Transcript SIXTH FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME PRIORITY 1.1.6.3 …

Community Research
European Commission
Water Related Research in EC
Framework Programmes for
Research and Technological
Development
1. Historical Perspective: FP5 and FP6
2. Framework Programme 7 (2006-2013)
Pierre Mathy
Head of Unit
Natural Resources Management
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Community Research
European Commission
FP6 – GLOBAL CHANGE AND ECOSYSTEMS
GLOBAL CHANGE AND ECOSYSTEMS
Water cycle and soilrelated aspects
AREA I
IMPACT AND MECHANISMS OF GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS
AND ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTANTS ON CLIMATE, OZONE
DEPLETION AND CARBON SINKS
AREA II
WATER CYCLE, INCLUDING SOIL-RELATED ASPECTS
AREA III
BIODIVERSITY AND ECOSYSTEMS
AREA IV
MECHANISMS OF DESERTIFICATION AND NATURAL
DISASTERS
AREA V
STRATEGIES FOR SUSTAINABLE LAND MANAGEMENT,
INCLUDING COASTAL ZONES, AGRICULTURAL LAND AND
FORESTS
AREA VI
OPERATIONAL FORECASTING AND MODELLING INCLUDING
GLOBAL CLIMATIC CHANGE OBSERVATION SYSTEMS
AREA VII
COMPLEMENTARY RESEARCH
AREA VIII
CROSS-CUTTING ISSUES: SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
CONCEPTS AND TOOLS
Budget: ~760 M€
AREA IX
SPECIFIC SUPPORT ACTIONS
Duration: 4 years
the objective is to
understand the
mechanisms and assess
the impact of global
change and in particular
climate change on the
water cycle, water quality
and availability, as well as
soil functions and quality
to provide the bases for
management tools for
water systems to
mitigate the impacts.
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EU Water Research:
FP5 vs FP6
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FP5 : ~62.5 M€/year
FP6: ~47 M€/year
Overall results of the FP6 area ”Water cycle and Soilrelated aspects”:
FP6 - Water cycle and Soil related aspects
Area
Hydrology and climate processes
Ecological impact of global change, soil functioning and water quality
Integrated management strategies and mitigation technologies
Scenarios of water demand and availability
Specific Support Activities
Scientific Support to Policies
TOTAL
# of RTD
projects
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31
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10
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EC grant
(€)
13.538.000
33.912.000
111.042.000
6.993.000
2.508.000
20.186.000
188.179.000
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Examples of Flagship Projects in FP5-FP6
Euro-limpacs :
Integrated Project to Evaluate the Impacts of
Global Change on European Freshwater
Ecosystems
http://www.eurolimpacs.ucl.ac.uk
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Total costs : € 19,000,000
EC funding : € 12,500,000
37 partners
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Euro-Limpacs
It addresses impacts of future climate change on freshwaters – direct
and indirect
More specifically, main topics are :
•Direct impacts of CC on streams, lakes, wetlands, DOC
•Interactions with hydromorphology
•Climate – eutrophication interactions
•Climate-acidification Interactions
•Climate – toxic substances interaction
•Integrated catchment analysis and modelling
•Indicators of ecosystem health
•Reference conditions and restoration targets
•Catchment Management and Decision Support
•Dissemination and training
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Examples of flagship projects in FP5-FP6
The CATCHMOD Cluster
Harmonising Catchment Modelling Tools for Integrated Water
Resources Management
HarmoniCA
(concerted action for Cluster co-ordination)
Methodologies
HarmonIT
(IT tools for a Open Modelling
Environment)
HarmoniQuA
(Quality Assurance in modelling)
HarmoniCOP
(Methodologies of Collaborative
Planning)
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Modelling benchmarking
River Basin Case Studies
BMW
TiszaRiverProject
(Integrated modelling benchmarking)
(Integrated modelling applied to a large
wetland-rich catchment)
EUROHARP
(Nutrient modelling optimisation)
HarmoniRiB
(Modelling ephemeral water bodies)
(Experimental river basin network for
model testing and for data uncertainty
analysis)
CLIME
TRANSCAT
(Modelling climate change impact on
lakes)
(Integrated water management in
transboundary catchments)
TempQSim
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Community Research
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EU Water Initiative
Research Component
Community Research
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Foreword
Policy framework
Principal instruments of European
international policies
Five thousand years of water works
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Foreword
supporting diverse human societies
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Policy framework
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Principal instruments of European
