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Competence Research Centres in Europe

COMPERA is targeted towards the creation of a sustainable network of programmes that are funding Competence Research Centres. It should lead to a strategic decision-making of programme owners and managers at pan-European level with regard to Competence Research Centres. These centres aim to bridge the gap between technological and economic innovation by providing a collective environment for academics and industry and sufficient critical mass. Their activities are multiple: pooling of knowledge, creation of new knowledge by performing different types of research, training and dissemination of knowledge.

COMPERA is funded under the ERA-NET scheme of the European Commission's Sixth Framework Programme
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Eight new CRCs in Energy in Norway
The objective of the scheme for Centres for Environment-friendly Energy Research (FME) is to establish research centres which conduct concentrated, focused and long-term research of high international calibre in order to solve specific challenges in the field.
Estonian government supports Competence Centres with approximately billion krones
On 3rd of June 2009 President Toomas Hendrik Ilves conferred the investment decisions of Enterprise Estonia to eight Competence Centres, which is the biggest support of the Estonian history for the research and development activities of the companies.
Six EoI for CRCs selected in Northern Ireland
The Northern Ireland Science Industry Panel (MATRIX) highlighted the need to create and maintain a new culture of co-operation between business, government and academia where business can directly influence academic research programmes.
Four new CRCs in Austria
Results on the CREST working group on Industry-Led Competence Centres published
In December 2007, CREST mandated a Working Group to collect and present Member States approaches to the key aspects of establishing and the functioning of Industry-Led Competence Centres.

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