For additional funding opportunities, financial resources from the 'Cooperation' work programmes will be provided.

The aims of these further funding measures are diverse and range from flexible and small to comprehensive initiatives involving stakeholders like Member States and industrail players as sponsors. Such activities comprise calls for proposals which are published within the respective initiatives.

These additional funding opportunities cover:

• Coordination activities of regional and national programmes up to building strategic joint programme initiatives:

   

  • ERA-NETs
  • Actions according to Art. 185 TFEU
  • Joint Programming Initiatives (JPI)
• Public-Private-Partnerships for support and strategic development of important European fields of technology:

   

  • Public-Private Partnerships (PPP)
  • Joint Technology Initiatives (JTI, Art. 187 TFEU)
• European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT)

In addition to the funding possibilities of the 7th Framework Programme there are more EU programmes and complementary grants:

• Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme (CIP)
• European Regional Policy

as well as thematically focussed EU-funding programmes:

• LIFE+ (L’Instrument Financier pour l’Environnement: Promouvoir L’ Union Soutenable), supporting environmental issues only