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Post an EU jobCreating European centres of excellence, establishing a European Research Council for basic research and boosting researchers' careers are among the proposed objectives for the next EU Framework Programme.
Research Framework Programmes are the EU's main financial and legal instruments to implement the European Research Area (ERA), which is now high on the policy agenda and part of the strategy for meeting the goal of increasing investment in research to 3 per cent by 2010 as laid down by the Barcelona Summit in March 2002.
Although the current 6th Framework Programme (FP6) will still run until 2006, debates have already started on the budget, structure and priorities of the 7th Framework Programme (FP7). The Commission on 16 June adopted a 'Communication on the future of science and technology' in Europe, outlining its main priorities for FP7.
In line with its proposals for the 'financial perspective' (see EurActiv 19 February 2004), the Commission has proposed to increase the EU's research funding to an average of ten billion euro a year for the 7th Research Framework Programme (2006-2010). This would represent an increase of 100 per cent compared to the current Framework Programme.
In the communication, the Commission outlines six major objectives of EU action in the field of research.
2. Launching European technological initiatives in promising industrial sectors such as energy, transport, mobile communications, embedded systems and nanoelectronics. 'Technology platforms' are being set up to bring together stakeholders to define a common research agenda.
3. Stimulating basic research by setting up a 'European Research Council', which would select projects on the basis of scientific excellence, without any obligation for transnational collaboration.
4. Making Europe more attractive for researchers by promoting the development of science careers. A special emphasis will be put on attracting young people to science, boosting the participation of women, knowledge transfer, international mobility and life-long learning.
5. Developing research infrastructure of European interest using a similar mechanism to the one used for the trans-European networks (TENs).
6. Strengthening co-ordination between national research programmes, as well as ties between European intergovernmental research organisations (such as CERN or the EMBO) and the EU.
At the beginning of 2005, the Commission will present its proposal on FP7, including its suggestions for thematic research priorities, two of which have already been identified in the current communication: space and security.
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