Transcript FP7 Specific Programmes

7th Framework Program
Information Day
Epaminondas Christofilopoulos,
Head of International Cooperation Unit
[email protected]
http://www.help-forward.gr
Introduction
Content
• FP7 General Framework
• FP7 Structure
• Co-operation – Thematic Areas
• Ideas – European Research Council (ERC)
• People – Marie Curie Actions
• Capacities
• International Cooperation in FP7
• Types of Project
• Specific FP7 aspects
• FP7 Participation
• FP7 sources of information
FP7 General Framework
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FP7 – General Framework
Europe’s Snapshot
 Over 75% of global research investment is made
outside the EU
 Our share is decreasing due to new global players in
S&T
 Europe must invest more while opening up to the
world
The Framework Programs - FP7
FP7 is EU’s main “recurrent” central funding tool for
supporting research and technological development
Designed firstly to respond to Europe's needs in terms
of employment, competitiveness and quality of life.
2007-2013
Total budget of over € 50 Billion
Supports research in selected priority areas
Objectives
• to strengthen the scientific and technological base of
European industry
• to encourage international competitiveness, while
promoting research that supports EU policies.
The Framework Programs
evolution
EU Framework Programmes: Budgets
80
€ Billion
70
53,2
60
50
40
30
20
10
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3,27
5,36
14,96
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1984-1987 1987-1991 1990-1994 1994-1998 1998-2002 2002-2006 2007-2013
FP7 Structure
http://www.help-forward.gr
FP7 – Specific Programmes
FP7 Specific Programmes
Co-operation – Collaborative Research
€ 32, 292m
Ideas – Frontier Research
€ 7, 460m
People – Human Potential
€ 4, 727m
Capacities – Research Capacity
€ 4, 291m
• Plus € 1,751m for Joint Research Centre
• Total over Seven Years (2007-13) of €50 521m (excluding
EURATOM)
FP7 – Specific Programmes
FP7 Specific Programmes
Co-operation – Collaborative Research € 32, 292m
Health
Food, Agriculture and Biotechnology
Information and Communication Technologies
Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production
Technologies
Energy
Environment (including Climate Change)
Transport
Socio-Economic Sciences and the Humanities
Security and Space
FP7 – Specific Programmes
FP7 Specific Programmes
Co-operation – Collaborative Research
€ 32, 292m
Ideas – Frontier Research
€ 7, 460m
People – Human Potential
€ 4, 727m
Capacities – Research Capacity
€ 4, 291m
• Plus € 1,751m for Joint Research Centre
• Total over Seven Years (2007-13) of €50 521m (excluding
EURATOM)
FP7 – Specific Programmes
FP7 Specific Programmes
Ideas – Frontier Research
Starting Independent Researcher Grants
Advanced Investigator Grants
€ 7, 460m
FP7 – Specific Programmes
FP7 Specific Programmes
Co-operation – Collaborative Research
€ 32, 292m
Ideas – Frontier Research
€ 7, 460m
People – Human Potential
€ 4, 727m
Capacities – Research Capacity
€ 4, 291m
• Plus € 1,751m for Joint Research Centre
• Total over Seven Years (2007-13) of €50 521m (excluding
EURATOM)
FP7 – Specific Programmes
FP7 Specific Programmes
People – Human Potential
Initial Training of Researchers
Lifelong Learning and Career Development
Industry-Academia Partnerships and Pathways
The International Dimension
Specific Actions
€ 4, 727m
FP7 – Specific Programmes
FP7 Specific Programmes
Co-operation – Collaborative Research
€ 32, 292m
Ideas – Frontier Research
€ 7, 460m
People – Human Potential
€ 4, 727m
Capacities – Research Capacity
€ 4, 291m
• Plus € 1,751m for Joint Research Centre
• Total over Seven Years (2007-13) of €50 521m (excluding
EURATOM)
FP7 – Specific Programmes
FP7 Specific Programmes
Capacities – Research Capacity
Research Infrastructures
Research for the Benefit
Of SMEs
Regions of Knowledge
Research Potential
Science in Society
Activities of International
Co-operation (INCO)
