Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme

The objective is to build a United Nations Spatial Data Infrastructure (UNSDI) with the objective of enhancing spatial data and information sharing between UN agencies and programmes as well as national and regional SDI's and promote and achieve sustainable development through a.o. opensource software solutions

The 4-year programme (2005-08), proposed by the European Commission, will have a budget of € 149 million to tackle organisational barriers and promote take up of Linleading-edge technical solutions to improve acessibility and usability of digital material in a multilingual environment.

Framework programs:

• 7^th Framework Program

• 6^th Framework Program

• 5^th Framework Program