Transcript IAPP - UL 19-05-2009

Marie Curie Industry-Academia
Partnerships and Pathways (IAPP)
Dr Dagmar Meyer
Marie Curie National Contact Point
University of Limerick, 19th May 2009
www.iua.ie
Basic features of IAPP
• What are Industry-Academia Partnerships and
Pathways (IAPP)?
– simple funding mechanism for partnerships between
commercial and non-commercial research performing
organisations
– based on a common research project designed to
exploit complementary expertise and create synergies
– bottom-up approach (no predefined priority areas)
– project duration typically 4 years with the aim to
develop long-term collaborations
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What does the funding
cover?
• Funding is provided for
– exchange of know-how and experience through intersector secondments of research staff
– research and networking activities (including workshops
and conferences involving external participants)
• Optionally:
– recruitment of experienced researchers from outside
the partnership, for transfer of knowledge and/or
training of researchers
– for SMEs: research equipment (up to 10% of the EC
contribution for each SME participant) in duly justified
cases
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Experiences from first
two calls
• 2007 (budget €38.5m):
– 102 proposals across Europe, 2 with Irish coordinators
– 41 projects invited to negotiations, 5 on reserve list
(success rate: 40% !!)
– no successful Irish applicant
• 2008 (budget €45m):
– 141 proposals across Europe, 9 with Irish coordinators
– 41 invited to negotiations, 10 on reserve list (success
rate 29%)
– 5 (+ 1 from reserve list) of the 9 Irish proposals
successful, 14 successful Irish participations in total
• Budget for 2009 call: €65m (increase of 44%!!)
• Deadline: 27 July 2009 (no call in 2010 WP!!)
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Who can apply?
• Consortium composition – basic rules
– at least two partners from two different Member
States or Associated Countries
– of these: one commercial partner, one noncommercial partner
– more partners can be added, from either sector, from
any country (including Third Countries)
– most common size 2-3 partners, rarely more than
6-7 partners (first call: 1 successful proposal with
13, one with 15 partners)
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Definition of
“commercial sector”
• Examples for “commercial partners”
– commercial enterprises (big or small companies;
SMEs, spin-offs, start-ups etc. particularly encouraged)
– national organisations (if operating on a commercial
basis)
• Basic requirement (cf. Work Programme):
– “Within this scheme, the commercial partners must be
companies gaining the majority of their revenue through
competitive means with exposure to commercial
markets, and will include incubators, start-ups and spinoffs, venture capital companies, etc.”
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Definition of
“non-commercial sector”
• Examples for “non-commercial partners”
– national organisations (e.g. universities & IoT’s, public
non-commercial research centres etc.)
– non-profit / charitable organisations (NGOs, trusts, etc.)
– International European Interest Organisations
(e.g. CERN, EMBL)
– Joint Research Centre of the European Commission
– International Organisations (e.g. WHO, UNESCO, etc.;
funding subject to certain conditions)
• Any organisation that does not count as
commercial partner
– if in doubt, contact us for clarification!
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Location of participating
organisations
• Where can the organisations be located?
– Member States (MS)
• there are now 27 EU member states
– Associated Countries (AC)
• There are now 12 ACs: Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, Israel,
Switzerland, Croatia, FYR Macedonia, Serbia, Turkey,
Montenegro, Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina
– Third Countries (TC)
• more than 140 International Cooperation Partner Countries
(ICPC), e.g. South Africa, India, China, Russia, … (can be
fully funded)
• other Third Countries (OTC), e.g. USA, Canada, Australia,
New Zealand, Japan, South Korea… (normally self-funded)
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Staff secondments (I)
• Staff secondments between partners from
different sectors
– main focus of the scheme
– researchers of any level of experience are eligible
(including post-graduate students, e.g. for summer
placements)
– technical and managerial staff in well justified cases
– no nationality restrictions, but in general the usual
mobility condition applies
– secondments must in general be trans-national, but
up to 30% of person months in the consortium can be
used for intra-national secondments
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Staff secondments (II)
• Duration of secondments:
– between 2 months and 2 years (cumulative over
the lifetime of the project, can be split into shorter
periods)
• Previous activity in the seconding
organisation and reintegration
– participating staff must have been active in
seconding organisation for at least one year prior to
the secondment
– mandatory reintegration of at least one year after the
final secondment period (not funded by the project)
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Staff secondments (III)
• Balance between partners
– ideally, secondments should be reasonably balanced
between partners, but no expectation that they must be
symmetrical as in one-for-one exchange
• One-way secondments not excluded if well
justified (cf. Guide for Applicants):
– “A consortium could make a good case for having more
secondment months from one sector (a large university
department for example) to the other sector (a small company,
where researchers are relatively few). Moreover, projects with
secondments in only one direction are not excluded where there
is a clear mutual benefit for both sectors, and where the
consortium duly justifies this one-way exchange.”
