"3 Western Balkans countries and Turkey join EU research programme
Today, the Republic of Croatia, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and the Republic of Serbia will sign Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) with the European Commission to enable them to participate fully in the EU's Seventh Research Framework Programme (FP7). "Associated status" allows these countries, as well as Turkey, which signed a similar MoU on 1 June, to participate in all calls for proposals and compete on an equal footing with the EU Member States for research co-operation and support actions funded by FP7. As such, this agreement is an important part of the process of applying to join the EU, allowing scientists, universities and companies to create links with their counterparts across Europe and build up their scientific expertise, including in scientific fields crucial to implementing the body of EU legislation. Croatia and Turkey had already participated as associated countries in the Sixth Framework Programme; for Serbia and FYR Macedonia this is the first time they will participate in the programme in this way.
“I am pleased to see the doors of the European Research Area are wide open for all the Western Balkan Countries,” said Science and Research Commissioner Janez Potočnik. “Research cooperation with Europe's scientific community is a tool which can smooth the way for the integration process of candidate and potential candidate countries into the European Union.”
The signatories are:
The Seventh Research Framework Programme is the biggest EU programme with a budget of more than 50 billion Euros over a time span of 7 years (2007-2013)...."
Cela vest je ovde
Ovo je izuzetno interesantna vest, radi se o ogromnoj količini novca i Srbija postaje ravnopravna u učestvovanju u ovim poslovima.
Od neprocenljive vrednosti je da se kako istraživačke institucije tako i firme, posebno male do srednje veličine, angažuju kroz jednu akciju mora i obećava se sa državnog nivoa.
Meni nije poznato kako to druge države organizuju, tu mobilizaciju institucija i firmi, ali kroz posao jurenja projekata ja sam "osetio" da se neke države više trude od drugih. Npr, institucije iz Slovenije su uvek besprekorne kad se nađemo na istom tenderu (mislim u istom timu jureći zajednički projekat), a University of Maribor su, bar ovi ljudi koje sam ja imao sreću da upoznam, toliko ozbiljni i kvalitetni da nikad ništa približno kvalitetno nisam dobio kao prilog ponudi od nijednog drugog, zvučnog, zapadno-evropskog imena, a probao sam ih na desetine.
Nekoliko milijardi je već potrošeno od decembra prošle godine ali ostaje još uvek preko 40 milijardi evra u FP7.
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