The FP7 project SOAP (Study of Open Access Publishing), a two-year project funded by the FP7 Science in Society programme, has launched a survey seeking views on open access publishing. more »

BiodivERsA has announced its second call for international research proposals on biodiversity and ecosystem services. The launch of the call is scheduled for October 2010 with a closing date at the end of January 2011. more »

For the domains 'Life Sciences' (LS) and 'Social Sciences & Humanities' (SH) the Electronic Proposal Submission Service (EPSS) for the registration of the applicants and the submission of the proposals is now available. more »

For the current Starting Grant call of the European Research Council (ERC), the Electronic Electronic Proposal Submission Service (EPSS) for the registration and submission of the proposal has been opened for the domain 'Physical Sciences & Engineering' (PE). more »

The European Research Council (ERC) has published today the Guide for Applicants for the current Starting Grant call. more »

On July 27, 2010, the Joint Undertaking Clean Sky has published its new call. Deadline for the submission of proposals is October 12, 2010. more »

The Directorate General for Research will hold a special Infoday for the cross-thematic call “The Ocean of Tomorrow” on September, 9 2010 in Brussels. more »

The European Commission has published an updated version of the 'Guide to Financial Issues related to FP7 Indirect Actions’. more »

The DG Research has announced a special Information Day on open FP7 calls with particular focus on collaborative research with the cooperation regions of Latin America and the Caribbean. The Information Day is scheduled for September 29, 2010 in Brussels. more »

On July 20, 2010, the European Commission has published several calls for proposals within the Specific Programme ‘Cooperation’ of the 7th Research Framework Programme (FP7). more »

The European Commission has published two calls for proposals in the Specific Programme ‘People’ – for the Initial Training Networks (ITN) and for the Industry Academia Partnerships and Pathways (IAPP). more »

On July 20, 2010 the ERC has published the call for proposals for the Starting Grants. more »

On July 20, 2010, the European Commission has published ten calls for proposals within the Specific Programme ‘Capacities’ of the 7th Research Framework Programme (FP7). more »

The General Directorate for Research and Innovation has published an updated version of the Guidance Notes on Project Reporting in FP7 projects. more »

The EU-project "NET4SOCIETY", which is coordinated by the German National Contact Point for Socio-Economic Sciences and the Humanities, has launched an on-line consultation on experiences of scientists and stakeholders with the programme in FP7. more »

The European Commission has published an updated version of the 'Guidance Notes for Auditors and Beneficiaries - Certificates Issued by External Auditors'. more »

On July 5, 2010 the German Council of Science and Humanities (Wissenschaftsrat) released its recommendations on German science-policy in the European Research Area. It is recommended that German universities, research organizations and funding organizations shall intensify their co-operations in the ERA. more »

The European Research Council (ERC) announced the publication of the next Starting Grant call. The publication is planned for July 20, 2010. more »

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The Research Executive Agency (REA) published the ranking lists with the provisional status of proposals for COFUND and the Reintegratin Grants. more »

The European Commssion had planned a large number of call publications for 30 July 2010. This date might now be preponed on 20 July 2010. more »

After around 3 years of experience with FP7 projects DESCA developed an electronic questionnaire to consult stakeholders and invite them to give their opinion on how the DESCA model works in practice and whether improvements are needed. more »

To combat pollution, climate change, acidification, over-exploitation and biodiversity loss in the Baltic Sea, the EU is to co-fund "BONUS", a seven-year joint R&D programme initiated by Baltic coastal states Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Sweden. more »

The upcoming call for proposals within the FP 7 Specific Programme “Cooperation”, Theme 6 “Environment” (incl. climate change) is expected for July, 20 2010. more »

On July 12-13, 2010 the Environment Directorate of DG RTD is organising an infoday and brokerage events related the forthcoming publication of the FP7 call for proposals - Work Programme 2011. more »

The call for the submission of project proposals of the Joint Technology Fuel Cells and Hydrogen (FCH-JTI) within the work programme 2010 has been announced on June, 18 2010. more »

The new EUREKA Cluster has announced its first call for proposals for July, 7 2010. This year’s call will focus on the themes of „Membrane Technologies“ and „Real Time System Management“. more »

On July 8, 2010, the European Commission will organise an information day on the upcoming calls of the Future Internet Public-Private Partnership (FI-PPP). more »

The goal of the changes proposed by the European commission is to simplify access to EU funds and to achieve less administrative burden as well as fewer costs for EU beneficiaries. more »