Danube-INCO.NET — Advancing Research and Innovation in the Danube Region

The Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme (CIP) was one of the funding instruments of the EU to support research and innovation running from 2007 to 2013 and covering a budget of EUR 3.6 billion. CIP fostered the competitiveness of enterprises, in particular of SMEs. It was made up of three Specific Programmes:

• The Entrepreneurship and Innovation Programme (EIP)
• The Information Communication Technologies Policy Support Programme (ICT-PSP)
• The Intelligent Energy Europe Programme (IEE)

In the period 2014-2020, the successor programme COSME is being implemented.