PRIO PES RAMMEBEVILGNING 2020

PRIO's strategy emphasizes the importance of diversifying its sources of funding, and seeking longer-term funding, both of which can be achieved by increased participation in Horizon 2020, and by influencing the development of the European Commission's ninth framework programme for research and development (Horizon Europe). The RCN's Project Establishment Support framework grant that PRIO has received over the last years has greatly facilitated PRIO's ability to devote resources to developing projects for submission to European sources of financing. This undoubtedly has played a significant part in our success in obtaining two ERC grants (CLIMSEC and FUMI) and a large collaborative project on migration (MIGNEX), and we hope that a renewal of the PES framework agreement in 2020 would allow us to maintain and further develop our participation in European Commission funding arrangements. Developing projects takes considerable resources, and a PES framework agreement is more efficient for PRIO than applying for PES support on a case by case basis.