Euro-India Research Centre (EIRC) is an
information and
service
Service may refer to:
Activities
* Administrative service, a required part of the workload of university faculty
* Civil service, the body of employees of a government
* Community service, volunteer service for the benefit of a community or a pu ...
platform to facilitate
collaboration
Collaboration (from Latin ''com-'' "with" + ''laborare'' "to labor", "to work") is the process of two or more people, entities or organizations working together to complete a task or achieve a goal. Collaboration is similar to cooperation. Most ...
between
Indian and European organisations (from
industry and
academia) for conducting joint
research and technology development, and was funded by
FP7, the
European Commission's largest funding programme.
EIRC is also the
Functional
Functional may refer to:
* Movements in architecture:
** Functionalism (architecture)
** Form follows function
* Functional group, combination of atoms within molecules
* Medical conditions without currently visible organic basis:
** Functional sy ...
Arm of the
Information and
Communication Technology (ICT) National Contact Point (NCP) Network of India. EIRC not only operates in the ICT sector but also in the environment,
energy and
biotechnology sectors covered under FP7.
EIRC helps
Indian
organisations access and
benefit
Benefit or benefits may refer to:
Arts, entertainment and media
* ''Benefit'' (album), by Jethro Tull, 1970
* "Benefits" (''How I Met Your Mother''), a 2009 TV episode
* ''The Benefit'', a 2012 Egyptian action film
Businesses and organisation ...
from
EU funding in
Research and Development
Research and development (R&D or R+D), known in Europe as research and technological development (RTD), is the set of innovative activities undertaken by corporations or governments in developing new services or products, and improving existi ...
. EIRC serves as a platform for co-operation between India and the European Union that promotes
co-operation
Cooperation (written as co-operation in British English) is the process of groups of organisms working or acting together for common, mutual, or some underlying benefit, as opposed to working in competition for selfish benefit. Many animal a ...
at a
research level.
In India, the
National Contact Point (NCP) is the entity that supports the scientific and business communities in accessing European funds for Research and Development. The Ministry of Information Technology (MIT) was chosen by the Indian government as NCP for ICT co-operation with the European Union. MIT was supported by the Indian Research Support Network (IRSN).
External links
Euro-India Research Centre
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International research institutes
Information technology organisations based in India
Foreign relations of India
Research in India