Five Key Questions

Question 1: Why bother? (What problem are your trying to solve?)

Question 2: Why is this important at EU level?

	Europa General Search Engine http://europa.eu/geninfo/query/advSearch_en.jsp
	Eurostat http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/portal/page/portal/eurostat/home/
	OECD (Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development) www.oecd.org
	IPTS (Institute for Prospective Technological Studies) www.jrc.es
	COST Action Reports http://www.cost.esf.org/
	EURAB (Pre-April 2008) http://ec.europa.eu/research/eurab/index_en.html
	ERAB (April 2008 +) http://ec.europa.eu/research/erab/
	White Papers http://europa.eu/documents/comm/white_papers/index_en.htm
	Green Papers http://europa.eu/documents/comm/green_papers/index_en.htm

Other Important Policy Reports Relevant to Framework 7

	Seven Expert Groups on Future of ERA (2008) http://ec.europa.eu/research/era/progress-on-debate/expert-groups-analyses_en.html
	Lead Market Initiative http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/leadmarket/leadmarket.htm
	Aho Report -Creating an Innovative Europe(2006) http://ec.europa.eu/invest-in-research/action/2006_ahogroup_en.htm

Question 3? Is there already a product or service available?

Question 4? Why now? (What would happen if this project was not funded?)

Background to 'Cooperation' Programme

Priority 1: Health

Priority 2: Food, Agriculture and Biotechnology

Priority 3: Information and Communication Technologies

Priority 4: NMP ( Nano Materials Production Technologies)

Priority 5: Energy

Priority 6: Environment and Climate Change

Priority 7: Transport (including Aeronautics)

Priority 8: SSH (Socio-Economic Sciences and the Humanities)

Priority 9: Space

Priority 10: Security

ERA-Net Plus

Background to 'Ideas '

Frontier Research

Background to 'People '

Marie Curie Fellowships

Background to 'Capacities '

Research Infrastructures

Research for SMEs and Associations

Regions of Knowledge

Research Potential

Science and Society

International Cooperation (INCO)

Contribution to EU Policies

Background to 'Euratom '

Euratom

Question 5? Why you? (Are you the best consortium to undertake this research?)

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