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CORDIS Partners Service

Please check the CORDIS Partner Service to find research partners for your projects. The Partner Service provides information on thousands of active partnership requests from companies, research institutions and universities across Europe and around the world.

LIFE COMPETENCE: European projects in Life Science and Health

The Life Competence database is an online network and knowledge sharing contact system filled with EU research projects in healthcare biotechnology that have been funded by the EU Commission under FP6. It enables companies, universities, governments and NGOs to find out what research is going on in their area and who are the partners, people and organizations (companies and universities) working in this field.

The us-eu-match network

The us-eu match network links up with the existing Enterprise Europe Network, providing a forum for American companies and research institutes to meet their European counterparts. The network facilitatates technology transfer between US-based companies, and companies in more than 40 countries.

The EU has Cooperation Agreements with the United States in Education and in S&T.

 

EU-US Education Agreement

The European Union and the United States of America signed a new agreement on higher education and vocational training on 21 June 2006 at the EU-US Summit in Vienna for another eight-year period (2006-2013). The new agreement renewed and reinforced the long standing EU-US cooperation program that was established in 1995.

The 2006-2013 EU-US Co-operation Program in Higher Education and Vocational Education Training aims to promote understanding between the peoples of the European Union and the United States of America and to improve the quality of their human resource development.

The Agreement covers two major programs: Atlantis, a co-operation program to support multilateral partnerships of EU and US institutions for the purpose of developing joint study programs – including joint/dual degrees – and transatlantic exchanges of students and faculty; and the Schuman-Fulbright fellowship scheme. The Atlantis program seeks to encourage an innovative and sustainable range of student-centered activities, in both higher education and vocational education and training, and between different regions of the European Union and the United States.

These co-operation programs are managed and funded jointly by the European Commission and US Department of Education and US Department of State. The European Commission has an indicative budget of up to € 46 million for implementing the agreement over the period 2006-2013.

For further information on the Atlantis and Schuman-Fulbright programs, please see EC/US Education mobility and European Commission – DG Education website.

The new EU-US calls for proposals were published on 31December 2009.
EU-US: http://eacea.ec.europa.eu/extcoop/usa/2010/call_us_eu_2010.htm
Submission deadline: 8 April 2010.

EU-Canada: http://eacea.ec.europa.eu/extcoop/canada/2010/index_en.htm
Submission deadline: 24 March 2010.

 

EU-US Science and Technology Agreement

The Science and Technology Co-operation Agreement between the European Union and the United States, originally signed in 1998 and renewed in 2004, brings a pan-European dimension to transatlantic S&T co-operation to complement the many bilateral arrangements with individual Member States and between individual scientists. The S&T Agreement is itself multi-dimensional in scope, and actions are undertaken notably through implementing arrangements on the following topics: Environment, Metrology, Materials Science (including nanotechnology), Non-Nuclear and Renewable Energy (including Hydrogen). There is also a Task Force on Biotechnology.

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The EU-US Co-operation Program in Higher Education and Vocational Education and Training jointly supports a specific EU section of the Fulbright Grant Scheme.

This scheme awards Schuman-Fulbright grants to promote EU-US relations and bilateral exchanges. It is financed by the US State Department and the Directorate-General for Education and Culture of the European Commission and provides support for either a one-semester period or a full academic year of research or lecturing on EU affairs or EU-US relations at an accredited institution in the EU or US.

It complements the bilateral EU-US exchange and joint/double degree projects by providing scholarships for study, research and lecturing overseas for highly qualified professionals from the EU and the US in areas of specific relevance to the bilateral relationship.

While the EU funds the Schuman-Fulbright program with an amount of 320.000 € per year, the US contributes an annual amount of 260.000 $. These funds are used to provide grants to individual EU and US academics to lecture or conduct research on the European Union at EU and US universities. The grantees receive a monthly stipend of $3.000 (or its equivalent in Euros), an allowance of $3.000 for travel and relocation costs, and health and accident insurance. The maximum grant to any one candidate is set at $30.000.

The scheme is administered by the Commission of Educational Exchange between the United States of America, Belgium and Luxembourg. It provides approximately 22 grants for EU students and scholars and 17 grants for US students and scholars per year. The selection of candidates is conducted in close consultation and agreement with the services of the European Commission. The actual number of grants allocated varies from year to year, depending on the number of applications received and the length of each individual study period.

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