Building a Europe of Knowledge

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Building a Europe of Knowledge

• Towards the Seventh Framework Programme2007-2013

MB - IFOAM, Brussels, October 20th 2006
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EU research the story so far

• 1952 ECSC treaty first projects started March
  1955
• 1957 Euratom treaty Joint Research Centre set
  up
• 1983 ESPRIT programme
• 1984 First Framework Programme (1984-1987)
• 1987 Single European Act science becomes a
  Community responsibility Second Framework
  Programme (1987-1991)
• 1990 Third Framework Programme (1990-1994)
• 1993 Treaty on European Union
• role of RTD in the enlarged EU
• 1994 Fourth Framework Programme (1994-1998)
• 1998 Fifth Framework Programme (1998-2002)
• 2000 European Research Area
• 2002 Sixth Framework Programme (2002-2006)
• 2005 Proposal for the Seventh Framework
  Programme (2007-2013 2007-2011 for Euratom)

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Inter-Institutional Debate

• April 2005 Commission proposals for FP7
• September 2005 Commission proposals for
  Specific Programmes
• November 2005 Competitiveness Council Partial
  General Approach agreed for FP7.
• December 2005, European Council agreement on
  financial perspectives
• December 2006 Commission proposal for Rules for
  Participation
• Spring 2006 Parliament over 1300 amendments
  submitted
• May 2006 Inter-institutional agreement on
  Financial Perspectives (FP7 total budget)
• May 2006 Commission amended proposals on FP7
  and Specific Programme
• May 2006 Competitiveness Council General
  Agreement on FP7 (including budget breakdown)
  Rules for Participation
• June 2006 Parliament vote on FP7
• June 2006 Commission amended proposals on FP7

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Towards the Seventh Framework Programme 2007-2013
(co-decision)
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FP7 Timetable
Commissions proposal Specific programmes
proposal First reading at EP Common position at
Council Second reading and approval at
EP Adoption First calls for proposals Launch
conference

• April 2005
• September 2005
• June 2006
• September 2006
• November 2006
• December 2006?
• Dec. 2006/Jan. 2007
• February 2007

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FP7 budget ( 54 582 million, current prices)
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Why increase the FP7 budget? (1)

• Tackle under-investment by exerting leverageon
  national and private investment
• Increase EU spending on RD 1.97 of GDP vs
  2.59 (US)
• Help leverage business RD (EU-wide projects,
  solutions and market)
• Encourage Member States

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Research filling the gapTotal expenditure on
RD, of GDP(EU-25 extrapolation based on RD
intensity targets put forward by Member States in
their respective National Reform Programmes)
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Why increase the FP7 budget? (2)

• Tackle fragmentation of research effort in the
  EUand enhance its efficiency and effectiveness
• Achieve critical mass, share knowledge and
  facilities
• Better dissemination across the EU
• More excellence through EU-wide competition
• Less fragmentation through stronger coordination

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Why increase the FP7 budget? (3)

• Widen the scope of the FP
• Launch essential new initiatives
• Reinforce existing successful actions
• Help to meet new ST challenges
• Rising costs of research mean that higher funding
  is neededto produce same impacts
• New research fields are emerging (hydrogen
  economy, etc.)

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Why increase the FP7 budget? (4)

• Reinvigorate the Lisbon Strategy
• Objective to become the most dynamic
  knowledge-based economy
• Supports the integration and attractiveness of
  the ERA
• Contributes to increased competitiveness
• Contributes to sustainable development

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Lisbon strategy
ST contributes to the Lisbon objectives
economic growth, employment creation,
environmental protection, social challenges
fight poverty, improve human health and quality
of life(GSM, remote working, safe roads, etc.)
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Why research at European level?

• Pooling and leveraging resources
• Resources are pooled to achieve critical mass
• Leverage effect on private investments
• Interoperability and complementarity of big
  science
• Fostering human capacity and excellence in ST
• Stimulate training, mobility and career
  development of researchers
• Improve ST capabilities
• Stimulate competition in research
• Better integration of European RD
• Create scientific base for pan-European policy
  challenges
• Encourage coordination of national policies
• Effective comparative research at EU-level
• Efficient dissemination of research results

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RD European weaknesses
Note (1) 2000 data (2) 2002 data (3) 2003 data
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Whats new?

• Main new elements compared to FP6
• Duration increased from five to seven years
• except for Euratom FP
• Annual budget increased significantly
• Basic research ( 1 billion per year)
• New structure cooperation, ideas, people,
  capacities
• Flexible funding schemes
• Joint Technology Initiatives
• Simpler procedures
• Logistical and administrative tasks external
  structures

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Simplification of procedures

• Objectives
• Eliminate procedures, rules and requests with no
  added value
• Cut the number of requests to participants
• Avoid red tape and increase user-friendliness
• Reduce delays
• Principles
• Rationalisation of all procedures
• Communication
• Strike a new balance between risk and control to
  provide
• Greater trust
• Increased risk-taking

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Management

• Increased FP budget No increase in
  Commission staff
• Need new structures to manage the increase
• Externalise part of the FP management to
  executive agencies for the first time

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Preparation of Work Programmes

• Annual process
• Following consultation and expert advice
• Advisory Groups
• European Technology Platforms
• Open consultations
• Workshops, expert meetings, etc
• Consultation with other Commission directorate
  generals
• Subject to opinion by Programme Committees
  (Member State representatives)

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FP7 2007 2013 Specific Programmes
Cooperation Collaborative research
Ideas Frontier Research
People Marie Curie Actions
Capacities Research Capacity

JRC non-nuclear research
Euratom direct actions JRC nuclear research
Euratom indirect actions nuclear fusion and
fission research
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Cooperation Collaborative Research
Nine themes

