Setting the Stage:

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Participating in the 6th EU Framework Programme
for Research, Technological Developmentand
Demonstration

• Setting the Stage
• FP6 and the European Research Area
• B. Asamer, R. König R. Schwertner
• BIT - Bureau for International Research and
  Technology Cooperation, AT
• An initiative of the Austrian Government and
  the Economic Chamber Austria

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The 6th EU Framework Programme (FP6)

• Introducing BIT
• New policy context European Research Area
• FP6 as an instrument for the creation of ERA
• The objectives and the new approach of FP6
• Structure, contents, budget
• Austria in EU RTD
• Turkey and Austria in FP6 EoI 2002

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The BIT is ...

• promoting cooperation in international RD
  programmes and initiatives
• EU Framework Programme (National Contact Points
  for all areas of FP6)
• EUREKA (EUREKA Secretariat and NPS)
• INTAS
• providing information and assistance for all
  interested parties
• the Austrian "one-stop-shop for EU RD
• a gateway for finding partners in Austria

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The BIT Core Services

• identifying possible participants in EU RTD
• creating awareness on collaborative RTD
• disseminating information on EU RTD
• finding partners in Austria and abroad
• assistance and coaching for proposers
• active stimulation of new projects
• exploitation of results technology transfer
• monitoring strategy development forAustrian
  participation in EU RTD
• supporting strategic newcomer countries ...

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Developing the client base a need for
continuous effort
Development of the BIT client base at present
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The Clients of BIT

• 42 of the client organisations are in active
  contactwith BIT, their success rate is
  substantially highercompared to those without
  BIT-contact

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Activities of BIT in 2001

• Promoting 60 Calls for Proposals in FP5
• 300 mailings to gt200.000 recipients
• answering to 10.000 requests for information
• providing 1.700 detailed advise sessions
• organising 100 BIT information days etc.
• participating in 90 events with partners
• publishing 6 issues of BIT bulletin InFoTeKo
• involvement in 20 EU projects to stimulate
  participation in FP - particularly by SMEs

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BIT - Contact persons

• Manfred Horvat, Director Co-ordinating National
  Contact Point
• Andrea Höglinger, Dep. Dir.
• Klaus Bernhardt Information Society
  Technologies
• Gerald Kern Nanotechnologies, Materials,
  Production
• Hans Rohowetz Aeronautics and Space, Transport
• Bettina Asamer Energy and Environment
• Robert Schwertner International Co-operation
• Kurt Butscher Innovation, INNOVATION Relay
  Centre Austria
• M. Bidmon SME Measures (CRAFT, Collective
  research)
• Gerald Müller-Niklas Human Ressources and
  Mobility Research Infrastructures
• Andrea Höglinger Socio-economic Research
• Philippe Loward Austrian EUREKA National
  Project Co-ordinator
• Christian Hopp Legal and financial matters of
  EU RTD

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FP6 Starting point - a diagnosis

• Areas for improvement of EU RTD
• Financial resources for RD
• Researchers, scientists, engineers (RSE)
• Fragmentation, separation, regional disparity
• The European paradoxon of innovation
• European RD cooperation
• The European Research Area (ERA)!
• The EU Framework Programme (FP6)

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Research intensity
RD expenditure as a of GDP
Japan 2.85
USA 2.75
EU-15 1.89
Source Eurostat
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Researchers, scientists and engineers
Number of researchers in firms per 1000 labour
force (1997)
Source OECD
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The European Research Area (ERA)

• Towards the European Research Area.COM(2000)6,
  18.01.2000, p. 24
• The European Research Area should be an area
  where
• the scientific capacity and material resources
  can be put to best use,
• where national and European policies can be
  implemented more coherently, and
• where people and knowledge can circulate freely
• an area
• attractive both to European researchers and the
  best researchers from third countries, and
• built on respect for the common social and
  ethical values of Europeans and their diversity.

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The new strategic goals of the EU till 10Lisbon
2000 and Barcelona 2002 )

• ..., 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.
• ... that the overall spending on RD and
  innovation in the Union should be increased with
  the aim of approaching 3 of GDP by 2010.
• ) Presidency Conclusions, European
  CouncilsLisbon, 23 and 24 March 2000 and
• Barcelona, 15 and 16 March 2002
  http//ue.eu.int/en/info/eurocouncil/index.htm

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ERA - Lisbon - Barcelona - FP6

• A joint effort by EU and MS to bringEU research
  to the top!
• FP6 as the main instrument to support the
  creation of ERA
• building integrated and structured RD capacities
• improving the impact of EU RTD activities
• improving the human resource base
• overcoming the paradoxon of innovation
• more coordination and coherence of national and
  EU RTD activities

