EU funding programmes – In support of a knowledge based society Stefan Thuis TU Dortmund

Content 1)FP7 – EU’s Framework Programme for Research 2)EU’s External Aid Programmes: Tempus 3)IPA – Instrument for Pre-Accession Assistance

EU funding – The Financial Framework 3

FP7 – The Framework programme for Research: Facts  Programme will last from 2007 until 2013  Total budget is over 50bn Euro  Budget increase of 63% compared to the previous FP6 programme  Research is given high priority by this programme  The programme is seen “as a key tool to respond to Europe's needs in terms of jobs and competitiveness, and to maintain leadership in the global knowledge economy”  Money is spent to co-finance research, technological development and demonstration projects 4

FP7 – The Framework programme for Research: Facts  Main goals of all programmes:  strengthen the scientific and technological base of European industry  to encourage its international competitiveness, while promoting research that supports EU policies  All projects must have a “European added value”  Most of the projects are carried out by transnational consortia  Projects can now also be carried out by “individual teams”  FP7 is the result of consultation with research community from public and private sectors  More flexibility, simplified procedures 5

FP7 – How to apply  Calls for project proposals are constantly published by European Commission  Grants are determined in a review process  National contact points (NCPs) have been installed in all eligible countries to help researchers interested in participation  All EU Member States and FP7 associated countries are eligible to participate  Eligibility of Non-EU countries can vary from one programme to another 6

Major building blocks of FP7 FP7 CooperationIdeasPeopleCapacities Nuclear Research 7

FP7 – Cooperation Programme  Cooperation Programme is the core of FP7  Represents two thirds of the overall budget  Fosters collaborative research across Europe and other partner countries  Projects are carried out by transnational consortia of industry and academia 8

FP7 – Cooperation Programme  10 key thematic areas:  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 9

FP7 – Ideas Programme  Support of "frontier research" on the basis of scientific excellence  Actions may be carried out in any area of science or technology, including engineering, socio-economic sciences and the humanities  No obligation for cross-border partnerships  Projects implemented by "individual teams" around a "principal investigator“  Implemented via the new European Research Council (ERC) 10

FP7 – People Programme  provides support for researcher mobility and career development for researchers inside the European Union and internationally  Implemented via a set of Marie Curie actions, providing fellowships and other measures to help researchers build their skills and competences throughout their careers  Topics:  Initial training of researchers - Marie Curie Networks  Industry-academia partnerships  Co-funding of regional, national and international mobility programmes  Intra-European fellowships  International dimension - outgoing and incoming fellowships,  international cooperation scheme, reintegration grants  Marie Curie Awards 11

12 FP7 – Capacities Programme  Strengthens the research capacities to become a thriving knowledge-based economy  Topics:  Research infrastructures  Research for the benefit of SMEs  Regions of Knowledge  Research Potential  Science in Society  Specific activities of international cooperation

EU’s external aid programmes: Tempus  Established in 1990  Annual budget of 50 million Euro  Individual projects receive grants between 0.5 and 1.5 million Euro  Calls for proposals are issued annually  Supports the modernisation of higher education and creates an area of co-operation  27 countries from Western Balkans, Eastern Europe, Central Asia, North Africa and the Middle East can participate  Composed on 2 actions:  Joint projects  Structural measures 13

Tempus: Joint projects  Projects aim to improve higher education institutions themselves in one or more of the Partner Countries  Based on multilateral partnerships between higher education institutions in the EU and the Partner Countries  Relevant themes for joint projects: curriculum development, university governance and creating better links between higher education and society  Two categories:  National Projects where one of the Partner Countries benefits  Multi-Country Projects aim to be of benefit to more than one Partner Country 14

Tempus: Structural measures  Aim to improve Partner Countries' overall higher education systems  Themes: national laws, organisation, coordination, accreditation, evaluation, policy of higher education systems at national level  Designed to support the structural reform of higher education systems and strategic development at national level  Examples:  reform of governance systems (qualification systems, quality assurance, etc.)  developing better links between higher education and society  include studies and research, conferences and seminars, training courses, policy advice and dissemination of information 15

IPA – Instrument for Pre-Accession Assistance  Focused EU funding for candidate countries and potential candidate countries  Funding period:  Total funding amount: 11.5bn Euro  Assistance through IPA can take the following forms:  Investment, procurement, contracts or subsidies  Administrative cooperation, involving experts sent from Member States  Action by the EU in the interest of the beneficiary country  Measures to support the implementation process and programme management  Budget support 16

IPA – Instrument for Pre-Accession Assistance  IPA consists of 5 different components:  Assistance for transition and institution building  Cross-border cooperation (with EU Member States and other countries eligible for IPA)  Regional development (transport, environment, regional and economic development)  Human resources (strengthening human capital and combating exclusion)  Rural development  The IPA beneficiary countries are divided into two categories. EU candidate countries are eligible for all five components, potential candidate countries in the Western Balkans are eligible only for the first 2 components 17

IPA funding example: Serbia Component Comp. 1181,4179,4182,5186,2189,9193,8203,1 Comp. 28,211,412,212,412,712,911,6 TOTAL (in mio. EUR) 189,6190,8194,8198,6202,6206,7214,7 18 Example: In 2010, Serbia was provided 25 million Euro in supporting the higher education teaching infrastructure programme which aims at improving the quality of education and training in Serbian higher education institutions as demanded by the new knowledge-based society, modern learning processes, standards of industrial research and emerging labour market needs.

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