A third country is a state that is neither a Member State NOR an associated country. The list of International Cooperation Partner Countries (ICPC) can be found in Annex 1 of the Work Programme. Whereas all third countries are allowed to participate in FP7 projects (if the minimum criteria are met and justification for participation is given) only ICPC are likely to also receive funding from the European Commission. ICPC are lower / middle income countries (see definition in section “Consortium building”).