7 th Research Framework Programme

1. 7th Research Framework Programme Rules for the Participation

2. Rules for the participationRegulation of the European Parliament and of the Council (still proposal) • Participation • MINIMUM CONDITIONS • PROCEDURES • CALLS FOR PROPOSALS • EVALUATION OF PROPOSALS • IMPLEMENTATION AND GRANT AGREEMENTS • CONSORTIA • MONITORING OF PROGRAMMES AND INDIRECT ACTIONS AND COMMUNICATIONOF INFORMATION • COMMUNITY FINANCIAL CONTRIBUTION • ELIGIBILITY FOR FUNDING AND FORMS OF GRANTS • PAYMENT, DISTRIBUTION, RECOVERY AND GUARANTEES • Dissemination and use, and access rights • FOREGROUND • OWNERSHIP • PROTECTION, PUBLICATION, DISSEMINATION AND USE • ACCESS RIGHTS TO BACKGROUND AND FOREGROUND • European Investment Bank

3. Rules for the participation • Who • General provisions • Eligible countries • Eligible consortia • Appointment of independent experts • When • Calls (for proposals, for experts, for services and competitive calls) • Adoption roadmap • What • Budget • Funding schemes • Research themes • How • Financial rules/forms of grants • Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) • Consortium agreement

4. Who can participate: minimum conditions • Any company, university, research centre, organisation or individual, legally established in any country, may participate in a collaborative project (known as an indirect action) provided that the minimum conditions have been met. • The minimum conditions for indirect actions: • at least three legal entities must participate, each of which is established in a Member State or Associated country, and no two of which are established in the same Member State or Associated country; • all three legal entities must be independent of each other • specific programmes or work programmes may lay down additional conditions regarding the minimum number of participants, or additional conditions on the type of participant or place of establishment.

5. Eligible countries • MEMBER STATES - The EU-25; • ASSOCIATED COUNTRIES – with science and technology cooperation agreements that involved contributing to the framework programme budget; • CANDIDATE COUNTRIES – currently recognised as candidates for future accession; • THIRD COUNTRIES - the participation of organisations or individuals established in countries that are not Member States, candidates or associated should also be justified in terms of the enhanced contribution to the objectives of FP7.

6. Eligible consortia • INDIRECT ACTIONS (COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS) At least three legal entities must participate, each of which is established in a Member State or Associated country, and no two of which are established in the same Member State or Associated country. All three legal entities must be independent of each other. • INDIRECT ACTIONS CONCERNING INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION PARTNER COUNTRIES At least four legal entities must participate, at least two of them must be from Member States or Associated countries, but no two may be from the same country. All four legal entities must be independent of each other . • COORDINATION AND SUPPORT ACTIONS, AND TRAINING AND CARREER DEVELOPMENT OF RESEARCHERS participation of at least one legal entity. • INVESTIGATOR-DRIVEN ‘’FRONTIER’’ RESEARCH PROJECTS (ERC) The participation of one legal entity established in a Member State or in an Associated country. A legal entity is any natural person, or any legal person

7. Appointment of independent experts • independent experts for assistance with evaluations required under the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7), and its specific programmes. • For coordination and support actions independent experts will be appointed if appropriate • Database of experts (Experts Management Module (EMM)): http://cordis.europa.eu/emmfp7/

8. When: calls for proposals Two-stage submission and evaluation procedures: • only those proposals that pass the evaluation criteria for the first stage shall be requested to submit a complete proposal in the second stage. • only those proposals that pass the first step, based on the evaluation of a limited set of criteria, shall go forward for further evaluation.

9. What: Budget Total budget: 50,521 million EUR NMP: 3,475 million EURO

10. Funding schemes Actions primarily implemented on the basis of calls for proposals: • Collaborative projects • Networks of Excellence • Coordination and support actions • Individual projects: Support for “frontier” research • Support for training and career development of researchers • Research for the benefit of specific groups (in particular SMEs) Support for training and career development of researchers, mainly to be used for the implementation of Marie Curie actions. Support for research projects where the bulk of the research and technological development is carried out by universities, research centres or other legal entities, for the benefit of specific groups, in particular SMEs or associations of SMEs. Efforts will be made to mobilise additional financing from the European Investment Bank (EIB) and other financial organisations. Support for research projects carried out by consortia, aiming at developing new knowledge, new technology, products, demonstration activities or common resources for research. The size, scope and internal organisation of projects can vary from field to field and from topic to topic. Projects can range from small or medium-scale focused research actions to large‑scale integrating projects for achieving a defined objective. Projects should also target special groups such as SMEs and other smaller actors. Support for projects carried out by individual national or transnational research teams. This scheme will be used to support investigator-driven "frontier" research projects funded in the framework of the European Research Council. Support for a Joint Programme of Activities implemented by a number of research organisations integrating their activities in a given field, carried out by research teams in the framework of longer term cooperation. The implementation of this Joint Programme of Activities will require a formal commitment of the organisations integrating part of their resources and their activities. Support for activities aimed at coordinating or supporting research activities and policies (networking, exchanges, trans-national access to research infrastructures, studies, conferences, etc.). These actions may also be implemented by means other than calls for proposals.

11. Research themes The four specific programmes handle research themes in different ways: • Cooperation - Collaborative research projects will be selected under sub-programmes in nine defined themes, largely representing continuity with the seven thematic priorities of FP6; European Joint Technology Initiatives will be selected from the strategic research agendas defined by individual technology platforms. • Ideas - The European Research Council (ERC) will support 'researcher led' basic research across all scientific and technological areas. • People - Marie Curie actions to support individual researchers will operate horizontally across all research themes. • Capacities - Activities to support research infrastructures, SMEs, international cooperation, regional capabilities and 'science in society' will also be identified across all research areas.

12. Financial rules: Forms of grants Three forms of grants are proposed : • reimbursement of eligible costs • lump sums • flat-rate financing (scale of unit costs + flat rates for indirect costs) These forms may be used in combination. For most funding schemes, reimbursement of eligible costs be the preferred method. Lump sum and flat rate financing will be introduced gradually. For frontier research actions, appropriate funding modalities will be proposed.

13. Reimbursement of eligible costs The Community financial contribution will cover: • a maximum of 50% of eligible costs, with a top up of a maximum of 25% for research activities for SMEs, public bodies, secondary and higher education establishments and non-profit research organisations. • 100% of ‘frontier research’ actions for all entities. • up to 100% for all other activities, including coordination and support actions, and training and career development of researchers, for all entities.

14. 7th Framework Programme… Rules for Participation Specific Programme Work Programme Call fiche Guide for Applicants Documents

15. Work Programme Description of research topics Call fiche budget Identifier deadline Type of instruments Minimum conditions Basic documents • Guide for Applicants • description of proposal • forms

16. Usefull links Regulation of EC on rules for the participation in FP7: • http://cordis.europa.eu/documents/documentlibrary/2620PL.pdf • http://cordis.europa.eu/documents/documentlibrary/2620EN.pdf Comprehensive description of rules for the participation in FP7: • http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/participate_en.html Call specific rules: • Call-specific documents

17. Jarosław Piekarski NCP Poland IPPT PAN, Świętokrzyska 21, 00-049 Warszawa e-mail: jaroslaw.piekarski@kpk.gov.pl