Transcript OBJECTIVE FOR THE AGENCY ( ART. 2)

6th Framework Programme on
Research
Alun JONES
EU Network Manager
European Agency for Safety and
Health at Work
6th Framework Programme for
Research
• No specific section on Occupational
Safety and Health
• Community strategy emphasis on
foreseeing new and emerging risks
• EP Employment Committee call for
OSH Research as part of 6th
Framework
OSH as part of the 6th Framework
Programme
• Development of individual Work
Programmes in each of the 8 Thematic
priorities
• Potential for OSH Research in following
Thematic Priorities:
• Information Society Technologies (workplace design
and work organization)
• Hazard/risk Control and Safe Production Processes and
Devices
• Priority 8 – policy support (environment and OSH
section)
• Priority 7 – Knowledge Society (quality of working life
and work organisation)?
• Health (occupational cancer)
• SME research (OSH element)
Tools available under 6th
Framework Programme (I)
Networks of Excellence
• critical mass of research resources and
expertise - concentrated in a living network
of leading research organisations where
information is shared, exchanged and
developed
• new information will result but not primary
objective which is the pooling of existing
expertise
• European leadership and world force –joint
programme of activities –durable
integration of research capacities
Tools available under 6th
Framework Programme (II)
Integrated Projects
• critical mass of activities and resources
needed to achieve ambitious clearly
defined scientific and technological
objectives
• objective driven research where primary
deliverable is new knowledge
• grouping together of more limited number
of research organizations, industry
partners, etc to achieve objective
Tools available under 6th
Framework Programme (III)
Research for policy support
• Specific Targeted Projects and
Coordination Actions objective driven
research where primary deliverable is new
knowledge
SME specific research
• 2 specific schemes for SMEs: Co-operative
Research ("CRAFT") and Collective
Research - large community of SMEs with
a capacity to innovate but with inadequate
research capabilities
Tools available under 6th
Framework Programme (IV)
Co-ordinating several Member State
research activities
• (i.e. national research programmes) under
article 169 – new tool mainly for principle
areas of research, such as “European and
Developing Countries Clinical Trials
Partnership – OSH relevance not certain
Others
• studies, conferences, seminars, etc. to be
defined according to needs
Key deadlines – “call for proposals”
• First deadline for “call for proposals”
– from 1st December 2003
• Remaining deadlines over 2003 - 2004
period
• Published in official journal of the
European Communities
• Agency will explore possibility of
developing role of providing
information about Commission “calls
for proposals” via its news service
functions