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ERA.Net RUS
Pilot Joint Call on Innovation Projects
Franziska Müller
Russian Academy of Sciences, Ekaterinburg
1 March 2011
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Topics
 Background Information
 Scope of Innovation Projects
 Funding
 Content of proposals
 Evaluation
 Relevant documents
 Timeschedule
 Submission of proposals
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Background Information (I)
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A Pilot Joint Call (PJC) for Innovation Projects was launched on 15
February 2011 and will be closed on 15th April 2011.
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Participating countries are: Germany, Greece, Israel, Russia,
Switzerland and Turkey
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The total indicative financial contribution to the call is € 2.980.000 plus an
additional amount from INTAS donation
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Each team in a multilateral project will be funded by the respective funding
organisation in its country.
Background information (II)
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Joint proposals need to be centrally submitted online and in English to a
Joint Call Secretariat (located in Germany at the IB of the BMBF)
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The Joint Call Secretariat implements the operational management of the
call (provision of an online submission system and pool of evaluators etc.)
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The national funding organisations are in charge of all duties according to
national law and/or internal regulations of the organisation, the
eligibility check of national applicants, the management of financial
transactions to national beneficiaries and the final decision on projects to be
funded.
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Each funding organisation has appointed a contact person for national
applicants. List of NCPs as well as all other related information is available
at the ERA.Net RUS website: http://www.eranet-rus.eu/en/177.php
Scope of Innovation Projects (I)
Scope of the instrument:
• By Innovation Projects are meant joint research projects designed to lead to
innovative products, services or processes of significant economic and/or
societal value.
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Against this background this joint activity addresses applied research and
technology development implemented by small sized innovative
enterprises in Russia in partnership with universities or non-university
public or private institutions/ companies from EU-MS/AC.
Objective:
• create long-term research collaboration in the field of innovation between
EU MS/AC and Russia.
Scope of Innovation Projects (II)
Thematic focus:
• EU-Russia collaborative innovation projects can be funded in the research
areas, which are thematically assigned to innovative technologies of high
utilization potential and of particular importance for the EU as well as for
Russia.
Eligible institutions and consortia:
• Institutions applying for funding must be eligible for funding by their
respective national Funding Organisation. They can be higher education
and research institutions or companies engaged in innovation.
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Eligible consortia must comprise a minimum of at least three partners from
three different countries, of which at least one small Russian innovative
company and at least one company from the EU MS/AC. At least two
partners must necessarily come from the countries participating in the call.
Scope of Innovation Projects (III)
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Once the minimum requirements are met, partners from countries not
participating in the call can also join, however on their own funds.
Example for consortia:
1) Small Russian innovative company
+ company from Israel (or Germany, Greece, Switzerland, Turkey)
+ Research Institution or University from Germany, Greece, Switzerland,
Turkey or any other country
2) Small Russian innovative company+ Russian Research institution
(subcontracted by the small innovative company)
+ company from Israel (or Germany, Greece, Switzerland, Turkey)
+ company from any other country
Scope of Innovation Projects (IV)
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Each project consortium is lead by a coordinator who has the overall
responsibility for the project and is the contact person to the Joint Call
Secretariat. The coordinator is responsible for submitting the proposal, will
receive the results of the evaluation and is in charge of submitting an annual
scientific report to the JCS.
Duration:
• The duration of a project can be up to 24 months.
Funding:
• The funding of a project depends on the nature and duration of the
proposed activities and must be justified in terms of the ressources needed
to achieve the objectives of the project.
Scope of Innovation Projects (V)
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The amount of funding depends on each respective funding organisation.
Related information can be found in the Terms of References for the call.
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On the Russian side, funding can only be granted to small innovative
companies, which might subcontract other Russian partners, once
appropriate.
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In case an institution/partner cannot receive its funding from its national
funding organisation, this project will not be retained for funding unless the
project partner agrees to fund its total share on its own budget.
