Title: Workshop on EU FP7
1Workshop on EU FP7
- Dimitra Koutsantoni
- John Montgomery
2Overview of workshop
- What is new in FP7?
- Programmes, themes, funding schemes
- Rules of participation/eligibility
- Funding opportunities for Social Scientists
- New themes
- New programmes (ERC-Starting researcher grant)
- Changes in existing programmes (Marie Curie)
- Calls timetable and deadlines
- Making an application
- Forms (electronic forms, parts of the form)
- Structuring a proposal-what to include
- Evaluation criteria-how to address them
- Where to go for information (websites, etc)
- Partners (where to find them, paperwork needed)
- Costing issues
- Dos and Donts
3What is new in FP7?
- More money! (54 billion vs. 19 billion in FP6)
- New terminology
- New programmes and themes
- New costing rules
- Simplified application guidelines and procedures
- Fewer evaluation criteria (for example no
'relevance to Commission objectives' criterion,
though they still need to be addressed!) - Higher rates of reimbursement
- Changes to reporting and audits
4New terminology
5The programmes
- Cooperation (new theme Socio-economic sciences
and humanities) - Ideas (new, European Research Council-ERC)
- People (Marie Curie-changes)
- Capacities
- EURATOM
- Joint Research Centre (similar to UK Research
Councils)
6FP7 Funding Schemes
- Collaborative Projects (CP)
- Networks of Excellence
- Coordination and Support Actions (CSA)
- Support for Frontier Research (ERC)
- Research for the Benefit of Specific Groups
- Support for Training and Career Development of
Researchers (Marie Curie) - Combinations e.g. CP and CSA
7General eligibility criteria
- Three independent participants from three
different Member States (MS) or Associated
countries (AC) - Additional conditions can be established by the
work programme or specific programme - Co-ordination and Support Actions/Training at
least one legal entity (no limit on place of
establishment) - Frontier research actions (ERC) at least one
legal entity established in a MS or AC
8Member States (MS), Associated countries (AC),
Third countries
- EU-27
- Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria,
- Cyprus, Czech Republic,
- Denmark, Estonia, Finland,
- France, Germany, Greece,
- Hungary, Italy, Ireland, Latvia,
- Lithuania, Luxemburg, Malta,
- Netherlands, Poland, Portugal,
- Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia,
- Spain, Sweden, UK
- Associated Countries (FP7)
- Croatia, Iceland, Israel,
- Liechtenstein, Norway, Serbia,
- Switzerland, Turkey
- Third Countries (not EU-27 or AC)
- low-income, lower-middle-income or
upper-middle-income country, identified as such
in the work programmes - Note Industrialised third countries (such as
Australia, Canada and the USA) can participate
under the FP7 Rules for participation, but
under their own funding, unless specifically set
out differently in the relevant work programme
9Funding opportunities for Social Scientists
- Cooperation
- Socio-economic sciences and humanities
- ICT
- Energy
- Transport
- Read work programmes carefully to identify
suitable research questions - ERC-Starting Research Grant
- Marie Curie Actions
- ITNs (International Training Networks)
- Industry Academia Partnerships and Pathways
(IAPPs) - Capacities
- Science in Society
- Research Infrastructures
10Cooperation themes
- Health
- Food, Agriculture and Biotechnology
- Information and CommunicationTechnologies
- Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and New
Production Technologies - Energy
- Environment and Climate Change
- Transport
- Socio-economic Sciences and Humanities (new
theme) - Space
- Security Research
11Socio-economic sciences and humanities research
questions to be addressed
- Growth, employment and competitiveness in a
knowledge society - (innovation, competitiveness and labour market
policies education and life - long learning and economic structures and
productivity) - A combination of economic, social and
environmental objectives in a - European perspective (socio-economic models
within Europe and across the - world economic and social and cohesion across
regions, the social and - economic dimensions of environmental policy)
- Major trends in society and their implications
(demographic change, - reconciling family and work, health and quality
of life, youth policies, social - exclusion and discrimination)
- Europe in the world (trade, migration, poverty,
crime, conflict and - resolution)
- The citizen in the European Union (political
participation, citizenship and - rights, democracy and accountability, the media,
cultural diversity and - heritage, religions, attitudes and values)
- Socio-economic and scientific indicators (the
use and value of indicators in - policymaking at macro and micro levels)
- Foresight activities (the future implications
of global knowledge, migration, - ageing, risk and the emerging domains in research
and science).
