Building a Europe of Knowledg

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Towards the Seventh Framework Programme2007-2013

Anastasios Kentarchos

Environment and Climate Unit

DG – Research, European Commission

anastasios.kentarchos@ec.europa.eu

What’s new ?What’s new ?

Main new elements compared to FP6:

– Duration increased from five to seven years

– Substantial increase in the budget

– Basic research (~ €1.5 billion per year)

– New structure: cooperation, ideas, people, capacities

– Flexible funding schemes

– Joint Technology Initiatives

– Simpler procedures

FP7 2007 –2013 | FP7 2007 –2013 | Specific ProgrammesSpecific Programmes

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Ideas – Frontier Research

Capacities – Research Capacity

People – Marie Curie Actions

Cooperation – Collaborative research

JRC (non-nuclear)

JRC (nuclear)

Euratom

Cooperation – Collaborative ResearchCooperation – Collaborative Research

1. Health2. Food, agriculture and biotechnology3. Information and communication technologies4. Nanosciences, nanotechnologies, materials

and new production technologies5. Energy6. Environment (including climate change)7. Transport (including aeronautics)8. Socio-economic sciences and the humanities9. Security and space

Euratom: Fusion energy research, nuclear fissionand radiation protection

Nine themes

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FP7: Objectives and activities

Themes Health

Food,Agriculture

and Bio-technolog

y

Information and

Communi-cation

Technologies

Nano,Materials,

Production EnergyEnviron-

mentTrans- port

Socio- eco-

nomicRe-

search

Space and

Security

COOPERATIONCollaborative

Research 5 984 1 935 9 110 3 467 2 265 1 886 4 180 607 2 858 32 292

IDEAS 7 460

PEOPLE 4 727

JRC (EC) 1 751

50 521

CAPACITIES

350

Research for the benefit of SMEs

1 266

Science in Society

ResearchPotential

4 291

Total

359

FP7 EC (current prices)

Regions ofKnowledge

International Co-operation

182126

European Research Council

Marie Curie Actions

Research Infrastructures

2 008

€ million

FP7 budget € million

Cooperation; 32292

Ideas; 7460

People; 4727

Capacities; 4291

Euratom; 4061 JRC (EC); 1751

• Main political priority of current Commission.

• Research is needed at EU level in order to:

• Support EU International commitments such as:– Kyoto Protocol

– UN Convention on Biological Diversity

– World Summit on Sustainable Development

• Contribute to:– Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)

– Global Earth Observation Initiative (GEO)

– International Programmes (e.g. IGBP)

• Contribute to EU policies such as: – 6th Environmental Action Plan and associated Thematic Strategies

– Action Plans on Environmental Technologies and Environment and Health

– Water Framework Directive

6. Environment (inc. climate change)6. Environment (inc. climate change)

6. Environment (inc. climate change)6. Environment (inc. climate change)

• Climate change, pollution and risks

• Sustainable management of resources

• Environmental technologies

• Earth observation and assessment tools

• Climate change, pollution and risks

– Pressures on environment and climate

– Environment and health

– Natural hazards

• Sustainable Management of Resources

– Conservation and sustainable management of natural and man-made resources

– Evolution of marine environments

6. Environment (inc. climate change)6. Environment (inc. climate change)

• Environmental Technologies

– Environmental technologies for observation, prevention, mitigation, adaptation, remediation and restoration of the naturaland man-made environment

– Technology assessment, verification and testing

• Earth observation and assessment tools

– Earth observation

– Forecasting methods and assessment tools

6. Environment (inc. climate change)6. Environment (inc. climate change)

Pressures on Environment and Climate Specific Programme

Integrated research on the functioning of climate and the earth system is needed in order to observe and analyse how these systems evolve in the past and predict their future evolution. This will enable the development of effective adaptation and mitigation measures to climate change and its impacts. Advanced climate change models from the global to sub-regional scales will be developed and validated. These models will be applied to assess changes, potential impacts and critical thresholds (e.g. ocean acidification). Changes in atmospheric composition and in the water cycle will be studied. Pressures on environmental quality and on climate from natural and anthropogenic pollution of the air, water and soil will be investigated.

