European CommissionResearch & Innovation

Why are these calls important?

• Research and Innovation critical for stimulating growth and jobs in Europe

• Tackling the biggest societal challenges facing Europe

•EU research funding delivering the Innovation Union

Why are these calls important?

• Special attention on SMEs and exploiting research for innovation and growth

• Supporting the best researchers and innovators in Europe

• Smooth transition to Horizon 2020

FP7 2013 Work Programme

• Decided by the Commission on 9 July

• An investment in the future, with an €8.1 billion stimulus for growth and jobs

• Supporting Europe's best researchers and innovators

• Publication on 10 July 2012: 52 calls for proposals

• Deadline for applications from September 2012

WP2013 Budget key figures “growth and jobs”

INPUTEU Research Budget €10,8 billion

of which Work programme funding €8,1 billion

Cooperation themes €4,8 billion

SMEs €1,2 billion

ERC €1,75 billion

Marie Skłodowska Curie €963 million

RSFF - RSI €150 million

OUTPUT• Leverage €6billion in R&I public-private

investment• 210,000 increase in employment• €75 billion GDP over 15 years

• Funding more than 1300 research projects,• Generate more than 170 000 collaborative links

among 15 500 participations worldwide

• Will fund more than 4 000 SME participations, • 40% of them directly invloved in high-tech

research areas such as ICT, Transport, Space, …

Over 900 individual researchers funded

Funding an estimated 14 800 fellows

Up to €1billion in loans for SMEs and small Mid-Caps

Who is the target?

All research actors in the EU and the Associated Countries:

• Universities

• Research organisations

• Public authorities

• Large industry

• SMEs

• Financial institutions

New special focus on key challenges (around €1.4 billion)

Important for citizens, important for Europe:• Oceans of the future• Water• Raw materials• Smart Cities• Secure clean and efficient energy• Improving delivery of Public Sector Services• Brain research• Anti-microbial resistance• Bio Resource Efficiency

Special focus on SMEs

More than 1.2 billion package- Cooperation: around €970 M allocated to the support of SMEs (includes €140 M for continuation of a pilot action dedicated to

SMEs in Health)- Capacities: €252 M "Research for the benefit of SMEs"

Risk-Sharing Finance Facility – Risk Sharing Instrument (RSFF - RSI)Cooperation: €150 million boost for RSI loan guarantee facility forSMEs / small mid-caps => leveraging €1 billion loans for R&I

Special focus on innovation

Exploitation of existing research results (at least €220 M)

Both EU and non-EU funded results. Five themes with specific actions

ERC “proof of concept” grants

Demonstration projects (at least €265 M)

13 dedicated demonstration topics in five themes in Cooperation

Prizes

• follow-up EU prize for Women Innovators

• support for organising competitions for innovative learning technologies

• European prize for innovation in Public Administrations

• Inducement prize from WP2012 call reminder (€2 M)

Widening participation: Pilot action on ERA chairs

ERA Chairs (€12 M)

• 5 ERA Chairs to build excellence in less developed regions

• Pilot to be launched in the Autumn to prepare for Horizon 2020

• ERA chairs = outstanding academics attracted by universities or institutions to build excellent teams

• ERA chairs host= institutions demonstrating the ability to support excellence (must provide excellent facilities and comply with ERA principles e.g. open recruitment)

Paving the way for Horizon 2020

• Promoting excellence, wherever it is found

• Focusing on strategic priorities

• Boosting innovation

• Helping firms move from idea to market

• Special attention for SMEs

FP7 funding to date…

• 19,000 projects funded (signed contracts)

• 79,000 participations of which 13,691 are SMEs (signed contracts - universities, research organisations, businesses)

• €25.3 billion EU contribution as of 16/02/2012 (signed contracts)

• An estimated 50,000 (Marie Skłodowska-Curie) and 5,000 (ERC) individual researchers' directly funded by the end of

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Participation per regions Europe

Country profile Romania

R&D intensity target 2%

Total number of participants, total EU financial contribution

685 participants receiving €93.058.970 in FP7

Number of applicants 4.888 (1.48% of EU-27)

Success rate (EU-27 = 21,5%) 14.4%

Total Population & EU 27 Population Share 21.413.815 (4.3% of EU-27)

Top collaborative links 1. DE - Germany (1.140) 2. IT - Italy (930) 3. UK - United Kingdom (857) 4. FR - France (853) 5. ES - Spain (768)

Participation per regions Romania

Success story

Drawing on Forest Resources to Aid Sustainable Manufacturing – FORBIOPLAST(FP7)

• New ways to save wood by-products - better use of wood, without chopping trees

• Industrial applications – innovative processes of interactions between wood and polymers (packaging, farming sectors)

• Reducing European dependency on fossil resources for the production of value-added products

• New jobs and growth in new markets for bio-based products

Total budget of the project: ~ 6 Mio €EU contribution: ~ 4,3 Mio € Coordinator: Universita di Pisa, ItalyRO partners: INCERPLAST SA – Bucharest; Universitatea De Stiinte Agronomice Si Medicina Veterinara – Bucharest; SC RODAX IMPEX SRL – BucharestPartners from: Germany, Italy, Belgium; Spain, Greece, Latvia, Romania, Hungary, Norway

Total budget of the project: ~ 6 Mio €EU contribution: ~ 4,3 Mio € Coordinator: Universita di Pisa, ItalyRO partners: INCERPLAST SA – Bucharest; Universitatea De Stiinte Agronomice Si Medicina Veterinara – Bucharest; SC RODAX IMPEX SRL – BucharestPartners from: Germany, Italy, Belgium; Spain, Greece, Latvia, Romania, Hungary, Norway

Some example of calls in Romania

• Transport

• GC.SST.2013-1: Feasibility analysis and technological

development of on-road charging for long term electric

vehicle range extension

• GC.SST.2013-4: Demonstration of electric buses as urban

public transport