FP6 for Social Sciences

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FP6 for Social Sciences
Carole McKinlay UK Research Office
(UKRO) carole.mckinlay_at_bbsrc.ac.uk
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The UK Research Office The Compulsory
Sponsorship Slide
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The UK Research Office Our mission
To promote effective UK participation in EU
funded research, higher education training
related activities by alerting subscribers to
the opportunities available providing updates on
developments exchanging information between UK
EU
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The UK Research Office Our services

• Electronic publications
• FP Spotlight News and policy on EU FWP
• FP Calls Calls for Proposals on EU FWP
• European News News and policy on RTD-related
  issues
• European Funds Tenders, Calls for Proposals,
  etc.
• European RTD Insight General EU RTD (for
  British Council)

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The UK Research Office Our services

• Web http//www.ukro.ac.uk
• Advice to ELOs researchers
• UK Mobility National Contact Point
• UK Briefing visits
• Brussels Offices meeting room

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FP6 for Social SciencesWhat is the ERA?
European Research Area, Commission Paper, Jan 2000
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FP6 for Social SciencesWhat is a Framework
Programme?

• The principal EU Programme for RTD
• 4 years in duration
• FP5 1999-2002 14.96Bn
• FP6 2002-2005 16.27Bn

It involves

• Contract research
• European collaboration
• User driven approach
• Prioritised research areas

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FP6 for Social SciencesWho selects the
priorities?
Expert advisory groups
National Governments
Research Community
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FP6 for Social SciencesThe FP6 Guiding
Principles
Concentration of research
Streamlined implementation
Structuring effect
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FP6 for Social SciencesWhat is the overall
structure of the programme?
Three Pillars
Focussing and Integrating Community Research
13,285 Million
TOTAL (excl. EURATOM) 16.27 Billion
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FP6 for Social SciencesWhat is the content of
the programme?
Life Sciences, Genomics and Biotechnology for
Health
New/Emerging ST and Policy Support
Information Society Technologies
Nanotechnologies and Nanosciences,
Knowledge-Based Multifunctional Materials
and New Production Processes and Devices
SME Activities
Specific Activities Covering a Wider Field of
Research
Thematic
Aeronautics and Space
Food Quality and Safety
International Co-operation
Sustainable Development, Global Change and
Ecosystems
Citizens and Governance in the Knowledge Society
Science and Society
Innovation and SMEs
Human Resources and Mobility
Research Infrastructures
Horizontal
Co-ordination of Research Activities
Development of RTD/Innovation Policies
Underpinning
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FP6 for Social SciencesERA Implications for
Projects
RTD Activities
Training, Mobility, Infrastructures, Tech
Transfer, International Co-operation,
Science/Society
Mobilisation of Resources
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FP6 for Social SciencesCitizens and Governance
in a knowledge-based society
Objectives

• Consider individual citizens and other social
  units
• Identification of societal challenges
• Production of comparable indicators
• Aims towards developing integrated research
  whilst preserving a diversity of approaches
• Comparative trans-national research
• Multi-disciplinary approach as with TSER and
  SEKA
• Integration of additional research communities
  humanities, law
• Overcome traditional sectoral approaches to
  research

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FP6 for Social SciencesCitizens and Governance
in a knowledge-based society

• Aims
• Move toward a knowledge based society
• Management of the transition process
• Consider local, regional and national policies
• Consider individual citizens and other social
  units
• Identification of societal challenges
• Production of comparable indicators

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FP6 for Social SciencesCitizens and Governance
in a knowledge-based society
Genomics Biotech

• Knowledge and its role
• Building a European Knowledge Based Society
• Integration, Enlargement, Governance and Security
• The Citizen Identity, Culture, History

Information Society Tech
2N, 2M, 2P
Aeronautics and Space
Food Quality and Safety
Sust. Dev Global Change
Citizens and Governance
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FP6 for Social SciencesCitizens and Governance
in a knowledge-based society
Genomics Biotech

