2. LAVIC Technologies is a new Innovation Consultancy
Company located in Barcelona, Spaia.
We specialise in supporting our customers in their R&D
projects from all sectors.
Experts in FP7 and other EU-funded Programme.
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3. Irene Larroy’s experience:
• 2002-2004: Expert in European Projects at CIDEM
(regional liaison office for FP6)
• 2004-2005: Project Manager at CRIC
(electronics and biotechnology research centre)
• 2006:Director of International Division at BESEL
(energy engineering)
• 2007-2009:Managing Director at CRIC
(electronics and biotechnology research centre)
• 2010: Owner at director at LAVIC Technologies
(innovation consultancy firm)
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4. Day 1- FP7 Proposal Writing
Day 1 - FP7 Proposal Writing
More basic
Day 2 - Partnering in FP7
Day 3 - Proposal evaluation + GA negotiation
Advanced
Day 4 – FP7 Finance and funding schemes
Day 5 – Individual meetings
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5. DAY 1
FP7 Proposal Writing
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6. Day 1- FP7 Proposal Writing
Day 1- FP7 Proposal Writing
9.00-10.30 Session 1:
− General introduction to FP7 and how to turn your idea into an effective
proposal
− Selecting the best call and instrument for your proposal. The process of
preparing your proposal
− Instructions for completing/drafting the Part A of the proposal
10.30-11.00 Coffee-break
11.00-12.00 Session 2:
− Instructions for completing/drafting the Part B of the proposal (1st part)
12.00-13.00 Lunch
13.00-14.30 Session 3:
− Instructions for completing/drafting the Part B of the proposal (2nd part)
14.30-15.00 Coffee-break
15.00-16.00 Session 4:
− Final checks before submission and proposal submission through EPPS
− The deadline. Following submission and following up and phase after
applying
16.00-17.00 Optional time for individual questions and in-depth discussions with
trainer
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7. Introduction to FP7
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8. FP7 is short for: Seventh
Framework Programme for
Research and Technological
Development.
EU's main instrument for
funding research in Europe
(2007-2013).
It is a great opportunity to fund
your research activities!
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9. 'Framework programmes' (FPs) have been the main financial
tools through which the European Union supports research and
development activities covering almost all scientific disciplines.
FPs have been implemented since 1984 and normally cover a
period of five years with the last year of one FP and the first year
of the following FP overlapping.
FP7, however, runs for seven years, since 2007 to 2013
Total budget: 50.521 M EUR+ 2.751 M EUR nuclear
Equivalent to… 47.236 M JOD + 2.572 M JOD nuclear
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10. 7.7
Yearly average budget in billion €
4.9
3.75
3.3
2007-2013
1.65
FP 7
1.35
0.95
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11. • While FP7 participants can in principle be based anywhere,
there are different categories of country which may have
varying eligibility for different specific and work programmes:
• MEMBER STATES - The EU-27
Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark,
Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland,
Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxemburg, Malta, the Netherlands,
Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain,
Sweden and the United Kingdom.
• ASSOCIATED COUNTRIES – with science and technology
cooperation agreements that involved contributing to the
framework programme budget Switzerland, Israel, Norway,
Iceland and Liechtenstein, Croatia, Macedonia, Serbia,
Albania, Montenegro, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Faroe Islands
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12. • CANDIDATE COUNTRIES – currently recognised as
candidates for future accession to EU
Turkey, Macedonia, Croatia
• THIRD COUNTRIES –not Member States, candidates or
associated countries.
Their participation could be justified in terms of the enhanced
contribution to the objectives of FP7.
Jordan is included here!
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13. Jordan: member of the list of
International Co-operation
Partner Countries (ICPC):
annex 1 of all the work
programmes.
