International Conference on Material Science

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International Conference on Material Science
Engineering BRAMAT 2007

• Intensive program for Transfer of Knowledge to
  Eastern European Reference Pole for Micro- and
  Nanotechnologies NANOTEC-EST
• Opportunities for Romanian research teams for
  participation in FP 7 programs in the field of
  nanomaterials
• Brasov, 22-24 February 2007
• Professor Aurelia Meghea
• University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest, Romania,
• e-mail a_meghea_at_chim.upb.ro

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FP 7 - BUILDING THE EUROPE OF KNOWLEDGE 2007
2013 Launching April 2007

• Triangle of knowledge
• research
• education
• innovation
• Three categories of initiatives on 2007-2013
• new generation of Education and Training program
• new structural funds for transition to knowledge
  economy
• competitiveness and innovation

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FP 7 - MAJOR OBJECTIVES -SPECIFIC PROGRAMS

• COOPERATION - collaborative projects Modul
  IIII - networks to coordinate research
  programs
• IDEAS - to support investigator-driven
  frontier research
• PEOPLE - Marie Curie actions for - Modul
  II skills and career development
• CAPACITIES - research infrastructures - Modul IV
• - for benefit of SMEs
• - regions of knowledge
• - research potential
• - Science and society
• - International co-operation

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7th FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME 2007-2013

• New features of FP7 include
• Longer duration (7 years)
• Large increase in annual budget (from 4,500 to
  7,000M)
• Integration of International co-operation into
  all four programmes
• Simplification of operation
• Focus on developing research that meets the needs
  of European industry, through the work of
  Technology Platforms and the new Joint Technology
  Initiatives
• Establishment of a European Research Council,
  funding European research on the sole basis of
  excellence

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FINANCIAL SCHEMES IN FP 7

• Collaborative projects - small (3 mil Eur)
• - large (6-12
  mil Eur)
• Network of excellence
• Individual projects Frontier research
• Coordinative Actions/Support Actions
• Research projects involving SMEs
• Individual Fellowships
• Art.169 - Projects related to national programs
• Art. 171 Related technology initiative, New
  research infrastructure

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FP7 (EC) Budget
CO-OPERATION 32413 -Health 6100 -Food,
Agriculture and Biotechnology 1935
-Information and Communication Technologies 9050
-Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and
new Production Technologies 3475
-Energy 2350 -Environment (including
Climate Change) 1890 -Transport (including
Aeronautics) 4160 -Socio-economic Sciences and
Humanities 623 -Space 1430 -Security
1400 IDEAS (European Research Council)
7510 PEOPLE 4750 CAPACITIES
4097 JRC 1751
50521 M
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COOPERATIONSCIENTIFIC PRIORITIES - FP7

• 1. Health
• 2. Food, agriculture and biotechnology
• 3. Information and communication technologies
• 4. Nanosciences and nanotechnologies, materials
  and new production technologies
• 5. Energy
• 6. Environment and climate change
• 7. Transport
• 8. Socio-economic sciences and the humanities
• 9. Space and Security

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IDEAS ERC GRANT SCHEME

• European Research Council ERC
• - newly-created pan-European funding
  organisation
• - designed to support the best scientists,
  engineers, scholars
• - mandate to encourage the excellence research
  by competitive funding
• - to support investigator-initiated frontier
  research across all the fields of research
• - emerging fields and high-risk, high-gain
  proposals are encouraged

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ERC GRANT SCHEMESCALL ERC-2007-StG

• 1. ERC Starting Independent Research Grant
  25.04.07
• 289500000 Eur
• - Young researchers 2-8 after PhD title
• - Leading their first independent research
  team
• - Able to demonstrate their potential to
  become independent research leaders
• 2. ERC advanced Investigator Grant Call to be
  launched in mid 2007
• - Aims to encourage and support excellent,
  innovative and investigator-initiated research
  projects
• - Well established independent research
  leaders

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WHO CAN APPLY FOR AN ERC GRANT

