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Southeast-European-ERA.Net Call
This first joint call by SEE-ERA.NET is a pilot case for the cooperation of the project partner countries in the field of research funding. The design of the call is based on research on the priorities and needs of the Western Balkan countries with a view to their better integration into the European Research Area.
The ERA-NET scheme is an innovative component of the European Unions Sixth Framework Programme addressing national or regional research funding or managing bodies. Its intention is to improve the co-operation and co-ordination of national research activities and thus strengthen the European Research Area (ERA).
All 14 countries in the SEE-ERA-NET project have declared that they will participate with national financial contributions to this first pilot joint call: ALBANIA, AUSTRIA, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA, BULGARIA, CROATIA, FRANCE, GERMANY, GREECE, HUNGARY, THE FORMER YUGOSLAV REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA, MONTENEGRO, ROMANIA, SLOVENIA, SERBIA.
The SEE-ERA.NET Pilot Joint Call focuses on specific thematic areas:
- Food, Agriculture and Biotechnology: sub area Sustainable production and management of biological resources from land, forest and aquatic environments
- Information and Communication Technologies: sub area Applications Research
- Environment: sub area Environmental Technologies
Applications can be submitted for:
- Research projects
These projects shall be conducted by a project consortium with at least three participants from three different countries and at least one of them must be from a Western Balkan country. - Network projects
The docking of scientific institutions/teams to existing networks and existing and ongoing R&D projects. This specific type of projects shall be conducted by at least five partners from three different countries of which two from Western Balkan countries are mandatory. - Summer Schools
Summer Schools should be organised by a project consortium consisting of at least three participants from three different countries; among them at least one from a Western Balkan country.
Deadline for the call is: March 31, 2007:
Ralf Hanatschek
Nationale Kontaktstelle SEE-ERA.NET
Internationales Büro des BMBF
Heinrich-Konen-Str. 1
53227 Bonn
Tel.: +49 228 3821-482
ralf.hanatschek@dlr.de
2007-03-31



