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The European Union’s 7 th Research Framework Programme

The European Union’s 7 th Research Framework Programme EU-India Relations in Science and Technology and possibilities for cooperation Indraneel Ghose Delegation of the European Union to India. EU-India Relations – Some Milestones. 1963 India establishes diplomatic relations with EEC

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The European Union’s 7 th Research Framework Programme

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  1. The European Union’s 7th Research Framework Programme EU-India Relations in Science and Technology and possibilities for cooperation Indraneel Ghose Delegation of the European Union to India

  2. EU-India Relations – Some Milestones 1963 India establishes diplomatic relations with EEC 1973 Commercial cooperation agreement 1983 EC sets up a Delegation in New Delhi 1988 EC-India, first Joint Commission meeting 1993 Joint Political Statement 1994 Cooperation agreement on partnership and development 1996 Enhanced EU-India partnership 2000 First Summit, in Lisbon 2004 5th Summit in Hague: launch of Strategic Partnership 2007 8th Summit in New Delhi, Launch of Free Trade Agreement (FTA) negotiation

  3. EU-India Relations: Key Dimensions • Political dialogue • Trade and Investment • Economic Cooperation • Development Cooperation • Civil society • Science and Technology Cooperation

  4. Europe 2020: Three mutually reinforcing priorities – five targets • 3% of EU's GDP invested in R&D • The "20/20/20" climate/energy • targets should be met • 75 % of the population aged 20- • 64 should be employed • Share of early school leavers • under 10% and at least 40% of • the younger generation with a • tertiary degree • 20 million less people should be at • risk of poverty

  5. Why research at the European level • Reduce fragmentation, achieve critical mass • Pool resources to support and undertake major projects, infrastructures etc. • Provide a sound scientific basis for European policy challenges (e.g. knowledge economy, sustainable development, security etc) • Promote the development of a strong and flexible European Research Area including free flow of knowledge, researchers etc • Significant impacts on S&T and on the economy

  6. EU research: the story so far 1952: ECSC treaty; first projects started March 1955 1957: Euratom treaty; Joint Research Centre set up 1983: ESPRIT programme 1984: First Research Framework Programme (1984-1987) 1987: ‘Single European Act’ – science becomes a Community responsibility; Second Research Framework Programme (1987-1991) 1990: Third Research Framework Programme (1990-1994) 1993: Treaty on European Union; Role of RTD in the enlarged EU 1994: Fourth Research Framework Programme (1994-1998) 1998: Fifth Research Framework Programme (1998-2002) 2000: European Research Area 2002: Sixth Research Framework Programme (2002-2006) 2007: Seventh Research Framework Programme (2007-2013)

  7. What is the Research Framework Programme? • It is the main European instrument for funding research in Europe • It is designed to respond to Europe's needs for competitiveness and quality of life

  8. FP basic principles • Scientific Excellence • Transnational cooperation • Public calls, peer review, competitive selection • Cost-sharing • Participants own the results • Completely open to international participation

  9. International collaboration – issues at stake Why focus on S&T international cooperation? • Assistance for development • Policy objectives, e.g. the Millennium development Goals • Strengthening competitiveness • Competing with industrialised countries (e.g. attracting excellence) • Collaboration for mutual gains, e.g. with developing countries • Science Diplomacy • Collaborating with industrialised countries • “ice breaking” when collaborating with new partner countries • Putting “flesh on the bones” of S&T Cooperation agreements • A sign of maturity of the framework programme (openness) All in the context of excellence

  10. Framework Programme 7 (2007 – 2013)

  11. Cooperation Programme – Collaborative Research • 10 Thematic Priority Areas • Health 6050 M€ • Food, Agriculture, Fisheries and Biotechnology 1935 M€ • 3. Information and Communication Technologies 9110M€ • Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and 3500M€ • new ProductionTechnologies • Energy 2300M€ • Environment (including Climate Change) 1900M€ • Transport (including Aeronautics) 4180M€ • Socio-Economic Sciences and the Humanities 610M€ • Space 1430M€ • Security 1350M€

