Towards International Funding Programmes participation opportunities and obstacles' A view from Univ

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Towards International Funding Programmes
participation opportunities and obstacles. A
view from University of Belgrade

• Maja Kovacevic
• University of Belgrade
• Faculty of Political Sciences

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University of Belgrade

• The oldest and biggest University in Serbia
• Founded in 1808.
• Consists of 31 schools, 8 research institutes,
  and University library with more than 1,400,000
  volumes.

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University of Belgrade

• Its schools teach all disciplines
• Sciences and mathematics
• Engineering sciences
• Biotechnological sciences
• Medical sciences
• Social sciences and humanities
• Over 75 000 students and 5 000 teachers

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University of Belgrade

• 56 Bilateral cooperation agreements
• Member of European Conference of Rectors (CRE)
• Member of International Association of
  Universities (AIU)
• Member of Balkan Conference of Rectors
• Member of Mediterranean Community of Universities
• Member of Education Commission of Council of
  Europe

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Faculty of Political Science

• Founded in 1968
• Consists of four Departments
• Political Science
• International Relations
• Journalism and Communications
• Social Work and Social Policy

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Faculty of Political Science

• Faculty organizes undergraduate, MA, and
  executive MA studies, conferences, trainings and
  workshops
• Specialized Centres for Media, for Studies of the
  USA, for Far Eastern Studies, Centre for
  International Organizations and Humanitarian Law

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Faculty of Political Science

• MA Studies
• Political Systems
• Theory of Culture
• Political Sociology
• Social Ecology
• Communication Science
• Political Theory and Methodology
• Public Policy and Management
• International Relations
• European Studies
• Modern Social Work and Policy

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Faculty of Political Science

• Executive MA Studies
• International Humanitarian Law
• Journalism in Electronic Media
• Security Studies
• Terrorism and Organized Crime
• Rehabilitation and Social Therapy
• Gender Studies
• Studies of the USA

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FPS Selected International Projects

• OSCE Mission to Serbia, 2006, Strengthening
  Political Reporting in Serbia, enhancement of
  journalism education
• Cox Center for International Mass Communications
  University of Georgia, 2004, 3-year project,
  University of Belgrade Journalism Curriculum
  Support Project, enhancement of journalism
  education professors exchanges
• International Committee of Red Cross, 2004,
  Scholarships for 10 students in International
  Humanitarian Law Specialized course yearly
  regional courses in International Humanitarian
  Law

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FPS Selected International Projects

• CERI Science Po, Interdisciplinary research
  project networking of social sciences
  researchers of Serbia and France
• FPS Centre for the Study of Democracy,
  University of Westminster, London, 2005.
  professors exchanges
• FPS Faculty of social sciences Ljubljana,
  Slovenia, 2005. Development of regional
  cooperation, professors exchanges
• DAAD, 2005. German scholarships, enhancement of
  German language teaching

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FPS Selected International Projects

• Aristotelos University of Thessalonica,
  professors exchange
• NISPA Cee The Network of Institutes and Schools
  of Public Administration of central and Eastern
  Europe, 2005, training program How to be Better
  Policy Advisor?
• University of Trento / Erasmus Mundus Program,
  2006, FPS is consortium partner in
  postgraduate studies Joint European Master in
  Comparative Local Development for the Balkans and
  other areas in transformation.
• WZB, Berlin, 2006. FPS professors study trips.

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FPS Selected International Projects

• Cervantes Institute, since 2005 Conference The
  Role of Mediation in International Conflicts,
  workshop on transition
• HESP/AFP Budapest, since 2004, Development of
  regional cooperation with Political Science
  Faculties in Sofia and Bucharest
• GSPIA University of Pittsburgh, USA, since
  2002, professors exchanges, students scholarships

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FPS Selected International Projects

• CCEES/UCL, 2005-2008, Professors exchanges,
  Development of Joint MA program in Cultural
  Studies
• Faculty of Health Education and Social Work,
  Sør-Trøndelag University College (HiST),
  University of Trondheim, Norway, 2005, workshops,
  professors and students exchanges
• Centre lémanique détude des parcours et modes de
  vie (PaVie), Université de Lausanne et de Genève,
  2005,  Transition to Adulthood and Collective
  Experiences in Former Yugoslavia  (TRACES),
  Scientific Co-operation between Eastern Europe
  and Switzerland (SCOPES Program), exchange of
  researchers

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FPS Selected International Projects

• Social Inclusion of immigrants , 635.715 EURO,
  project financed by the INTERERG IIIA and CARDS
  Programmes

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Missed Opportunities in last 2 years

• At least 7 Call for Proposals in FP6 (Citizens
  and Governance in a Knowledge Based Society, 2
  Calls for Specific Support Actions (SSA) for
  Western Balkan Countries, Marie Curie Actions)
• Tempus

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Why?