• Individual teams headed by a single Principal
  investigator PI
• Principal Investigator can be of any age,
  nationality or country of residence
• Hosting institution (HI) university, research
  organisation, research performing company
• HI will grant the PI the independence to direct
  the project and manage the research funding
• PI is not necessarilly to be employed by the HI
  at the time when the proposal is submitted
• Team is flexible - may involve members from the
  same organisation or from other research
  organisations, in the same or different country,
  of any age, nationality or country residence

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TIPICAL SIZE OF AN ERC GRANT

• ERC Starting Grants
• Last up to 5 years
• Provide 100000-400000Eur/year Total 0.5-2.0
  million Eur/grant
• ERC Advanced Grants
• Last up to 5 years
• Provide 100000-500000Eur/year Total 0.5-2.5
  million Eur/grant
• Scientific excellence is the sole selection
  criterion!!!!!!

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KEY FEATURES OF ERC STARTING GRANT APPLICATION
PROCEDURE

• Two-stage application/evaluation procedure
• - 1 stage Outline proposal max 8 pages
• - 2 stage Full proposal max 16 pages
• Essential components of an ERG grant application
• a) CV self-evaluation of PIs research
  achievement funding ID
• b) Brief description of scientific and
  technical aspects of the project proposal
• c) Description of the scientific environment
  and resources
• Electronic submission via EPSS only, in English

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People Implementation 2007

• A 1 Initial training of Researchers ITN
• A 2 Life-long training and Career development
• - IEF Intra-European Fellowships
• - ERG European reintegration grant
• - COFUND Co-Funding of Regional, National
  and International programs
• A 3 Industry-Academia Partnerships and Pathways
  (IAPP)
• A 4 International dimension IOF, IIF, IRG
• A 5 Specific Actions Researchers Night (RN),
  Awards, Trans-national collab. among ERA-MORE
  members, Trans-national collab. among NCPs

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MARIE CURIE INITIAL TRAINING NETWORKSCALL
FP7-PEOPLE-2007-1-1-ITN 07.05.07

• General aspects
• ITN has been created on the past experience of
  RTNESR training
• Aims at improving the career perspectives of
  researchers in both public and private sectors
• Researchers are the first 5 years of research
  career
• Institutions universities, public and private
  research centres, companies, SMEs, spin-offs
• Undertake research in a joint research training
  programme
• The contracting organisations muttually recognise
  the quality of the training
• This sould contribute to the structuring effect
  on European research training capacities by
  establishing long term collaboration among the
  teams

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MARIE CURIE INITIAL TRAINING NETWORKSTYPES/SIZE/D
URATION/TOPIC

• Types
• - Multi-site at least 3 perticipants
  (possible outside Europe), max 10 new partners,
  not from already existing networks
• - Mono-site or twinnings
• Duration 4 years
• Topic bottom-up approach all fields of
  research of interest to EU, except area covered
  by EURATOM
• Eligible researchers
• - Early-stage researchers (ESR) first 4 years
  of their research career
• - Experienced researchers (ER) doctoral degree
  or at least 4 years of full- time equivalent
  research experience

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MARIE CURIE INITIAL TRAINING NETWORKSEXPERIENCED
RESEARCHERS

• ER within their 5 years of their career
• Visiting scientists (VS) of outstanding stature
  in international and collaborative research
• No ER gt No VS
• Transnational training only
• Duration of appointments
• - ESR 3-36 months
• - ER 3-24 months (in the first 5 years)
• - VS 1-24 months

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MARIE CURIE INITIAL TRAINING NETWORKSTIPICAL
ACTIVITIES OF AN ITN

• Training activities research, courses, seminars,
  summer schools, workshops, schools of thought,
  PhD programmes
• A personal career development plan
• Networking other training activities
• - organisation of scientific or managerial
  meetings
• - visits and secondments between participants
• - invitation of external experts for specialist
  input
• - attendance at interntional conferences and
  workshops for the representation and
  dissemination of networks research
• - electronic networking, email and video
  conferencing
• - collaboration with other ITNs for exchange
  best practice and transfer of knowledge
• - Organisation of a final network conference
  with participation of wider scientific community
  (300 Eur/day)
• - Romania coefficient for allowances - 0.56
  (from 0.55 in FP 6)!!!!!