Jordan is under the category
Mediterranean Partner
Countries (MPC)
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14. FP7: 4 + 2 big blocks
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15. Budget of each block
I. Cooperation 60% 32.413 M€
II. Ideas 14% 7.510 M€
III. People 8% 4.750 M€
IV. Capacities 8% 4.097 M€
Euratom 7% 2.751 M€
JRC 3% 1.751 M€
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16. I. Cooperation 60% of total FP7 budget
3 instruments: Collaborative projects, networks of
excellence, coordination and support actions
10 themes with a work programme each:
1. Health
2. Food, agriculture and biotechnology
3. Information and communication technologies
4. Nanosciences, nanotechnologies, materials and new
production technologies
5. Energy
6. Environment (including climate change)
7. Transport (including aeronautics)
8. Socio-economic sciences and the humanities
9. Security
10. Space
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17. Themes Budget (M€)
Health 6100
Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, and Biotechnology
1935
KBBE
Information and Communication Technologies ICT 9050
Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and New
3475
Production Technologies NMP
Energy 2350
Environment (including Climate Change) 1890
Transport (including Aeronautics) 4160
Socio-economic Sciences and the Humanities 623
Security 1400
Space 1430
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18. Summary of the instruments of block cooperation and
equivalence with FP6 instruments
FP7
LCP (Large Collaborative Project) or
Integrated Project (IP)
3M€<budget<6M€
SCP (Small Collaborative Project) or
Specific Targeted Research Projects (STREP)
budget<3M€
Coordination and support actions (CSA)
Networks of excellence (NoE)
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19. Instruments (or funding schemes)
Collaborative projects (CP)
Support for research projects carried out by consortia
with participants from different countries, aiming at
developing new knowledge, new technology,
products, demonstration activities or common
resources for research.
The size, scope and internal organisation of projects
can vary from field to field and from topic to topic.
Average: 6-8 participants, 4-6 countries
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20. Instruments (or funding schemes)
Networks of excellence (NoE)
Support for a Joint Programme of Activities
implemented by a number of research organisations
integrating their activities in a given field, carried out
by research teams in the framework of longer term
cooperation.
The implementation of this Joint Programme of
Activities will require a formal commitment of the
organisations integrating part of their resources and
their activities.
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21. Instruments (or funding schemes)
Coordination and support actions (CSA)
Support for activities aimed at coordinating or
supporting research activities and policies
(networking, exchanges, trans-national access to
research infrastructures, studies, conferences, etc.).
These actions may also be implemented by means
other than calls for proposals.
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22. The process of
proposal preparation
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23. There is not a magic formula to prepare proposals!
But there are methodologies that maximize
the chances of approval
Today’s explanation will be focused on
block cooperation, instrument collaborative projects
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24. Detect Proposal
Submission Eligible? Evaluation
opportunity preparation
Negotiation
• Selecting instrument and call
• Building the consortium
• Preparation of part B
• Preparation of part A
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25. Selecting the best
call and instrument
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26. Different calls are published for each of the 10
themes. Each call specifies the exact sub-topics and the
instrument to be applied.
Calls are published on Cordis:
http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7 (Go to “Find a call”)
Next massive publication of calls: 30th July 2010
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29. Our project idea must perfectly fit into one of
the sub-topics of the call
In a collaborative project, all the partners are
at the same level, no distinction between large
enterprises, SMEs, Universities, Research
Centres… The IPR is negotiated among all the
members with total freedom.
CP can have a big proportion of basic
research, as well as demonstration activities
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30. Part A of the proposal
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31. FP7 Proposals must be submitted electronically, using
the Commission’s Electronic Proposal Submission
System (EPSS).
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32. In Part A you will be asked for certain administrative
details that will be used in the evaluation and further
processing of your proposal.
Part A forms an integral part of your proposal.
•Section A1 gives a snapshot of your proposal,
•Section A2 concerns you and your organisation
•Section A3 deals with money matters: the budget
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34. A1: Summary
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35. A2: info from
participants
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36. A2: info from
participants
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37. A3: budget
Day 4 of training (Wednesday)
will be dedicated to financial issues and how to build the budget
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38. Important:
• The coordinator fills in sections A1 and A3.
• The participants already identified at the time of proposal submission
(including the coordinator) each fill in their respective section A2. Many
times, coordinator ask data and fills everything.
• Subcontractors shall not fill in section A2 and should not be listed
separately in section A3.
• The estimated budget planned for any future participants (not yet identified
at the time of the proposal, this happens in Stage 1 proposals) is not shown
separately in form A3 but should be added to the coordinator’s budget.Their
role, profile and tasks are described in Part B of the proposal.
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39. Concerning the budget (A3):
• Numbers are always rounded to the nearest whole number
• All costs are given in Euros. Do not express your costs in
thousands of Euros ("KEUROS") etc.This can affect decisions on
the eligibility of your proposal !!!
