Transcript Document

Edulink-AUDIS Seminar 4-6 June ‘08
Funding opportunities in FP7
Stijn Delauré, PhD
Research Coordination Office
Agenda
• FP7: EU’s instrument to fund research
– Intro on FP7
– Position of K.U.Leuven
– Who can participate?
• Opportunities for African universities
– Some examples
– Contact & websites
Intro to FP7
Annual EU RTD budgets 1984-2013
€ billion
Framework Programmes:
EU’s instrument to fund research & technological development
K.U.Leuven position
K.U.Leuven participation in FP6
WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITEIT
UNIVERSIDAD POLITECNICA DE MADRID
UNIVERSITEIT GENT
TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET MUENCHEN
RWTH AACHEN
THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH
UPPSALA UNIVERSITET
TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE ZUERICH
KAROLINSKA INSTITUTET
UNIVERSITAET STUTTGART
KUNGLIGA TEKNISKA HOEGSKOLAN
ECOLE POLYTECHN. FED. DE LAUSANNE
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON
IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON
KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN
LUNDS UNIVERSITET
UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE
0
50
100
150
200
250
aantal
deelnames
# participations
in FP6
Source: Admin. Science & Innovation, Fl. Gov – Febr 2007 report – 55% of FP6 budget allocated
Intro to FP7
7th Framework Programme (FP7)
Cooperation
Ideas
32413
7510
Collaborative research
Frontier Research (ERC)
10 thematic areas
Marie Curie Actions
People
4750
Research
Capacity
Nuclear
Research
2007-2013
50.5 billion€
JRC : 1751
Euratom
2751
Capacities
4097
K.U.Leuven position
K.U.Leuven in FP7 (2007)
Proposals
Total
Partner
Coordinator
279
114 (individual)
60 (multipartner)
453 (total)
339 (multipartner)
Success ratio of
multipartner proposals
Partner
Coordinator
19%
28%
Who can participate?
FP7: who can participate?
• Any university, company, research centre, organisation or
individual, legally established in:
– Member State (MS) = EU-27
– Associated countries (AC) → countries with science and technology
cooperation agreements that involved contributing to the FP-budget
(Norway, Switzerland, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Israel, Croatia, Turkey)
– Third Countries → countries that are no MS, Candidate or Associated
Countries. Special focus on ICPC - International Cooperation Partner
Countries
• International organisations and participants from third countries
can participate only if in addition to the minima
International Cooperation Partner Countries (ICPC)
ACP
- AFRICAN
• Angola
• Benin
• Botswana
• Burkina-Faso
• Burundi
• Cameroon
• Cape Verde
• Central African
Republic
• Chad
• Comoros
• Congo (Republic)
• Congo
(Democratic Rep.
of)
• Côte d’Ivoire
• Djibouti
• Equatorial
Guinea
• Eritrea
• Ethiopia
• Gabon
• Gambia
• Ghana
• Guinea
• Guinea-Bissau
• Kenya
• Lesotho
• Liberia
• Madagascar
• Malawi
• Mali
• Mauritania
• Mauritius
• Mozambique
• Namibia
• Niger
• Nigeria
• Rwanda
• Sao Tome and
Principe
Senegal
• Seychelles
• Sierra Leone
• Somalia
• South Africa
• Sudan
• Swaziland
• Tanzania
• Togo
• Uganda
• Zambia
• Zimbabwe
- CARIBBEAN
• Barbados
• Belize
• Cuba
• Dominica
• Dominican Rep.
• Grenada
• Guyana
• Haiti
• Jamaica
• Saint Kitts and
Nevis
• Saint Lucia
• Saint Vincent and
Grenadines
• Suriname
• Trinidad and
Tobago
- PACIFIC
• Cook Islands
• Timor Leste
• Fiji
• Kiribati
• Marshall Islands
• Micronesia,
Federal States of
• Nauru
• Niue
• Palau
• Papua New
Guinea
• Solomon Islands
• Tonga
• Tuvalu
• Vanuatu
• Samoa
ASIA
• Afghanistan
• Bangladesh
• Bhutan
• Burma/ Myanmar
• Cambodia
• China
• India
• Indonesia
• Iran
• Iraq
• Lao People's
Democratic
Republic
• Malaysia
• Maldives
• Mongolia
• Nepal
• Oman
• Pakistan
• Philippines
• Sri Lanka
• Thailand
• Vietnam
• Yemen
EASTERN
EUROPE AND
CENTRAL
ASIA (EECA)
• Armenia
• Azerbaijan
• Belarus
• Georgia
• Kazakhstan
• Kyrgyz
Republic
• Moldova
• Russia
• Tajikistan
• Turkmenistan
• Ukraine
• Uzbekistan
LATIN
AMERICA
• Argentina
• Bolivia
• Brazil
• Chile
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Ecuador
• El Salvador
• Guatemala
• Honduras
• Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Paraguay
• Peru
• Uruguay
• Venezuela
MEDITERRANEAN
PARTNER
COUNTRIES (MPC)
• Algeria
• Egypt
• Jordan
• Lebanon
• Libya
• Morocco
•
Palestinianadministered
areas
• Syrian Arab Rep.