• Knowledge and its role in
• economy and society
• Understanding Knowledge
• Knowledge dynamics and economic development in
  Europe and in its regions
• Science and technology in the knowledge-based
  society

Information Society Tech
2N, 2M, 2P
Aeronautics and Space
Food Quality and Safety
Sust. Dev Global Change
Citizens and Governance
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FP6 for Social SciencesCitizens and Governance
in a knowledge-based society

• Building a European Knowledge
• Based Society
• Societal trends in the knowledge-based society
  and their implications for quality of life
• Social Cohesion in the knowledge-based society
• Changes in work in the knowldge society
• Promoting the knowledge based society through
  lifelong learning
• Migration, immigration and multiculturalism as
  challenges for knowledge based societies

Genomics Biotech
Information Society Tech
2N, 2M, 2P
Aeronautics and Space
Food Quality and Safety
Sust. Dev Global Change
Citizens and Governance
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FP6 for Social SciencesCitizens and Governance
in a knowledge-based society

• Key challenges for the EU Integration,
  Enlargement, Governance and Security
• Deepening and widening the EU lessons from the
  past and visions of the future
• Global governance, regulatory frameworks and the
  role of the European Union
• Multilevel governance, democracy and new policy
  instruments
• Public interest conception, regulation and
  implementation
• New approaches to security and the role of
  Europe
• Towards a European contract law

Genomics Biotech
Information Society Tech
2N, 2M, 2P
Aeronautics and Space
Food Quality and Safety
Sust. Dev Global Change
Citizens and Governance
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FP6 for Social SciencesCitizens and Governance
in a knowledge-based society
Genomics Biotech

• The Citizen in Europe Perspectives
• on Identity, Culture, History
• European citizenships and multiple identities
• Cultural dialogue and the European society
• New perspectives on European History

Information Society Tech
2N, 2M, 2P
Aeronautics and Space
Food Quality and Safety
Sust. Dev Global Change
Citizens and Governance
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FP6 for Social SciencesCitizens and Governance
in a knowledge-based society
Genomics Biotech

• Knowledge-Based Society and Social Cohesion
• - Knowledge (improving the generation,
  distribution and use of knowledge)
• - Knowledge-based society (options and choices
  for society - QoL, social cohesion, life-long
  education, labour market policies)
• - Variety of paths (transition process at EU,
  national, regional, level)

Information Society Tech
2N, 2M, 2P
Aeronautics and Space
Food Quality and Safety
Sust. Dev Global Change
Citizens and Governance
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FP6 for Social SciencesCitizens and Governance
in a knowledge-based society
Genomics Biotech

• Knowledge-Based Society and Social Cohesion
• - Knowledge (improving the generation,
  distribution and use of knowledge)
• - Knowledge-based society (options and choices
  for society - QoL, social cohesion, life-long
  education, labour market policies)
• - Variety of paths (transition process at EU,
  national, regional, level)

Information Society Tech
2N, 2M, 2P
Aeronautics and Space
Food Quality and Safety
Sust. Dev Global Change
Citizens and Governance
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FP6 for Social Sciences Citizens and
Governance in a knowledge-based society
Genomics Biotech

• Citizenship, Democracy and Governance
• - Citizenship, Democracy, Legitimacy
• - Implications of European integration and
  enlargement
• - Political and Social Institutions
• - New forms of governance
• - Security issues and conflict resolution
• - Cultural Diversity in Europe (new forms of
  citizenship and cultural identities)
• - Cultural Dialogue with other world regions

Information Society Tech
2N, 2M, 2P
Aeronautics and Space
Food Quality and Safety
Sust. Dev Global Change
Citizens and Governance
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FP6 for Social SciencesFood Quality and Safety
Genomics Biotech

