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)

Small and Medium sized Enterprises (SME)

Special Programme 9. Horizontal research activities involving Small and Medium sized Enterprises (SME) under Program I: Focussing and Integrating ERA
Call period: 17 December 2002 - 29 April 2003 (first stage) and 27 November 2003
Required: min. 5 individual legal entities from min. 3 different member- or associate states

• Co-operative research (CRAFT, 330 million Euro)
• Collective Research (100 million Euro)
• External link: http://www.cordis.lu/fp6/sme.htm

To prepare a proposal you need the following documents:

• Complete overview by ETFRN, Word (28 kb) and PDF (9 kb)
• Reading guide: Summary by ETFRN, Word (26 kb) and PDF (8 kb)
• EC presentation Power Point Presentation (82 kb) and PDF (30 kb)
• Call text full (PDF, 388 kb)*
• Call text extract (PDF, 108 kb)
• Corrigendum to call (PDF, 74 kb)
• Work programme Word (260 kb) and PDF (260 kb)
• Guide for proposers: co-operative research projects (CRAFT) Word (509 kb) and PDF (204 kb)
• FP6 in brief Word (283 kb) and PDF (144 kb)

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