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FP7School of Informatics, LFCS
Gordon MarshallResearch Support Advisor
Tel: 51 4386Email: [email protected]
Angela NobleSenior European Funding Advisor
Tel: 50 9024Email: [email protected]
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• FP7
• Co-operation programme
• How to get involved
• Ideas (European Research Council)
• Marie Curie Actions
Overview
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• European Commission’s funding programme for R&D
• 10 themes, health to environment and transport
• Total budget of €50.5B for 7 years
• Designed to enhance competitiveness of Europe
through collaborative research and supporting activity
Framework Programme 7 (FP7)
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Health
Food, Agriculture and Biotechnology
Information and Communication Technologies
Energy
Environment (including Climate Change)
Transport
Socio-Economic Sciences and the Humanities
Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new
Production Technologies
Security and Space
Research Infrastructures
Research for the BenefitOf SMEs
Regions of Knowledge
Research Potential
Science in Society
Activities of InternationalCo-operation
Coherent Developmentof Policies
Initial Training of Researchers
Lifelong Learning and Career Development
Industry-Academia Partnerships and Pathways
The International Dimension
Specific Actions
Starting Independent Researcher Grants
Advanced Investigator Grants
Co-operation
Ideas – European Research Council (ERC)
Capacities
People – Marie Curie
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Co-operation
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• Research and demonstration
• Collaborative
• Cost sharing (no profit)
• Commission defined priorities
• Innovative
• European impact
Key aspects
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• Developing new contacts, networks and opportunities
• Discovering new ideas and solutions
• Learning from experiences of others
• Access to facilities and knowledge
• Prestige and profile
• Career development for employees
Benefits of participation
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• Improve the competitiveness of European industry.
• Enable Europe to master and shape future developments in
ICT.
• Meet the demands of European society and economy.
• Strengthen Europe’s scientific and technology base,
ensuring its global leadership in ICT.
• Help to reduce the digital divide and social exlusion.
ICT Theme Objectives
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• Cognitive systems and robotics
• Technologies for Digital Content and Languages
• Digital Preservation
• ICT for Health, Ageing Well, Inclusion and Governance
• Virtual Physiological Human
• ICT for Learning and Access to Cultural Resources
• ICT for access to cultural resources
• Future and Emerging Technologies
• FET Proactive
2012 Call 9 overview
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5.2 Virtual Physiological Human – Patient-specific predictive computer-based models and simulation
Key points:• Either IP or STREP (IP average budget €10M, STREP average
budget €2M)• One or more proposals will be selected• single-stage call• FP7-ICT-2011-9 = 17 April 2012
Focus:• Integrating medical, biological and environmental data.• Enabling the development of predictive models and simulation for
understanding the evolution and progression of major diseases.• Accelerated developments of medical knowledge discovery and
management through exploration of environmental factors in predictive models of diseases.
Challenge 5: ICT for Health, Ageing Well, Inclusion and Governance
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8.2 ICT for access to cultural resources – Technologies for creating personalised and engaging digital cultural experiences
Key points:• Either IP or STREP (IP average budget €10M, STREP average
budget €2M)• One or more proposals will be selected• single-stage call• FP7-ICT-2011-9 = 17 April 2012
Focus:• Address adaptability of systems for personalised interaction with users.• Improve user engagement with cultural resources (e.g. context-aware
artefacts, enhanced interfaces – with features such as story-telling, gaming and learning).
• Affordability and widespread availability to a wider range of users.
Challenge 8: ICT for Learning and Access to Cultural Resources
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• Joint Technology Initiatives (JTI)• ENIAC JTI in nanoelectronics on industrial application-driven
developments for next generation technologies.• ARTEMIS JTI developing industrial platforms for embedded
systems responding to industry requirements.• Ambient Assisted Living – market-oriented R&D on solutions
for ageing-well.• Public Private Partnerships (PPPs)
• Energy Efficient Buildings; Factories of the Future; Green Cars
• Cooperation; Marie Curie; Ideas• Competitiveness and Innovation Programme (CIP)
Other ICT related EU funding sources
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Consortium
Application
Activities
Decision(via EC or Coord)
Negotiation
ProjectStart
Preparation ofGrant Agreement
AuthorisationProject Account
StaffRecruitment
ESR
GrantAgreement
ConsortiumAgreement
Budget Ranking
ConsortiumAgreement
Final Work
Programme
Application to Award Process
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• Do you need to control the project?
