Funding schemes

Across all these themes, support to trans-national cooperation will be implemented through:

Collaborative research: Developing new knowledge, new technology, products, including scientific coordination. Demonstration activities or common resources for research. Instruments are:

1. Collaborative projects
   

   Support to research projects carried out by consortia with participants from different countries, aiming at developing new knowledge, new technology, products, demonstration activities or common resources for research. The size, scope and internal organisation of projects can vary from field to field and from topic to topic. Projects can range from small or medium-scale focused research actions to large scale integrating projects which mobilise a significant volume of resources for achieving a defined objective. Projects may also be targeted to special groups such as SMEs.

2. Networks of Excellence
   

   Support to a Joint Programme of Activities joint research programmes implemented by a number of research organisations integrating their activities in a given field, carried out by research teams in the framework of longer term cooperation. The implementation of this Joint Programme of Activities these joint programmes will require a formal commitment from the organisations integrating part of their resources and their activities.

3. Coordination and support actions
   

   Support to activities aimed at coordinating or supporting research activities and policies (networking, exchanges, trans-national access to research infrastructures, studies, conferences, etc). These actions may also be implemented by means other than calls for proposals.

4. Individual projects Support for “frontier” research
   

   Support to projects carried out by individual national or transnational research teams. This scheme will mainly be used to support investigator-driven “frontier” research projects funded in the framework of the European Research Council.

5. Support for training and career development of researchers
   

   Support for training and career development of researchers, mainly used for the implementation of the Marie Curie actions.

6. Research for the benefit of specific groups (in particular SMEs)
   

   Support to research and technological development projects where the bulk of the research is carried out by universities, research centres or other legal entities, for the benefit of specific groups, in particular SMEs or associations of SMEs. Efforts will be undertaken to mobilise additional financing from the EIB Group and other financial organisations.