1. Senigallia, 18 Giugno 2007 European Programmes to improve the use of ICT in the field of Civil Protection - FP7 Daniela Mercurio, ICT NCP APRE

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5. Senigallia, 18 Giugno 2007 Information Conferences News alert Publications Internet website Partner search Training Administrative management European project writing Communication of the research IPR and Consortium Agreement Assistance By telephone, email and vis a vis in APRE to: Identify theme and topic in FP7 Verify the eligibly of the proposals Pre-screen of the proposals Help in the use of the EPSSystem Activities Partecipazione in progetti Europei Assistance in: Negotiation Management of the projects Dissemination of the results Reporting From idea To the end of the contract

6. Senigallia, 18 Giugno 2007 Presentation outline  The Seventh Framework Programme  ICT theme: II Call for proposal  How to present a proposal

7. Senigallia, 18 Giugno 2007 Why research at European level?  Pooling and leveraging resources  Resources are pooled to achieve critical mass  Leverage effect on private investments  Interoperability and complementarity of big science  Fostering human capacity and excellence in S&T  Stimulate training, mobility and career development of researchers  Improve S&T capabilities  Stimulate competition in research  Better integration of European R&D  Create scientific base for pan-European policy challenges  Encourage coordination of national policies  Efficient dissemination of research results VII PQ - 1

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9. Senigallia, 18 Giugno 2007 FP impact on integration of the ERA (more participants involved to reach critical mass)  Concentration of research efforts through larger projects with critical mass:  Top-level scientists: e.g. six Nobel prize-winners involved in FP6 fundamental genomics projects.  ERA more attractive to researchers worldwide: VII PQ - 3

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12. Senigallia, 18 Giugno 2007 FP7 – What’s new? Main new elements compared to FP6:  Duration increased from 5 to 7 years (except for Euratom FP)  Annual budget increased significantly  New structure: Cooperation, Ideas (ERC), People, Capacities, Euratom and JRC activities  Basic research (~ €1 billion per year): European Research Council  Funding of research infrastructures  Flexible funding schemes  Simpler procedures VII PQ - 6

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17. ICT theme: II Call for proposal

18. Senigallia, 18 Giugno 2007 ICT – The largest priority theme of FP7  ICT Technology Pillars  pushing the performance and functionality of technology  Integration of Technologies  integrating multi-technology sets that underlie new services  Applications Research  providing the knowledge and the means to develop a wide range of innovative ICT applications  Future and Emerging Technologies  supporting research at the frontier of knowledge

19. Senigallia, 18 Giugno 2007 Work Programme approach and structure  A limited set of Challenges aiming at  overcoming technology roadblocks to achieve specific characteristics, and/or  end-to-end systems targeting specific socio-economic goals  A Challenge is addressed through a limited set of Objectives that form the basis of Calls for Proposals  An Objective is described in terms of  target outcome - in terms of characteristics  expected impact - in terms of industrial competitiveness, societal goal, technology progress etc.  A total of 24 Objectives expressed within 7 Challenges

20. Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) 2. Cognitive systems, interaction, robotics 1. Network and service infrastructures 3. Components, systems, engineering 4. Digital libraries and content 5. ICT for health 6. ICT for mobility & sustainable growth 7. ICT for independent living and inclusion Socio-economic goals Technology roadblocks Work Programme 2007 Challenges

21. Senigallia, 18 Giugno 2007 ICT call 2 was published!! Call identifier: FP7-ICT-2007-2 Date of publication: 12 June 2007 Closure date: 9 October, 2007, at 17:00, Brussels local time Indicative budget: 477 M€ Topics called: ICT CALL2

22. Senigallia, 18 Giugno 2007 Funding scheme: CP, NoE, CSA - Indicative budget distribution 40 M€ Challenge 1 – Pervasive and Trusted Network and Service Infrastructures The challenge is to deliver the next generation of ubiquitous and converged network and service infrastructures for communication, computing and media. This entails overcoming the scalability, flexibility, dependability and security bottlenecks, as today’s network and service architectures are primarily static and able to support a limited number of devices, service features and limited confidence. Such new infrastructures will permit the emergence of a large variety of business models capable of dynamic and seamless end-to-end composition of resources across a multiplicity of devices, networks, providers and service domains. Funding schemes: CP, NoE, CSA; Indicative budget distribution: 40 M€: CALL 2: 1.6 New paradigms and experimental facilities  Advanced networking approaches to architectures and protocols  Interconnected test beds  Coordination and Support Action

