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Project beneficiaries


Institut de recherche pour le développement
France



Fundação Universidade de Brasília
Brazil



Stichting Koninklijk Nederlands Instituut Voor Zeeonderzoek
The Netherlands



Jacobs University Bremen Ggmbh
Germany



Imperial College London
United Kingdom



Helmholtz-Zentrum Potsdam, Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum
Germany



Universiteit van Amsterdam
The Netherlands



Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
Italy

EU Support

The CLIM-AMAZON project was selected by the EC (represented in Brazil by the EU Delegation to Brazil) under the INCO-LAB Brazil Call. It receives funding from the FP7 (Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development).

Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development (FP7)

The Framework Programmes (FPs) are the main funding instruments used by the EU (European Union) to support research and development activities. They are proposed by the European Commission and adopted by the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union following the co-decision procedure. The Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development (FP7) is the last version of the FPs promoted by the European Union since 1984, with seven years the duration covering the period from 2007 to 2013 and it has a total budget of more than 53.4 billion euros (source: BBice - Bureau Brasileiro para a Ampliação da Cooperação Internacional com a União Européia). CLIM-AMAZON is included in the Capacities FP7 sub-programme and receives funding for CSA funding scheme (Coordination and Support Action).

INCO-LAB Call

© IRD / B. de Merona Amazonian landscape, Brazil

The INCO-LAB call is included in the FP7 and proposes to use the joint research institutes funded by one or several member states and located in a targeted third country (Brazil, China, India, Japan, Russia, United States) as a starting point to structure and strengthen the cooperation with EU MS/AC countries.

“The objectives of the INCO-LAB activity are to:

  • Open the activities of the joint institutes to researchers from at least 3 different EU MS/AC other than those owning the facilities;
  • Increase the scientific co-operation between researchers from EU MS/AC and those of the host country through the involvement of additional researchers in ongoing research activities as well as the preparation of new joint projects via the organization of joint seminars, summer schools and similar activities;
  • Prepare the way for opening the institutional arrangement of the joint institutes to additional EU MS/AC governments/ministries, research organizations.” 
Source: EC.

The CLIM-AMAZON consortium, coordinated by IRD (Institut de recherche pour le développement, France) sent to the EC a proposal in the frame of the INCO.2011-7.1 Brazil sub-call and was selected to implement the CLIM-AMAZON project.

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