20041126-Madrid y Cataluña recibieron más de la mitad de los presupuestos europeos de investigación en salud destinados a España
Madrid and Catalonia received more than half of the European health budgets for Spain from research
The European Commission dedicated 21 million euros to the 32 Spanish projects approved, said an expert during a session organized by the University's ICT.
Eduardo Castañeda, from the Center for Industrial Technological development and Spanish delegate for the priority 'Life Sciences, Genomics and Biotechnology applied to health' of the European Union's VI Program framework, presented at the University of Navarra the opportunities of partnership in Europe, during a session organized by the high school Scientific and Technological .
In his speech, the expert explained what the VI Program framework, the European Union's main funding tool for projects research and development of academic community, consists of. On November 16, the third of the four calls for proposals was closed, with a total of 540 million euros, budget .
In this regard, Eduardo Castañeda commented on the data obtained from the first two calls. He assured that in the first one, of the 119 projects from European Union countries that were approved, 50 of them involved groups from research or Spanish companies, while in the second call, they collaborated in 32.