Overview of FP7 Irish National Launch of FP7

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Overview of FP7 Irish National Launch of
FP7
Richard Escritt European Commission Research
Directorate-General Dublin, 15 November 2006
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Why do research at European level?

• Pooling resources
• Assembling critical mass,
• Enabling big science,
• Leveraging private investment
• Integration of research
• Addressing pan-European challenges,
• Coordinating national and regional policies,
• Conducting comparative research at EU level,
• Disseminating research results more widely
• Excellence in research
• Supporting research careers and mobility of
  researchers,
• Creating world class centres of excellence,
• EU level competition to increase quality and
  creativity
• Countering Market Failure/Addressing Specific
  Needs
• Orphan Research

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Why participate ?

• For companies
• access to research results of the whole
  consortium, multiplication of yield of own
  research efforts
• contacts can be used for further business
  relations and exploring new markets
• SMEs without research capacities support for
  contract research

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Why participate ?

• For research institutes
• Exchange of knowledge and experience and
  international comparison of own performance
• Support institutional change towards a
  Europeanisation (Networks of Excellence)
• Exchange of researchers to establish new
  competencies

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Why participate ?

• For individual researchers
• Pursue an international research career via the
  Marie Curie fellowship schemes (for researchers
  at all stages of career)
• Become the principal investigator in a frontier
  research project
• Invaluable experience of working in an
  international and multidisciplinary environment

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Why participate ?

• For the money?
• Enterprises reduce the commercial risk of
  pre-competitive research
• Non-commercial institutions enlarge the
  financial basis for research activities

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Preparation of the 7th Framework Programme
proposal

• Extensive consultations and input from the
  research community
• Major consultations on the Commission guidelines
  for future research policy and on thematic
  priorities
• July 2004 Science and Technology, the Key to
  Europes Future. Guidelines for Future EU Policy
  to Support Research
• Consultations with participating States
• Inputs from European Technology Platforms
• Impact Assessment of the proposal
• Ex-post 5 year assessment of the framework
  programme

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Specific Programmes
FP7 2007 - 2013
Cooperation Collaborative research
Ideas Frontier Research
People Human Potential
Capacities Research Capacity

JRC (non-nuclear)
JRC (nuclear)
Euratom
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Budget for FP7

• EC Programme 50 521 million Euro (current prices)
• Cooperation 32 413 million Euro
• Ideas 7 510 million Euro
• People 4 750 million Euro
• Capacities 4 097 million Euro
• JRC EC Programme 1 751 million Euro
• Euratom Programme 2 751 million Euro (current
  prices 2007-11)
• Fusion Energy Research 1 947 million Euro
• Nuclear Fission and Radiation Protection 287
  million Euro
• JRC Nuclear Research Activities 517 million Euro
• Annual budget 40 increase compared to FP6 on
  average75 real terms increase between 2007 to
  2013

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Cooperation Collaborative research

• 10 Themes
• Health
• Food, agriculture 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
• Euratom Fusion energy research, nuclear
  fission and radiation protection

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Cooperation Collaborative research

• Under each theme there will be sufficient
  flexibility to address both Emerging needs and
  Unforeseen policy needs
• Dissemination of knowledge and transfer of
  results will be supported in all thematic areas
• Support will be implemented across all themes
  through

Collaborative research (Collaborative projects
Networks of Excellence Coordination/support
actions)
Joint Technology Initiatives
Coordination of non-Community research
programmes (ERA-NET ERA-NET Article 169)
International Cooperation
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Ideas European Research Council

• Frontier research
• Support to individual teams, to promote
  excellence through Europe-wide competition
• Dedicated implementation structure (Executive
  Agency)
• Independent scientific governance (Scientific
  Council)

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People Human Potential
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Capacities Research Capacity

• Research Infrastructures
• Research for the benefit of SMEs
• Regions of Knowledge
• Research Potential
• Science in Society
• Coherent Development of Policies
• Activities of International Cooperation

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EURATOM - Framework Programme

• Objectives
• Nuclear fission radiation protection
• developing safer management of long-lived
  radioactive waste
• promoting safer, more resource-efficient and
  competitive exploitation of nuclear energy
• ensuring a robust and socially acceptable system
  of protection of people and the environment
  against the effects of ionising radiation.
• Fusion energy research
• ITER
• creation of prototype reactors for power stations
  which are safe, sustainable, environmentally
  responsible, and economically viable

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Work Programmes

• Strategy/ approach, timing and content of calls
  (topics, funding schemes, budgets etc.)
• Evaluation criteria (ST quality, impact,
  implementation)
• Particular requirements for participation,
  evaluation, implementation
• Annual work programmes 2007 work programmes
  currently being prepared

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Simplification

• Clear framework programme structure
• Cooperation themes cover all related activities
• Annual work programme gives clear overview
• Electronic proposal submission some 2-stage
• Unique Registration Facility
• Clear documentation
• Advice of Sounding Board

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Information

• EU research http//ec.europa.eu/research/
• Seventh Framework Programme http//ec.europa.eu/r
  esearch/future/index_en.cfm
• Information on research programmes and projects
• http//cordis.europa.eu/
• RTD info magazine
• http//ec.europa.eu/research/rtdinfo/
• Information requests
• research_at_ec.europa.eu