• Information/Understanding Do we know much about
  International Research Funding?
• Organization Who is in charge?
• Project management?

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FP7 2007-2013

• Four Programmes
• 1.Cooperation
• 2. Ideas
• 3. People
• 4. Capacities

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Cooperation

• Collaborative research
• Joint Technology Initiatives
• Coordination of non-Community research programmes
  
• International Cooperation

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Collaborative research

• Core of EU research funding in FP7. The objective
  is to establish, in the major fields of
  advancement of knowledge, excellent research
  projects and networks able to attract researchers
  and investments from Europe and the entire world.
  This is to be achieved by supporting
  collaborative research through a range of funding
  schemes Collaborative projects, Networks of
  Excellence, Co-ordination/support actions etc.

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Joint Technology Initiatives and Technology
Platforms

• The themes for collaborative research have been
  identified relying, among other sources, on the
  work of different "European Technology Platforms"
  set up in fields where Europe's competitiveness,
  economic growth and welfare depend on important
  research and technological progress in the medium
  to long term

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Coordination between national research programmes

• The participation of the Community in jointly
  implemented national research programmes
• To enhance the complementarity and synergy
  between the Framework Programme and activities
  carried out in the framework of intergovernmental
  structures such as EUREKA and COST

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International Cooperation

• International cooperation between the EU and
  third countries as an integral part

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Ideas

• Supporting "investigator-driven" research
  projects carried out across all fields by
  individual teams in competition at the European
  level
• To be implemented by a European Research Council
  (ERC)
• Research areas covered will be independent of the
  thematic orientations of other parts of the
  Framework Programme, and will include
  engineering, social sciences and the humanities

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People

• The objective of strengthening, quantitatively
  and qualitatively, the human potential in
  research and technology in Europe
• Marie Curie actions

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Research Capacities

• Research infrastructures
• Research for the benefit of SMEs
• Regions of knowledge
• Research potential of Convergence Regions
• Science in society
• International co-operation.

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Research Infrastructures

• Support to existing research infrastructures
• Support to new research infrastructures,
  including coordination of the Community financial
  instruments, the Framework Programme and the
  Structural Funds

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Research for the benefit of SMEs

• To strengthen the innovation capacity of European
  small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and
  their contribution to the development of new
  technology based products and markets
• Research for SMEs
• Research for SME associations

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Regions of Knowledge

• To strengthen the research potential of European
  regions, in particular by encouraging and
  supporting the development, across Europe, of
  regional "research-driven clusters" associating
  universities, research centres, enterprises and
  regional authorities

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Regions of Knowledge

• Activities will be implemented in close
  relationship with EU regional policy and the
  Competitiveness and Innovation Programme (CIP),
  while seeking synergies with the EU's regional
  policy with regard to Convergence Regions

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Research Potential of Convergence Regions

• To stimulate the realization of the full research
  potential of the enlarged Union by unlocking and
  developing the research potential in the EU's
  Convergence Regions

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Science in society

• Strengthening and improving the European science
  system, including "self regulation"
• Broader engagement of researchers and the general
  public in science-related questions
• Reflection and debate on science and technology
  and their place in society
• Gender research, including the integration of the
  gender dimension in all areas of research
• An environment that triggers curiosity for
  science in young people, reinforcing science
  education at all levels
• Development of a policy on the role of
  universities
• Improved communication between the scientific
  world and the wider audience of policy-makers,
  the media and the general public.

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International cooperation

• Candidate countries
• Countries neighbouring the EU, Mediterranean
  countries, countries of the Western Balkan region
  that are not acceding or candidate countries and
  Eastern European and central Asian states.
• Developing countries, focusing on their
  particular needs
• Emerging economies

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FP7 Themes

• Health
• Food, agriculture and biotechnology
• Information and communication technologies
• Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new
  Production Technologies
• Energy
• Environment and Climate Change
• Transport and Aeronautics
• Socio-economic sciences and the humanities
• Space and Security Research

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Budget breakdown of the Seventh Framework
Programme of the European Community (EC)
(2007-2013) and Euratom (2007-2011) (in EUR
million)
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Budget breakdown of the Seventh Framework
Programme of the European Community (EC)
(2007-2013) and Euratom (2007-2011) (in EUR
million)