standard INTAS presentation

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• INTAS Young Scientists Fellowships Programme and
  other activities
• International Workshop
• INTERNATIONAL ACADEMIC MOBILITY RUSSIA AND THE
  EU
• Moscow, 23 June 2006
• Yuri Melnikov
• Scientific Officer
• International Association for the promotion of
  co-operation with scientists from
• the New Independent States of the former Soviet
  Union (NIS)
• 58/8 Avenue des Arts, B - 1000 Brussels
• T 32 2 549 01 11 - F 32 2 549 01 56
• info_at_intas.be - www.intas.be

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INTAS

• Non-profit International Association for the
  promotion of
• scientific cooperation between researchers in
  the NIS its
• member states
• 1993 European Community, EU Member States
  like
• minded countries
• Helps preserve scientific potential in the NIS
  through
• international cooperation

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Austria
United Kingdom
Belgium
Sweden
Cyprus
Czech Republic
Spain
Armenia
Denmark
Slovenia
Uzbekistan
Estonia
Slovakia
Azerbaijan
Finland
Ukraine
Portugal
France
Belarus
Poland
Germany
Netherlands
Greece
Georgia
Turkmenistan
Malta
Hungary
Luxembourg
Ireland
Kazakstan
Tajikistan
Lithuania
Italy
Latvia
Russia
Kyrgyzstan
Moldova
Israel
Iceland
Romania
Bulgaria
Switzerland
Turkey
Norway
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STRUCTURE
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INTAS Secretariat
Functional Management
Scientific Officers and Administrative Assistants
Executive Secretary
Scientific Officer for Physical Sciences
(particle, nuclear, astrophysics, lasers, and
plasmas)
Administrative Assistants
Information Systems Manager
Personal Assistant
Finance Manager
Network Officer
Scientific Officer for Information Technologies,
Condenced Matter Physics, and Materials
Assistant
Logistics Officer
Legal Advisor
Scientific Officer for Mathematics
External Relations
Scientific Officer for Chemistry
Public Relations Officer
External Relations Manager
Scientific Officer for Life Sciences
Advisor for relations with the NIS
Programme Manager ININ
Scientific Officer forEarth Sciences Environment
Scientific Policy and Horizontal Tools
Scientific Officer forSpace, Aeronautics,
andEngineering
Programme Manager Secretary of the CS
Administrative officer
Scientific Officer for Economic, Social, and
Human Sciences
Programme Manager Innovation E-library
Assistant
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ACTIONS and POLICY (1)

• Supports multilateral partnerships between
  research institutes, universities industry in
  the NIS and the INTAS member states
• Funds fundamental or applied research in all
  areas of exact, natural and human sciences
• Offers grants aimed at enabling scientists to
  engage in international scientific cooperation,
  with particular focus on young scientists.

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ACTIONS and POLICY (2)

• Submission of project proposals and individual
  grant applications in the frame of calls and
  selection by peer review on the basis of
  scientific quality, good management, mutual
  benefit socio-economic relevance
• INTAS developed tailor-made, targeted programmes
  instruments suited to country-specific needs in
  post-Soviet science
• INTAS developed flexible co-funding arrangements,
  involving partners both from INTAS member
  countries and NIS partner countries.

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INTAS Young Scientists Fellowships Programme
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INTAS Young Scientists FellowshipsProgramme

• Started in 2000
• Supported gt 1200 Young Scientists from NIS
• Complementary to the EC Marie-Curie Programme and
  the ERC Grant Programme
• Allows flexible co-funding schemes
• Provides three lateral benefits for Fellows,
  their host NIS institutions, and INTAS
  institutions

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INTAS YSF Programme Basic Principles

• A scientist must be 35 years of age or less
• A scientist must be a citizen and permanent
  resident of a NIS
• The duration of an INTAS fellowship is two years,
  to carry out research in an NIS scientific
  institution and during two visits at a scientific
  institution in an INTAS member state
• INTAS fellowship grants consist of a basic
  fellowship grant, covering the full 2-year
  period, a living cost allowance, whilst in the
  INTAS countries, and a travel grant, covering the
  travel costs incurred

