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=== [http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/capacities/home_en.html Capacities] (9% of the non-nuclear budget) ===

The Capacities specific programme is targeted at enhancing research infrastructures and improving its usage, promoting "Regions of Knowledge", supporting regional research-driven clusters, and stimulating the research potential in the EU's "convergence" regions.

The Capacities specific programme has a budget of 4.097M€. It is targeted at the following areas:<ref>http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/capacities/home_en.html. Note however that the overall budget of 4.097M€ is inconsistent with the budgets given for the seven fields, unless the "about 1.800M€" for research infrastructures are corrected into 1715M€.</ref>

Additionally, this part of FP7 will contain some budget dedicated to policy development, e.g. coordination of research policies.

* "Research infrastructures" (about 1.800M€) <ref>http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/capacities/research-infrastructures_en.html></ref>

* "Research for the benefit of [[Small and medium enterprises|SMEs]]" (1.336M€) <ref>http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/capacities/research-sme_en.html</ref>

* "Regions of knowledge and support for regional research-driven clusters" (126M€) <ref>http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/capacities/regions-knowledge_en.html</ref>

* "Research potential of Convergence Regions", refering to countries and regions at the EU's periphery (340M€) <ref>http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/capacities/convergence-regions_en.html</ref>

* "Science in society", ranging from "research on ethics in science and technology" to "science prizes" (330M€) <ref>http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/sis/home_en.html</ref>

* "Support to the coherent development of research policies": Monitoring activities like the "development of an information and intelligence service ([[ERAWATCH]])" (180M€) <ref>http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/capacities/research-policies_en.html</ref>

* "International cooperation" (70M€)<ref>http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/capacities/international-cooperation_en.html</ref>

== Funding Schemes==