Funding Opportunities for Continuation of ProENBIS Activities

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Funding Opportunities for Continuation of
ProENBIS Activities

• Shirley Coleman ISRU

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Life after proENBIS

• Project ends December 2004
• Important to carry on collaborating
• Funded collaboration provides opportunities for
  useful meetings, papers and transfer of ideas
• Need to build on the relationships established
  under proENBIS

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Possible sources of further funds

• Mailing lists for regular updates
• Newcastle University has various services for
  funding alerts
• Community of Science (COS)
• Research fortnight (RF)
• Both give weekly alerts via email relating to key
  words submitted on joining the mailing lists

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FP6 instruments

• The Integrated Project (IP) is an instrument to
  support objective-driven research, where the
  primary deliverable is new knowledge. Integrated
  projects should aim at either increasing Europe's
  competitiveness or addressing major needs in
  society.
• Projects must contain a research component and
  may also focus on technological development,
  contain demonstration components, and contain a
  training component
• A minimum of three partners from three different
  countries should participate. SMEs are strongly
  encouraged to participate.
• The project duration is typically 3 to 5 years
  (no maximum)

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FP6 Instruments

• Networks of Excellence (NoE) are designed to
  strengthen scientific and technological
  excellence on a particular research topic. They
  aim to overcome the fragmentation of European
  research by networking together the critical
  mass of resources and networking the expertise
  needed to provide European leadership
• Projects may include a training component.
• A minimum of three partners from three different
  countries need to participate. However, a minimum
  number participants may be specified in the calls
  for proposals.
• The project lasts up to 5 years with a maximum of
  7 years.

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FP6 Instruments

• Specific targeted research projects (STREP) aim
  at improving European competitiveness or meeting
  the needs of society or Community policies
• They can be An RTD project designed to gain
  knowledge or improve existing products, processes
  or services or, a demonstration project designed
  to prove the viability of new technologies but
  which cannot be commercialized directly.
• A minimum of 3 partners from three different
  Member States or Associated States, of which two
  must be Member States or Associated Candidate
  Countries, need to participate.
• Project duration is typically between 2 to 3
  years, but may in exceptional cases be extended
  beyond 3 years.

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FP6 Instruments

• Co-ordination actions (CAs) aim to promote and
  support the networking and coordination of
  research and innovation activities.
• Coordination actions should cover, definition,
  organization, management, of joint or common
  initiatives. They will cover activities such as
  the organization of conferences, meetings, the
  performance of studies, exchange of personnel,
  the exchange and dissemination of good practices
  and setting up common information systems and
  expert groups.

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FP6 Instruments

• Specific Support Actions (SSA) Their main
  purposes is to support the implementation of
  FP6, to potentially help the preparation of
  future Framework Programme and to stimulate,
  encourage and facilitate the participation of
  SMEs, Small research teams, Newly developed and
  remote research centres and Organizations from
  the Candidate Countries
• The projects within the priority themes may cover
  the following for example Conferences, Seminars,
  Studies and analysis , Working and Expert Groups,
  Operational support and dissemination,
  Information and communication or a combination of
  these as appropriate.

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FP6 Instruments

• Marie Curie Fellowships These aim to provide a
  variety of options for individual researchers as
  well as host institutions. There are a number of
  different schemes on offer Host-driven actions,
  Individual-driven actions, Excellence recognition
  and Return and Reintegration Mechanisms (RRG,
  IRG).

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Thematic Areas
These cover those areas where the EU in the
medium term intends to become the most
competitive and dynamic, knowledge-based economy
in the world capable of sustainable economic
growth with more and better jobs and greater
social cohesion.

• Life Sciences, genomics and biotechnology for
  health aims to integrate post-genomic research
  into the more established biomedical and
  biotechnological approaches. Involvement of key
  stakeholders e.g. industry, healthcare providers
  and physicians, policy makers, regulatory
  authorities, patient associations and experts on
  ethical matters

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Thematic Areas

• Information Society Technologies (IST) aim for
  direct contribution to European policies for the
  knowledge society and the e-Europe Action Plan
  medium and long term RTD on the future generation
  of technologies integrating computers and
  networks into everyday environment placing the
  individual at the centre.
• Nanotechnologies and nano-sciences,
  knowledge-based multifunctional materials and new
  production processes and devices offer
  contribution to the creation of the scientific
  base for the transition of European production
  industry from resource-based towards
  knowledge-based, more environment-friendly
  approaches.