23. Senigallia, 18 Giugno 2007 Challenge 3 – Components, systems, engineering - 1 CALL 2: 3.5 Photonic components and subsystems:  Core photonic components and subsystems,  Application-specific photonic components and subsystems  Underlying technologies  Complementary measures  Support measures Funding scheme: CP, NoE, CSA - Indicative budget distribution 90 M€ The challenge is to strengthen Europe’s position as a leading supplier of electronic components and systems. This will support the competitiveness of industrial strongholds such as automotive, avionics, industrial automation, consumer electronics, telecoms and medical systems. In all these domains Europe’s leadership depends heavily on the capacity to engineer and produce electronic components and systems and to integrate these into products across all sectors. Furthermore, the social dimension is not to be underestimated given the increasingly important role of electronics in the functioning of modern society.

24. Senigallia, 18 Giugno 2007 Challenge 3 – Components, systems, engineering - 2 CALL 2: 3.6 Micro/nanosystems:  Next-generation smart systems  Micro/nano/biotechnologies’ convergence  Integration of smart materials  From smart systems to viable products  Smart systems for communications and data management  Support actions Funding scheme: CP, NoE, CSA - Indicative budget distribution 83 M€

25. Senigallia, 18 Giugno 2007 Challenge 3 – Components, systems, engineering - 3 CALL 2: 3.7 Networked embedded and control systems:  Middleware  Cooperating objects and Wireless Sensor Networks  Control of large-scale complex distributed systems Funding scheme: CP (only STREP), NoE, CSA - Indicative budget distribution 47 M€

26. Senigallia, 18 Giugno 2007 Challenge 5 – Towards sustainable and personalised healthcare - 1 In this challenge support will go to highly interdisciplinary research aiming at:  Improved productivity of healthcare systems21 by facilitating patient care at the point of need, health information processing and quicker transfer of knowledge to clinical practice.  Continuous and more personalised care solutions, addressing the informed and responsible participation of patients and their informal carers (family/friends) in care processes, and responding to the needs of elderly people.  Savings in lives and resources by focusing on prevention and prediction rather than on costly medical interventions after symptoms and diseases have developed.  Higher patient safety by optimising medical interventions and preventing errors.  Leadership of the eHealth and medical imaging/devices industry that is well rooted in Europe, and attracting back to Europe research activities of the pharmaceutical industry.

27. Senigallia, 18 Giugno 2007 Challenge 5 – Towards sustainable and personalised healthcare - 2 CALL 2: 5.3 Virtual Physiological Human  Patient-specific computational modelling and simulation  Data integration and new knowledge extraction  Clinical applications and demonstration of tangible benefits of patient- specific computational models  Networking action  Coordination and support actions Funding scheme: CP, NoE, CSA - Indicative budget distribution 72 M€

28. Senigallia, 18 Giugno 2007 Challenge 6 – ICT for mobility, environmental sustainability and energy - 1 CALL 2: 6.2 ICT for cooperative systems:  ICT research in Co-operative Systems  Field Operational Tests  Coordination and Support Actions Funding scheme: CP, NoE, CSA - Indicative budget distribution 48 M€ One major goal of this challenge is to achieve mobility in Europe that is virtually accident free, efficient, adaptive, clean and comfortable. This includes reducing the energy consumed by transport with new ICT technologies applied to vehicles, transport systems, logistics and traffic management. Another major goal is to reap the benefits of ICT to optimise the use of natural resources throughout their life cycles, including energy, to design smarter and cleaner processes with minimum waste, and to contain environmental degradation and related threats on human lives, infrastructures and the environment.

