Programme

Year

Objectives

Funding

Comments

Medical Health Research (MHR)

Variety of contemporary medicinal projects (over 4 consecutive programmes)

Not available

Acted as lead into the BIOMED I programme.

BEP (Biomolecular Engineering Programme)

1982-1985

Application of biotechnology to the agrofood industry and agriculture.

15m ECU

High industry involvement

BIOMED I

1990-1994

Pharmaceuticals, occupational and environmental health, Biomedical technology, Public health, AIDS, TB, infectious diseases, cancer and cardiovascular research,

134 mECU

Largely basic research driven.

BIOMED II

1994-1998

brain research, chronic diseases and ageing, human genome research, biomedical ethics

154 mECU¹

Main interests of project participants were therapeutics, diagnostics and epidemiological.

Biotechnology action programme (BAP)

1985-1990

Successor to the biomolecular engineering programme (BEP) (1982-1985).

75 mECU

High industry involvement

Agro-Industrial research

1987-1994

Plant genetic engineering , animal production and health, forestry and fisheries and food safety amongst other issues.

493 mECU

Low industry involvement

Biotechnology Research for Innovation, Development and Growth in Europe (BRIDGE)

1990-1994

Information infrastructure, enabling technologies, cellular biology, pre-normative research - industrially oriented.

100 mECU

High industry involvement

BIOTECH I

1992-1994

Molecular biotechnology, cellular biotechnology, ecology and populations, horizontal activities

189 mECU

Low industry involvement

Agro-Industrial Research and Fisheries (AIR)

1994-1998

Follow up to the Agro-Industrial research programme

684 mECU

Medium industrial involvement

BIOTECH II

1994-1998

Cell factories, immunology, infrastructures, genome analysis, plant and animal biotechnology, cell communication, structural biology, pre-normative research

552 mECU

High industry involvement