1. SPECIFIC ACTIVITIES COVERING A WIDER FIELD OF RESEARCH ACC-SSA 2003 Calls European Commission Research DG

2. SPECIFIC ACTIVITIES COVERING A WIDER FIELD OF RESEARCH ACC-SSA - General Networks of National Contact Points Individual actions for SMEs Networking of excellency centres Information events Budget: 9 M Evaluated:102 proposals Ranked: 27 proposals

3. SPECIFIC ACTIVITIES COVERING A WIDER FIELD OF RESEARCH ACC SSA Specific Calls Areas –Nano technologies and materials –Food quality and safety –Aeronautics and Space –Sustainable energy systems –Sustainable surface transport Budget: 4 M Received:201 proposals (+/- 1400 participants) Ranked: 28 proposals (9 NMP, 9 Food, 2 Aero- space, 2 Transport, 6 Energy)

4. SPECIFIC ACTIVITIES COVERING A WIDER FIELD OF RESEARCH ACC-SSA-General call, participants by country in received proposals out of 105 proposals with 617 participants ( ROMANIA: 55 )

5. SPECIFIC ACTIVITIES COVERING A WIDER FIELD OF RESEARCH ACC-SSA-General Call, no. of participants by country out of 200 participants in 27 proposals to be funded ( ROMANIA: 24 )

6. SPECIFIC ACTIVITIES COVERING A WIDER FIELD OF RESEARCH Romanian participation in FP6 (provisional) Proposals with at least 1 Romanian participant:1.066 Romanian participations in submitted proposals:1.667 Proposals retained for funding with at least 1 Romanian participant: 108 Romanian participations in proposals retained for funding: 150 Romanian success rate: 10.27 %

7. SPECIFIC ACTIVITIES COVERING A WIDER FIELD OF RESEARCH Romanian participation in FP6 (2) Joint Research Centre: -Romanian research institutes are involved in 20 networks -18 Romanian experts work actually full-time at JRC institutes -More than 100 experts have been trained yearly in 2002 and 2003 withinin the JRC enlargement initiative, 100 more are expected to participate in 2004