Title: FutureConstruct%20Uusinta%20uutta%20Euroopan%20T
1FutureConstructUusinta uutta Euroopan TKsta
Rakennusinsinööripäivät 31 Oct 2002, Helsinki
FI
- Olavi Tupamäki
- Villa Real Ltd/SA
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- Merivalkama 12 Avenue
Louise 65 - FIN-02320 Espoo Finland B-1050
Bruxelles Belgique tel 358 9 802 3667
http//www.villareal.fi tel 32 2 535 7845 - fax 358 9 802 3610 olavi.tupamaki_at_villareal.
fi fax 32 2 535 7700 -
2Alkusanat
- EUssa teknologian kieli on englanti.
- Jos tekee projektiehdotuksen suomeksi tai vaikka
ranskaksi, se käännätetään Euroopan komission
toimesta englanniksi ? virheitä ja
väärinkäsityksiä ? ei menestystä. - Tästä syystä tämäkin esitys on englanniksi.
- Tärkeimmät asiakirjat ovat kuitenkin saatavilla
myös suomeksi osoitteessa http//europa.eu.int/com
m/research/fp6/documents_en.html. Suomenkielistä
opastusta löytyy myös Tekesin sivuilta
osoitteesta http//www.tekes.fi/eu/index.html. - Tammikuussa valmistuu myös allekirjoittaneen
toimesta rakennus- ja kiinteistöklusterin
käyttöön suomenkielinen opas Eurooppalaiset
teknologiaohjelmat 2003.
3Construction and CREC
- In the EU construction represents 11 of the
total GDP, - and
- CREC nearly 30 of the same GDP!
4EU6RTD (1)European Research Area - ERA
- EU6RTD is aimed at contributing towards the
creation of the European Research Area ERA,
described below (17 directly for ERA).
National RD Programmes
European Research Area - ERA
National Research Organisations JRC
Open Cooperation Coordination
EU6RTD and other European RD
5EU6RTD (2) Interesting themes for CREC
- The EUs 6th Framework Programme for Research and
Technological Development EU6RTD offers 17,500
MEUR for European RTD projects in 2002-06. The
most interesting thematic priorities for the CREC
are the following (final, as approved by the
European Parliament and the Council Jun 2002) - 1.1.2 Information society technologies 3,625
MEUR - 1.1.3 Nanotechnologies and nanosciences,
- knowledge-based multifunctional materials and
new production processes and
devices 1,300 MEUR - 1.1.6 Sustainable development, global change and
ecosystems 2,120 MEUR - Sustainable energy systems 810 MEUR
- Sustainable surface transport 610 MEUR
- Global change and ecosystems 700 MEUR
6EU6RTD (3)Specific Programmes (1)
- Specific Programmes add flesh on the bones
information to the EU6RTD. The most interesting
priorities for the CREC are the following (final,
as approved by the Council late September 2002) - Integrating and strengthening the European
Research Area - ERA - 1.1.2. Information society technologies
- (i) Applied IST research addressing major
societal and economic challenges - 1.1.3. Nano-technologies and nano-sciences,
knowledge-based multifunctional materials and new
production processes and devices - (ii) Knowledge-based multifunctional materials
- (iii) New production processes and devices
7EU6RTD (4)Specific Programmes (2)
- 1.1.6. Sustainable development, global change and
ecosystems - 1.1.6.1. Sustainable energy systems
- 1.1.6.2. Sustainable surface transport
- 1.1.6.3. Global change and ecosystems
- 1.2.2. Horizontal research activities involving
SMEs - (i) Collective research
- (ii) Cooperative research
- The specific programmes as well as other
documents can be found at http//europa.eu.int/co
mm/research/fp6/documents_en.html in all EU
languages. Myös suomeksi.
8EU6RTD (5)Work Programmes
- Work Programmes are documents containing more
detailed descriptions of the Specific Programmes.
For project proposal preparation Work Programmes
are the most important documents. - Work Programmes will be prepared and issued by
the Commission alone. - Work Programmes are said to be drafted after the
results of the EoI call for important RD topics
(closed date 07 June 2002) will be available.
These (some 11,700 EoIs) are now publicly
available. - No drafts for Work Programmes are publicly
available yet. They are supposed to be finalised
by the end of November 2002 latest.
9EU6RTD (6) Project Types Instruments (1)
- Integrated Projects - IP
- Clearly defined development objectives
- Typically industry-led project
- Duration 3-5 years
- Magnitude gt50 MEUR
- EU funding max 50
- Networks of Excellence - NoE
- Advancing research and integrating the activities
of the consortium partners on a particular
research topic and spread excellence - Research centre/university-led project 100-500
researchers - Duration over 5 years plus continuation
thereafter without EU funding - Magnitude gt10 MEUR
- EU funding as per the number of researchers, max
25
10EU6RTD (7) Project Types Instruments (2)
- Specific Targeted Research Projects STRP
- Similar to earlier RTD projects
- Typically industry-led project
- Duration 2-4 years
- Magnitude 2-10 MEUR
- EU funding max 50
-
- This is what was required by European Council of
Civil Engineers - ECCE and several EU member
states.