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Staff secondments (IV)
• Flexibility regarding who pays the salary
– budget in principle allocated to the hosting organisation
(for determining the country coefficient etc.), BUT:
– administrative flexibility as to who actually pays the
salaries out to seconded researchers
– seconded researchers can stay on payroll of home
organisation, avoiding problems with social security
contributions and benefits, tax, pensions etc.
– must be agreed on by the consortium partners in
consortium agreement
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Recruitment of
researchers
• Recruitment of researchers from outside the
consortium
– optional and must be justified
– at the level of the consortium not more person
months for recruitment than for secondments!
– only experienced researchers are eligible (e.g. postdocs or senior researchers)
– technical or managerial staff not eligible
– duration 12 – 24 months (split stays possible only in
very exceptional cases, e.g. for family reasons)
– no nationality condition anymore
– mobility conditions apply
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Nationality and mobility
conditions
• Nationality condition
– there is no nationality condition anymore (in particular,
researchers can be recruited in their country of
nationality)
• Mobility condition
– researchers/staff members must not have spent more
than 12 months within the last 3 years prior to the
secondment/recruitment in the host country
• International Organisations:
– no mobility condition applies, but researchers cannot
have spent more than 12 months in the previous 3
years in their host organisation
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Allowances to the
researchers
• Living allowance (including all mandatory deductions) –
basic rate submitted to country-specific correction
coefficient (Ireland: 113.3)
Experience level
Employment
contract (€/year)
Stipend
(€/year)
Early Stage Researchers (e.g. post-graduate students)
35,300
17,650
Experienced Researchers with up to 10 years exp.
54,300
27,150
Experienced Researchers with >10 years experience
81,400
40,700
• Mobility allowance (basic rate €500/€800 monthly,
depending on family situation, submitted to country coeff.)
• Travel allowance (€250 - €2500 for every 12 months
period or fraction thereof, depending on distance)
• Career exploratory allowance (€2,000 once, only for
newly recruited researchers)
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Contributions to the
consortium members (I)
• Contribution for the execution of the
partnership project/programme
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€1200 per person month, covering:
costs associated to publication of vacancies/interviews
internal training actions
participation in research and transfer of knowledge
activities (research costs, participation in meetings and
conference attendance, etc.)
– workshops and events (invitation of keynote speakers,
publications, rental of premises, etc.)
– contribution to the expenses related to the
co-ordination between participants (partnership
meetings, detachment of staff, etc.)
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Contributions to the
consortium members (II)
• Management activities
– max. 3% of total Community contribution
• Overheads
– flat rate 10% of direct costs except subcontracting
• for SMEs:
– research equipment (up to 10% of the EC contribution
for each SME participant) in duly justified cases
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Indicative timetable for
IAPP scheme
Publication of call
24 April 2009
27 July 2009, at 17:00:00
Deadline for submission of proposals Brussels time
(i.e. 16:00:00 Irish time!!)
Evaluation of proposals
October 2009
Evaluation Summary Reports sent to
November 2009
proposal coordinators
Invitation for grant agreement
December 2009
negotiations
Letter to unsuccessful candidates
from December 2009
Signature of first grant agreements
from February 2010
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Before the submission
• Applicants will need a “PIC” number (Participant
Identification Code) – not mandatory at proposal
stage but will facilitate the filing of A forms and
handling of proposal by Commission (if
successful, all participants have to get a PIC).
• Commercial sector coordinators should check
their financial viability first (follow instructions in
Guide for Applicants).
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Submission procedure
• Only electronic submission using EPSS
(Electronic Proposal Submission Service)
• Proposal has two parts:
– Part A: administrative information about proposal,
coordinator and partner institutions (prepared forms)
– Part B: free text covering a number of predefined
aspects of the project, limited number of pages
(prescribed font size and margins), limited size of
pdf-file (for this call: 30 pages, 11pt, 15mm margins)
• Deadline is STRICTLY enforced
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Evaluation – basic
principles
• Evaluation according to criteria provided in the Guide for
Applicants
• Different criteria carry different weights
• Thresholds for some evaluation criteria
• Overall threshold is 70%
• All issues need to be addressed! Don’t waste your
chances.
• Always keep in mind the objectives of the activity!
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Evaluation process
• All proposals undergo initial eligibility check
• Evaluation by at least three experts from an international
pool (not all experts are exactly from your field of
speciality!!)
