FP6 – Sustainable Energy Systems

Encouraging Quality Irish Participation

Kevin Brown, FP6 Information morningAlternative National Delegate Dublin -- July 15, 2004

Remember…..

• FP6 is complex, challenging and competitive……but it offers unrivalled access to expertise around Europe…academic and industrial…and money

• It can open doors and enable exciting and useful work

• SEI is the National Contact point for FP6. We want to help. Talk to us.

• Be clear about what you want out of FP6 – and how you are going to get it

Evaluators Look For….

• Relevance• Potential impact• S&T excellence

• Quality of the consortium• Quality of the management• Mobilisation of resources

Match to a limited number of identified priorities

Networking of research teams

Creation of a genuine European added value

Information

•www.cordis.lu• …/fp6/whatisfp6.htm FP6 home page• …/fp6/instruments.htm Instruments• www.managenergy.net/conference/info

day0604.html Brussels Infoday

The Third Call

• Short and Medium Term Call – DG TREN

• Medium and Long Term Call – DG RTD

same rules, different calls, different priorities

Short & Medium Term Call Priorities

• Cost effective supply of renewable energies• Grid issues• Polygeneration• Alternative motor fuels• Thematic promotion and dissemination

All set out in the Work Programme

Medium & Long Term Call Priorities

• Call opens September, closes Dec • Areas: fuel cells, hydrogen, electricity, PV, biomass,

wind, geothermal, solar, ocean, carbon dioxide, socio-economics

• Indicative budget €190M• Work programme not finalised• Expressions of Interest give some good indications

and are a way in

Expressions of Interest

• Open for potential proposers Nov2003 - March 2004• Useful for informing the Commission and for finding

prospective partners• Also useful to guide prospective applicants• Wasn’t a pre-requirement to file an EoI• 5 from Ireland, Germany has most at 78 • 419 in total, 313 available on web• Report on the analysis of EOIs published on web

Analysis of EOIs

• No feedback on individual EOIs• “A substantial number of EOIs showed a credible

readiness for the forthcoming calls and included suitable actors and partnerships for the actions proposed”

• “..will take account of the outcome…when revising the work programme…”

• Report lists topics that were considered to be relevant and mature enough to generate good proposals

Expressions of Interest

• All potential proposers strongly advised to study

http://fp6.cordis.lu/eoi/sustdev/energy/eoi_srch.cfm

Favoured Topics – Biomass

• Biofuels from lignocellulosic feedstock• Waste and crop to energy concepts• Biofuels and fuel cells• ‘Biorefinery’ concept• Hydrogen rich gas from biomass• Biomass combustion and cofiring

Favoured Topics – Wind

• Forecasting for MW offshore wind farms• Innovative materials and designs• Wind turbine testing and standardisation

Favoured Topics – Ocean

• Development and sea testing• Next generation devices

Favoured Topics – PV

• Advanced techniques for low-cost thin-film cells• Cost reduction in silicon-based PV• Advanced techniques for MW-scale production• To improve QA, assess factors contributing to

performance• Manufacturing techniques for silicon cells• Low-cost and stable organic cells

Favoured Topics – Electricity

• Advanced grid architecture to enable distributed generation

• Advanced power electronic converters• European coordination action for distributed gen• Development and testing of HTS devices• Operational concepts and tools to maximise value of

distributed gen• Preparing the future Electricity Transmission Network

Favoured Topics – Fuel Cells

• Development of low cost high temp fuel cell systems and components with improved performance

• Development of low cost high temp fuel cell systems and components with improved performance

• Generic fuel processing for transport applications• Optimised systems and components for hybrid

vehicles

Favoured Topics – Hydrogen

• Advanced concepts for electrochemical H production• Technologies/processes for H from solar• Development of advanced small processing units for

decentralised production• Development of materials and storage methods• Regulations and standards for H dispensing• Large scale production from fossil fuels• Techno-socio-economic assessment of technologies

and pathways

Favoured Topics – Other Areas

• Geothermal• Concentrated Solar Thermal• Carbon Dioxide capture and storage• Socio-economics

First Call EC Funding by Area

Wind0.0%

CO217.4%

Socio Economic3.9%

Fuel Cells7.4%

Photovoltaics17.0%

Bioenergy20.2%

Concentrated solar thermal

2.3%

Geothermal2.4%

Hydrogen17.4%

Electricity11.4%

Ocean0.7%

Ranked list proposals

First call EC Funding by Instrument Projects in 1st Call Integrated Project

9 M€ funding , 10-40 partners

STREP2 M€ funding, 5-10 partners

SME

Industry

Other

Res Ctr

Univ

Network of Excellence6 M€ funding, 8-15 partners

Medium to Long Term Information & Brokerage Seminars

• Hydrogen and fuel cells – Brussels, 2324 Sept• CO2 capture & storage – Potsdam, 28 Sept• Renewables – Brussels, 29 Sept (tbc)• Distributed energy resources & future electricity

networks – Warsaw, 8 Oct

To Apply or Not To Apply…

• Lots of scope to waste effort• Lots of ways to save effort• Do you want to lead or join in?• Do your research

- Articulate your proposition

- Align this with the Work Programme and Call

- Study Expressions of Interest• Approach others

Lessons from Earlier Calls

• Ineligible proposals

- don’t delay until the day before the deadline

- make sure proposal is complete

- send to the correct call, DG TREN or DG RTD

- use the right forms

- use the right instrument (IP, NoE, STREP, CA)• Electronic submission – push the submit button

If you are committed…

Talk to SEI

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