The European Union’s 7th ResearchFramework Programme:

EU-China Relations in S&TOpportunities for further collaboration

Philippe Vialatte, EU Delegation to ChinaEvent on Opportunities with Europe,

At EC2, 30 August 2011Philippe.Vialatte@eeas.europa.eu

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EU Policy context Europe 2020:

smart, sustainable, inclusive growthsmart, sustainable, inclusive growth 7 flagship initiatives: innovation (Innovation Union)innovation (Innovation Union), education, digital

society, climate-energy-mobility, competitiveness, employment-skills, fighting poverty

Innovation Union Flagship strategy A strategic and integrated approach to research and innovation Putting in place the key conditions to make Europe attractive for research

and innovation Focus on major challenges and aiming at competitiveness and jobs

Horizon 2020 under preparation: to implement Innovation Union

Current trends for EU-China S&T:Science and Technology Cooperation Agreement More strategic cooperation: Benefit of EU / win-win Equal partnership, Co-funding Project / programme-level cooperation task-forces (e.g. FAB) to discuss common priorities for Research

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EU research: the story so far

1952: ECSC treaty; first projects started March 1955

1957: Euratom treaty; Joint Research Centre set up

1983: ESPRIT programme (ICT)

1984: First Research Framework Programme (1984-1987)

1987: Second Research Framework Programme (1987-1991)

1990: Third Research Framework Programme (1990-1994)

1994: Fourth Research Framework Programme (1994-1998)

1998: Fifth Research Framework Programme (1998-2002)

2002: Sixth Research Framework Programme (2002-2006)

2007: Seventh Research Framework Programme (2007-2013)

2014: Horizon 2020 (2014-2020)

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7th Framework Programme (2007 – 2013)

EURO 53 billion

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Cooperation Programme – Collaborative Research10 Thematic Priority Areas

1. Health 6050 M€2. Food, Agriculture, Fisheries and Biotechnology 1935 M€3. Information and Communication Technologies 9110 M€4. Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and

3500 M€ new Production Technologies5. Energy 2300 M€6. Environment (including Climate Change) 1900 M€7. Transport (including Aeronautics) 4180 M€8. Socio-Economic Sciences and the Humanities 610 M€9. Space 1430 M€10. Security 1350 M€

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7th EU Research FP basic principles

Transnational cooperation Public calls, peer review evaluation,

competitive selection Scientific Excellence, innovation Cost-sharing Participants own the results Fully open to international participation

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EU-China:2 main types of S&T cooperation using FP7

“Bottom up”: openness of the EU 7th Research FP

All calls open for participation by researchers from all countries.

For certain partner countries – including China – participation in FP7 projects can be partly funded by the EU.

“Top down”: EU-China strategic S&T Cooperation: joint / parallel Calls for Proposals based on shared priority and co-investment of resources

Targeted opening, Twining, Coordinated calls

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Chinese Participation in FP7

MARIE CURIE ACTIONS >200 Chinese researchers have been funded in FP7 MCA IRSES proposals involving 48 Chinese partners

COOPERATION (as of 18 May 2011) In all proposals submitted

1326 Chinese partners involved in submitted proposals In the main list

243 Chinese partners involved in main-listed proposals (19% success rate) 27 M€ EC contribution to Chinese partners

CHINA IS THE 3RD LARGEST PARTICIPANT COUNTRY IN FP7 OUTSIDE OF EUROPE

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REFERENCE DATE: Calls 07+08+09+10+11 - 18 May 2011

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COOPERATION / ALL THEMATIC AREASCHINA: APPLICATIONS MAIN LISTED - REQUESTED CONTRIBUTION: 40.144.958 €

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How to get started? http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7

Finda call

Findpartners

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Who can participate? All Cooperation thematic areas open

minimum legalminimum legal consortium requirement: 3 independent3 independent partnerspartners from 3 3 differentdifferent EU Member States (27) or associated states (13) + any + any additional partneradditional partner(Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Cyprus, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom; Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovinia, Croatia, Faroe Islands, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Iceland, Israel, Lichtenstein, Montenegro, Norway, Serbia, Switzerland, Turkey)

WP2012: specific topics targeting China Call number

Thematic area

Title of the call Form of coop.

