1. Welcome Dr Stephan PASCALL Advisor International Cooperation, New Member States Integration, Regional Aspects and Communications European Commission DG Information Society and Media Training Seminar– Bratislava 27-28 January 2005

2. 2 Welcome - Agenda Seminar Objectives Seminar Programme Questions

3. 3 Seminar Objectives To provide a comprehensive training to persons that are interested in participating in the IST Priority of the 6 th Framework Programme in order to enable them to draft and submit well developed and focused proposals and subsequently understand how a proposal is chosen by the Commission for negotiations and what are the administrative and operational processes from the selection of a proposal to the completion of the project.

4. 4 Programme: Monday 6 December 2004 Stephan Pascall 08:30 Registration and Welcome 09:00 General Background 09:25 Question and answers Maria Buciova 09:35 How can the NCP support you? 10:00 Questions and answers Willy Van Puymbroeck 10:10 Project Life Cycles 10:50 Questions and answers Coffee Break Willy Van Puymbroeck 11:20 Financial Aspects 1 12:00 Questions and answers Willy Van Puymbroeck 12:10Financial Aspects 2 12:50 Questions and answers Willy Van Puymbroeck 14:30 Contract Production Processes 15:00 Questions and answers Evangelos Ouzounis 15:10 Legal Framework and Submission of Proposals 15:50 Questions and answers Coffee Break Stephan Pascall 16:20 Round Table Discussion Stephan Pascall 16:50 Conclusions day 1 Morning Afternoon Lunch 13:00 Lunch Break

5. 5 Programme: Tuesday 7 December 2004 Stephan Pascall 09:00 Opening of Day 2 Evangelos Ouzounis 09:10 The Evaluation Process Borka Jerman Blazic 09:50 The Proposal Evaluators View 10:35 Questions and Answers Coffee Break Evangelos Ouzounis 11:10 Selection and Negotiation of Proposals 12:05 Questions and Answers Slovakian SME 12:20 How to write a successful Proposal 13:05 Questions and answers Morning Lunch 13:20 Lunch Break Jacob Bangsgaard 14:45 How to write a successful Proposal 15:25 Questions and answers Coffee Break Dr. Joachim Irion 15:50 How to write a successful Proposal 16:30 Questions and Answers Stephan Pascall 16:40 Closure Afternoon

6. 6 Thank you Any Questions ?

7. The 6th Framework Programme – The IST Priority Dr Stephan PASCALL Advisor International Cooperation, New Member States Integration, Regional Aspects and Communications European Commission DG Information Society and Media Training Seminar– Bratislava 27-28 January 2005

8. 8 Agenda The 6 th Framework Programme – The IST Priority  Historical Perspective of FP6  Financial Evolution of FP6  The 6 th Framework Programme  The 6th Framework Programme – IST Priority  Structure  Financing  Calls

9. 9 1986: the task force becomes “Directorate General of Telecommunications, Information market and valorisation of research” (DG XIII). Goal: Europe wants to catch up with US and Japan. How: by becoming more competitive. Historical Perspective – The 80’s

10. 10 Mid–‘90s: Quality of life and sustainable development criteria are added to competitivity to create a better link between research and society. Creation of a pluriannual programme for European research and development which followed ESPRIT. Today 6th framework programme (2002–2006). Historical Perspective – The 90’s

11. 11 1994: Communication of the European Commission “towards the Information Society in Europe: action plan” 1998: ESPRIT, RACE and Telematics merged into an unique programme: “Information Technologies” (IST) IST is structured around 4 technological priorities (key actions) Historical Perspective – Mid 90’s

12. 12 The EU’s Budget - 2002 Total Value of commitments: EUR 98.6 billion RTD Administration Other CAP Structural Funds

13. 13 Budget of the EU Framework Programmes

14. 14 Sixth Framework Programme – Main Components FOCUSING and INTEGRATING European Research STRUCTURING The European Research Area STRENGTHENING The foundations of the European Research Area BASIC PRINCIPLES Concentration: on selected priority research areas Structuring effect: through a stronger link with national, regional and other European initiatives Coordination – Simplification

15. 15 The European Research Area A blueprint for the future of research on Europe Broad support at the highest political, scientific and industrial levels Being implemented European Research Area National Programmes ‘Open Coordination’ Framework Programme European Organisations European Research Policy

16. 16 The Components of FP6

17. 17 FP6 budget breakdown Focussing and Integrating Genomics 2255M€ Information Society Technologies3625M€ Nanotechnologies, int.. 1300M€ Aeronautics and space1075M€ Food quality and safety 685M€ Sustainable development2120M€ Citizens and governance.. 225M€ Anticipation of S&T needs Anticipating needs 555 M€ SMEs 430M€ Specific INCO 315M€ 16270 M€ ~200M€ for GEANT/GRID ~100M€ for GEANT/GRID Strengthening ERA foundations 320M€ Joint Research Centre 760M€ Structuring ERA Research and Innovation 290M€ Human resources1580M€ Research Infrastructures 655M€ Science/Society 80M€

18. 18 IST in FP6 - objectives & strategy Main objectives  Establishing Europe’s leadership in the technologies at the heart of the knowledge economy and society  Strengthening Europe’s competitiveness & technology base  Building the information and knowledge society for ALL Strategy  Concentration and focus, building critical mass  Visionary, forward looking (longer term / high risk)  Combine flexibility with greater speed in implementation  Scope of activities: Core technologies & “pull-through” applications

19. 19 The IST vision Bringing the users, “people”, to the foreground….. ….. to the “centre of our attention”  building trustful technologies for the background (almost invisible)  Making technology “adapt” to people and business needs Moving to an era where ….. “Our surrounding is the interface’ to IST applications & services” Exploring beyond “the PC, screens & keyboard interfaces”... Enabling multi-sensorial dialogues …..  supported by computing & networking  ‘everywhere’, embedded in everyday objects (e.g: furniture, clothes, vehicles, smart materials, …)

20. 20 IST Priority in FP6

21. 21 IST Work Programme - budget phasing Planning over 4 years Planning over 4 years

22. 22 IST Work Programme - budget phasing Year2003200420052006 Indicative Budget 835,000891,000935,000964,000 Calls per year One call drawing on 2005 budget Planning over 4 years Two calls drawing on 2003 and 2004 budgets Second WP (covers also all topics of SP) with updated focus

23. 23 Present and Future Calls  Call 4 : Open 16 November 2004 Close 23 March 2005  Call 5 : Open 17 May 2005 Close 21 September 2005

24. 24 Networks of Excellence Industrial exploitation Current Industrial strength / presence Fundamental research Basic research Industry-driven research Targeted Research Projects Example of implementation in IST « Monolitihic » Incremental Integrated Projects

25. 25 Thank you Any Questions ?

26. 26 Contact details Dr Stephan PASCALL Advisor International Cooperation, New Member States Integration, Regional Aspects and Communications European Commission – DG Information Society Directorate C: Miniaturisation, Embedded Systems, Societal Applications Avenue de Beaulieu 33 BU-33 00/05 1160 Brussels Tel: +32-2-296.81.78 E-mail: Stephan.Pascall@cec.eu.int