Calls
Financial support for research is made available chiefly through calls for proposals, which are issued for each specific programme of the Framework Programme.
FP7 is divided into four programmes. The 'Cooperation' programme will support research cooperation in a number of key thematic areas, addressing specific sectors such as life sciences, information and communication technologies and food quality and safety research. '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. A 'road map' of the planned calls for proposals can be found in the work programme for each specific programme.
Each new call is announced in the EU Official Journal and then published on CORDIS.
In addition, calls for tender are published in Tenders Electronic Daily, a supplement to the Official Journal. Relevant calls are then published in CORDIS.
CORDIS provides a comprehensive overview of the programmes, actions and calls related to research, development and innovation.
For information on the European Union's tenders and calls for proposals, please click on one of the links below.
- Calls published as part of the EU's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7), 2007-2013
- News articles from CORDIS News on tenders, and calls from FP7 and other programmes