  12. Activities in the SSH thematic priority area Path towards sustainable development Growth, employment and competitiveness in a knowledge society Major trends in society and their implications Europe and the world The Citizen in the European Union Socio-economic and scientific indicators Foresight activities Horizontal activities

  13. SSH – Open calls • Two calls currently open • Call identifierFP7-SSH-2012-1 / FP7-SSH-2012-2 • Date of Publication 20 July 2011 • Deadline 2 February 2012 at 17:00 Brussels local time • Total budget available 86 M€ • Areas of research Growth, Employment and Competitiveness in a Knowledge Society — The European Case; Combining Economic, Social and Environmental Objectives in a European Perspective: Paths Towards Sustainable Development; Major Trends in Society and their Implications; Europe in the World; The Citizen in the European Union; Socio-Economic and Scientific Indicators; Foresight Activities; Horizontal Actions • For more information http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/page/cooperation?callIdentifier=FP7-SSH-2012-1 http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/page/cooperation?callIdentifier=FP7-SSH-2012-2

  14. Ideas Programme – Frontier Research • Investigator driven research – a key driver for innovation and economic performance • The European Research Council – first pan-European funding agency for basic research • Promotes quality through competition for funds at European level • Scientific excellence is only criterion for success • Autonomous scientific governance by the research community (Scientific Council) • The European Research Council website: erc.europa.eu

  15. People – Fellowships programme Programme Named after MarieCurie One of 4 individual double Nobel Prize winners (Physics 1903, Chemistry 1911) • Initial training • Networks for Early stage researchers • Life long training and career development: • Intra European Fellowships • Co-funding of national programmes • European Reintegration Grants • Industry dimension • Industry-academia partnership and pathways • International dimension • Outgoing fellowships • Incoming fellowships • International reintegration grants • International Staff Exchange Programmes • Specific actions • Such as: ‘Researchers’ Night’; Marie Curie Awards, ERA-More; networking of NCPs

  16. Marie Curie Actions – Information on opportunities http://ec.europa.eu/research/mariecurieactions 6132 opportunities advertised, including 285 Marie Curie vacancies (as of 8 April 2011 )

  17. Capacities – Research Capacity This part of the FP will enhance research and innovation capacities throughout Europe and ensure its optimal use through: • Development of research infrastructures • Research for the benefit of SMEs • Supporting development of regional research-driven clusters • Unlocking research potential in the EU region • Bringing science and society closer • Activities of targeted international cooperationto support international participation across the whole of FP7

  18. EU-India – 2 main types of cooperation • EU Research Framework Programme (FP7) is open for participation by researchers from allcountries. For certain partner countries – including India – their participation in FP7 projects can be fully funded by the EU. • EU-India “Strategic” S&T Cooperation • Based on mutual benefit, shared priority, co-investment of resources • Overall framework of EU-India S&T Cooperation Agreement - e.g. Coordinated Calls for Proposals, Joint Workshops etc

  19. EU-India S&T Cooperation Some Milestones 2001: Signature of the Science and Technology Cooperation Agreement 2007: First India- EU Ministerial Science Conference in New Delhi 2007: 4rd Joint Steering Committee Meeting drawing the roadmap for a more strengthened and strategic partnership Signature of the renewed Cooperation Agreement 2007: Coordinated Call for Proposals in Computational Materials Science 2008: Coordinated Call for Proposals in Food and Nutrition Research 2009: Coordinated Call for Proposals in Solar Energy Research 2009: Signature of the cooperation agreement on fusion research 2011: Launch of Coordinated Calls for Proposals in Water research

  20. EU-India Strategic Cooperation • Coordinated Calls for Proposals • Computational Materials Science in 2008; Food and Nutrition Research in 2009; Solar Energy Research in 2010; Food, Agriculture and Biotechnology in 2011; Health Research in 2011, Water related challenges in 2012, … • Strategic Workshops • Several workshops to date in ICT, Health research, Transport research, Climate change research, Renewable Energy research, Social Sciences research, Clean Coal Technologies, Innovation, Research Infrastructures, Water Science and Technologyetc.