• Tunisia
WESTERN
BALKAN
COUNTRIES
(WBC)
• Albania
• Bosnia-Herzegovina
• Former Yugoslav
Republic of Macedonia
(FYROM)
• Montenegro
• Serbia
Who can participate?
Conditions for participation
• Minimum condition: at least 3 independent participants from 3
different MS or AC
• Additional conditions: established in the work programme;
number or type of participant, place of establishment
• Specific conditions:
SICA = Specific International Cooperation Actions:
Collaborative Projects addressing ICPC participation
• minimum 4 participants: 2 MS or AC and 2 ICPC countries unless
otherwise foreseen in the work programme
Opportunities for Africa
Cooperation: 10 thematic priorities
Cooperation (32.4 billion €)
9. Space (1430 M€)
8. Socio-economic sciences &
humanities (610 M€)
7. Transport (4180 M€)
10. Security (1350 M€)
1. Health (6050 M€)
2. Food-AgricultureBiotechnology (1935 M€)
6. Environment (1900 M€)
5. Energy (2300 M€)
4. Nanosciences-MaterialsNewProduction (3500 M€)
3. ICT (9110 M€)
Opportunities for Africa
Cooperation: some SICA examples
• THINC (Prof. Zeger Debyser)
– “Targeting HIV integration co-factors, targeting cellural
proteins during nuclear import or integration of HIV”
– 1 ICPC: Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, University of
KwaZulu Natal, Durban, South-Africa (performing field study)
• RN4CAST (Prof. Walter Sermeus)
– “Nurse Forecasting: Human Resources Planning in Nursing”
– 3 ICPC, incl: University of Botswana & North-West University,
South-Africa (collecting data, test planning tool, disseminate)
Opportunities for Africa
Future SICA opportunities
• Health (deadline Oct/Nov 2008):
– Neglected infectious diseases (helminth, bacterial
– HIV, TBC, malaria
– Public health & health systems (improvement health care, better access
to medicines,…)
• KBBE (deadline early 2009)
– Optimisation of methods to maintain farm animal biodiversity
– Impact and development of Conservation Agriculture techniques in
developing countries
– Globalisation and trade impact on developing countries
– International food trade
• NMP (deadline early 2009)
– Novel membranes for water technologies
Opportunities for Africa
People – human potential
PhD
students
Marie Curie initial training of researchers
• Training network for predocs (~doctoral schools)
Life-long training and career development
• Intra-European Fellowship (postdoc mobility in EU)
• European Reintegration Grant (return grant)
postdocs
International dimension
• Outgoing/Incoming Fellowships (postdoc mobility + return)
• International Reintegration Grant (return grant)
• International Research Staff Exchange Scheme
industryacademia
Industria-academia pathways & partnerships
• Support for training & career development for researchers
• Universities/schools-HE + industry (in particular SMEs)
Opportunities for Africa
Capacities – research potential
Research infrastructures
Research for the benefit of SMEs
Regions of knowledge
Research potential
Science in society
Activities of international cooperation (INCO)
Opportunities for Africa
Capacities: INCO
• Activity 1: Bi-regional coordination of S&T cooperation including
priority setting and definition of S&T cooperation policies
– Reinforce policy dialogue structures; identify areas of joint interest
• Activity 2: Bilateral coordination for the enhancement and
development of S&T Partnerships
– Support actions, incl. sharing best practices, providing info on funding
• Activity 3: Supporting the coordination of national policies and
activities of Member States and Associated States on
international S&T cooperation
– Coordination of national policies (EU vs. ICPC)
Contact
More information
• FP7 - CORDIS
• http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7
• European Commission
• http://ec.europa.eu
• INCO portal
• http://cordis.europa.eu/inco
• National Contact Points in Third Countries
• http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/third-countries_en.html
• Careers / Fellowships
• http://ec.europa.eu/eracareers