29. Senigallia, 18 Giugno 2007 Challenge 6 – ICT for mobility, environmental sustainability and energy - 2 CALL 2: 6.3 ICT for Environmental Management and Energy Efficiency:  ICT RTD in Collaborative Systems for Environmental Management  One Coordination and Support Action  New and affordable ICT for Energy-intensive Systems  Coordination and Support Actions  Specific International Cooperation Action Funding scheme: CP (in some cases only STREP), NoE, CSA - Indicative budget distribution 54 M€

30. Senigallia, 18 Giugno 2007 Challenge 7 – ICT for Indipendent Living and Inclusion CALL 2: 7.2 Accessible and Inclusive ICT:  Advanced prototypes of systemic solutions for independent living and active ageing  Open systems reference architectures, standards and platforms  RTD roadmaps and socio-economic research  Contribution to standards setting, and strategic international cooperation with US and Japan Funding scheme: CP (in some cases only IP), NoE, CSA - Indicative budget distribution 43 M€ The objective is to respond to these trends by mainstreaming and radically improving the accessibility and usability of new ICT solutions. This should ensure a better adoption and acceptance of ICT by people with disabilities, functional limitations or lacking digital competences, and may have a large spill- over effect to the wider society. In addition, new opportunities offered by ICTs will be exploited to help offset the impact of the ageing population, significantly prolonging independent living and increasing active participation in the economy and in society. Finally new ICT solutions for improving social cohesion will be explored and developed.

31. Senigallia, 18 Giugno 2007 How to present a proposal Minimum consortia  Three independent legal entities from three different Member States or Associated countries (presently Croatia, Iceland, Israel, Liechtenstein, Norway, Serbia, Switzerland, Turkey)  EEIGs composed of members that meet the criteria above  Participation of international (intergovernmental) organisations  Participants from third countries if in addition to minima (ICPC countries are funded!)  Support actions (SAs); no restrictions

32. Senigallia, 18 Giugno 2007 Funding schemes 3 funding schemes – 5 “instruments:  ”Collaborative Projects (CP)  Small or medium scale focused research actions (“STREP”)  Large Scale Integrating Projects (“IP”)  Networks of Excellence (NoE)  Coordination and Support Actions (CSA)  Coordinating or networking actions (“CA”)  Support Actions (“SA”) ICT Workprogramme shows budget pre-allocation to instruments within each objective or sub-objective

33. Senigallia, 18 Giugno 2007 Activities in an Integrating Project may cover  research and technology development activities  demonstration activities  technology transfer or take-up activities  training activities  dissemination activities  knowledge management and exploitation  consortium management activities  other activities An Integrating Project comprises  a coherent set of activities  and an appropriate management structure Funding scheme – CP - Integrating Projects - 1

34. Senigallia, 18 Giugno 2007 Experience of IPs in FP6  Purpose: Ambitious objective driven research with a ‘programme approach’  Target audience: Industry (incl. SMEs), research institutions. Universities – and in some cases potential end-users  Typical duration: 36-60 months  Optimum consortium: 10-20 participants  Total EU contribution: €4-25m (average around €10m) Flexibility in implementation: Update of workplan Possibility for competitive calls for enlargement of consortium Funding scheme – CP - Integrating Projects - 2

35. Senigallia, 18 Giugno 2007  Targeting a specific objective in a clearly defined project approach  Fixed overall work plan with stable deliverables that do not change over the life-time of the project  Two types of activity or combination of the two:  A research and technological development activity designed to generate new knowledge to improve competitiveness and/or address major societal needs /or  A demonstration activity designed to prove the viability of new technologies offering potential economic advantages but which can not be commercialised directly (e. g. testing of product like prototypes) as well as  Project management activities (including innovation related activities like protection of knowledge dissemination and exploitation Funding Scheme – CP – Focused projects - 1

36. Senigallia, 18 Giugno 2007 Experience of STREPs in FP6  Purpose: Objective driven research more limited in scope than an IP  Target audience: Industry incl. SMEs, research institutes, universities  Typical duration: 18-36 months  Optimum consortium: 6-15 participants  Total EU contribution: €0.8 - 3 m (average around €1.9m)  Fixed workplan and fixed partnership for duration Funding Scheme – CP – Focused projects - 2

