Transcript 7th EU Framework Programme challenges and opportunities

7ème Programme Cadre de l’UE
Projet d’orientations de Recherche 2007
“Environnement (y inclus
changement climatique)”
P. Valette
DG Recherche – Direction Environnement
Visioconférence CNRS – 18 mai 2006
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Value added of the EU level
 Pooling and leveraging resources (critical mass)
 Fostering human capacity and excellence in S&T
(networking)
 Better integration of European R&D (scientific base,
coordination, dissemination)
 « European research to strengthen the EU policies » (Lisbon
strategy)
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FP7 (2007 –2013)
4 Specific Programmes
Cooperation – Collaborative research
Ideas – Frontier Research
People – Marie Curie Actions
Capacities – Research Capacity
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The JRC activity and the EURATOM research
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Cooperation – Collaborative
Research
Nine themes
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Health
Food, agriculture and biotechnology
Information and communication technologies
Nanosciences, nanotechnologies, materials
and new production technologies
Energy
Environment (including climate change)
Transport (including aeronautics)
Socio-economic sciences and the humanities
Security and space
Environment has links with all the other themes
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Budget for FP7
• Total budget (2004 prices) : 48 081 million €
• Indicative breakdown following the IIA on 4th
of April 2006
2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013
5 0445 1705 6126 0886 7047 4868 1708 851
• In 2013 expenditure 75% higher than in 2006
• current prices: Overall budget ~ 54 billion euro
(~ 60% increase compared to FP6)
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FP7 2007 – 2013
* Austrian Presidency
proposal for a revised
budget
Specific Programmes
Cooperation – Collaborative
research
32 202
Ideas – Frontier Research
7 460
People – Human Potential
4 577
Capacities – Research
Capacity
4 193
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JRC (non-nuclear)
JRC (nuclear)
Euratom
*Informal Competitiveness Council – GRAZ – 21 & 22 April 2006
1 751
750
4 062
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Support from Environmental Research
 Environmental Research to support International
commitments such as:
– UN FCCC and Kyoto Protocol and Montreal Protocols
– UN Convention on Biological Diversity
– UN Strategy for Disaster Reduction
– World Summit on Sustainable Development
– Intergovernmental panel for Climate Change (IPCC)
– Group on Earth Observations (GEO)
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Support from Environmental Research
 Environmental Research to contribute to EU environmental
policies such as:
– European Climate Change Programme II
– 6th Environmental Action Plan and associated Thematic Strategies
(air, waste, marine, soil, pesticides, urban)
– Action Plans on Environmental Technologies and Environment and
Health
– European directives – Water Framework, REACH (chemicals), CAFE
(air quality), INSPIRE (env. data)
 Environmental Research to contribute to EU policies such as:
– Sustainable Development Strategy
– International cooperation
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FP7 activities – Theme “Environment”
(including Climate Change)
Activity “Climate change, pollution and risks”
 Area “Pressures on environment and climate” – 6 subareas including regional impacts
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The Earth system and climate
Emissions and Pressures
The Carbon cycle: Integration and interactions
Future Climate
Climate Change Impacts
Response strategies: Mitigation and Adaptation
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FP7 activities – Theme “Environment”
(including Climate Change)
Activity “Climate change, pollution and risks”
 Area “Environment and health” including research
for biomonitoring
1. Health effects of exposure to environmental stressors
2. Methods and tools to underpin environment and health
research including human biomonitoring
3. Delivery of methods and decision support tools for risk
analysis and policy development
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FP7 activities – Theme “Environment”
(including Climate Change)
Activity “Climate change, pollution and risks”
 Area “Natural hazards” – 4 sub-areas including floods
1. Hazard assessment, processes and triggering factors
2. Hazard Detection and Prediction
3. Vulnerability assessment and Societal impacts
4. Risk management and Mitigation
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FP7 activities – Theme “Environment”
(including Climate Change)
Activity “Sustainable management of resources”
 Area “Conservation and sustainable management of
natural and man-made resources and biodiversity” – 5 subareas
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Water Resources
Soil Research and Desertification, Forests
Biodiversity
Urban Development
Consumption Patterns
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FP7 activities – Theme “Environment”
(including Climate Change)
Activity “Sustainable management of resources”
 Area “Evolution of marine environments” – including 3
sub-areas
1. Marine Resource
2. Evolution of Marine Environment
3. Marine Observing Systems (link with GEO)
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FP7 activities – Theme “Environment”
(including Climate Change)
Activity “Environmental Technologies”
 Area “Environmental technologies for the sustainable
management of the natural and man-made environment”
– 6 sub-areas including conservation and enhancement
of cultural heritage
1. Water priorities will be mainly derived from the Strategic Research
Agenda of the WSSTP
2. Soil
3. Wastes
4. Clean Processes and Pollution Prevention
5. Built Environment
6. Cultural Heritage
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FP7 activities – Theme “Environment”
(including Climate Change)
Activity “Environmental Technologies”
 Area “Technology assessment, verification and testing”
including LCA/LCT, alternatives for animal testing,
sustainable chemistry, risk-assessment.