12Ideas European Research Council (1)
- Two funding schemes
- ERC Starting Grantattract retain the next
generation of researchers - ERC Advanced Grantattractive prestigious
grants for established leaders
13Ideas European Research Council (2)
- Eligibility for ERC Starting grant
- Applicants should have at least 2 years of
experience after their PhD, but no more than 9
years - This can be extended by up to 12 years after the
PhD in special circumstances (maternity/paternity
leave, military/civil service)
- No allowance for part-time work (e.g. 2 yrs half
time2 yrs full time) - Preference for projects NOT to be collaborative
- Need for collaborators MUST be absolutely
justified
14People Marie Curie actions (1) Funding schemes
15People Marie Curie actions (2)
- Host Actions-This means
- Host institutions/network applies for a number of
fellows/researchers - Hosts proposal is evaluated
- Selected host/network advertises fellowship
position and selects fellows/researchers - Contract duration with host, usually 4 years
- Fellows stay depending on Action (up to 3
- years)
16ITNs
- Multi-site projects, mono-sites or twinnings
- At least at post-graduate or equivalent level
researchers, typically during the first five
years (or full-time equivalent) of their careers
in research (with some exceptions) - Typical Activities of an ITN
- Training activities
- Networking
- Visits and secondments
- Visiting scientists
- Organisation of international conferences and
other training events open to external
researchers
- Recruitment procedure should be in line with the
principles set out in the European Charter for
Researchers and in the Code of Conduct for the
Recruitment of Researchers. See
http//ec.europa.eu/eracareers/europeancharter - For a number of European policy links, see
- http//www.grad.ac.uk/cms/ShowPage/Home_page/Polic
y/European_policy/p!eFjlkal
17Industry-academia partnerships and pathways
- Two-way partnership with at least one commercial
enterprise and one academic organisation in two
different Member or Associated Countries - Typical activities
- Staff secondments between both sectors within the
partnership
- Temporary hosting in both sectors of experienced
researchers recruited from outside the
partnership - workshops and conferences
- As an SME specific measure a contribution to
small equipment related to their participation in
the co-operation.
18Marie Curie actions-Differences between FP7 and
FP6
19Capacities (1)
- Science in Society 3 action lines
- Action Line 1 A more dynamic governance on the
science and society relationship - Action Line 2 Strengthening potential,
broadening horizons - Action Line 3 Science and society communicate
- Action Line 2
- The evolving role of universities
- Defining better conditions for university
research - Partnerships with the business sector
- Reinforcing knowledge-sharing
- Gender and research
- Young people and science
20Capacities (2)
- Research Infrastructures
- soft tools
- databases
- surveys
- e.g. SHARE-Survey of Health, Ageing and
Retirement in Europe
21Calls timetable and deadlines
- 25 April ERC Starting Independent Researcher
Grant- Call identifier ERC-2007-StG A - 7 May Initial Training Networks-Call identifier
FP7-PEOPLE-2007-1-1-ITN -
- 10 May and 29 November Socio-economic sciences
and humanities-Call identifier FP7-SSH-2007-1 - 31 May Industry-Academia Partnerships and
Pathways FP7-PEOPLE-2007-3-1-IAPP
22Making an application (1)
- Electronic Proposal Submission Service (EPSS)
(available at least four weeks before the call
deadline) - Co-ordinator must register on CORDIS and be sent
password and access details - Passes on access to other participants
- Complete A forms
- Upload .pdf file of Part B (10Mb limit)
- Can revise up to deadline
- Deadline strictly enforced
- Submission must be selected
- EPSS user guide on http//www.ukro.ac.uk/subscrib
er_services/fp6/submission_evaluation/epss/050803_
epss_user_guide.pdf
23Making an application (2)
- The application forms
- Part A
- Participant Identity Code (PIC) - a unique
organisational identifier, not running for first
calls - Basic info call details, title, summary,
partners, budget - Part B
- Cover Page, Table of Contents
- ST Quality (plus templates for work packages,
deliverables and milestones) - Implementation
- Impact
- Ethical Issues
- Consideration of gender issues
24Writing the proposal-general guidelines (1)
- Take the steer from the Work Programme
- Understand the Commissions objectives
- Be aware of Lisbon and Barcelona objectives and
mention them!!! - Also mention recent relevant communications from
the European Commission (e.g. White and Green
Papers)
- Be aware of the outcome of previous programmes
and the nature of ongoing projects - Understand the funding schemes
- Know what the evaluator is looking for (read
evaluation criteria in work programme)
25Writing the proposal-general guidelines (2)
- Involve all partners
- Think about the impact of the project
- European or Regional Economy
- Impact on European Policy or Legislation
- Social Impact
- Ensure that ALL aspects are addressed (science,
management, integration, training, technology
transfer, dissemination.)
