IST grants of 1.12 billion euros
EU invites applications for IT grants of 1.12 billion euros: “The fourth call for proposals under European Commission the Information Society Technologies (IST) Research Programme has just been published.
The total financial allocation for this call is 1.12 billion euro. It funds 5 types of projects: Integrated projects (IPs), Specific Targeted Research Projects (STREPs), Networks of Excellence (NoEs), Coordination Actions (CAs),Specific Support Actions (SSAs).
The areas addressed within this call include applied IST research addressing major societal and economic challenges, communication, computing and software technologies, components and microsystems, knowledge and interface technologies, knowledge and interface technologies, IST future and emerging technologies.
(Via Information Policy.)
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this is pretty big… games, open source, etc. etc. are covered.