BONUS EEIG is a newly established independent organisation with a full name of BONUS Baltic Organisations’ Network for Funding Science EEIG. It is established as an European Economic Interest Grouping,  so that it can be a contractor with the European Commission and other possible parties. Its members are either funding agencies directly, or organisations managing national funding allocations for the joint calls under the Joint Baltic Sea Research Programme. At the moment BONUS EEIG coordinates the BONUS Era-Net as well as the BONUS+ Call. The BONUS EEIG Secretariat is located in Helsinki.   BONUS ERA-NET is a project with a full name BONUS for the Baltic Sea Science – Network of Funding Agencies. It is funded by the EU 6th Framework Programme during 2003 - 2008. It has the form of a consortium with 14 partners from all nine Baltic Sea countries. The project’s aim is to build up a network of funding agencies and create conditions for a Joint Baltic Sea Research Programme.   BONUS-169 is the abbreviation given to the Joint Baltic Sea Research Programme. The aim is to implement this programme under Article 169 of the EC Treaty and thus the abbreviation. The start of the Article 169 stage is postponed until 2008-2009. The programme has started in 2007 with BONUS+ Call as a bridging measure.   BONUS+ is the Call launched on September 17th, 2007. It includes both national and EC funds. The latter are coming from so-called ERA-NET Plus funding scheme of the FP7 on a basis of a specific contract with the EC, and therefore the Call abbreviation is BONUS+. The BONUS EEIG Secretariat  manages the Call evaluation process and distributes the EC funds to the national funding agencies after the selection of the projects to be funded.

The submission of the BONUS+ Full Proposals was closed on 14 April 2008 and 55 Full Applications where submitted. Read more >>>       BONUS main results are published in the Publications Series on paper, as online publications and as pdf-files.  Go to the BONUS Publications       BONUS is preparing conditions for creating a joint Baltic Sea research programme. BONUS-169 Science Plan illustrates potential future research schemes for this programme. Read more >>>