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What’s new?

Main new elements compared to FP6: Duration increased from five to seven years

• except for Euratom FP

Annual budget increased significantly

Basic research (~ €1 billion per year)

New structure: cooperation, ideas, people, capacities

Flexible funding schemes

Joint Technology Initiatives

Simpler procedures

Logistical and administrative tasks external structures

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FP7 2007 –2013 | Specific Programmes

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Ideas – Frontier Research

Capacities – Research Capacity

People – Marie Curie Actions

Cooperation – Collaborative research

JRC non-nuclear research

Euratom direct actions – JRC nuclear research

Euratom indirect actions – nuclear fusion and fission research

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Cooperation – Collaborative Research

1. Health

2. Food, agriculture and fisheries, and biotechnology

3. Information and communication technologies

4. Nanosciences, nanotechnologies, materialsand new production technologies

5. Energy

6. Environment (including climate change)

7. Transport (including aeronautics)

8. Socio-economic sciences and the humanities

9. Space

10. Security

Euratom: Fusion energy research, nuclear fissionand radiation protection

Ten themes

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Potential Joint Technology Initiatives

Other possible themesto be identified later…

Hydrogen and Fuel Cells

Aeronautics and Air Transport

Global Monitoring for Environment

and Security

Embedded Computing Systems

Innovative Medicines

Nanoelectronics

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Coordination of non-Community research programmes (1)

Coordination of national and regional programmes actions will use the tools: ERA-NET ERA-NET PLUS Article 169

May cover subjects beyond the ten themes

Coordination with European programmes Addresses principally intergovernmental structures such as

EUREKA, COST, EIROFORUM, etc.

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Coordination of non-Community research programmes (2)

ERA-NET scheme in FP7

Close links with FP7 research priorities (NEW!)

Implemented under Cooperation and Capacities (NEW!)

In addition, support for actions of a horizontal nature or not directly linked to Cooperation or Capacities

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Coordination of non-Community research programmes (3) ERA-NET Like in FP6: Coordination of programmes MS agree and fund joint calls/programmes EU funding only for coordination

ERA-NET Plus New in FP7: To up of a single joint call MS contribute to a joint trans-national call 2/3 EU funding for research: 1/3 of the joint call

Art. 169 Full integration of national programmes Scientific and financial: strong EU funding Single implementing structure

Metrology

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Ideas – Frontier Research (1)

Establish European Research Council (ERC) – the first pan-European funding agency for Frontier Research

Budget ~ €1bn p.a. (2007-2013 ~ €7.46)

Autonomous scientific governance (Scientific Council)

Support projects of individual teams

Support investigator-driven frontier research over all areas of research

Excellence as sole criterion

Simple, user-friendly

European added-value through competition at European level

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Ideas – Frontier Research (2)ERC Starting Grant: support researchers at the start of their independent

research career and establishing or consolidating their own independent research team (or research programme)

provide a structure for transition from working under a supervisor to an independent research leader

~ €100 000 – €400 000 per year

for up to 5 years, i.e. ~ €500 000 - €2 000 000 per Grant

~ €300M per call (~ ⅓ of ERC annual budget, annual calls)

~200 Starting Grants per year, ~1200 + Starting Grants over

7 years of FP7 (2007-2013)

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Ideas – Frontier Research (3)

ERC Advanced Grant: Designed to support excellent investigator-initiated research

projects by established independent research leaders

Complement the ERC Starting Grant scheme by targeting researchers who have already established their

independence as team leaders

~ €100 000- €500 000 per year

for up to 5 years, i.e. ~ €500 000 - €2 500 000 per grant

~ €600M per call (~⅔ of ERC annual budget, annual calls)

~ 300 Advanced Grants per year

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Ideas – Frontier Research (4)

ERC budget 2007-2013:

Total (FP7 Ideas budget): € 7.51 bn

≈1/3 Starting Grants, ≈ 2/3 Advanced Grants

Less than 5% for operational ERC management

1st Call: StG only, Jan 2007, € 300 Mio. April 25, 2007

Budget allocated to three areas (Physical Sciences & Engineering – 45%, Biological & Life Sciences – 40%, Social Scineces & Humanities – 15%)

2nd Call: AdG only, August 2007, € 550 Mio.

3rd call onwards: StG + AdG ≈ € 1.0 bn per year

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* Open to third-country nationals

People – Marie Curie Actions

Initial training of researchers Marie Curie Networks*

Life-long training and career development Individual Fellowships Co-financing of regional/national/international programmes

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

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Capacities – Research Capacity

1. Research infrastructures

2. Research for the benefit of SMEs

3. Regions of Knowledge

4. Research Potential

5. Science in Society

6. Coherent development of policies

7. Activities of International Cooperation

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1. Research Infrastructures

Support to existing research infrastructures: Integrating activities Research e-infrastructures

Support to new research infrastructures: Construction of new research infrastructures and major

updates of existing ones Design studies

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7. Activities of International Cooperation

‘Horizontal’ support actions and measures not carried out in the Cooperation or People programmes

Two interdependent objectives:

Support competitiveness through strategic partnerships with third countries in selected

fields

Address specific problems that third countries face or

that have a global character,on the basis of mutual interest

and mutual benefit

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JRC – Research-based policy support

Five policy themes for FP7

Sustainable growth

Conservation and management of natural resources

Citizenship

External responsibility and global security

Euratom programme

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FP7 budget (€ 50 521 million, current prices)

€ million

Cooperation, 32 413

Ideas, 7 510

People, 4 750

Capacities, 4 097 JRC (EC), 1 751

Note: Euratom FP: €2.7 billion over 5 years - not included above

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Information

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

Seventh Framework Programme: 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/

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