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 Onderzoek-Vlaanderen (FWO), the Greek Onassis-Foundation, the Austrian Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung, the Portuguese Fundaçào 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’ (1997–2002) under the fourth EU Research Framework Programme3. and 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.