• Proposals that miss a threshold are rejected
• Remaining proposals are ranked within each panel
• Distribution of funding to different panels in proportion to
proposals submitted
• All applicants receive evaluation summary report (very
useful for re-submission!!)
• Reserve lists in case of late withdrawal etc.
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Evaluation criteria
Overview:
Criterion
Threshold (out of 5)
Weighting (%)
S&T Quality
3
25
Transfer of Knowledge
3
20
Implementation
3
25
Impact
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30
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IAPP – S&T Quality
• S&T objectives of the research programme,
including in terms of intersectoral issues.
• Scientific quality of the joint collaborative
research programme.
• Appropriateness of the research methodology.
• Originality and innovative aspects of the
research programme; knowledge of the state-ofthe-art.
• Weight: 25%, Threshold: 3/5
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IAPP – Transfer of
Knowledge
• Quality of the transfer of knowledge programme;
consistency with the research programme.
• Importance of the transfer of knowledge in terms
of intersectorial issues.
• Adequacy of the role of researchers exchanged
and recruited from outside the partnership with
respect to the transfer of knowledge programme.
• Weight: 20%, Threshold: 3/5
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IAPP – Implementation
• Capacities (expertise / human resources / facilities /
infrastructure) to achieve the research and exchange of
know-how and experience. Fit between capacity of host and
size of support requested.
• Adequate exploitation of complementarities and synergies
among partners in terms of transfer of knowledge.
• Appropriateness of management plans (recruitment
strategy, IPR strategy, demarcation of responsibilities, rules
for decision making etc…).
• How essential is non-ICPC Third Country participation, if
any, to the objectives of the knowledge transfer programme.
• Weight: 25%, Threshold: 3/5
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IAPP – Impact
• Provision to develop new intersectorial and lasting
collaboration.
• Strategy for the dissemination and facilitation of sharing
of knowledge and culture between the participants and
external researchers (including international workshops,
training events).
• Extent to which SMEs contribute to the project.
• In case of SME participation: Adequacy of the available
infrastructure for the performance of the project. In
case extra equipment is requested, necessity and
justification in the context of the partnership.
• Weight: 30%, Threshold: none
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More information
Official website of the FP7 “People” (Marie Curie)
programme on CORDIS:
http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/people/
Follow the link to
“Find calls for this activity”
to download the Work Programme 2009 and the
Guide for Applicants 2009 (call page accessible
from 24 April 2009)
Deadline: 27 July 2009
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EI support for FP7 applicants:
travel grants
• Enterprise Ireland travel support:
– for researchers in higher education / publicly funded
institutions
– for visits by Irish researchers abroad to meet potential
partners or attendance at EU information
days/workshops relating to FP7
– covers least-cost travel plus subsistence rates up to
€ 150 per day (typical length of visits: three days)
– Limit of € 3,000 over the period of FP7 has been
abolished to allow for multiple visits – you can apply
as often as you like!
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EI support for FP7 applicants:
coordination grants
• Enterprise Ireland coordinator support:
– for researchers in higher education / publicly funded
institutions
– to facilitate preparatory work leading to a proposal for
the coordination of any research project under FP7
– grants up to a maximum of € 25,000
– for coordinator (or internal approved staff) least cost
travel and subsistence expenses, costs of hosting
meetings, communication costs with consortium
members, employment of researcher for short-term
analysis, professional services in preparation of
application, strategy development and planning
– replacement teaching costs in well justified cases
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EI support for FP7 applicants:
feasibility studies
• Enterprise Ireland financial support for
companies:
– covers company negotiations with research partners
and/or preparation of joint R&D proposal for FP7
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Salaries
Overheads (30% of salaries)
Travel & subsistence
Consultancy fees
– covers all areas (incl. Social Sciences etc.)
– grants to Enterprise Ireland clients up to a max of €
25,000 (with equal investment by the company)
• Similar scheme in place for IDA client
companies
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EI support for FP7 applicants:
more details
More details on financial support is available on
the Irish FP7 Portal at:
http://www.fp7ireland.com/Page.aspx?SP=225
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Meeting room facilities
in Brussels
Irish Liaison Office
for EU RTD
meeting room bookings:
Catriona Ward
EU R&D Liaison Office
Park Leopold
Rue Wiertz 50 Wiertzstraat
Bruxelles 1050 Brussel
Tel. +32 (0)2 673 9866
[email protected]
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Marie Curie key contacts
in Ireland
IUA Marie Curie Office –
National Contact Point/National Delegate
Dr. Dagmar Meyer - [email protected]
Dr. Conor O’Carroll - [email protected]
[email protected]
+353-(0)1-6764948
Enterprise Ireland – National Contact Point
Bill Kee - Focus on Industry
[email protected]
+353-(0)1-7272277
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