Coherent Development
of Policies
€ 4, 291m
FP7 Structure
Co-operation – Collaborative Research
Moving from FP6 to FP7
Health
Food, Agriculture and Biotechnology
Information and Communication Technologies
Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials
and new Production Technologies
Capacities
Capacities––
Research
ResearchCapacity
Capacity
Research
Infrastructures
Research
Infrastructures
Research
for for
the the
Benefit
Research
Benefit
Of SMEs
Of SMEs
Regions
of Knowledge
Regions
of Knowledge
Energy
Research
Potential
Research
Potential
Environment (including Climate Change)
Science
in Society
Science
in Society
Transport
Activities
of International
Activities
of International
Co-operation
Co-operation
Coherent
Development
Coherent
Development
of Policies
of Policies
Socio-Economic Sciences and the Humanities
Security and Space
Ideas – Frontier Research
Starting Independent Researcher Grants
Advanced Investigator Grants
People – Human Potential
Initial Training of Researchers
Initial
Training
Researchers
Lifelong
Learning
andofCareer
Development
Lifelong
Learning
and
Career
Industry-Academia PartnershipsDevelopment
and Pathways
Industry-Academia
Partnerships
and Pathways
The International Dimension
The International
Dimension
Specific Actions
Specific Actions
FP7 – Specific Programmes
FP7 Specific Programmes
Co-operation – Collaborative Research (€32 292 million)
Core of FP7: 10 thematic research areas
European priority driven – top down research
• Transnational co-operation, from collaborative
projects and networks to the co-ordination of research
programmes
• International co-operation between the EU and third
countries is an integral part of this action
• Scientific support to policy work and emerging areas
are also to be governed under each of the ten themes.
•SMEs, Large Companies, NGOs, Research
Organisations, Universities, Public Organisations,
etc
FP7 – Specific Programmes
FP7 Specific Programmes
Co-operation – Collaborative Research (€32 365 million)
Work programmes implemented on annual(?) basis by:
• Calls for proposals
• Commission specified topics
• Commission specified project types
• Evaluation procedure could differ (One/two step/stage)
• Could also specify estimated budget, size and composition of
consortium (types and locations of partners)
Co-operation – Thematic Areas
FP7 – Co-operation
Policy Work
R&D Needs
INCO
Collaborative
Research
1. Health
€6 050 M
2. Food, Agriculture and Biotechnology
€1 935 M
3. ICT
€9 110 M
4. Nanosci, Nanotech, Material & Production Tech €3 500 M
5. Energy
€2 300 M
6. Environment (including Climate Change)
€1900 M
7. Transport (including Aeronautics)
€4 180 M
8. Socio-Economic Sciences and Humanities € 610 M
9. Space
€1 350 M
10. Security
€1 430 M
+ Euratom: Fusion energy research, nuclear fission and radiation protection
FP7 – Specific Programmes
FP7 Specific Programmes
Co-operation – Collaborative Research
€ 32, 292m
Ideas – Frontier Research
€ 7, 460m
People – Human Potential
€ 4, 727m
Capacities – Research Capacity
€ 4, 291m
• Plus € 1,751m for Joint Research Centre
• Total over Seven Years (2007-13) of €50 521m (excluding
EURATOM)
FP7 – Specific Programmes
FP7 Specific Programmes
Ideas – Frontier Research
Starting Independent Researcher Grants
Advanced Investigator Grants
€ 7, 460m
FP7 – Specific Programmes - Ideas
FP7 Specific Programmes
Ideas – Frontier Research
(€7 460 million)
• New to FP7
• To enhance competition at EU level for ‘Frontier
Research’
• Frontier Research = creating new knowledge and
developing new understanding
• Starting Independent Research Grant
• Advanced Investigator Grant
• ERC Website: http://erc.europa.eu
FP7 – Specific Programmes - Ideas
ERC Grants
Up to 5 years
Two-step application Procedure
(due to large number of expected applications)
Peer review Panels determine proposals to be funded
and applicable budgets
Simple grant preparation
Flexibility and portability