• Epidemiology of food-related diseases and
  allergies
• - Diet, lifestyle and consumer health
• - Measuring dietary intake and risk assessment
• - Influence of genetic variability
• Impact of food on health
• - Improving health through diet
• - Disease prevention
• - Nutrition and health-promoting foods and
  strategies
• - Consumer attitudes towards food products
• - Specificities of different age groups

Information Society Tech
2N, 2M, 2P
Aeronautics and Space
Food Quality and Safety
Sust. Dev Global Change
Citizens and Governance
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FP6 for Social SciencesInformation Society
Technologies
Genomics Biotech

• Applied research for major societal and economic
  challenges
• - Addressing societal challenges
• - Technologies for trust and security
• - Addressing work and business challenges
• - Complex problem solving for society
• Communication, computing and software
  technologies
• - Communication and network technologies
• - Software technologies, embedded systems
  distributed systems

Information Society Tech
2N, 2M, 2P
Aeronautics and Space
Food Quality and Safety
Sust. Dev Global Change
Citizens and Governance
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FP6 for Social SciencesThe 8th Priority
Supporting Policies and Anticipating Scientific
and Technological Needs
555 M
Specific SME Activities
430 M
Specific International Co-operation Activities
315 M
Non-nuclear JRC Activities
760 M
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FP6 for Social SciencesThe 8th Priority
Supporting Policies and Anticipating Scientific
and Technological Needs
555 M

• Research which cannot be satisfied within the
  Thematic Priorities and which
• is needed for the formulation, implementation and
  monitoring of the application of EU policies
  (CAP, CFP, 6th EAP, etc.), or
• responds to needs in new interdisciplinary or
  multidisciplinary areas or areas at the leading
  edge of knowledge.
• Targeted specific projects of a limited scale
• Networking of national research objectives

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FP6 for Social SciencesThe 8th Priority
Specific International Co-operation Activities
315 M

• Copernicus III (Russia and CIS)
• Stabilisation of RD potential changes in the
  industrial production systems environment and
  health protection and safety aspects
• MED (Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Malta,
  Morocco, Palestine, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey)
• - Environment, health and water issues, cultural
  heritage
• DEV (Africa, Caribbean, Pacific Asia, Latin
  America)
• - Health and public health, food safety,
  exploitation of resources

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FP6 for Social SciencesWhat happened with the
Expressions of Interest?

• 11, 700 complete EoIs received (after
  duplicates, etc)
• Good distribution note social science and
  environment
• More than 50 countries represented
• 5from France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands,
  Poland, Spain and UK
• 65 IP versus 35 NoE
• 46 HEI versus 32 research organisations and
  14 industry
• Poor SME representation
• 15-20 convincingly met the requirements
• 20 wanted confidentiality
• Rest published at http//eoi.cordis.lu/dsp_resul
  ts.cfm
• Report to indicate topics for inclusion in the
  first call

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FP6 for Social SciencesWhat are the main
instruments?

• RTD Activities
• Integrated Projects
• Specific target projects
• CRAFT / Collective Research projects

• Networking Activities
• Networks of Excellence
• Co-ordination Actions

• Other Activities
• Specific support actions (accompanying measures)
• Mobility activities
• Activities under Article 169

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FP6 for Social SciencesFeatures of Integrated
Projects

• large scale targeted research projects
• critical mass in priority areas
• detailed plan for 18 months and general overall
  plan
• includes training and dissemination activities
• analysis and evaluation of the technologies
• communication and dialogue with the public
• up to several tens of millions of euros
• grant to the budget - not specified by partner

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FP6 for Social SciencesBuilding Blocks The
Integrated Programmes
Co-ordination
Keyword DELIVERABLES Create the
necessary critical mass for focussed medium- term
scientific breakthroughs that lead to major
improvements in the global competitiveness and
quality of life of the EU
Activity A
Activity D
Activity C
Activity B
Training
Technology Transfer and Analysis
Ethics/Uncertainty and Communication
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FP6 for Social SciencesFeatures of Networks of
Excellence

• do not have an objective driven character
• virtual centres of excellence
• joint research programme of activities, revised
  annually
• integration activities, e.g. training and
  dissemination
• partnership can evolve
• grant for integration

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FP6 for Social SciencesBuilding Blocks The
Excellent Networks

• Keyword INTEGRATION
• To overcome the fragmentation of EU research by
  fostering long-term integration of research
  programmes and capabilities of the participants,
  creating a world-class scientific resource.

