Overview of EU Funding for Energy R

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Overview of EU Funding for Energy RD FP6

• Claire Ball
• DTI

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Overview of EU Funding for Energy RD FP6

• Brief history of energy funding in the Framework
  Programmes
• Overview and results from FP6
• FP requirements
• Achieving success in the FP
• Support to projects
• Look ahead to FP7

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Total Framework Programme (FP) Budgets M
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Non-nuclear Energy Budgets M
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Sustainable Energy Systems in FP6

• Short-medium term - DG TREN
• Mostly demonstration dissemination shorter
  term research
• Renewables
• Energy efficiency/savings technologies
• Medium-long term - DG Research
• Mostly research integrated activities
• Cost competitiveness of new and renewable energy
  sources, energy carriers and energy technologies

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Results - Energy in FP6

• Overall success rate was 1 in 4.2
• There were 271 successful proposals
• 8.5 of successful proposals had a UK
  co-ordinator (23 proposals)
• 47 of successful proposals had a UK participant

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Results - Energy in FP6

• 860M was allocated to successful proposals
• 11.5 of the funding was allocated to UK
  participants (99.5M)

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FP6 Results UK Strengths Weaknesses

• Strengths
• CO2 capture/storage
• Polygeneration
• Thematic promotion and dissemination
• Hydrogen/fuel cells

• Weaknesses
• Renewable supply
• Renewables integration
• Grid issues

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The requirements of the FP

• To be eligible for FP funding projects need to
• Fit into one of the areas defined in the Work
  Programme (published by the Commission to direct
  research)
• Involve European collaboration. Most projects
  require representation from 3 different member
  states
• Be innovative, taking research beyond the state
  of the art
• All legal entities are eligible to participate.
• Shared cost research so match funding is required.

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Achieving success in the FP

• FP is very competitive and requires the
  submission of high quality proposals
• We suggest that organisations that are new to the
  FP are participants first rather than
  co-ordinators.
• Essential to address all the evaluation criteria
• Discuss ideas with the Commission and with
  support networks (e.g. NCPs, IRCs)

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Evaluation criteria

• Scientific and technological excellence and
  degree of innovation
• Efficient management, sufficient resources and
  competences
• Relevance to the objectives of the specific
  programme
• European added value and contribution to
  Community policies
• Quality of the plan for use and dissemination of
  the knowledge

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Support to projects

• Projects are managed by the co-ordinating
  organisation (no involvement from government)
• Match funding is sourced by the projects.
  Sources include, UK central/local government
  funding (within State Aid rules), private
  investment, investment by the participating
  organisations
• Support to projects from UK government is
  provided at the proposal preparation stage

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Energie Helpline UK Services

• Telephone and email helpline 9am to 5.30pm
  weekdays
• Quarterly newsletter Energie Focus
• Website www.energiehelpline.co.uk
• Information Days, Workshops
• Proposal review
• Evaluation of results and statistics

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Introduction to FP7

• Funds collaborative research
• Creating new knowledge
• Developing the European Research Area
• Improve competitiveness
• Resolve societal issues

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FP7 Overview

• Currently being negotiated
• Will run from 2007-2013
• First calls in early 2007 (projected)
• More information at www.cordis.lu/fp7

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FP7 structure

• 4 Programmes
• Co-operation (32B) Collaborative RD
• Ideas (7.5B) Frontier research
• People (4.6B) Training and mobility
• Capacities (4.2B) Research infrastructures

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Co-operation 9 themes

• Health (19 of budget)
• Food, agriculture and biotechnology (6)
• ICT (28)
• Nanosciences, Technologies, Materials and New
  Production Tech. (11)

• Energy (7)
• Environment (6)
• Transport (13)
• Socio-economic Sciences and the Humanities (2)
• Security and Space (8)

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Energy in FP7Budget - 2.3billion

• Hydrogen and fuel cells
• Renewable electricity generation
• Renewable fuel production
• CO2 capture storage
• Clean coal technologies
• Smart energy networks
• Energy efficiency and savings
• Energy policy/socio-economic tools