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INTAS YSF Programme PhD Fellowships

• Eligible for INTAS PhD Fellowships are young
  scientists already registered as working towards
  a PhD degree (equivalent to a candidate degree in
  the NIS) at a NIS scientific organisation for at
  least another two years after the start of the
  fellowship.
• The total duration of the two visits at the INTAS
  host organisation must be between 4 and 8 months
  over the 2-year period of the fellowship, none of
  which being shorter than two months.
• The applicant must be recommended by his/her PhD
  supervisor in the NIS and by an INTAS supervisor,
  who holds a senior research position at his/her
  organisation and is prepared to host the fellow
  at his/her INTAS institute during
  training/working visits.
• Applications for PhD fellowships will be accepted
  even if the PhD work (including PhD thesis
  defence) is completed earlier than two years
  after the start of the fellowship, provided the
  supervisor confirms that, upon PhD completion,
  the applicant may continue to work as a scientist
  in the institution.

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INTAS YSF Programme Post-doctoral Fellowships

• Eligible for postdoctoral fellowships are those
  scientists holding a doctoral or candidate degree
  and wishing to continue their research at a NIS
  institution according to a work programme of high
  scientific quality.
• The applicant must hold a research position at a
  NIS institution and must have signed at least
  three scientific publications in peer-reviewed
  scientific journals. S/he must be recommended by
  a supervisor in his/her NIS institution and by an
  INTAS supervisor, who is prepared to host him/her
  at an INTAS institute during working visits. Both
  supervisors must hold senior research positions
  at their organisation.
• The total duration of the two visits abroad must
  be between 6 and 12 months over the 2-year period
  of the fellowship, none of which being shorter
  than two months.

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INTAS YSF Programme Three lateral benefits
Young Scientist Fellow

• Gets support for a young team member
• Gets a possibility to train a young team member
  internationally
• Establishes contacts with INTAS research teams
  and creates collaborations for future research

• Receives a young scientist to carry out research
  of mutual interest
• Establishes contacts with NIS research team and
  creates collaborations for future research

• Gets support for a PhD or a Postdoc Programme
• Advances his/her career via international
  collaboration
• Stabilises his/her position and continues
  research in the NIS

Institution(s) at an INTAS country(ies)
accommodating a Fellow
Host Institution of a Fellow in a NIS
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INTAS YSF Programme Evaluation of Fellowship
Applications

• The selection of the applications for funding is
  based on a peer-review procedure. First,
  independent experts assess the merits of the
  submitted applications. Then the INTAS Council of
  Scientists consolidates the results of this
  external evaluation and decides finally on the
  selection of fellows.

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INTAS YSF Programme Fundamental principles of
evaluation

• Quality. Fellowships selected for funding must
  demonstrate a high scientific, technical, and
  managerial quality in the context of the
  objectives of INTAS.
• Transparency. The process for reaching funding
  decisions will be clearly described and available
  to any interested party. In addition, adequate
  feedback will be provided to proposers on the
  outcome of the evaluation of their applications.
• Equality of treatment. All applications shall be
  treated alike, irrespective of where they
  originate or the identity of the proposers.
• Impartiality. All applications are treated
  impartially on their merits evaluated against
  published criteria.
• Efficiency and Speed. The procedures will be as
  rapid as possible commensurate with maintaining
  the quality of the evaluation.
• Ethical considerations. Any application that
  contravenes fundamental ethical principles may be
  excluded from being evaluated and selected at any
  time.
• Reasonable chance of success. The evaluation and
  selection procedures should respect a reasonable
  ratio between the effort needed for preparing and
  submitting an application and the expected chance
  of getting funded.

