Who benefits from EU-Israel academic cooperation? http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article11851.shtml

"Israeli universities develop the arms and control technologies that directly support the occupation of the West Bank and the blockade of Gaza," Cushman added. "Their alumni magazines proudly boast of their links with the Israeli military and security services. Israelis who have done military service get privileged entry into universities -- one of a number of ways the universities directly and indirectly discriminate against Palestinian citizens of Israel."

The European Commission, meanwhile, is a major provider of grants to Israeli universities and to private Israeli firms, including weapons manufacturers. Israel is the main foreign participant in the European Union's multi-annual framework program for scientific research, which has an overall budget of 53 billion euros (US $73.5 billion) between 2007 and 2013. Israel is taking part in 800 EU-financed research projects, worth a total of 4.3 billion euros. Israeli officials have told me that they hope they will have directly drawn down more than 500 million euros worth of science grants by the time the EU's program concludes in 2013.

[European Union R&D subsidises for Israeli security actors http://www.statewatch.org/news/2010/nov/russell-tribunal--on-palestine-ben-hayes.pdf