Alun JONES

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6th Framework Programme on Research

• Alun JONES
• EU Network Manager
• European Agency for Safety and Health at Work

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6th Framework Programme for Research

• No specific section on Occupational Safety and
  Health
• Community strategy emphasis on foreseeing new and
  emerging risks
• EP Employment Committee call for OSH Research as
  part of 6th Framework

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OSH as part of the 6th Framework Programme

• Development of individual Work Programmes in each
  of the 8 Thematic priorities
• Potential for OSH Research in following Thematic
  Priorities
• Information Society Technologies (workplace
  design and work organization)
• Hazard/risk Control and Safe Production Processes
  and Devices
• Priority 8 policy support (environment and OSH
  section)
• Priority 7 Knowledge Society (quality of
  working life and work organisation)?
• Health (occupational cancer)
• SME research (OSH element)

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Tools available under 6th Framework Programme (I)

• Networks of Excellence
• critical mass of research resources and expertise
  - concentrated in a living network of leading
  research organisations where information is
  shared, exchanged and developed
• new information will result but not primary
  objective which is the pooling of existing
  expertise
• European leadership and world force joint
  programme of activities durable integration of
  research capacities

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Tools available under 6th Framework Programme (II)

• Integrated Projects
• critical mass of activities and resources needed
  to achieve ambitious clearly defined scientific
  and technological objectives
• objective driven research where primary
  deliverable is new knowledge
• grouping together of more limited number of
  research organizations, industry partners, etc to
  achieve objective

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Tools available under 6th Framework Programme
(III)

• Research for policy support
• Specific Targeted Projects and Coordination
  Actions objective driven research where primary
  deliverable is new knowledge
• SME specific research
• 2 specific schemes for SMEs Co-operative
  Research ("CRAFT") and Collective Research -
  large community of SMEs with a capacity to
  innovate but with inadequate research
  capabilities

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Tools available under 6th Framework Programme (IV)

• Co-ordinating several Member State research
  activities
• (i.e. national research programmes) under article
  169 new tool mainly for principle areas of
  research, such as European and Developing
  Countries Clinical Trials Partnership OSH
  relevance not certain
• Others
• studies, conferences, seminars, etc. to be
  defined according to needs

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Key deadlines call for proposals

• First deadline for call for proposals from
  1st December 2003
• Remaining deadlines over 2003 - 2004 period
• Published in official journal of the European
  Communities
• Agency will explore possibility of developing
  role of providing information about Commission
  calls for proposals via its news service
  functions