FP7"Cooperation", Theme 2 : "Food, Agriculture

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FP7-"Cooperation", Theme 2 "Food,
Agriculture Fisheries, and Biotechnology"
"BIO" alias "FAFB" alias "KBBE"
European Research 7th Framework Programme
(2007-2013)
Rafael GARCIA-VILLAR Research Director "BIO NCP"
(National Contact Point) 33 5 61 28 51
51 rgarciav_at_toulouse.inra.fr
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7th Framework-Programme (FP.7)

• FP.7 is now in progress...
• Start of reflections early 2004
• Commission's proposals 2005
• Adoption (Co-decision Council/Parliament) 18 Dec.
  2006
• First thematic calls published 22 december 2006
• FP.7 is planned for 7 years (2007-2013)
• Financial perspectives of EU
• Mid-term revision foreseen (2009-10)
• Budget markedly increased (40) / FP.6
• FP.6 18 Billion for 4 years (4.5 / year)
• FP.7 50.521 Billion for 7 years (7.2 /
  year)
• FP.7 covers 4 major objectives of EU research
  policy, each of which supported by its own
  specific programme

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Specific Programmes published by EC in september
2005
"Cooperation" Collaborative research
"Ideas" "Frontier" research (ERC)
4 Specific Programmes EC
"People" Human Potential (Marie Curie)
"Capacities" Research Innovation (SMEs etc.)

JRC (non-nuclear)
JRC Euratom
JRC (nuclear)
Euratom
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Indicative budget breakdown for FP.7 specific
programmes
Ideas 15 7 460 M
People 10 4 728 M
Cooperation 63 32 365 M
Capacities 8 4 217 M
total budget 50, 521 B (agreement as of july
2006)
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"Cooperation" Specific Programme 10 "Themes"
6 050 M
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1. Health
1 935 M
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2. Food, Agriculture Fish., Biotechnology
9 110 M
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3. Information Communication Technologies
3 500 M
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4. Nanosci. Nanotech. Mat. New Prod. Tech.
2 300 M
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5. Energy
1 900 M
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6. Environment (incl. climate changes)
4 180 M
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7. Transport (incl. aeronautics)
610 M
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8. Socio-Economic Sciences Humanities
1 350 M
4.5
9. Security
1 430 M
10. Space
4.5
Total programme 32.365 B
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"Cooperation" Programme, Theme 2 Food,
Agriculture Fisheries, Biotechnology

• 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 EU policies (CAP, CFP...)
• Respond quickly to emerging research needs

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"Cooperation" Programme, Theme 2 Food,
Agriculture Fisheries, Biotechnology
The 3 "Activities"
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Sustainable production and management of
biological resources from land, forest, and
aquatic environments
2.1

• Areas
• 2.1.1 Enabling research on drivers of
  sustainability of bio resources
• micro-organisms, plants and animals
• "...omics" technologies, biodiversity, bioactive
  molecules, systems biology, bioinformatics,
  databases...
• 2.1.2 Increased sustainability, decreasing
  environmental impacts
• agriculture, forestry, fishery aquaculture,
  rural devel
• new technologies, whole ecosystem approach, low
  input organic agriculture, GM co-existence and
  traceabilty...
• 2.1.3 Optimised animal health production
  welfare
• new breeding methods, exploitation of physiol.
  genetics knowledge
• preventing animal disease zoonoses, vaccines,
  diagnostics...
• 2.1.4 Socio-economic research support to
  policies
• agriculture, fishery, rural development ...
• KBBE (Knowledge-Based Bio-Economy)

Top!...
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• Areas
• 2.2.1 Consumers Understanding consumers
  behavior
• For competitiveness of food industry
• Determine the impact of food on health
• 2.2.2 Nutrition Understanding dietary factors
  and habits
• To prevent diet-related diseases disorders
• Nutrigenomics, interactions nutrition / physio
  psycho functions
• 2.2.3 Food processing Optimising innovation in
  EU food industry
• Advanced technol. for traditional food production
• Functional food, packaging, by-product waste
  management
• 2.2.4 Food Quality Safety chemical
  microbiological
• Understand links microbial ecology/food-feed
  safety,
• New detection methods, risk assessment,
  management, communication
• 2.2.5 Environmental impacts and total food chain
• Protecting both human health the environment