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FP6 for Social SciencesArchitecture of the ERA
Future Landscapes
IP
Science-to-User
Taking them to the Market
IP
NoE
IP
Generation of new concepts and ideas
Across Disciplines
IP
NoE
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FP6 for Social SciencesTo summarise

• The ERA project as an overarching framework
• Scalable architecture of ERA objectives
• Projects must reflect the thinking behind ERA
• Think
• European Competitiveness (Lisbon/Gothenburg)
• Changing research landscapes (ERA)
• Meeting other agendas (Barcelona)
• Is your aim to deliver or to integrate?

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FP6 for Social SciencesWhat is the stairway to
excellence?

• Originally intended to smooth the transition from
  the traditional to the new instruments
• support for activities of more limited scope
  and ambition
• particularly for smaller research actors SMEs,
  candidate countries
• Consists of two instruments
• specific target projects
• - an evolved form of FP5 shared cost RTD projects
• co-ordination actions
• - an evolved form of FP5 concerted
  actions/thematic networks
• To be phased-out as FP6 precedes
• independent evaluation in 2004 of the use of the
  instruments

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FP6 for Social SciencesHuman resources and
mobility

• MC Research Training Networks
• MC Early Stage Research Training Host Fellowships
• MC Transfer of Knowledge Host Fellowships
• MC Conferences and Training Courses
• MC Intra-European Fellowships
• MC Outgoing International Fellowships
• MC Incoming International Fellowships
• MC Re-integration Grants
• MC Excellence Grants
• MC Excellence Awards
• MC Chairs

Host Actions
Individual Actions
Excellence Actions
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FP6 for Social SciencesScience and Society

• Bringing research closer to society

• Science and Governance
• Scientific advice and reference systems

• Responsible research and application of ST

• Ethics
• Uncertainty, risk and the precautionary principle

• Stepping up the science/society dialogue and
  women in science

• Public understanding
• Young peoples interest in scientific careers
• Women and Science

