WELCOME! Sabine Herlitschka Director - European & International Programmes FFG - Austrian Research Promotion Agency Page 1
FFG - Austrian Research Promotion Agency Mission Established in 2004 Largest Austrian Funding Agency for applied R&D Budget app. 500 Mio Euro year 2007 5 operational Divisions EIP: European and International Programmes Page 2 Sabine Herlitschka-FFG/EIP
Division of European and International Programmes (EIP) Objectives: Strengthening the Austrian participation in international R&D Programmes (FP!!) Activities: Awareness, Information, Consultation, Coaching, international Networking (Consortium building), Representation of Austrian interests in the network of National Contact Points (NCP) Measures: Information and Training events, FFG Academy, Workshops and Seminars, One-on-one meetings, Cooperation with intermediary organisations www.ffg.at/rp7 Page 3 Sabine Herlitschka-FFG/EIP
or.ffg/eip: we are your GPS through European R&D! FFG/EIP Services 6) Proposal Check We increase your chances for successful evaluation 5) Legal Issues (IPR) Assistance in legal matters of your R&D projects 7) Project Management Trainings for effective R&D project management 2) Individual Coaching Should you invest time & money for getting involved in European R&D? 1) Email Services Information on relevant R&D Programmes straight to your PC! 4) Partner Search We help in finding the right partners for your projects 3) Preparatory Co-funding Co-funding for European R&D project development 8) Exploitation Tech transfer and exploitation assistance for your R&D projects Project Development Phases
Austria in the 6th Framework Programme Where do we stand? app. 1900 participations in 1300 projects with app. 18.000 international partner organisations 211 projects with Austrian coordinators 117% return, 425 Mio Euro and much more Page 5
Consulting & Coaching Activities FP7 Cooperation 988 1201 People 172 388 Coaching Ideas 50 81 Consulting Capacities 115 361 0 500 1000 1500 Nr. of general consulting and specific coaching activities towards proposals for the 1st calls in FP7 Page 6
Impact of Coaching Austrian Results of Project Evaluation 100% 90% 80% 70% 60% 50% 40% 30% 20% 10% 0% Page 7 41% 37% 19% 14% EU total Coaching Proposal Check no Contact not suggested for funding suggested for funding
FFG and Russia: A clear focus on involving Russian regions 51 FFG/EIP projects/9 projects targeting Russia since 1998 Capacity building of regional Russian multipliers: FP6/ INCO: RUSERA: Supporting the participation of Russian regions in EU-RTD programmes (closed) CO: Association for Engineering Education of Russia (AEER) PA: FFG FP6/IST - SITE: Siberia, Information Technologies and Europe (closed) CO: Singleimage, UK PA: AEER, FFG FP6/INCO: RUSERA EXE: Expanding the ERA over Russia (running) CO: AEER PA: EKT (Hellenic NCP für IST, ERC and RI), FFG Page 8
+2 new FP7/INCO-projects: INCONET EECA S&T International Cooperation Network for Eastern European and Central Asean Countries 01.01.2008-31.12.2011 CO: International Center for Black Sea Studies, Athens, GR 23 partners from 21 countries BILAT RUS Enhancing the bilateral S&T Partnership with the Russian Federation appr. 01.06.2008-31.05.2011 CO: German Aerospace Center, Bonn, GE 9 Partners + Russian NCP s as associated partners Page 9
Impact: Intensive AT-RU cooperation in FP6 and FP7 RU about 330 signed contracts in FP6 (incl. 60 Marie Curie FS) 83 successful FP6- projects with 119 RU and 142 AT partners Results of the first calls of FP7: 16 projects with 25 AT and 18 RU partners positively evaluated Strongest RTD Areas: Transport Space Infrastructures NMP Page 10
Opportunities and Challenges for EU-RU RTD cooperation In FP6: INCO 1864 Third Country-Research teams /166 projects 280 Mio EUR for integrating Third countries in core activitities of FP6 - only appr. 80 Mio EUR spent RU most successful Third country participant A Rich and dymamic relationship (EC, Annual RTD report 2006) In FP7 Wide participation of Russian teams possible and encouraged in the core activities of FP7 No INCO (and no INTAS) RTD-project funding anymore Challenge: How to take advantage of the potential Page 11