Balancing people and nature – Integrating
international policies
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Five thousand years of water works
approaches
supporting diverse human societies
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Balancing people and nature – Integrating
Safe water and sanitation
approaches
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Safe water and sanitation
Cost-effective approaches that work
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Cost-effective approaches that work
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Catchment basin approaches – Strategies
Catchment basin approaches – Strategies
for reconciling multiple demands
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Protecting mountainous upstream areas
for reconciling multiple demands
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Sustainable lowland-use and irrigation
Urbanisation and water
Protecting mountainous upstream areasoo Coastal
zone management
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way forward
Sustainable lowland-use and irrigation o The
Project overview tables
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International
cooperation projects - PDF
Urbanisation and water
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Coastal zone management
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European excellence in water and soil
science and technology - PDF
The way forward
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Project overview tables
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Further reading
See Cooperation in FP6 (2002-2006) map International cooperation projects - PDFo PDF
(size: 499 Kb)
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Download the Water for Life brochure or
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project annexes in PDF format (551 kB and
European Commission
EU Water Initiative
Research Component
136 kB)
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European excellence in water and soil
science and technology - PDF
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http://europa.eu.int/comm/research/waterhttp://europa.eu.int/comm/research/water-initiative/index_en.html
Further reading
See Cooperation in FP6 (2002-2006) map EU Water Initiative - RESEARCH COMPONENT – INFO DAY
PDF (size: 499 Kb)
Download the Water for Life brochure or
project annexes in PDF format (551 kB and
136 kB)
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http://europa.eu.int/comm/research/water-initiative/index_en.htm
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Community Research
European Commission
EU Water Initiative
The EUWI is an ambitious commitment to help achieve the MDG
and WSSD targets on water and sanitation.
A premise of the EUWI is that more could be achieved if the EU
MS, partner countries and other donors, could better harmonise
their practices. As the EU collectively provides around €1.4
billion annually to water and sanitation, this has the potential to
generate significant results on the ground.
Through the EU Water Initiative and the €500m ACP-EU Water
Facility, the EU is demonstrating its commitment to providing
more, new, resources to poverty reduction through improved
management of water and increased access to water and
sanitation.
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EU Water Initiative
 Key
elements :
 Reinforce political commitment to action
 Promote better water governance arrangements
 Improve co-ordination & co-operation
 Encourage regional and sub-regional co-operation on water
management
 Catalyse additional funding
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EU Water Initiative - A Quick Overview
Johannesburg and Water related MDGs
Geographical
and
Components
AFRICA (sub-Saharan)
 EECCA
 MEDITERRANEAN
(North Africa & Middle
East)
 LATIN AMERICA
others to follow...
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Thematic
Water Supply and
Sanitation (WSS)
Integrated Water
Resources Management
(IWRM...including
transboundary
resources)
Horizontal
Financing
Research
Monitoring
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Objectives and Expected Results of the Research
Component
Co-ordination, coherence and complementarity of
European efforts to enhance IMPACT of co-operation
in water research for Developing Countries
 Critical mass and strategic partnerships
 Feedback mechanisms for joint research policy and implementation review
based on lessons learnt and good practices
 Integrated research approaches for strategic water management sectors
 Awareness, proactive stakeholders’ participation, development of human
resources and better knowledge and innovation management in developing
countries
 Integrating further and synchronising research with development cooperation efforts
!!!! PERFORMANCE INDICATOR !!!
