TALLERES INFORMATIVOS SOBRE HORIZONTE 2020La Innovación al servicio de un crecimiento sostenible

4 de noviembre de 2013

PITA - Parque Científico Tecnológico de Almería

Dra. Cynthia Giagnocavo

Faculty of Economics and Business

University of Almería

IAPP

• FP7 People Programme: Marie Curie Actions

• Marie Curie Industry-Academia Partnerships and Pathways (IAPP)

• FP7-PEOPLE- 2013-IAPP• FP7-PEOPLE- 2013-IAPP

C-BIRD

• Project full title: Cooperative Business and Innovative Rural Development: Synergies between Commercial and Academic PartnersInnovative Rural Development: Synergies between Commercial and Academic Partners

(PI-Emilio Galdeano-Gómez)

• Project start date: 01/01/2014

• Duration of the project: 47 months

• Amount: 597.664 Euros

Content of Project• Rural development in Europe is related to agricultural

development. The ultimate objective of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is to guarantee and promote sustainability of rural areas in social, economic and environmental aspects. However, scarce empirical evidence exists on how these goals are actually implemented and sustained in rural development processes and policy.

• Innovative role of cooperatives, and related rural actors (including academic institutions, commercial enterprises, NGOs, associations, etc.) in rural development as a useful tool to achieve such objectives and their importance in the “knowledge economy”.

• Quantitative and qualitative and case study analysis will be carried out in exchanges between industry and academic institutions in order to identify successful models and also to investigate rural development strategies in recently incorporated EU countries.

Partners

Universidad de CorkCork

IRLANDA

EURICSEEuropean Research Institute on

Cooperative and Social EnterpriseTrento

ESPAÑA

Universidad de AlmeríaCoexphalAlmería

Trakia UniversityAgroConsult Engineering Ltd.

Stara ZagoraBULGARIASERBIAITALIA

ZIP CenterBelgrado

Observador externoAsociación de

Organizaciones de Productores de Frutas

y Hortalizas de Andalucía (APROA)

AlmeríaObservador externo

Regional Economic DevelopmentAgency (SZREDA)

Stara Zagora

First Evaluation:

No. of proposals with grades:

• A 48

• B 56• B 56

• C 92

• D 110

• E 1

• Total 307

Key to provisional status of proposals:A: Proposal recommended for funding. It is positioned within the available budget.

Invited to enter into contract negotiation.

Negotiation takes place between the Research Executive Agency and the host institution.

B: Proposal on the reserve list. Funding available only after proposals from category A have

been withdrawn or failed negotiation.

C: Proposal of good quality. Having passed all thresholds but for which funding is not

available due to budgetary constraints. These proposals will be rejected.available due to budgetary constraints. These proposals will be rejected.

D: Proposal of insufficient quality. The proposal has failed the overall threshold or has

failed the threshold in one or more criteria. These proposals will be rejected.

E: Proposal not evaluated. Proposals under this category have not been taken into account

during evaluation for one of the following reasons:

• The proposal failed one or more administrative eligibility criteria.

• The proposal was a duplicate of another that was evaluated.

• The proposal was withdrawn by the applicant before the evaluation.

A successful proposal?

• If someone gave you 25 pages asking for

money, what would you want to see so you

can understand it and feel confident about

authorising several hundred thousand Euros?authorising several hundred thousand Euros?

Capture and Keep

• ABSTRACT OF ½ PAGE-MAKE IT GOOD-Use some“EU-lish”

• ORGANISATION according to “”Instruction to• ORGANISATION according to “”Instruction toApplicants” (Part A & B)!

• FOLLOW THE RULES! “The independent experts are instructed that proposals submitted must be evaluated exclusively against the published criteria.”

Read the programme documents until

you know them in your sleep….

Cover off all details… and anticipate

risks…

• Check EVALUATION CRITERIA (programme docs)

• REMEMBER that you have to hit the threshold in 4 areas:

• Scientific and Technical Quality (25%)• Transfer of Knowledge (30%)• Transfer of Knowledge (30%)• Implementation (20%)• Impact (25%)• Work out ALL the details

• Identify Risks and say how you will deal withthem

Can they trust that…?

• You know your topic…(bare minimum)

• You know who is doing what and when at alltimes in the project!times in the project!

• You know how to manage money

• You know how to manage people

• You know how to communicate what you are doing in imaginative ways

• You know how to tie this to the EU agenda

But what could go wrong?

Let’s take a look at something again:

• exchanges between industry and academic • exchanges between industry and academic institutions

• Market, Academic and Social interests

Leverage Relationships off other

projects• RECISE* – EU asked us to resubmit-Coord. failed &%$*-but

crucial project for future work• Euroempleo-Coexphal (Regional EU financed projects )-

leveraged!

• COMPOSE*-12.5/15 but no funding—crucial project!• Support for Farmers’ Cooperatives (27 countries)-network!• Support for Farmers’ Cooperatives (27 countries)-network!

• Int. Re. Coop (IRSES - Marie Curie) (12 partners)

• EUCoopCampus (Leonardo)(6 partners)

• Social finance in Europe: the funding of social enterprises and the role of social banks (COST Project)(15+ partners)

• + consortiums from unfunded projects, The Economist (TheGood Bank), International Year of Cooperatives (UN), Global Initiative Cooperative Leadership (U of Missouri, WorldBank, UN (FAO), USAid, etc.)

Work with People you Trust

• Build a network over time:Wageningen University (The Netherlands)Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium)Co-op College, Manchester (UK)Open University (UK)Cambridge (UK)Helsinki (Finland)Hamburg (Germany)Bielorusia

EURICSE/Fed. Trentina

United Nations-NYC (USA)Missouri University(Michael Cook, IFAPR, etc.) (USA)Univ. of Victoria (Canada)York University (Canada)Univ. of Sao Paolo (Brasil)

Armenia (ICARE)MongoliaChinaAustralia

EthiopiaSenegalMalawi

EURICSE/Fed. Trentina(Italy)University of Cork (Irland)Agri Research-AthensUniv. Grenoble (France)