Internal Auditing & Risk Management ____________________ Anul VII, Nr.2(26), Iunie 2012 25 MANAGEMENT AND ANALYSIS OF EUROPEAN PROJECT PROPOSALS IN THE FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME 7 Prof. Margareta FLORESCU, PhD Viorel VULTURESCU, PhD The Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies, The National Authority Bucharest for Scientific Research, Bucharest E-mail: icefaceus@yahoo.com E_mail: viorel.vulturescu@ancs.ro Prof. Mariana BALAN, PhD “Athenaeum” University, Bucharest E_mail: dr.marian.balan@gmail.com Abstract From the good practices of European project proposers comes the necessity to approach project writing for The Framework Programme. The common errors made by consortia that submitted project proposals within the FP7-2008-ENV-1 call are analysed in this paper. The analysis was made on more than 400 Evaluation Summary Reports, for every evaluation criterion, according to both the participant’s and evaluator’s guide. The result of the current analysis was used to draft the pre-screening tool intended for the National Contact Points (NCP), in order to support coordinators that submitted project proposals in subsequent calls approached on theme 6 – Environment, including climate change, of the Framework Programme 7. Keywords: common errors, projects, research, Framework Programme 7, National Contact Points JEL Classification: O32, O39, Z19 INTRODUCTION The European Union’s research Framework Programme is one of the most important pan-European cooperation frameworks used by the Union to implement its scientific research policies. The first Framework Programme was carried out between 1984 and 1988 1 with a feeble budget of the European Union at the time 2 . 1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Framework_Programmes_for_Research_and_Technological_Developm ent#cite_note-0 2 http://ec.europa.eu/research/rtdinfo/special_fp7/fp7/01/article_fp709_en.html