• You have inserted zeros ("0") if there are no costs, or if no
funding is requested. Do not leave blanks !!!!
• Costs do not include value added tax.
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40. Part B of the proposal
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41. Documentation you should read BEFORE starting
writing your proposal
Guide for Applicants!!
Call fiche
Work programme
Evaluation criteria
Part A forms (identify data you will need)
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42. The 5 questions that the proposal should answer:
What is the problem?
Is it a regional / national / European problem?
Is this already solved?
Why now?
Why us?
Answers to these 5 questions should be given
in the first 2 pages of the proposal
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43. Who we address to?
The evaluator!
The European Commission is the moderator but does not evaluate!
What does the evaluator wants?
Clarity in content and form
Short proposal
Language not too much academic
Rigorous and credible State-of-the-Art
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44. In which order we give the information?
We should answer each of the points of the Guide for Applicants and
we should strictly follow the order: the evaluator expects to fins the
answers in certain sections!
What about consortium? (more details in Day 2 training)
• Well organised
• No duplicities
• Role of everyone well justified
• Clearly show what the companies will do AFTER the project:
impact of the project (section 3)
• Geographical distribution is not essential except otherwise
indicated
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45. What about results?
• Respond to a real need
• Demonstrate that the
consortium has the capability
to exploit the results
• Foresee in advance the
problems the consortium will
face in the exploitation
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46. 1. Scientific and technical quality, relevant to the topics
addressed by the call
• Concept and objectives.
• Progress beyond the state-of-the- art
• Scientific methodology and associated work plan
2. Implementation
• Management structure procedures.
• Individual participants.
• Consortium as a whole
• Resources to be committed
3. Impact
• Expected impacts listed in the work programme
• Dissemination, and exploitation of the results and
Management of the intellectual property
4. Ethical issues and 5. Gender issues
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47. 1. Scientific and technical quality, relevant to the
topics addressed by the call (1/2)
Justify that our idea meets the corresponding Work Programme
(WP), indicating particularly in which subtopic.
Explain why the project needs to be done: which problem
needs a solution?
Always quantify objectives. These can be classified in three
types: scientific, technological and operational.
The description of the SoA has to be technical, professional
and unbiased. Make reference whenever possible to articles,
patents and finished projects.
The comparison between our idea and the SoA previously
explained has to be well argued. It is recommended to include
a table of strengths/weaknesses of each technology.
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48. 1. Scientific and technical quality, relevant to the
topics addressed by the call (2/2)
Before describing the different work packages (WP),it is
necessary to establish a general strategy. For example,
describe the general phases of the project, state that each
WP will have a responsible technician and tasks will be
divided following certain criterias, explain how information is
transferred from one WP to another.
Diagrams relating to each different WP are essential. It is
important to be clear.
It is necessary to do realistic WP relating to the duration of
the project. Each WP should have deliverables and
milestones clearly identified.
Be sure to explain the contingency plans. What happens if an
intermediate target is not met? Mention alternatives, quantify
the level of risk.
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49. 2. Implementation (1/3)
An experienced coordinator is always important, but not
essential.
Even in large projects, a complex management structure is not
recommended (do not create unnecessary committees that
are not credible). Even though, the decisions shouldn’t only fall
on the coordinator.
It is worth to mention previous agreements that partners could
already have; for example, who is responsible of each task:
administrative leader (the coordinator), the technical leader,
the responsible for the intellectual property, etc.
It is necessary to describe correctly the communications and
its frequency (meeting, call-conferences, report interns, etc).
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50. 2. Implementation (2/3)
In the description of each applicant we still do not talk about
synergies, but we describe “who is who”. The motivation of this
entity to participate in the project has to be described clearly.
The CV’s are important, select minimum two per participant, with 5
lines each. If the profiles are more scientific, mention
publications/patents.
While talking about the consortium, make sure that there are no
direct competitors and no repeated roles between members.
Highlight the synergies. Mention if partners have worked together
before.
Depending on the call and sector, highlight the name of SMEs or
partner of a particular region that are inscribed.
The consortium has to be able to manage the project as well to
exploit the results. Don’t forget the business!
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51. 2. Implementation (3/3)
Resources is one of the most difficult part and has to be
done when the budget is finished.
1. Justify the overall costs of the budget.
2. Justify all cost details, by categories. Provide realistic
data.
