Participation of the Slovak Universities on the

7 FP

by Prof. Daniel KluvanecConstantine Philosopher University in Nitra

Bratislava 6/12/2005

Participation in 6FP projects - irreplaceable experience for universities.

SARC – Centre for development, science and technologies plays an important role in forming of programmes and giving information through publishing "Bulletin for international scientific and technological cooperation, and technologies transfer." - SARC – INFO.

A. State of the art, cornerstones The successfulness of Slovak institutions in

obtaining grants through projects within 6FP was comparable with successfulness of other V4 countries, but in comparison with EU 15 countries significantly lower.

The percentage of unsuccessful projects is low, i.e. most submitted projects were successful. In comparison with 5 FP, the number of submitted projects increased by 35 %, from 552 to 745 projects. 137 were approved, that is successfulness of 18 % in 6 FP in comparison with 27 % (149 projects) in 5 FP.

Fruitfulness some country EU on approve a projects 6 FP. The number of the approve projects.

Contracted EC contribution per one researcher

Participations of EU-25 in successful FP6 projects(per 1. mil. population – July 2005)

The ratio “€ contracted in FP6/ € GERD”

The number of the requests of the coordination and approve a projects

Comparison participation industry and research

The number of the approve projects on

particular branch.

The number of the submitted and the number of the approved projects 7FP from Slovak Institutions

Finance that are Slovakia insert in 6FP and that can obtain.

Distribution finance receives in 6RP in the Slovakia by various branch

0 5 10 15 20 25

LithuaniaJapan

LuxembourgPortugalGreeceIreland

DenmarkFinlandCyprus

SloveniaNetherlands

AustriaSwedenBelgium

GermanyUK

HungaryEU-15 (2)EU-25 (1)

SpainEstonia

USFrancePoland

Czech RepublicItaly

MaltaLatvia

Slovakia

Share of BERD financed by government(latest available year)

344256100148360364706852959118812031315

4531458746174669468547884830490551135515572960326293719476068090

1045913572

3111734527

53363

0 10000 20000 30000 40000 50000 60000

CyprusLatvia

EstoniaLithuania

Slovak RepublicSlovenia

LuxembourgHungaryGreece

Czech RepublicPoland

Portugal Ireland

VolkswagenMatsushita Elec

DenmarkGlaxoSmithKline

IBMAustria Finland

Toyota MotorPfizer, USA

Belgium General Motors

SiemensDaimlerChrysler

Spain Ford Motor

Netherlands Sweden

Italy United Kingdom

France Germany

Total R&D expenditure of the 25 Member States compared with the top 10 R&D spending multinationals (2002, € billion)

Characteristics of activities in preparing projects and their success within 6FP:

- use of good practice from 5FP,

- wider awareness and reforms leading to broader activities at universities,

- initiative of NCP (National Contact Point) and SIKAS (Slovak information and counselling academic network),

- lower successfulness of Slovakia (lower financial amount obtained),

- unfavourable composition of instruments: 50 % of supporting projects, 10% of coordination actions,

- the most approved projects were submitted by universities (52), SAS (37), though the biggest financial amount was gained by SAS, (36.4 %), less by universities (28.7 %),

- investment and profit 18 mil eur/ 10.6 mil eur.

B. How to increase successfulness of Slovak universities in 6FP projects?

- higher preference of science and education in national level,

- support the development of sophisticated infrastructure for science and research,

- focus on the quality of programmes,

- deeper cooperation in Central European area, regional and national collaboration, e.g. with Austria, which is very successful in FPs, cooperation between universities and the Slovak Academy of Sciences,

- advice from NCP and SIKAS,

- focus on research projects,

- attempt to increase coordination of projects.

Average country contribution (share in %) to the project budget

Average country share (%) of the EC project contribution