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MARIE CURIE INDUSTRY-ACADEMIA PARTNERSHIP AND
PATHWAYS - IAPP

• Objective
• - to open and foster dynamic pathways between
  public research organisations and private
  commercial entreprises, in particular SMEs,
  including traditional manufacturing industries
• - based on longer term co-operation programmes
• - with a high potential for increasing
  knowledge-sharing and mutual understanding of
  different cultural settings and skills
  requirements of both sectors
• Eligible researchers
• - early-stage (at least 1 year full time
  equivalent emlpoied at the same institution)
  period 2 months 2 years
• - experienced researchers can include technical
  and research managerial staff
• - national inter-sectorial mpbility may be
  allowed lt 30

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SIMILAR ON-GOING PROJECTS FP 6

• ToK - Dev- NANOTEC - EST - Intensive Program for
  Transfer of Knowledge to Eastern European
  Reference Pole for Micro and Nanotechnologies
• PARTNERS
• University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest -
  Co-ordinator - Prof. Aurelia MEGHEA
• Commissariat a lEnergie Atomique - MINATEC -
  Grenoble
• Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse
• INEGI - Matosintos, Portugal
• Technische Universitat Darmstadt
• Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby
• Buehler GmbH
• Leibniz Institut IFW Dresden
• Technical University Delft

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ON-GOING PROJECTS

• ToK - NANOTEC - EST
• Areas of research, training and industrial
  valorization
• new nanostructured materials
• new intelligent miniaturized systems
• biophotonics lasers
• Training program
• in-going phase - training by European scientists
  - EME
• out-going phase - training own staff to the
  partners
• return phase - dissemination and reintegration

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Project FP 6 Marie Curie Transfer of Knowledge
ToK-IAP

• KnowEnTech Development of Strategic
  Academia-Industry Partnership in Romania for
  Knowledge Management in Environmetal Friendly
  Technologies
• Coordinator Prof. Aurelia MEGHEA
• Partners
• RO UPB, ICPE- Technologic Park, Optoelectronica
  S.A.
• GR Techn. Educ. Inst. W. Macedonia, Kozani
  Kikis S.A.
• FR Univ. Metz
• GE Dip.Ing.D.Diulescu, StrukturStrategy GmbH
• BE Cons. Eng. Liaison-Office Brussels CELOB,
• PT Lab. Nat. Engenharia Civil, LNEC Know Idea
  Consultants, KNICON,
• NL Zernike Group Holding BV- Technologic Park

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Project FP 6 Marie Curie Transfer of Knowledge
ToK-IAP

• Work packages
• Policies for sustainable development of SMEs area
• Managerial techniques for sustainable development
  of SMEs area
• Sustainable development environmental friendly
  technologies
• Training in complementary skills
• a_meghea_at_chim.upb.ro 3154193

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• Funding for Nanotechnology RD in FP7
• More than 50 activities in the calls opened in
  2007 are directly relevant
• Many more activities are indirectly relevant
  (e.g. in Health)
• 300-400M estimated in 2007
• Doubling of the FP6 funding expected over
  duration of FP7

Nanoscience
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Technology development
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Impact assessment and societal issues
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Nanomaterials
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Nanomaterials contd
Nanoelectronics
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Nanomedicine
NB Many more activities in the Health theme are
relevant to nanomedicine, e.g. imaging, stem
cells and translating research for human health
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Other Important Topics
Please consider also opportunities within COST
actions (funding for co-ordination
activities) http//www.cost.esf.org/
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Human Resources
Please consider also the opportunities in
educational programmes managed by DG
EAC http//ec.europa.eu/education/programmes/progr
ammes_en.html
Ideas European Research Council
Infrastructures SMEs
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References http//cordis.europa.eu/nanotechnology
/src/eu_funding.htm FP7 http//cordis.europa.e
u/fp7/home_en.html FP7 calls http//cordis.europ
a.eu/fp7/dc/index.cfm Nanotechnology
homepage http//cordis.europa.eu/nanotechnology
/ Nanosciences and Nanotechnologies An Action
Plan for Europe 2005-2009 http//cordis.europa.eu/
nanotechnology/actionplan.htm Additional
informationon nanotechnology