ERC National contact points Services

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ERC National contact points Services

• ERC Information day Starting Grant
• 9 July 2008 - Eva de Bruijne

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Presentation content

• What is a National Contact Point?
• National Contact Points in The Netherlands
• Target group
• Collaboration
• NCP Services for Researchers
• NCP Services for Liaison officers, VSNU, other
  Stakeholders
• Beyond NCP Services
• - Where to find us....

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What is a National Contact Point (NCP)?

• National Contact Point Network in general
• Network to provide guidance, practical
  information and assistance on all aspects of
  participation in Seventh Framework Programme.
• ERC National Contact Point Network
• Set up by the European Commission and in direct
  contact with ERC administrators
• ERC NCP meetings at ERC Input and knowledge
  sharing on
• Practical issues
• Programme structure
• Programme content
• Communication promotion
• Advising researchers

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ERC National Contact Points in the Netherlands

• EG-Liaison / Senter Novem
• - Providing NCP services for already 25 years
• - 25 advisors (different fields)
• NWO (Netherlands Organisation for Scientific
  Research)
• - Advice on national funding of research
• - Increase scientific excellence and renewal
  encourage knowledge dissemination

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ERC National Contact Points Target groups

• Researchers
• Liaison officers, policy makers at institutes,
  universities,
• companies
• Ministry of Education, Culture and Science (OCW)
• - Policy input Program Committee (PC) Ideas
• Association of Universities in the Netherlands
  (VSNU)
• - Promotion support advise
• - Knowledge sharing

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ERC National Contact Points - Collaboration

• At home
• NCP support Programme Committee delegate/s
• NCP works with VSNU, Liaison officers and other
  stakeholders
• EU-wide
• NCP works closely with ERC secretariat
• NCP cooperates with other NCPs in EU network

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ERC NCP Services for Researcher (1)

• General information
• - Provide general programme information by e-mail
  or phone on (e.g)
• Eligibility criteria Am I eligible?
• Grant schemes When is the call going to be
  published?
• Costs which costs are eligible in ERC grant?
• Evaluation how does the evaluation look like?
• Updated information on ERC programmes and schemes
  by
• Websites EG-Liaison and NWO
• E-mailings
• Newsletters Hypothese, RD in Europa
• Press releases
• NCP at EG-Liaison and NWO

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ERC NCP Services for Researcher (2)

• Advice
• Provide (personal, phone, e-mail) advice on
  Research proposal and project, e.g.
• Is it complete
• Does it fit evaluation criteria
• Is it clear
• Other formalities
• Technical, legal and financial advise
• NCP at EG-Liaison
• Training and presentations
• Presentations at Information days or in-house,
  fairs
• Trainings on preparing proposals,
  legal/financial issues
• NCP at EG-Liaison and NWO

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ERC NCP Services for Researcher (3)

• National Funding schemes
• Advice on National funding
• similarities, differences, overlap,
  formalities with regard to ERC funding on EU
  level and NWO funding on national level
• NCP at NWO

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ERC NCP Services for Liaison officers, VSNU and
other Stakeholders (1)

• General information
• - Provide general programme information by e-mail
  or phone on (e.g.)
• Same as for researchers
• (who is eligible, when will the call be
  published, whats the procedure)
• Updated information on ERC programmes and schemes
  by
• Same as for researchers
• (websites EG-Liaison and NWO, E-mailings,
  Newsletters, Press releases)
• NCP at EG-Liaison and NWO

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ERC NCP Services for Liaison officers, VSNU and
other Stakeholders (2)

• Advise
• Specific programme issues
• How to advise to researchers on (certain)
  guidelines, conditions, procedures
• Input to NCP
• Share experiences/difficulties with NCP
• Input for Program Committee ERC
• NCP at EG-Liaison and NWO

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ERC NCP Services for Liaison officers, VSNU and
other Stakeholders (3)

• Promotion
• Information days
• National Information day twice a year before
  publication of a new call
• - In house presentations / discussions
• On request at institutes, universities,
  companies, advising bodies
• Attending fairs
• On request at institutes, univesrsities,
  companies-
• - Trainings
• Prepare a proposal, interviews,
  legal/financial issues (EGL)
• NCP at EG-Liaison and NWO

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Beyond ERC NCP Services

• We do not
• - Give ERC funding
• - Write proposals
• Give advise on proposal content
• scientific part
• Give information about other proposals/competition
  
• beside ERC ltgt NWO Funding
• - Lobby for particular proposals
• - Administer submitted projects

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No IDEA who to contact?

• Andreja Zulim
• Bezuidenhoutseweg 78
• 2594 AX Den Haag
• Tel. [phone]
• E-mail erc_at_egl.nl
• www.senternovem.nl/eglideas

Eva de Bruijne Laan van Nieuw Oost Indië 300 2509
AC Den Haag tel.[phone] E-mail
erc_at_nwo.nl www.nwo.nl/erc
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