Europe for citizens

The aim of the Europe for citizens programme is: to contribute to citizens' understanding of the EU, its history and diversity; to foster European citizenship and to improve conditions for civic and democratic participation at EU level; to raise awareness of remembrance, common history and values; to encourage democratic participation of citizens at EU level, by developing citizens' understanding of the EU policy making-process and, by promoting opportunities for societal and intercultural engagement and volunteering at EU level The Programme is implemented through two Strands and a horizontal Action Strand 1 – European remembrance According to Article 3 of the Treaty of the European Union, the EU's aim is to promote peace, its values and the well-being of its peoples. In the context of this article and the general description of Strand 1, the Europe for Citizens programme will support projects reflecting on causes of totalitarian regimes in Europe's modern history as well as projects concerning other defining moments and reference points in recent European history. Historical moments which will be commemorated in particular in 2014 will be the 100th anniversary of the beginning of World War I, the25th anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall and the 10 years of enlargement of the European Union to Central and Eastern Europe. Strand 2 – Democratic engagement and civic participation Elections to the European Parliament will be held in all Member States from 22 to 25 May 2014. These elections will be the first to be held under the Lisbon Treaty enhancing the role of EU citizens as political actors through Article 11 TEU. Against this background, the annual priority of Strand 2 of the Europe for Citizens programme for the year 2014 will be built around the elections to the European Parliament and citizens' participation in the democratic life of the EU. There is a need for deepening the debate on the future of Europe with the aim of setting up a European public space, where European issues are discussed and debated from a European standpoint. Horizontal Action: Valorization Analysis, dissemination and use of project results

European & Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP)

EDCTP was formed by a European Parliament and European Council decision in order to pool resources, funding and activities to achieve a greater impact against the three poverty-related diseases. EDCTP aims to accelerate the development of new or improved drugs, vaccines, microbicides and diagnostics against HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria, with a focus on phase II and III clinical trials in sub-Saharan Africa. EDCTP supports multicentre projects that combine clinical trials, capacity building and networking. The aim of integrating these three activities is to ensure that the developed capacity is optimally utilised to successfully conduct the clinical trials in a sustainable way. The basis of EDCTP is partnership. The partnership helps EU Member States to integrate and coordinate their own national research and development programmes and form partnerships with their African counterparts. All EDCTP-funded projects are undertaken in partnership with sub-Saharan countries. EDCTP currently unites 14 participating European Union (EU) Member States: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom + Norway and Switzerland with sub-Saharan African countries. EDCTP will launch each year one or more calls to finance specific projects.

JPI Urban Europoe

The overall aim of the Joint Programming process is to pool national research efforts in order to make better use of Europe's precious public R&D resources and to tackle common European challenges more effectively in a few key areas. It is a structured and strategic process whereby Member States agree, on a voluntary basis and in a partnership approach, on common visions and Strategic Research Agendas (SRA) to address major societal challenges. JPI Urban Europe addresses three major research issues: 1. Urban megatrends – what are the prominent demographic, economic and technological megatrends that are decisive for a promising future of urban systems?; 2. Urban networks and connectivity – what are the new mobility, logistic and land use developments and policies that are needed to create vital and attractive cities, and networks of cities, in the decades to come? 3. Socio-ecological sustainability of city systems – which ecological and social constellations have to be met and implemented in order to shape sustainable and balanced long-run urban development patterns in Europe? JPI Urban Europe participating countries are 14: Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Denmark, Finland, France, Ireland, Italy, Malta, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Turkey and the United Kingdom. JPI Urban Europe will launch each year one or more calls to finance specific projects.

JPI Cultural Heritage and Global Change

The overall aim of the Joint Programming process is to pool national research efforts in order to make better use of Europe's precious public R&D resources and to tackle common European challenges more effectively in a few key areas. It is a structured and strategic process whereby Member States agree, on a voluntary basis and in a partnership approach, on common visions and Strategic Research Agendas (SRA) to address major societal challenges. The are 4 priorities: Developing a reflective society Connecting people with heritage Creating knowledge. Safeguarding our cultural heritage resource JPI Cultural Heritage and Global Change participating countries are 17: Italy (coordinator), Belgium, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Ireland, Lithuania, Moldova, The Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom. 8 countries have joined the JPI as Observers, i.e. Austria, Bulgaria, Estonia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Latvia, Portugal. JPI Cultural Heritage and Global Change will launch calls to finance specific projects.

