Brussels, 17/12/2007 (Agence Europe) - Two executive agencies to manage research projects financed under the EU budget were created on 14 December. The “European Research Council Executive Agency” will take care of the implementation of the “Ideas” programme, which comes under the 7th framework programme for research and development (FPRD) and supports exploratory research. It will have a budget of around €7 billion. The “Research Executive Agency” will manage the Marie Curie...