  21. Indian Participation in FP7 (01/01/2007 –17/10/2011) In all proposals submitted (excluding Marie Curie and ERC) 710 proposals involving 1159 Indian partners In the mainlist 133 proposals involving 236 Indian partners (18.7% success rate) 34 M€ EC contribution to Indian partners 408 M€ total EC contribution to proposals involving Indian partners INDIA IS THE FOURTH LARGEST PARTICIPANT COUNTRY IN FP7 OUTSIDE OF EUROPE Marie Curie Actions 54 Fellowships offered to Indian researchers 21 IRSES proposals involving 31 Indian partners Comparative figures for FP6 (2002-2006) 93 projects funded with 137 Indian partners 11.9 M€ EC contribution to Indian partners 329.8 M€ total EC contribution to proposals involving Indian partners 37 Marie Curie Fellowships offered to Indian researchers

  22. Applying for funding?

  23. How to get started? CORDIS Find Opportunities http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7

  24. Sources of Information • The CORDIS website • The EC Delegation website • The National Contact Points • Academic / Industry Associations or Groups • Your research collaborators in Europe and the World

  25. The Application Process What the EC will do Launch a call for proposals Evaluate the received proposals For successful proposals, negotiate a contract What you will do With partners submit a Proposal Start a project

  26. The Application Process • Timeframe • 4-6 Months preparation and proposal writing • 3 months evaluation after close of Calls • 3 months Contract negotiation after finalising of ranking lists

  27. Finding a partner(s) • Your own networks in European countries • Commission Infodays • Cordis partner search section http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/partners_en.html • Collaborators in past projects • National Contact Point networks http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ncp_en.html

  28. FP7 Instruments • Collaborative projects: Develop new knowledge and technology, demonstration activities • Small or medium research actions – max 4M€, 6-10 partners • Large scale integrating projects – average funding ~ 10 M€, upto 25 partners • Networks of Excellence: Integration of research activities in a particular field • Coordination and support actions: Networking, exchanges, coordination of funded projects, studies, conferences • Other grants: Marie Curie Fellowships, European Research Council grants What gets funded? Equipment, consumables, travel for meetings with partners, project staff

  29. Who can participate? • AllCooperation thematic areas open • minimum legal consortium requirement: 3 independent partners from 3 different EU member states or associated states (Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Cyprus, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom; Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovinia, Croatia,Faroe Islands, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia,Iceland, Israel, Lichtenstein, Montenegro, Norway, Serbia, Switzerland, Turkey) • Within each thematic area – Specific International Cooperation Activity topics • minimum consortium requirement: 2 independent partners from 2 different EU member states or associated states and2 partners from 2 different non EU countries – For India, Brazil, China and Russia, the partners can be from 2 different provinces

  30. Submitting a Proposal • A proposal is submitted electronically by the Coordinator (who must be European) • You have to provide some administrative details of your institution (Part A2) • Provide inputs on your part of the proposed scientific work to the Coordinator, who will submit the proposal to the EC

  31. The Evaluation Process • Selection of evaluators – they are experts like you! • Individual evaluations (at least 3 per proposal) • Consensus meeting • Panel meeting • Finalisation

  32. The Evaluation Criteria • Scientific and Technological Quality • Concepts, objectives, work plan, relevance to Call for proposals • Implementation • Quality of participants and consortium, distribution of resources, management • Impact • Contribution to work programme expected impacts, dissemination and exploitation of results • Scores • Maximum per criteria – 5 • Individual threshold – 3 • Overall threshold – 10 (can vary from Call to call) Thresholds for each of the criteria and overall threshold have to be achieved for a consortium to be invited for contract negotiations

  33. Become an FP7 evaluator • Each project submitted for funding is evaluated by 3 or more independent evaluators. • The European Commission selects about 30% of new independent experts for each call. • If selected, usually involves 1 week in Brussels (honorarium, travel and subsistence covered by the European Commission) • Registration online of potential evaluators at https://cordis.europa.eu/emmfp7

  34. Once a proposal is accepted . . . • The partners draw up a Consortium Agreement • This document list the internal rules of the Consortium • It includes details on sharing of work and resources, IPR issues and any other issue that may come up • The successful consortia negotiate a contract with the European Commission • The European Commission sends the first installment of the Grant to the Project Coordinator • The project begins!

