European funding

European funding opportunities for the cultural heritage sector

GENERAL

A guide providing an overview of EU funding opportunities is available at: http://europa.eu.int/comm/secretariat_general/sgc/info_subv/index_en.htm

CULTURE

Culture 2000 Programme (2000-2004)

Ariane Programme (books and reading)

Kaleidoscope Programme (cultural co-operation)

Raphael Programme (cultural heritage)

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

Education, Training and Youth Programmes (2000-2004)

Socrates Programme (education)

Leonardo da Vinci Programme (training)

The Youth Programme

The Tempus Programme (trans-European co-operation for higher education)

INFORMATION SOCIETY

eEurope Initiative: An Information Society for All

eContent: Building on the success of MLIS (Multilingual Information Society programme) and INFO 2000

Internet Action Plan promoting safer use of the Internet

Information Society Technologies Programme (IST Programme)

PROMISE (Multi-annual programme to promote the Information Society in Europe)

The TEN-Telecom initiative for the development of the information society

REGIONAL AND STRUCTURAL POLICY

European Regional Development Fund (ERDF)
In the period 2000-2006, the ERDF will grant financial assistance under the Structural Funds' two regional objectives.

European Social Fund (ESF)
In the period 2000-2006, it will provide financial assistance for vocational training, re-training and job creation schemes under Objective 3 as well as for projects under Objectives 1 and 2 of the Structural Funds. ESF assistance is targeted particularly at unemployed youth, the long-term unemployed, socially disadvantaged groups and women.

During the period 1994-1999, the ESF supported two Human resource Community Initiatives. The ADAPT Initiative aimed to help employers and workers anticipate industrial change and deal with its effects, as well as facilitating transition into the Information Society. The EMPLOYMENT Initiative targeted groups that faced specific difficulties in the employment market. Employment operated through four inter-related strands:

Now which promoted equal opportunities between men and women in the labour market;
Horizon which focused on the disabled;
Integra which targeted at disadvantaged and vulnerable groups;
Youthstart which aimed to improve training and employment opportunities for young people.

For the 2000-2006 period, a new Initiative, EQUAL, takes over from Employment and Adapt.

EU RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT

Sixth Framework Programme for Research, Technological Development and Demonstration activities (2002-2006)

Fifth Framework Programme for Research, Technological Development and Demonstration activities (1998-2002)

Information Society Technologies (IST) Programme: a major theme of research and technological development within the European Union's Fifth RTD Framework Programme (1998-2002)

research priorities under Key Action III: Multimedia Content and Tools

Fourth Framework Programme for Research, Technological Development and Demonstration activities (1994-1998)

ACTS (Advanced Communications Technology and Services) Programme: research and development in advanced communications

ESPRIT (EU Information Technologies) Programme

INFO2000: Multiannual Community Programme to stimulate the development of a European multimedia content industry and to encourage the use of multimedia content in the emerging information society (1996-1999)

Telematics Applications Programme

CO-OPERATION WITH THIRD COUNTRIES

The European Commission has simplified procedures for the awarding of contracts in the area of external relations. There are currently more than 40 different tendering procedures, used within the framework of numerous external aid programmes (Phare, Tacis, Obnova, Meda, Ala, EDF, etc.). These will now be progressively replaced by eight simplified procedures for the procurement of services, works and supplies, applicable to all EU-financed projects worldwide.

INCO Programme (scientific and technological co-operation with Central and Eastern European countries and the New Independent States, 1994-1998)
MEDA Programme (economic and social structures in the framework of the Euro-Mediterranean partnership, 1996-1999)
PHARE (financial and technical co-operation with the countries of Central and Eastern Europe)
TACIS (economic reform and recovery in the New Independent States and Mongolia, 1996-1999)

Scientific and Technological Co-operation Agreement between the European Union and Argentina

Scientific, Technological and Cultural Co-operation Agreement with Armenia

EU-Asia Information and Communication Technologies programme

Scientific and Technological Co-operation Agreement between the European Union and Australia

Scientific, Technological and Cultural Co-operation Agreement with Azerbaijan

Co-operation Agreement between the European Community and the Kingdom of Cambodia

Co-operation between the European Union and Canada

Agreement establishing an association between the European Community and its Member States, of the one part, and the Republic of Chile, of the other part (Official Journal no 2002/L 352, 30 December 2002)

Co-operation between the European Union and China

Co-operation Agreement with the Republics of Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama

Scientific and Technological Co-operation Agreement between the European Community and Cyprus

Scientific, Technological and Cultural Co-operation Agreement with Georgia

EU-India Economic Cross-cultural programme

Scientific Co-operation Agreement with Israel

Co-operation Agreement with the Republic of Kazakhstan

Co-operation Agreement with Pakistan

Scientific and Technological Co-operation Agreement with Russia

Scientific Co-operation Agreement with South Africa

Co-operation Agreement with Switzerland

Scientific Co-operation Agreement with the United States

Created: 29 July 1998
Last updated: 6 January 2003

European funding opportunities for the cultural heritage sector

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