• What excellence do you have to offer?
• Do the timescales fit for you?
• Who needs and complements it?
• Do you know existing participants?
Newcomers to FP
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• Become an evaluator
• Attend ICT related conferences and workshops
• Visit EC project officers in Brussels
• Hold workshops in Brussels
• EC Advisory Groups
http://ec.europa.eu/research/fp7/index_en.cfm?pg=eag
How to get involved
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FP7 Information Days Work Programme Topic Funding scheme Deadline Proposal summary to EC/NCP Activities Partners Electronic Submission
Next Steps
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Ideas - European Research Council
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FP7 – Summary www.eri.ed.ac.uk
• Investigator-driven frontier research
• Stimulate research excellence
• Best, creative scientists, scholars and
engineers
• Beyond established frontiers of knowledge
and boundaries of disciplines
Guiding principles
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• Boost excellent researchers in independent
careers
• Support for researchers at a critical stage of either
starting or consolidating their own independent
team or programme
• Also, new research activity from PIs moving from
third countries
Starting Grants (1)
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• €1.5M per project over 5 years
• At least 2 and up to 12 years since first PhD
• At least 1 important publication without
supervision
• 2-stage application (submitted at stage 1)
• Interview
Starting Grants (2)
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• Ground-breaking, high-risk research
• Established scientists and scholars to pursue
frontier research
• New productive lines of enquiry, methods and
techniques
Advanced Grants (1)
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• €2.5M per project over 5 years
• Co-I no longer possible
• 10 year track record
• 2-stage application (submitted at stage 1)
• No interview
Advanced Grants (2)
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Group of Principal Investigators Complementary skills, knowledge and
resources Jointly address research problems Interdisciplinary €15M for up to 6 years Min 2 and max 4 PIs Single submission with 2-step evaluation
Synergy Grants
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People - Marie Curie
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• Human resource development in R&D in Europe
• Numerous, well-trained, motivated researchers
• Attract students to research careers• Skills and sustainable career development• Bottom-up
Guiding principles
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• Individual fellowships• Intra-European Fellowships• Outgoing International fellowships• International Incoming fellowship• Career Integration Grants
• Industry/Research Institutions• Initial Training Networks
• Multi-ITNs• Innovative Doctoral Programmes• European Industrial Doctorates
Types of grant
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FP7 – Summary www.eri.ed.ac.uk
• Aimed at ‘experienced researchers’
• Researchers must be based in EU, must move from one EU
country to another
• Project duration 12-24 months
• Resuming a career in research
• Attaining or strengthening professional independence
• Skills diversification
Intra-European Fellowships (IEF)
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• Must be a national of an EU member state of Associated
country
• Project duration 24-36 months a total of which (12-24
months) is spent in a third country with a mandatory return
phase
• Acquiring new knowledge in third country – bringing it back
to EU
• Contract is between European host and the Commission
International Outgoing Fellowships (IOF)
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• Open to researchers who are based in third
countries
• Project duration is 12 to 24 months
• Optional reintegration phase for nationals of
International cooperation partner countries
• Knowledge-sharing
• Mutually-beneficial research co-operation
International Incoming Fellowships (IIF)
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Gordon MarshallResearch Support Advisor
Tel: 51 43 86Email: [email protected]
www.eri.ed.ac.uk
FP7: The Application Process &
University Support
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Application Processing
The Application Process
Support at Edinburgh
External Support
Contacts
Questions
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The Application Process
Call specific – check guide for applicant• Varies – some calls have two stages others just one!• Start early as possible and set a realistic start date –
12 months is usually enough.• Application – Negotiation (GPF/recosting) – Award
(CA/ GA/ GA accession form – Annex 1 – Finance pack
Who submits? • The co-ordinator of the project presses the submit
button rather than ERI.
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• Funding opportunities and tailored seminars
• How to get involved
• Proposal preparation
• European Application Fund
• Negotiation stage
• Post-award
Support @ Edinburgh
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• UKRO
• Annual Visits
• Events on proposal writing, management
• NCP for ERC and Marie Curie
• NCPs and EC
• General guidance on call topics
• Review abstracts
External Support
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• Angela Noble – Senior European Funding Advisor
• Gordon Marshall – Research Support Advisor
• Roshni Abedin - Research Support Assistant
• Janet Taylor - European Funding Advisor
Contacts
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Any Questions?