It is the key European funding tool for research. The 7th Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development (FP7, or FPRTD) will be funding, up to 2013, excellent European research programmes, selected via themed calls for proposals. Lower Normandy’s researchers and businesses have already passed the test, whilst regional consultancy and coaching services are emerging.
Up to 2013, Lower Normandy is eligible to join INTERREG programmes. The opportunity to develop cooperative projects between European regions is consequently open to the region’s associations, research teams and laboratories, together with, subject to certain conditions, its businesses. For some, action is already underway, whilst others are preparing their projects for validation.
Europe comes to Lower Normandy! INTERREG is encouraging cooperative European territorial projects. And Lower Normandy is eligible. The news is out. Throughout the region, teams are actively rallying to develop projects
Eight Lower Normandy players are involved in one or several of the 6 European “AQUAPROTECT” projects submitted in Porto on the 5th of June 2009 within the framework of the Interreg IV B Atlantic Area request for proposals:
A shared resource on both shores of the English Channel, cuttlefish will be studied within the framework of an INTERREG project conducted by the University of Caen.
Attracting new molecular chemistry students is the challenge facing an INTERREG project coordinated in Caen by Thierry Lequeux, a member of the Laboratory for Molecular and Thio-organic Chemistry (LCMT – CNRS-ENSICAEN-UCBN Laboratory).