- Pay attention to layout
- Follow the guidance
- Stick to the guidelines e.g. page and budget
limits - Address ethical, safety, regulatory and gender
issues
26Cooperation Evaluation criteria(1)
S/T Quality Excellence
Implementation
Impact
3/5
3/5
3/5
3/5
Overall threshold 10/15
Relevance
27Cooperation Evaluation criteria (2)
- Addressing S T Quality
- Have you explained the concept of the project?
- Have you clearly identified your objectives?
- Are your objectives achievable within your
project? - Have you addressed the state-of-the-art?
- Do you have improvement or innovation?
- Have you clearly described your aims and
methodology? - Have you described your overall strategy of the
work plan? - Have you used Gantt Charts ?
- Are the work packages explained?
28Cooperation Evaluation criteria (3)
- Addressing Implementation
- Have you described the management structure?
- Do you have an information management strategy?
- Do you have a knowledge management strategy?
- Its it matched to the complexity and scale of the
project? - Individual Participants and the Consortium as a
whole - Have you identified the role of the co-ordinator?
- Have you described individual participants?
- Have you explained the consortium structure?
- Do you have the appropriate personnel/is it well
balanced? - Can you demonstrate relevant management
experience? - Do partners have the appropriate equipment?
- Can they illustrate integrated financial
planning? - Can they illustrate integrated project planning?
29CooperationEvaluation criteria (4)
- Addressing Impact
- Have you described how your project will
contribute to the expected impacts in the Work
Programme? - Does the project have suitably ambitious goals?
- Can you illustrate a contribution to economic
competitiveness? - Can you illustrate impact on quality of life?
- Can you illustrate the effect of shaping research
in the field? - Have you elaborated on your dissemination
strategy? - What about exploitation of results, IP (if
appropriate) and knowledge management?
30ERC-Starting Grant Evaluation criteria (1)
- (1) Potential of applicant (?/5)
- (2) Quality of project (?/5)
- (3) Research Environment ("pass/fail" and
commented but not scored)
31ERC-Starting Grant Evaluation criteria (2)
- Principal Investigator Potential to become a
world class research leader - a. Quality of research output
- Has the Principal Investigator published in high
quality peer reviewed journals or the equivalent? - To what extent are these publications
ground-breaking and demonstrative of independent
creative thinking and capacity to go
significantly beyond the state of the art? - b. Intellectual capacity and creativity
- To what extent does the Principal Investigator's
record of research, collaborations, project
conception, supervision of students and
publications demonstrate that he/she is able to
confront major research challenges in the field,
and to initiate new productive lines of thinking?
32ERC-Starting Grant Evaluation criteria (3)
- (2) Quality of the research proposal
- a. Ground-breaking nature of the research
- Does the proposed research address important
challenges in the field(s) addressed? - Does it have suitably ambitious objectives, which
go substantially beyond the current state of the
art (e.g. including trans-disciplinary
developments and novel or unconventional
approaches)? - b. Potential impact
- Does the research open new and important,
scientific, technological or scholarly horizons? - c. Methodology
- Stage 1 Is the outlined scientific approach
(including the activities to be undertaken by the
individual team members) feasible? - Stage 2 Is the proposed research methodology
(including when pertinent the use of
instrumentation, other type of infrastructures
etc.) comprehensive and appropriate for to the
project? Will it enable the goals of the project
convincingly to be achieved within the timescales
and resources proposed and the level of risk
associated with a challenging research project?
33ERC-Starting Grant Evaluation criteria (4)
- (3). Research Environment
- a. Transition to independence
- Will the proposed project enable the Principal
Investigator to make or consolidate the
transition to independence? - b. Host institution normally applicant legal
entity - Does the institution hosting the project have
most of the infrastructure necessary for the
research to be carried out? - Is it in a position to provide an appropriate
intellectual environment and infrastructural
support and to assist in achieving the ambitions
for the project and the Principal Investigator? - c. Participation of other legal entities
- If it is proposed that other legal entities
participate in the project, in addition to the
applicant legal entity, is their participation
fully justified by the scientific added value
they bring to the project?