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FP6 Objectives and targets

• Objectives
• contributing to the creation of the ERA )
• Strengthening the st bases of Europes industry
• encouraging it to become more competitive
• supporting other EU policies
• Targets
• integrating research
• structuring the ERA
• strengthening the foundations of the ERA
• ) ERA European Research Area

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Characteristics of EU RD activities

• transnational collaboration (min. 3 partners/3
  countries)
• strategic objectives - programme oriented
• innovative, based on scitechn. excellence
• competitive - competition of the best teams in EU
• rather mid-term oriented
• RTD results are the property of the participants
• organisations selected via Calls for Proposals
  and evaluation procedures involving a set of
  multiple criteria and independent experts

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The benefits of participation in EU RTD

• additional financial and other resources
• strengthening international competitiveness
• achieving critical mass for RTD
• sharing the risks and the opportunities for
  innovation
• getting international, finding strategic
  partners
• gaining information, orientation and know how
• personnel and organisational development
• benchmarking
• image and reputation

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FP6 Objectives and targets

• Objectives
• contributing to the creation of the ERA )
• Strengthening the st bases of Europes industry
• encouraging it to become more competitive
• supporting other EU policies
• Targets
• integrating research
• structuring the ERA
• strengthening the foundations of the ERA
• ) ERA European Research Area

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FP6 Structure and Budget (MEUR)

• 3 main components
• 1. Focussing and integratingCommunity Research
  13.345
• 2. Structuring the ERA European Research Area
  2.605
• 3. Strengthening the Foundations of the European
  Research Area 320
• Total Budget 1 - 3 (EU FP6)
  16.270
• Total FP Budget incl. EURATOM 17.500

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The development of the EU RTD budget
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FP6 Structure Contents
Focussing and Integration Community Research
Thematic Priorities
Specific Activities

• Life sciences, Genomics Biotechnologie for
  Health LGBH
• Information Society Technologies IST
• Nanotechnologies -sciences, Knowledge-Based
  Multifunctional Materials, New Production
  Processe and Devices NMP
• Aeronautics and Space AS
• Food Quality and Safety FQS
• Sustainable Development, Global Change and
  Ecosystems
• Citizens Governance in a Knowledge Soc. CG

• Activities in support of EU policies
• Research responding to new and emergingscientific
  and emerging ST needs (NEST)

• Horizontal Research activities involving SMEs

• Support of international cooperation (INCO)

Joint Research Centre (JRC) - non-nuclear
activities
Structuring the European Research Area (ERA)
ResearchandInnovation
Humanresourcesand Mobility
Research Infrastructures
Science and Society
Strengthening the Foundations of the ERA
Coordination of national and EU research
activities
Coherent development of res. innovation policies
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Focusing and Integrating the ERAPriority
thematic areas Contents and budget (MEUR)

• 1 Life sciences, genomics, biotechnology for
  health 2.255
• 2 Information society technologies
  3.625
• 3 Nanotechnologies and nanosciences,knowledge-bas
  ed functional materials,new production processes
  and devices 1.300
• 4 Aeronautics and space 1.075
• 5 Food quality and safety 685
• 6 Sustainable development, global
  change,ecosystems
  2.120
• 7 Citizens and governance in aknowledge-based
  society 225
• Total Budget 1.1 11.285
  )
• ) including 300 MEUR for specific 3rd countries
  15 for SMEs

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EU RTD ActivitiesChanges of Priorities FP1 - FP6
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Focusing and Integrating the ERA Specific
activities covering a wider field of research
Contents and budget (MEUR)

• Policy oriented research andleading edge topics
  (NEST) 555
• specific research activities for SMEs
  430
• cooperative research (CRAFT) (290)
• collective research (140)
• sci. internat. cooperation activities (INCO) 315
• Mediterranean and western Balkans
• Russia and the NIS
• Developing Countries
• Total Budget 1.2 1.300

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2. Structuring theEuropean Research Area (ERA)
Contents and budget (MEUR)

• 1. Research and innovation 290
• 2. Human resources 1.580
• support for the hosting of European and3rd
  country researchers
• individual support measures for researchers
  (researcherswith 4 years research experience)
• financial contribution to national mobility
  programmes
• support for excellent teams
• scientific prizes for work of excellence
• 3. Research infrastructures 655
• 4. Science and society 80
• Total 2. 2.605

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3. Strengthening theFoundations of the ERA
Contents and budget (MEUR)

• 1. Support for the Coordiation ofnational
  RTD-activities (ERA-Net) 270
• 2. Support for the Development of
  CoherentNational RTD Policies 50
• Total Budget 3. 320

