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Spain’s scientific boom
by CORDIS
Research, development and innovation (RD&I;) is set to be boosted in Spain as the country’s ministry for science and innovation announced its national RD&I; plan for the 2008-2011 period. The plan will award over €47 billion to RD&I; projects over four years, double that of the preceding four-year period. The plan comes in addition to Cenit, the €45billion program for national strategic consortia in technical research, and to the EU’s 7th Framework Program for research and technological development (FP7), which will award grants of around €50.521 billion across the EU between 2007 and 2013. Last year, €230 million of FP7 funding went to Spain.
Spain’s Barcelona is one of the leading centers of this scientific boom, and the region of Catalonia has proven to be among the most successful regions in Europe in attracting the ERC (European Research Council) young investigators’ grants.
Further information
www.nature.com/naturejobs/2008/080710/full/nj7201-248a.html
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