Countries targeted

Amount earmarked on EU side

KBBE.2012.3.1-03: FAB EU – China Partnering Initiative on fibre crops

Twinning China 1.000.000

ENERGY.2012.5.2.2 Energy Impact of the quality of CO2 on transport and storage

Targeted opening

US, Canada, China

3.500.000

ENERGY.2012.2.5.1 Energy Research, development and testing of solar dish systems

Twinning China 4.000.000

SST.2012.2.5-2. Transport Europe to Asia: rail research collaboration

Targeted opening

Russia, China

5.000.000

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Submitting a Proposal

A proposal is submitted electronically by the Coordinator (who must be based in Europe)

You have to provide some administrative details of your institution

Provide inputs on your part of the proposed scientific work to the Coordinator, who will submit the proposal to the EC

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Evaluation Criteria

Scientific and Technological Quality Concepts, objectives, work plan, relevance to Call for

proposals

Implementation Quality of participants and consortium, distribution of

resources, management

Impact Contribution to work programme expected impacts,

dissemination and exploitation of results

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Key success factors for applicants

Competition is tough: only the best proposals get funded –about 15-25% of proposals get funded, variation in areas

Proposals must be within the scope of the Call for Proposals

The Consortium of partners must be excellent in their field and appropriate to the task to be performed – select the right partners

The proposal must address all the evaluation criteria – scientific and technological quality, implementation, impact

Respect the basic rules – deadlines, number of participants, ceilings, length, ethics, …

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Examples of S&T topics in thecall for proposals

2012 launched on 20 July 2011

(with deadlines by the end of the deadlines by the end of the yearyear)

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HealthExamples of topics covered in the next call:

Activity 1: Biotechnology, generic tools and medical technologies for human health Technologies for personalised medicine Research on Transplantation and on therapeutic DNA/RNA

delivery Activity 2: Translating research for human health

Rare diseases research Research on Ageing, Diabetes and Systems Medicine Infectious diseases: HIV/TB/Malaria/HCV

Activity 3: Optimising the delivery of healthcare Health service delivery and Health Technology Assessment Health systems and services in low and middle income countries

See: ftp://ftp.cordis.europa.eu/pub/fp7/docs/wp/cooperation/health/a-wp-201201_en.pdf

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Food, Agriculture, Fisheries and Biotechnology

Sustainable production and management of biological resources from land, forest and aquatic environments

Food (including seafood), health and well being Life sciences, biotechnology and biochemistry for sustainable

non-food products and processes International cooperation mandatory in “Conversion of bio-waste

in developing countries” and “Novel protein sources” Fibre crops topic with China

Budget for call 2011 about 310M EURO Deadline: November 15

See: ftp://ftp.cordis.europa.eu/pub/fp7/docs/wp/cooperation/kbbe/b-wp-201201_en.pdf

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Information and Communication Technologies

Challenges ObjectivesPervasive and Trusted Network and Service infrastructures 

Future Networks - Cloud Computing, Internet of Services and Advanced Software Engineering Trustworthy ICTFuture Internet Research and Experimentation (FIRE)

Alternative Paths to Components and systems 

Very Advanced Nanoelectronic Components - Smart Components and Smart Systems Integration - Core and Disruptive Photonic Technologies

Technologies for Digital Content and languages

Intelligent Information Management

ICT for a Low Carbon Economy

Smart Energy Grids - ICT for Efficient water Resources Management

Cooperative Systems for Energy Efficient and Sustainable Mobility

ICT for Learning and Access to Cultural Resources

Technology-Enhanced Learning

Future and Emerging Technologies 

Unconventional Computation (UCOMP) - Dynamics of Multi-Level Complex Systems - Minimising Energy Consumption of Computing to the Limit - Coordinating Communities, Identifying New Research Topics for FET Proactive Initiatives… Science of Global Systems

Horizontal Actions Pre-Commercial Procurement ActionsSee: ftp://ftp.cordis.europa.eu/pub/fp7/docs/wp/cooperation/ict/c-wp-201201_en.pdf

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Nano-sciences, nanotechnologies, materials & new production

technologies Topics span from enabling research, to applications and

demonstration activities Challenges also addressed in Energy and Energy

Efficiency; Environment and Sustainable Development; Health and Safety

Enhanced Innovation Elements, e.g. up-scaling and demonstration activities

47 topics in nanotechnology, advanced materials, production; and “factory of the future”, “energy-efficient buildings” and “green cars”

See: ftp://ftp.cordis.europa.eu/pub/fp7/docs/wp/cooperation/nmp/d-wp-201201_en.pdf

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Energy

Budget 325 M€

Solar energy: cost reductions of PV systems, multifunctional PV modules; Research and demonstration on CSPCSP;

