30.10.2006

The European Commission announced EUR 28.3 million of new projects into avian and pandemic influenza. 17 projects were selected after a special call for proposals under the EU's Sixth Research Framework Programme. The new projects cover human and animal health, and address research needs identified by organisations such as the World Health Organisation, the World Organisation for Animal Health and the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the UN. The EUR 28.3 million allocated to these projects comes in addition to the EUR 21 million already made available under the Fifth and Sixth Framework Programmes.