Executive agency draws cautious welcome

The Research Executive Agency (REA) is being set up in Brussels in 2009 in order to manage a large part of the Seventh Framework Programme for Research, Technological Development and Demonstration Activities (FP7).

The parts of FP7 that the REA will manage are:

• The Marie-Curie Actions of the People Programme.
• The SME-specific activities of the Capacities Programme.
• A large part of the Space and the Security themes from the Cooperation Programme.
• In addition, a major role of the REA is to provide and manage the evaluation facilities across the entire framework programme (except evaluation facilities for the Ideas Programme, which is entirely managed by the European Research Council).

European Commission: DG Research: Research Executive Agency http://ec.europa.eu/research/rea/

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