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Community Research
European Commission
EU environmental research:
Current activities and future
prospects
Nikolaos Christoforides
European Commission, DG Research I.1
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Content of presentation
FP6:
results of the first two calls
New policy drivers
3rd call for proposals
New Communication on the future of
European research
Conclusions
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Results of the first two FP6 calls
Learning phase for IPs
From
1 to 2 stage evaluation
Dimension and coherence of the proposals
Learning phase for NoEs
Reasonable
size corresponding to a credible integration
Differences from CAs
STREPs
Choice
of the “up-to-two” for STREPs
Participation not satisfactory
New
Member States, Candidate Countries, Third Countries,
SMEs and Industrial partners, smaller players
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New policy drivers (1)
The
Communication on the Environmental
Technology Action Plan (ETAP), with three
main actions for DG RTD:
Increase and focus research on
environmental technologies
Technology Platforms (Water, sustainable
chemistry)
European Testing and Verification
networks for environmental technologies
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New policy drivers (2)
The Environment & Health Action Plan
 13 action points: e.g.
 Action 2: develop integrated monitoring of the environment to
determine human exposure
 Action 5: integrate and strengthen European environment and
health research
The launch of the GEO (Group on Earth Observations)
process
 GEO established at the last EO Summit, Washington, July 03
 GEO to coordinate world efforts and to prepare a 10y
implementation plan
 DG RTD Director General (A.Mitsos) nominated as co-chairman
 Next EO summit in Brussels on February 05 to launch the 10y
action plan
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Consequences for the 3rd call
A more technology-oriented Work Programme
New subjects connected with the political initiatives:
ETAP
Environment
and Health Action Plan
The GEO process
Emphasis on:
New
Member States and Candidate Countries
International Co-operation – participation of third countries
Participation of SMEs
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3rd Call – Sub-Area I
Impacts and mechanisms of greenhouse
gas emissions …
3 IPs
Nitrogen
cycle and its interaction with the C-cycle
Adaptation and mitigation strategies
The past climate and its dynamics
1 STREP Area
Ocean-atmospheric-chemistry interactions
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3rd Call – Sub-Area II
Water Cycle and Soil-related aspects
 6 IPs:
 Assessing the
vulnerability of global water resources to environmental
change
 Advances in flood and drought forecasting
 IntegratedrRisk-based soil/water management
 Integrated urban water management
 Technologies and systems for drinking water
Technologies !
 4 STREP areas:
 Twinning European/Latin American
river basins
 Membrane bio-reactors for municipal wastewater
 Sewage sludge treatment, disposal and re-use
 Water reclamation and artificial groundwater recharge
 2 indications of SSA topics:
 Technology Platform on
water supply and sanitation
 Technology Platform on Sustainable Chemistry
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3rd Call – Sub-Area III
Biodiversity and Ecosystems
Networks of Excellence
Taxonomy
for biodiversity and ecosystem research
Genomics for terrestrial biodiversity and ecosystem research
Integrated Project
Shaping
biodiversity conservation strategies for terrestrial
and freshwater ecosystems
STREPs and CAs
Technologies and
risk assessment in pollution disaster areas
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3rd Call – Sub-Area IV
Mechanisms of desertification and
natural disasters
Integrated Project
Integrated forest
fire management
STREPs
Volcanic
risk assessment
Long-term forecasting of landslides hazards and avalanches
Suggested topics for SSAs
Desertification: from
science towards application
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3rd Call – Sub-Area V
Strategies for sustainable land
management
Integrated Projects
Integrated Coastal
Zone Management (ICZM)
Development and application of integrated approach and
tools for sustainability of forest status, management and
production
Co-ordination Action
Present
state of knowledge relevant to ICZM (1 only)
STREP/CA
Education and
training for sustainability impact assessment
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3rd Call – Sub-Area VI
Operational forecasting and modelling,
including global climatic change
observation systems
Integrated Project
Earth
System Observations
Indication of topics for SSAs
Enhancing co-operation between Europe
and developing
countries within the context of global earth observation
systems (GEO)
Exploitation of results of research projects relevant to the
Group on Earth Observations (GEO)
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3rd Call – Sub-Area VII
Complementary research
Integrated Project
Integrated assessment
of environmental stressor, their
interactions and development of methods and models for
evaluation of combined human exposures
Co-ordination Action
Environmental analysis
and monitoring of emerging
environmental pollutants
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3rd Call – Sub-Area VIII
Cross-cutting issues
STREPs or CAs
Testing
networks for environmental technologies (ETAP)
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3rd Call – Sub-Area IX
Specific Support Actions
SSAs
Desertification :
from science towards application
Technology Platform on Water Supply and Sanitation
Technology Platform on Sustainable Chemistry
Complex Environmental Systems
Actions such as the European Network for Research in
Global Change (ENRICH)
Enhancing co-operation between Europe and the developing
countries within the context of global earth observation
systems (GEO)
Exploitation of results of research projects relevant to Group
on Earth Observations (GEO)
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3rd Call – Other information
Budget allocation
New
Instruments
STREPs and CAs
Specific Support Actions
150 M€
50 M€
5 M€
Timetable
Publication 16
June 2004
Closure date 26 October 2004 at 17:00 Brussels time
Evaluation system for the NI
2 stages for IP-NoE
 1st stage outline 15 p. max, few criteria of evaluation (for IP:
relevance, potential impact, S/T excellence; for NoE: relevance,
degree of integration and the JPA)
 Indicative closure of 2nd stage 15 March 2005
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New Communication on EU research:
experience with FP6
Very high level of response and participation
 28,000 proposals and 150,000 institutions
Implementation on track
 200 IPs and NoEs to date
Concerns:
Oversubscription
New
instruments
Engagement of industry in some areas
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Information
To build on current EU Research: www.cordis.lu
Information on FP6:
europa.eu.int/comm/research/nfp.html
FP6 Instruments:
europa.eu.int/comm/research/nfp/networks-ip.html
Expressions of Interest: www.cordis.lu/fp6/eoiinstruments
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