• Health
• Food, agriculture and biotechnology
• Information and communication technologies
• Nanosciences, nanotechnologies, materialsand new
  production technologies
• Energy
• Environment (including climate change)
• Transport (including aeronautics)
• Socio-economic sciences and the humanities
• Security and space
• Euratom Fusion energy research, nuclear
  fissionand radiation protection

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FP7 2007-2013 Cooperation budget
Budget


( million,
I. Cooperation

current prices)

1. Health

5

984

2. Food, agriculture and biotechnology

1

935

3. Information and communication technologies

9

110

4. Nanotechnologies, materials and
3

467

production

5. Energy

2

265

6. Environment

1

886

7. Transport

4

18
0

8. Socio
-
economic research

607

9. Security and space

2

858
Total

32 292

Not including non
-
nuclear activities of the Joint Research Centre
1

751 million

More on the budget
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2. Food, Agriculture and Biotechnology

• Sustainable production and management of
  biological resources from land, forest, and
  aquatic environments
• Fork to farm Food, health and well being
• Life sciences and biotechnology for sustainable
  non-food products and processes

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The European Knowledge-Based Bioeconomy
QUALITY ASSURANCE STRATEGIES, TRACEABILITY,
CONSUMER SCIENCE
STABILITY BIODEGRADABILITY FUNCTIONALITY
(Chirality)
SOCIETAL NEEDS
Life sciences biotechnology for sustainable
non- food products processes
Fork to FarmFood, health and well-being
WHITE BIOTECH CLEAN BIOPROCESSES RAW
MATERIALS/WASTE
ADVANCED FOOD TECHNOLOGIES, FOOD QUALITY
DETERMINANTS, NUTRITION
PROCESSING
GREEN/BLUE BIOTECH OPTIMISED RAW MATERIALS
LOW INPUT FARMING - BIODIVERSITY ANIMAL HEALTH -
RURAL DEVT.
PRODUCTION
Sustainable production and management of
biological resources from land, forest, and
aquatic environments
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Food, agriculture and biotechnology research
Objectives

• Build a European Knowledge-Based Bio-Economy
  (KBBE)
• Respond to social and economic challenges
• High quality food and sustainable food production
• Food-related disorders (cardiovascular, obesity
  )
• Infectious animal diseases and zoonoses
• Sustainable agriculture/fishery and climate
  change
• Clean biomaterials from renewable bio-resources
• Involve all stakeholders (incl. industry) in
  research
• Support CAP and CFP
• Respond quickly to emerging research needs

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Food, agriculture and biotechnology research
Rationale

• Biotechnology and food companies/SMEs need to be
  competitive on the world market (European
  Strategy on Life Sciences and Biotechnology)
• Society demands safer and healthier food
• Renewable resources and biomass for non-food
  applications helps reducing dependence on
  hydrocarbon-based economy
• Society demands sustainable and eco-efficient
  production methods in agriculture/fishery/forestry
  
• International cooperation ensures optimal
  exploitation of resources and application of
  results

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1) Sustainable production and management of
biological resources from land, forest, and
aquatic environment

• Activities
• Enabling research (omics, converging
  technologies, biodiversity) for micro-organism,
  plants and animals
• Improved crops and production systems incl.
  organic farming
• Sustainable, competitive and multifunctional
  agriculture, forestry and rural development
• Animal welfare, breeding and production
• Infectious diseases in animals, including
  zoonoses
• Policy tools for agriculture and rural development

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2) Fork to farm Food, health and well-being

• Activities
• Consumer, societal, industrial and health
  aspectsof food and feed
• Nutrition, diet-related diseases and disorders
• Innovative food and feed processing
• Improved quality and safety of food, beverage and
  feed
• Total food chain concept
• Traceability

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3) Life sciences and biotechnologyfor
sustainable non-food products and processes

• Activities
• Improved crops, feed-stocks, marine products and
  biomass for energy, environment, and
  high-added-value industrial products novel
  farming systems
• Bio-catalysis new bio-refinery concepts and
  other bioprocesses
• Forestry and forest-based products and processes
• Environmental remediation and cleaner processing

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Funding Schemes, General principles

• Programme decisions and calls will mention
• The type(s) of scheme(s) used for different
  actions
• The eligible participants
• The eligible types of activity
• Work programmes may specify the scheme usedfor
  each element of the call

More on Funding
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Funding Schemes (1)

• Collaborative projects
• Consortia with participants from different
  countries
• New knowledge, technology, products or common
  resourcesfor research
• Size, scope and internal organisation of projects
  can vary
• Networks of Excellence
• Joint programmes by organisations integrating
  activitiesin a given field
• Longer term co-operation
• Formal commitment to integrate resources

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Funding Schemes (2)

• Coordination and support actions
• Networking, exchanges, trans-national access to
  research infrastructures, studies, conferences,
  etc.
• Individual projects
• Training and career development of researchers
• Research for the benefit of specific groups(in
  particular SMEs)
• Generally based on calls for proposals

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Funding Schemes (3)

• Large-scale multi-financed initiatives
• Joint implementation of national research
  programmesArticle 169
• Joint Technology Initiatives Article 171
• New infrastructures of European interest

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More information

• EU research website http//ec.europa.eu/research
  /
• EU Agricultural research
• http//ec.europa.eu/research/agriculture/index_en
  .html
• Seventh Framework Programme http//ec.europa.eu/r
  esearch/fp7
• Information on research programmes and projects
  http//www.cordis.lu/
• RTD info magazine http//ec.europa.eu/research/rt
  dinfo/

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Thank you for your attention!

• European Commission
• Directorate-General for Research
• Directorate E.4 - Agriculture, Forests, Fisheries
• Aquaculture