Coordination of national programmes Outlook towards FP7 The role of the Eurohorcs

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Coordination of national programmes Outlook
towards FP7The role of the Eurohorcs
European Commission Research DG
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Weaknesses in basic research in Europe

• 5 main concerns
• Training and Mobility
• Research Infrastructures
• Cohesion
• Excellence 
• Fragmentation
•  Europe and basic research  COM(2004)9
  final. 14 January 2004

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Weaknesses in basic research in Europe

• 5 main concerns
• Training and Mobility
• Research Infrastructures
• Cohesion
• Excellence
• Fragmentation

• 5 main solutions
• Marie-Curie Scheme
• Research Infrastructures policy, role of ESFRI
• Capacity building under Structural Funds
• ERC
• Coordination of programmes

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Science Technology, the key to Europes future
- Key axes FP7
6 axes
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Coordination of national programmes

• European Research Area (ERA) Reduction of
  Fragmentation
• Coordination of national programmes - Three
  initiatives under FP6
• CREST initiative - Mutual Opening of national
  programmes
• ERA-NET scheme
• Article 169

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CREST initiative

• March 2002 CREST- 5 pilot actions launched
  (Plant Genomics,
  Chemistry, Marine Science, Complexity,
  Astrophysics)
• Lessons learned
• Need for information exchange is recognised
• Strategic decision by Member States required
• Need for an appropriate organisational frame (4
  running ERA-NETs)

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ERA-NET scheme

• Fully new scheme under FP6
• - 150 million in FP6 (open call for proposals)
• - Two cut offs with 117 proposals and 55 running
  contracts
• Lessons learned
• Big success !
• Participants are ministries, research councils
  and agencies
• All MS involved, however geographical
  differences in participation
• NO funding for joint actions is perceived as a
  weakness

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Article 169

• First example to use Article 169 under FP6
• European and Developing Countries Clinical
  Trials Partnership (EDCTP)
• - 14 participating MS plus Norway, 400 million
  funding from MS and COM
• Single common structure - EEIG
• Lessons learned
• Article 169 success depends on political
  relevance, broad participation, added value at EU
  level, scientific relevance, relevance for the FP
• Objectives can not as efficiently be reached by
  using other instruments
• Time-consuming decision procedure

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Future Perspectives towards FP7

• Reinforcement of the Coordination of national
  programmes
• activities
• CREST full use of its mandate
• ERA-NET Reinforced scheme ERA-NET-PLUS
• Article 169 New pilot initiatives

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Full use of CREST mandate in FP7

• CREST activities on coordination of national
  programmes
• should focus on
• Identifying new areas for programme coordination
• Identifying and analysing potential legal and
  administrative
• barriers for effective programme coordination

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ERA-NET-PLUS in FP7

• Reinforcement of the ERA-NET scheme under FP7
• Continuity of the ERA-NET scheme as key
  instrument for
• coordination of programmes (new topics)
• Broadening and deepening the scope of running
  ERA-NETs
• ERA-NET-PLUS module including Community topping
  up
• of joint calls

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Article 169 in FP7

• Additional Article 169 initiatives
• Early identification of potential topics
• Verification of Member States commitment as
  precondition
• Package submission for a single co-decision
• Establishing guiding principles for Community
  participation

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Conclusion Coordination axis in FP7

• Three pillars for the Coordination of national
  programmes
• CREST Contributing under its new mandate
• ERA-NET-PLUS Broadening and deepening of the
  scheme
• Article 169 More initiatives in a package

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PartnershipCommission Eurohorcs on Programme
Coordination

• 2 levels
• Project levelIdentifying topics for ERA-NET,
  ERA-NET plus and Article 169
• Policy level assess impact of programme
  coordination actions explore ways to deepen and
  widen programme coordination in a structural way
  advice Commission on shaping programme
  coordination activities under FP7