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EURATOM RESEARCH AND TRAINING ON NUCLEAR ENERGY
How to take part in the FP6 How to take part in the FP6 Nuclear Fission and Nuclear Fission and
Radiation Protection ProgrammeRadiation Protection Programme
INSIGHTS
EURATOM RESEARCH AND TRAINING ON NUCLEAR ENERGY
Finding your wayFinding your way
The Call
The Work Programme
Identify the research topic of interest
Determine the instrument to be used
Euratom Programme in Brief
Guide for Proposers for the relevant instrument
Provisions for implementing that instrument
EURATOM RESEARCH AND TRAINING ON NUCLEAR ENERGY
Who can participateWho can participate
EU States
Countries associated to EURATOM
Third countries
International organisations
EURATOM RESEARCH AND TRAINING ON NUCLEAR ENERGY
Who can be fundedWho can be funded
EU States
Countries associated to EURATOM
Third countries and International Organisations if essential for project
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Numbers and origins of partnersNumbers and origins of partners
Varies with the instrument
For IP and NoE
3 independent legal entities from 3 different MS or AS, with at least 2 MS or ACC
EURATOM RESEARCH AND TRAINING ON NUCLEAR ENERGY
Points requiring careful attentionPoints requiring careful attention
Use the right instrument
Understand the objective - critical
Awareness of the scope - not to be taken too prescriptively
Note “hints” on consortium composition, skills needed, user involvement, etc
EURATOM RESEARCH AND TRAINING ON NUCLEAR ENERGY
Preparing a proposalPreparing a proposal
Follow guidance for that instrument
Respond to the stated objective
For the consortium to decide how best to do this
Awareness of evaluation criteria and process - critical
Awareness of cost models and model contract (especially your Administration)
EURATOM RESEARCH AND TRAINING ON NUCLEAR ENERGY
Evaluation CriteriaEvaluation CriteriaVary with the instrument
For IP:
Relevance
Potential Impact
Scientific and Technical Excellence
Quality of the consortium
Quality of the management
Mobilisation of resources
EURATOM RESEARCH AND TRAINING ON NUCLEAR ENERGY
Evaluation Criteria (cont’d)Evaluation Criteria (cont’d)
Threshold applied to each criterion and to overall score
Each criterion given equal weight
Generally, threshold is 3 out of 5 (good)
Apart from S&T Excellence and Overall criteria where threshold is 4 out of 5 (very good)
EURATOM RESEARCH AND TRAINING ON NUCLEAR ENERGY
Additional aspects to be addressedAdditional aspects to be addressed
ethical and safety aspects
gender issues
societal implications
synergies with education
third country participation and funding
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Submission of proposalsSubmission of proposals
Pre-proposal check
Electronic Proposal Submission System
Pre-registration (encouraged)
Submission electronicallyCD-rom or diskettepaper
Deadlines strictly enforced - do not take risks
EURATOM RESEARCH AND TRAINING ON NUCLEAR ENERGY
A wider range of better A wider range of better differentiated instrumentsdifferentiated instruments
“New” instruments integrated projects networks of excellence
“Traditional” instruments specific targeted research projects coordination actions specific support actions fellowships and grants trans-national access to research facilities
EURATOM RESEARCH AND TRAINING ON NUCLEAR ENERGY
Principles guiding their designPrinciples guiding their design
Simplification and streamlining
Increased legal and financial security
Flexibility and adaptability
Increased management autonomy
Preserving public accountability and protecting interests of the Community
EURATOM RESEARCH AND TRAINING ON NUCLEAR ENERGY
Integrated ProjectsIntegrated Projects
Generate knowledge required to achieve programme aims
integrate critical mass of activities and resources needed
achieve ambitious clearly defined scientific and technological objectives
Instrument to support objective-driven research of a European dimension
where the main deliverable is new knowledge
EURATOM RESEARCH AND TRAINING ON NUCLEAR ENERGY
Activities supportedActivities supported
Activities integrated by an IP may cover the full research spectrum
Must contain research
May contain technological development and demonstration training
Must ensure effective management of knowledge and its exploitation
all within a unified project management structure
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The scale of critical massThe scale of critical mass
Resources: must assemble the critical mass needed to achieve its ambitious goals may range up to several tens of millions €
no minimum threshold
Partnership: minimum of three participants from three different countries likely to be substantially more
Duration: typically three to five years but more if necessary
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Grant to the budget paid as a contribution to actual costs
that are necessary for the project determined according to the usual accounting
conventions of each participant recorded in the accounts of the participants
or, if provided in the contract, in the accounts of third parties
excluding indirect taxes, interest… no pre-defined cost categories as in FP5
Financial regimeFinancial regime
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A family of three simplified cost models
FC: full direct and full indirect costs
FCF: full direct costs plus 20% (excluding subcontracts) for related indirect costs
ACF: additional direct costs plus 20% (excluding subcontracts) for related indirect costs
Cost modelsCost models
EURATOM RESEARCH AND TRAINING ON NUCLEAR ENERGY
Flexibility and autonomy of implementation
Implementation plan: each year consortiumproposes a detailed plan for the coming 18 monthsand may propose to update the overall plan
Funding the contract will not specify the distribution between
participants nor between activities
Consortium changesconsortium can take in new participants (no extra
funding)Commission can launch calls to add activities and
participants (with additional funding)
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Networks of ExcellenceNetworks of Excellence Strengthen Europe’s excellence in a research area
integrate expertise needed to provide European leadership and be a world force
through a Joint Programme of Activitiesto create durable integration
Instrument for tackling the fragmentation of European research
main aim is a durable structuring and shaping of European research
Mission also to spread excellencewhere training is an essential component
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Joint Programme of ActivitiesJoint Programme of Activities Integrating activities
co-ordinated programming of the partners’ activitiessharing of research platforms/tools/facilities/infrastructure joint management of the knowledge portfoliostaff exchanges, possibly relocation of staff and equipmentreinforced electronic communications
Joint research activitiesa programme of joint research
