Success factors in grant applications and research projects: seminar

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Success factors in grant applications and
research projects seminar
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To describe the initiation, design and delivery
of a successful project grant funded through the
European Commissions Seventh Framework Programme
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A year in the lives of some European academics
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European Commission Framework Programmes
The Framework Programmes are the European Unions
chief instrument for funding research
http//cordis.europa.eu/home_en.html
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Major element Collaborative projects through
transnational consortia of academics and industry

• Health
• Food, agriculture and fisheries, 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
• Space
• Security

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FP7 Seventh Framework Programme for Research
and Technological Development 2007-2013
50 billion Plus 2.7 billion (EURATOM)
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Euratom FP7-Fission-2007 call 22 December 2006
Radiation Protection Medical uses of
radiation Topic-2007-3.2.1 Enhanced safety and
efficacy in the medical uses of radiation
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Objective of Topic Fission-2007-3.2.1 Enhance
the safety and efficacy of the uses of radiation
in diagnosis and therapy through new
technological developments and achieving a proper
balance between the benefits and risks of
radiation
Cone Beam CT (CBCT)
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What could be funded?

• Collaborative projects from 24-60 months duration

• Up to 2.5 million EC contribution

• At least 3 independent legal entities required in
  different EU states

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The review process
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Each of the three criteria awarded score out of 5
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Scoring criteria
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Wednesday 31st January 2007 CDMA Building,
Brussels Information Meeting
Information about the Call
Opportunity to network and find partners
To be seen!
To be heard!
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Encouraged by Brussels meeting
Building the team

• Build a multi-part project dealing with
• Justification of CBCT use
• Dosimetry
• Quality Assurance
• Diagnostic Accuracy
• Cost Effectiveness
• Training and dissemination

Multidisciplinary (dentists, radiologists,
physicists, methodologists, health economists)
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Building the methodology
Lead scientists to draft their own Work Packages
To define Deliverables
The Coordinator to try to mould these together
add Milestones.
Meeting arranged in Malmo for 23 March 2007
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Safety and Efficacy of a New and Emerging Dental
X-ray Modality
.... is the acquisition of the key information
necessary for sound and scientifically based
clinical use of dental Cone Beam Computed
Tomography (CBCT)
.....to use the information to develop
evidence-based guidelines dealing with
justification, optimisation and referral criteria
and to provide a means of dissemination and
training for users of CBCT
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SEDENTEXCT Gantt chart
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Final timeline

• Grant application complete mid-April 2007

• Peer review

• Submitted on 29 April 2007

Grant Deadline 2 May 2007
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The result 26 July 2007
14/15 score
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The next stage conversion from an application
into a contract
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But!..... Ethics review
Issues related to X-ray exposures to
children Use of animal material
Addition of a substantially enlarged Ethics
section
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Negotiation Meeting Brussels, October 2007

• Minor error corrections to Description of Work
• Finalisation of annual budgets and initial
  pre-financing
• Clarification over third party involvement
• Set project start date

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Leuven kick-off meeting January 2008
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Then the real work starts.......!