TED (Tenders Electronic Daily) is the online version of the 'Supplement to the Official Journal of the European Union', dedicated to European public procurement.

This website provides an overview of the Research Fund for Coal and Steel (RFCS). The RFCS supports research projects in coal and steel sectors. These projects cover: production processes; application, utilisation and conversion of resources; safety at work; environmental protection and reducing CO2 emissions from coal use and steel production.

Central Europe is an European Union programme that encourages cooperation among the countries of Central Europe to improve innovation, accessibility and the environment and to enhance the competitiveness and attractiveness of their cities and regions. It invests €231 million to provide funding to transnational cooperation projects involving public and private organisations from Austria, the Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Poland, the Slovak Republic and Slovenia. The programme is financed by the European Regional Development Fund and runs from 2007 to 2013. Interested partnerships are invited to propose their projects following public calls for proposals, which will be widely publicised.

The Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme (CIP) aims to encourage the competitiveness of European enterprises. With small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) as its main target, the programme will support innovation activities (including eco-innovation), provide better access to finance and deliver business support services in the regions. It will encourage a better take-up and use of information and communications technologies (ICT) and help to develop the information society. It will also promote the increased use of renewable energies and energy efficiency. The programme will run from 2007 to 2013. The CIP is divided into three operational programmes: Entrepreneurship and Innovation Programme (EIP), Information Communication Technologies Policy support Programme (ICT PSP), Intelligent Energy Europe (IEE).

On 9 March 2005 the European Parliament and the Council approved the eContentplus Programme, a multiannual Community programme to make digital content in Europe more accessible, usable and exploitable. The eContentplus programme will make digital content in Europe more accessible, usable and exploitable. The 4-year programme (2005–08), proposed by the European Commission, will have a budget of € 149 million to tackle organisational barriers and promote take up of leading-edge technical solutions to improve accessibility and usability of digital material in a multilingual environment.

LIFE is the EU’s financial instrument supporting environmental and nature conservation projects throughout the EU, as well as in some candidate, acceding and neighbouring countries. Since 1992, LIFE has co-financed some 2,750 projects, contributing approximately €1.35 billion to the protection of the environment.

'Framework programmes' (FPs) have been the main financial tools through which the European Union supports research and development activities covering almost all scientific disciplines. FPs are proposed by the European Commission and adopted by Council and the European Parliament following a co-decision procedure (view the FP7 approval process).

The Science for Peace and Security Programme offers grants to scientists in NATO, Partner and Mediterranean Dialogue countries to collaborate on priority research areas. Grants are also offered to assist the academic community in Partner countries to set up basic computer networking infrastructure and to optimize their use of electronic communication . Moreover, the SPS Committee engages in nationally-funded activities in order to respond rapidly to the most critical needs of nations and develop practical recommendations for defined end users.

The European Science Foundation (ESF) is an association of 75 member organisations devoted to scientific research in 30 European countries. Since we were established in 1974, we have coordinated a wide range of pan-European scientific initiatives, and our flexible organisation structure means we can respond quickly to new developments. ESF's core purpose is to promote high quality science at a European level. The ESF is committed to facilitating cooperation and collaboration in European science on behalf of its principal stakeholders (Member Organisations and Europe's scientific community). This cross-border activity combines both 'top-down' and 'bottom-up' approaches in the long-term development of science. The Foundation is committed to providing scientific leadership through its networking expertise and by ensuring that there is a European added value to all of its initiatives and projects.

The Financial Mechanisms aim to reduce social and economic disparities within the European Economic Area (EEA), and to enable all EEA countries to participate fully in the Internal Market. Through the EEA Financial Mechanism, the three EEA-EFTA states Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway will make a total €600 million available to the 10 countries that joined the EU and the EEA in May 2004, as well as to Greece, Portugal and Spain. Through the Norwegian Financial Mechanism, Norway will make an additional €567 million available to the 10 countries that joined the EU and the EEA in 2004. Both mechanisms run over a five-year period until 2009. Norway, as the largest of the three donors, will contribute with close to €1.14 billion. The EEA Financial Mechanism will also make available €72 million to Bulgaria and Romania, which joined the EEA in 2007, over a two-year period until 2009, while Norway will contribute an additional €68 million to the two new EEA members over the same period through bilateral cooperation programmes.

Consult more than 450 European funding programmes: reimbursable grants, aid schemes, individual fellow and traineeships, loans and guarantees. This entry opens up to all European public funds, allocated by European organisations as the European Commission, the Council of Europe, the European Investment bank, and others…