Background Total budget of the call: EUR 66.570.000
This Activity is addressed to highest quality or most promising5 research entities of significant size (such as University Departments, Faculties, specialised Research Institutes or important size research laboratories, with at least 10 permanent experienced researchers), established in the eligible regions. These research entities may be qualified in any S&T field within the scope of EU FP7.
In the proposals, the applicants have to provide evidence of their excellence in research and of their leadership potential in the scientific fields of their competence.
The applicants should also make clear that the organisation and management of their Intellectual Property and/or innovation capability are part of their development strategy. The enhancement of their research potential will be realised in twinning with at least 3 European outstanding research ‘partnering organisations' in the same S&T domain or in a complementary field, and when appropriate with industry and SMEs from the local, national or European landscape. The 'partnering organisations' must be established in at least 3 different Member States or Associated Countries, other than that of the applicant.
Budget
- EUR 66.57 million
Eligibility
In principle, a legal entity may participate in a proposal, no matter where it is established.
However, there are certain minimum conditions that have to be met relating to participation from the EU and Associated countries (Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Serbia, Montenegro, Albania, Faroe Islands, Iceland, Israel, Liechtenstein, Norway, Switzerland and Turkey). These conditions vary between funding scheme and may vary from call to call.
The following may receive EU funding in an EP7 Project:
- Any legal entity established in a Member State or an Associated country (including the European Commissions' Joint Research
Centre), or created under EU law (e.g. a European Economic Interest Grouping)
- Any International European Interest Organization
- Any legal entity established in an EP7 International Cooperation Partner Country (ICPC). The list of ICPC can be found on the
CORDIS web site, and is given in Annex 1 to the related work programme
A proposal will only be considered eligible if it meets all of the following conditions:
- It is received by the Commission before the deadline given in the call text.
- It involves at least the minimum number of participants given in the call text.
- It is complete (i.e. both the requested administrative forms and the proposal description are present)
- The content of the proposal relates to the topic(s) and funding scheme(s), including any special conditions, set out in those parts of
the relevant work programme
Deadline: 3 January 2012
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