FP7 School of Informatics, LFCS

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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]


• FP7• Co-operation programme• How to get involved• Ideas (European Research Council)• Marie Curie Actions

Overview


• 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)


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 ResearchersLifelong Learning and Career Development

Industry-Academia Partnerships and PathwaysThe International Dimension

Specific Actions

Starting Independent Researcher Grants

Advanced Investigator Grants

Co-operation

Ideas – European Research Council (ERC)

Capacities

People – Marie Curie


Co-operation


• Research and demonstration• Collaborative• Cost sharing (no profit)• Commission defined priorities• Innovative• European impact

Key aspects


• 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


• 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


• 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


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


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


• 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


Consortium

Application

Activities

Decision(via EC or Coord)

NegotiationProjectStart

Preparation ofGrant Agreement

AuthorisationProject Account

StaffRecruitment

ESR

GrantAgreement

ConsortiumAgreement

Budget Ranking

ConsortiumAgreement

Final Work

Programme

Application to Award Process


• 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


• 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


FP7 Information Days Work Programme Topic Funding scheme Deadline Proposal summary to EC/NCP Activities Partners Electronic Submission

Next Steps


Ideas - European Research Council


• Investigator-driven frontier research• Stimulate research excellence• Best, creative scientists, scholars and

engineers• Beyond established frontiers of knowledge

and boundaries of disciplines

Guiding principles


• 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)


• €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)


• Ground-breaking, high-risk research• Established scientists and scholars to pursue

frontier research• New productive lines of enquiry, methods and

techniques

Advanced Grants (1)


• €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)


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


People - Marie Curie


• 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


• 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


• 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)


• 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)


• 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)


Gordon MarshallResearch Support Advisor

Tel: 51 43 86Email: [email protected]

www.eri.ed.ac.uk

FP7: The Application Process &

University Support


Application Processing

The Application ProcessSupport at EdinburghExternal SupportContactsQuestions


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.


• Funding opportunities and tailored seminars• How to get involved• Proposal preparation• European Application Fund• Negotiation stage• Post-award

Support @ Edinburgh


• 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


• Angela Noble – Senior European Funding Advisor

• Gordon Marshall – Research Support Advisor

• Roshni Abedin - Research Support Assistant

• Janet Taylor - European Funding Advisor

Contacts


Any Questions?

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FP7 School of Informatics, LFCS