1 NOT LEGALLY BINDING Energy Info day FP7-ENERGY-2008-FET 19th December 2007 Carlos SARAIVA MARTINS...

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NOT LEGALLY BINDINGEnergy Info day FP7-ENERGY-2008-FET

19th December 2007

Carlos SARAIVA MARTINSUnit “Energy conversion and distribution systems”DG Research – RTD/K2

FP7-ENERGY-2008-FETFP7-ENERGY-2008-FET

Future Emerging Technologies

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• Background

• Why a specific FET call?

• FP7-2008-FET call / FET topic

• Objectives

• What are we expecting to get?

• What will not be considered

• Submission and evaluation

• Some recommendations

Contents

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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”

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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 ”

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« 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.2007.1.1-03: Innovative concepts for fuel cells

• Topic ENERGY.2007.3.5-01: Fuel production using solar radiation

Fist FP7 Energy call

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Acronym Coordinator Duration Title

Ideal-CellIdeal-Cell ARMINES 48 months

Innovative Dual Membrane FC

Topic ENERGY.2007.1.1.3:

Innovative concepts for fuel cells

Received - 17; Above threshold – 13; Funded - 1

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Topic ENERGY.2007.3.5.1:

Fuel production using solar radiation

Received - 9; Above threshold - 6; Funded - 1

Acronym Coordinator Duration Title

SOLAR H2SOLAR H2 University of Upsala

48 months

European Solar-Fuel Initiative - Renewable Hydrogen from Sun and Water. Science Linking Molecular

Biomimetics and Genetics

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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.

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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

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FP7-Energy-2008-FETTopic ENERGY.2008.10.1.1

Hydrogen and fuel cells

Renewable electricitygeneration

Renewable fuel production

CO2 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

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Indicative budget: 15 M€

Funding scheme: Collaborative Projects

Publication of Call: 30th November 2007

Type of Call: Two stages

Deadline for Stage 1: 26th Feb 2008, 17:00:00

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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.

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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.

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• 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 What are we expecting to get?expecting to get?

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• 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 What will not be considered?considered?

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Submission and Submission and EvaluationEvaluation

• 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

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• 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)

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• Stage 2 proposals will be evaluated based on three criteria with the following thresholds:

Minimum threshold

S/T quality 4/5

Implementation 3/5

Impact 4/5

Overall threshold 12/15

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• 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 Some recommendationsrecommendations

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• 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 Some recommendationsrecommendations

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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

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Thank you for your attention!

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