial Training Networks (ITN) and for the Industry Academia Partnerships and Pathways (IAPP). more »

On July 20, 2010 the ERC has published the call for proposals for the Starting Grants. more »

On July 20, 2010, the European Commission has published ten calls for proposals within the Specific Programme ‘Capacities’ of the 7th Research Framework Programme (FP7). more »

The General Directorate for Research and Innovation has published an updated version of the Guidance Notes on Project Reporting in FP7 projects. more »

The EU-project "NET4SOCIETY", which is coordinated by the German National Contact Point for Socio-Economic Sciences and the Humanities, has launched an on-line consultation on experiences of scientists and stakeholders with the programme in FP7. more »

The European Commission has published an updated version of the 'Guidance Notes for Auditors and Beneficiaries - Certificates Issued by External Auditors'. more »

On July 5, 2010 the German Council of Science and Humanities (Wissenschaftsrat) released its recommendations on German science-policy in the European Research Area. It is recommended that German universities, research organizations and funding organizations shall intensify their co-operations in the ERA. more »

The European Research Council (ERC) announced the publication of the next Starting Grant call. The publication is planned for July 20, 2010. more »

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The Research Executive Agency (REA) published the ranking lists with the provisional status of proposals for COFUND and the Reintegratin Grants. more »

The European Commssion had planned a large number of call publications for 30 July 2010. This date might now be preponed on 20 July 2010. more »

After around 3 years of experience with FP7 projects DESCA developed an electronic questionnaire to consult stakeholders and invite them to give their opinion on how the DESCA model works in practice and whether improvements are needed. more »

To combat pollution, climate change, acidification, over-exploitation and biodiversity loss in the Baltic Sea, the EU is to co-fund "BONUS", a seven-year joint R&D programme initiated by Baltic coastal states Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Sweden. more »

The upcoming call for proposals within the FP 7 Specific Programme “Cooperation”, Theme 6 “Environment” (incl. climate change) is expected for July, 20 2010. more »

On July 12-13, 2010 the Environment Directorate of DG RTD is organising an infoday and brokerage events related the forthcoming publication of the FP7 call for proposals - Work Programme 2011. more »

The call for the submission of project proposals of the Joint Technology Fuel Cells and Hydrogen (FCH-JTI) within the work programme 2010 has been announced on June, 18 2010. more »

The new EUREKA Cluster has announced its first call for proposals for July, 7 2010. This year’s call will focus on the themes of „Membrane Technologies“ and „Real Time System Management“. more »

On July 8, 2010, the European Commission will organise an information day on the upcoming calls of the Future Internet Public-Private Partnership (FI-PPP). more »

The goal of the changes proposed by the European commission is to simplify access to EU funds and to achieve less administrative burden as well as fewer costs for EU beneficiaries. more »

Because of more funds made available for the second Advanced Grant, additional researchers have been selected for funding. more »

During this week's meeting in Brussels, the European Council for Competitiveness (Internal Market, Industry and Research) adapted a number of research-related conclusions. more »

The “Digital Agenda” is one of seven flagship initiatives of the “Europe 2020 Strategy” for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth. more »

The publication of the upcoming call of the Joint Technology Fuel Cells and Hydrogen within the work programme 2010 has been announced for June, 15 2010. more »

Because of the disruption of some flights in Western Europe due to the volcanic ash cloud, interviews in May will be done as Video or Phone conferences. This concerns applicants who are not able to travel to Brussels. more »

The ERC informed the applicants about the new schedule for the interviews in the domain "Physical Sciences & Engineering (PE)". The interviews were cancelled because of the Icelandic Volcano ash cloud. more »

The Reflection Group chaired by the former Spanish Prime Minister, Felipe Gonzalez, has presented their report on the challenges which the EU will be facing by 2030. more »

The expert group dealing with the interim evaluation of the Seventh Framework Programme and its Specific Programmes has been established. more »

The ERC published the number of submission as well as the evaluation timeframe for the third Advanced Grant Call. more »

The LIFE+ programme has published its transnational call for proposals on May 4, 2010. more »

The Communication on simplification of the implementation of the Research Framework Programme was presented by EU-Commissioner for Research and Innovation, Máire Geoghegan-Quinn, on April, 29, 2010. more »