Since 1995, the Telematics Applications Programme, including Language
Engineering, has been open to participation of institutions from
Central & Eastern Europe, who can get funding from the budget
allocated to Activity 2 (see below).
A home page for Language Engineering
can be found at
http://www2.echo.lu/langeng/en/lehome.html
All specific inquiries regarding
Language Engineering within the Framework Programmes can be obtained
from:
European Commission
DG XIII/E/5
Office EUFO 0-176
Rue Alcide de Gasperi
L-2920 Luxembourg
Fax: +352-4301-34999
Tel: +352-4301-32886
Email:
lepostmaster@lux.dg13.cec.be
3. International cooperation in the Fourth Framework Programme
A part of the Framework Programme
of special interest to institutions in countries outside the European
Union, is Activity 2, which covers Cooperation with
third countries and international organisations with a total
budget of 575 million ECU. Almost half of this budget is used
to support cooperation with Central and Eastern Europe,
including ex-USSR.
The main goals for RTD cooperation
with Central & Eastern Europe are:
- to help to safeguard the RTD potential in these countries;
- to help to solve important social, economic and ecological problems;
- to intensify cooperation in RTD fields where these countries
are in the forefront on a world level.
The precise list of countries from Central & Eastern Europe
that are eligible for support may change with the political development,
e.g. in ex-Yugoslavia. In the latest two calls for proposals 1994
and 1995/96 the following groups of countries could participate:
- Countries of Central Europe (CCE):
Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia,
Hungary, Slovenia, Romania, Bulgaria, Albania.
- Newly Independent States (NIS):
Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova, Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaidjan,
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan.
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