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Thematic Areas

• Food quality and safety aim to assure health and
  well-being of European citizens through a better
  understanding of the influence of food intake and
  environmental factors on human health providing
  safer, high-quality and health-promoting food.
• Sustainable development, global change and
  ecosystems aim to strengthen the ST capacities
  needed for Europe to be able to implement a
  sustainable development model in the short and in
  the long term, integrating its social, economic
  and environmental dimensions contributing to
  international efforts mitigating adverse trends
  in global change.

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Thematic Areas

• Citizens and governance in a knowledge-based
  society aim to provide a sound scientific base
  for the management of the transition towards a
  European knowledge based society, conditioned by
  national, regional and local policies and by
  decision making by individual citizens, families
  and other societal units.
• Aeronautics and space are striving towards higher
  levels of technological excellence by
  consolidating and concentrating RTD efforts in
  the context of the Advisory Council for
  Aeronautics Research in Europe and the European
  Strategy for Space

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Dates to remember

• IST Call 4
• Date of publication November 2004
• Closure Date 23 March 2005
• IST Call 5
• Date of publication May 2005
• Closure Date 21 September 2005
• FET Open
• Date of publication November 2004
• Closure Date 10 May 2005
• (all closing times are 1700 Brussels local time)

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NEEF North East Enabling Fund

• The new NEEF was launched July 2004
• It has a much-increased budget (400,000) over
  the original pilot scheme, and has a separate
  strand for Universities
• It is aimed at coordinators and partners of all
  types of FP6 proposals, whether for new or
  traditional instruments
• We are/have applied for NEEF

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NEEF North East Enabling Fund

• An initiative to provide funding of up to
  15,000 to support North East organisations in
  developing FP6 proposals
• The funding is provided by One NorthEast, the
  Regional Development Agency, to cover 75 of the
  allowable costs incurred in preparing a full FP6
  research proposal
• The scheme has been developed to be of maximum
  benefit to small and medium sized enterprises
  (SMEs) Universities and Centres of Excellence

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NEEF North East Enabling Fund

• Allowable activities include
• Searching for partners
• Assessing feasibility
• Verifying novelty
• Analysing the market
• Planning the project and writing the full
  research proposal
• The grant is payable upon verification of
  submission of an eligible FP6 research proposal.

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NEEF North East Enabling Fund

• Applying for the North East Enabling Fund is
  relatively straightforward
• The application process involves the submission
  of a five-page proposal to the Beta Technology
  North East office
• Each proposal is evaluated in confidence against
  a strict set of criteria by at least two
  independent evaluators.

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6th Framework

• Idea proposed by ISRU
• Information Society Technologies IST
• Network of Excellence (NoE) (March 2005)
• Six sigma knowledge transfer
• Establish six sigma material in European
  languages
• Establish database of multi-language/multi-cultura
  l material
• Internet learning Multilanguage format
• SMEs benefit from this material often language
  barrier stops SMEs using techniques
• European industries competitive edge

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Network of Excellence

• Material centralised via website/internet
• Partners will be able to deliver courses on sites
  throughout Europe or via Internet
• Share experiences and learn form these leading to
  a Network of Excellence
• Case studies tailored to cultures/languages
• Distance learning
• SME network involved
• Larger companies may like to be involved

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3rd Country participation in FP6

• The thematic network part of FP6 is to be
  extended to allow third country organisations to
  be included
• There is significant funding available to
  facilitate this procedure
• Partners from any country can participate in any
  consortium, as long as the minimum number of
  partners from Member and Associated States is
  respected, and third-country partners are in
  addition to these minima

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3rd Country participation in FP6

• To date, third country participation in the
  thematic areas of FP6 is low, and the take-up of
  the 285m is small.
• This is unlikely to be due to lack of interest,
  and more likely to be due to lack of awareness of
  the opportunities.

