WISTCIS Outlook Conference
"Information Society Priorities: New Prospects for European CIS Countries"

The Framework Programme is the EU's main instrument for research funding in Europe. The budget for FP6 is €17.5 billion over 5 years. It is distributed amongst both research and technology development and demonstration activities, as well as nuclear activities. FP6 is divided into seven thematic priority areas. One of the thematic priorities is Information Society Priority. It is intended to stimulate the development in Europe of both hardware and software technologies and applications at the heart of the creation of the information society in order to increase the competitiveness of European industry and allow European citizens the possibility of benefiting fully from the development of the knowledge-based society.