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and technical subjects in several areas to be realised within a specified time
frame. Programmes are financed by the European Union and managed by the
Commission. Framework programmes comprise detailed action plans which
cover a diversified subject area 32 .
The first EU Framework Programme was implemented in the years
1984-1987 and was to coordinate and concentrate Community research activity.
Six Framework Programmes have since then been implemented (general programme
characteristics are presented in Table 6). In the next seven years
(2007-2013), two framework programmes will function in the area of technology
development and innovation, i.e. 7 Technological Development and Demonstration
Framework Programme and Competitiveness and Innovation Programme
(CIP)
The 7 Framework Programme (7FP) is the biggest instrument for financing
and shaping scientific research at the European level. This seven-year long programme,
with a budget of nearly 54 billion euro 33 , is the key instrument for implementing
the Lisbon Strategy targeted at transforming EU into the most competitive
and knowledge-based economy. The 7FP, as a program targeted at creating
the European Research Area (ERA) at the European level, is also addressed
to the research potential in the regional dimension, thus we can state that it is
complementary 34 to the activities undertaken by Member States under the Lisbon
Strategy, with Structural Funds financing 35 . The main challenges of the 7FP
include 36 :
– support for transnational cooperation in all areas of research and technological
development;
– boosting the dynamics, creativity and excellence of European research in
pioneering areas;
– strengthening human potential in research and technology by ensuring
better education and training, easier access to research potential and infra-
32 K. Kozio³: Modele polityki innowacyjnej w Unii Europejskiej, [in:] W. Janasz, (ed.): Innowacje dzia³alnoœci
przedsiêbiorstw w Integracji z Uni¹ Europejsk¹, Difin, Warsaw 2005, pp. 143-144.
33 The budget growth was approximately 63% as compared with 6PR, more at
http://www.kpk.gov.pl/.
34 More in: A. B¹kowski, A. Siemaszko, M. Snarska-Œwiderska, Jak zostaæ regionem wiedzy i innowacji,
Twigger, Warsaw 2007, pp. 22-23.
35 Structural funds are funds created in the European Community budget (Council Regulation no
1260 dated 21 June 1999, introducing general provisions on structural funds, Official Journal of the
European Union no OJ L 161 z 1999 r., which enable aid in restructuring and modernisation of the
economy in Member States in key sectors and regions (improving the structure). We can single out
the following structural funds: European Regional Development Fund, European Social Fund, European
Agriculture Guidance and Guarantee Funds Section and Financial Instrument for Fisheries
Guidance More at http://www.funduszestrukturalne.gov.pl/.
36 On the basis of: http://www.kpk.gov.pl/ and A. B¹kowski, A. Siemaszko, M. Snarska-Œwiderska,
Jak zostaæ regionem... op. cit., p. 23.
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