Wind energy: very large off-shore wind turbines and improvement of current turbines Ocean energy: demonstration of ocean energy farms Biofuels: biofuels from algae; aviation jet fuels; demonstration of lignocellulosic

ethanol; biomass-related logistics Heating and cooling: medium temperature solar collectors Clean Coal Technologies: Plant integration of CO2 capture; new combustion

technologies Smart Energy Networks: Grid integration of renewable energy sources; pan-European

energy networks; smart metering; battery safety Energy efficiency: Smart Cities Future Emerging Technologies

See: ftp://ftp.cordis.europa.eu/pub/fp7/docs/wp/cooperation/energy/e-wp-201201_en.pdf

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Energy: China specific activities

See: ftp://ftp.cordis.europa.eu/pub/fp7/docs/wp/cooperation/energy/e-wp-201201_en.pdf

Twinning:

Targeted opening:

Contacts:

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Environment (including climate change)

• Two calls - 20 July - €255 million• Focus on five challenges for resource efficiency

and climate resilience:– Coping with climate change– Sustainable use and management of land and seas– Improving resource efficiency– Protecting citizens from environmental hazards– Mobilising environmental knowledge for policy,

industry and society• Most topic areas are evaluated through a two-

stage process• Emphasis on innovation• All topics open to international participation

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Environment (including climate change)• All topics open for Chinese participation

• Topics with international collaboration encouraged:– Development of advanced techno-economic modelling tools for

assessing costs and impacts of mitigation policies [Topic: ENV.2012.6.1-2]

– Strategies, costs and impacts of adaptation to climate change [Topic: ENV.2012.6.1-3]

– Exploration of the operational potential of the concepts of ecosystem services and natural capital to systematically inform sustainable land, water and urban management [Topic: ENV.2012.6.2-1]

– Long-term monitoring experiment in geologically active regions of Europe prone to natural hazards: the Supersite concept [Topic: ENV.2012.6.4-2]

– Integrating environmental and health data to advance knowledge of the role of environment in human health and well-being [Topic: ENV.2012.6.4-3]

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Transport (including Aeronautics)

See: http://ec.europa.eu/research/transport/index_en.cfm

Focus on 3 major societal challenges Eco-Innovation Safe and seamless mobility Competitiveness trough Innovation

3 sub-themes - All topics open to partners from China (313M€) Aeronautics and Air Transport - 150M€: Level 2 (>5M€) & Level 1 (<5M€)

Open call for long term Innovation (5M€) 5 topics for IP Level 2 (65M€): propulsion (2), safety (2), aero-structure 41 topics for CP Level 1 and CSA (71M€): flight physics, aero-structure, propulsion, systems,

avionics, production, maintenance & repair, airports, human factors, noise Biofuels for aviation (5M€) and Co-funded cooperation with Japan (4M€)

Sustainable Surface Transport - 150M€ Group N° 1: Increasing railway capacity (24M€) Group N° 2: Ensuring safe, green & competitive waterborne transport (28M€) Group N° 3: European Green Car Initiative (63M€) Group N° 4: Cross-cutting - urban mobility, ITS, safety & security (30M€) Joint programming in marine and maritime research (2M€) ERA-NET Transport (all surface transport modes, 3M€)

Socio-economic research and cross-cutting issues – 7 topics, 13M€

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Socio-economic Sciences and the Humanities

A SICA with CHINA was launched in 2011, implemented with the project URBA-CHINA (Megatrends to 2050) EU-Delegation engagement in an EU-China Urbanisation Partnership, draft of joint

activities

Chinese institutions participate in ongoing projects and are welcome to join European partners to address any topic they consider important: this is especially the case for the research area on ‘Europe in the World ’

Topics of interest include EU internal and external relations, and Integration processes in South East Asia.

See: ftp://ftp.cordis.europa.eu/pub/fp7/docs/wp/cooperation/ssh/h-wp-201201_en.pdf

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Space

Earth observation Archiving and exchange of climate change data Emergency response support (risk and vulnerability mapping,

geo-information tools to support emergency recovery)Space science and technology Support the exploitation of space science and mission data Advanced observation technologies and instrumentation Key technologies for space transportation and in-space

activities (power generation and storage, re-entry technologies, thermal shielding, next generation of habitation modules)

See: http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/policies/space/index_en.htm

See: ftp://ftp.cordis.europa.eu/pub/fp7/docs/wp/cooperation/space/j-wp-201201_en.pdf