37. Senigallia, 18 Giugno 2007 The JPA contains a range of “additional to normal business” activities: Integrating activities  coordinated programming of the partners’ activities  sharing of research platforms/tools/facilities  joint management of the knowledge portfolio  staff mobility and exchanges  relocation of staff, teams, equipment  reinforced electronic communication systems Activities to support the network’s goals  Development of new research tools and platforms for common use  Generating new knowledge to fill gaps in or extend the collective knowledge portfolio Activities to spread excellence  training researchers and other key staff  dissemination and communication activities  networking activities to help transfer knowledge to outside of the network  where appropriate, promoting the exploitation of the results generated within the network  where appropriate, innovation-related activities Management activities Funding Scheme – Networks of excellence - 1

38. Senigallia, 18 Giugno 2007 Experience of NoEs in FP6  Purpose: Durable integration of participants’ research activities  Target audience: research institutions, universities, mainly indirectly: industry – trough governing boards etc  Typical duration: 48-60 months (but indefinite integration!)  Optimum consortium: 6-12 participants  Total EU contribution: €4-15m (average around €7m)  Flexibility in implementation: Update of workplan Possibility to add participants through competitive calls Funding Scheme – Networks of excellence - 2

39. Senigallia, 18 Giugno 2007 39 Designed to promote and support the ad hoc networking and co- ordination of research and innovation activities at national, regional and European level over a fixed period for a specific purpose  by establishing in a coherent way coordinated initiatives of a range of research and innovation operators, in order to achieve improved cooperation of the European research May combine the following two types of activities  Co-ordination activities  Consortium management activities (Coordination actions do not conduct S&T research !) Funding Scheme – Coordination or Networking actions - 1

40. Senigallia, 18 Giugno 2007 Each Coordination Action shall propose a work plan, incorporating all or some of the following types of mid/long term collaborative activities:  Organisation of events (conferences, meetings);  Performance of studies, analysis;  Exchanges of personnel;  Exchange and dissemination of good practice;  Setting up of common information systems  Setting up of expert groups;  Definition, organisation, management of joint or common initiatives  Management of the action Funding Scheme – Coordination or Networking actions - 2

41. Senigallia, 18 Giugno 2007 Experience of CAs in FP6  Purpose: Co-ordination of research activities  Target Audience: Research institutions, universities, industry incl. SMEs  Typical duration: 18-36 months  Optimum consortium: 13-26 participants  Total EU contribution: €0.5-1.8m (average around €1m)  Fixed overall workplan and partnership for the duration Funding Scheme – Coordination or Networking actions - 3

42. Senigallia, 18 Giugno 2007 Each Support Action shall have a work plan, which may consist of one or more (as appropriate on a case by case basis) of the following activities: –Conferences, seminars, working groups and expert groups; –Studies, analysis; –Fact findings and monitoring; –Preparatory technical work, including feasibility studies –Development of research or innovation strategies; –High level scientific awards and competitions; –Operational support, data access and dissemination, information and communication activities. SA proposals may be presented by a consortium or a single organisation, from any country or countries Funding Scheme – Support actions - 1

43. Senigallia, 18 Giugno 2007 Experience of SSAs in FP6  Purpose: Support to programme implementation, preparation of future actions, dissemination of results  Target audience: Research organisations, universities, industry incl. SMEs  Typical duration: 9-30 months  Optimum consortium: 1-15 participants  Total EU contribution: €0.03-1m (average around €0.5m)  Fixed overall workplan and partnership for the duration Funding Scheme – Support actions - 2

44. Senigallia, 18 Giugno 2007 Maximum Reimbursement Rates

45. Senigallia, 18 Giugno 2007 Information for proposers  Workprogramme 2007-2008  Guide for Applicants  now including the Guidance notes for evaluators and the Background note on the funding scheme Evaluation forms with notes  EPSS manual  Model grant agreement

46. Senigallia, 18 Giugno 2007 http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/ http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/dc/index.cfm And a network of National Contact Points in Europe and beyond: http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ncp_en.html Getting help with your proposal

47. Senigallia, 18 Giugno 2007 Thank you for your attention! Daniela Mercurio APRE mercurio@apre.it