11EU6RTD (8) Project Types Instruments (3)
- Specific research projects for SMEs any topic
- Cooperative research - CRAFT as before EU
funding max 50. - Collective research Medium-term research
activities carried out by technical research
centres for industrial associations or industry
groupings in entire sectors of industry dominated
by SMEs at the European level EU funding max
50. - The ITRE Committee of the European Parliament
proposed that Exploratory Award (valmisteluraha
25,000 50,000 EUR) should be returned into
EU6RTD, as required by European Council of Civil
Engineers ECCE. The parliament, however, gave
up after compromise negotiations.
12EU6RTD (9) Project Types Instruments (4)
- Other instruments available, not described here
in more details, are - National programmes carried out jointly - Article
169 By governments or national research
organisations and industries. Apparently for no
good use. - Networking of national programmes ERA-Nets to be
implemented as specific support action (for
preparation) and/or coordination action
(running) see below. - Specific support actions Similar to earlier
accompanying measures. - Coordination actions Similar to earlier thematic
networks and concerted actions.
13EU6RTD (10)Participation Rules
- Partners At least three (3) independent partners
established in three (3) different member or
associated state. In practice, for a successful
IP or NoE partners from several (gt10) states are
needed. - Two-stage procedure (For IP and NoE) calls for
proposals may involve a two-stage evaluation
procedure. In this case, following a positive
evaluation of an outline proposal in the first
stage, the proposers concerned shall be requested
to submit a complete proposal in the second
stage. - Small and medium size enterprise SME
- less than 250 employees
- no more than 40 MEUR annual turnover or no more
than 27 MEUR annual balance sheet total (may
change...) - less than 25 of the capital or voting rights is
owned by big enterprise(s), except public
investment corporations (eg banks, venture
capital, SITRA)
14EU6RTD (11) Timetable
- As the European Parliament, the Council (of
Ministers) and the European Commission achieved a
compromise about the basic EU6RTD, Specific
programmes and Participation rules it looks like
the first calls could open 15 Dec 2002 with a
closing date of 15 Mar 2003. This call is
principally for stage 1 ? outline proposals. - For stage 2 ? complete proposals a subsequent
closing date of 31 July 2003 is envisaged. - Useful Events
- Brokerage Event on CREC-related topics 03-04 Oct
2002, Brussels BE 185 EUR (see
http//www.e-core.org/frames/index_workshops.html)
. - European Research 2002 Conference 11-13 Nov 2002,
Brussels BE 180 EUR (see http//www.cordis.lu/fp6
/).
15EU6RTD (12) Who can participate?
- Companies (industrial), Research Institutes,
Universities, Industry Associations etc - Small and large organisations
- EU Member States (15)
- Associated States Norway, Iceland,
Liechtenstein Israel, Switzerland - Newly Associated (Candidate) States Estonia,
Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Czech, Slovakia,
Hungary, Slovenia, Bulgaria, Romania, Cyprus,
Malta Turkey - Other Countries on specific conditions, usually
no EU funding yet there is 600 MEUR available
for (1) Mediterranean countries (including the
Western Balkans), (2) Russia and the Newly
Independent States (NIS) and (3) developing
countries.
16CREC-related EoIs (1)
- Over 11,700 EoI - Expression of Interest were
received by the European Commission by 07 Jun
2002 targeting at EU6RTD. They are now publicly
available at http//www.cordis.lu/fp6/eoi-analysis
.htm. - e-CORE - European Construction Research Network
project, headed by CSTC BE, has compiled a list
of CREC-related EoIs (see http//www.e-core.org/fr
ames/index_database_eoi.html). Their total number
is 311 EoIs (3 of total). Yet, 166 only are
described on the above website. - In the Brokerage Event on CREC-related topics
03-04 Oct 2002, Brussels BE, 82 selected EoIs
were discussed in more details representing the
following classifications, as per e-CORE - IP 66
- NoE 33
17CREC-related EoIs (2)
- By priority thematic areas (79)
- 1.1.2 IST 15
- 1.1.3 Materials processes 37
- 1.1.6 Sustainable development 27
- Most important sub-priorities (77)
- 1.1.3 iii New production processes and
devices 26 - 1.1.6.1 Sustainable energy systems 24
- 1.1.2 i Applied IST research addressing major
- societal and economic
challenges 12 - 1.1.3 ii Knowledge-based multifunctional
- materials 9
- 1.1.6.2 Sustainable surface transport 6
18Actions towards EU6RTD
- In the Brokerage Event aforesaid, an idea was to
develop 15-20 IP and/or NoE proposals out of 311
EoIs listed, actually 82 EoIs discussed. No
report on this work, however, is to be prepared. - Villa Real participated in 4 EoIs and is taking
part in 1 IP proposal on Sustainable City as an
active contributive partner (plus in 2 other as
a sleeping partner). - What to do next?
- IP and EoI (1) study the list of EoIs, carefully
(2) select the most interesting ones, (3) contact
the coordinator to find out if an actual proposal
is under preparation and (4) express your
willingness to join the consortium. - STRP and SMEs Prepare your own proposals on new
ideas requiring further development or to solve
existing problems, and then select suitable
partners (total 5-8) for its implementation. -
- Thanks Olavi Tupamäki