About ESF

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FP7 and the European Research Area  heard
anything !?" 
Patrick Bressler Head of Unit Physical and
Engineering Sciences at the European Science
Foundation NuPECC meeting Munich, June 22/23,
2007
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European science landscape
EMBO CERN ESO ESA
Research Institutes
Academies
ALLEA
PrivateFoundations
NationalFunding Organisations
UniversitiesEUA
COST
EC FP
HFSP
European Associations
ISE
Academia Europaea
Euroscience
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Basic Research Funding in Europe
FP 7 1 G/a
Open competition Scientific excellence
bottom up individual grants
Total 54 G/7a
gt 100 G/a

• EC
• Framework
• Program 7

NationalFunding Organisations
41 M/a
ERANETs
foresight bottom up networking multinational
top down, variable geometries European
competitiveness, employment, innovation new
technologies economic growth
bottom-up Scientific excellence National
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What is ESF

• 75 Member Organisations in 30 countries, beyond
  the European Union
• Research funding organisations
• Research performing organisations
• Academies

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About ESF

• ESF provides a common platform for
• our Member Organisations (MOs) in
• order to
• advance European research
• explore new directions for research at the
  European level
• Through its activities, ESF serves the
• needs of the European research
• community in a global context.

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Current Organisation
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Strategic Plan - Pillars

• Science Strategy
• Science Synergy
• Science Management

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Science Strategy

• Foresight and Policy Briefs
• Forward Looks
• INIF
• Member Organisations Fora
• Policy Briefing Reports
• Exploratory Workshops

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Forward Look
Series of workshops with foresighting
character. The state-of-the-art in 10 years and
what actions should be taken Expert
recommendations with an endorsement by the ESF
Governing Coiuncil
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Science Synergy

• Cooperation platform for
• MOs scientists
• ESF Research Networking Programmes (e.g., NES)
• ESF Research Conferences
• EUROCORES - European Collaborative Research

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EUROCORES Programme funding


Research inter-CRP funding
Individual Project IP-2
More IPs
More APs
Funding Agency B
Funding Agency C
Funding Agency A
Self funded
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Science Management close up

• ESF Expert Boards (Marine, Polar)
• MO representatives and policy makers,
  coordination joint-planning, Policy briefings,
• ESF office and administration
• ESF Expert Committees (ESSC, NuPECC, CRAF)
• Independent scientists, scientific advice,
  roadmap and foresight exercises,
• ESF office and administration

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About ESFWhats new

• ESF Tool kit (EUROCORES)
• EURYI - European Young Investigator Awards ending
• European CO-operation in the Field of Scientific
  and Technical Research (COST) renewed
• EuroBioFund
• Expert Committees
• Independent surveys

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Fundamental research in the European Research
Area?! Real Part
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Definitions

• European Research Area,
• Framework Programme 7
• European Research Council
• European Strategic Forum for Research
  Infrastructures (ESFRI)
• European Science Foundation
• How to do research?

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What is the European Research Area?

• In 2000, the EU decided to create the European
  Research Area (ERA) to
• enable researchers to benefit from world-class
  infrastructures and work with excellent networks
  of research institutions
• share, teach, value and use knowledge effectively
  for social, business and policy purposes
• optimize and open European, national and regional
  research programmes in order to support the best
  research throughout Europe and coordinate these
  programmes to address major challenges together
• enable Europe to contribute to global development
  and take a leading role in international
  initiatives to solve global issues.

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What is the European Research Area?

