Successful FP6 Projects Hints and Tips

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Successful FP6 Projects Hints and Tips

• Prof. Mike Thelwall, SCIT
• Statistical Cybermetrics Research Group
• Information and Language Processing Research
  Institute

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FP5 Funding

• WISER Web Indicators for Science and Technology
  Research (2002-2005 130k)
• CREEN Critical Events in Evolving Networks
  (2005-2007 140k)

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Non-FP Funding

• NetReAct Networking in Life Sciences Research
  (2005-2006 30k) EU specific call Joint
  Research Councils
• Digital Repositories (2005-2006 40k) JISC
  initiative
• One small bid (3k)
• Loads of failed bids! (1EU passed evaluation
  but not funded, 8 UK RC, 1other)

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WISER Funding Call

• Open call for new indicators for EU research
• Research idea Develop and assess web indicators
• Expertise match Wolverhampton researches
  methodologies for generating and analysing web
  indicators

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WISER Consortium

• University of Sussex Science Policy Research Unit
• CINDOC, Madrid (Government research body)
• NIWI, Amsterdam (Government research body)
• University of Wolverhampton Statistical
  Cybermetrics Research Group

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Origin of Consortium

• Consortium originally formed without
  Wolverhampton
• One partner dropped out
• Wolverhampton was asked to join in because-
• Emerging as recognised experts in the field
• Met consortium head at the right moment at a
  conference

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WISER Reasons for Bid Success?

• The field Scientometrics (indicator development)
  is quite static
• Webometrics is recognised as the new thing
• Consortium was the only one with Webometrics
  track record
• NIWI wrote a professional basic proposal (tables,
  graphs, diagrams, matching all requirements)

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WISER Reasons for Bid Success?

• Consortium combined experience, skills and
  reputation
• NIWI Sociological theory vision project
  management reputation
• CINDOC Web expertise EU insider knowledge
  reputation
• SPRU traditional indicator expertise reputation
• Wolverhampton methodological expertise emerging
  reputation English language

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WISER Reasons for Bid Success?

• Team worked hard and got the proposal in on time
  and finished
• Lot of work, big risk
• Consortium leader took brunt of work and ensured
  the proposal was submitted on time
• Team started work early on proposal

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CREEN Funding Call

• Call for high-risk innovative research into the
  physics of complex networks
• Call originated in an EU meeting to devise the
  direction for new funding calls for physics
• Research idea apply complex networks physics to
  Blogs
• Expertise match Some physics of complex
  networks is applied to web data Wolverhampton
  has contributed some papers on a web networks
  from a computer science perspective

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CREEN Consortium

• Complex Networks, Dept of Physics, Warsaw
  University of Technology
• Complex Networks, Dept of Physics, Liege
  University
• Network Graphics , Dept of Computer Science,
  Karlsruhe University
• NIWI, Amsterdam (Government research body)
• University of Wolverhampton Statistical
  Cybermetrics Research Group

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Origin of Consortium

• Consortium originally formed without
  Wolverhampton
• Consortium looking to build multidisciplinary
  team
• Wolverhampton was asked to join in because-
• Successful contributions to WISER
• Recognised experts in relevant methodologies

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CREEN Reasons for Bid Success?

• Basic idea was really interesting and novel
• Web expertise not highly developed in physics
  the new thing
• Consortium was genuinely multidisciplinary, high
  reputation and appropriate for the project
• NIWI helped write a professional basic proposal

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CREEN Reasons for Bid Success?

• Consortium combined experience, skills and
  reputation
• Warsaw Physics theory reputation EU insider
  project management
• NIWI Sociological theory vision reputation
• Liege Physics theory reputation
• Karlsruhe Computing network graphics expertise
  reputation
• Wolverhampton methodological expertise
  reputation computing know-how English language

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CREEN Reasons for Bid Success?

• Team worked hard and got the proposal in on time
  and finished
• Lot of work, big risk
• Genuine teamwork (almost all members) ensured the
  proposal was submitted on time

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GETHUNI Funding Call

• Call for new research into gender issues for EU
  science and scientists
• Part of ongoing research into gender and science
• Idea Get web-based data to investigate the role
  of university web sites in career choices apply
  new gender-related techniques from computational
  linguistics
• Expertise match Wolverhampton has web data
  collection expertise

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GETHUNI Consortium

• University of Wolverhampton Statistical
  Cybermetrics Research Group
• University of Wolverhampton Computational
  Linguistics Research Group
• NIWI, Amsterdam (Government research body)
• Economics, University of Applied Sciences,
  Northwest Switzerland Solothurn
• Sociology of Work, Free University of Berlin

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Origin of Consortium

• Wolverhampton formed the consortium
• Spent 6 months looking for a gender expert
• Found a gender expert via a researcher met at a
  conference

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GETHUNI Outcome

• Passed evaluation
• Evaluation grades not high enough to receive
  funding

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Tips/Conclusions

• For success, a consortium needs
• Vision
• Project management
• Expertise
• Reputation
• Hit all EU buttons (not optional)
• Luck

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Tips/Conclusions

• To succeed in EU bids the following will help
• Building expertise
• Building reputation
• Determination hard work on the proposal
  meeting deadlines
• Being a good team member (get invited for future
  proposals)
• Discerning networking at conferences with non-UK
  EU people