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FP 7Security Research

CBRN Response

Explosives

2. Security of infrastructures

and utilities

1. Security of the Citizens

6. Security and society

4. Restoring security and

safety in case of crisis

3. Intelligent surveillance and border security

Land Border

Sea Border

Citizens, media and security

Foresight and scenarios

Organisational requirements for interoperability of

public users

Organised Crime

Terrorism

Designing Buildings and Urban Areas

Energy/Transport/

Communication Grids

Preparedness

Recovery Surveillance

5. Security systems integration,

interconnectivity and interoperability

7. Security Research

coordination and structuring

CBRNProtection

Security Economics

Ethics and justice

Sub Areas

Mission Areas

Securecommunications

Security Missions

Cross-cutting

Missions

Information management

Air Border

Supply chains

Response

ERA-NET

Interoperability

SME’s

Studies

NCP &Others

Cyber Security

Border checks

Intelligent Border

surveillance

End-users

Training

Ordinary crime and forensics

Standardisation

Information Gathering

Home page :http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/security/index_en.htm

FP7 Security Research projects http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/security/projects_en.html

Areas covered by WP2012 - 220M€ Security

See: ftp://ftp.cordis.europa.eu/pub/fp7/docs/wp/cooperation/security/k-wp-201201_en.pdf

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Ideas Programme – Frontier Research

The European Research Council – first pan-European funding organization for basic research

Investigator-driven research /bottom-up approach. No thematic priorities

Grants for young and senior individual researchers, of any nationality, and their teams, up to five-years. No consortia, no networks.

Grant packages: Starting grant: up to €2m Advanced grant: up to €3.5m

Promotes high-quality research through competition for funds at European level, also open to researchers from outside Europe

Scientific excellence is the only criterion for success ERC visit to China in June 2011 to promote ERC and encourage China

applications International cooperation strategy and webpage under preparation

European Research Council website: www.erc.europa.eu

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Current ERC calls for proposals

Starting Independent Researcher Grants Call for Proposals

Competition targeted at early-career research leaders, of any age, with 2-12 years of experience after their PhD.

Applicants can be of any nationality as long as they are working, or moving to work, mainly, in Europe. Team members can also be located and work in Countries outside Europe.

Open to proposals in any field of research (from Social Sciences and Humanities to Life Sciences and Physical Sciences).

Call budget : 729.97 Mio Euro Individual grant : up to 2 Mio euros Deadlines : October 2011 (for Physical Sciences/Engineering) and

November 2011 (for Life Sciences/Social Sciences and Humanities)

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Marie Curie Actions - Fellowships programme

Initial trainingNetworks for Early stage

researchers

International dimension Outgoing fellowshipsIncoming fellowships

International reintegration grants International Staff Exchange

Programmes

Life long training and career development:

Intra European FellowshipsCo-funding of national programmes

European Reintegration Grants

Industry dimensionIndustry-academia partnership and

pathways

Specific actionsSuch as: ‘Researchers’ Night’; Marie Curie Awards, ERA-More; networking of

NCPs

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Marie Curie Actions – opportunities

http://ec.europa.eu/research/mariecurieactions

5623 opportunities advertised, including 243 Marie Curie vacancies (18 May 2011)

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Capacities – Research Capacity

This part of the FP will enhance research and innovation capacities throughout Europe and ensure its optimal use through:

Development of research infrastructures

Research for the benefit of SMEs

Supporting development of regional research-driven

clusters

Unlocking research potential in the EU region

Bringing science and society closer

Activities of targeted international cooperation to support

international participation across the whole of FP7

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Capacities – Activities of international Cooperation

Recently published call includes:

Bi-regional coordination of S&T cooperation including priority setting and definition of S&T cooperation policies (INCO-NET, closing date: 15 Nov 2011): target regions: Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and Caribbean, Mediterranean

Region, South-East Asian Region)

Bilateral coordination for the enhancement and development of S&T Partnerships (BILAT, closing date: 15 Nov 2011): target countries: Australia, Brazil, ChinaChina, India, New Zealand, Russia, South Africa, South-Korea, United States of America Argentina, Chile, Jordan, Mexico, Morocco, Ukraine

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Information Sources Participation in FP7: http://ec.europa.eu/research/fp7/index_en.cfm General information on European research:

ec.europa.eu/research/index_en.cfm

List and description of projects in FP7 and 6: cordis.europa.eu/fp7/projects_en.htmlcordis.europa.eu/fp6

EU-China S&T Relations: http://eeas.europa.eu/delegations/china/eu_china/science_tech_environmement/index_en.htm

Any questions? ec.europa.eu/research/enquiries/ Or delegation-china-scitech@eeas.europa.eu

EU Research & Innovation Newsletters: To keep up to date on EU research, subscribe to newsletters:

http://ec.europa.eu/research/index.cfm?pg=mailingand via the Delegation website above

Thank you for

your attention

Philippe.Vialatte@eeas.europa.eu