The general objective of the pilot projects, created through a European Parliament initiative is to promote mutual understanding and learning among EU and US policy researchers and policymakers on a number of challenges with a global dimension. Pilot projects are to be used to fund innovative ventures between European and US policy makers that cannot be pursued under existing instruments of cooperation between the US and the EU. Their purpose is to foster common, more effective transatlantic approaches to key international policy challenges.

2010-2011 Projects

The European Parliament decided in December 2008 to continue in 2009 with a second year of Pilot Projects and allocated a sum of € 3,000,000. As in 2007, DG RELEX launched a Call for Proposals with the aim of identifying proposals eligible for financial support. Seven grants have been awarded and the projects will be implemented between 1 January 2010 and 30 June 2011.

• Seven ongoing projects 2010-2011
• Calendar [270 KB] 17/11/2010

2008-2009 Projects

In autumn 2007 five projects covering five different topics were awarded a grant and were implemented during 2008-2009. The projects consisted of comparative analyses of current EU and US policies, conferences where findings were discussed and recommendations made, and publications to disseminate the results of the projects to the relevant policy community.

• Five projects were implemented in 2008-2009

2009 Conference

The final wrap-up conference organised under the auspices of the European Commission took place on 16 November 2009 in Brussels. It was an opportunity for beneficiaries, European institutions and other parts of the policy community to meet and share ideas. The project presentations given at the conference can be downloaded from the conference programme [665 KB] .

This brochure [951 KB] presents the details of the selected projects along with the projects websites where additional information can be downloaded.