Bruno Hansen DG XII - Life Sciences - Coordination

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Bruno Hansen DG XII - Life Sciences -
Coordination

• Fifth Framework Programme for Research,
  Technological Development and Demonstration
• 1998-2002
• Quality of Life and Management of Living
  Resources

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Life Sciences and Technologies
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Extrapolating from achievements

• Capitalising on European scientific strengths
• plant biotechnology, neurosciences, immunology,
  gene function, nutrition, etc.
• Building on strong EU networks
• Universities, Research centers, Industry,
  Consumers, Regulators
• Industry platforms and other dissemination
  channels
• LABIP, YIP, ACTIP, FLAIR-FLOW, NF-AIRID, ...
• Training
• over 1000 trainees in the past 10 years
• Technology stimulation in SMEs
• emerging biotech industries / myriad of
  traditional food SMEs

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A break with the past

• The Fifth Framework Programme1998 - 2002

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Societal Needs
Quality of Life
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Societal Needs
Food
healthier foods improved food safety and
quality new and improved food processes
Quality of Life
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Societal Needs
Food
Health
healthier foods improved food safety and
quality new and improved food processes
disease prevention and treatment healthy
environment and working conditions reduced
healthcare costs
Quality of Life
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Societal Needs
Food
Health
healthier foods improved food safety and
quality new and improved food processes
disease prevention and treatment healthy
environment and working conditions reduced
healthcare costs
Quality of Life
Environment
cleaner bio-processes sustainable use of land and
sea resources a clean environment
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Societal Needs
Food
Health
healthier foods improved food safety and
quality new and improved food processes
disease prevention and treatment healthy
environment and working conditions reduced
healthcare costs
Quality of Life
Environment
Employment
cleaner bio-processes sustainable use of land and
sea resources a clean environment
entrepreneurship - job creation education,
training and mobility integrated regional
development
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Programme structure and budgetary distribution

• (i) 6 Key Actions MEURO
• - Food, nutrition health 290
• - Control of infectious diseases 300
• - The cell factory 400
• - Environment and health 160
• - Sustainable agriculture, fisheries and
  forestry, and integrated
• development of rural areas including mountain
  areas 520
• - The ageing population and disabilities 190
• (ii) RTD activities of a generic nature 483
• (iii) Support for research infrastructures 70

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KEY ACTIONS

• addressing explicitly formulated economic and
  social objectives of a European nature with a
  problem-solving approach
• aimed at mobilising the resources of various
  relevant disciplines, technologies and know-how
  using the whole range of activities, ranging from
  basic research to development and demonstration
• prepared and implemented in close consultation
  with the scientific community, industry and all
  relevant research end-users

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KEY ACTIONS

• EUROPEAN CHALLENGES
• SELECTED ISSUES
• ANTICIPATED DELIVERABLES
• RTD RESOURCES TO BE MOBILIZED

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Key action II Control of infectious diseases

• RTD objectives
• development of improved or novel vaccines,
  especially against viral diseases, including
  support of clinical trials
• new / improved strategies to identify and control
  infectious diseases, directed at treatment
  prevention
• public health and care-delivery systems, notably
  management, prevention and surveillance aspects

• Societal aims
• to combat established, emerging or re-emerging
  infectious diseases, both in humans and animals
• to improve quality of life through improved
  prevention and treatment
• to reduce healthcare costs to society

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RTD Activities of a Generic Nature Support to
Infrastructures

• Chronic degenerative(esp. cancer diabetes),
• cardio-vascular diseases, and rare diseases.

Research relating to the disabled.
Biomedical ethics bioethics
Research into the genome diseases of genetic
origin.
Socio-economic aspects of life sciences
technologies
Neurosciences.
Support for research Infrastructures Biological
collections, Clinical research facilities,
Facilities for aquaculture and fishery research,
Pre-clinical research facilities, Biological
information resources
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Strategic aspects of implementation

• The emergence of a Biosociety and commensurate
  policy commitment
• 1. CONCENTRATION on strategic issues for the EU
• 2. FLEXIBILITY in programme and project
  management
• 3. TRANSPARENCY of the actors and means of
  action

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ROAD MAP Principle
Call for proposals
Not open for submission
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Strategic aspects of implementation

• The emergence of a Biosociety and commensurate
  policy commitment
• 1. CONCENTRATION on strategic issues for the EU
• 2. FLEXIBILITY in programme and project
  management
• 3. TRANSPARENCY of the actors and means of
  action
• 4. COORDINATION with policies, actions,
  agencies and national RD

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Implementation modalities

• Shared cost actionsTo obtain new knowledge
  likely to be useful either to develop new or
  significantly improve existing products,
  processes and services
• Demonstration projectsTo prove the technical
  viability of technologies that cannot be
  commercialised directly
• Combined projectsTo combine both a research and
  demonstration component
• Concerted actionsTo co-ordinate national RTD
  projects in order to exchange experience
  acquired, expand research efforts and disseminate
  results
• Support for networksTo bring together
  manufacturers, users, universities and research
  centres concerned with the diffusion or transfer
  of innovation around a given scientific and
  technological objective
• SME specific measures To facilitate the
  participation of Small and Medium Enterprises in
  FP V
• Marie Curie Training fellowshipsTo strengthen
  the human research potential in Europe

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A new concept the cluster of projects

• Definition
• a group of RTD projects providing the necessary
  critical mass to address a major objective
  within the thematic programme
• Objectives
• to promote multidisciplinarity, maximise
  European added value and facilitate the
  optimisation of resources and the exploitation of
  results
• Modalities
• A priori clusters can be submitted by linking
  several single RTD projects (RTD, demonstration,
  combined projects)
• Clusters can also be built a posteriori by
  bringing together several selected single RTD
  projects or adding a single RTD proposal to an
  existing cluster

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Proposal Evaluation
NO
Eligibility
YES
Scientific excellence Management
NO GO
GO
Contribution to EU social objectives
Community added value
Economic development and ST prospects
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Whats different from FP4?

• In FP4, one of the evaluation criteria was to
  consider whether or not proposals were in the
  scope of the scientific fields, as described in
  the work programme

• In FP5, this is replaced by whether or not
  proposals match the socio-economic objectives of
  the key action, as described in the work programme