Baltic Research Programme s implementation in Estonia Pille Pikker Chief expert Research Policy Department 25.10.2018
Baltic Research Programme Research 6,0 mill Research cooperation Programme grant 7,1 mill (national contribution 1,25 million ) Scholarships 1,3 mill Institutional cooperation between HEI; Mobility projects 2 Pre-defined projects 0,5 mill Visiting lectureship of Norwegian language and literature at UT; Developing the curricula of inclusive education UT+Tallinn Univesrity
Baltic Research programme Financed by EEA Grants 2014-2021 Target group: positively evaluated research and development institutions in Estonia (EE call) Eligible partners: research and development institutions from EE, LV, LT and donor countries (Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein) EE call through Estonian Research Information System (ETIS) - https://www.etis.ee/ Guidelines for applicants available on ETAg webpage www.etag.ee
Positively evaluated R&D institutions BioCC LLC Competence Center of Food and Fermentation Technologies Competence Centre on Health Technologies Cybernetica AS Estonian Academy of Arts Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre Estonian Business School (SA Estonian Business School) Estonian Crop Research Institute Estonian Literary Museum Estonian National Museum Estonian University of Life Sciences Institute of the Estonian Language National Institute for Health Development National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics Protobios LLC STACC Tallinn University Tallinn University of Technology Under and Tuglas Literature Centre University of Tartu
Baltic Research Programme Programme Committee Common objectives, procedures and evaluation standards. Project follow-up. Joint events Programme operators, implementing agencies EE call Prject Promoter: EE Partners: LV, LT, donors + Poss. 3 rd countries LV call Project Promoter: LV Partners: EE, LT, donors + Poss. 3 rd countries LT call Project Promoter: LT Partners: EE, LV, donors + Poss. 3 rd countries - Programme is mutually open and with similar principles - Project consortium: Project Promoter + at least 1 Partner from the Baltics and at least 1 from donor countries. No. of partners not limited - Timing of the calls: EE in 2018, LV in 2019, LT 2019/2020
Programme Committee 8 members 2 from each representing country (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Norway) Prof Andres Merits University of Tartu, Estonia Prof Raivo Vilu - Competence Center of Food and Fermentation Technologies, Estonia Prof Uldis Berkis Riga Stradins University, Latvia Prof Talis Juhna Riga Technical University, Latvia Prof Rūta Petrauskaitė Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania Prof emer Limas Kupčinskas Lithuanian University of Health Sciences Prof Marianne Nordli Hansen The University of Oslo, Norway Prof Martin Eisemann The University of Tromsø/The Arctic University of Norway
About projects Project budget min. 300 000 up to 800 000 (for partnerships with at least 1 partner from the Baltic states and at least 1 from donor states) and 1 mill for partnerships with EE+LV+LT and at least 1 from donor states Project lenght: min. 3 years, max up to April 30, 2024 EE call through Estonian Research Information System (ETIS) - https://www.etis.ee Guidelines for applicants available on the homepage of ETAg http://www.etag.ee
Eligible costs Personnel costs (cost of staff assigned to the project) Travel and subsistence allowances for staff taking part in the project Subcontracting costs (no more than 15% of total budget project) Other costs (consumables) Institutional overhead (flat rate of 25% of total direct eligible costs)! Costs are eligible if they are justified, necessary and appropriate and directly related to the project!! For project promoter and each project partner a separate budget should be planned and prepared!! Costs should be stated in EUR!
About projects II Type of projects joint research collaboration projects, activities promoting measures to increase mobility of researchers, PhD students and postdocs. Starting platform for future cooperation. Selection criteria similar to other research funding schemes in Estonia 1 application = 2 international experts = 1 consensus report Single ranking list to be submitted to the Programme Committee Programme Committee has possibility to give up to 1 additional point according to: - proposals relevance to the challenges specified for EE call (0.5 points); - potential added value from the collaboration between Baltic countries + donor country (0.5 points)
Challenges for Estonian call (research) Priority is given to applications addressing the following challenges in the Baltic region (also match with Estonian Research and Development and Innovation Strategy 2014-2020): Public health; translational medicine; health technologies Migration; social inclusion Regional cyber security; public security Environmentally friendly solutions Regional economic development; employment; labour market regulations and social policy More effective use of resources
Timeline for research projects 31 January 2019 - Deadline for submitting proposals in ETIS 1 February 2019 planned start of selection period May 2019 planned end of selection periood June-August 2019 signing the contracts September 2019 planned start of the projects October 2019 seminar for project promoters In 2021 proposed mid-term evaluation of the projects 30 April 2024 planned end of projects
Scholarships (implementing agency Foundation Archimedes) Higher education institutional cooperation projects (curricula development activities, personal and professional development of academic and HEI staff, student exchange etc) Mobility projects between higher education institutions in EE and donor states (for academic and non-academic staff) 3 calls in total (calls in 2019, 2020, 2021) Universities and higher educational institutions can apply for the grants
Thank you! Pille Pikker Pille.Pikker@hm.ee