International scientific cooperation in FP6

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International scientificcooperation in FP6

• 04 February 2003
• ETFRN-DFID MEETING
• Brussels
• Nicole Riveill

European Commission, RTD-06 International
Scientific Cooperation Projects
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Introductory message

• International scientificco-operation in the
  Sixth Framework Programme is
• ambitious
• different

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A European Research Area open to the world

• The European Research Area must be opened up to
  the rest of the world. This will enable EU
  countries, and third countries, to benefit from
  international cooperation in Science
  Technology, thereby paving the way for closer
  political and economic relations.
• (P. Busquin, Commissioner for Research)
• The strategic objectives of a European Research
  Area open to the world are laid down in
  Commission communication The international
  dimension of the European Research Area.

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Strategic objectives

• Make the Area more attractive to the best
  scientists and make it a world class reference
  centre
• Enable European researchers and industrialists to
  access knowledge and technology available
  elsewhere in the world
• Develop scientific and technological activities
  useful to the implementation of EU foreign and
  development aid policy
• Enlist the ST resources of the European Union
  and of third countries in initiatives that
  provide a response to significant world problems
  of concern to the Community
• Communication of the Commission, The
  international dimension of the European Research
  AreaCOM(2001), 346 fin. 25.6.01

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International scientificco-operation in
theSixth Framework Programme

• International Co-operation represents an
  important dimension of Sixth Framework Programme
• It contributes to a European Research Area open
  to the world
• It will be implemented through three major
  complementary routes

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Three major routes for international scientific
co-operation in FP6

• Opening of Focusing and Integrating Community
  Research to third country organizations (with
  substantial funding)
• Specific measures in support of international
  co-operation
• International mobility of researchers
• Over and above these three major routes, the
  international dimension is a cross-cutting issue
  which concerns the whole Framework programme

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International Scientific co-operationin the
Sixth Framework ProgrammeDefinition of third
countries

• Third country means a State that is
• neither a Member State
• nor a State associated to the Framework programme
• associated candidate countries
• Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia,
  Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland,
  Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey,
• other associated States
• Iceland, Norway, Liechtenstein, Israel (1),
  Switzerland (1)
• (1) association not yet in force in February 2003

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Opening of Focusing and Integrating Community
Research to third country organizations (1)

• Participation of researchers, teams and
  institutions from third countries in projects
  within
• the seven Priority Thematic Areas of Research,
• Specific activities covering a wider field of
  research (NEST, horizontal SME activities)
• Budget 285 million Euro for the funding of third
  country participation in RTD-actions(integral
  part of appropriations of priorities)

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Opening of Focusing and Integrating Community
Research to third country organizations (2)

• Strategic objectives
• To help European researchers, businesses and
  research organisations in the European Union and
  in the countries associated with the Framework
  programme to have access to knowledge and
  expertise existing elsewhere in the world
• To help ensure Europes strong and coherent
  participation in research initiatives related to
  issues arising at the world level and being the
  subject of international or global efforts
• Overall focus
• Community interest

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Opening of Focusing and Integrating Community
Research to third country organizations (3)

• Examples for issues arising at world levelor
  subject to international efforts
• Food safety
• Sustainable development (e.g. biodiversity,
  desertification, global climatic change, forest
  management)
• Combating infectious diseases associated with
  poverty (HIV, tuberculosis, malaria)

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Opening of Focusing and Integrating Community
Research to third country organizations
(4)Evaluation

• If third country participation is envisaged in
  the proposal,
• is it well justified?
• is the participation well integrated in the
  activities?
• Work programme, Annex B, Common evaluation
  criteria for evaluating proposals, Additional
  issues to be addressed during evaluation

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Opening of Focusing and Integrating Community
Research to third country organizations (5)

• Who can participate?
• All third countries in addition to minimal
  number of participants from Member States and
  Associated countries
• Who can be funded?
• All third countries
• INCO target countries (developing countries,
  Mediterranean partner countries, Western Balkan
  countries, Russia and the other NIS) within
  limit of budget (285 million Euros)
• Other third countries if provision is made in
  work programme or if necessary to carry out the
  RTD activity

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Specific measures in support of international
co-operation-1

• Dedicated international cooperation activities
  which are specific to some groups of countries or
  regions with own calls for proposals
• Budget 315 million Euro
• Strategic objective
• To lend support, in the scientific and
  technological field, to the implementation of the
  Communitys foreign policy, development aid
  policy etc.
• Overall focus - mutual interest

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Specific international co-operation-2

• These activities will be carried out
• To complement the activities in the seven
  thematic priorities
• Through specific targeted research projects of a
  limited scale, actions to coordinate national
  efforts specific support actions
• The nature of activities
• Problem oriented approach on a regional basis,
  policy dialogue and prioritisation
• Research priorities are defined on the basis of
• the interests and objectives of the Communitys
  political partnership with the different groups
  of countries
• the particular economic, environmental and social
  needs of countries and regions concerned

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What does complementarity mean?

