Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme (CIP)
The CIP aims to promote innovation and foster the competitiveness of European businesses, particularly small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs); accelerate the development of a sustainable, innovative and inclusive information society and promote energy efficiency and new and renewable energy sources.
The programme will run from 2007 to 2013, and have a budget of €3.2 billion, part of which is set aside to promote eco-innovation. It is designed to be complementary to the Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development (FP7). The three specific programmes in the CIP framework are:
- Entrepreneurship and Innovation Programme
- This programme brings together activities that were previously carried out under the Multiannual Programme for Enterprise and Entrepreneurship (MAP), and the environmental technologies part of the LIFE-Environment programme. CIP will also build on innovation activities that were previously implemented through framework programmes for research, technological development and demonstration.
- ICT Policy Support Programme
- This programme builds on the aims of the previous e-TEN, Modinis and e-Content programmes and will support the aims of the new integrated strategy i2010 - European Information Society 2010.
- The ICT programme stimulates the new converging markets for electronic networks, media content and digital technologies. It tests solutions to the bottlenecks that delay wide European deployment of electronic services. It also supports the modernisation of public sector services that raises productivity and improves services.
- Intelligent Energy-Europe Programme
- The Intelligent Energy-Europe Programme encourages the wider uptake of new and renewable energies and improves energy efficiency, and fosters compliance with the energy regulatory framework. The programme aims at accelerating action in relation to the agreed EU strategy and targets in the field of sustainable energy, increasing the share of renewable energy and further reducing our final energy consumption.
Eco-innovation will be a transversal theme of the whole programme.
