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European Research Funding
Opportunities
Cardiff School of Social Sciences
20 September 2010
Nick Bodycombe
European Office Manager
Eevi Laukkanen
European Officer
Research and Commercial Division
Cardiff University
Areas to be covered
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FP7 funding opportunities – brief overview
Other European funding opportunities
SOCSI’s current European projects
Building Consortia
WAG support for FP7 (& TSB) proposals
Conclusions & Suggestions
Information & Support
FP7 2007 – 2013
Specific Programmes
Co-operation – Collaborative Research
Ideas - European Research Council
People - Marie Curie Actions
Capacities – Research Capacity
Joint Research Centre (JRC)
EURATOM
The indicative breakdown (€ million) of FP7
Euratom €2751
JRC € 1751
Capacities €4721
People €4728
Cooperation €32 365
Ideas €7460
European Research Council
FP7 - IDEAS
What is the European Research Council (ERC)?
– New pan-European funding organisation
– Supports the best in Europe - scientists, engineers and scholars
– Funding of €7.51 billion (2007-13)
What are the aims of the ERC?
– Encourage highest quality research in Europe
– Competitive, flexible funding
– Retain, repatriate and recruit (career support)
What are the 3 ERC Grant Schemes?
– Starting Grants, Advanced Grants and Support Actions
• Support for a PI and (if necessary) team-members
• Investigator-initiated frontier research across all fields of
research, on the basis of scientific excellence
Funding Individual Teams =
International Collaboration NOT a requirement!
FP7 People - Marie Curie Actions
Objectives and Policy Context:
• Make Europe more attractive to researchers
• Strengthen human potential by: Encouraging people to become
researchers AND to carry out their research in Europe
• Trans-national and inter-sectoral mobility
Host Actions
Individual Actions
• Initial Training Networks (ITN)
• Intra- European Fellowships (IEF)
• Industry Academia Partnerships and • International Incoming Fellowships
Pathways (IAPP)
(IIF)
• International Research Staff
• International Outgoing Fellowships
Exchange Scheme (IRSES)
(IOF)
• Career Integration Grants (CIG)
Marie Curie – Individual Actions
Intra-European Fellowships (IEF)
International Incoming Fellowships (IIF)
International Outgoing Fellowships (IOF)
• Aimed at ‘Experienced researchers’:
• In possession of a PhD; OR
• At least 4 years (FTE) research experience
• Focus on skills diversification and knowledge sharing
• Researcher applies jointly with host(s)
• Fellowship grant made up of:
• Salary
• Mobility allowance
• Travel costs
• Career exploratory allowance
• Training / research costs
• Management / overheads
FP7 - Cooperation
SME
INCO
Collaborative
Research
1. Health
€6,100 M
2. Food, Agriculture, Fisheries & Biotechnology €1,935 M
3. ICT
€9,050 M
4. Nanosci, Nanotech, Material & Production Tech €3,475 M
5. Energy
6. Environment (including Climate Change)
€2,350 M
€1,900 M
7. Transport (including Aeronautics)
€4,160 M
8. Socio-Economic Sciences and Humanities
€ 623 M
9. Space
€1,430 M
10. Security
€1 400 M
Other SSH opportunities in FP7
FP7 Cooperation
Health; Food, Agriculture, Fisheries & Biotechnology; ICT;
Environment; Transport; Space; Security
• KBBE.2011.2.1-01: Strategies for improving communication between
social and consumer scientists, food technology developers and
consumers
• ENV.2011.4.2.1-1: Efficiency assessment of environmental policy tools
related to sustainability
• SEC-2011.6.5-2: The relationship between Human privacy and security
FP7 Capacities
Research Infrastructures; Science in Society; International
Cooperation
• INFRA-2011-1.1.4: Integrating Archives for research on contemporary
European Social History
• SiS.2011.111-1: Involvement of civil society organisations in research
http://www.net4society.eu/public/documents
SOCSI’s current European projects
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Prof Tom Horlick-Jones – PACHELBEL with CIEMAT (FP7 Cooperation /
Environment) - £128,966
Prof David Walters – Impact of emerging trends and risks on labour
inspection methodologies in the domain of occupational health and safety
(EC DG Employment, Social Affairs & Equal Opportunities tender) - £283,020
Dr Rhys Davies – Quality of Life in Ethnic Neighbourhoods in Europe
(EUROFOUND for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions tender)
- £11,474
Prof David Walters – ESENER (European Agency for Safety & Health at Work
tender) – £73,211
Dr Dean Stroud – Greening Technical VET with Technische Universitaet
Dortmund (Lifelong Learning Programme / Leonardo) - £27,887
Building your consortium..