EIBURS - The EIB University Research Sponsorship Programme

The EIBURS Programme will provide support to EU University Research Centres working on research topics and themes of major interest to the EIB. The sponsorship is awarded through a competitive process to interested University Departments, Institutes and Faculties or Research Centres associated with universities in EU or Candidate and Potential Candidate Countries, with recognised expertise in the research theme in question. An EIBURS sponsorship entitles the beneficiary centre to obtain up to EUR 100 000 a year, for a period of three years, to develop activities in the selected research area, additional to those that would normally be carried out by the University Centre. These activities are jointly agreed between the EIB and the beneficiary, on the basis of the programme proposed by the latter in its application and are included in a contractual agreement to be signed by the legal representatives of the University Centre and the President of the EIB Group. The contract entails the delivery of a variety of outputs (research, education, networking, dissemination of results, etc.). For the academic year 2014/2015, the EIBURS programme has selected three new lines of research: Economic analysis of energy efficiency ; Demographic change in the EU, the oldest-old and the need for innovative models of more efficient elderly care; Impact of microfinance on financial and social inclusion in Europe

HORIZON 2020 - ERC

The European Research Council supports frontier research, cross disciplinary proposals and pioneering ideas in new and emerging fields which introduce unconventional and innovative approaches. The ERC's mission is to encourage the highest quality research in Europe through competitive funding and to support investigator-driven frontier research across all fields of research, on the basis of scientific excellence. A total budget of 13 095 million euro is available for the implementation of the ERC funding schemes under Horizon 2020.

Cost programme

COST is an intergovernmental framework for European Cooperation in Science and Technology, allowing the coordination of nationally-funded research on a European level. COST has a very specific mission and goal. It contributes to reducing the fragmentation in European research investments and opening the European Research Area to cooperation worldwide. As a precursor of advanced multidisciplinary research, COST plays a very important role in building a European Research Area (ERA). It anticipates and complements the activities of the EU Framework Programmes, constituting a “bridge” towards the scientific communities of emerging countries. It also increases the mobility of researchers across Europe and fosters the establishment of scientific excellence in the nine key domains: • Biomedicine and Molecular Biosciences • Food and Agriculture • Forests, their Products and Services • Materials, Physics and Nanosciences • Chemistry and Molecular Sciences and Technologies • Earth System Science and Environmental Management • Information and Communication Technologies • Transport and Urban Development • Individuals, Societies, Cultures and Health

Programma Nazionale Triennale della Pesca e dell’Acquacoltura 2013 – 2015

Il "Programma nazionale triennale della pesca e dell'acquacoltura 2013-2015", contenente gli interventi di esclusiva competenza nazionale indirizzati alla tutela dell'ecosistema marino e della concorrenza e competitività delle imprese di pesca nazionali, nel rispetto dell'articolo 117 della Costituzione ed in coerenza con la normativa comunitaria.

Programma regionale della cooperazione allo sviluppo 2014-2017

Interventi per la promozione, a livello regionale e locale, delle attività di cooperazione allo sviluppo e partenariato internazionale. Il regolamento regionale definisce i criteri e le modalità per l'erogazione di contributi per progetti in questo ambito.

Fondo Sociale Europeo

L'Università degli Studi di Udine partecipa alle attività finanziate dalla Regione Autonoma Friuli Venezia Giulia per quanto riguarda i progetti che rientrano nel Programma Operativo Obiettivo 2 - Competitività regionale ed Occupazione del Fondo Sociale Europeo 2007-2013 (POR FSE), che d'intesa con la Commissione Europea e le autorità nazionali preposte, stabilisce obiettivi, contenuti e modalità attuative della strategia regionale a favore del consolidamento e della crescita delle competenze e dei saperi della sua popolazione. Il principale obiettivo è assicurare l'incentivazione e la formazione necessarie ad affrontare le complesse sfide che la globalizzazione dei mercati, l'innovazione tecnologica ed i cambiamenti demografici in atto propongono al sistema economico e sociale della nostra Regione

