The New calls for proposals for 2011 published on 20 July 2010 by the European Commission in the framework of FP7 must allow significant progress in scientific knowledge, to reinforce Europe's competitiveness as well as to face societal challenges. The budget (€ 6.4 billion ) which increases by 12 compared to 2010 and by 30% compared by 2009, will grant € 800 million to Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs). For the first time, budget will be booked for SMEs in various thematics such as Health, Environment, Nanotechnologies and Knowledge Based Bio-Economy (KBBE).

You can find the FP7 Work Programme Cooperation Health 2011 at
http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/dc/index.cfm?fuseaction=UserSite.FP7CallsPage#Health

New: Two Calls for Proposals have been published under the Health theme:

• FP7-HEALTH-2010-single-stage , indicative budget: EUR 160.5 million, deadline: 10 November 2010 , http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/dc/index.cfm?fuseaction=UserSite.CooperationDetailsCallPage&call_id=323
• FP7-HEALTH-2011-two-stage , indicative budget : EUR 498 million, deadline: 13 October 2010 (for stage 1 proposals) , http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/dc/index.cfmfuseaction=UserSite.cooperationDetailsCallPage&call_id=324

Additional information:

- explanatory note on the proposed high impact research (PDF) [ftp://ftp.cordis.europa.eu/pub/fp7/health/docs/explanatory1june2010_en.pdf

- explanatory note on the proposed clinical trial topics (PDF) [ftp://ftp.cordis.europa.eu/pub/fp7/health/docs/explanatory27may2010_en.pdf