Euratom FP6 Research Projects and Training Activities Volume III

FP6 research activities
The legislative basis of the FP6 Euratom programme is to be
found in Council Decision 2002/668/Euratom 1 adopting the
Sixth Framework Programme of the European Atomic Energy
Community (Euratom), covering both fusion- and fissionrelated
activities.
The activities undertaken within FP6 cover similar thematic
priorities to those of the Fifth Euratom Framework
Programme (FP5 Euratom): the management of radioactive
waste, radiation protection, and other activities in the
field of nuclear technologies and safety.
The activities undertaken within FP6 Euratom were
allocated a similar overall budget (allowing for inflation) to
FP5 but focused on a smaller number of (larger) projects.
The new instruments available under FP6 (see box on page 8)
were being applied to reinforce further integration in this
area of European research.
During FP5, some 222 Euratom projects were funded with a
total of EUR 163 million allocated from the EU budget.
Nearly all of these projects have now been completed.
Final reports on FP5 Euratom projects are available at:
http://cordis.europa.eu/fp5-euratom/src/lib_finalreports.htm.
1 http://cordis.europa.eu/fp6-euratom/lib_legislative.htm
FP6 RESEARCH ACTIVITIES
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The 37 FP6 Euratom projects listed below, grouped under
thematic priorities, are described in greater detail later in
the brochure. These projects are the third and final batch
of FP6 Euratom projects to be funded. This third call for
proposals was published on 8 June 2005 with a deadline of
11 October 2005. The projects also include Specific
Support Actions from a call for proposals that was
continuously open through FP6 with cut-off dates every
six months (see p. 11). The final cut-off date for this
continuous FP6 call was 11 April 2006.
The results of the first and second calls for proposals can be
found in Volumes I and II of this brochure. The first call was
issued on 17 December 2002 with a deadline of 6 May
2003, whilst the second call was issued in 14 November
2003 with a deadline of 14 April 2004.
In total, 77 projects have been contracted under FP6
Euratom, representing cumulative European Commission
funding of EUR 186 million. A number of individual fellowships
and grants were also awarded during FP6; these are
not reported in this brochure.
Management of radioactive waste
The main research areas here are the geological disposal of
highly active and long-lived radioactive waste and the
minimisation of the radiologically most hazardous
component of this waste through partitioning and
transmutation (separation of the more hazardous isotopes
and their conversion to less hazardous ones). Support for
European actinide science – the science of the heavy
elements used and/or produced by nuclear reactions – is
an important part of the programme that cuts across both
the above main areas. Important synergies also exist
between partitioning and transmutation and research in
nuclear systems.
The funded projects (see box on page 8 for a description of
FP6 instruments) described in this volume are:
Geological disposal
❚ ARGONA – A STREP on how new political processes can
be implemented in policy-making for nuclear waste
management.
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