Framework Programme Seven

Environment (including climate change)

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Contents

• Beta Technology• Framework Programme Seven• Environment (including climate change)• Next Steps

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Beta Technology Ltd

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Who We Are

• Project management consultancy in Doncaster, UK• Bring together industry, the public sector and academia to develop and deliver innovative projects• Involved in the Framework Programme for over 20 years• National Contact Point since FP3• Contracted by Government (Defra, FSA, TSB ) to provide NCP services for FP7 themes:

• Food, Agriculture & Fisheries, & Biotechnology• Environment (including climate change)• Health• SME Activities• Regions of Knowledge

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Framework Programme Seven

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The Basics: What is the Framework Programme• Framework Programmes have been operating since 1984• EC’s mechanism for funding research and technological development• Designed to generate new knowledge, new technologies and new intellectual property for Europe to compete with China, India, USA and Japan• Previous Framework Programmes have focussed on industrial competitiveness and specific themes such as IT, energy, environment, agriculture and health. These themes and many others are still in FP7

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The Basics: Framework Programme Seven

• Runs 2007-2013

• Budget €50.5 billion

• Building Europe’s knowledge and the European Research

Area

• Improve competitiveness

• Resolve society’s problems

• The biggest research programme in the world

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• Highly competitive application process

• Innovative collaborative projects

• Topics identified by the work programme

• In response to a call for proposals

• SME involvement is encouraged

• Involves partners from multiple countries - at least 3

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The Basics: Funding Fundamentals

FP7 in Detail: The Structure

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COOPERATIONCollaborative trans-national research activities Industry, universities, res. centres, public authorities10 Themes

IDEASFunding for basic or ‘frontier’ research by individual teams competing at European level Creativity & dynamism: investigation-driven research

PEOPLEInitiatives in support of training, mobility and career development, to strengthen EU human resources.

Marie Curie actions

CAPACITIESDevelopment of research infrastructures; Support to regional clusters; SMEs; Science in Society; International cooperation

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FP7 Budgets

Budget in € million

FP7 in Detail: Funding Schemes

• Collaborative Projects• Research projects with the aim of generating new knowledge and

technology• Size and scope can vary

• Network of Excellence• Join together a group of organisations around a common theme• Integrate research activities and resources

• Coordination and Support Actions• Non R&D activity to support research

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FP7 in Detail: Maximum Funding Rates

• Research and technological activities: – 50% of eligible costs except for:• Public bodies: 75%• Secondary and higher education establishments: 75%• Research organisations (non-profit): 75%• SMEs: 75%

• Demonstration activities: 50% of eligible costs • Other activities: 100% including e.g. management• Coordination and support actions:100% (+7% Indirect)• Receipts are taken into account to determine the final Community financial contribution

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Environment (including climate change)

Theme

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6.2: Sustainable management of

resources

6.3: Environmental technologies

6.4: Earth observation & assessment tools for

sustainable development

6.1: Climate change, pollution

& risks

Activity 1 – Climate Change, Pollution and Risks Pressures on environment and climate• Earth systems and climate: functioning and abrupt changes• Emissions and pressures• Global carbon cycle – greenhouse gas budgets• Future climate• Natural and socio-economics of climate change• Response strategies: adaptation, mitigation and polices

Activity 1 - Climate Change, Pollution & Risks Environment and health

• Health impacts of climate change

• Health effects of environmental stressors

• Methods and tools for environmental health risk analysis and policy development

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Activity 1 - Climate Change, Pollution & RisksNatural hazards• European storm risk

• Investigating Europe's risk from droughts

• European (multi) hazard database analysis

• Assessing and managing volcanic threat

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Activity 2 - Sustainable Management of ResourcesConservation & sustainable management of natural & man made resources & biodiversity

• Integrated resource management • Water resources• Soil research and desertification• Biodiversity• Urban development• Integrated forest research

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Activity 2 - Sustainable Management of ResourcesManagement of marine environments• ‘The Ocean of tomorrow’ call• Joint call between:

• Theme 2 – Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, and Biotechnology (KBBE)

• Theme 5 – Energy • Theme 6 – Environment (including climate change)• Theme 7 – Transport (including Aeronautics)

• Multi-use offshore platforms• Marine microbial diversity… • Assessing and predicting the combined effects of natural and human-made pressures in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea…• Knowledge-base and tools for regional networks of marine protected areas, integrated management of activities together with assessment of wind energy potential in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea c Beta Technology

Activity 3 - Environmental TechnologiesEnvironmental technologies for observation, simulation, prevention, mitigation, adaptation, remediation & restoration of the natural & man made environment• Water • Public-Private Partnership 'Green Cars': Cross-Thematic cooperation between NMP, Energy, Environment (including Climate Change) and Transport (including Aeronautics)• Public-Private Partnership 'Energy efficient Buildings‘: Cross-thematic cooperation between NMP, ICT, Energy and Environment (including climate change)

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Activity 3 - Environmental TechnologiesEnvironmental technologies for observation, simulation, prevention, mitigation, adaptation, remediation & restoration of the natural & man made environment• Eco-innovation•Three specified topics• One bottom up topic with a budget of €44 million to fund many proposals• Proposals should address:

• The development of system solutions, in production processes or consumption of goods and services and they should maximise eco-efficiency

• The development of novel eco-efficient environmental technologies (including monitoring) whose direct or indirect use can substantially contribute to the reduction of materials and resource use, energy consumption, polluting emissions, etc.