How do I find partners?
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Existing contacts
FP6/7 Projects ( http://cordis.europa.eu/fp6/projects.htm &
http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/projects_en.html )
FP7 Networks of Excellence/COST networks
Info Days/networking events/conferences – in the UK & in Brussels etc…
NET4SOCIETY (Network of National Contact Points for SSH)
http://www.net4society.eu/public/
European Technology Platforms http://cordis.europa.eu/technologyplatforms
Evaluating: register with the EC as an evaluator for FP7 proposals:
https://cordis.europa.eu/emmfp7/
UK FP7 National Contact Points, UKRO, Welsh Higher Education Brussels
(WHEB), CORDIS etc…
An example of a networking event:
Prepare a proposal in SSH for the next FP7 call?
Start building your consortium in Istanbul, the 21st of September 2010
Adam Edwards (SOCSI) is attending this event on behalf of SOCSI
The “SSH Goes Global” event offers a meeting point for all stakeholders within the
“Socio-economic sciences and humanities” (SSH)
Receive first-hand information on the FP7-SSH-2011 Call
and meet potential project partners face to face!
The event focuses on 2 main themes with an international dimension:
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The European Union and its relations to the world
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Combating poverty in an international context
http://www.b2match.com/sshgoesglobal/
European Technology Platforms (ETPs)
& Joint Technology Initiatives (JTIs)
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ETPs (ca 35) provide a framework for stakeholders, led by industry, to
define research and development priorities (in the FP7 Co-operation
programme), timeframes and action plans on a number of strategically
important issues where achieving Europe's future growth, competitiveness
and sustainability objectives is dependent upon major research and
technological advances in the medium to long term.
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JTIs (mature ETPs) combine private sector investment and/or national and
European public funding, including grant funding from the Research
Framework Programme and loan finance from the European Investment
Bank eg: Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI); Embedded Computing
Systems (ARTEMIS); Aeronautics and Air Transport (Clean Sky);
Nanoelectronics Technologies 2020 (ENIAC); & Fuel Cells and Hydrogen
(FCH)
Also…
Wales European Collaboration Fund (FP7 & TSB)
Proposal Preparation assistance for getting external
support 50% re-imbursement
Travel Assistance for Identifying and building
consortia for FP7 projects & Negotiation of FP7
contracts  50% re-imbursement
BUT… in WAG R&D Priority Areas only!
Lisa Wheatley (Welsh Assembly Government)
Email: [email protected]
Tel: 029 2082 8863
Conclusions & Suggestions
• Plenty of opportunities for SOCSI to engage across many European
programmes – increasingly international in dimension – USA is biggest FP7
participant outside EU 27
• 69 FP7 funded projects so far across CU, worth ca £18.8mn in EC funding
(ca 50% of all FP7 funding in Wales so far)
• Collectively need a structured approach to this engagement – seems ‘ad
hoc’, and we don’t necessarily get feedback/intelligence from those
concentrating on their own fields of activity ie to look at the ‘bigger picture’
• Need to make better and more effective use of our membership of
Brussels-based organisations ie: i) UK Research Office (RCUK office in
Europe); ii) Welsh Higher Education Brussels (breadth of areas covered plus
lobbying); & iii) European University Association (at strategic level but
addressing all areas covered by UKRO and WHEB)
Information & Support
• UKRO Website: http://www.ukro.ac.uk (and UKRO information services:
http://ims.ukro.ac.uk )
• Welsh Higher Education Brussels: http://www.wheb.ac.uk/
• UK FP7: http://www.fp7uk.dti.gov.uk
• ERC (European Research Council): http://erc.europa.eu
• UK ERC NCP: http://www.ukro.ac.uk/erc/index.htm
• UK Marie Curie NCP: http//www.ukro.ac.uk/mariecurie/index.htm
• NET4SOCIETY http://www.net4society.eu/public/
• CORDIS: http://cordis.europa.eu/en/home.html
• European Technology Platforms: http://cordis.europa.eu/technologyplatforms
Research and Commercial Division
European Office
Nick Bodycombe
European Office Manager
tel: exts 70171/75834
email:
[email protected]
Eevi Laukkanen
European Officer
tel: exts 70114/75834
email:
[email protected]
Sian Jones
European Office Administrator
tel: exts 70171/75834
email: [email protected]