Funding

The DCFR is the result of years of work by many pan-European teams of jurists. They have been financed from diverse sources which cannot all be named here.1 Before we came together with other teams in May 2005 to form the ‘CoPECL Network of Excellence’2 under the European Commission’s sixth framework programme for research, from which funds our research has since been supported, the members of the Study Group on a European Civil Code had the benefit of funding from national research councils. Among others the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) provided over several years the lion’s share of the financing including the salaries of the Working Teams based in Germany and the direct travel costs for the meetings of the Co-ordinating Group and the numerous Advisory Councils. The work of the Dutch Working Teams was financed by the Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (NWO). Further personnel costs were met by the Flemish Fonds voor Wetenschappelijk On- derzoek-Vlaanderen (FWO), the Greek Onassis-Foundation, the Austrian Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung, the Portuguese Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian and the Norges forskningsråd (the Research Council of Norway). The Acquis Group received substantial support from its preceding Training and Mobility Networks on ‘Common Principles of European Private Law’ (19972002) under the fourth EU Research Framework Programme3 and

1A complete survey of the donors of the Study Group on a European Civil Code will be found in the opening pages of the most recent volume of the Study Group’s “Principles of European Law (PEL)” series (as to which see para. 54 of the introduction). The donors of the Commission on European Contract Law are mentioned in the preface of both volumes of the Principles of European Contract Law.

2Joint Network on European Private Law (CoPECL: Common Principles of European Contract Law), Network of Excellence under the 6th EU Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development, Priority 7 – FP6-2002-CITIZENS- 3, Contract N8 513351 (co-ordinator: Professor Hans Schulte-Nölke, Osnabrück).

3TMR (Training and Mobility) Network ‘Common Principles of European Private Law’ of the Universities of Barcelona, Berlin (Humboldt), Lyon

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on ‘Uniform Terminology for European Private Law’ (2002-2006) under the fifth Research Framework Programme.4 We are extremely indebted to all who in this way have made our work possible.

III, Münster (co-ordinator of the Network: Professor Reiner Schulze), Nijmegen, Oxford and Turin, funded under the 4th EU Research Framework Programme 1997-2002.

4TMR (Training and Mobility) Network ‘Uniform Terminology for European Private Law’ of the Universities of Barcelona, Lyon III, Münster, Nijmegen, Oxford, Turin (co-ordinator of the Network: Professor Gianmaria Ajani), Warsaw, funded under the 5th EU Research Framework Programme 2002-2006.

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