Activities to spread excellence training programme of researchers and other key staffdissemination and communication
all within a unified management structure
EURATOM RESEARCH AND TRAINING ON NUCLEAR ENERGY
Scale of critical massScale of critical mass
Expertise: commensurate with the ambitious goals will vary from topic to topic larger networks may involve several hundreds of
researchersbut networks may be much smaller, provided necessary
ambition and critical mass is achieved
Partnership: in general at least six legal minimum of three from three different countries
Duration: typically five years but up to seven years, if justified to create a durable
integration
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Financial RegimeFinancial Regime
Support to overcome barriers to durable integration barriers: organisational, cultural and human
cannot be quantified in normal accounting terms
Provide incentive for integration taking the form of a fixed grant calculated mainly on basis of number of “researchers”
EURATOM RESEARCH AND TRAINING ON NUCLEAR ENERGY
Illustrative grant calculationIllustrative grant calculation
The average annual grant to a network could vary with the number of “researchers” as follows:
50 researchers € 1 million/year 100 researchers € 2 million/year 150 researchers € 3 million/year 250 researchers € 4 million/year 500 researchers € 5 million/year 1000 researchers and above € 6 million/year
(for intermediate numbers, the grant would be calculated by linear interpolation)
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Payment regimePayment regime
Annual advances
Annual settlements paid on the basis of results progress towards a durable integration additional check that costs greater than the value of
the grant are incurred in implementing the JPA
Results-based payments regime necessitates a robust system of output monitoring with annual reviews, involving external experts
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Flexibility and AutonomyFlexibility and Autonomy
For the JPA the network each year proposes a detailed JPA for the coming 18 months may propose to update the overall JPA
Allocation of the Community grant the partnership will have freedom to distribute it
between partners and between activities
Changes in the network partnership partnership can decide to take in new partners (no
extra funding) Commission can launch calls to add partners (extra
funding)
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Governance of the networkGovernance of the network
A network’s governance must ensure institutional engagement by the partner organisations
through e.g. a “governing council” of senior representatives from the partners to facilitate the integration of the partners’ activities
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““Traditional” instrumentsTraditional” instruments
Retained to smooth the transition from FP5 to FP6
Support research activities of more limited scope and ambition
Three “traditional” instruments specific targeted research projects
evolved form of FP5 RTD and demonstration projects
co-ordination actions evolved form of FP5 concerted actions/thematic networks
specific support actions evolved form of FP5 accompanying measures
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Generate knowledge required to improve European competitiveness and to meet the needs of society or Community policies
targeted, well defined and precisely focused research and technological development
demonstration component(s) as appropriate
project management
STREP - ObjectivesSTREP - Objectives
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Co-ordination ActionCo-ordination Action
To promote and support the networking and co-ordination of research and innovation activities at national, regional and European level
Establish in a coherent way co-ordinated initiatives of a range of research and innovation operators, in order to achieve improved integration of the European research
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Specific Support ActionsSpecific Support Actions
Objectives
to promote and facilitate dissemination, transfer, exploitation and take up of past and present programme results
to contribute to strategic objectives (eg, ERA)
to prepare future Community RTD activities
as opposed to awareness and information exchange activities (confs, workshops, etc)
EURATOM RESEARCH AND TRAINING ON NUCLEAR ENERGY
Other instruments for Other instruments for horizontal actionshorizontal actions
Euratom Fellowships
Grants to young researchers in CEE and FSU
Trans-national access to large infrastructure
Special Training Courses (SSA)
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Classification of the instruments
Instrument Purpose Primarydeliverable
Scale
IP
NoE
169
STRP
CA
SSA
objective-driven research
tacklefragmentation
joint MSprogrammes
research
coordination
support
knowledge
structuring
knowledge and/or
structuring
knowledge
coordination
support
med-high
med-high
high
low-med
low-med
low
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Instrument EU contribution
Networks of excellence Grant for integration: max 25% of the value of the capacity and resourcesproposed for integration as a fixed amount to support the joint programmeof activities
Integrated projects Grant to the budget: max 50% for research, 35% for demonstration, 100%for activities such as training
Specific targeted researchor innovation projects
Grant to the budget: max 50% of the budget
Participation in programmesundertaken by several MS
To be defined in decisions taken on the basis of Art. 169
Specific research projectsfor SMEs
Grant to the budget: max 50% of the budget
Actions to promote anddevelop human resourcesand mobility
Grant to the budget: max 100% of the budget, if necessary as a lump sum
Coordination actions Grant to the budget: max 100% of the budget
Specific support actions Grant to the budget: max 100% of the budget, if necessary as a lump sum
Integrated infrastructureinitiatives
Grant to the budget: max 100% of the budget, if necessary as a lump sum
Financing (II)
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Topical Information Meetings - BrusselsTopical Information Meetings - Brussels
Cellular and Molecular Biology - 28 January
Severe Accident Management - 6 March
Decommissioning of Installations - 10 March
Geological Disposal (excluding NoE on actinides and governance activities) - 12 March
Irradiation Damage Effects on Reactor Components - 13 March
Further information CORDIS
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General information: http://europa.eu.int
General information on research: http://europa.eu.int/comm/research
Information on research programmes :http://www.cordis.lu
Information requests:[email protected]
Information
Research Directorate-General
Information and communication Unit
[email protected] +32-2-295 52 76
Fax +32-2-295 82 20
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