Short annual reports plus detailed final report
FP7 – Specific Programmes - Ideas
Two Funding Streams
Two streams of activity are foreseen:
1. ERC Starting Independent Researcher Grant
scheme (ERC Starting Grant)
2. ERC Advanced Investigator Researcher Grant
scheme (ERC Advanced Grant)
FP7 – Specific Programmes - Ideas
ERC Starting Grant
(ERC Starting Independent Researcher Grant )
Main aim is the 3Rs: Retain, Repatriate, Recruit
~ €300M (approximately ⅓ of ERC annual budget)
100’000 – 400’000 Euro per year (increments of 50’000 Euro)
~ 200 Starting Grants per year, each for up to 5 years
1400 Starting Grants over 7 years of FP7
FP7 – Specific Programmes - Ideas
ERC Advanced Grant
(ERC Advanced Investigator Researcher Grant)
Designed to support excellent high-risk investigatorinitiated research projects by established investigators
Targeting researchers who have already established their
independence as team leaders
100’000-500’000 Euro per year
max 2-3 Mio. Euro per grant (ca. 200 grants per year)
FP7 – Specific Programmes
FP7 Specific Programmes
Co-operation – Collaborative Research
€ 32, 292m
Ideas – Frontier Research
€ 7, 460m
People – Human Potential
€ 4, 727m
Capacities – Research Capacity
€ 4, 291m
• Plus € 1,751m for Joint Research Centre
• Total over Seven Years (2007-13) of €50 521m (excluding
EURATOM)
FP7 – Specific Programmes
FP7 Specific Programmes
People – Human Potential
Initial Training of Researchers
Lifelong Learning and Career Development
Industry-Academia Partnerships and Pathways
The International Dimension
Specific Actions
€ 4, 727m
FP7 – Specific Programmes
FP7 Specific Programmes
People – Human Potential
(€4 728 million)
• To make Europe more attractive to researchers
• Part of integrated strategy to strengthen human
potential by:
• Encouraging people to become researchers
• Encouraging researchers, from Europe and the whole
world, to carry out their research in Europe
• Structuring effect on the European Research Area
through transnational and intersectoral mobility in
order to create a European labour market for
researchers
• Builds on FP6 Marie Curie Actions
FP7 Marie Curie Actions
People Specific Programme
Initial training of researchers
Marie Curie Networks
Life – long training and career development
Individual fellowships and Re-integration Grants
Co-financing or regional/ national/ international programmes
Industry-academia pathways and partnerships
Industry academia knowledge sharing scheme
International dimension
Outgoing/ Incoming international fellowships and Re-integration
Grants
International co-operation scheme
Specific Actions
Awards
FP7 – Specific Programmes
FP7 Specific Programmes
Co-operation – Collaborative Research
€ 32, 292m
Ideas – Frontier Research
€ 7, 460m
People – Human Potential
€ 4, 727m
Capacities – Research Capacity
€ 4, 291m
• Plus € 1,751m for Joint Research Centre
• Total over Seven Years (2007-13) of €50 521m (excluding
EURATOM)
FP7 – Specific Programmes
FP7 Specific Programmes
Capacities – Research Capacity
Research Infrastructures
Research for the Benefit
Of SMEs
Regions of Knowledge
Research Potential
Science in Society
Activities of International
Co-operation
Coherent Development
of Policies
€ 4, 291m
FP7 – Specific Programmes
FP7 Specific Programmes
Capacities – Research Capacity (€4 217 million)
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Research infrastructures €1 850 million
Research for the benefits of SMEs €1 336million
Regions of Knowledge €126 million
Research potential €370 million
Science in Society €280 million
International co-operation €185 million
Coherent development of research policies €70 million
Co-ordination of national programmes (incl. ERA-NET +)
FP 7 International Cooperation
http://www.help-forward.gr
Global Challenges:
SOF 2010
Climate Change. The world is warming faster than
estimates
of theWorld
Intergovernmental
Panelis on
Climate to
Energy
Needs.
energy
demand
expected
Clean Water
without
Conflict.