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INTAS YSF Programme Evaluation criteria (1)

• The evaluators are requested to assess project
  proposals against a set of criteria, each of
  which may be awarded a maximum of 5 points
  according to the following scale 0irrelevant to
  the call or information missing 1 poor 2
  fair 3 good 4 very good 5 excellent.
• The full set of criteria for fellowships projects
  includes the merit of the proposed research, the
  merit of the fellowship programme including
  collaboration, the merit of the consortium, and
  the merit of the management and feasibility.

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INTAS YSF Programme Evaluation criteria (2)

• Merit of the research programme (maximum score
  20)
• Appropriateness and Objectives Are the
  scientific objectives well described? How clearly
  explained is the research programme? Is it well
  focussed on the research objectives?
• Novelty and Relevance How novel and promising is
  the proposed research? What is the relevance and
  importance of the proposed research from a
  scientific, economic and/ or social point of
  view?
• Methodologies How appropriate are the applied
  methodologies including interdisciplinary
  approach to reach the objectives?
• Feasibility and Planning How can the objectives
  realistically be achieved in the time frame
  proposed? How appropriate and realistic is the
  proposed workflow and time schedule?

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INTAS YSF Programme Evaluation criteria (3)

• Merit of the fellowship programme and
  collaborative activities (maximum score 20)
• Quality of collaboration How is the quality of
  the collaboration and the training programme
  including the complementary work to be done
  within the (one or two) host organisation(s)?
• Benefit for the fellow What is the expected
  benefit for the fellow from the proposed
  collaborative activities?
• Benefit for host institutions What is the
  benefit for the host institutions from the
  proposed collaborative activities? Does the
  fellowship stimulate new and/or important
  collaborations?
• Benefit on European dimension Is there a
  European benefit from the collaboration, does it
  contribute to improve the competitiveness of
  European research? Does it match European
  priorities or other objectives? Does it support
  structuring effects etc.

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INTAS YSF Programme Evaluation criteria (4)

• Merit of the institutions involved (maximum
  score 20)
• NIS host organisation Quality of the NIS host
  organisation and supervisor? Does it provide the
  scientific competence for a successful completion
  of the fellowship? What are the quality and
  appropriateness of the research infrastructures
  and facilities?
• INTAS host organisation Quality of the NIS host
  organisation and supervisor, does it provide the
  scientific competence for a successful completion
  of the fellowship? What are the quality and
  appropriateness of the research infrastructures
  and facilities?
• Relevance of Partnership Do the institutions
  involved jointly constitute a consortium of high
  quality of relevance for the objectives of the
  programme?
• Technical Resources If relevant, does the
  consortium provide the technical resources
  including research infrastructures needed for
  carrying out the tasks?

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INTAS YSF Programme Evaluation criteria (5)

• Merit of the applicant (maximum score 20)
• Education How appropriate is the education to
  meet the aims of the project?
• Scientific Excellence Quality of the applicants
  scientific performance
• Appropriateness Relevance of expertise with
  respect to the tasks and resources mobilised for
  reaching the objectives
• Prospects Interests in sustainable collaboration
  with the applicant?

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INTAS YSF Programme Collaborative Calls

• Collaborative Calls implement co-funding of YSFs
  by INTAS and other organisations from any INTAS
  Member State or NIS
• Allow increase of total funding
• Eligibility criteria and the scope take into
  account the priorities of co-funding organisation
• YSF Collaborative Calls 2006 with
• Azerbaijan (National Academy of Sciences)
• Kazakhstan (Al Farabi Kazakh National University)
• Russian Federation (Council of Rectors of Tomsk
  Region Universities)
• Ukraine (Ministry of Education and Science)
• Uzbekistan (Science and Technologies Center).

