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Success factors in grant applications and research projects: seminar

This seminar explores the initiation, design, and delivery of successful project grants funded through the European Commission's Seventh Framework Programme. It also delves into the experiences of European academics involved in EU-funded research projects.

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Success factors in grant applications and research projects: seminar

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  1. Success factors in grant applications and research projects: seminar

  2. To describe the initiation, design and delivery of a successful project grant funded through the European Commission’s Seventh Framework Programme OR A year in the lives of some European academics

  3. European Commission Framework Programmes The Framework Programmes are the European Union’s chief instrument for funding research http://cordis.europa.eu/home_en.html

  4. Major element: Collaborative projects through transnational consortia of academics and industry • Health • Food, agriculture and fisheries, and biotechnology • Information and communication technologies • Nanosciences, nanotechnologies, materials and new production technologies • Energy • Environment (including climate change) • Transport (including aeronautics) • Socio-economic sciences and the humanities • Space • Security

  5. “FP7” Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development 2007-2013 €50 billion Plus €2.7 billion (EURATOM)

  6. Euratom FP7-Fission-2007 call 22 December 2006 Radiation Protection: Medical uses of radiation Topic-2007-3.2.1: “Enhanced safety and efficacy in the medical uses of radiation”

  7. Objective of Topic Fission-2007-3.2.1:“Enhance the safety and efficacy of the uses of radiation in diagnosis and therapy through new technological developments and achieving a proper balance between the benefits and risks of radiation” Cone Beam CT (CBCT)

  8. What could be funded? • Collaborative projects from 24-60 months duration • Up to €2.5 million EC contribution • At least 3 independent legal entities required in different EU states

  9. The review process

  10. Each of the three criteria awarded score out of 5

  11. Scoring criteria

  12. Wednesday 31st January 2007: CDMA Building, Brussels: Information Meeting Information about the Call Opportunity to “network” and find partners To be seen! To be heard!

  13. Encouraged by Brussels meeting Building the team • Build a multi-part project dealing with: • Justification of CBCT use • Dosimetry • Quality Assurance • Diagnostic Accuracy • Cost Effectiveness • Training and dissemination Multidisciplinary (dentists, radiologists, physicists, methodologists, health economists)

  14. Building the methodology Lead scientists to draft their own “Work Packages” To define “Deliverables” The Coordinator to try to mould these together; add “Milestones”. Meeting arranged in Malmő for 23 March 2007

  15. Safety and Efficacy of a New and Emerging Dental X-ray Modality .... is the acquisition of the key information necessary for sound and scientifically based clinical use of dental Cone Beam Computed Tomography (CBCT) .....to use the information to develop evidence-based guidelines dealing with justification, optimisation and referral criteria and to provide a means of dissemination and training for users of CBCT

  16. SEDENTEXCT Gantt chart

  17. Final timeline • Grant application complete mid-April 2007 • Peer review • Submitted on 29 April 2007 Grant Deadline 2 May 2007

  18. The result 26 July 2007 14/15 score

  19. The next stage: conversion from an application into a contract

  20. But!..... Ethics review Issues related to: X-ray exposures to children Use of animal material Addition of a substantially enlarged “Ethics” section

  21. Negotiation Meeting: Brussels, October 2007 • Minor error corrections to “Description of Work” • Finalisation of annual budgets and initial “pre-financing” • Clarification over third party involvement • Set project start date

  22. Leuven “kick-off” meeting: January 2008

  23. Then the real work starts.......!

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