The 7th. European Framework Program
for Research & Development
FP7 - The 7th European Framework Program for Research & Development (R&D)
What is FP7?
The Framework Programme (FP) is the European Union's main instrument for funding R&D. FP7 will run for seven years from 1 January 2007, with a budget of around 54,000 M €.
FP7 Basic Structure
The proposed Seventh Framework Programme will be
organised in
four (4) programmes:
- "Cooperation",
- "Ideas",
- "People" and
- "Capacities":
Environmental Technologies (is a sub-topic of “Co-operation”)
Environmental technologies for the sustainable management and conservation of the natural and man-made environment;
Research will target in particular:
- technologies preventing or reducing environmental risks, mitigating hazards and disasters, mitigating climate change and the loss of biodiversity;
- technologies promoting sustainable production and consumption;
- technologies for managing resources or treating pollution more efficiently, in relation to water, soil, air, sea and other natural resources, or waste;
- technologies for the environmentally sound and sustainable management of the human environment including:
The built environment, urban areas, landscape, as well as for the conservation and restoration of cultural heritage. (*)
Text composition
Sotiris N. Papadopoulos – S.N.P,
ACE Delegate - SADAS GR
Work Group “Research,”
Source: CORDIS, Towards FP7 - http://www.cordis.lu/fp7/faq.htm#5
(*) underlined text by S.N.P