1 NOT LEGALLY BINDING Energy Info day FP7-ENERGY-2008-FET 19th December 2007 Carlos SARAIVA MARTINS Unit “Energy conversion and distribution systems” DG Research – RTD/K2 FP7-ENERGY-2008-FET Future Emerging Technologies

2 NOT LEGALLY BINDING Energy Info day FP7-ENERGY-2008-FET 19th December 2007 Background Why a specific FET call? FP FET call / FET topic Objectives What are we expecting to get? What will not be considered Submission and evaluation Some recommendations Contents

3 NOT LEGALLY BINDING Energy Info day FP7-ENERGY-2008-FET 19th December 2007 Background Report on the Implementation of activities (2005) “The Panel supports the idea of including new and emerging science and technology in the next FP in each priority area of the Cooperation programme” EP and Council decision of 18 December 2006 concerning FP7 “….Under each team, beside these activities, two types of opportunities will be addressed in a open and flexible way: Future and Emerging Technologies and Unforeseen policy needs”

4 NOT LEGALLY BINDING Energy Info day FP7-ENERGY-2008-FET 19th December 2007 Background Cooperation Work Programme “Each Theme includes a range of different research topics, including those relevant to industrial needs, such as… In addition, « emerging » research needs are incorporated through more « bottom-up » research topics.” The Energy Theme “The objective is to support research aiming at identifying or further exploring new scientific and technological opportunities in a given field and/or in combination with other relevant areas and disciplines, as well as to nurture novel ideas and radically new uses and to explore new options, in particular those with a potential for significant breakthrough ”

5 NOT LEGALLY BINDING Energy Info day FP7-ENERGY-2008-FET 19th December 2007 Background « Where appropriate, opportunities for FET proposals are incorporated into the activities and areas, through the open nature of certain research topics. Such opportunities, described in detail in the relevant sections, include”: Topic ENERGY : Innovative concepts for fuel cells Topic ENERGY : Fuel production using solar radiation Fist FP7 Energy call

6 NOT LEGALLY BINDING Energy Info day FP7-ENERGY-2008-FET 19th December 2007 AcronymCoordinatorDurationTitle Ideal-CellARMINES48 months Innovative Dual Membrane FC Topic ENERGY : Innovative concepts for fuel cells Received - 17; Above threshold – 13; Funded - 1 Background

7 NOT LEGALLY BINDING Energy Info day FP7-ENERGY-2008-FET 19th December 2007 Topic ENERGY : Fuel production using solar radiation Received - 9; Above threshold - 6; Funded - 1 AcronymCoordinatorDurationTitle SOLAR H2 University of Upsala 48 months European Solar-Fuel Initiative - Renewable Hydrogen from Sun and Water. Science Linking Molecular Biomimetics and Genetics Background

8 NOT LEGALLY BINDING Energy Info day FP7-ENERGY-2008-FET 19th December 2007 Why a specific FET call ? Science moves rapidly – difficult to ensure that all important topics are covered or that an appropriate call comes exactly at a time when a good idea is ready to be supported – a complementary bottom-up call needs to be published. Today’s energy demands cannot be met by the existing technologies. In order to get truly innovative novel technologies, ‘breakthroughs’, a paradigm shift is necessary.

9 NOT LEGALLY BINDING Energy Info day FP7-ENERGY-2008-FET 19th December 2007 Why a specific FET call? The Commission should attend to avoid putting into competition against each other research areas of widely different character. There should be a clear association within the evaluation process of proposals of similar class, i.e., size and funding mechanism The Commission should consider a two-stage submission There was wide agreement on the value of the remote evaluation

10 NOT LEGALLY BINDING Energy Info day FP7-ENERGY-2008-FET 19th December 2007 FP7-Energy-2008-FET Topic ENERGY Hydrogen and fuel cells Renewable electricity generation Renewable fuel production CO 2 capture and storage technologies for zero emission power generation Smart energy networks Clean coal technologies Renewables for heating and cooling Energy savings and energy efficiency Knowledge for energy policy making Horizontal Programme Actions

