EU Science and technology funding

The EU Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development (FP7) is the world’s largest research programme with a total budget of €53.2 billion. Based on past performance, FP7 could be worth over €7billion to the UK, about €1 billion a year. The development process of the next FP, which will replace FP7 in 2014, is underway. This POSTnote explains the FP system and current developments.

Short title:: EU funding
Start date:: 2010-03
End date:: 2010-06
Project leader:: Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology of the UK Parliament (POST)
Country:: United Kingdom of Great Britain & Northern Ireland
Homepage:: http://www.parliament.uk/documents/post/postpn359-eu-science-funding.pdf