3. Explain the way of financing of the funding that is not
covered by public resources (partners’ own efforts,
national programmes and complementary regional,
etc.)
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52. 3. Impact (1/2)
As the objectives, all impacts have to be quantified.
Saying “this project will have a positive effect on the
environment” is not enough at all.
While giving data, justify them making references to
studies and publications. It is important that impacts are
credible.
Is important to mention R+D projects at National or
European level in the same technological line, or that
cope with the same need applying another technology.
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53. 3. Impact (2/2)
Depending on the type of project, the exploitation and
dissemination of results could be a critical section.
Is important to include a good intellectual protection plan,
including technological monitoring tasks.
Define clearly the exploitation in the proposal, although it
could be sometimes far away. Imagination is necessary!
The dissemination, if required in this call, has to be very
quantified.
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54. Final tips (1/2):
Validate the concept with the European Commission.
The wording should follow a common thread.
Needs
Limits of current technology. (state of the art)
Proposed innovation.
Potential impact.
Always pay attention to the evaluation criteria.
The Evaluators will always look for the missing information!!!!!
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55. Final tips (2/2):
Proposals have always a similar structure
Look for proposals already approved!
Check maximum lengths per section
Note: a MAXIMUM is not an OBLIGATION!!!!
General suggestions about format:
• Font type and size easy to read
• Check margins
• Respect spaces between paragraph
• Indicate clearly the start of a new section or sub-section
• Clarity on graphics and tables
• Highlight key points in bold.
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56. Final checks and
submission
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57. • Check deadline in Cordis (call fiche)
• Deadline is normally at 17.00 Brussels time
• Deadlines are NEVER extended, even if EPSS
system fails that day
• Suggestion: make a submission before the
deadline, and then improve your proposal till 17.00
• Follow the 8 steps of submission
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58. 1. Register the proposal in Cordis from the specyfic call
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59. 2. You get a user and password by email
3. Login: first time you will required to change password
4. Go to Proposal Setup and add participants
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60. 5. Full in the part A
6. Upload Part B in PDF
7. Validate the proposal: the system will detect mistakes or
empty fields.
8. Submit the proposal: you can submit as many times as
you want before deadline, uploading different versions of
part B, just the last one will be valid.
(On days of deadlines, system is slow just before 17.00)
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61. CONTACT
Irene Larroy
LAVIC Technologies
C/Montserrat 8, D
08172 Sant Cugat del Vallès
Barcelona
t. +34 93 5895936
f. +34 93 6742159
irene.larroy@lavic.cat
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62. DAY 2
Partnering in FP7
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63. Day 2 – Partnering in FP7
9.00-10.30 Session 1:
− Exercise 1 “Selecting the adequate sub-topic”
− Exercise 2 “Drafting Part B”
− Consortium and consortium building: Roles of partners in consortium, Details of typical
consortium size, The roles and responsibilities of partners, The roles and
responsibilities of the coordinator
10.30-11.00 Coffee-break
11.00-12.00 Session 2:
− How a consortium is created
− Searching for a consortium
− Countries that can participate
− Tips on finding partners
− Finding the best partners using EU specific partner search tools-CORDIS plus others
− Exercise 3 “Finding partners for a project” (tomorrow!)
− Negotiating breakdown of partner’s budgets (on Wednesday)
12.00-13.00 Lunch
13.00-14.30 Session 3:
− Rules to verify existence and legal status of partner
− Researcher profile
− Where should you register/Upload your profile. How to write an attractive personal
profile. Selling yourself. How to make consortiums search for you
− Why and how would consortiums want you as a partner
− Exercise 4 “Organisation research form”
14.30-15.00 Coffee-break
15.00-16.00 Session 4:
− Exercise 5 “Partner search form”
16.00-17.00 Optional time for individual questions with trainer
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64. (Exercises 1 and 2)
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65. Countries that can
participate
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66. • MEMBER STATES - The EU-27
Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark,
Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland,
Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxemburg, Malta, the Netherlands,
Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain,
Sweden and the United Kingdom.
• ASSOCIATED COUNTRIES – with science and technology
cooperation agreements that involved contributing to the
framework programme budget Switzerland, Israel, Norway,
Iceland and Liechtenstein, Croatia, Macedonia, Serbia,
Albania, Montenegro, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Faroe Islands
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67. • CANDIDATE COUNTRIES – currently recognised as
candidates for future accession to EU
Turkey, Macedonia, Croatia
• THIRD COUNTRIES –not Member States, candidates or
associated countries.
