Greece

Greek teams are participating in more than 75% of all COST actions (around 190 projects). This participation ranks Greece in 12th place among all other COST countries (COST, 2010).

In the former programming period 2000-2006 €21m national contribution was given to research teams for participating in EUREKA, while in the current programming period 2007-2015, only the participation in EUREKA-Eurostars has been decided with a small budget of €1.78m. 

In FP7[1] a total of 1769 (12.22% of all teams from all countries) Greek teams are participating in 1205 contracts ranking Greece 9^th in terms of a number of participations and budget share. In order to support public research organisations to participate in the FPs government provides additional funding to the participating public organisations.

Participation in ERA-NETs

In total, Greek teams have participated in 52 actions of those 24 are active (NETWATCH) as follows:

•  AAL :The Ambient Assisted Living Joint Programme 
•  ARIMNet :Coordination of Agricultural Research in the Mediterranean 
•  ASPERA-2 :Deepening and Broadening of Astroparticle Physics European Coordination 
•  AirTN :Aeronautics ERA-Net as one of the key enablers of the prosperous development of Aeronautics in Europe 
•  CAPITA (under preparation) :Catalytic Processes for Innovative Technology Applications 
•  CIRCLE-2 :Climate Impact Research and Response Coordination for a Larger Europe - Science meets Policy 
•  E-Rare-2  :ERA-Net on Rare Diseases 
•  ERA.Net RUS :Linking Russia to the ERA: Coordination of Member States/Associated Countries S&T programmes towards and with Russia 
•  ERACOBUILD :Strategic Networking of RDI Programmes in Construction and Operation of Buildings 
•  ERNEST :European Research NEtwork on Sustainable Tourism 
•  EUPHRESCO II :European Phytosanitary Research Coordination II 
•  Eurostars :Eurostars programme 
•  FENCO-NET :Initiative for Fossil Energy Technologies towards Zero Emission Power Plant  
•  ICT-AGRI :Coordination of European Research within ICT and Robotics in Agriculture and related Environmental Issues 
•  LEAD ERA :Lead Market European research Area network 
•  MANUNET II :Supporting SMEs towards a new phase to European Research Area on new processes, adaptive manufacturing systems and the factory of the future 
•  MARTEC II  :ERA-NET MARitime TEChnologies II 
•  PV-ERANET 2 :Networking and Integrat. of National and Regional Programmes in the Field of Photovoltaic Solar En. 
•  SEAS-ERA :Towards integrated European marine research strategy and programmes 
•  SEE-ERA.NET Plus :South East European ERA-NET Plus; joint call for European Research projects in September 2009 in order to enhance the integration of the Western Balkan Countries into the European Research Area 
• SEERA-EI :South East European Research Area for eInfrastructures 
• SIINN :Safe Implementation of Innovative Nanoscience and Nanotechnology 
• SmartGrids :SmartGrids ERA-NET 
• TRANSCAN :ERA-NET on Translational Cancer Research 

Participation in Joint Technology Initiatives

Greece participates in four initiatives with a budget of €13m.

• ARTEMIS;
• ENIAC;
• Innovative Medicine Initiative; and
• Clean Sky.

Participation in Joint Programming Initiatives

Greece participates in the first Joint Programming Initiative “Alzheimer’s and other neurodegenerative diseases” however no budget has been allocated so far. Also there is strong interest for the forthcoming initiative “Antimicrobial Resistance”. 

Participation in European Technology Platforms

Greece has participated in total in 23 European Technology Platforms, e.g

Advanced Engineering Materials and Technologies – EuMaT

Advisory Council for Aeronautics Research in Europe – ACARE

Embedded Computing Systems – ARTEMIS

European Construction Technology Platform – ECTP

European Nanoelectronics Initiative Advisory Council ENIAC

 
National programmes open for foreign research teams

The only programme which provides funding to non national researchers is “Support of Postdoctoral Researchers” launched on November 2010 with a budget of €30m. The measure provides research grants for Greek or non-nationals that have acquired their doctorate from a non-Greek university in order to conduct research in Greek research organisations.