TIMELY AND EFFECTIVE TRANSFER OF THE CO-ORDINATION
PROCESS AT LOCAL LEVEL (REGIONAL AND NATIONAL)
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Community Research
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International Research Co-operation
6th Research Framework Programme
(2002-2006)
EUROPEAN RESEARCH
AREA (ERA)
Within the 6th FP,
International Water
Research and
Scientific Cooperation can be
funded both through
Specific Actions in
support of
International Cooperation (INCO) and
Thematic Priorities
Global Budget
International Research
INCO
315 mi EURO
Thematic Priorities
285 mi EURO
Human Resources and
Mobility
Training for researchers
from Partner countries
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River Basin ‘Twinning’ between Europe and Developing
Countries
RIVERTWIN (STREP)
TWINBAS (STREP)
WADE (STREP)
TWINLATIN (STREP)
TWINBASINxn (CA)
Total Budget
2.964.140
EC contribution
2.460.160
Total Budget
2.113.708
EC contribution
1.383.713
Total Budget
2.558.789
EC contribution
1.700.000
Total Budget
2.724.000
EC contribution
2.000.000
Total Budget
1.710.000
EC contribution
BRAHMATWINN (STREP)
STRIVER (STREP)
900.000
Total Budget
3.035.000
EC contribution
2.872.000
Total Budget
3.678.000
EC contribution
2.491.000
Total Budget
18.792.637
EC contribution
13.806.873
TOTALS
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Community Research
European Commission
7th Framework Programme of
the European Community for
Research, Technological
Development and Demonstration
Activities (2007-2013)
State of Play and Perspectives
September 2006
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FRAMEWORK
PROGRAMME 7
The Council’s Common Position was
recently adopted (September 2006)
European Parliament
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FP7 OVERALL
OBJECTIVES
 Strengthening the scientific and
technological basis of the Community
industry
 Ensuring a high level of competitiveness
at international level
 Contributing to social, cultural and
economic progress of the Community
and its Member States
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FP7 OVERALL
OBJECTIVES
The central role of research as recognised
by the 2000 Spring European Council in
Lisbon was re-affirmed:
“The Union to become the most
competitive and dynamic knowledgebased economy in the world, capable of:
• Sustainable economic growth
• More and better jobs and greater
social cohesion”
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FP7 OVERALL
OBJECTIVES
In order to achieve FP7 objectives, 4
activity types will be promoted:
 Trans-national cooperation on policy-defined
themes – “Cooperation”  Investigator-driven research based on the
initiative of the research community
– “Ideas” –
 Support to individual researchers – “People” –
 Support to research capacities
– “Capacities” –
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 Health
European Commission
FP7: 10 Themes are Identified
on the Basis of their
Contribution to Community
Objectives
 Food, Agriculture and Biotechnology
 Information and Communication Technologies
 Nanotechnologies, Materials and Production
Technologies
 Energy
 Environment, including Climate Change
 Transports and Aeronautics
 Socio-Economics
 Space
 Security
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6. Environment (incl. climate change)
Climate Change, Pollution and Risks
• Pressures on environment and climate:
Functioning of climate and the earth system;
adaptation and mitigation measures; pollution in
air, soil and water; changes in atmospheric
composition and water cycle; interactions between
climate, land surface and the ocean; and impacts
on biodiversity and ecosystems.
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Environment and health: Interaction of environmental stressors with
human health including identification of sources, links to indoor
environment, and impact and emerging risk factors; integrated risk
assessment methods for toxic substances including alternatives to
animal testing; quantification and cost-benefit analysis of
environmental health risks and indicators for prevention strategies.
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, GLOBAL CHANGE AND ECOSYSTEMS
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6. Environment (incl. climate change)
Sustainable Management of Resources
• Conservation and sustainable management of
natural and man-made resources: ecosystems;
water resources management; waste
management and prevention; protection and
management of biodiversity, soil protection,
seabed, lagoons and coastal areas protection,
approaches against desertification and land
degradation; forest management; sustainable
management and planning of urban
environment, data management and
information services; assessment and foresight
relating to natural processes.
