The 2nd call for Research for SME Associations (identifier FP7-SME-2008-2) was also issued on the 3rd September, with deadline for the submission of proposals on the 18 December 2008 and an indicative budget of EUR 78.55 million.

Research for SME Associations supports SME associations to to a large number of SMEs indevelop technical solutions to problems common through research,specific industrial sectors or segments of the value chain standards, and tofor example, to develop or conform to European norms and meet regulatory requirements in areas such as health, safety, environmental protection and energy efficiency. Projects must be driven by the SME associations which outsource research to RTD performers for the benefit of their members and must involve a number of individual SMEs.

The projects may address any research topic across the entire field of science and technology.

For all the call documents: http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/dc/index.cfm?fuseaction=UserSite.FP7DetailsCallPage&call_id=138