EU-Partnership Instrument for cooperation with third countries - PI - 2014-2020

Instrument/Program level: 
European
Name of the instrument/Program: 
Partnership Instrument for cooperation with third countries - PI
Instrument/Program eligible areas: 
BELGIUM
CZECH REPUBLIC
DANMARK
GERMANY
EESTI
IRELAND
SPAIN
FRANCE
CROATIA
ITALY
LATVIA
LIECHTENSTEIN
LITHUANIA
LUXEMBOURG
HUNGARY
MALTA
NETHERLANDS
AUSTRIA
POLAND
PORTUGAL
ROMANIA
SWITZERLAND
SLOVENIA
SLOVAKIA
FINLAND
SWEDEN
UNITED KINGDOM
GREECE
CYPRUS
BULGARIA
Managing authority: 

European Commission Service for Foreign Policy Instruments

Objectives: 

a) Supporting the Union's bilateral, regional and inter-regional cooperation partnership strategies by promoting policy dialogue and by developing collective approaches and responses to challenges of global concern.

b) Implementing the international dimension of ‘Europe 2020’.

c) Improving access to partner country markets and boosting trade, investment and business opportunities for companies from the Union, while eliminating barriers to market access and investment, by means of economic partnerships, business and regulatory cooperation.

d) Enhancing widespread understanding and visibility of the Union and of its role on the world scene by means of public diplomacy, people-to-people contacts, cooperation in educational and academic matters, think tank cooperation and outreach activities to promote the Union's values and interests.

Eligible thematics in line with ERC sectors: 
Life Sciences
Physical Sciences and Engineering
Social Sciences and Humanities
Eligible thematics in line with S3: 
Climate Change Mitigation
Maritime technologies
New and intelligent materials, nano and microtechnology
Renewable energies & resource efficiency
Sustainable innovation & infrastructure
Action typologies: 
Supporting the internationalisation through sharing know-how and cross-sectoral collaborations
Exchange of experience (e.g. seminars, studies and publications)
Best-practice, demonstration, pilot or information, awareness and dissemination projects
Development of new sustainable technologies, new products and services
Development of pilot programs & projects
Joining pilot initiatives
Strengthen the networking and cooperation between the industrial smart systems integration stakeholder community in Europe and support to international collaboration
Status of the eligible institutions: 
Public
Private
Public equivalent body
International organisation
Program Budget: 
954 765 000,00 €