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Towards FP 7
Preliminary orientations
Ezio Andreta
Director
Industrial Technologies
European Commission
DG Research
Bucharest, 17.01.2005
Disclaimer: Note that these slides are not legally binding and do not represent any
commitment on behalf of the European Commission
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Policy objectives:
an increasing role
for EU Research
Objective “Lisbon”: to become the most dynamic and most
competitive knowledge-based economy within 10 years
Objective “Göteborg”: sustainable development (environment,
health, economy, employment)
European Research Area (ERA): …Integrating, reinforcing,
structuring RTD capacities, improving coordination of policies,
overcoming fragmentation of efforts… and stimulating
investment in RTD (‘Barcelona’ target: 1,9% > 3,0% of GDP with
2/3 financed by private sector) and improved environment for
exploitation and commercial developments
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FP7- institutional debate:
where are we?
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Transnational collaborative research remains the core activity of
the FP and priority research topics identified on the basis of
competitiveness and other Community policy objectives
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Emphasis on industry-driven character of Technology Initiatives
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Overall support to Basic research activities and to a possible
new management mechanism to be set up (ERC?)
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Importance of attracting researchers to Europe
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Explore complementary funding mechanisms to support new
infrastructures (not only up-grading/access)
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Improved procedures and management
… Budget issue: still open….
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Proposals for the next
budgetary period 2007-13:
COM(2004) 101 – 26 February 2004
‘Policy challenges and budgetary means of the
Enlarged Union 2007-2013’
DRAFT
 Three priorities for the next financial
perspectives:
- Sustainable development (competitiveness,
cohesion and sustainable management and
protection of natural resources)
- EU citizenship (completion of an area of freedom,
justice, security and access to basic public goods)
- The EU as a global partner: its external relations
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Proposals for the next
budgetary period 2007-13:
COM(2004) 101 – 26 February 2004
Institutional debate: key issues
- RTD as a key element linking together competitiveness and
knowledge as well as sustainability, i.e.: an important pillar of the
Lisbon agenda
- Significant increase proposed in RTD expenditure (double FP6
budget ??)
- S&T excellence and equality of access: two fundamental criteria at EU
level
- EU added value of RTD expenditures in terms of ‘critical mass’ (large
RTD capacity needed and/or complementary knowledge and skills);
fostering excellence; improve integration/coordination
- Implementation modalities (simplification along the principle ‘one
instrument per policy, one fund per programme’)
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Experience with FP6
 Very high level of response and participation
 28,000 proposals and 150,000 institutions until now
 Budget fully committed
 Implementation is on track
 Approx. 250 Integrated Projects and Networks of
Excellence to date – across all Thematic Priorities
 Issues:
 Oversubscription
 Participation of New Member States and ACC
 Industrial and SME involvement
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Commission Communication
on future research policy
COM (2004) 353 – June 16, 2004
Six major objectives:
1. Creating EU centres of excellence through collaboration
between labs
2. Launching EU technological initiatives
3. Stimulating the creativity of basic research through
competition between teams at EU level
4. Making EU more attractive for the best researchers
5. Developing research infrastructures
6. Improving the coordination of national research programmes
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Commission Communication
on future research policy
COM (2004) 353 – June 16, 2004
“Science and technology,
the key to Europe’s future’
 Two different open consultations have been launched:
- A general one on COM 353: over 1700 replies; 97% in
favour of stronger support to EU RTD
- A more specific one aimed at identifying research themes in
FP7. Specific contributions can be sent via the Europa website
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Commission RTD policy
proposals – “key axes”
Technology
initiatives
Collaborative
research
Basic research,
competitive
funding
6 axes and two new research
fields: space and security
Coordination of
national
programmes
Human
resources
Research
infrastructures
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New approaches for FP7
European technology initiatives
Launching public private partnerships for research in key
technologies – strong industrial lead & impact
 Formation of “technology platforms” with key stakeholders
(e.g. Sustainable Chemistry)
 Definition of strategic research agendas
 Implementation of research agendas (“Technology
Initiative”) through :
 Support to collaborative research (e.g. Integrated
Projects); or…
 …a limited number based on Article 171 ( “joint
undertakings” - Council decision)
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New approaches for FP 7
European Research Council
A funding body with full autonomy, fully
accountable
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Support top EU teams against strong competition
“Investigator-driven” research (no pre-determined topics)
All fields of science & the humanities
Strict peer review – will drive up quality of EU science
First proposed in 2002; the debate continues (via EURAB,
ALLEA, EUROHORCS,…); now needs political commitment.
Structure & organisation …to be agreed and decided.
