The aim of this tender (B-Brussels: boosting the exploratory power of open research in future and emerging technologies) is:

• To study the current status of thematically open bottom-up approaches to funding cross-disciplinary frontier research.
• To provide scenarios for the possible developments of such schemes.
• To formulate recommendations and options to address the opportunities ahead for boosting the exploratory power of bottom-up collaborative frontier research.

The Future and Emerging Technologies Open Scheme - FET-Open - is a roots-up approach for exploring promising visionary ideas that can contribute to challenges of long term importance for Europe. The scheme stimulates non-conventional targeted exploratory research cutting across all disciplines and acts as a harbour for exploring and nurturing new research trends and helping them mature in emerging research communities.

European Commission has set up a maximum budget of 200,000 EUR Euros. Tenders can be submitted until 6th October 2010.