Funding Opportunities in Europe

A Personal ViewGabriele-Elisabeth Körner

European Science Foundation (ESF)

77 Member Organisations in 30 countries

•Research Funding Organisations•Research Performing Organisations•Academies

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ESF provides a common platform for its Member Organisations in order to:

•advance European research•explore new directions for research at the European level.

Through its activities, ESF serves the needs of the European research community in a global context.

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ESF Current Organisation

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ESF Tools

•Forward Looks•Exploratory Workshops•Euroconferences•EUROCOREs•EURYI Awards•COST

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7th Framework Programme 2007-2013

•Cooperation – Collaborative Research (32413 M€)•Ideas – Frontier Research (7510 M€)•People – Human Potential (4750 M€)•Capacities – Research Capacity (4097 M€)

•JRC (non-nuclear)

•EURATOM+JRC (nuclear)

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7th Framework Programme 2007-2013

•Cooperation – Collaborative Research (32413 M€)•Ideas – Frontier Research (7510 M€)•People – Human Potential (4750 M€)•Capacities – Research Capacity (4097 M€)

•JRC (non-nuclear)

•EURATOM

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Cooperation – Collaborative Research

Thematic Priorities:

1. Health

2. Food, Agriculture and Biotechnology

3. Information and Communication Technologies

4. Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and New Production Technologies

5. Energy

6. Environment and Climate Change

7. Transport

8. Socio-Economic Sciences and the Humanities

9. Space and Security Research

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7th Framework Programme 2007-2013

•Cooperation – Collaborative Research (32413 M€)•Ideas – Frontier Research (7510 M€)•People – Human Potential (4750 M€)•Capacities – Research Capacity (4097 M€)

•JRC (non-nuclear)

•EURATOM

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Ideas – Frontier Research

Two streams of activity are foreseen:

• ERC Starting Independent Researcher Grant scheme (ERC Starting Grant)

• ERC Advanced Investigator Researcher Grant scheme (ERC Advanced Grant)

European Research Council (ERC)

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7th Framework Programme 2007-2013

•Cooperation – Collaborative Research (32413 M€)•Ideas – Frontier Research (7510 M€)•People – Human Potential (4750 M€)•Capacities – Research Capacity (4097 M€)

•JRC (non-nuclear)

•EURATOM

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7th Framework Programme 2007-2013

•Cooperation – Collaborative Research (32413 M€)•Ideas – Frontier Research (7510 M€)•People – Human Potential (4750 M€)•Capacities – Research Capacity (4097 M€)

•JRC (non-nuclear)

•EURATOM

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Programmes:

1. Research Infrastructures

2. Research for the Benefit of SMEs

3. Regions of Knowledge

4. Research Potential

5. Science in Society

6. Coherent Development of Research Policies

7. Activities of International Cooperation

Capacities - Research Capacity

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Research Infrastructures (1715 M €)

Integrating Activities

(i) Networking Activities (ii) Transnational Access (iii) Joint Research Activities

All three categories of activities are mandatory as synergistic effects are expected from these different components.

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TNA Facilities in ENSAR

• GSI Darmstadt

• GANIL Caen

• LNL Legnaro & LNS Catania

• JYFL Jyväskylä

• KVI Groningen

• CERN – ISOLDE Geneva

• ALTO Orsay

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TNA Facilities in HadronPhysics2

• LNF Frascati

• ECT* Trento

• MAMI Mainz

• GSI Darmstadt

• COSY Jülich

• ELSA Bonn

• TSL Uppsala

• MAX-Lab Lund

• ZIB Berlin

• NIC Jülich

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TNA Facilities in SPIRIT

• FZD Rossendorf

• CNRS Bordeaux

• KUL Leuven

• IJS Ljubljana

• UniBw München

• CEA Jannus Orsay & CIMAP Caen

• University of Surrey

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TNA Facilities in FUNDAMENTAL

• AD-CERN Geneva

• ESR/HITRAP-GSI Darmstadt

• TSR/CSR MPI Heidelberg

• TRIP-KVI Groningen

• UCN-ILL Grenoble

• UCN-PSI Villigen

• UCN – TRIGA Mainz

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European Strategic Forum forResearch Infrastructures (ESFRI)

• Launched April 2002 by Council of Research Ministers

• Representatives of 27 Member and 5 Associated States + 1 Representative from the European Commission

• Roadmap 2006

->FAIR

->SPIRAL2

• Update every 2 years, next in 2008

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More Information

http://www.esf.org

http://cordis.europa.eu

http://ec.europa.eu

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