The Seventh Framework Programme

With a budget of over 50 billion, FP7 ran from 2007 to 2013, in line with the financial perspectives of the EU. Thus, FP7 was the largest publicly funded research programme in the world both in terms of budget and time covered [48]. 

The decision to align FP7 to financial perspectives resulted in extending the time frame to 7 years, and this gave the EC the possibility of gaining more experience of the ongoing FP and to have time for the evaluation and proper assessment of results, before starting the preparation of the next FP. 

FP7 was based on four major specific programmes cooperation ( 32.413 million). 

The Cooperation Programme, which aims to foster collaborative and transnational research on policy defined themes, according to a top-down approach, was clearly prioritised in terms of financing it absorbed nearly 65% of the overall budget. 

Health was a major theme of the Cooperation Programme and the EU earmarked a total of 6.1 billion for funding it over the duration of FP7, in order to support new medical technologies using, among others, new materials and biopolymers. 

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The EUSAAR project of the Sixth Framework Programme of the European Commission is one of the steps towards a reliable and quality-controlled network of measurements [16]. The EUSAAR project improved and homogenized 20 European sites for measuring aerosol chemical, physical, and optical properties following a standardized protocol of instrument maintenance, measurement procedures, and data delivery in common format to a common database. EUSAAR also provided intercomparison and calibration workshops as well as training for the station operators. The work started in the EUSAAR is continued in ACTRIS infrastructure of the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Commission. 

Decision 1982/2006/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 December 2006 concerning the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007-2013), Official Journal of the European Union, 30 December 2006, L412, p.l... 

Interim Evaluation of the Seventh Framework Programme, Report of the Expert Group, 2010. 

This work was supported by the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Czech Republic and by a European Commission financial contribution within the Seventh Framework programme, under the contract 211267 ACSEPT . 

The authors would like to thank the European Community for the support given within the Seventh Framework Programme, Contract No. 228296. The authors also thank Ulrike Kroner, Mathieu Eslier, and Jens Hiihner for sample preparation, measurements, and data evaluation. 

The research presented in this chapter was conducted within the context of the SAFEWAY2SCHOOL (SAFEWAY2SCHOOL) project Integrated system for safe transportation of children to school , funded by the Research Directorate General of the European Union under the Seventh Framework Programmer for Research and Technological Development. 

F. Laoutid thanks Region Wallonne and the European Union (FEDER, FSE) for financial support in the frame of Fonds structurels europeens 2007-2013-FEDER Convergence and EU Seventh Framework Programme FP7. ... 

The authors acknowledge the financial support from the European Community s Seventh Framework Programme [FP7/2007-2013) under NMP grant agreement n° 280604. 

Research activities in the kb are supported by Ministero dell Istruzione delTUniversita e della Ricerca (PIRB projects), the Italian Association for Cancer Research (AIRC), and the European Community s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7-2007-2013) under grant agreement HEALTH-F4-2011-281608 (TIMER). 

Acknowledgments This research leading to these results was supported in part by the Eun )ean Community s Seventh Framework Programme [FE 7 007-2013] under grant agreement no. 227887 [SERffiS],... 

Community s Seventh Framework Programme [FP7/2007-2013] for access to Turner Beam Centrifuge, Cambridge, UK, under Grant Agreement n° 227887 [SERIES]. The first author also would like to acknowledge the valuable assistance of the technicians at the Schofield Centre, as well as the research scholarship provided by FCT - Fundaqao para Ciencias e a Tecnologia. 

Some of the research in this chapter received funding from the European Union Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007—2013) under grant agreement no. 613931. 

This work has been supported by the European Community s Seventh Framework Programme under project DISC (Grant Agreement n.INFSO-ICT-224498) and by the project DPI2006-15390 of the Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology. 

We thank Dr. Deborah McClellan for excellent editorial assistance. This work was supported by grant 2013-65X-05647-34-4 from the Swedish Research Council (VR), Stemtherapy (SFO), the European Community s Seventh Framework Programme under the grant agreements n°602699 (DIREKT), and Biodesign, and faculty grants from the Linnaeus University. 

Acknowledgement. This work and the collaboration with Prolan Ltd. has been supported by the project CErtification of CRItical Systems (CECRIS, http //www.cecris-project.eu/), Marie Curie Industry-Academia Partnerships and Pathways (lAPP) nr 324334, within the context of the EU Seventh Framework Programme (FP7). 

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