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Activity 3 - Environmental TechnologiesProtection, conservation & enhancement of cultural heritage, including human habitat

• Assessment and conservation in cultural heritage

• Networking, knowledge transfer and optimisation of results in cultural heritage

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Activity 4 - Earth Observation & Assessment Tools

Earth and ocean observation systems and monitoring methods for the environment and sustainable development• Integration of European activities within GEO

• Earth Observation activities in emerging areas

• Developing capacity building activities in the domain of Earth Observation in the new EU countries and in the developing countries

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Activity 4 - Earth Observation & Assessment Tools Forecasting methods and assessment tools for sustainable development taking into account differing scales of observation

• Tools for impact assessment

• Sustainable development indicators

• Interplay between social, economic and ecological systems

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Activity 5 - Horizontal ActivitiesDissemination and horizontal activities

• ENV.2011.5.1.0-1 Uptake of climate related research results through knowledge platforms with African collaboration partners

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FP7-ENV-2011Publication: 30th July 2010Deadline: 18th NovemberBudget: €155M

FP7-ENV-2011-ECOINNOVATIONPublication: 30th July 2010Deadline 1st stage/2nd stage: To be confirmed Deadline single stage To be confirmed Budget: €50M

FP7-OCEAN-2011Publication: 30th July 2010Deadline: 18th Jan 2011Budget: €45M (ENV €16M)

Call Information - DRAFT

FP7-ENV-NMP-2011 (Advanced materials for cultural heritage assets ENV-NMP.2011.3.2.1-1)Publication: 30th July 2010Deadline: To be confirmedBudget: €12M (ENV €6M)

FP7-2011-NMP-ENV-ENERGY-ICT-EeB (Energy-efficient buildings PPP)Publication: 30th July 2010Deadline 2nd December 2010Budget: €85.5M (ENV €5.5M)

FP7-2011-GC-ELECTRCHEMICAL-STORAGE (Green cars PPP)Publication: 30th July 2010Deadline 2nd December 2010Budget: €25M (ENV €5M)

Call Information - DRAFT

Next Steps

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Partners

• Collaborative Projects & Coordination Actions • Three independent legal entities from three different Member

States or Associated States• At least two Member States or Associated Candidate Countries

• Support Actions • One legal entity

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Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Denmark, Ireland, UK, Greece, Portugal, Spain, Austria, Finland, Sweden, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Bulgaria, Romania

Member States

Associated States Faroe Islands, Iceland, Israel, Lichtenstein, Norway and Switzerland,

Candidate Countries Croatia, Macedonia and Turkey

International Cooperation Partner Countries

Africa, Caribbean, Pacific, Asia, Eastern Europe and Central Asia, Latin America, Mediterranean, Western Balkans

Third Countries USA, Japan, Australia, etc

Other Countries

Work Programme

• Get the one for your specific theme and call

• Describes all the proposal topics open for submission

• Dictates the type of funding scheme

• Partners

• Call details – deadlines, budget

• Project size – max €

Maximum EC Contribution Rates

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This is an eligibility criteria

Small Collaborative Large Collaborative CSA

Up to €3.5m Up to €4-7m Up to €1m

ENV.2011.1.2.2-1 Combined exposures to environmental agents: integrated approaches to evaluate environment-health relationships in children

Recent studies have suggested that even very low doses of some biologically active contaminants including toxic chemicals in the environment can alter gene expression important to learning and developmental function. Exposures during early development can adversely affect learning and development of the individual and last a lifetime, with huge economic and social consequences. Humans are exposed to complex mixtures of environmental contaminants that can interact to enhance adverse effects. The aim of the project is to develop better and sophisticated tools, procedures and testing methods to screen compounds for neurotoxicity and to improve assessment of exposures and effects. SMEs in the biotechnology area can play a key role and therefore, their participation is encouraged. Timing of exposure, the role of bioaccumulation and mixtures, mechanisms of disease development and the role of individual susceptibility should be examined using latest biotechnology tools available. SMEs in the biotechnology area can play a key role and therefore their participation is encouraged……

Funding scheme: Collaborative Project (large-scale integrating project)

Additional eligibility criterion: SME-targeted Collaborative Projects will only be selected for funding on the condition that the estimated EU contribution going to SME(s) is 15% or more of the total estimated EC contribution for the project as a whole. This will be assessed at the end of the negotiation, before signature of the grant agreement. Proposals not fulfilling this criterion will not be funded.

Expected Impact: Support for reduction of health inequalities, environmental sustainability and justice, including the goals of the EU Sustainable Development Strategy with its environment and public health components. Support for the goals of the EU and WHO environment and health process and EU chemicals legislation as well as Council conclusions on combination effects of chemicals (2009). Reducing uncertainty of risk assessments.

Topic number

Topic description

Topic title

Guide for Applicants

• Get the one for your funding scheme

• Describes the funding scheme

• Lists the funded countries

• Glossary

• Describes the proposal in detail

• Describes submission

• Checklist – USE IT!

What To Do Next

• Understand your project

• Decide on your project theme/research topic

• Consortium – do you need assistance with partner searches?

• Seek assistance from your National Contact Point

• UK info day in London on 16th July

• EU info day in Brussels on 12th-13th July

National Contact Point

NCP service is free and confidential

Promotion• Monthly newsletter sent by e-mail• Information events• Presentations at conferences and events

Assistance• Helpline (e-mail & phone)• Proposal pre-screening• Contact details of EC SOs• Partner searching

Website – www.BetaEurope.co.uk

Contact details

Catherine Holt Environment/Bio NCP

Email: catherine.holt@betatechnology.co.uk

Web: www.betaeurope.co.uk Tel: 01302 322633

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