The Dairy UK guide to sourcing
the finance, equipment, products, training and knowledge
for innovation
The Dairy UK guide to sourcing
the finance, equipment, products, training and knowledge
for innovation
In addition to the wide range of schemes that are operating in the UK, there are also some that provide collaboration with one of more countries overseas, and a few of the key ones are shown below.
EU Money Service
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The EU Grants Directory 2007
contains outline details of grant regimes offered by the European Commission
for organisations throughout the world.
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EUREKA is an intergovernmental initiative that aims to enhance European
competitiveness through its support to businesses, research centres and
universities which
carry out pan-European projects to develop innovative projects, processes
and services.
http://www.eureka.be/
It can offer project partners rapid access to a wealth of knowledge, skills and expertise across Europe and facilitates access to national public and private funding schemes.
It involves organisations from 38 European countries and is intended as a networking mechanism. If you have a project idea and wish to involve a business, research centre or university from one of the other countries within the EUREKA network to take the project forward, then you search for potential partners on the EUREKA website at http://www.eureka.be . Also, your project idea can be advertised on the website and circulated around the EUREKA network.
Although EUREKA itself is not a funding mechanism, it can as act as a potential partner programme for the DTI Grant for R&D, as you can use EUREKA to form collaborations and the Grant for R&D to fund the UK element of the project.
CORDIS (Community
Research & Development Information Service) is the
Commission’s dedicated Research, Design and Technology and Innovation
website. It contains all the information necessary for the preparation and
submission of a proposal and has a specific area for each scheme. There are
also links to sub-themes and all kinds of background and current information,
such as open calls. http://cordis.europa.eu/en/home.html
FP7 is the Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development.
This is the EU’s main instrument for funding research in Europe and
it runs from 2007 to 2013. It is made up of four main blocks of activities
plus a fifth specific programme on nuclear research.
http://cordis.europa.eu/en/home.html
FP7 will aim to build on the accomplishments of the previous research framework programme, and will be implemented through four specific programmes. The 'Cooperation' programme will support research cooperation in a number of key thematic areas. 'Ideas' will fund investigator-driven research through a newly created European Research Council (ERC). The 'People' programme will support training and researchers' career development, while 'Capacities' will fund the coordination and development of research infrastructure, regional research clusters, international cooperation and closer ties between science and society.
The European Commission invites bids through calls for proposals in each area, typically one or two each year. What all projects have in common is that they are innovative and relate in some way to the development of novel technology that can be exploited in the form of new competitive products, processes or services.
Any company, university, research centre, organisation or individual, legally established in any country, may participate in a collaborative project (known as an indirect action) provided that the minimum conditions laid down in the Rules for Participation in FP7 (RFP), Chapter II, Section 1, p.12, have been met.
Please click this link for a brochure setting out full details of all the subjects listed below.
Cooperation - Collaborative research
Ideas - European Research Council
People - Human Potential, Marie Curie actions
Capacities - Research capacities
To see a full list of the calls that are currently open please click this link.
For companies based in Northern Ireland, Invest Northern Ireland provides a range of services to local organisations wishing to participate in the FP7 programme. (Please see the Grant Schemes and Financial Services Available in Northern Ireland section for more details about Invest Northern Ireland).
For companies based in Scotland, Innovation
Relay Centre (IRC) Scotland can help with sourcing partners of projects for FP7.
http://www.ircscotland.net/