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6th Framework classification of countries

• EU Member States Austria, Belgium, Denmark,
  Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy,
  Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden,
  and UK
• EEA Countries Iceland, Liechtenstein, and Norway
  
• Association Agreement Countries Israel
  Switzerland (tbc)
• Candidate Countries Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech
  Republic, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary,
  Malta, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia,
  Turkey
• Third Countries INCO (Developing, Mediterranean,
  Russia and CIS), all other countries

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FP6 Rationale for SMEs

• FP6 attaches great importance to the
  participation of SMEs as they play a crucial
  role in European competitiveness and job creation
  
• Experience shows that SMEs are a source of
  dynamism and change in new markets, particularly
  those at the leading edge of technology.

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Participation of SMEs in FP6

• The main route for SME involvement in the seven
  Priority Thematic Areas is through the Networks
  of Excellence (NoE), Integrated Projects (IP) and
  Specific Targeted Research Projects

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Marias ideas 6th framework

• Stochastic for Quality Movement
• We are now in a better shape than when we set up
  the Pro-ENBIS project
• Pro-ENBIS has been a clear success for what has
  been produced- relevant tools, concepts and
  methodology
• Experts around Europe focusing on major issues,
  for instance, the profitability of European
  industry/business/ public sector will get
  financed by the EC, if well targeted at least to
  a couple of relevant industry sectors

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Project 1

• Title Closing the Gap Between Industry and
  Academia Design and Control of the Mutual Self
  Interest in SQM
• Engineers/managers will need considerable
  assistance to model their own plant/business be
  it SME or big enterprises or governmental
  institutions
• Most industrialists agree that a model needs to
  address the issues seen as important by industry

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Project 1

• Some academics understand that only when a large
  number of problems have been solved can a more
  academic overview be established to provide
  models that apply
• When collaborating with industry in a modeling
  exercise, contact is necessary with senior
  management

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Project 1

• It has to be recognized that modeling
  developments for decision-making in maintenance
  requires engineers and managers as equal partners
  in the modeling process with the modeler
• Teaching modeling to engineering students will be
  a complex task
• Unless they can understand statistical and
  mathematical concepts, their potential to embrace
  modeling must be limited

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Project 1

• There is no coherent postgraduate training in SQM
  
• Students seldom meet the topic of, for instance,
  maintenance at undergraduate level or
  postgraduate level, and seldom meet modeling for
  decision-making
• EC seems desperate to have academics to move
  towards industry to identify and solve actual
  problems
• Student placement is no longer considered to be
  enough

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Project 1

• There is a need to design and monitor mutual self
  interest in SQM for the academy and the
  industry/business and that is precisely the aim
  of the present project

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Project 1

• The project fits very well ENBIS mission.
• Pro-ENBIS has
• The Industrial Visit Scheme
• The Related SERVQUAL Questionnaire
• The SQM Survey of Companies
• Consultants and Academics
• A Template for Evaluating Practical Statistical
  Efficiency
• The SQM Library Concept
• Many others

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Project 2

• Title SQM Library and Their Continuous
  Improvement and Innovation
• Motivation for this kind of project
• All CEOs, be it from SME or otherwise, private or
  public sectors, have mainly two important
  questions on their mind
• Can you solve my problem and
• how much will it cost.
• Therefore, we also have to propose a solution
  that globally (including environmental impact and
  costs) costs less than the problem. That is to
  say, we have to be cost-effective too, and do
  not forget to advertise it.

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Project 2

• Aim To set up a framework, inspired by the
  Medicine Doctors Network in order to efficiently
  deal with recognized industry/business problems
  in specified areas, including maritime related
  industries.
• This project also will among other activities
• promote industrial visits and think tank
  activities among academics and the targeted
  industrialists in order to create a relevant SQM
  Library
• validate the credibility of the proposed
  numerical, simulation and analytic methodologies
  to be part of the SQM Library

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Project 2

1. select methods and tools to be implemented as a
   final software for modeling and performance
   evaluation
2. enhance numerical, simulation and analytic
   methodologies and solution algorithms under more
   realistic industrial/business profiles
3. investigate further the definition of performance
   bounds for complex systems
4. set up a mechanism for continuous improvement and
   alerts of needed innovation, where the
   cost-effective has to be also clearly
   demonstrated.

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Project 2

• Pro-ENBIS Resources
• Perhaps, Marias joint paper with Ron and John,
  presented at ESREL 2003 could be used as a
  kick-off in the preparation of such a proposal.
  Some other papers already published inside WP4
  and in all the other WPs, could be used as well.