FP7: overview and observations

1. FP7: overview and observations

2. SEVENTH FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME

3. FourSpecific Programmes Cooperation – Collaborative Research Ideas – Frontier Research People – Human Potential Capacities – Research Capacity + JRC (non-nuclear) + Euratom

4. Cooperation – Collaborative research Thematic Priorities • Health • Food, agriculture and Biotechnology • Information and Communication Technologies • Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies • Energy • Environment and climate change • Transport • Socio-Economic Sciences and the Humanities • Space and Security research

5. To promote basic, frontier research. To support the truly creative scientists. “Investigator driven” approach, allowing researchers to propose their own topics, providing grants for individual teams. Ideas – Frontier Research European Research Council (ERC)created to implement the Ideas programme

6. People – Human Potential • Initial training of researchers - Marie Curie Networks • Industry-academia pathways and partnerships • Specific actions - Excellence awards

7. Capacities – Research Capacity Programmes • Research Infrastructures • Research for the benefit of SMEs • Regions of Knowledge • Research Potential • Science in Society • Coherent development of research policies • Activities of International Cooperation

8. Participation Rules • Any university or research centre or other legal entity, whether establishedin a Member State or Associated country, may participate. • A legal entity is any natural person, or any legal person created under the national law of its place of establishment, or under Community law or international law, which has legal personality. • At least three legal entities, independent from each other, must participate, and no two of which established in the same Member State or Associated country.

9. European Union Member States Austria CzechRepublic Cyprus Denmark Belgium Germany Estonia Finland France Greece Ireland Italy Latvia Lithuania Hungary Luxembourg Malta Netherlands Poland Portugal Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden United Kingdom

10. Bulgaria Romania European Union Member Statesstarting from 01/01/2007

11. Croatia Turkey Candidate countries

12. Associated Countries Iceland Israel Liechtenstein Norway Switzerland

13. Eligible costs • Thethree cost reporting models used in FP6 are abandoned: • Additional cost model • Full cost model • Full cost flat rate model • Participants can charge all their direct and indirect costs and have the option of a flat rate for indirect costs.

14. Maximum funding rates • Integrating Activities in public bodies and research non-profit organizations – 75% • Frontier Research – 100% • Coordination Actions (CA) – 100% • Specific Support Actions (SSA) – 100% • Marie Curie – 100%

15. Work Programme(Orientations)

16. Support to existing research infrastructures Integrating Activities (i) Networking Activities (ii) Transnational access (iii) Joint research activities All threecategories of activities are mandatory as synergistic effects are expected from these different components.

17. Integrating Activities approach • bottom-up to respond to the needs of the scientific community in all fields of science and technology, without any preference for one field over another; • targetedto establish a synergy with prioritary topics within the thematics of the specific programme “Cooperation”. The targeted approach for I3 was not included in FP6. An analysis was made, a posteriori, to identify those I3s addressed to specific fields.

18. Targeted approach for Integrating Activities in FP7:examples of prioritary topics within the thematics of the specific programme “Cooperation”

21. FP7 Budget information

22. Budget growth over the sixFramework Programmes I II III IV V VI

23. Budget breakdown of the FP7 (01.01.2007-31.12.2013) (in million €)

24. Budget breakdown of the specific programme “Capacities”(in million €) * October 2006

25. Budget per call (in M€) & possible timing of calls (+) 4-years contracts(*) topping up: reserved to selected projects in Call 2: + 1 year contract

26. Implementations of calls • Call 1 • Date of publication: early 2007 (advance notice in December 2006) • Closure date(s): Spring 2007 (March 2007)

27. Implementations of calls • Call 2 – First call for Integrating Activities • Date of publication: early 2008 (advance notice in December 2007) • Closure date(s): Spring 2008 (March 2008) * Budget allocated to I3s in the first call of FP6 was 203 M€

28. Observations (1) • Basic research (bottom up I3) compared to finalized research (targeted I3): • from more than 85%in FP6 to less than 60%in FP7 • Duration of a contract: • from (4)-5 years in FP6to 4 years in FP7not 7 years • Budget allocation to I3s in the first call: • from 203 M€ in FP6 to 168 M€ in FP7

29. Observations (2) • More selection in the first call (20% less budget allocated): • selected projects in FP6: 24 in 2003 (14 I3, 1 CA, 9 SSA) 10 in 2004 (3 I3, 2 CA, 5 SSA) • possible selected projects in FP7 (assuming a percentage reduction):  19 in 2008 ( 11 Integrating Activities) • More competition in the first call: Should we expect that two I3s in Nuclear Physics will be both selected? WARNING! This statement does NOT mean to wish for a merging!

30. Suggestions from a FP6 Coordinator:ingredients to win the competition • To have good scientific ideascreating multiple interconnections between activities to achieve an overall integrating effect • To have a strong steering committee • To have a dedicated full-time project coordinator* • To have a full-time management team and a strong support from the coordinating organisation* * essentialin the negotiation phase with the EC* mandatoryfor managing the project efficiently and effectively

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