Transcript New and Emerging Science and Technology

NEST
NCP Meeting,
7 October 2003
Results / lessons from
the first evaluation
New and Emerging
Science and Technology
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New and Emerging Science and Technology
NEST evaluation –
key elements (1)
• “Bottom-up” calls (ADVENTURE projects, INSIGHT
projects, Support Actions) covering all areas of S/T
• 2-Stage process for STREP
• 1 stage for SSA and CA
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NEST evaluation –
key elements (2)
• Remote specialist referees (110), followed by high
level inter-disciplinary panel (34 members) to decide
final marks
• High level of transparency to proposers (ESR
contains all evaluator comments)
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Call: FP6-2003-NEST-A
2 closure dates: May 14 / Oct 22
• Following closure date May 14, 2003
• 187 proposals were received
• 14 were not evaluated (late or noneligible)
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Proposal numbers
• STREPs
166
Outline proposals
25
Retained for stage 2
(8)
For funding(?)
• CAs - nil
• SSAs - 7 proposals, 3 retained
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0
6
6
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STREP
0
STREP retained
3
1
1
2
Other Support
0
35
0
1
5
18
16
Other Support
Mathematics
and
Methodologies
Cognitive,
Social and
Economic
Sciences
0
Mathematics
and
Methodologies
0
Applied
Technologies
48
Cognitive,
Social and
Economic
Sciences
9
0
Physical
Sciences and
Technologies
10
Applied
Technologies
10
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
0
44
Physical
Sciences and
Technologies
20
Biological and
Life Sciences
and
Technologies
40
Biological and
Life Sciences
and
Technologies
Health
Sciences and
Technologies
Number of submitted proposals
50
Health
Sciences and
Technologies
Number of selected proposals
Thematic coverage
of proposals
THEMATIC COVERAGE OF SUBMITTED PROPOSALS
60
0
1
1
30
4
Thematic area
THEMATIC COVERAGE OF SELECTED PROPOSALS
SSA
0
The m atic are a
SSA retained
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Country distribution
of participants
(all proposals)
Country participation (all participants)
200
178
180
140
131
116
120
98
100
80
60
60
37
20
40
35
38
38
28
19
14
10
9
1
6 3
0 0
22
18
17
16
11
2
4 2 0
LV
40
53
HU
Number of participants
160
16
9
2 1 1
9 12 6
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Countries
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US
A
CN
TR
SI
PL
CZ
BG
LI
IL
UK
FI
AT
LU
IE
ES
DE
BE
0
Country distribution
of Co-ordinators
(all proposals)
Country participation (coordinators only)
35
33
31
30
Number of coordinators
26
25
20
15
10
12
8
8
8
7
6
7
6
4
5
1
4
3
2
1
1
1
1
LT
LV
1
2
0
BE
DE
EL
ES
FR
IE
IT
NL
AT
PT
FI
SV
UK
IL
NO BG HU
PL
SI
Countries
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SK
Country distribution of
participants (retained
proposals)
Country distribution of participants (retained proposals)
35
30
Numbers of participants
25
20
15
10
5
0
BE
DK
DE
EL
ES
FR
IT
NL
AT
PT
FI
SV
UK
CH
IL
NO
CZ
EE
HU
LT
LV
PL
RO
SI
RU USA
Countries
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NEST first call :
provisional assessment
• Methodology:
– approach now proven (improvements
possible)
• Proposals:
– numbers good (except CAs)
– broad distribution (area, country of origin)
– too many “out of scope”
• Success rate:
– outline proposals ~ 15%
– full proposals ~ 33% (?)
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Proposal
distribution
• A good distribution across EU countries,
Associated Candidate countries and Associated
countries
• A good thematic coverage of the proposals
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Feedback from the
evaluation
• The “5-page OUTLINE proposal” concept has
been well-received
• The transparency of the feedback to proposers
(ESRs) appears to have been well-received
• No need for major changes to the evaluation
methodology; remote individual assessment plus a
strategic panel
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Messages for proposers (1)
• NEST proposals should “lie outside or cut across”
the Thematic Priorities
• NEST is not a catch-all for anything that falls
outside the thematic priorities.
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Messages for proposers (2)
• Many proposers appears insufficiently aware of
the basic principles behind NEST:
– ADVENTURE: novelty, ambition, risk, impact
– INSIGHT: risks indicated from new phenomena
– Support actions must help in implementation of NEST
• INSIGHT and ADVENTURE are different things.
A project must be designed for the one or the other
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Messages for proposers (3)
• Please read the NEST reference documents from
www.cordis.lu/nest
• Please specify a single activity code (ADVENTURE,
INSIGHT, Support, PATHFINDER)
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Messages for proposers (4)
• 5-page OUTLINE proposals are not about
describing an idea for an area of work.
• They should contain a concise description:
– What exactly is the novelty of the proposal
– What are you planning to do and how?
– What may one expect as a result of the project?
– What would be the impact on science and technology
• A degree of quantification might be useful
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Messages for proposers (5)
• Innovations in social sciences and economics are
valid for NEST as long as they conform to the
requirements set in the reference documents
• Proposals on mathematics are also welcome
providing that the new techniques are coupled
with the development of knowledge in other
scientific and technological spheres
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Messages for proposers (6)
• Please use the electronic submission system, EPSS
• Outline
• Full
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80%
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