The specific programme on 'Cooperation' supports all types of research activities carried out by different research bodies in trans-national cooperation and aims to gain or consolidate leadership in key scientific and technology areas.
FP7 allocates EUR 32 413 million to the Cooperation programme. The budget will be devoted to supporting cooperation between universities, industry, research centres and public authorities throughout the EU and beyond.
The Cooperation programme is sub-divided into ten distinct themes. Each theme is operationally autonomous but aims to maintain coherence within the Cooperation Programme and allowing for joint activities cutting across different themes, through, for example, joint calls.
The ten identified themes reflect the most important fields of knowledge and technology where research excellence is particularly important to improve Europe’s ability to address its social, economic, public health, environmental and industrial challenges of the future.
The ten Themes, together with their allocated budget, are:
- Health (6.050 Mio. Euro)
- Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, Biotechnology (1.935 M Euro)
- Information & communication technologies (9.110 M Euro)
- Nanosciences, nanotechnologies, materials & new production technologies (3.500 M Euro)
- Energy (2.300 Mio. Euro)
- Environment (including Climate Change) (1.900 M Euro)
- Transport (including aeronautics) (4.180 M Euro)
- Socio-economic Sciences and the Humanities (610 M Euro)
- Space (1.430 M Euro)
- Security (1.350 M Euro)