Prof' Jerzy Buzek

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Structural Funds for Supporting RD on mobile
communications in the New Member States and
Acceding and Candidate Countries
Prof. Jerzy Buzek MEP, Committee of Industry,
Research and Energy Raporteur for 7th Framework
Programme
Warsaw, 16 October 2006
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Lisbon Strategy - 2000

• to become by 2010 the most dynamic and
  competitive knowledge-based economy in the world
  capable of sustainable economic growth with more
  and better jobs and greater social cohesion and
  respect for the environment
• triangle of knowledge
• education research - innovation

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Source European Innovation Scoreboard 2005
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Current Performance
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UNLOCKING EXISTING RD POTENTIAL IN ALL REGIONS
1 point 1 participant
PARTICIPANTS IN NoE (2003)
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Renewed Lisbon Strategy

• The Wim Kok Report has identified as one
• of the top five areas of the development
• of a knowledge-based society policy.
• The following actions were recommended

• making Europe more attractive for its best
  brains
• setting up of an area of research and
  innovation
• boosting spending on RD - 3 of GDP
• promoting new technologies,

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Triangle of Knowledge
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Growing Budget of the Framework Programmes
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7th Framework Programme
Cooperation
Ideas
People
Capacities
JRC
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INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES IN 7th
EU FRAMEWORK

• OBJECTIVE
• Improving industry competitiveness
• Mastering and shaping future ICT developments
• Meeting society and economy demands
• Strengthening EU scientific and technology base
• Ensuring european global leadership in ICT

(cooperation priority 3)
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Eastern dimension of FP7Amendments proposed by
the EP

• I COOPERATION
• "Raising the competitiveness of European
  research requires that the potential across the
  whole European Research Area is fully unlocked.
  Therefore, projects aiming at scientific
  excellence, while fostering a true European
  Research Area through the formation of
  broad-based consortia, will explore possibilities
  for optimal use of human and financial resources."

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Eastern dimension of FP7Amendments proposed by
the EP

• III PEOPLE
• "In order to further facilitate researchers'
  mobility and interregional mobility (including
  within the same country), the activities funded
  by the Structural Funds and other instruments
  will be coordinated with those carried out under
  the seventh Framework Programme."
• The actions envisaged under the seventh
  Framework Programme will include special measures
  to encourage early-stage researchers and support
  early stages of scientific career, as well as
  measures to reduce the brain drain, such as
  reintegration grant to assist the return and
  reintegration of research workers.

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The conference on Research and Innovation
anOpportunity for Convergence Regionsand Using
Structural Funds organised by Jerzy Buzek, MEP
Warsaw, 13 February 2006

• Prof. Jerzy Buzek hosted
• Janez POTOCNIK, European Commissioner for Science
  and Research
• Danuta Hübner, European Commissioner for Regional
  Policy

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Eastern dimension of FP7Amendments proposed by
the EP

• IV CAPACITIES
• As far as the construction of new
  infrastructures is concerned, the potential for
  scientific excellence in the convergence regions
  as well as the outermost regions should be taken
  into account. The efficient coordination of the
  Community financial instruments, Framework
  Programmes and Structural Funds in particular,
  will be ensured.

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Eastern dimension of FP7 European Commission
Proposal

• IV CAPACITIES
• RESEARCH POTENTIAL
• the whole chapter dedicated towards
  convergence regions with the budget of 340 mln
  euro
• Objective
• Stimulating the realisation of the full research
  potential of the enlarged Union by unlocking and
  developing the research potential in the EUs
  convergence regions and outermost regions, and
  helping to strengthen the capacities of their
  researchers to successfully participate in
  research activities at EU level.

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Eastern dimension of FP7Amendments proposed by
the EP

• IV CAPACITIES
• bringing science and society closer together for
  the harmonious integration of science and
  technology in European society enabling EU,
  national or regional information help desks to
  provide SMEs, industry and knowledge institutions
  with all relevant information on the seventh
  Framework Programme, the Competitiveness and
  Innovation Framework Programme and the Structural
  Funds

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Eastern dimension of FP7Amendments proposed by
the EP

• IV CAPACITIES
• coordination of research policies, including
  trans-national cooperation initiatives undertaken
  at national or regional level on issues of common
  interest. Special attention will be paid to (a) a
  synergetic approach to the development of
  research potential in combination with
  innovation-driven Structural Funds and programmes
  and (b) the reduction of administrative and
  physical obstacles to effective cross-border
  cooperation between regions from different Member
  States and the development of combined research
  and innovation capacity.

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Eastern dimension of FP7Amendments proposed by
the EP

• IV CAPACITIES
• In order to support the dissemination of
  knowledge the application of a system of
  "knowledge vouchers" for SMEs financed at Member
  States level might prove a useful instrument.
  Knowledge and know-how which can be directly
  transformed into innovative commercial products
  may be offered to SMEs free of any charge through
  a national or regional system of "knowledge
  vouchers" for SMEs, thus enhancing the capacity
  of SMEs to innovate. "Knowledge vouchers" may
  profit from EU funding under the seventh
  Framework Programme and the Structural Funds
  (under the "regional competitiveness and
  employment" objective).
• Projects should be targeted on smaller project
  consortia and SMEs. For this purpose, projects
  with simple, short and quick procedures, devoid
  of complex financial principles and unnecessary
  reporting will be introduced.

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Structural Funds for Supporting RD on mobile
communications in the New Member States and
Acceding and Candidate Countries
Prof. Jerzy Buzek MEP, Committee of Industry,
Research and Energy Raporteur for 7th Framework
Programme
Warsaw, 16 October 2006

• Thank you
• for
• your attention