About the Portal

This portal is dedicated to provide up-to-date information regarding science and technology (S&T) cooperation between the European Union and the United States.

This web portal consists of three dedicated web-sites:

• Home will provide you an overview of EU-U.S. S&T cooperation, which includes
  • various cooperation schemes such as EU-U.S. S&T Agreements, bilateral S&T agreements between member states and the U.S as well as cooperation within the 7th Framework Programme;
  • the most up-to-date S&T News from EU and U.S.;
  • Quarterly E-Newsletter
  • Access to relevant Documents & Publications
  • Links
• BILAT-USA Project will provide information on the 7th Framework Programme including the open calls targeting specifically U.S. researchers/research organizations/companies or help desk to respond questions related to EU-U.S. cooperation under the 7th Framework Programme; inventory of task forces, working groups, networks operated within EU, U.S. and bilaterally; Key players and multipliers as important contributors for EU-U.S. cooperation and project related News and Events.
• Link2US Project will inform you about the major U.S. federal government funding programmes that are open for European researchers; Bilateral S&T Agreements between the European Union in general as well as Member States and Associated Countries, and the United States; project related News and Events. Additionally, the Virtual Help Desk will provide assistance European researchers on U.S. federal government funding programmes via telephone and e-mail.

About the Projects

Two new projects were launched in October 2009: “BILAT-USA” and “Link2US”. Supported by the European Commission’s 7th Framework Programme (FP7), these complementary projects enhance EU-U.S. S&T cooperation through dialogues and information exchange activities between the EU and the United States and create greater awareness on both sides of the range of opportunities for S&T cooperation. The outcome of these activities will contribute to overcoming barriers to cooperation, developing cooperative research policies and topics, and formulating respective FP7 projects.

In more pragmatic terms, the BILAT-USA and Link2US projects will together serve as an information platform for identifying funding programmes for cooperative research projects and facilitator fostering trans-Atlantic EU-U.S. cooperation.

Please visit the Project web-sites for more detailed information: