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The National R&I Programme 2010 is a funding programme for research and innovation projects in the fields of science and technology and will be managed and administered by the MCST.

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In 2006, the Malta Council for Science and Technology launched the National Strategy for Research and Innovation for 2007-2010, entitled ‘Building and Sustaining the Research and Innovation (R&I) Enabling Framework’

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Publication of FP7 2009 Calls

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The European Commission has published a number of calls for proposals on 3 September 2008, under the specific programmes of Cooperation and Capacities of the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7).

The Commission issues calls for project proposals in accordance with the requirements laid down in the relevant Work Programmes. Financial support for a research project in any of the fields of science and technology, covered by the Framework Programme can only be requested in response to one of these Calls.

In order to reduce unnecessary workload and simplify proposals, FP7 will introduce two-stage submission and evaluation procedures:

  • Where a call for proposals specifies a two-stage submission procedure, only those proposals that pass the evaluation criteria for the first stage shall be requested to submit a complete proposal in the second stage.
  • Where a call for proposals specifies a two-step evaluation procedure, only those proposals that pass the first step, based on the evaluation of a limited set of criteria, shall go forward for further evaluation.

The Calls for Proposals address the following areas:
Cooperation:

  • Health (two calls)
  • Food, agriculture and fisheries, and biotechnology;
  • Environment (including climate change);
  • Energy (three calls);
  • Socio-economic sciences and humanities (three calls)
  • Security
  • Space
  • Biorefinery joint call (two sections), including energy; environment (including climate change); food, agriculture and fisheries, and biotechnology; and nanosciences, nanotechnologies, materials and new production technologies.

Capacities:

  • Research for the benefit of SMEs (three calls);
  • Activities of international cooperation (four calls);
  • Science in society;
  • Regions of knowledge.

For more information and to see the full details of all current open calls including relevant deadlines, please go to http://www.mcst.gov.mt/page.aspx?id=69 or visit Cordis at http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/calls/

The Malta Council for Science & Technology will be organising a number of information sessions during the months of September and October in relation to the current FP7 calls. More details on the information sessions will be sent by email.