European Commission Research 1 Participation in the EU 6th Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development Peter Härtwich, DG Research, European Commission

European Commission Research 2 Why research at EU level? Why research at EU level? -The EC Treaty (Art ) -Reasons inherent to RTD:  Increasing complexity and interdisciplinarity;  Increasing costs;  Increasing "critical mass” in human resources Increasing difficulties to play a role in the many important areas, even for whole countries

European Commission Research 3 What makes FP6 different from other research funding programmes ? What makes FP6 different from other research funding programmes ? - The European dimension -The strategic objectives -Focus and concentration -Sharing of costs and ownership of results -The submission and selection process -The project management 

European Commission Research 4 Sixth Framework Programme (FP6) Budget: EUR 17.5 billion = 3.9% of the EU’s budget (2001) = ~ 6% of the EU’s public (civilian) research budget Some figures:

European Commission Research 5 Budgets of the EU Framework Programmes

European Commission Research 6 A look back: Poland in FP5 Total funding to contracts with Polish participation: bln €

European Commission Research 7 A look back: Poland in FP5 PL BE 351 UK 1034 FR 834 IT 705 NL 557 ES 465 DE 1196 Number of cooperative links

European Commission Research 8 FP6 - Why participate? For companies: - access to research results of the whole consortium, multiplication of yield of own research efforts -contacts can be used for further business relations and exploring new markets -SMEs without research capacities: support for contract research

European Commission Research 9 FP6 - Why participate? For research institutes and universities: - Exchange of knowledge and experience and international comparison of own performance -Support institutional change towards a “Europeanisation” (Networks of Excellence) -Exchange of researchers to establish new competencies

European Commission Research 10 FP6 - Why participate? For individual researchers: - Pursue an international research career via the Marie Curie fellowship schemes (for researchers at all stages of career)

European Commission Research 11 FP6 - Why participate? For the money? - Enterprises: reduce the commercial risk of pre-competitive research -Non-commercial institutions: enlarge the financial basis for research activities BUT...

European Commission Research 12 FP6 - Who can participate? - In principle, any legal entity from any country: companies, research institutes, municipalities, natural persons… -Specific modalities for participation and funding for different categories of countries

European Commission Research 13 FP6 - What are its objectives? “Structuring effect”: contribute to a more coherent research landscape in Europe through -concentration of efforts -new instruments (autonomy, critical mass): smooth transition from FP5 -capacity building (human resources, infrastructure) -full integration of Candidate Countries

European Commission Research 14 FP6: How to find your place Three blocks:€ million -focusing and integrating Community research (“thematic”) structuring the ERA (“horizontal”) strengthening the foundations of ERA (“underpinning”) 320 +nuclear 1 230

European Commission Research 15 FP6: Thematic Priorities - limited number: concentration -European interest: competitiveness and benefits to society -assemble critical mass of resources and expertise  Achieve European Value Added and increased impact

European Commission Research 16 FP6

European Commission Research 17 A wider range of better differentiated instruments New instruments Integrated projects (IP) Networks of excellence (NoE) Article 169 (joint implementation of national programmes) Traditional instruments Specific targeted research projects Co-ordination actions Specific support actions

European Commission Research 18 Proposal submission Through calls for proposals –may be preceded by expressions of interest to help focus calls and assist in consortium building Simplified proposal-making –reflecting evolutionary nature of the project summary description of activities for entire duration detailed implementation plan only for first 18 months

European Commission Research 19 Activities (example: IP) Activities integrated by a project may cover the full research spectrum –should contain objective-driven research –technological development and demonstration components as appropriate –may contain a training component –the effective management of knowledge will also be an essential feature –the whole carried out in a coherent management framework

European Commission Research Specific SME schemes (any topic or technology area): Individual SME: Cooperative Research (CRAFT) Industrial associations or industry groupings: Collective Research Encouraging SMEs to participate in FP6 1. Participation of SMEs in thematic priorities: 15% of the budget earmarked for SMEs (1.7 bln €), Possibility to enter consortia at a later stage (IP, NoE)

European Commission Research 21 FP6: Staying in touch Primary contact: National Contact Points Polish NCP coordinator: Andrzej Siemaszko General information on EU research All information about FP6