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Priority thematic area 1Life sciences, genomics
and biotechnology for health

• Advanced genomics its application for health
• fundamental knowledge and basic tools for
  functional genomics in all organisms
• application of knowledge and technologies in the
  fields of genomics and biotechnology for health
• Combating major deseases
• application-oriented approach to medical genomics
  knowledge and technologies including the use of
  animal and plant genomics where relevant
• a broader approach, not limited to genomics and
  other fields of basic research

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Priority thematic area 2Information society
technologies

• Integrating research into technological areas of
  priority interest for citizens and businesses
• communication and computing infrastructures
• components and microsystems
• information management and interfaces

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Priority thematic area 3/1Nanotechnologies and
nanosciences

• long-term interdiscipilnary research
• supramolecular architectures and macromolecules
• nano-biotechnologies
• nanometre-scale engineering techniques to create
  materials and components
• development of handling and control devices and
  instruments
• applications in areas such as health, chemistry,
  energy, and the environment

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Priority thematic area 3/2Knowledge based
multi-functional materials

• Development of fundamental knowledge
• technologies associated with the production and
  transformation including processing of knowledge
  based multifunctional materials and of
  biomaterials
• support engineering

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Priority thematic area 3/3New production
processes and devices

• The development of new processes and flexible and
  intelligent manufacturing systems
• systems needed for sustainable waste management
  and hazard control in production and
  manufacturing
• development of new concepts optimising the life
  cycle of industrial systems, products and services

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Priority thematic area 4/1Aeronautics

• Research techn development activities to
• Increase the competitiveness of European industry
  with regard to civil aircraft, engines and
  equipment
• reduce the environmental impact of aviation, by
  reducing fuel consumption, CO2, NOX, etc. and
  noise pollution
• increase aircraft safety
• increase aircraft capacity and safety of the air
  transport system - Single European Sky

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Priority thematic area 4/2Space

• Community space activities carried out in
  coordination with ESA will address
• research on satellite-based information systems
  and services relevant for the Galilieo satellite
  navigation project
• research on satellite-based systems relevant for
  the Global Monitoring for Environment and
  Security (GMES) platform, taking into account the
  needs of users
• advanced research needs to integrate the space
  segment and the Earth segment in the field of
  communication

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Priority thematic area 5Food quality and safety

• Research relating to control of health risks and
  links between health and food
• safe and environmentally friendly production and
  processing methods and healthier, nutrious,
  functional and varied foodstuffs and animal feed
• epidemiology of food related diseases and
  allergies
• impact of food, e.g. new products, products from
  organic farming, functional food, products
  containing GMOs on health
• traceability processes all along the production
  line
• methods of analysis, detection and control of
  chemical contaminants and existing or emerging
  pathogenic micro-organisms

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Priority thematic area 6/0Sustainable
development, global change and ecosystems

• Sustainable energy systems
• Sustainable surface transport
• Global change and ecosystems

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Priority thematic area 6/1Sustainable energy
systems

• In the short and medium term, especially in the
  urban environment
• clean energy, in particular renewable energy
  sources and their integration in the energy
  system
• energy savings and energy efficiency
• alternative motor fuels
• in the medium and longer term
• fuel cells including their applications
• new technologies for energy carriers, transport
  and storage on a European scale, in particular
  hydrogen technology
• new and advances concepts in renewable energy
  technologies with significant future energy
  potential and requiring long-term research
  efforts
• disposal of CO2 associated with cleaner fossil
  fuel plants

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Priority thematic area 6/2Sustainable surface
transport

• Developing environmentally friendly, safe and
  competitive transport systems and means of
  transport of passengers and freight, and clean
  urban transport with rational use of the car in
  the city
• making rail and maritime transport more effective
  and more competitive, addressing the
  interoperability of transport modes, and assuring
  intelligent and safe transport
• increasing safety, and avoiding traffic
  congestion, through the integration of innovative
  electronics and software solutions and by means
  of the use of advanced satellite navigation
  systems and telematics solutions

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Priority thematic area 6/3Global change and
ecosystems

• Impact and mechanisms of greenhouse gas emissions
  and atmospheric pollutants from all sources
• water cycle, including soil-related aspects
• understanding marine and terrestrial
  biodiversity, marine ecosystem functions,
  protection of genetic resources, sustainable
  management of terrestrial and marine ecosystems
  and interactions between human activities an the
  latter
• mechanisms of desertification and natural
  disasters
• strategies for sustainable land management
• operational forecasting and modelling, including
  global climate change observation systems

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Priority thematic area 7/1Citizens and
governance in aknowledge-based society

