Project ERA-Net CRUE (Coordination de la Recherche financée par l’Union Européenne sur la gestion des inondations)

Project ERA-Net CRUE (Coordination de la Recherche financée par l’Union Européenne sur la gestion des inondations)
 
The selection announcement for multinational environmental research projects is on-line.
The projects are financed within the "2nd ERA-Net CRUE Funding Initiative: Flood resilient communities - managing the consequences of flooding".

Selection announcement for multinational research projects in the prevention of floods
The development of the European Research Area Network takes place within the initiatives of the European union Sixth Frame Program of Technological Research and Development (FP6), with the purpose to support the collaboration and the coordination of the research programs at a trans-national level. 
The European union finances different research activities within the ERA-Net, among which the project ERA-Net CRUE (Coordination de la Recherche financée par l’Union Européenne), devoted to the strategic integration of the research on the flood risk management inside Europe. For further information it is possible to consult the project website at the page: http://www.crue-eranet.net /.
The project CRUE members are the financing national bodies of the public environmental research - Ministries of Environment and Agriculture, Environment Protection Agencies, Public Research Bodies - reunited in an European consortium, of which APAT is part.
CRUE-ERANET launches the second announcement of multinational competition "2nd ERA-Net CRUE Funding Initiative: Flood resilient communities - managing the consequences of flooding", with a total budget determined on the basis of the contribution of the following involved Countries: Austria, Flanders, Finland, France, Germany, England and Wales, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Scotland and Spain (http://www.crue-eranet.net/calls.asp). Apat, Agency for the Protection of the environment and for the Technical Services, finances the initiative with a general contribution of € 50.000, addressed to Italian subjects whose research activities will fall within the projects admitted to the financing.