Pressures on Environment and ClimateWork Programme

1. The Earth System and Climate: Functioning and abrupt changes

2. Emissions and Pressures: Natural and anthropogenic

3. The global carbon cycle – Greenhouse Gas budgets

4. Future Climate

5. Climate Change Impacts (natural & socioeconomic)

6. Response strategies: Adaptation, Mitigation, Policies

Pressures on Environment and Climate

first Call - 20073. The global carbon cycle - Greenhouse gas

budgets

• Ocean acidification and its consequences

Expected impact: Impacts and feed-backs of ocean acidification on ocean ecosystems and the carbon cycle should be studied and better described in coupled ocean-climate models.

Pressures on Environment and Climate (2008-2009)indicative topics related to the global Carbon cycle- GHG budgets

• The impact of climate variability and extremes on GHG exchange, storage and soil organic matter. The goal is to quantify the response of the terrestrial biosphere to climate fluctuations, extreme events (droughts) and climate change.

• Integration of carbon budgets (ocean, land and atmosphere) and changes in the carbon cycle. The goal is to better understand and quantify the coupling between terrestrial, aquatic inland, oceanic and atmospheric carbon balance and their feedbacks with climate.

• Assessment of European activities and results on carbon and nitrogen cycles.

Commission

Ideas – Frontier Reseach ERC (European Research Council)

* Created by Commission decision * * Under the responsibility of the Commission

• Preparation of work programme

• Set up of peer review: pool of reviewers, nomination of review panels, evaluation guidelines

• Oversight of the evaluation procedure

• Annual scientific report

• Information and support to applicants

• Reception / eligibility of proposals

• Organisation and execution of evaluation

• Selection decision

• Scientific and financial follow-up of contracts

• Annual implementation report

• Approval of work programme, as defined by the Scientific Council

• Instruction to implement work programme

• Approval of annual implementation report

• Information to programme committee

Scientific Council*

Externalised tasks**

* Open to third-country nationals

People – Marie Curie ActionsPeople – Marie Curie Actions• Initial training of researches

– Marie Curie Networks*• Life-long training and career development

– Individual Fellowships– Co-financing of regional/national/international programs

• Industry-academia pathways and partnerships– Industry-Academia Knowledge–sharing 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

Capacities – Research CapacityCapacities – Research Capacity

1. Research infrastructures

2. Research for the benefit of SMEs

3. Regions of Knowledge

4. Research Potential

5. Science in Society

6. Activities of International Cooperation

7. Coherent development of policies

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Funding schemes

Collaborative projects Consortia with participants from different countries

New knowledge, technology, products or common resourcesfor research

Size, scope and internal organisation of projects can vary

Networks of Excellence Joint programmes by organisations integrating activities

in a given field

Longer term co-operation

Formal commitment to integrate resources

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Funding Schemes (continued)

Coordination and support actions Networking, exchanges, trans-national access to research infrastructures,

studies, conferences, etc.

Support to frontier research

Training and career development of researchers

Research for the benefit of specific groups(in particular SMEs)

Large-scale multi-financed initiatives

Joint implementation of national research programmes:Article 169

Joint Technology Initiatives: Article 171

(i.e. Global Monitoring for Environment and Security, Hydrogen and Fuel cells)

New infrastructures of European interest

FP7

Calls for proposals

• Publication in OJ

• Improved CORDIS presentation

• Clear policy approach

• Work programmes and calls for proposals will be adopted at the same time each year.

Submitting a proposal

• Proposal submission system based on FP6– further improvements later

• New ‘Unique Registration Facility’• New Guide for Applicants

– and streamlined background documents• Central helpdesk

– with “ticketing”, monitoring and reporting• Rules for submission, evaluation etc streamlined and

clarified

Evaluations and selection

• Evaluation procedure similar to FP6

• Number of criteria reduced to 3

• “Impact” evaluated vis-à-vis expected impacts in work programme

Negotiation and award (1)

• Strong focus on ‘time to contract’• Stable “Negotiation guidance notes” • Clear and comprehensive “framework for

negotiation”• “Description of work”, closer to proposal content• Grant agreement preparation forms harmonised

with proposal preparation

• One work plan for the duration of the project

Negotiation and award (2)

• COM decision for rules on – verification of legal status– financial capacity of participants

• Verification of legal existence identical to FP6– but with Unique Registration Facility (URF)

• Verification of legal status of participant – periodic checking of all SMEs

• Verification of operational capacities• Verification of financial capacities

Information

• EU research: http://ec.europa.eu/research

• Seventh Framework Program: http://ec.europa.eu/research/fp7

• Information on research programmesand projects: http://cordis.europa.eu/

• RTD info magazine: http://ec.europa.eu/research/rtdinfo/

• Information requests: http://ec.europa.eu/research/enquiries/