  35. Key factors for success in applying for FP7 funding • Competition is tough: only the best proposals get funded – only about 15% of proposals to the EC get funded! • Proposals must be within the scope of the Call for Proposals – not what you want to do! • The Consortium of partners must be excellent in their field and appropriate to the task to be performed – select the right partners • The proposal must address all the evaluation criteria – scientific and technological quality, implementation, impact • Convince the evaluators – do not rely on your own reputation • Respect the basic rules – deadlines, number of participants, ceilings, length, ethics, …

  36. Applying for funding • Things to keep in mind • Make sure you address an open topic • Science and Technology is the most important, but do not forget the other criteria! • Cover other issues such as the management of the consortium – poorly managed science will not deliver • Things may seem obvious to you but not to all experts (they come from various backgrounds) - make your text readable and understandable • Don’t write too little – cover what is requested or write too much

  37. Applying for funding • Try to catch the reader’s attention from the very beginning – explain the context in the first few paragraphs of the summary and do not forget to say what the wider context is • Don’t leave the evaluators to figure out why your proposal is good – tell them why it is good • Leave nothing to the imagination • Use clear language. Make sure there are no typos, inconsistencies, obvious cut and paste, numbers that do not add up, missing pages • The diagrams must be understandable and useful • Submit on time!

  38. Applying for funds • Building a consortium • Start with a small group and brainstorm on the concept • Identify which competences are necessary to make the project successful • Think “out of the box” – be interdisciplinary and don’t be afraid of including new disciplines • Think of the impact that the project will have – who are the end users, should they have a role • Finalise the proposal ahead of the deadline and have someone who is not involved read it through

  39. EU Delegation to India • This is one of the 8 S&T Sections in EU Delegations • (others in the USA, Russia, China, Japan, Israel, Egypt, Brazil) • We see a key part of our role as creating greater mutual awareness, trust and interest between the research communities in India and within the EU • We serve an interface for the research family of DGs with interlocutors in the Indian government and the Indian research community • We promote Indian participation in the Framework Programme

  40. EU Member States Embassies in India • Austria Austrian Cultural Forum • France S&T Section at the Embassy Indo-French Centre for the Promotion of Advanced Research • Germany S&T Section at the Embassy DFG India Office • Italy S&T Section at the Embassy • The Netherlands S&T Section at the Embassy • Sweden S&T Section at the Embassy • United Kingdom Science and Innovation Network in India Research Councils UK India Office The British Council

  41. EURAXESS http://ec.europa.eu/euraxess/index.cfm EURAXESS - Researchers in Motion is a one-stop shop for researchers seeking to advance their careers and personal development by moving to other countries. In addition to the information on training and jobs, this electronic gateway is the entry point to a wealth of practical information on living, working and relaxing in the European countries involved.

  42. Information Sources General information on FP7: cordis.europa.eu/fp7 General information on European research: ec.europa.eu/research/index_en.cfm EU and Member States Awareness Raising and Information Campaign in India: http://eeas.europa.eu/delegations/india/eu_india/science_and_technology/st_awereness_campaign/index_en.htm List and description of projects in FP7 and 6: cordis.europa.eu/fp7/projects_en.html cordis.europa.eu/fp6 EU-India S&T Relations: eeas.europa.eu/delegations/india/ Any questions? ec.europa.eu/research/enquiries/ delegation-india-st@eeas.europa.eu EU Research & Innovation Newsletters: To keep up to date on EU research, subscribe to one or more of free mailing lists http://ec.europa.eu/research/index.cfm?pg=mailing

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