The European Commission has published new calls for proposals July 10th 2012. With a volume of over 10 billion Euros, it is the largest funding package under the EU’s Seventh Framework Programme (2007–2013).
You will find all open calls directly on the European Commission’s online information platform for FP7: http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/page/fp7_calls.
The Cooperation programme is sub-divided into ten distinct thematic priorities:
– Health
– Food, Agriculture and Fisheries and Biotechnology
– Information and Communication Technologies
– Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and New Production Technologies
– Energy
– Environment (including Climate Change)
– Transport (including Aeronautics)
– Socio-Economic Sciences and the Humanities
– Space
– Security
In the People programme (Marie Curie Actions), the calls for the following funding schemes have been published:
– Marie Curie Initial Training Networks (ITN)
– Marie Curie International Research Staff Exchange Scheme (IRSES)
– Marie Curie Co-Funding of regional, national and international programmes (COFUND)
In the Capacities programme, a broad range of different calls have been published.
In the Ideas programme (European Research Council / ERC), both the
– ERC Advanced Grants as well as the
– ERC Starting Grants have been published.