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JPI Cultural Heritage and
Global ChangeandFWO
March 8th, 2012
Mission and key facts
Mission of Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek – Vlaanderen (Research Foundation – Flanders)
• Funds fundamental scientific research (“frontier research”)
• Bottom-up funding in all disciplines
• Strong selection based on scientific excellence and interuniversity competition (Flemisch universities and, to a lesser extent, research performing organisations)
• Transparent and equal opportunities
Mission and key facts• Funding schemes of the FWO
• Funding for individual researchersoPre- and postdoctoral fellowships: bench fees and grants
• Funding for research teamsoResearch projects, Big Science, Bilateral agreements, …
• Supporting mobility, international contacts and collaborationsoTravel grants, Visiting Postdoctoral Fellowships,
Sabbatical leaves, Scientific research communities, Organisation of conferences in Belgium, International coordination actions, collaboration agreements, …
• Attracting excellent researchers, active abroad, to FlandersoOdysseus , Pegasus
• Awarding scientific prizes
Mission and key facts
Allocation 2010
Allocation over different research domains 2010
42.71
2.570.71
51.22
2.79Fellowships
International contacts
Grants
Research Projects
Overhead costs
Biological Sciences
Humanities
Social Sciences
Medical Sciences
Exact and applied sciences
Interdisciplinary
Mission and key facts
Number of Project applications
Success rate research projects
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Mission and key facts
Average budget per project per year
2006 79.384 euro
2007 79.214 euro
2008 79.169 euro
2009 68.612 euro
2010 70.764 euro
2011 71.867 euro
2012 81.775 euro
ERA-NETParticipation by FWO
FWO participates in 13 networks (2004-2012)
General principles
• Main goal: joint call
• fundamental/translational research
• virtual common pot
• ca. 200.000 € per call, but this will increase
• Rules concerning Flemish participants:
FWO Regulation on Research Projects
ERA-NET
Advantage
via virtual common pot international dimension with financial guarantee for Flanders
Challenge
• Thematical approach bottom-up approach FWO
Joint Programming Initiatives (JPI)
What is Joint Programming?
EC 07/2008: “towards joint programming in research: working together to tackle common challenges more effectively”
General principle: coördination of national research programmes in order to tackle “grand challenges”
Proces steered by GPC (“Groupe de Programmation Conjointe”)
Implementation: “voluntary guidelines” (framework conditions)
JPI
Specific characteristics
About ‘grand challenges”
Measure and ambition
A concept in stead of funding channel: coördination
More homogenity: ‘framework conditions’
JPIOverview
‘First wave’•Neurodegenerative diseases•Agriculture, Food security & Climate Change•Cultural Heritage, climate change and security•A Healthy Diet for a Healthy Life
‘Second Wave’•Antimicrobial resistance•Connecting Climate Knowledge for Europe•More Years, Better Lives - The Potential and Challenges of Demographic Change•Urban Europe - Global Challenges, Local Solutions•Water Challenges for a Changing World•Healthy and Productive Seas and Oceans
+ Strategic Energy and Technology (SET) Plan
JPI
Flanders and Belgium
Consultation and information exchange:
o Flanders - Work Group JPI in EU-platform
o Belgian Federal level - CIS-GPC
Vlaamse nota (IWT-FWO-EWI) voorgelegd aan Kabinet in mei 2011
JPIParticipation by FWO
General principles
• fundamental/translational research
• virtual common pot
• At least ca. 200.000 € per call
• Rules concerning Flemish participants:
FWO Regulation on Research Projects
• Alternative: Contribution in kind with existing projects,
with option of top-up and Lead Agency procedure
• Synergy with ERA-NET
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JPI Cultural Heritage and
Global ChangeandFWO
March 8th, 2012