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FP6 for Social SciencesScience and Society
Science and Society Action Plan (Dec 2001) Aim
Commission's efforts to create a true European
Research Area. It aims to build a more harmonious
relationship between scientific endeavor and the
European society at large. DG-Research- Science
Society Unit Aim DG-Researchs plans to avoid
the division of society into those with access
to, and understanding of, scientific knowledge,
and those without Activities will encourage
society to realise the full potential that ST
can offer, develop structural links between
institutions, provide common reference frameworks
develop appropriate tools and approaches to
guide activities under FP Budget 80 M
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EU Funding for Social SciencesOther
Directorates General
DG Research Framework Programme DG Information
Society Framework Programme, eContent DG Econ.
Soc. Affairs Social Exclusion,
Anti-Discrimination DG Educ. Culture Socrates,
Leonardo da Vinci, Culture 2000 DG Just. HA
Daphne, Hippokrates, STOP, Refugee Fund DG
Environment Sixth EAP, NGO Funding DG Transport
Energy PACT, SAVE, Synergy DG Health
Consumer Protection Public Health And more!!
Wide range of tender opportunities offered by DGs
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DG Enlargement Funding programmes available
PHARE Focus on partner countries need for
support for institution-building and investment
ISPA Support for environmental, transport,
agricultural and rural development projects
SAPARD Structural adjustment in the
agricultural sectors and rural areas and
implementation of the CAP acquis
http//europa.eu.int/comm/enlargement/index.htm
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DG Development Funding programmes available
European Initiative for Democracy and Human
Rights http//europa.eu.int/comm/external_relatio
ns/human_rights/intro/index.htm
EU HIV/AIDS programme in developing
countries http//europa.eu.int/comm/development/ai
ds/
"Tropical Forests" and "Environment budget
lines http//europa.eu.int/comm/development/secto
r/funding_forest_en.htm
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DG Education and CultureFunding programmes
available
Education SOCRATES - Co-operation in
education LEONARDO - Vocational Training
TEMPUS / EU-USA / EU-Canada YOUTH - Mobility
of young volunteers Jean Monnet Project
Culture Culture 2000 MEDIA-Plus and MEDIA
Training
http//europa.eu.int/comm/dgs/education_culture/in
dex_en.htm
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DG Employment and Social AffairsFunding
programmes available
Action Programme to combat discrimination http//e
uropa.eu.int/comm/employment_social/fundamri/prog/
index_en.htm Fight against poverty and social
exclusion http//europa.eu.int/comm/employment_soc
ial/soc-prot/soc-incl/index_en.htm Tenders
http//europa.eu.int/comm/dgs/employment_social/t
ender_en.htm
http//europa.eu.int/comm/employment_social/index_
en.htm
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DG Justice and Home AffairsFunding programmes
available
AGIS - Framework programme on police and judicial
co-operation in criminal matters  FALCONE -
training and cooperation for action to combat
organised crime HIPPOKRATES - exchanges,
training and co-operation for the prevention of
crime. STOP II - combating trade in human
beings and the sexual exploitation of children
OISIN II- exchange and training of law
enforcement authorities ARGO - Action programme
for administrative cooperation in the fields of
external borders, visas, asylum and
immigrationDAPHNE - violence against women and
children ODYSSEUS - training, exchanges and
cooperation in the field of asylum and immigration
http//europa.eu.int/comm/justice_home/jai/prog_en
.htm
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DG Health and Consumer ProtectionFunding
programmes available

• Current Programmes
• Injury Prevention 1 M

• Extended Programmes
• Cancer 30 M
• Aids 21.4 M
• Drug Addiction 11 M
• Health Promotion 8.2 M
• Health Monitoring 4 M
• Pollution Related Diseases 1 M

http//europa.eu.int/comm/health/index_en.html
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DG EnvironmentFunding programmes available
LIFE III - Environment - SMEs and Local
Authorities Nature - Birds and Habitats
Directives Third Countries - Baltic and
Mediterranean http//europa.eu.int/comm/life/home.
htm General Call for Proposals - Yearly call.
Areas vary. http//europa.eu.int/comm/environment/
funding/general/call2002_en.htm Accidental Marine
Pollution http//europa.eu.int/comm/environment/ci
vil/index.htm
http//europa.eu.int/comm/environment/funding/intr
o_en.htm
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DG Agriculture DG Fisheries Funding
programmes available
Information activities in the field of the
CAP http//europa.eu.int/comm/agriculture/grants/c
apinfo/index_en.htm
Studies and support services related to the
CFP http//europa.eu.int/comm/fisheries/news_corne
r/calls/calls_en.htm
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DG Energy and TransportFunding programmes
available
ALTENER - Non-technology barriers to RES SAVE II
- Non-technology barriers to RUE http//europa.eu
.int/comm/energy/en/pfs_4_en.html
PACT - Pilot Actions for Combined Transport Marco
Polo - Intermodal Freight Transport (in
2003) TEMPO - Intelligent Transport Systems and
management
http//europa.eu.int/comm/energy_transport/en/pfs_
en.html
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European Funding for Social SciencesWhere can I
get more information?

• UKRO
• http// www.ukro.ac.uk
• Research Councils
• OST
• http//www.dti.gov.uk/ostinternational/eu_rtd_d/sr
  c/fp6/index.html
• National Contact Points (NCPs)
• Commission
• http//europa.eu.int/comm/research/fp6/index_en.ht
  ml
• http//www.cordis.lu/fp6/

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