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INTAS YSF Programme Co-sponsoring scheme

• INTAS welcomes co-sponsoring partner
  institutions ready to provide financial or
  in-kind support for already launched young
  scientists fellowships.
• 25 Partner institutions from 10 INTAS countries
  have expressed their readiness to host young
  scientists from the NIS for several months over
  the 2-year duration of a fellowship and to
  co-fund fellowships (totally gt 62 YSFs) in 2006

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INTAS YSF Programme Co-sponsoring organisations
in 2006 (1)
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INTAS YSF Programme Co-sponsoring organisations
in 2006 (2)
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INTAS YSF Programme Co-sponsoring organisations
in 2006 (3)
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INTAS YSF Programme Co-sponsoring organisations
in 2006 (4)
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INTAS YSF Programme Complementarity to the EC
Marie-Curie Programme and the ERC Grant Programme

• Directly addresses young scientists from NIS
  institutions
• Aimed in international training of young
  scientist fellows without interruption of their
  research activity at NIS institutions
• Promotes future research of young scientists at
  NIS institutions
• Establishes new links and perspectives for
  collaboration between INTAS and NIS institutions
• Allows flexible financial schemes, including
  Collaborative Calls with INTAS and NIS
  organisations and involvement of co-funding INTAS
  institutions

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INTAS YSF Programme in 2006
In 2006 INTAS has launched 6 YSF Calls with a
total budget of approximately 2.4 million. This
will allow to grant about 160 YS Fellowships
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INTAS Other Activities
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CALLS 1992 - 2006

• INTAS launched 74 Calls
• 10 Open Calls for project proposals
• 11 Thematic Calls for project proposals
• 26 Collaborative Calls for project proposals
• 18 Young Scientist Fellowship calls (incl. 11
  joint calls)
• 5 Innovation Grant Calls
• 16 Other Support Actions.

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FUNDING

• European Community through the Framework
  Programme
• (INternational COoperation)
• FP6 2002 - 2006 70 M Euro
• In kind (staff) and financial contributions from
  some
• members
• Financial contribution from co-sponsors in
  jointly funded
• projects
• 2002 2006 9 M Euro

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IMPACT (1992 2004)

• 253 million Euro provided funding for
• 2,800 research projects networks
• 15,800 teams of scientists
• 45 innovation grants
• gt 1,200 young scientists fellowships
• 281 conferences workshops
• 66 summer schools
• 33 infrastructure actions.

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ACTIVITIES 2005

• Scientific Policy Workshops 0.3 M
• Open Call (2005-2006) 12.0 M
• Call Genomics and proteomics 1.5 M
• Call Hydrogen and biomass for energy 1.5 M
• Call Moldova 1.0 M
• Call CERN 1.5 M
• Young Scientist Fellowships Calls 3.1 M
• Summer Schools support 0.3 M
• Innovation Grants 1.0 M
• Additional Support Actions 0.5 M

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INTAS Activities for 2006

• Scientific Policy Workshops 0.13 M
• Thematic Call on Earth Sciences and Environment
  0.9 M
• Collaborative Call with Siberian Branch of the
  RAS
• 1.72 M
• Collaborative Call with South-Caucasian
  Republics 1.85 M
• Collaborative Call with CNES NSAU on Space
  Tech. 1.2 M
• Collaborative Call with GSI on FAIR
  1.0 M
• Open Call for YSF Grants 1.65 M
• Collaborative Call for YSF grants with NIS
  partners 0.74 M
• Innovation Grants with NIF (Kazakhstan)
  0.5 M
• Innovation Grants with FASIE (Russia)
  0.5 M

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OTHER SUPPORT ACTIONS

• In addition to Project grants and Young
  Scientist Fellowship grants, INTAS
• Offers support to Summer Schools other training
  activities
• Awards Conference Organisation Grants and
  Conference Individual Grants
• Supports small-scale Infrastructure actions
• Supports E-library

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CONCLUSION INTAS ASSETS AND ADDED VALUE

• Autonomy and simple management structure
• Integrated management of the different
  activities (projects, fellowships, other support
  actions
• Tailor-made, targeted programmes instruments
  adapted to an evolving context
• Flexible co-funding arrangements
• In general Versatility, Responsiveness,
  Flexibility.

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CONTACT US

58/8 Avenue des Arts B-1000 Brussels,
Belgium Tel [phone] Fax
32-2-5490156 info_at_intas.be www.intas.be