BONUS ERA-NET
BONUS ERA-NET was a project under the EU 6th Framework Programme implemented during years 2003-2008, with the total funding of 3.03 million euros. The full name of the project was BONUS for the Baltic Sea Science – Network of Funding Agencies and its Contract number ERAC-CT-2003-510204. BONUS ERA-NET was coordinated by the Academy of Finland in 2003-2007 and by the BONUS EEIG Secretariat in 2008.
This project brought together the key research funding organisations from all
the EU member states around the Baltic Sea as well as Russia. It waas shaped as a
consortium of 14 partners - eleven funding agencies, a
research institute and two international organisations.
The goal of BONUS ERA-NET was to establish a network and partnership of key agencies funding research,
with the aim to deepen the understanding of conditions for science-based
management of environmental issues in the Baltic Sea. To achieve this, BONUS ERA-NET operated in
close connection with the scientific and management actors.
BONUS ERA-NET workshops and meetings brought
together managers of marine research programmes, science advisers, legal
counsels and finance managers from the partner organisations. In addition,
teaching professors of marine sciences, marine research infrastructure managers
and scientists were invited to specific workshops.
BONUS ERA-NET did not offer funding
for networking of scientists or research projects. Instead, it made the
national research funding organisations cooperate by building up a Joint Baltic
Sea Research Programme to fund
research. The aim was that the Joint Baltic Sea Research Programme would be implemented under Article 185 (formerly 169) of
the Treaty of the European Community.The European Parliament approved this on 16 June 2010.