Funding opportunities offered by FP7 for Cultural Heritage research

Michalis TZATZANIS

(FFG – Austrian Research Promotion Agency)

The EU policies for research focus increasingly on collaborative research, both within the EU and with external research partners. Coordinating national or European teams, setting up research networks, and increasing the mobility of individual researchers are at the heart of such policies. Bringing together research teams from different countries is also a way of countering the fragmented nature of the European research landscape.

Do terms like “FP6”, “CORDIS”, “Specific Programme”, “Call for proposals” sound rather familiar to you? Have you participated in earlier EU research Framework Programmes? If not, then this presentation might bring you a little closer to participation in “FP7”.

The complete name of FP7 is 7th Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development. It will last for seven years from 2007 until 2013. The programme has a total budget of over € 50 billion.

The structure of FP7, general rules for participation, as well as the themes relevant to cultural heritage protection, conservation and enhancement will be presented in this lecture.

This “motivation” lecture will be complemented with the presentation of contact points and sources for detailed information on the possibilities offered in the 7th Framework Programme for cultural heritage research.