Welcome to the EU Liaison Office

TU Kaiserslautern has an EU liaison office to improve the acquisition of international funding grants. It is established as a staff office of the Vice President for Research and Technology. The EU liaison office is the central contact point in matters of international/European funding and support of scientists, from the acquisition to the management of third party funded projects.

Seventh EU Framework Program

FP7 – 7th Framework Program of the European Union for Research and Technology Development. The series of framework programs have been supporting the R&D activities of the European Union since 1984. They are proposed by the European Commission and approved by the Council and the European Parliament in a joint resolution. The current iteration is the seventh framework program for the advancement of research and technology.

The program is scheduled over a seven year period from 2007 to 2013 and has a total budget of more than 50 billion euros. These funds go towards the support of researchers primarily across Europe but also abroad in the performance of R&D projects as well as technology demonstrator projects. Grants are issued on the basis of "calls for proposals" and an expert appraisal process. Some helpful links about FP7 are shown below:

• Publicly announced work programs
• Published calls
• Registration as subject matter expert
• Mobility program (post-doc grant, doctoral network)
  
  

Other funding programs and institutions

• ESF – European Science Foundation
• COST – European Cooperation in the field of Scientific and Technical Research
• RFCS – Research Fund for Coal and Steel
• INTERREG – European Territorial Cooperation
  – INTERREG IV A – Cross-border region
  – INTERREG IV B – North-West Europe
  – INTERREG IV C – Interregional Cooperation

• Education Audiovisual & Culture Executive Agency
  Funding lines: Comenius, Erasmus, Leonardo da Vinci, Grundtvig, Jean Monnet, Erasmus Mundus, Tempus, etc