Projects focus on connectivity, training, content development as well as equipment grants.
As of 1998, content development and training are the primary focuses of these OSI-IP initiatives. Since 1 October all 11Eastern European applicant countries have access to the Fifth Framework Programme for Research. It concerns around 150,000 researchers in these countries. Some of the researchers have already participated in former calls for proposals under the Fourth Framework Programme for Research. Official Journal L 245 of 17 September 1999.