• Specific topics not at all covered by thematic
  priorities
• example post-conflict and post-trauma health
  problems (Western Balkans)
• Topics covered as well by thematic priorities,
  but with location specific angle/focus
• ex. Water (equitable use of shared water
  resources in transboundary systems)(INCO-MED)
• In any case research within specific measures in
  support of international co-operation research
  should be related to a specific geographic,
  socio-economic, cultural or climatic context

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Specific international co-operation-3 - 2003
priorities -

• Developing Countries
• Reproductive health
• Rational Use of Natural Resources
• - managing humid and semi-humid land ecosystems
• - reconciling multiple demands on coastal zones
• Food security
• - health of livestock populations
• Mediterranean Partner Countries
• Comprehensive policy for integrated water
  planning
• Protection and conservation of cultural heritage
• Health

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Specific international co-operation-4 2003
priorities

• Western Balkan Countries
• Environment (management systems, prevention and
  remediation)
• Health (medical and public health interventions)
• Russia and the other NIS
• Stabilisation of RD potential, issues relating
  to changes in the industrial production system,
  environment and health protection and various
  safety aspects
• NB cooperation activities with Russia and the
  CIS will be carried out in particular through the
  INTAS structure set up jointly by the Community
  and the Member States
• Horizontal activities
• Multilateral co-ordination of national RTD
  policies and activities

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Specific international co-operation-5 - 2003
priorities -

• Developing Countries call 17/12/2002
• A.1.1- Reproductive health
• A.2 Rational Use of Natural Resources
• A.2.1- managing humid and semi-humid land
  ecosystems
• A.2.2- reconciling multiple demands on coastal
  zones
• A.3 Food security
• A.3.1 - health of livestock populations

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A.2.1. Managing humid and semi-humid
ecosystems (call 2003) Research on the
understanding of ecosystem dynamics of humid and
semi-humid ecosystems under varying degrees of
human activity pressure should lead to more
sustainable use of renewable natural resources in
rural and peri-urban areas. Identification of
policy options and/or management strategies for
harnessing judicious use of such resources
constitutes a key expected outcome of this
research, ensuring a strong link between
technological, management and policy research, in
the following focal areas
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To identify opportunities for enhanced economic
productivity and limits to sustainable
production, research should address - Integrated
approach and analysis of natural and
agro-resource use systems at local and/or
regional levels. - Appropriate tools, including
information systems, criteria or indicators of
sustainability and rehabilitation, based on data
mining and existing data-sets could be a
cost-effective support for ecosystem management.
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A.2.2. Reconciling multiple demands on coastal
zones (call 2003) Research to improve the
understanding of coastal zone requires a shared
interdisciplinary framework, in order to help
reconcile the multiple demands on limited
resources, mitigate degradation, and find
equitable, innovative solutions appropriate to
the social, economic, institutional and
environmental contexts of developing countries.
Restoration of aquatic ecosystems, particularly
through protected areas, is a dimension
warranting particular attention following
decisions at the Johannesburg World Summit for
Sustainable Development (WSSD). The expected
results are knowledge products and their
dissemination useful for the understanding of
coastal systems and supporting policy formulation
on priorities set by bi-regional dialogue between
Europe, Africa, Caribbean and the Pacific, Asia
and Latin America and by the World Summit for
Sustainable Development.
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Topics for this call are Creation of a
conceptual framework for the integrated
interpretation of information on coastal zone
structure and dynamics, including impact of basin
effects on critical water resources. Data-rich
approaches using existing, though dispersed, sets
of data from natural and social sciences are
favoured resources for acquisition of new data
are acceptable only in specially justified cases
Research into the understanding of
coastal/aquatic ecosystems, which support income
and livelihoods for communities relying on
aquatic resources (incl. possibly coastal
ecosystems in major inland water bodies)
particular emphasis is placed on suitable
location and size of coastal protected areas
reconciling ecological and socio-economic demands
on the pathway towards restoration
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Policy analysis and development to create the
enabling environment required to operationalize
(implement) the WSSD decision on aquatic
ecosystem restoration, including indicators for
sustainably produced fisheries products entering
international trade Valuation of coastal
ecosystem products and services and equitability
of resource allocation for policy analysis into
challenges on mitigation of degradation in the
wider coastal zone including those from
urbanisation.
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International Scientific Co-operationInstruments
and Partnership requirements

• Specific Targeted Research Projects (STREP)
• min. 6 participants from 3 different partner
  countries and 3 European or associated countries
• Co-ordination Actions (CA)
• min. 6 participants from 3 different partner
  countries and 3 European or associated countries
• Special Support Actions
• 1 legal entity

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Specific measures in support of international
co-operation Calls for proposals in work
programme 2003

• Co-operation with third countries
• A Developing countries
• B Mediterranean Partner countries
• C Western Balkan countries
• D Russia and the other New Independent States
• Multilateral co-ordination of national RTD
  policies and activities
• E Strengthening of co-ordination with other
  foreign policy instruments and definition of
  research priorities

STREP/CA 11.09.03
SSA 11.03./4.09.03
STREP/CA 7.05.03
SSA 11.03./4.09.03
STREP/CA 7.05.03
SSA 11.03./4.09.03
SSA 11.03./4.09.03
SSA 11.03./4.09.03
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International Scientific co-operationEvaluation
(1)

• One stage anonymous evaluation in two steps (for
  STREPs and CAs)
• Scientific evaluation by scientists from around
  the world focusing on scientific and technical
  quality (only proposals meeting thresholds move
  on to second step)
• Regional evaluation by senior research managers
  from respective region focusing on relevance to
  the specific problems of target countries and
  balance in partnership.
• Special Support Measures get assessed in a
  one-stage, single step evaluation. Anonymity is
  not required.