Their participation could be justified in terms of the enhanced
contribution to the objectives of FP7.
Jordan is included here!
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68. Eligible consortia
In most cases EU research funding through FP7 is to
be sought by building a consortium in order to submit a
project proposal in response to a call. The eligibility of
these consortia also varies according to different
conditions related to the type of action of instrument.
These instruments are set out in Annex III ‘Funding
Schemes’ of the Rules for Participation, while the
minimum conditions for eligibility are detailed in Articles
5 to 10 and summarised as follows:
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69. • COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS (COOPERATION)
At least three legal entities (defined as organizations or individual
researchers as above) must participate, each of which is
established in a Member State or Associated country, and no two
of which are established in the same Member State or Associated
country. All three legal entities must be independent of each other
in accordance with Article 6 of the RFP, meaning they are not
subsidiaries of the same organization or of each other.
Examples:
France + Italy + Sweden?
France + United Kingdom + Switzerland?
Italy + Jordan + Spain?
Germany + Denmark + Israel?
Italy + Jordan + Spain + France?
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70. • INCO (CAPACITIES)
http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/capacities/international-
cooperation_en.html
Special conditions apply for collaborative projects addressing the
participation of international cooperation partner countries in parity
with Member States or Associated countries (INCO).
(a) at least four legal entities must participate;
(b) at least two of the legal entities referred to in point (a) must be
established in Member States or Associated countries, but no two may be
established in the same Member State or Associated country;
(c) at least two of the legal entities referred to in point (a) must be
established in international cooperation partner countries, but no two may
be established in the same international cooperation partner country;
(d) All four legal entities referred to in point (a) must be independent of
each other
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71. • COORDINATION AND SUPPORT ACTIONS, AND TRAINING
AND CARREER DEVELOPMENT OF RESEARCHERS
(CSA all blocks and PEOPLE)
For coordination and support actions, and actions in favour of
training and career development of researchers, the minimum
condition shall be the participation of one legal entity.
• INVESTIGATOR-DRIVEN ‘’FRONTIER’’ RESEARCH
PROJECTS (IDEAS)
For indirect actions to support investigator-driven ‘frontier’
research projects funded in the framework of the European
Research Council, the minimum condition shall be the
participation of one legal entity established in a Member State or
in an Associated country.
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72. • SOLE PARTICIPANTS
Where the minimum conditions for an indirect action are satisfied
by a number of legal entities, which together form one legal entity,
the latter may be the sole participant in an indirect action, provided
that it is established in a Member State or Associated country. The
participation of natural persons will ensure that the creation and
development of scientific excellence and ability are not limited to
Community funding of projects involving only legal persons,
ensuring also the participation of SMEs that are not legal persons.
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73. But remember…
Jordan can participate as partner in any project of the
COOPERATION block Their participation does not account for
the minimum eligible consortium
Jordan can participate as partner in any project of the
CAPACITIES block. Their participation does not account for the
minimum eligible consortium except in INCO calls.
They can participate in some of the projects of the IDEAS block
(not alone)
They can participate in some of the projects of PEOPLE block.
Sometimes the Europeans don’t know it! Sell yourself!
If you want to be coordinators, check every call to be sure.
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74. Consortium building
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75. • Well organised
• No duplicities
• Role of everyone well justified
• Clearly show what the companies will do AFTER
the project: impact of the project (section 3)
• Geographical distribution is not essential except
otherwise indicated
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76. Example: FP7 project SIGNSPEAK
www.signspeak.eu
6 partners: 4 research centres, 1 important industrial
partner and 1 association representing the deaf
community as end-users.
•Scientific Understanding of Sign Language (phonetic markers, sign
and sentence boundaries, co-articulation, etc) Nijmegen University
•Feature Extraction (Image Analysis) Université de Liege + CRIC
•Sign Language Recognition and Translation Aachen University
•System Integration and Framework Development CRIC
•future exploitation of the project Telefónica
•Representative of the end-users: The European Union of the Deaf
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77. Some ways of finding partners…
- Previous contacts
- European projects in the same field
- Cordis Partner search tools
- National Contact Points
- IDEAL-IST
- LinkedIn groups
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78. Previous contacts
If the researcher is specialist in a field, he probably
knows many other scientists...
