Specific support actions for developing countries
The European Commission has published a call for proposals for specific support actions for developing countries under the Sixth Framework Programme's 'Specific measures in support of international cooperation - developing countries' thematic priority. This is one of the areas covered by the 'Integrating and strengthening the European Research Area' specific programme. The specific support actions instrument will be used to fund activities in this area (10.6.2 A in the work programme). The general objective of international cooperation activities carried out under the Framework Programme is to help open up the European Research Area to the rest of the world. These activities represent the particular contribution of the Framework Programme to this opening-up process, which will require a joint effort by the Community and the Member States. All thematic issues within the developing countries section are covered by this call (area 10.3.1.A of the work programme). The budget for this call is one million euro in 2003. The indicative budgets for 2004 to 2006 will be given in periodic updates of the work programme.To see the call text, please visit: http://fp6.cordis.lu/fp6/call_details.cfm?CALL_ID=42