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International Scientific co-operationEvaluation
(2)

• Evaluation criteria
• Relevance for target countries/region
• Scientific and technological excellence (STREP)
  or quality of coordination (CA)
• Potential impact
• Quality of the consortium
• Quality of management
• Mobilisation of resources.

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International mobility of researchers (1)

• A coherent set of actions to support
  international mobility of researchers in the
  framework of the specific programme Structuring
  the ERA.
• With a view to further reinforcing the human
  potential for European research, these actions
  will aim to
• attract top-class research workers from third
  countries, with the view to develop mutually
  beneficial research co-operation between Europe
  and third countries
• promote the training of European researchers
  abroad
• Two main types of grants
• in-coming fellowships with possibility for
  return ticket
• out-going fellowships

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International mobility of researchers (2)

• in-coming fellowships with possibility for
  return ticket
• to work and undertake research training in Europe
  
• provision to assist fellows to return to their
  countries of origin in case of emerging and
  transition economies and developing countries
• out-going fellowships
• to be awarded to research workers from EU and
  Associated Countries to work in established third
  country research centres
• requires submission of a coherent individual
  training programme involving a first phase abroad
  followed by mandatory second phase in Europe

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International mobility of researchers (3)

• In addition opening of other Marie Curie actions
  to third country researchers
• Host driven actions
• Marie Curie Research Training Networks
• Marie Curie Host Fellowships for Early Stage
  Research Training
• Marie-Curie Conferences and Training Courses
• Excellence Promotion and Recognition actions

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Other parts ofSixth Framework programme(Strength
ening the Foundations of ERA, Structuring ERA
outside Human Resources Research and Innovation,
Research Infrastructures, Science and society)

• Who can participate?
• Countries with ST co-operation agreement in
  accordance with agreement
• all third countries if provision is made in work
  programme or if necessary to carry out RTD action
• Who can be funded?
• all third countries if provision is made in work
  programme or if necessary to carry out RTD
  action.

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EURATOMFramework Programme (1)

• specific EURATOM participation rules
• some associated states are not associated to
  EURATOM
• international co-operation actively encouraged in
  all areas of specific programme where beneficial
• networking with third countries to be promoted,
  in particular USA, NIS, Canada and Japan
• in the area of Fusion, closer collaboration
  encouraged with countries with ST co-operation
  agreement
• funding of third country participation out of
  EURATOM appropriations

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EURATOMFramework Programme (2)

• Who can participate?
• all third countries if provision is made in work
  programme or if necessary to carry out RTD
  action, subject to restrictions specified in work
  programme
• Who can be funded?
• all third countries if provision is made in work
  programme or if necessary to carry out RTD action

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International Scientific co-operationin the
Sixth Framework Programme Overview on financial
means (Mio )

• Second activity in accordance with Art. 164 of EC
  Treaty
• Participation of INCO-target countries in seven
  priority thematic areas plus NEST and horizontal
  SME activities
• Specific measures in support of international
  co-operation (INCO 3)
• in addition
• International Mobility of researchers
• Participation of non-INCO target countries and
  third country participation in other areas of
  Sixth Framework Programme
• Participation of third countries in Euratom
  Framework Programme

• 600
• 285
• 315
• p.m.
• p.m.
• p.m.

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International Scientific co-operationMechanisms
for priority setting

• Co-ordination with Member States to identify
  national policies and synergize existing
  initiatives, with a view to achieve
  differentiated objectives according to needs of
  EU and its partners
• Bilateral agreements for scientific and
  technological co-operation between the EU and the
  country wishing to strengthen and formalize its
  links with the European scientific community
• Bi-regional dialogues between the EU and relevant
  groups of countries (e.g. ASEM) on the basis of
  jointly identified objectives.
• International forums dealing with global problems
  (e.g. AIDS, global climate change, feeding the
  world and fighting hunger)

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Further information

• INCO infodesk inco_at_cec.eu.int
• INCO infopoint http//www.cordis.lu/fp6/inco.htm
• Specific international co-operation calls for
  proposals http//www.cordis.lu/calls/inco.htm
• International Scientific cooperation policy
• http//europa.eu.int/comm/research/iscp/index_en.
  html
• INTAS http//www.intas.be/

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Further information expert data-base

• Expert database
• (http//www.cordis.lu/experts/fp6_candidature.htm)
  .