Brussels, 28/03/2011 (Agence Europe) - If you are a researcher, engineer, entrepreneur, innovator, student or simply a creative person, you have until 10 May to suggest a relevant, appealing and catchy name for the new EU research and innovation programme which will be introduced after 2013. The competition, launched by the European Commission on Monday 28 March, is linked to the ongoing stakeholder consultation on the Commission's Green Paper on the new programme which will be at the core of the Innovation Union initiative and the EUROPE 2020 strategy.
The Commission is proposing a smarter way to support researchers and innovators in Europe to further boost excellence and to help ensure that good ideas reach the market. The new programme will be based around a “Common Strategic Framework” with different types of funding brought together in a flexible and coherent way. This will make it possible to better align research funding to addressing global challenges and to making a central contribution to the EU's overall EUROPE 2020 strategy. Needless red tape will be cut out and participation made simpler. So then, the Commission is looking for a new name for this programme. Suggestions for the new name can be submitted at http: //ec.europa.eu/research/csfri/index_en.cfm An international jury will select three proposals to be put to public vote via the web. (L.C./transl.rt)