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# 92001E2370

**WRITTEN QUESTION E-2370/01 by Daniel Varela Suanzes-Carpegna (PPE-DE) to the Commission. Breakdown of R & D funds.** 
  
*Official Journal 081 E , 04/04/2002 P. 0163 - 0163*

  

WRITTEN QUESTION E-2370/01

by Daniel Varela Suanzes-Carpegna (PPE-DE) to the Commission

(8 August 2001)

Subject: Breakdown of R & D funds

Will the Commission provide details of the funding so far received by each Member State for projects submitted under the fifth R & D framework programme (1998-2002) and describe the scope of each project?

Answer given by Mr Busquin on behalf of the Commission

(17 October 2001)

Funding under the Community research framework programme is given to consortia of legal entities (universities, research centres ) from different member countries, carrying out specific research projects jointly and through transnational collaboration. Member States as such are not beneficiaries of Community research funding.

The added value of the framework programme resides in the promotion of European research collaboration and networking. The main advantage of the programmes consists in the fact that every single partner has access to the totality of the results of the projects in which it is involved whatever its financial contribution and whatever Community funding it receives.

Information on the number of participations of the individual Member States in each specific research programme is available in the Annual Report on research activities published every year(1). The statistical annex prepared for the 2001 report will be sent direct to the Honourable Member and to the Secretariat general of the Parliament.

The Cordis database accessible on Internet (http://www.cordis.lu) also provides access to information and search facilities. It allows for example all projects with participants from a given region to be listed and provides details about the objectives of the projects and the total cost and Community funding.

(1) COM(2000) 842 final.

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