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Continuing and
reinforcing activities in FP7
Collaborative research
Creating European centres of excellence
through collaboration between laboratories
(universities, research centres and industries)
 Continuity with FP6, but with improvements,
 e.g. regarding instruments, procedures etc.
 Focused priorities
 Where European value added is greatest
 To support EU policy objectives
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Continuing and
reinforcing activities in FP7
Coordination of programmes
Improving the coordination of national and
regional research programmes
 Reinforce ERA-Net scheme and extend funding to
research activities
 Use of Article 169 ( … Member States can “go it
alone” – but “Co-decision” needed, therefore
potentially slow)
 Reinforce links with other European research
organisations
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Continuing and
reinforcing activities in FP7
Research infrastructures
Developing research infrastructure in the
European interest
 Continued support for transnational access, networking
and improved performance
 Support to construction and operation of new
infrastructures
 Role for “European Strategic Forum for Research
Infrastructures” (ESFRI)
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Continuing and
reinforcing activities in FP7
Human resources
Making Europe more attractive for the best
researchers
 Build on success of Marie Curie actions
 Trans-national, trans-sectoral, and industry-academia
mobility
 Research careers and life-long learning
 International dimension
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Meanwhile…
Where is the industrial world going ?...
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Manufacturing technologies:
a new focus on needs
Evolution of demand for – and response of – industrial research
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The rise of the creative class
 Creativity has been a fundamental strategic
issue in the last 50 years.
 Today it is not only a key issue for
enterprises and economic development but
also for all aspects of our lives.
 Therefore a creative class has been born
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A changed Europe
One of the major changes in Europe is the
Enlargement – extension of the the EU’s
geographical borders : this new scenario
presents increasing challenges, complexity
in all the aspects related to the industrial
and RTD world.
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Competitiveness
How competitiveness has changed ?
New players are revolutionising again the
global scenario we live in. In this revolution
Asian Countries are at the centre of a
geographical battlefield : especially China.
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Enterprises in Europe
 Enterprises in Europe are mainly SMEs:
typically they change slowly and do not
always have a strategic international long
term view.
 The Commission will continue to support
strategic SMEs through special funds and
special programmes.
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…Transforming industry
OLD
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Compact enterprise
Production chain
Mass production
Quantity driven
Resource-intensive
Production driven
Linear approach
(Taylorism in production)
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NEW
 Extended enterprise
 Network of suppliers
 Focus to added value
 Quality driven
 Brain intensive
 Demand driven
 Simultaneous approach
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Transition from a « traditional economy » based
on traditional resources to a new economy
based on knowledge
The triplet « land – labour - capital » is
replaced by knowledge – capital
…this implies moving from an economy of
‘quantity‘ to an economy of ‘quality’, from an
economy of ‘use and waste’ to a sustainable
economy
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Novel activities and the new generation of
high-tech industries are showing up on the
market
The shift from labour-intensive to
brain–intensive operations modifies
jobs and skills required
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SIX MAIN CHANGES:
• From linearity to complexity
• From individual to system competitiveness
• From resources-based to knowledge-based
economy
• From macro to micro
• From top down to bottom up production systems
• From mono-disciplinarity to trans-disciplinarity
and multi-disciplinarity
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Main challenges
 Ethics, health & safety
 Information + dialogue
 Acceptance
Societal
Issues
 Industries
 Universities
 Research inst.
Education
 Finance
and Training  Policy makers
A Competitive
R&D System
Knowledge
Generation
Encourage
Innovation
 Interdisciplinarity
 Entrepreneurship
Infrastructure
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 Fiscality
 Finance
 Patents, IPRs
 Norms/regulations
 Administrative rules
 Demand
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Institutional adaptation:
The Constitution for Europe
 Section 9 – Research and Technological Development
and Space – Art. III-248
The Union shall aim to strengthen its scientific and
technological bases by achieving a European
research area in which researchers, scientific knowledge
and technology circulate freely, and encourage it to
become more competitive, including in its industry,
while promoting all the research activities deemed
necessary by virtue of other Chapters of the Constitution
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Conclusions
 Creativity is a decisive source of competitive
advantage.
 Creativity is multidimensional and it appears in many
pervasive forms. It is also the most highly prized
commodity.
 Today it is also a characteristic of geographical
places. In the age of technology geography is not
dead : high tech firms concentrate where highly
creative people like to live.
 For this reasons it is important that countries and
regions to support creativity stimulating at all levels
a high quality of life.
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Janez Potocnick
RTD Commissioner
mid term review of Lisbon strategies
10 Dec. 2004
“….We want a Europe (in which) our best and
possibly unique factor of competitiveness and
prosperity (is) the creativity of our
citizens….Not only the brains of our elites but
the creativity and the participation of all our
citizens…. ».