Division 3 PRIORITY AREAS FOR 2009

Priority actions for 2009 have been selected in line with the Programme Decision. These priorities should be considered in the context of actions already funded under the previous Programme^f1 and the fact that further priorities will be defined in later years of the Programme period.

The Health Programme aims to promote synergies with other Community Programmes without duplicating work carried out under these. The 7th Research Framework Programme under the third pillar of the Health Theme entitled: ‘Optimising the delivery of health care to European Citizens’, is complementary to Community actions in the field of health under all objectives of the second Health Programme. Efforts will be made to identify and avoid overlap/duplication between health programme successful proposals and FP7 projects selected for funding under the calls to date.

Proposals to the Health Programme must fully comply with the aims, objectives and methods set out in the Programme Decision. In particular proposals should not contain significant elements which relate to research. All proposals must demonstrate, where relevant, that synergies can be identified with relevant current research activities funded under the Scientific Support to Policies’ activities of the 6th Framework Programme^f2 as well as projects to be funded under the health and related themes of the 7th Research Framework Programme. In particular proposals should demonstrate that overlap/duplication with FP7 will be avoided in presenting proposals to the 2009 Work Plan.