• Knowledge based society and social cohesion
• research related to Lisbon and subsequent
  Councils
• options and choices for the development of a
  knowledge-based society
• variety of transition dynamics and paths towards
  a knowledge-based society

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Priority thematic area 7/2Citizens and
governance in aknowledge -based society

• citizenship, democracy and new forms of
  governance, in particular in the context of
  increased integration and globalisation, and from
  the perspectives of history and cultural heritage
• consequences of European integration and
  enlargement
• relationship between areas of competence and
  responsibility
• resolution of conflicts and restoration of peace
  and justice, including safeguarding of human
  rights
• emergence of new forms of citizenship and
  cultural identities, forms and impact of
  integration and cultural diversity in Europe

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FP6 The new instruments

• Networks of Excellence - NoE )
• Integrated Projects - IP )
• EU contribution to joint nat. programmes (Art
  169)
• specific measures for SMEs
• collective research
• training and mobility of researchers
• third countries fellowships, return
  fellowships,excellence measures
• research infrastructures
• feasibility studies, development costs
• ) In priority thematic areas

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FP6 The traditional instruments

• specific targeted RTD projects (STREPs)
• specific measures for SMEs
• CRAFT Co-operative Research Action for
  Technology
• training and mobility of researchers
• e.g. Marie Curie fellowships, networks, training
  sites
• research infrastructures
• access, integration, feasibility, development
• Specific co-ordination action
• e.g. thematic networks, concerted actions
• Specific support actions
• e.g. stimulation actions, economic and
  technological intelligence actions, studies,
  conferences

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Successful Austrian Participation in FP5 by Type
of OrganisationTotal number 1.900 in ca.
1.400 projects )
SON
12
IND
FOR
38
17
UNI
33
) by December 2002
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Successful Austrian Participations in FP5
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Successfull Participations ofAustrian
Universities (in Specific Programmes of FP5)
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FP5 EU-Contributions to AT Universities
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Successful Participations of Vienna University
of Technology in FP5 (Total number 138)
Horizontal
QoL
Programmes
5
17
IST
EN
31
11
ENV
13
GROWTH
23
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Expressions of Interest 2002 Turkey 364,
Austria 253
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From FP5 to FP6

• FP6
• creation of ERA!!!
• ST excellency
• Competitiveness
• New structures for RTD
• Integration of capacities
• Project types
• Networks of Excellence
• Integrated Projects
• Strategic targeted RTD projects
• Mobility
• Coordination support

• FP5
• Competitiveness
• ST excellency
• Networking of individual researchers in small
  projects
• Project types
• RTD-projects
• Mobility
• concerted actions and thematic networks
• Accompanying measures

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Summary FP6 - Main characteristics

• new objectives regarding creation of ERA
• larger projects - structuring and integration
• need for strategic positioning of institutions
• more autonomy and flexibility of consortia
• new forms of Community financial contribution
• exactly the same rights for MC and Candidate AS
• EU funding for participation of INCO countries )
• eligibility of internat. organisations of EU
  interest
• openess to 3rd countries worldwide
• increased participation of women
• ) Mediterranean, Balkan Russia and NIS
  Developing Countries

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BIT-Initiative Partnership for Research

• Objective Stimulating researcher mobility and
  cooperation between Austria the Candidate
  Countries
• Strategic use of Marie Curie Fellowship
• Research training stay used to prepare EU
  project between host and home organisation
• BIT Mobility portal
• http//www.bit.ac.at/partnership

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BIT - Contact persons

• Manfred Horvat, Director Co-ordinating NCP,
  ERA-Net, NEST
• Andrea Höglinger, Dep. Dir. Socio-economic
  Research
• Klaus Bernhardt Information Society
  Technologies
• Gerald Kern Nanotechnologies, Materials,
  Production
• Hans Rohowetz Aeronautics and Space, Transport
• Bettina Asamer Energy and Environment
• Robert Schwertner International Co-operation
• Kurt Butscher Innovation, INNOVATION Relay
  Centre Austria
• M. Bidmon SME Measures (CRAFT, Collective
  research)
• Gerald Müller-Niklas Human Ressources and
  Mobility Research Infrastructures
• Andrea Höglinger Socio-economic Research
• Philippe Loward Austrian EUREKA National
  Project Co-ordinator
• Christian Hopp Legal and financial matters of
  EU RTD

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Your personal eNewsletter

• BIT Infoservicefor taylormade information onup
  to date developments ofEuropean RTD cooperation
• BIT Infoservice www.bit.ac.at

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Establishing contact
Prof. Manfred Horvat Director Tel 43 1
26013-114 (-109) Fax [phone]
(-18) horvat_at_bit.ac.at or name_at_bit.ac.at http//ww
w.bit.ac.at