Ingemar Pongratz

Stockholm Sweden

Starting in the fall 2002, Ingemar Pongratz became involved in the process of preparing applications for EU funding. In 2002, the European research community was preparing for the new EU funding programe FP6. FP6 represented a new way to influence European research policy, and to create large, well funded consortia of researchers to be in a position to gather sufficient critical mass to truly influence research and provide durable impact. In addition, FP6 was the first time European research was required to interact with society at large and research communication was given a prominent role in the activities of the research projects.