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Life sciences and biotechnology for sustainable
non-food products and processes
2.3

• Areas
• 2.3.1 Improved biomass plant-based renewables
• application in energy industry
• genomics metabolomics for optimized conversion
  of raw materials to high added value bio-products
• analysis of farming practices
• 2.3.2 Bioprocesses industrial biotechnologies
  (crop forest biomass)
• bio-refinery, bio-catalysis
• understanding control plant microbial
  metabolism, cell/molec levels
• 2.3.3 Environmental biotechnologies waste
  by-products
• wood wood-products
• maximising economic value of waste and
  by-products

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Novelty or continuity vs. FP.6 ?

• Continuity
• Activity 2 Food, health well-being
• continuity of FP6 TP.5" (...consumers,
  nutrition, health...)
• Novelty (or back to the origins..?..)
• Activity 1 Sustainable production... biological
  resources...
• Activity 3 ...biotechnology for sustainable
  non-food products...
• "topics" funded in part in FP4/FP5 BIOTECH, FAIR,
  QoL, (non-food biomass, sustainable agricult,
  cell factory...)
• in FP6, scattered efforts, not sufficent critical
  mass (activities under "materials", "energy",
  "environment"), no synergies...
• European Technology Platforms (ETP)
• to coordinate european research
• in key technological sectors.

New!...
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European Technology Platforms...back to a
sectorial approach of research...

• Objective strengthen public/private partnership
  (PPP)
• research organisations, industries SMEs,
  financial institutions, end-users, policy
  makers...
• Actions create industry-driven european
  technology platforms gathering the relevant
  stakeholders for key-technologies,
• develop a long-term common vision of the field
• build a strategic research programme
• implement this programme (private public funds
  FP7, other EU...)
• Process in 3 phases "encouraged" by EC
• phase 1 "Vision Paper" (VP) (10-20-30 year),
  industry leadership
• phase 2 "Strategic Research Agenda" (SRA)
• phase 3 "Implementation Action Plan" (IAP)

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The ETPs of the KBBE sectors (1)
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The ETPs of the KBBE sectors (2)
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Joint Technology Initiatives (JTI - Art.171)
Hydrogen and Fuel Cells for a Sustainable
Energy Future
Global monitoring for Environment Security
Aeronautics Air Transport
Towards new Nanoelectronics Approaches
Innovative Medicines for the Citizens of Europe
Embedded systems
...but none so far in the KBBE sector
Other themes could be identified in the future,
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FP7 "Funding schemes" (formerly FP6
"Instruments"...)

• To support actions implemented on the basis of
• 1. Calls for proposals ...in theme 2...
• Collaborative projects (Large (3-6 M) Small (lt
  3 M) CPs)
• Networks of Excellence (NoEs 3-6 M)
• Coordination support actions (CSAs, lt 1 M)
• ERA-Net, ERA-Net plus...
• ...but also... (outside theme 2)
• Individual projects (ERC)
• Fellowships (Marie Curie)
• Research projects for third parties (e.g.
  SMEs...)
• 2. Decisions by Council and European Parliament
• Art. 169
• Joint Technology Initiatives (JTI - Art.171)
• Development of new infrastructures of European
  interest

New in the WP!...
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The "KBBE" workprogramme a documentprepared by
Programme Committee published yearly by EC

• The 3 "Activities", divided in "Areas"
• A list of "Topics" open for the current "Call for
  proposals"
• For each topic
• number and title,
• description (short),
• "funding scheme" (project size),
• expected impact
• A list of indicative priorities/topics for future
  calls
• Implementation date of call publication,
  deadline(s), requirements for participation,
  evaluation procedure, budget, etc.

