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{{short description|Science funding in Europe}}
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The '''Framework Programmes for Research and Technological Development''', also called '''Framework Programmes''' or abbreviated '''FP1''' to '''FP9''', are funding programmes created by the [[European Union]]/[[European Commission]] to support and foster research in the [[European Research Area]] (ERA). Starting in 2014, the funding programmes were named '''Horizon'''.
The funding programmes began in 1984 and continue to the present day. The most recent programme, [[Horizon
The specific objectives and actions vary between funding periods. In FP6 and FP7, focus was on technological research. In Horizon 2020, the focus was on innovation, delivering economic growth faster, and delivering solutions to end users that are often governmental agencies.
==Background==
Conducting European research policies and implementing European research programmes is an obligation under the [[Amsterdam Treaty]], which
==The framework programmes==
The framework programmes, up until Framework Programme 6 (FP6), covered five-year periods
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| FP1 || First<ref>[https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:31983Y0804(01) Council resolution of 25 July 1983 on framework programmes for Community research, development and demonstration activities and a first framework programme 1984 to 1987]; OJ C208 – 04/08/1983; ''[[Official Journal of the European Union]]''</ref> || 1984–1987 || 3.8
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| FP2 || Second<ref>[https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:31987D0516 Council Decision of 28 September 1987 concerning the framework programme for Community activities in the field of research and technological development (1987 to 1991)]; OJ L302 – 24
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| FP3 || Third<ref>[https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:31990D0221 Council Decision of 23 April 1990 concerning the framework Programme of Community activities in the field of research and technological development (1990 to 1994)]; OJ L117 – 08/05/1990; 90/221/Euratom, EEC; ''[[Official Journal of the European Union]]''</ref> || 1990–1994 || 6.6
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| FP4 || Fourth<ref>[https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:31994D1110 Decision No 1110/94/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 April 1994 concerning the fourth framework programme of the European Community activities in the field of research and technological development and demonstration]; OJ L126 – 18
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| FP5 || Fifth<ref>[https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:31999D0182 Decision No 182/1999/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 December 1998 concerning the fifth framework programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (1998 to 2002)]; OJ L26 – 01/02/1999; No 182/1999/EC; ''[[Official Journal of the European Union]]''</ref> || 1998–2002 || 15.0
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| FP6 || Sixth<ref>[https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32002D1513 Decision No 1513/2002/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 June 2002 concerning the sixth framework programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities, contributing to the creation of the European Research Area and to innovation (2002 to 2006)]; OJ L232 – 29
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| FP7 || Seventh || 2007–2013 || 50.5 over seven years<br />+ 2.7 for [[European Atomic Energy Community|Euratom]] over five years<ref name="fp7">{{cite web |url= http://ec.europa.eu/research/fp7/understanding/fp7inbrief/structure_en.html |title= How is FP 7 structured? from FP7 in Brief |publisher= European Commission |access-date=31 July 2011 }}</ref>
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| FP8 || [[Horizon 2020]] (Eighth)<ref>{{cite web|last=Cordis|title=The EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation|url=http://ec.europa.eu/research/horizon2020/index_en.cfm?pg=h2020|access-date=19 July 2012}}</ref> || 2014–2020 || 77<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ec.europa.eu/newsroom/horizon2020/document.cfm?doc_id=17607|title=Research and innovation funding: making a real difference|date=2016|website=European Commission|access-date=30 January 2018}}</ref>
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| FP9|| [[Horizon Europe]]
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{{Further|European Steel Technology Platform|European Technology Platform for Sustainable Chemistry|European Technology Platform on Smart Systems Integration}}
==Funding instruments==
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* Integrating Project (IP)
** Medium- to large-sized collaborative research projects funded in FP6 and FP7. They are composed of a minimum of three partners coming from three countries from [[Associated state]]s but can join several tens of partners. The typical duration of such projects is three to five years but there is not a defined upper limit. The budget granted by the Commission can reach several tens of million euros, paid as a fraction of the actual costs spent by the participants.<ref>{{cite web|url= http://cordis.europa.eu/fp6/instr_ip.htm |title= CORDIS Archive : CORDIS FP6: What is FP6: Instruments: Integrated Projects |website= Cordis.europa.eu |access-date= 2016-12-27}}</ref>
** IPs specifically aim at fostering European competitiveness in [[basic research]] and [[applied science]] with a focus on "addressing major needs in society" defined by the Priority Themes of the Framework Programme. Like STRePs ''(see below)'',
* Network of Excellence (NoE)
