FP6 and PEER


PEER has an active role in European research supported by the 6th framework programme through involvement in numerous projects and networks of excellence.

Besides the four flagship projects, PEER members participate in various FP6 projects and networks. There are 17 STREP, 20 IP, 21 CA, 4 SSA, 4 NE and 1 SSP projects and networks, where at least one PEER member institution participates. The projects are listed by their starting times into three calls 2003 (35), 2004 (18) and 2005 (12). For more information, check the links on right.

Projects cover a vast range of themes such as: biodiversity, water ecology and flood risk management, effects of chemicals on the environment and human health, ecotoxicology, land and soil management, agriculture, forestry and landscape, ecology assessment, meteorology, climate and global change, remote sensing and telecommunications. Most of the projects have a duration of more than a year; the last ones finish during 2009.

About the FP6

FP6 is the European Community Framework Programme for Research, Technological Development and Demonstration. It is a collection of actions at EU level to fund and promote research. The Framework Programme intends to strengthen the scientific and technological bases of industry and encourage its international competitiveness while promoting research activities in support of other EU policies.

The FP6 budget for the years 2002 – 2006 is 17.5 billion euros. The programme supports all together some 200-300 research projects related to environment.

FP6 includes altogether 7 thematic priorities, one of which is "Sustainable development, global change and ecosystems".
There are nine different FP project types:

1. Networks of excellence
2. Integrated Projects
3. Specific Targeted Research Projects (STREP) and Specific Targeted Innovation
Projects (STIP)
4. Coordination Action (CA)
5. Specific Support Action (SSA)
6. Specific research projects for SMEs
7. Specific actions to promote research infrastructures
8. Marie Curie actions on mobility, training, knowledge transfer and excellence recognition
9. Programmes implemented jointly by several Member States (“Article 169”)

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