Dave Crowley KOM presentation

15 May 2013 CASCADE-FELLOWS KOM, EMCC Nottingham

EU Funding for International Collaborative Research and Development

From FP1 to CASCADE-FELLOWS

The Framework Programmes (FPs)

• Around since mid 1980s• Biggest Research Programme in the World• Originally set up to boost European

Competitiveness in Key Technological Areas where Europe was lagging/falling behind the USA and Japan (I.T. HDTV etc.) and also to avoid duplication and replication of research being carried out in various EU Member States.

15 May 2013 CASCADE-FELLOWS KOM, EMCC, Nottingham

FP’s and International Researcher Mobility• Currently in Final Year of FP7 which will be replaced by

“Horizon 2020” next year and run till 2020 (budget of around 80 billion Euros proposed)

• Researcher Mobility Schemes Piloted in FP4 in the mid 1990’s. Now known as the “People” Pillar of FP7 and represented by the “Marie Curie Fellowship Schemes”

• Very Popular and have expanded constantly since then• Individual and Network types• Now Global in nature in most cases• COFUND introduced as a way to “Internationalise” existing

Fellowship Programmes of Funding Authorities around the EU


COFUND• The COFUND action supports existing or new regional, national

and international fellowship programmes (to open up to and provide for transnational mobility).

• COFUND will support fellowship programmes for the most promising Experienced Researchers, helping them in their career development. The programmes must run an open, merit-based competition for the applying researchers, founded on international peer review. The freedom of the fellows to choose a research topic and the appropriate host organisation fitting their individual needs is a key element for the COFUND action.

• COFUND should NOT be confused with other Marie Curie Multi-Partner Schemes like Initial Training Networks where several (full) partners sign a contract with Brussels and are allocated their own pots of money.


COFUND

• How does it work?• Proposals are submitted by organisations operating

a transnational fellowship programme within the specified deadlines, and are evaluated by external independent experts against a series of predetermined criteria. In principle, selected programmes will be cofunded for a duration of 24 to 60 months.

• CASCADE-FELLOWS will run for 60 months


COFUND

Programmes that apply for the COFUND action must comply with the concept of individual driven mobility, which means that researchers should be able to choose the research topic, destination, research group or supervisor of their fellowship freely. Programmes which predefine the fellow's research work at a given location do not conform to this principle. In any case COFUND will not support "recruitment schemes" to fill regular research vacancies.


COFUND

• The project should be shaped in order to develop and widen the competences of the researcher significantly, in particular in terms of multi- or interdisciplinary expertise, intersectoral (private-public) experience and complementary skills.

• Such training/career development activities may include:• Primarily, training-through-research under supervision by

means of an individual personalised project;• Hands-on training activities for developing scientific (new

techniques or instruments, etc.) and complementary skills (communication techniques, proposal preparation to request funding, patent applications, project management, task coordination, technical or scientific staff supervision, etc.);


COFUND

• Intersectoral (private/public sector) or interdisciplinary transfer of knowledge;

• Developing capacity to build collaborations, in particular through participation in conferences;

• Taking active part in the management (including financial management) of research projects;

• Developing organisational skills through organisation of training or dissemination events;

• Ethics issues


COFUNDHOW CAN THE EUROPEAN UNION CONTRIBUTION BE USED?The Cofunding can be used to:•Open up an existing programme for transnational mobility•Create new transnational programmes•Increase the number of transnational fellowships awarded by an existing programme•Improve the conditions of the fellows or contribute to the training and career development objective of the COFUND scheme (e.g. by extending the duration of the fellowships, by improving the contributions for the fellows' research, by paying higher monthly rates, improving social security and/or pension conditions


CASCADE-FELLOWSThe objectives of CASCADE-FELLOWS are to:

– Recruit and train post-doctoral fellows from Europe and internationally to establish themselves as future leaders in the European Research Area

– Add a significant international dimension to the trans-national mobility of fellows by including host organisations outside the EU

– Offer an exchange dimension between academia and industry (including SMEs) by enabling fellows mobilised from academia to industry to maintain continuity of their academic careers and keep in touch with academic research environments while at the same time benefiting from working in an industrial environment.

– Researchers will be able to choose the research topic, destination and research group for their fellowship freely.


CASCADE-FELLOWS

The rest of the morning will explain how these fundamental, underlying principles of the COFUND Programme will be applied in practice in CASCADE-FELLOWS but we must remain true to the preceding principles in implementing our Project in the course of the next five years and comply with the ethos of internationalising and improving the career prospects of every Post-Doctoral Researcher who participates.


15 May 2013 CASCADE-FELLOWS KOM, EMCC Nottingham

EU Team

Jill HarrisEU

Accountant

Sandra WinfieldCOFUND

Coordinator

Bethany York

Project Coordinator

Alex Hammond

Project Coordinator

Victoria Hayward

Marie Curie Coordinator

Jonathan CaustonProject

Administrator

Lida Kaur Project

Administrator

Matt Rackley BDE

European

David Crowley

BDE International

EU Funding at Nottingham

• FP7 Projects – 260 projects €109m– 94 Marie Curies €31m– 132 Collaboration Projects 21 lead by

Nottingham €47m– 11 ERC €17m


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