Specific Challenge:

to advance the construction of the European Research Area in the FET domain by sharing a common vision of the various relevant efforts in Europe and fostering cooperation towards the coordinated development of radically new future technologies.

Scope:

Proposals should coordinate and pool the necessary financial resources from the participating national (or regional) research programmes in the FET domain by implementing a joint transnational call for proposals resulting in grants to third parties with EU co-funding, possibly followed by further transnational calls for proposals without EU co-funding. The action may also organise additional joint activities in the FET domain between the participating funding agencies. Two activities are mandatory:

1. Identifying future and emerging technologies where transnational cooperation and community structuration is needed, in complementarity and synergy with FET;
2. Developing strategic agendas for these topics and accompanying the structuration of the related communities through workshops and transversal activities.

The partnership is expected to aim at being pan-European and as inclusive as possible.

Expected Impact:

Closer coordination and greater mobilisation and pooling of resources between regional, national and EU research programmes in the FET domain.