December 22nd, 2006
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The first CALLS for proposals... (KBBE-2007-1,
-2A, -2B...)
Workprogramme 2007
SCP Small Collaborative Projects (lt 3 M) LCP
Large Collaborative Projects (3 to 6 M) NoE
Networks of Excellence (3 to 6 M) CSA
Coordination Support Action (lt 1.0 M)
Workprogramme 2008
Workprogramme 2009
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KBBE-2007-2A 2B (Budget 2008)
Total Budget
Total Nof "Topics"
Funding Scheme ("Size")
Workprogramme 2007

• KBBE-2007-2A (closed!)
• Publication 15 June 2007
• 1st stage 11 sept. 2007
• 2nd stage 19 febr. 2008

110 M
21 LCP 2 NoE
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95 M

• KBBE-2007-2B (indicative)
• Publication 30 Nov 2007
• (draft on Cordis early Nov.)
• Single stage evaluation
• Deadline 26 Febr. 2008

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34 SCP 14 CSA
New!...
Workprogramme 2008
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Sustainability...
2.1

Area KBBE-2A (40 M)
indic. KBBE-2B (48 M)
(total 22 "topics")
see "Workprogramme" for details on topics
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Area KBBE-2A (40 M)
indic. KBBE-2B (26 M)
(total 12 "topics")
see "Workprogramme" for details on topics
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Bio... for ... non-food...
2.3
Area KBBE-2A (30 M) indic.
KBBE-2B (22 M)
(total 14 topics)
see "Workprogramme" for details on topics
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KBBE Calls Roadmap

• ---2006
• 22 Dec. Publication of Workprogramme 2007
• First CALL (KBBE-2007-1) open for proposals
• ---2007
• 2 May KBBE-1 closed (single stage evaluation)
• 15 June KBBE-2A publication (LCP NoE 2
  stage evaluation)
• July-Oct Results of KBBE-1 ("start of
  negociations phase")
• 11 Sept. KBBE-2A deadline 1st stage (20 page
  document)
• evaluation process (until approx. Nov. 2007)
• and, if success, invitation to submit full
  proposal
• 30 Nov. KBBE-2B publication (SCP CSA
  single stage eval.)
• call open for 3 months
• ---2008
• 26 Febr. KBBE-2A 2nd stage deadline
• KBBE-2B deadline (single stage eval.)

New!...
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How to improve the success rate ?

• Do not stay alone - do not "cultivate" secrecy -
  get help
• Look for synergies - in your country the rest
  of Europe
• Take the "Leadership" - whenever possible
• Co-ordination of the project, or of a
  work-package...
• Strong presence in the management group, in
• Remember
• Your project shall answer as comprehensively as
  possible to the description of the topic written
  in the Workprogramme.
• Be "reader-friendly" proposal written in a
  clear and legible fashion (avoid jargon,
  evaluators are not specialists)
• Read the Guidelines for appicants for
  evaluators - Give them what they want !!!
• http//cordis.europa.eu/fp7/

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What else can we do now ?(research organization,
agro-industry, government...)

• Contribute to future workprogrammes (New
  topics...)
• Collaborate with Programme Committee mirror
  groups in each country (Delegates
  stakeholders...)
• Participate in ETP working groups
  (Implementation...)
• Apply for nomination to ad-hoc committees (EURAB,
  Euragri, SCAR, AESA...)
• Volunteer to be an evaluator (EC experts
  database) https//cordis.europa.eu/emmfp7/

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FP7-"Cooperation", Theme 2 "Food,
Agriculture Fisheries, and Biotechnology"
"BIO" alias "FAFB" alias "KBBE"
European Research 7th Framework Programme
(2007-2013)
Rafael GARCIA-VILLAR Research Director "BIO NCP"
(National Contact Point) 33 5 61 28 51
51 rgarciav_at_toulouse.inra.fr