Technology
Connect-EU Programme
This is a programme designed to promote the participation of Catalonia in the EU’s Seventh R&D Framework Programme.
This initiative, run by the Government of Catalonia through ACC1Ó and AGAUR, addresses the main innovation stakeholders of Catalonia:
Companies
TECNIO agents
Universities and public and private research centres
Goals
To promote the participation of Catalan businesses in the Seventh Framework Programme.
To increase the number of projects led by Catalonia.
To favour the training of project managers and their involvement in international R&D projects.
To create a stable mechanism that facilitates the definition of the European R&D strategy in Catalonia.
To become an active region in the European Research Area and increase the number of joint R&D activities with other regions and states.
To favour the internationalisation of Catalonia’s technology agents.
To boost knowledge transfer between the academic and business worlds.
Network of Connect-EU Groups
The network of Connect-EU Groups was created in order to serve R&D+i interests and needs of the leading technological and scientific sectors in Catalonia and defend them in the EU.
The working groups are made up of public and private stakeholders (companies, associations, universities, TECNIO centres) so that they are able to influence EU-funded projects, specifically the Seventh R&D Framework Programme.
15 Connect-EU Groups belong to the network