Programma di Cooperazione Scientifica e Tecnologica MAE

L’Unità per la Cooperazione Scientifica e Tecnologica della Direzione Generale per la promozione del Sistema Paese si occupa della negoziazione e firma di Programmi/Protocolli Esecutivi di cooperazione scientifica e tecnologica bilaterali. I Protocolli Esecutivi sono diretta applicazione di specifici Accordi bilaterali di collaborazione scientifica e tecnologica ed hanno valenza pluriennale. I Protocolli Esecutivi specificano le aree di ricerca in cui si concentra la cooperazione bilaterale tra l’Italia e il Paese partner: sulla base di queste aree di ricerca viene emanato un apposito bando per selezionare progetti di ricerca finanziabili da entrambi i Paesi. All'interno dei Protocolli Esecutivi sono elencati i progetti di ricerca scientifica e tecnologica bilaterali che sono stati selezionati. Tali progetti possono essere di due tipi: • Progetti di "Mobilità dei Ricercatori", per i quali è finanziata bilateralmente la mobilità: in particolare, l’Unità per la cooperazione scientifica finanzia i viaggi ai ricercatori italiani e i soggiorni ai ricercatori stranieri; • Progetti di "Grande Rilevanza", che possono ottenere un co-finanziamento annuale per la realizzazione del progetto, ai sensi della legge 401/90.

Diffusione della cultura scientifica 2014

In attuazione di quanto previsto dalla L.113/1991, così come modificata dalla L.6/2000, il MIUR prevede la concessione di contributi con le seguenti finalità: - promuovere e favorire la diffusione della cultura tecnico-scientifica, intesa come cultura delle scienze matematiche, fisiche e naturali e come cultura delle tecniche derivate; - contribuire alla tutela e valorizzazione del patrimonio tecnico-scientifico di interesse storico conservato in Italia.

Life 2014-2020

The LIFE programme is the EU’s funding instrument for the environment and climate action. The general objective of LIFE is to contribute to the implementation, updating and development of EU environmental and climate policy and legislation by co-financing projects with European added value. It is divided into two sub programs and different areas: 1 Environment: 1.1 ‘Environment and Resource Efficiency’; 1.2 ‘Nature and Biodiversity’; 1.3 ‘Environmental Governance and Information’ 2. Climate 2.1 ‘Climate Change Mitigation’; 2.2 ‘Climate Change Adaptation’; 2.3 ‘Climate Governance and Information’. The EU budget for the LIFE programme for 2014-17 is set at EUR 1.796.242.000.

Horizon 2020 - Societal challenges

New european research and innovation program 2014-2020. One of the 3 major pillars is called "societal challenges": a challenge-based approach that will bring together resources and knowledge across different fields, technologies and disciplines, including social sciences and the humanities. This will cover activities from research to market with a new focus on innovation-related activities. Funding will focus on the following challenges: • Health, demographic change and wellbeing; • Food security, sustainable agriculture and forestry, marine and maritime and inland water research, and the Bioeconomy; • Secure, clean and efficient energy; • Smart, green and integrated transport; • Climate action, environment, resource efficiency and raw materials; • Europe in a changing world - inclusive, innovative and reflective societies; • Secure societies - protecting freedom and security of Europe and its citizens.

Programma Public Health

The programme has 4 overarching objectives. It seeks to: 1. Promote health, prevent diseases and foster supportive environments for healthy lifestyles taking into account the 'health in all policies' principle, 2. Protect Union citizens from serious cross-border health threats, 3. Contribute to innovative, efficient and sustainable health systems, 4. Facilitate access to better and safer healthcare for Union citizens. The third EU health programme is the main instrument the European Commission uses to implement the EU health strategy. It is implemented by means of annual work plans which set out priority areas and the criteria for funding actions under the programme. The total budget for the programme is € 449.4 million.

ERA NET ACTIONS

The objective of the ERA-NET scheme is to develop and strengthen the coordination of national and regional research programmes through two specific actions: 'ERA-NET actions' - providing a framework for actors implementing public research programmes to coordinate their activities e.g. by developing joint activities or by mutually supporting joint calls for trans-national proposals. 'ERA-NET Plus actions'- providing, in a limited number of cases with high European added value, additional EU financial support to facilitate joint calls for proposals between national and/or regional programmes. Under the ERA-NET scheme, national and regional authorities identify research programmes they wish to coordinate or open up mutually. The participants in these actions are therefore programme 'owners' (typically ministries or regional authorities defining research programmes) or programme 'managers' (such as research councils or other research funding agencies managing research programmes).

JTI ECSEL

ECSEL is a partnership between the private and the public sectors for electronic components and systems. The ECSEL Joint Undertaking is established within the meaning of Article 187 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union for the implementation of the Joint Technology Initiative on 'Electronic Components and Systems for European Leadership' for a period up to 31 December 2024. ECSEL will: * maintain semiconductor and smart systems manufacturing capability in Europe and help it grow * secure a leading position in design and systems engineering * provide access for all stakeholders to a world-class infrastructure for the design and manufacture of electronic components and embedded and smart systems * foster the development of ecosystems involving innovative SMEs, strengthen (and create) clusters in promising new areas