Acronyms and abbreviations. Find out what FP7 is about!
The "FP7 Fact sheets" will help you to answer these questions:
What is FP7?
What is its budget?
What is its overall duration?
Which research areas does it cover?
How will citizens, researchers, industry and SMEs benefit from FP7?
Where can I find more information about European research?
Moreover...
The explanations provided below are not official EC explanations. They are our interpretation in simple English of the EC jargon relating to research programmes.
For an official explanation we invite you to visit the official
FP6 or
FP7 site.
If there is any term not included here for which you think an explanation would be useful, please email it to us at
info@detect-it2.org
FP6 or FP7: This stands for the sixth or seventh framework research programmes. These are:
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large-scale,
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large-budget (€37-€100 billion research projects),
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long-duration (FP6: 2000-2006, FP7: 2007-2013)
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programmes to support new European research across a number of different themes.
Research Themes:
These are the broad headings under which the EC had allocated large amounts of research funding.
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Health
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Food, agriculture and biotechnology
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Nanosciences, nanotechnologies, materials and new production technologies
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Energy
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Environment (including climate change)
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Transport (including aeronautics)
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Socio-economic sciences and the humanities
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However if your idea does not fit under this heading, the EC also funds research in different ways. For more information visit the official
FP6 or
FP7 websites.
Work Programme: A more detailed description of the subjects for which the EC is prepared to support research are described in a document called the Work Programme. A Work Programme is available for each of the major themes of the Seventh Framework Programme.
Calls for Proposals: Over the duration of the Sixth and Seventh Framework Programme the European Commission invites any interested organisation to submit a research project through a process called Calls for Proposals.
RTD: Research and Technology Development
Cluster: EBN uses the same definition of clusters used by the EC i.e “Clusters are defined as the geographic concentrations of interconnected companies and institutions in a particular field.” (Clusters and the new economics of competition”, Harvard Business Review, Nov-Dec 1998)
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