Whats new

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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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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
Ten themes

• Health
• Food, agriculture and fisheries, 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
• Space
• Security
• Euratom Fusion energy research, nuclear
  fissionand radiation protection

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Potential Joint Technology Initiatives
Hydrogen and Fuel Cells
Aeronautics and Air Transport
Global Monitoring for Environment and Security
Embedded Computing Systems
Innovative Medicines
Nanoelectronics
Other possible themesto be identified later
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Coordination of non-Community research programmes
(1)

• Coordination of national and regional programmes
  actions will use the tools
• ERA-NET
• ERA-NET PLUS
• Article 169
• May cover subjects beyond the ten themes
• Coordination with European programmes
• Addresses principally intergovernmental
  structures such as EUREKA, COST, EIROFORUM, etc.

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Coordination of non-Community research programmes
(2)

• ERA-NET scheme in FP7
• Close links with FP7 research priorities (NEW!)
• Implemented under Cooperation and Capacities
  (NEW!)
• In addition, support for actions of a horizontal
  nature or not directly linked to Cooperation or
  Capacities

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Coordination of non-Community research programmes
(3)

• ERA-NET
• Like in FP6 Coordination of programmes
• MS agree and fund joint calls/programmes
• EU funding only for coordination
• ERA-NET Plus
• New in FP7 To up of a single joint call
• MS contribute to a joint trans-national call 2/3
• EU funding for research 1/3 of the joint call
• Art. 169
• Full integration of national programmes
• Scientific and financial strong EU funding
• Single implementing structure

Metrology
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Ideas Frontier Research (1)

• Establish European Research Council (ERC) the
  first pan-European funding agency for Frontier
  Research
• Budget 1bn p.a. (2007-2013 7.46)
• Autonomous scientific governance (Scientific
  Council)
• Support projects of individual teams
• Support investigator-driven frontier research
  over all areas of research
• Excellence as sole criterion
• Simple, user-friendly
• European added-value through competition at
  European level

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Ideas Frontier Research (2)

• ERC Starting Grant
• support researchers at the start of their
  independent research career and establishing or
  consolidating their own independent research team
  (or research programme)
• provide a structure for transition from working
  under a supervisor to an independent research
  leader
• 100 000 400 000 per year
• for up to 5 years, i.e. 500 000 - 2 000 000
  per Grant
• 300M per call ( ? of ERC annual budget,
  annual calls)
• 200 Starting Grants per year, 1200 Starting
  Grants over
• 7 years of FP7 (2007-2013)

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Ideas Frontier Research (3)

• ERC Advanced Grant
• Designed to support excellent investigator-initiat
  ed research projects by established independent
  research leaders
• Complement the ERC Starting Grant scheme by
  targeting researchers who have already
  established their
• independence as team leaders
• 100 000- 500 000 per year
• for up to 5 years, i.e. 500 000 - 2 500 000
  per grant
• 600M per call (? of ERC annual budget, annual
  calls)
• 300 Advanced Grants per year

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Ideas Frontier Research (4)

• ERC budget 2007-2013
• Total (FP7 Ideas budget) 7.51 bn
• 1/3 Starting Grants, 2/3 Advanced Grants
• Less than 5 for operational ERC management
• 1st Call StG only, Jan 2007, 300 Mio. April
  25, 2007
• Budget allocated to three areas (Physical
  Sciences Engineering 45, Biological Life
  Sciences 40, Social Scineces Humanities
  15)
• 2nd Call AdG only, August 2007, 550 Mio.
• 3rd call onwards StG AdG 1.0 bn per year

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People Marie Curie Actions

• Initial training of researchers
• Marie Curie Networks
• Life-long training and career development
• Individual Fellowships
• Co-financing of regional/national/international
  programmes
• Industry-academia pathways and partnerships
• Industry-Academia Knowledgesharing Scheme
• International dimension
• Outgoing Incoming International Fellowships
• International Cooperation Scheme
• Reintegration grants
• Support to researcher diasporas
• Specific actions
• Mobility and career enhancement actions
• Excellence awards

Open to third-country nationals
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Capacities Research Capacity

• Research infrastructures
• Research for the benefit of SMEs
• Regions of Knowledge
• Research Potential
• Science in Society
• Coherent development of policies
• Activities of International Cooperation

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1. Research Infrastructures

• Support to existing research infrastructures
• Integrating activities
• Research e-infrastructures
• Support to new research infrastructures
• Construction of new research infrastructures and
  major updates of existing ones
• Design studies

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7. Activities of International Cooperation

• Horizontal support actions and measures not
  carried out in the Cooperation or People
  programmes

Two interdependent objectives
Support competitiveness through strategic
partnerships with third countries in selected
fields
Address specific problems that third countries
face or that have a global character, on the
basis of mutual interest and mutual benefit
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JRC Research-based policy support

• Five policy themes for FP7
• Sustainable growth
• Conservation and management of natural resources
• Citizenship
• External responsibility and global security
• Euratom programme

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FP7 budget ( 50 521 million, current prices)

• Note Euratom FP 2.7 billion over 5 years -
  not included above

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Information

• EU research http//ec.europa.eu/research
• Seventh Framework Programme http//ec.europa.eu/r
  esearch/fp7
• Information on research programmesand projects
  http//cordis.europa.eu/
• RTD info magazine http//ec.europa.eu/research/rt
  dinfo/
• Information requests http//ec.europa.eu/researc
  h/enquiries/

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What to do?

• Read the Work Programmes identify your
  research field
• Find the relevant calls
• Read the Guide of Applicants
• Look for partners (search/submit profiles)
• Start preparing the project
• Ask for support (local, NCP)
• Register as un Expert
• ICTP-Trieste
• JRC