• Goals
• To enhance research careers in Europe, incite
  industry to invest more in European research
  contributing to the creation of sustainable
  growth and jobs in the EU.
• To become a central pillar of the EU 'Lisbon
  Strategy' for growth and jobs.
• Green paper (http//ec.europa.eu/research/era/con
  sultation-era_en.htmlgreenpaper)

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Framework Programme 7

• FP 7 (2007 2013) to implement ERA
• make Europe the knowledge-based "most dynamic
  competitive economy in the world"
• (Lisbon goals, 3 GDP etc).
• to bundle all research-related EU initiatives in
  reaching the goals of growth, competitiveness and
  employment along with a new Competitiveness and
  Innovation Framework Programme (CIP), Education
  and Training programmes, and Structural and
  Cohesion Funds for regional convergence and
  competitiveness

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Frame work Programme 7
FP7 2007 2013 Specific Programmes

Cooperation Collaborative research 32.4 G
Ideas Frontier Research 7.5 G
People Marie Curie Actions 4.8 G
Capacities Research Capacity 4.1 G
(RI 1.7 G)

JRC non-nuclear research
Euratom direct actions JRC nuclear research
Euratom indirect actions nuclear fusion and
fission research
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Framework Programme 7
Thematic Cooperation
Support will be implemented across all themes
through
Collaborative research projects (Collaborative
projects Networks of Excellence
Coordination/support actions)
International Cooperation
Coordination of non-Community research
programmes (ERA-NET ERA-NET Article 169)
Joint Technology Initiatives (Article 171)
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ERANETs, ERANETs
Coordination of national activities Networking
of national or regional programmes (ERA-NET,
ERANET) For Programme Managers Open calls for
proposals starting 2007 Coordination at
European level Coordination and cooperation
between Framework Programme and COST, EUREKA and
other programmatic and international
organisations (CERN, ESA, ESO, EMBL, ESRF, ILL
etc.)
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European Research Council
Objectives

• Reward the best researchers
• Researchers gain high European and international
  visibility
• Keep (young) researchers in Europe
• Favour brain gain and reverse brain drain
• Competition improves quality of research allows
  benchmarking
• High quality frontier research will stimulate
  early-stage industrial investment boost
  European share in IP and start-ups

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European Research Council
Two Funding Streams

• Two streams of activity are foreseen
• ERC Starting Independent Researcher Grant scheme
  (ERC Starting Grant)
• Call for proposals to be published in early 2007
• ERC Advanced Investigator Researcher Grant scheme
  (ERC Advanced Grant)
• Call for proposals at a later stage in 2007

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European Research Council
Initial structurefor ERC development
European CommissionDG Research
Scientific Council
Directorate SImplementationof the Ideas
programme

• S1 Strategic mattersand relations with the ScC
• S2 Management
• S3 Logistical support
• S4 Administration finance

ERC political negotiation
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European Strategic Forum for Research
Infrastructures (ESFRI)

• ESFRI - launched in April 2002. It brings
  together representatives of EU Member States and
  Associated States, appointed by Ministers in
  charge of Research, and one representative of the
  European Commission.
• The role of ESFRI is to support a coherent
  approach to policy-making on research
  infrastructures in Europe, and to act as an
  incubator for international negotiations about
  concrete initiatives.

ESFRI Roadmap of research infrastructures
(EUROHORCS/EC)
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Basic Research Funding in Europe
FP 7 1 G/a
Open competition Scientific excellence
bottom up individual grants
Total 54 G/7a
gt 100 G/a

• EC
• Framework
• Program 7

NationalFunding Organisations
41 M/a
ERANETs
foresight bottom up networking multinational
top down, variable geometries European
competitiveness, employment, innovation new
technologies economic growth
bottom-up Scientific excellence National
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PESC cooperation

• Examples
• EMRS/ESF materials, clean solar fuels
• CERC3/ERANET Chemistry cooperation
• ESF conference Research Integrity,
• CECAM/ECT
• Interdisciplinary new initiative workshop
  Synergy of new national light sources,
• FELs ERLs (user communities for IRUVX) FLASH,
  4GLS, Fermi_at_ELETTRA, Arc-en-ciel, BESSY-FEL,
  MAXlab IV, SLS
• Output Science Policy Briefing
• (science, education, societal value) and
• ESF-Forward Looks, other projects (FP7)

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PESC cooperation

• options
• ERANETs - EUROCORES
• INIF synergy of national nuclear physics
  facilities