News archive - Energy as a Priority Area in FP7
“Energy” is one of 10 priority areas in the Specific Programme ‘Cooperation’ in the 7th Framework Programme on RTD. According to a speech by Raffaele Liberali, from the Energy Directorate of DG Research, held at the Energy and Transport Information Days in Brussels in February, the three main pillars for this area are:
- fight against climate change including CO2 emissions,
- fight for energy-sustainability in Europe and ensuring energy supply ,
- ensuring the competitiveness of European industry.
For the implementation of international cooperation two mechanisms exist:
1. Opening of all activities and topics to international cooperation
Third countries and regions can participate in addition to the minimum legal consortium. Certain topics, called “opening +”, lend themselves to the participation of third countries or regions and this is explicitly encouraged. In the first FP7 ’Energy’ Work programme the Western Bal-kan countries are earmarked as a target region for the specific topic “ENERGY.2007.3.7.1: Harmonisation of biomass resource assessment” with a deadline on June 28, 2007.
2. Specific International Cooperation Actions (SICA)
SICAs address problems on the basis of mutual benefit, shared interest and importance e.g. the environmental consequences of energy poli-cies, inter-dependency of energy supply, technology transfer and capacity building. Specific criteria for the composition of consortia apply in the case of SICAs.
Article published in see-science.eu eJournal spring 07.
Entry created by Elke Dall on June 1, 2007
Modified on May 31, 2007
