"Global Monitoring for Environment and Safety" (GMES) is a joint initiative of the European Commission (EC) and of  the European Space Agency (ESA).

This initiative is designed to establish a European capacity for the provision and use of operational information for Global Monitoring of Environment and Security (mainly derived from Earth observation data and in situ data). In support of the European policy and sustainable development, the GMES Service information should in particular support Earth environment management and security issues on following 5 domains: Land, Atmosphere, Emergency response, Security and Marine (MyOcean).

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The Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) bundles all research-related EU initiatives together under a common roof playing a crucial role in reaching the goals of growth, competitiveness and employment; along with a new Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme (CIP), Education and Training programmes, and Structural and Cohesion Funds for regional convergence and competitiveness. It is also a key pillar for the European Research Area (ERA).

The broad objectives of FP7 have been grouped into four categories: Cooperation, Ideas, People and Capacities. For each type of objective, there is a specific programme corresponding to the main areas of EU research policy. All specific programmes work together to promote and encourage the creation of European poles of (scientific) excellence.

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