But need to avoid:
– Repetitive consortium: too similar partners
– Same consortium submitting several proposals
in the same calll
– Too many partners from the same country
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79. European projects in the same field
One of the best sources, as it gives you contacts that
already have experience in the framework
programme...
Look for existing projects at FP6 and FP7 projects
http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/projects_en.html
http://cordis.europa.eu/fp6/projects.htm
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80. Cordis Partner Search
http://cordis.europa.eu/partners-service/
Partners appearing in Cordis normally know the
rules and/or have experience
Two options for partner search:
– Look in profiles Search the Partners profiles submitted by
other organizations. Use advanced search (need to
register)
– Publish an advertisement of our project detailing the
partners that we need Publish your partners profile on
CORDIS by entering your project idea or specific
expertise. Selection Type A (need to register)
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81. Search the Partners profiles submitted by other organizations
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82. Search the Partners profiles submitted by other organizations
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83. Publish your partner profile on CORDIS
by entering your project idea or specific expertise
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84. Publish your partner profile on CORDIS
by entering your project idea or specific expertise
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85. Publish your partner profile on CORDIS
by entering your project idea or specific expertise
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86. National Contact Points
NCP services
As the NCPs are national structures, the type and level of
services offered may differ from country to country.
– Guidance on choosing thematic priorities and instruments
– Advice on administrative procedures and contractual issues
– Training and assistance on proposal writing
– Distribution of documentation (forms, guidelines, manuals
etc.)
– Assistance in partner search
– Specific information about each NCP service will be available
on its own website.
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87. National Contact Points
In different countries the NCPs have different levels
of activity, but some of them have a very good
network and can distribute by email your partner
requests.
http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ncp_en.html
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88. (Exercise 4 and 5)
• Organisation profile form
• Partner search form
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90. Ideal-IST
For ICT topics only!!!
Ideal-ist addresses ICT companies and research organisations
worldwide wishing to find project partners for a participation in
the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) of the European
Commission (2007-2013).
http://www.ideal-ist.net/
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91. LinkedIn www.linkedin.com
The most recent method, very effective.
Some groups where you can find partners and also
offering your profile:
Framework Programme Seven (FP7)
FP7 Programme - Research for SMEs
European Community Project Managers' Association
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92. Rules for verifying existence and legal status of a
partner
Principle
In compliance with the FP7 rules, a grant can only be awarded
to an existing legal entity who has submitted an eligible proposal
using the procedure defined by the Commission
At proposal stage
In the Proposal Submission Form (PSF), any legal entity shall
provide its administrative and legal data (such as organisation's
legal name, legal address, legal registration number, VAT number,
etc), except those who already have provided them previously for
another proposal and provided their data have not been modified..
At this stage no supporting documents will be requested and
no verification of the data by the Commission will be carried out,
other than for eligibility of the proposal purposes.
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93. Rules for verifying existence and legal status of a
partner
At negotiation stage
The information given in the A2 form in the proposal will be
automatically uploaded into the Grant agreement Preparation Form
(GPF). At this stage, the authorised representative of the legal entity
must:
a. Verify that the basic administrative and legal data provided in the
GPF for its organisation are correct; and, if not, to correct them
accordingly;
b. Declare on his/her honour that all the information provided in the
GPF regarding his/her organisation is correct,
A signature certifying the above will be requested in the GPF from
the person authorised to sign the grant agreement or to commit the
organisation.
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94. In addition, applicants, depending on their legal type, shall provide
to the Commission services the following documents (except if
previously provided and no changes have since taken place)
For public bodies:
- A copy of the resolution, law, decree or decision establishing the
entity in question; or, failing that, any other official document
attesting to the establishment of the entity as a public body;
- If applicable, an official VAT document.
For other legal entities:
- A copy of any official document (e.g. official gazette, register of
companies, etc) showing the participant's legal name and address
and the registration number given to it by the national authorities;
- A copy of the VAT registration document, if any, and only if the
VAT number does not appear on the official document referred to
above.
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95. CONTACT
Irene Larroy
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C/Montserrat 8, D
08172 Sant Cugat del Vallès
Barcelona
t. +34 93 5895936
f. +34 93 6742159
irene.larroy@lavic.cat
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