Since the Seventh Framework Programme is coming to a close,
at the beginning of July the European Commission announced the
biggest ever set of calls for proposals. In total, €8.1 billion is
available for projects proposed through these calls, and in most
scientific areas these are the last calls to be published in FP7 before
the new programme Horizon 2020 starts in 2014.

In the last 10 days 60 calls for proposals have been opened:

Cooperation
- Health
- Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, and Biotechnology
- Information and Communication Technologies
- Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies
- Energy
- Environment (including Climate Change)
- Transport (including Aeronautics)
- Socio-economic sciences and Humanities
- Space
- Security
- Joint Technology Initiatives

Ideas
- ERC Starting Grant
- ERC Advanced Grant

People
- host-driven actions ITN, COFUND and IRSES

Capacities
- Research Infrastructures
- Research for the benefit of SMEs
- Science in Society
- Support for the coherent development of research policies
- International Cooperation

Euratom
- Nuclear Fission, Safety and Radiation Protection

The calls are available on the Research Participant Portal and you can turn for help to your National Contact Points.