** Medium-sized research projects co-funded by the European Commission in FP6 and FP7. These projects are "designed to strengthen scientific and technological excellence on a particular research topic through the durable integration of the research capacities of the participants."<ref>{{cite web
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** NoE projects require the minimum participation of three EU member-nations, however,
** An NoE project should not strictly be considered as a research project, since its aim is not to conduct research, but rather to contribute to the clarification of the concepts in the covered field.{{Citation needed|date=June 2009}}
* Specific Targeted Research Projects (STReP)
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| title = OECD Science, Technology and Industry Outlook 2008
| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=AfvVAgAAQBAJ
| date = 24 October 2008
| publisher = OECD Publishing
| publication-date = 2008
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| quote = Joint Technology Initiatives (JTI) [...] are initiatives emerging from European technology platforms and are financed partly by FP7 funds and by industry.
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</ref> A specific action was the FIRST project, to foster cooperation in the area of internet technologies through the [[European-Latin American Technology Platforms]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2011-05-30 |title=FIRST: Platform technology between Europe and Latin America — OVTT |url=https://www.ovtt.org/en/first-platform-technology-between-europe-and-latin-america/ |access-date=2022-07-22 |language=en-GB}}</ref>
===Horizon 2020===
[[File:Horizon 2020 Logo.png|alt=The Horizon 2020 logo, a European Union framework programme.|thumb|The Horizon 2020 logo, a European Union framework programme.]]
Horizon 2020
The programme
From 2013 to 2020 the EU’s European Research Council assigned to UK scientists €1.7bn in grants, more than any other country.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://physicsworld.com/a/the-uk-must-stay-in-the-eus-horizon-research-programme/|title=The UK must stay in the EU's Horizon research programme|date=September 1, 2022|publisher=[[Physics World]]}}</ref>
Horizon 2020
Horizon 2020
Horizon 2020
==== Objective and pillars ====
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* The first pillar, "Excellent Science", focuses on basic science. It has a budget of 24 billion euro.
* The second pillar is "Industrial Leadership", with a budget of 14 billion euro. It is managed by [[Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs|DG Enterprise]] and based on
* The third pillar funds potential solutions to social and economic problems, "Societal challenges" (SC). The goal is implementation of solutions, less on technology development.
The structure follows the previous framework programme (FP7,
Horizon 2020 is also implementing the [[European environmental research and innovation policy]], which is aimed at defining and turning into reality a transformative agenda for greening the economy and the society as a whole so as to achieve a truly [[sustainable development]].
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The framework programme is implemented by the [[European Commission]], the executive body of the [[European Union]]. More specifically, it is implemented by various agencies, including:
* [[Directorate-General
** [[Directorate-General for Research and Innovation]]
** [[Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology]]
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==== Associated countries ====
Associated countries have signed an association agreement for the purposes of this framework programme. To date, 14 countries are associated to Horizon 2020.<ref>{{cite web|title=Associated Countries|url=http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/data/ref/h2020/grants_manual/hi/3cpart/h2020-hi-list-ac_en.pdf|access-date=2016-12-27|website=Ec.europa.eu|
[[Switzerland]] is considered as "partly associated" due to the [[2014 Swiss referendums|2014 referendums]] held by
[[Israel]] is an
[[Armenia]] gained the status of associated country and Armenian researchers and organizations can participate in all Horizon programs on equal footing with EU member states.<ref>{{cite news|title=The EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation HORIZON 2020|url=https://eenarmenia.am/en/content/horizon2020/|access-date=20 January 2022}}</ref>
==Illustrative projects==
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IMPETUS ('''I'''nformation '''M'''anagement '''P'''ortal to '''E'''nable the in'''T'''egration of '''U'''nmanned '''S'''ystems) is addressing the scientific analysis of information management requirements for a safe and efficient integration of [[Unmanned Aerial Systems|unmanned aerial systems]] (UAS) in very low level airspace. As a result, technologically and commercially feasible service solutions are elaborated and deployed in an experimental testing environment.
The expected growth of future UAS movements in rural as well as urban areas indicates the need for traffic management solutions, ensuring a normal course of trouble free operations of manned as well as unmanned aviation.<ref>{{Cite
Ensuring a scalable, flexible and cost efficient system, IMPETUS proposes the application of the [[Function as a Service]] paradigm and Smart Concepts. Concurrently, data quality and integrity is taken into account to guarantee a safe conduct of all operations. To fulfil these purposes, the project started to characterize data processes and services of vital importance for drone operations. Following the requirements derived from this preliminary studies, a Smart UTM Design is drafted in alignment with the U-Space concept, which describes a framework for a progressive implementation of services to
On behalf of the [[SESAR Joint Undertaking]], IMPETUS is carried out from 2017
Altitude Angel (UK), Boeing Research and Technology Europe (ES), C-Astral (SI), CRIDA (ES), INECO (ES), Jeppesen (DE) and the [[Technische Universität Darmstadt|Technical University of Darmstadt]] (DE).
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A network of Open Access repositories, archives and journals that support Open Access policies. The '''OpenAIRE Consortium''' is a [[#Horizon 2020|Horizon 2020]] (FP8) project, aimed to support the implementation of the [[European Council|EC]] and [[European Research Council|ERC]] [[Open Access]] policies.
{{
Open access to scientific peer reviewed publications has evolved from a pilot project with limited scope in FP7 to an underlying principle in the Horizon 2020 funding scheme, obligatory for all H2020 funded projects.
The goal is to make as much European funded research output as possible available to all, via the OpenAIRE portal.
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The programmes have been criticized on various grounds, such as actually diminishing Europe's industrial competitiveness<ref>''Financial Control and Fraud in the Community''. House of Lords Select Committee on the European Communities, 12th Report. London: HMSO (1994).</ref> and failing to deliver fundamental excellence and global economic competitiveness.<ref>H. Matthews, The 7th EU research framework programme. ''Nanotechnol. Perceptions'' '''1''' (2005) 99–105.</ref>
In 2010, the [[Austrian Research Promotion Agency]] launched a petition calling for a simplification of administrative procedures, which attracted over 13,000 signatories.<ref>{{cite web |title= Cerexhe receives petition for the simplification of administrative procedures for researchers |url= http://eupan.eu/en/news/show/&tid=323 |access-date= 16 January 2014 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20140116183508/http://eupan.eu/en/news/show/%26tid%3D323 |archive-date= 16 January 2014 |url-status= dead }}</ref> The numerous other criticisms of the petitioners were later distilled into a [[green paper]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Green Paper ''"From Challenges to Opportunities: Towards a Common Strategic Framework for EU Research and Innovation funding"''|url=http://rp7.ffg.at/upload/medialibrary/Austria_FFG_Position_GreenPaper_CSF_2011.pdf|publisher=Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG), Vienna|date=May 2011|access-date=19 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160401085103/http://rp7.ffg.at/upload/medialibrary/Austria_FFG_Position_GreenPaper_CSF_2011.pdf|archive-date=1 April 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref> In [[Horizon 2020]], there are significant simplifications: e.g. fewer funding rates (increasing the funding rates of the large companies), less reporting, less auditing, shorter time from proposal to project kick-off. In a ''[[Nature (journal)|Nature]]'' article in December 2020, Horizon 2020 is praised for being less bureaucratic than past framework programmes.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Abbott|first=Alison|date=2020-12-16|title=Farewell to
In 2021, the European Commission services introduced several simplifications in the new framework programme [[Horizon Europe]], to facilitate the work of the beneficiaries especially in the reporting phase.<ref>{{cite web |title=EU Funds simply explained |url=https://eufunds.me/ |website=EU Funds |access-date=20 May 2021}}</ref>
==See also==
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