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Förbered dig för sjunde ramprogrammetVäxjö 15
december 2006
Dan Andrée Research DG European Commission
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• Work Programmes
• Socio-economic sciences the Humanities
• European Research Council
• Regions of Knowledge
• People

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Arbetsprogrammen

• WP Annual Approach Following consultation and
  expert advice
• Advisory Groups
• European Technology Platforms
• Open consultations
• Workshops, expert meetings, etc
• Consultation with other Commission directorate
  generals
• Subject to opinion by Programme Committees
  (Member State representatives)
• Calls for proposals
• Staggered during the year

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Cooperation WP

• General Introduction
• 1 Health
• 2 Food, Agriculture, and Biotechnology
• 3 Information and Communication Technologies
• Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and
• new Production Technologies
• 5 Energy
• 6 Environment (including Climate Change)
• 7 Transport (including Aeronautics)
• Socioeconomic Sciences and the Humanities
• (Approach, Content 2007, Calls, Plan for 2008)
• 9 Space
• 10 Security
• Annex 1 International cooperation partner
  countries
• Annex 2 Evaluation criteria
• Annex 3 Forms of the Grant
• Annex 4 General Activities

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Annex II

• Common evaluation criteria for evaluating
  proposals
• scientific and/or technological excellence
• relevance to the objectives of these specific
  programmes
• the potential impact through the development,
  dissemination and use of project results
• the quality and efficiency of the implementation
  and management.

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European Research Council guiding principles

• Support frontier research projects? 100
  reimbursement of projects
• All fields of science and scholarship are
  eligible? investigator-driven, bottom-up
• Excellence is the only valid criterion?
  individual team research project
• Independent individual teams in Europe?
  Nationality of researchers not relevant, host
  organisation to be located in EU or AS

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Two ERC Funding Streams

• Two streams of activity are foreseen
• ERC Starting Independent Researcher Grant scheme
  (ERC Starting Grant)
• Call for proposals to be published (22 December
  2006 15 May 2007)
• ERC Advanced Investigator Researcher Grant scheme
  (ERC Advanced Grant)
• Call for proposals at a later stage

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ERC Starting Grant(ERC Starting Independent
Researcher Grant )

• Support researchers at the start of their
  independent research career and establishment of
  their first research team (2-8 years following
  PhD award)
• Provide a structure for transition from working
  under a supervisor to independent research
• Supply grants to support the creation of
  excellent new teams of which bring energy and new
  ideas to their disciplines

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ERC Starting Grant(ERC Starting Independent
Researcher Grant )

• Main aim is the 3Rs Retain, Repatriate, Recruit
• 300M (approximately ? of ERC annual budget)
• 100000 400000 Euro per year (increments of
  50000 Euro)
• 200 Starting Grants per year, each for up to 5
  years
• 1400 Starting Grants over 7 years of FP7

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ERC Advanced Grant (ERC Advanced Investigator
Researcher Grant)

• Designed to support excellent investigator-initiat
  ed research projects by established investigators
• Should complement the ERC Starting Grant scheme
  by targeting researchers who have already
  established their independence as team leaders
• 100000-500000 Euro per year
• max 2-3 Mio. Euro per grant (ca. 200 grants per
  year)

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ERC Grants (II)

• Up to 5 years
• Two-step application Procedure (due to large
  number of expected applications)
• Peer review Panels determine proposals to be
  funded and applicable budgets
• Simple grant preparation for most projects
• Flexibility and portability
• Short annual reports plus detailed final report

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Who can apply ? Individual Teams

• The Team Leader (Principal Investigator) has
  the
• power to assemble his/her research group
• freedom to choose the research topic.
• Individual teams should consist of a grouping of
  researchers which meets the needs of the project,
  without artificial administrative constraints
  thus members may be drawn from one or several
  legal entities, from either within or across
  national boundaries, including third countries

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FP7 / ERC launch events

• FP7 launch event for information
  multipliersBrussels, 7-9 February 2007 -
  Conference aimed at intermediaries and at
  stakeholders of European research policy
• ERC launch conferenceBerlin, 26-28 February 2007
  - Organised with the German EU presidency as
  high-level conference
• European Research Event with Public Exhibition
  Brussels, 718 March - Political High-level
  event with presentations and exhibitions on
  European research success stories

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ScC Website
Website of the ERC Scientific Council at
http//erc.europa.eu
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Regions of knowledgePolicy context The "Regions
of Knowledge" initiative responds to a need to
increase the overall capacity of regional players
to enhance science and technology for economic
development of all European Regions Expected
Outcome ? improve links between stakeholders and
local business community ? foster
transnational / cross-border cooperation ?
enhance mutual learning of regional actors ?
exchange experience and best practice

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Regions of Knowledge
Two objectives for all European regions
Strengthen their capacity for investing in RTD
and carryingout research activities
Produce research strategies that contribute to
regional economic development

• Through the development of regional
  research-driven clusters
• Associated and candidate countries are also
  eligible

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I - What is a regional research-driven cluster?
Research Entity
Regional Authority
Regional ResearchDriven Cluster
Local Enterprise (e.g. SME)
Other Actors (e.g. Banks)
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• I RoK Main activities 2007
• Three calls for a total of 10 M
• REGIONS-2007-1 (8.8 M ) 22 December 24 April
  2007
• Analysis, mentoring and integration of research
  actors
• REGIONS-2007-2 (0.8 m ) 22 December 24 April
  2007
• Facilitating the emergence of new clusters and
  mutual information

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I Thematic priorities in 2007 For the first
two calls 1. Bringing the benefits of research
to SMEs Action aimed at increasing integration
of SMEs in regional research driven clusters and
awareness about the potential benefits of
research for SMEs in their business activities.
2. Research and rural economies Action aimed
at integration of economic actors into regional
research driven clusters as a key challenge to
allow the development of dynamic rural and
maritime knowledge economies.


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• I REGIONS-2007-1
• Supporting analysis, mentoring and integration
  of research actors
• Activities
• Analysis, development and implementation of
  research agendas
• Mentoring of regions with a less developed
  research profile or mutual learning
• Initiatives to improve integration definition
  of joint action plans, together with business
  plans following SWOT analysis and definition
  of RTD needs
• Dissemination activities
• Participants
• Consortia of regional research driven clusters
• or a single transnational regional research
  driven cluster
• and always at least 6 partners from 2
  countries

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• I - REGIONS-2007-2
• Facilitating the emergence of new clusters and
  mutual information
• Activities
• creation of new research driven clusters
• Analysis, workshops, roundtables, expert group
  meetings, dissemination activities, including
  web-based initiatives
• Participants
• at least 3 participants (one research entity,
  one public authority, one enterprise) or one
  research driven cluster (for mutual information
  activities)

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