The Commission services also provided in 2013 a working document containing templates for the provisions of an ERIC based on the experience gained in the application process of the first ERICs in order to facilitate the drafting of the provisions by the applicants and achieving a more coherent set of provisions for the ERICs without prejudice to the flexibility and adaptation necessary for reflecting the diverse character of the various ERICs in terms of structure (single sited, distributed, virtual) and in terms of areas of research (social sciences and human ...[+++]ities, environmental sciences, energy, biological and medical sciences, materials and analytical facilities, physical sciences and engineering).

b) energy savings from demand response of distributed consumers by energy aggregators ;

The Participating States have agreed that the dedicated implementation structure of BONUS will be a European Economic Interest Grouping, namely Baltic Organisations Network for Funding Science (BONUS EEIG), established in Helsinki, Finland.

But such bi-regional ST dialogue cannot be effective without a regional structure capable of ensuring coordination with and within the country grouping, and which can play a significant role in ST priority setting and research funding.

- Intensify ST including ICT cooperation at the level of regional country groupings (e.g. ASEAN, African Union), develop policy dialogue with appropriate regional structures and negotiate bi-regional ST agreements where appropriate;

The pre-JEP strategy and the definition of projects: Tempus II activities were introduced during the 1994-95 academic year; in order to give preference to the implementation of European Tempus (Tacis) projects which are currently viable, the Commission undertook preliminry action in 1993-94 by financing pre-JEPs lasting a year; these focused on the preparatory mobility of staff between universities in view of further cooperation at the institutional level; the support provided for these projects was to focus on the following priority subject areas: humanities and social sciences; political science and economics; modern European la ...[+++]nguages; improvement of university management; given the main objectives of the Tacis programme, the Commission decided that special attention would also be paid to projects relating to agriculture, energy and transport.