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The Framework Programme has funded projects on energy since the beginning. After strong support for energy in the first four FPs both the relative importance of energy (as related to the total FP volume) as well as the absolute budgets for energy research decreased sharply in FP5. This was not in line with the political urgency of climate change (e.g. Kyoto protocol, 1998) at the time.

During FP6, energy was mainly supported under the sub-priority “Sustainable energy systems” that had a budget of around €700m, only 3.7% of the budget of FP6. The attention and budget for energy research were, in absolute and relative terms even at an historical low. In FP7, a total of 2,350 M€ (for 7 years, compared to 5 years in previous FPs) was reserved for the sub-programme ‘Energy’ within the “Cooperation” programme of 32,413 M€ (therefore 7.3% of total was spent on energy). With this budget FP7 was in absolute terms again almost at the level of FP4, but in relative terms the importance was still lower than in the early FP years (15- 20%).

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