Private companies, public organisations and individual researchers find a practical guide designed to help them to understand the EU’s key funding processes to support research and innovation and to identify the most appropriate funding scheme for them on the EU’s CORDIS-Website.
The EU has three key funding processes to support of research and innovation. These are the Cohesion policy which is funded through the Structural Funds and Cohesion Fund, the Research Framework Programme (FP7) and the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme.
The guide on the EU’s CORDIS-Website explains above mentioned funding sources and shows how the three programmes can be combined.
The Website comprises the following sections:
- Supporting your ideas,
- Finding sources of funding,
- Combining different options,
- Understanding the roles of authorities,
- Checklist for funding and
- Annexes
Finally, you can download the whole document as a pdf-file (59 pages; 373 KB) from the CORDIS-Website.
Tip: Participation is also open to third country organisations and legal entities if the minimum conditions laid down in the ‘Rules for participation’ have been met, as well as any conditions specified in the specific programmes or relevant work programmes.
A Short guideline on proposal submission and negotiation with third country participants can be downloaded as pdf-file (4 pages; 25 KB) from the EU’s CORDIS-website: Can I participate in FP7 if I am based outside Europe?.