Withoutestimates
major changes,
Change,
and
even
the
most
recent
may
increase
by
40–50%
in
the
next
25
years,
with
much
of the
global
water
demand
could
be
40%
more
than
current
understate
unfolding
reality
because
of
permafrost
increase
due
to
China
and
India.
To
meet
this
demand, an
supply
by
2030.
melting.
annual
$1.1 trillion
investment
is needed.
Planners
shouldinintegrate
lessons
learned from producing
more
foodforwith
less water,
water
storage
and treatment,
It
is
time
a
global
R&D
strategy
to
focus
on
new
Total
global
renewable
energy
investment
for
2010
was
some
reforestation,
etc.
technologies
saltwater
agriculture,
carbon
$200
billion, up like
nearly
50% from
2009. Japan
planscapture
to have a
and reuse,
and
solar
power
satellites
to supplement
other
working
space
solar
power
system
in orbit
by 2030, and
other
policy measures.
innovations
are accelerating, e.g. concentrator photovoltaics
and microbial fuel cells.
ENV & Climate Change
LA. Although the deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon is slowing,
expansion of its agriculture and livestock, fire, drought, and logging
could severely damage or eliminate nearly 60% of the rainforest by
2030, releasing 55.5–96.9 billion tons of CO2.
South America has 40% of the planet's biodiversity and 25% of the
forests. Farming for biofuel versus food is debated in Brazil while new oil
reserves are discovered.
Asia. China is the world's largest CO2 emitter, but half of the recent rise
in China's CO2 emissions is caused by the manufacture of goods for
other countries. China's newer and planned coal plants are reducing its
pollution per kwh. China and India lose 12% and 10% respectively of
their GDP due to environmental damage. Agriculture is now China's
biggest source of pollution. GHG emissions from Indonesia, the world
third largest emitter today, could rise by 57% by 2030, mostly due to
continuing logging and conversion of natural ecosystems for agriculture
and industrial plantations.
ENV & Climate Change
Africa.
South Africa could lose more than 30% of its maize crop by 2030 due to
climate change. Forest loss accelerates desertification and soil erosion,
making the continent even more vulnerable to climate change. Reafforestation, saltwater agriculture along the coasts, and solar energy in
the Sahara could be massive sources of sustainable growth.
Health
LA. The region has the highest life expectancy among developing
regions (75.5 years in 2008). The HIV/AIDS epidemic remains stable
with 2 million people and 0.6% prevalence, and antiretroviral therapy is
at almost 60%. Brazil has shown that free antiretroviral therapy since
1996 dramatically cut AIDS mortality, extended survival time, saved $2
billion in hospital costs, and keep prevalence to 0.6%. Smaller
countries such as Belize, Guyana, and Suriname have prevalence
rates between 2.1 and 2.5%. Haiti's rate has fallen from over 6% to
2.2% over the last 10 years. Neglected tropical diseases affect 200
million people in Latin America.
Asia. Asia is an epicenter of emerging epidemics. Avian flu outbreaks
were reported in China, Vietnam, and Indonesia during 2009 and
thousands of H1N1 (swine flu) cases were reported throughout the
region. China responded with a mass vaccination program at a speed
and scale unparalleled in history. It is spending $125 billion over the
next three years to support health care reform. Although total statistics
for the region may not be reliable, at least 5 million people have
HIV/AIDS and, with increases in India and China, this could reach 10
million in several years.
Health
Africa. With 11% of the world's population, but at the same time 25% of
the world's disease burden, 3% of its health workers, and 1% of its
health expenditures.
