EdulinkAUDIS Seminar 46 June 08 Funding opportunities in FP7

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Edulink-AUDIS Seminar 4-6 June 08Funding
opportunities in FP7
Stijn Delauré, PhD
Research Coordination Office
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Agenda

• FP7 EUs instrument to fund research
• Intro on FP7
• Position of K.U.Leuven
• Who can participate?
• Opportunities for African universities
• Some examples
• Contact websites

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Annual EU RTD budgets 1984-2013
Intro to FP7
Framework Programmes EUs instrument to fund
research technological development
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K.U.Leuven position
K.U.Leuven participation in FP6
participations in FP6
Source Admin. Science Innovation, Fl. Gov
Febr 2007 report 55 of FP6 budget allocated
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7th Framework Programme (FP7)
Intro to FP7
Cooperation 32413
Ideas 7510
Collaborative research 10 thematic areas
Frontier Research (ERC)
Marie Curie Actions
People 4750
Research Capacity
Capacities 4097
Nuclear Research
2007-2013 50.5 billion
JRC 1751
Euratom 2751
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K.U.Leuven in FP7 (2007)
K.U.Leuven position
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FP7 who can participate?
Who can participate?

• Any university, company, research centre,
  organisation or individual, legally established
  in
• Member State (MS) EU-27
• Associated countries (AC) ? countries with
  science and technology cooperation agreements
  that involved contributing to the FP-budget
  (Norway, Switzerland, Iceland, Liechtenstein,
  Israel, Croatia, Turkey)
• Third Countries ? countries that are no MS,
  Candidate or Associated Countries. Special focus
  on ICPC - International Cooperation Partner
  Countries
• International organisations and participants from
  third countries can participate only if in
  addition to the minima

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International Cooperation Partner Countries (ICPC)
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Conditions for participation
Who can participate?

• Minimum condition at least 3 independent
  participants from 3 different MS or AC
• Additional conditions established in the work
  programme number or type of participant, place
  of establishment
• Specific conditions
• SICA Specific International Cooperation
  Actions
• Collaborative Projects addressing ICPC
  participation
• minimum 4 participants 2 MS or AC and 2 ICPC
  countries unless otherwise foreseen in the work
  programme

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Cooperation 10 thematic priorities
Opportunities for Africa
Cooperation (32.4 billion )
10. Security (1350 M)
9. Space (1430 M)
8. Socio-economic sciences humanities (610 M)
1. Health (6050 M)
7. Transport (4180 M)
2. Food-Agriculture- Biotechnology (1935 M)
6. Environment (1900 M)
5. Energy (2300 M)
3. ICT (9110 M)
4. Nanosciences-Materials-NewProduction (3500 M)
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Cooperation some SICA examples
Opportunities for Africa

• THINC (Prof. Zeger Debyser)
• Targeting HIV integration co-factors, targeting
  cellural proteins during nuclear import or
  integration of HIV
• 1 ICPC Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine,
  University of KwaZulu Natal, Durban, South-Africa
  (performing field study)
• RN4CAST (Prof. Walter Sermeus)
• Nurse Forecasting Human Resources Planning in
  Nursing
• 3 ICPC, incl University of Botswana North-West
  University, South-Africa (collecting data, test
  planning tool, disseminate)

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Future SICA opportunities
Opportunities for Africa

• Health (deadline Oct/Nov 2008)
• Neglected infectious diseases (helminth,
  bacterial
• HIV, TBC, malaria
• Public health health systems (improvement
  health care, better access to medicines,)
• KBBE (deadline early 2009)
• Optimisation of methods to maintain farm animal
  biodiversity
• Impact and development of Conservation
  Agriculture techniques in developing countries
• Globalisation and trade impact on developing
  countries
• International food trade
• NMP (deadline early 2009)
• Novel membranes for water technologies

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People human potential
Opportunities for Africa
Marie Curie initial training of researchers
PhD students

• Training network for predocs (doctoral schools)

Life-long training and career development

• Intra-European Fellowship (postdoc mobility in EU)

• European Reintegration Grant (return grant)

postdocs
International dimension

• Outgoing/Incoming Fellowships (postdoc mobility
  return)

• International Reintegration Grant (return grant)

• International Research Staff Exchange Scheme

Industria-academia pathways partnerships
industry-academia

• Support for training career development for
  researchers

• Universities/schools-HE industry (in particular
  SMEs)

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Capacities research potential
Opportunities for Africa
Research infrastructures
Research for the benefit of SMEs
Regions of knowledge
Research potential
Science in society
Activities of international cooperation (INCO)
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Capacities INCO
Opportunities for Africa

• Activity 1 Bi-regional coordination of ST
  cooperation including priority setting and
  definition of ST cooperation policies
• Reinforce policy dialogue structures identify
  areas of joint interest
• Activity 2 Bilateral coordination for the
  enhancement and development of ST Partnerships
• Support actions, incl. sharing best practices,
  providing info on funding
• Activity 3 Supporting the coordination of
  national policies and activities of Member States
  and Associated States on international ST
  cooperation
• Coordination of national policies (EU vs. ICPC)

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Support from K.U.Leuven EU-team
Contact
LRD
DOC
pro-act.
proposal
project
negotation
pre-proposal
idea
Conformity check Forms prep. part
A Administrative, legal and financial
issues IPR, NDA, LoI, MoU
model grant agreement Form A Cons.
Agreement Financial Reporting Audits, Amendments
provide early information
briefing NCP committees
contact with EC
project orientation in FP7
guidelines how to write a competitive proposal?
GPF (Contract Prep Form) Check DoW IP and
Budget check and advice
briefing EC, PO, participation in ETP EU
Liaisons
templates examples part B text advice
proofreading part B conformity check, does your
proposal comply with EU objectives
preparatory funding (consortium meeting,
consultancy, personnel,) VES
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Contact Points
Contact
EU-info
EU-cel
Research Coordination Office Stijn Delauré,
Myriam Van LoockGerard Cielen, Karine Aert 32
16 32 09 44 / 40 63 EU-info_at_doc.kuleuven.be
K.U.Leuven Research Development Maria Vereeken,
Marion Wolpers, Elke Lammertyn, Rabia Ozkan,
Sofie Heroes Minderbroedersstraat 8A 3000 Leuven
32 16 32 65 04 / 65 20 eu_at_lrd.kuleuven.be
Europrogs
FP7 National Contact Point Flanders Alain
Deleener, Anne De Brabandere, Luc De Ridder, Paul
Schreurs Tel. [phone] europrogs_at_iwt.be
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More information
Contact

• FP7 - CORDIS
• http//cordis.europa.eu/fp7
• European Commission
• http//ec.europa.eu
• INCO portal
• http//cordis.europa.eu/inco
• National Contact Points in Third Countries
• http//cordis.europa.eu/fp7/third-countries_en.htm
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• Careers / Fellowships
• http//ec.europa.eu/eracareers