USP - Unique Selling Points for SEE-ERA.NET PLUS

• SEE-ERA.NET PLUS is the main European Union networking project for the integration of the Southeast European countries into the European Research Area (ERA)
• SEE-ERA.NET PLUS is a network of seventeen ministries and agencies in fourteen European countries that includes all Western Balkan countries and works directly on the level of policy makers
• The SEE-ERA.NET PLUS partner countries will provide funding for multinational research teams through a Joint Call for Proposals
• SEE-ERA.NET PLUS puts forward a joint reviewing system for research project proposals where the assessment procedures are transparent, fair and dedicated to scientific excellence
• SEE-ERA.NET PLUS provides new perspectives for scientists and already existing networks in Southeast Europe by opening up a European-wide perspective for scientific cooperation and funding
• SEE-ERA.NET PLUS will be linked to the "EU-Western Balkan Countries Steering Platform" by providing strategic and operational input
• SEE-ERA.NET PLUS focuses on an important target region of the 7th Framework Programme of the European Community
• SEE-ERA.NET PLUS is a long term project of almost four years duration and will develop scenarios for sustainable cooperation beyond its lifespan of January 2013