Sub-Saharan Africa accounted for 66% of all people living with HIV
and 75% of all deaths from AIDS in 2009; it has one of the world's worst
tuberculosis epidemics, compounded by rising drug resistance and HIV
co-infection. Although the prevalence and incidence of HIV/AIDS
continues to fall in Africa, death rates are high enough among
professionals to slow African development. Patients on antiretroviral
treatment increased from 1–2% in 2003 to 48% by the end of 2009.
Global Prospects
If current trends in population growth, resource depletion, climate
change, terrorism, organized crime, and disease continue over
the next 50 years, it is easy to imagine an unstable world with
catastrophic results.
S&T alone is not enough to solve the global problems as we need
serious global policies, however Science and Innovation are
playing a key role.
Properly managed biotech, infotech, nanotech, and cognotech
breakthroughs will help humanity through the looming
environmental, economic and social conflicts as we move
towards a crowded world of about 9 billion people by 2050.
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International Cooperation
in FP7 - Aim
Aim of International Cooperation in EU RTD:
Support European competitiveness through strategic
partnerships with third countries in selected fields of science and
technology
Address specific problems that third countries face or that have a
global character, on the basis of mutual interest and mutual
benefit
Use S&T cooperation to reinforce the Community’s external
relations and other EU relevant policies
Cooperation
Collaborative research
Opening of all themes to third countries
Specific International Cooperation actions in theme
• Early identification of problems in other parts of the world before
these affect Europe
• Cooperation with and in third countries in finding solutions to
such problems
• Dedicated activities within and across themes in order to address
existing complexity in third countries
Cooperation
Collaborative research
1. All themes open to third countries
• Minimum 3 different EU Member State (MS) or Associated Countries
(AC)
• Beyond this minimum, all 3rd countries can participate
• ICPC would generally be funded
• Industrialised countries funded only if indispensable for the project
• Targeted calls possible
Cooperation
Collaborative research
2. Targeted Opening
• Same rules apply (3 MS or AC)
• Special focus on specific countries or geographic regions
Cooperation
Collaborative research
3. Specific International Cooperation Actions (SICA) linked to
the 10 themes
• Calls for proposals dedicated to ICPC in each Theme
• Minimum 4 participants from different countries: 2 ICPC + 2 MS or AC
• ICPC participants get funding
IDEAS
International Cooperation
• ERC grants:
open to non-Europeans provided they move to the EU +
Associated Countries for minimum 30% of their time.
• Participation of Third Countries to be justified on basis of
added scientific value/mutual benefit
(in addition to the minimum consortium: one legal entity from
MS/AC)
PEOPLE
International Cooperation

Marie Curie host driven actions open to non-Europeans

International outgoing / incoming fellowships
(+return scheme)

International reintegration grants

International cooperation scheme: partnerships to
support exchange of researchers (joint EU+ / Neighbor
countries or EU+ / S&T agreement countries)

Measures to network expatriate researchers
FP7 essential information
http://www.help-forward.gr
Type of Projects
Moving from FP6 to FP7
Funding
Scheme
General Description
Collaborative
Projects
•Consortia with participants from different countries
•New knowledge, technology, products or common
resources
for research
•Size, scope and internal organisation of projects can
vary
Networks of
Excellence
(NoE)
•Joint programmes by organisations integrating
activities
in a given field
•Longer term co-operation
•Formal commitment to integrate resources
Coordination &
Support
Actions
Networking, exchanges, trans-national access to
research infrastructures, studies, conferences, etc.
Moving from FP6 to FP7
FP7 Funding Schemes
Funding Scheme
‘Optimum’ Size?
‘Optimum’ Budget?
