Transcript Urgent need of the REI EU

Partnership is a two-way street
the FP vs. national instruments
Money, barriers, remedies
Jerzy M Langer
Polish Academy of Sciences
“Research and Innovation Policies”
Brussels, July 14, 2009
THE MONEY WE ARE TALKING ABOUT
GERD 2006
EU -27
214 bln €
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FINANCIAL CRISIS AND R&D
2009 GDP in the European Union
EC, May 2009
5% drop of the GDP causes an over 10 bln € hole in the EU GERD
First likely victim – industrial R&D finances
A NEW DEAL URGENTLY NEEDED !
HINT NO 1 – GEORGE SOROS 2009
Capitalism must undergo fundamental transition from
a free market game to a state controlled capitalism
HINT NO 2 – LUND DECLARATION
To meet the Grand Challenges, European research
must be focused. Institutions, member states and
the EC must cooperate better and the systems must
build on openness and trust
HINT NO 3 – UNIQUE WINDOW OF OPPORTUNITY
New EU parliament and new EC
New financial perspective
New Treaty and political consciousness about REI
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BARRIERS FOR JOINT UNDERTAKINGS
AT THE MS LEVEL
• Specific national rulings
– Review schemes (national - must)
– Resident vs. non-resident financing
– What allowed (e.g. stem cells, GMOs, etc)
• Diverse funding schemes
– Ministries vs. Research Councils
• Different fiscal rules and scales
– Full vs. partial cost, backup funds
• Different budgetary rules (e.g. yearly base)
• Different priorities and legal consequences
• Different scale of resources
– GERD (0,35 – 4,5%)
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EU-25 NETWORKS OF EXCELLENCE
DANGER OF A TWO-SPEED EUROPE
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BARRIERS FOR JOINT UNDERTAKINGS
AT THE EC LEVEL
• Complex and time consuming decision procedures
• Susceptibility to lobbying
• Politically relevant factors overwhelming
• Administrative rules before the goal
• Legality and accountability – CoA (e.g. case of EA)
• Compartmentalisation
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FP IN THE 2009 EU BUDGET
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A NEW ROLE OF FP ON EUROPEAN MAP
1. Grand Challenges
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Large Problem-driven programmes
Quality and originality but also relevance
2. Great Ideas – Moving frontiers
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Bottom-up approach
Quality and originality are the sole criteria
3. Help to realise what MS cannot do alone
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Research Infrastructure and access to it
Stimulate and ease multilateral collaboration (ERA-NETs +)
Evolution of fund distribution
EC DGs
Executive Agencies
European Councils
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A NEW DEAL URGENTLY NEEDED !
Member States
European Commission
European societies and associations
a missing partner
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A NEW DEAL URGENTLY NEEDED !
Member States
• abandon „just retour”
• accept a „common pot”
• agree on benchmarking and its
consequences - openness
• harmonise procedures (e.g. on
peer review, English as
acceptable legal language in
proposal submittals, timing,…)
• EU- portability of grants
European Commission
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an initiator and policy setter
an observer –ERA watch
a „facilitator” (financial, personnel)
a legal advisor
information provider
a guardian of good practices
externalise fund distribution
Implement REI and not 3 weakly
linked ERA, EHEA, EIA
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LUND DECLARATION
To address Grand Challenges
 European research must be focused.
 Institutions, Member States and the EC must cooperate better
 Openness and trust have to become fundaments
 Free frontier research is given enough room
 Europe must increase its global cooperation
 Competition among researchers in Europe a stimulus for excellence
 Better use of research results – real innovativeness
 European universities must modernize and improve cooperation
between themselves and with other research performers.
 Create and maintain world-class research infrastructures.
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