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)

Co-ordination activities (ERA-NET)

Co-ordination activities (ERA-NET) under Program III: Strengthening the ERA (24 million Euro).
Call period: 17 December 2002 - 3 June 2003, 2 March 2004, 5 October 2004, etc.
The objective is to enhance the cooperation and coordination of research activities carried out at national or regional level in the Member States and Associated States through the networking of research activities conducted at national or regional level, and the mutual opening of national and regional research programmes.
External links: http://www.cordis.lu/coordination/home.html and http://www.cordis.lu/coordination/era-net.htm
Required: min. 3 individual legal entities from 3 different member- or associate states

To prepare a proposal you need the following documents:

• Complete overview by ETFRN, Word (29 kb) and PDF (9 kb)
• Reading guide: Summary by ETFRN, Word (26 kb) and PDF (8 kb)
• Call text full (PDF, 388 kb)*
• Call text extract (PDF, 102 kb)
• Corrigendum to call (PDF, 74 kb)
• Work programme Word (308 kb) and PDF (115 kb)
• Guide for proposers: co-ordination activities Word (444 kb) and PDF (202 kb)
• FP6 in brief Word (283 kb) and PDF (144 kb)

Suggested reading: Some sugestions for the preparation of an ERA-NET, Coordination Action, PDF (128 kb)

*Note: the full call text is the same for SME, Global change and ecosystems, INCO-DEV, Policy-oriented research and ERA-NET.