11 NOT LEGALLY BINDING Energy Info day FP7-ENERGY-2008-FET 19th December 2007 FP7-Energy-2008-FET Topic ENERGY  Indicative budget: 15 M€  Funding scheme: Collaborative Projects  Publication of Call: 30 th November 2007  Type of Call: Two stages  Deadline for Stage 1: 26 th Feb 2008, 17:00:00

12 NOT LEGALLY BINDING Energy Info day FP7-ENERGY-2008-FET 19th December 2007 FP7-Energy-2008-FET Topic ENERGY  Technical content/scope: This call/topic aims at ensuring a genuine chance for “emerging ideas” to be funded based on the strategic need to utilise the creative spirit in European research. It covers all the areas of the Theme and is to provide rewards for “high risk / high impact” science and to vigorously promote multi- disciplinarity on a European collaborative basis.

13 NOT LEGALLY BINDING Energy Info day FP7-ENERGY-2008-FET 19th December 2007 FP7-Energy-2008-FET Topic ENERGY  Special features: In order to maximise industrial relevance and impact of the research effort, the active participation of High Technology SMEs represents an added value to this topic.  Expected impact: To explore new paths leading to highly innovative novel technologies for energy applications and, to contribute to the establishment of a strong scientific and technical base for European science and technology in energy emerging areas.

14 NOT LEGALLY BINDING Energy Info day FP7-ENERGY-2008-FET 19th December 2007 High risk/high impact projects Different technological sectors, cutting across boundaries Tangible, highly ambitious and challenging objectives Projects lying well beyond the international state-of-the-art Multinational partnership but with no "superfluous" partners What are we expecting to get?

15 NOT LEGALLY BINDING Energy Info day FP7-ENERGY-2008-FET 19th December 2007 Research with no significant and clearly identifiable novel aspects Research that constitutes a technology demonstration or a combination of existing technologies Open-ended-blue-sky-research with no tangible objectives Research directed towards hypothetical phenomena with no convincing evidence as to their real or potential existence, or inconsistent with the basic laws of science What will not be considered?

16 NOT LEGALLY BINDING Energy Info day FP7-ENERGY-2008-FET 19th December 2007 Submission and Evaluation On line submission Part A entered through a set of on-line forms. Only the coordinator is formally involved in the submission process at stage 1. Details of other participants should be provided in the Part B description of the proposal, but those other participants are not required to submit Part A input at stage 1. Part B uploaded (pdf file) by the applicant into EPSS (10 pages maximum + 2 additional pages to describe the consortium and the estimated financial resources) Eligibility checks: partnership, in-scope, number of pages Evaluation: remote peer-review by independent experts consensus meetings

17 NOT LEGALLY BINDING Energy Info day FP7-ENERGY-2008-FET 19th December 2007 Submission and Evaluation 1st stage proposals evaluated based on scientific quality (a list of proposals for 250% of the available budget will be invited to proceed to stage 2)

18 NOT LEGALLY BINDING Energy Info day FP7-ENERGY-2008-FET 19th December 2007 Submission and Evaluation Stage 2 proposals will be evaluated based on three criteria with the following thresholds: Minimum threshold S/T quality4/5 Implementation3/5 Impact4/5 Overall threshold12/15

19 NOT LEGALLY BINDING Energy Info day FP7-ENERGY-2008-FET 19th December 2007 Your proposal has to be clear. A short first-stage proposal (10 pages maximum) is not just about describing an idea. It should contain a concise description: What exactly is the novelty of the proposal? What are you planning to do and how? What may one expect as a result of the project? What would be the impact on energy technology? Some recommendations

20 NOT LEGALLY BINDING Energy Info day FP7-ENERGY-2008-FET 19th December 2007 Consult the Guide for Applicants Do not assume that the independent experts know everything you know Ask a colleague to pre-evaluate your proposal Some recommendations

21 NOT LEGALLY BINDING Energy Info day FP7-ENERGY-2008-FET 19th December 2007 Plan B for energy “If efficiency improvements and incremental advances in today’s technologies fail to halt global warming, could revolutionary new carbon-free energy sources save the day?” Scientific American, Nov 2006 DON’ T COUNT ON IT BUT….., DON’ T COUNT IT OUT, EITHER

22 NOT LEGALLY BINDING Energy Info day FP7-ENERGY-2008-FET 19th December 2007 Thank you for your attention!