Participating Funding Organisations
and committed resources to the call:
Foundation for Assistance to Small Innovative Enterprises,
FASIE (Russia)
€ 1.500.000
Federal Ministry of Education and Research, BMBF
(Germany)
€ 500.000
Ministry for Industry, Trade and Labour, MOITAL (Israel)
€ 350.000
General Secretariat for Research and Technology, GSRT
(Greece)
€ 300.000
University of Geneva (Swiss Leading House for Swiss-Russian €230.000
S&T Cooperation) acting on behalf of the Swiss State
Secretariat for Education and Research, Switzerland
Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey,
TÜBITAK (Turkey)
€ 100.000
€ 2.980.000
Allowable Project costs
Allowable project costs might differ for individual partners in a project
depending on each funding organisation
Allowable costs could cover:
- labour costs of the research staff and other personnel;
- travel and subsistence
- event costs
- services of third parties in the field of R&D (subcontracts);
- project-related consumables and small-scale research equipment;
- other relevant costs;
- overheads
Content of the proposal
a. General Information (proposal details, summary, background and R&D
objectives, project description etc.)
b. Team information (project coordinator, members etc.)
c. Project management (overall coordination, distribution of work etc.)
d. Breakdown of costs (for each project partner)
e. Exploitation of results for innovation projects (exploitation plan etc.)
Eligibility of Proposals (I)
Proposals must:
- Be in the scope of the call
- Meet the consortium composition requirements
- Be submitted by partner institutions which are eligible to receive funding
from their national funding organisations
- Comply with the allowed duration as specified
- Comply with the funding requirements
- Comply with the terms of the submission procedure
- Be complete according to the rules described in the Terms of Reference
- Be submitted in the English language
- Meet the submission deadline
Eligibility of proposals (II)
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Only Proposals meeting all above eligibility criteria will be processed by the
Joint Call Secretariat
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Once a Proposal meets the eligibility criteria, the Joint Call Secretariat will
ask the funding organisations to check and confirm the eligibility according
to their national regulations.
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National regulations of the Funding Parties will be laid down in an Annex.
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Non eligible proposals will be rejected
Evaluation of proposals
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In a first step proposals will be evaluated by international, independent
peer-reviewers/ evaluators.
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In a second step a Scientific and Innovation Council consisting of high level
scientific experts will consolidate evaluation results and propose a ranking
list of projects to be funded to all funding organisations participating in the
call (Group of Funding Parties).
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In a third step the Group of Funding Parties will take the final decision on
projects to be funded in a joint meeting.
Evaluation criteria
Rating criteria to be applied:
I.
II.
III.
IV.
V.
Scientific and Technological Merit of the project (35%)
Economic and Societal Impact of the Results (35%)
Quality of the consortium (15%),
Quality of the project management (10%)
Quality of the presentation of the Proposal (5%)
Threshold for each criterion:
Each criteria may be awarded a maximum of 5 points (from 5-excellent to 0-not
relevant). For criteria I-IV the threshold is 3/5
Project contracts
For each Innovation Project approved for funding, two contracts will be
executed in parallel:
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an Umbrella Project Contract to be signed on the one hand by the Joint Call
Secretariat on behalf of the Group of Funding Parties and on the other hand
by the Coordinating institution on behalf of the project consortium.
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a National Contract/Grant Agreement to be signed between each
participating institution in a consortium and its corresponding Funding Party
in case these organisations are two separate legal entities.
Timeschedule
Publication of the call
15 February 2011
Deadline for submission of
proposals
15 April 2011
Deadline for eligibility check
30 April 2011/ 15 May for Israel
Deadline for evaluation of
proposals
15 June
Decision making meeting of the
funding organisations
30 June 2011
Tentative date for starting the
projects
1 September 2011
Tentative date for termination of
the projects
At the latest October 2013
Relevant documents
All relevant documents and links are available at the call website:
http://www.eranet-rus.eu/en/177.php
1. Terms of References
 Detailed information on all principles of the call
 Annex with national criteria
2. Guidelines for applicants
 Additional information in form of a FAQ guide for interested applicants
 Explanations on the use of the online application tool
 List of NCPs and list of contribution per funding party
3. Link to the online submission tool at: http://www.ptit.de/ptoutline/application/inno
5. Submission of Proposals (I)
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Only submissions through the online submission system “PT-Outline”
will be accepted.
Thank you very much for your attention!
Спасибо большое за ваше внимание!
Franziska Müller
International Bureau of the Federal Ministry for Education and
Research (Germany)
c/o German Aerospace Center
Heinrich-Konen-Str. 1
53227 Bonn
Phone: +49 (0)228 3821-447
E-mail: [email protected]
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