34Marie Curie Evaluation Criteria (1)
- (1) S T Quality
- Inter/multi-disciplinary, intersectoral and/ or
newly emerging supra-disciplinary fields - Scientific quality of the research programme
- Appropriateness of research methodology
- Originality and innovative aspect of the research
programme - Knowledge of the state-of-the-art
- (2) Training and knowledge transfer
- Quality of the training programme
- Several methods of training
- Complementary skills offered Management,
Communication, IPR, Ethics, Grant writing,
Commercial exploitation of results, Research
Policy, entrepreneurship, etc. - Conferences and training courses part of training
package
35Marie Curie Evaluation Criteria (2)
- (3) Implementation
- Infrastructure, work plan, feasibility of project
- Adherence to principles of Code of Conduct of the
Recruitment of Researchers - Detailed management processes and plan
- (4) Impact
- Long-term collaboration prospects
- Researcher professional development
- For IAPPs extent of SMEs participation,
adequacy of infrastructure - Note If you have received previous funding
under the Marie Curie actions under the Seventh
Framework programme or under similar actions
under previous Framework Programmes, you have to
clearly demonstrate the substantial added value
of the new project in relation to the project
previously financed.
36Where to find information
- CORDIS
- http//cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ncp_en.html
- ERC Home page
- http//erc.europa.eu/index_en.cfm
- UKRO
- http//www.ukro.ac.uk
- http//www.ukro.ac.uk/mariecurie
- http//www.ukro.ac.uk/erc
- ECs Framework Programme Websites
- http//ec.europa.eu/research/index.cfm
- http//cordis.europa.eu/en/home.html
- Cass Research Support pages
- http//www.cass.city.ac.uk/ressupport/secure/eu.ht
ml
37Policy websites
-
- Information on green and white papers, reports
press - releases http//europa.eu/documents/comm/index_en
.htm -
- EUR-Lex (EU legislation)
- http//eur-lex.europa.eu/en/index.htm
-
- Official statistics agency of the EU - wide range
of useful data - for your proposal http//europa.eu.int/comm/euros
tat/ -
- Lisbon Strategy
- http//ec.europa.eu/education/policies/2010/et_201
0_en.h - ml
- European Research Area
- http//cordis.europa.eu/era/concept.htm
- Barcelona objectives
- http//cordis.europa.eu/era/3percent.htm
38Partners
- Where to find them
- CORDIS http//cordis.europa.eu/partners-service/
- Welcome Europe
- http//www.welcomeurope.com/default.asp?id1510
- UKRO
- (electronic system currently down, but UKRO can
put you in touch with partners) - Singleimage http//www.singleimage.co.uk/index.ht
ml
- Documentation needed
- Consortium agreement (draft can be found on UKRO
website) - Advice
- If you already have contacts in other countries,
use those (safer!) - Network in conferences, seminars, etc.
39Costing issues (1)
- Costs are eligible if
- Actual
- Incurred during the project
- Determined according to usual accounting and
management principles - Used solely for project objectives
- Consistent with principles of economy, efficiency
and effectiveness - Recorded in accounts
- Exclusive of non-eligible costs
40Costing issues (2)
- Management costs include
- maintenance of the consortium agreement, if it is
obligatory - the overall legal, ethical, financial and
administrative management including for each of
the beneficiaries obtaining the certificates on
the financial statements or on the methodology - implementation of competitive calls by the
consortium for the participation of new
beneficiaries, where required by Annex I - obtaining any financial security such as bank
guarantees, when requested by the Commission - any other management activities foreseen by the
annexes, except coordination of research and
technological development activities - NB 7 limit of total costs in FP6 limit removed
but.participants are expected to self-regulate
41Dos!
- Carefully read the text in the work programme
- Research previous and current projects
- Meet with consortium partners (if applicable)
- Register in EPSS
- Make sure all forms are completed correctly
- Get someone to read through your proposal
- Discuss budget early with us
- For ERC Absolutely adhere to page limits-longer
proposals WILL NOT be evaluated - Submit before the deadline-STRONGLY advised!
- Register as an expert with CORDIS (evaluator,
reviewer or monitor expert) https//cordis.europa
.eu/emmfp7/ - Contact us for advice and support
- Register with UKRO
- Attend UKRO proposal writing training events
42Donts!
- Do not undertake co-ordination of a consortium if
this is your first EU application - Do not submit a proposal without having obtained
approval from the university (this involves
contacting us and having us cost and process your
application) - Do not submit proposals for collaborative
projects to ERC - Do not solely rely on CORDIS/UKRO etc. for
finding partners-use existing contacts - Do not submit on the last day of the deadline!!!
43 44If you are thinking of applying for EU funding
- Call us on extensions
- 0140 (Dimitra)
- 4193 (John)
- E-mail us
- dimitra.koutsantoni.1_at_city.ac.uk
- j.montgomery_at_city.ac.uk
- We are here to help!
- We can give you detailed
- information on
- the work programme
- how to apply
- how to structure the proposal
- what documentation you need
- eligible costs
45Further training
- UKRO (free) http//www.ukro.ac.uk/subscriber_serv
ices/events/index.htm0607_training_development - Bluebell Research
- http//www.bluebell-res.co.uk/