European Tropical Forest Research Network

EC funding sources for forest research in the tropics, subtropics and Mediterranean
(focus on the first Call for Proposals of EC-DGRES, 6th FP)
By ETFRN and UK-DFID-FRP

Forest research opportunities within FP6:
Funding instruments

An overview document on Instruments available for implementing the priority thematic areas of FP6 has been composed by ETFRN (Word 31 kb and PDF 13 kb) to provide a summarised insight in the purpose of each instrument, its activities, scale, size of consortium etc. The EC also provided a brochure on FP6 instruments (pdf 86 kb), as well as a document on each of the instruments separately:

• Integrated Projects (pdf 152 kb),
• Network of Excellence (pdf 124 kb),
• Article 169 (pdf 51 kb),
• Specific Targeted Research Projects (STREP) (pdf 108 kb),
• Co-ordination Actions (CA) (pdf 111 kb),
• Specific Support Actions (SSA) (pdf 114 kb).