Collaborative
Projects (CP)
3-20 participants
€0.8-25 Million
(average < €10 Million)
Network of Excellence
(NoE)
6-12
€4-15 Million
(€7 Million)
Co-ordination and Support
Actions
(CSA)
13-26
€0.5-1.2 Million (€1 Million)
1-15
€0.03-1 Million (€0.5
Million)
Evaluation criteria
FP6 IP/STREP
Overall threshold 24 / 30
Relevance
to the
Programme
Potential
Impact
S&T
Excellence
Consortium
Quality
Management
Quality
Mobilisation
of
Resources
3
3
4
3
3
3
FP7 - Criteria
FP7
Relevance
to the
Programme?
Potential
Impact
Excellence
(S&T Quality)
Implementation
Overall threshold 10/ 15
Draft Criteria – All Projects
FP7 Evaluation Criteria
•
S&T Quality
•
•
•
•
Impact
•
•
•
Clearly defined objectives and quality of the concept
Proposals out of scope rejected before evaluation
S&T quality is key to first stage evaluation
Contribution at EU level to impacts listed in Work
Programme for relevant topic/activity
Broader beneficial impacts as per topic objectives
Implementation
•
•
Appropriateness of management structure and
procedures
Quality and management experience
Project Idea
• Consistent with the call and the workprogram !!
• Innovative !
• European dimension (think what interests Europe, not what
interests you)!
• Check Cordis/web for already similar funded proposals
• Why bother? Which problem is solving? Is it important?
• Why do R&D and not buy a ready product or know-how?
• Why now ?
Eligible Costs
FP7 Eligible Costs
Participants charge direct and indirect costs (option of flat rate for
those who do not or cannot charge real indirect costs)
Costs must be:
• actual;
• incurred during the project;
• determined according to the usual accounting and management
principles/practices;
• used only to achieve project objectives;
• consistent with principles of economy, efficiency and effectiveness;
• recorded in accounts and paid (or the accounts of third parties);
• exclusive of non-eligible costs.
FP7 Reimbursement rates
Maximum Reimbursement Rates
FP7 – Industry
FP7 –
Public Bodies,
Universities, SMEs, etc.
RTD
50%
75%
Demonstration
50%
50%
Other*
100%
100%
ERC
Proposing 100% direct costs plus 20% flat rate for
indirect costs
* Co-ordination and Support Actions, Training, Management
Access Rights
Background, Foreground
FP7: IPR Provisions
Beneficiaries often need to exchange information and know-how (software,
patents, work methods, etc.) in order to benefit from each other’s
resources and carry out their tasks or their exploitation efforts.
Those exchanges are made through the system of access rights. The
information that beneficiaries are likely to exchange is background and
foreground:
"Background"is the project-related information and IP rights
beneficiaries hold before entering the project. Usually, each
beneficiary is expected to contribute key background information to the
project.
"Foreground" is the information and IP rights that beneficiaries
generate within the project, the results of the project.
Each beneficiary has the right to request access rights to the other
beneficiaries’ background and foreground, as long as it needs them in
order to carry out its work under the project or to use its own foreground.
FP7: IPR Provisions
Access Rights FP7
Beneficiaries have the right to define, by common agreement, the
background that each one of them is going to make available to the
project and/or exclude specific background from their obligation to grant
access rights.
All beneficiaries’ agreements on the identification/exclusion of
background shall be made in writing, usually in the consortium
agreement.
http://www.ipr-helpdesk.org/documents/ES_HowIPRules_0000006585_00.xml.html
Calls
Each part of FP& is opened to proposals by publishing a Call
Published in the EU Official Journal
Also published on CORDIS website
(http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/dc/index.cfm)
Indicative Call dates given in work programmes
Identify opportunities
Read published Calls and work programmes
How to participate
Make your self visible : Partner Search databases
(CORDIS), Conferences, Publications, etc
Network with European colleagues – inform them of your
interest to participate on specific calls
Identify specific opportunities
Initiate a proposal
Further Information
http://www.help-forward.gr
FP7: Participation and Preparation
Further Information
Cordis
• http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7
DG Research
• http://ec.europa.eu/research
European Research Council
• http://erc.europa.eu
Thank you !