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FP7 activities – Theme “Environment”
(including Climate Change)
Activity “Earth observation and assessment tools”
 Area “Earth observation” – 4 sub-areas including in situ
and space observation for 9 societal benefit areas
1. Integrating existing European Earth Observation activities in GEO
(global level)
2. Developing cross-cutting research activities relevant to GEO
3. Earth Observation activities in emerging areas of research
4. Developing Capacity Building activities in the domain of Earth
Observation
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FP7 activities – Theme “Environment”
(including Climate Change)
Activity “Earth observation and assessment tools”
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Area “Assessment tools for sustainable development” – 4
sub-areas including techno-economic modeling, land use
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Indicators
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Land use
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Foresight
4.
Externalities
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FP7 Areas and Topics
FP 7 thematic priorities and activities should integrate
within the research activity itself, when relevant:
 Policy relevance/ Unforeseen policy needs
 Socio-economic dimension of the topic
 Dissemination activities (research-policy, science-society)
 International cooperation in particular with INCO countries
 SME participation
 Cross thematic topics
Coordination of national programmes ERA-NET, Art. 169 can
be part of the activities
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Structure of the
FP7 annual work programmes
 Strong focus on the calls in the calendar year
 Simplification aspects
 A coherent and flexible approach to new elements in the
Themes: integrating international cooperation, policy needs,
emerging needs and coordination of national programmes
(ERA-NET)
 Definition of topics, funding schemes, and expected impacts
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Timetable for the preparation of the
Work Programmes
 Consultation/ preparatory stage (February-June)
– Advice, consultations, inputs from external sources (AG,
TP, events)
 First draft at the DG RTD level by 19 July 2006
 Consolidation stage (July-Sept)
– First consolidated draft
– Review of horizontal, cross-thematic issues
– Further consultation with AG’s
 Adoption stage (2006)
(October – Interservices Consultations / November – FP7 PC/
December – Commission adoption)
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Research in support to policies in FP7
 Will continue to be central in FP7 in “Co-operation”
 Research in support to policies will be embedded in
the Themes and implemented through standard
calls
 Impacts on policy shall be clearly defined in the
“expected impact” in the Work Programme
 Flexibility in the WP to accommodate unforeseen
policy needs (e.g. epidemics, emerging concerns
about food safety, natural disaster responses)
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Dissemination, knowledge transfer and
broader engagement in FP7
 More pro-active approach to dissemination in FP7
 Activities at Work Programme level:
- through particular ‘topics’ of the call dedicated to
dissemination
- expert calls (framework contract)
 Activities at project level:
- through introduction of activities in the Contract and
reporting requirements
 Offering targeted assistance to projects to optimise the use of
results
- legal helpdesk
- exploitation strategic seminars
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Dissemination, knowledge transfer
and broader engagement in FP7
 Specific actions disseminating results from across a range of
projects (including projects outside FP7) e.g. Alert information
system
 Dissemination to policy makers and standardisation bodies to
facilitate the use of results
- synthesise knowledge/ results
- organise dissemination and awareness events
 Cordis services
 Specific measures
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International cooperation in FP7
The participation of third countries in the co-operation SP will be
possible via 2 mechanisms:
 The opening of all activities to third countries – both for ICPC*
and industrialised countries in the Themes
 Specific co-operation actions in each thematic priority
dedicated to ICPC
- part of the main call identifying topics for ICPC’s
→ topics in consultation with the Capacity Programme and
ICPC partner regions
→ importance to regional approaches (eg. Latin-America,
Asia, etc.)
*International Co-operation Partner Country (ICPC)
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SME Participation in FP7
 Participation of SME’s across the Specific Programmes in
particular in co-operation:
- including priorities/ areas of interest to SME’s
- propose appropriate funding schemes
→ this will be complemented by the Competitiveness &
Innovation Programme
 SME-participation in the “Industry-academia partnerships and
pathways” of the “People” programme
 SME specific actions in the Capacities: “Research for the
benefit of SME’s”
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Approaches to cross-thematic
issues in FP7
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Create attention to cross-thematic issues in FP7
 Some identified in SP (e.g. marine science and technology)
→ implementation can be done through
coordinated calls (when more than one theme is involved)
or
joint calls (preferred if there are stronger linkages on topic
level in serveral themes)
→ coordinated calls are preferred thanks to a lower
administrative burden/ load
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FP7 Rules for participation
Main new features aiming at simplification of the FP7 Rules for
participation
 Member State / Associated country equally treated for the
minimum number of participants
 Costs models are abandoned (instead, a unique definition of
eligible costs)
 Community contribution is 50% for research and demonstration…
 … and up to 75% for public bodies, higher education, non profit
and SMEs
 NoEs are financed by means of lump sums
(23.500€/year/researcher)
 Financial Collective Responsibility to be replaced by other
mechanisms (Guarantee Fund)
 Reduction of the frequency of audit certificates
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FP7 Rules for participation
Funding schemes (formerly ‘instruments’)
 Collaborative projects (range from small focused actions to
large integrating projects)
 Networks of excellence (~same scope and objectives as in
FP6)
 Coordination actions and Support actions (~same scope and
objectives as in FP6)
 Actions to promote and develop human resources and
mobility of researchers
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CONCLUSIONS
 La priorité thématique “Environnement” est clairement
spécifiée et prometteuse
 Des innovations majeures en terme de contenu:
Technologies environnementales, GEO, EnvironnementSanté
 Un budget comparable au PC6 en 2007 et 2008
 Actions de coordination des programmes de recherche,
coopération internationale intégrée à la recherche
coopérative
 L’exploitation des résultats pour la définition des
politiques: un enjeu majeur dès le début de la recherche
 La contribution des autres programmes spécifiques à la
recherche environnementale: un nouveau défi
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