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, GLOBAL CHANGE AND ECOSYSTEMS
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Ideas – Frontier Research
ERC – European Research Council
Commission
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Approval of work
programme, as defined by
the Scientific Council
Scientific Council*
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Instruction to implement
work programme
Approval of annual
implementation report
Externalised tasks**
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Information to programme
committee
Created by Commission decision
Under the responsibility of the Commission
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Preparation of work programme
Set up of peer review: pool of reviewers,
nomination of review panels, evaluation
guidelines
Oversight of the evaluation procedure
Annual scientific report
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Information and support to applicants
Reception / eligibility of proposals
Organisation and execution of evaluation
Selection decision
Scientific and financial follow-up of
contracts
Annual implementation report
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FP7
The 7th Framework Programme is tailored to better meet
industry’s needs
Where industrially relevant, definition of work programmes
will draw on the strategic research agendas developed by
industry-led technology platforms. These strategic research
agendas, presenting the European dimension of research
challenges, also influence national research programmes.
Furthermore, by always looking at the market potential of
new inventions, they help to overcome Europe’s weakness in
commercialising the results of research.
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Community Research
European Commission
Watsan Technology Platform
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Multi-stakeholder forum bringing together various public,
private and non-state actors in order to coordinate actions in a
the Watsan technological area
Define the future strategic research agenda and address
barriers in the dissemination of relevant technologies, including
also developing
countries needs
Identify potential interfaces with the EU Water Initiative
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 Regarding
water-related environmental technologies,
water priorities derived from the Strategic Research
Agenda of the WSSTP
– 5 priority research areas:
 Balancing demand and supply
 Ensuring appropriate quality and security of water
supply and sewerage services
 Reducing negative environmental impacts
 Novel approaches to the design, construction and
operation of water infrastructure assets
 Establishment of an enabling framework
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European Commission
“Pilot Actions” proposed:
 Mitigation of water stress in coastal areas
 Sustainable water management in urban areas
 Sustainable water management for
agricultural areas
 Sustainable water management for industries
 Restoration of degraded water resources
 Adaptation and mitigation of extreme hydroclimatic events
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2007 Work Programme
Development
 Broad consultation: Advisory Group
 Technology Platform (Watsan Technology
Platform)
 Currently in preparation
 To be discussed with the Member State
Representatives (Programme Committee)
 Probable call for proposals by the end of 2006
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Possible Topics for Inclusion in
2007 Work Programme
 Climate Change and Impacts and Adaptation Strategies
in Water Policies
 Effectiveness of Adaptation and Mitigation Measures
Related to Changes of the Hydrological Cycle and its
Extremes
 Assessing the Ecological Status of Water Bodies
 River Basin Twinning Initiatives as a Tool to
Implement EU Water Initiatives
 Temporary Water Bodies Management
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Possible Topics for Inclusion in
2007 Work Programme contd.
 Innovative Technologies for Sustainable Water Use in
Industries
 Technologies for Measuring and Monitoring Networks
 Improving Observing Systems for Water Resource
Management
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Possible Topics for Calls
After 2007
 Assessing the Behaviour of River Basins
 Water Quantity and Quality: Long-Term Scenarios
 Models for Integrated Management of Water Resources
 Water Monitoring System
 Restoration of Degraded Water Resources
 Groundwater Protection and Remediation
 Development of Improved Centralised and Decentralised Low Cost
Sustainable Solutions for Water Supply and Sanitation in Peri-Urban
Areas in Developing Countries
 Advanced Technologies for Soil Erosion and Shallow Mass Movements
Assessment and Monitoring
 Emerging Threats for Soil/Groundwater Contamination in Europe:
Available Technologies and Research Needs
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European Commission
Sources of information:
– EUROPA server: http://ec.europa.eu/research/index_en.cfm
– CORDIS server:
 FP6: http://cordis.europa.eu/sustdev/environment/home.html
 FP7: http://cordis.europa.eu.int/fp7/
– CIRCA server FP5 and FP6:
 http://www.forum.europa.eu.int/Public/irc/rtd/eesdwatkeact/home
– Newsletter “Water and Soils Times”
 http://forum.europa.eu.int/Public/irc/rtd/eesdwatkeact/info/data/ind
ex.htm
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