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• Supporting your ideas
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• Combining different options
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Introduction

At the Community level, the Union possesses three key funding instruments to support research and innovation:

• the Research Framework Programme funding research and;
• the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme funding innovation and;¹
• the Structural Funds and Cohesion Fund funding the Cohesion policy.

This Practical Guide was conceived in order to help potential beneficiaries of our programmes find their way through the three funding instruments and identify the most appropriate funding scheme for them. It:

• provides a concise description of the three funding sources;
• explains how they can in practice be combined and;
• provides policy makers with advice on setting up mechanisms at the national and regional levels to foster co-ordinated access to them.