[cooperation-wg] Possible agenda topic - EU funded research

Just to be clear - I do not expect to be the person making any presentation!

But to clarify the sort of thing we are talking about here is a bit more detail:

When I talk about the “end of FP7” it is actually a bit like us
running out of IPv4 addresses. There are effectively different end
points. The final-final end-date is the date after which contracts can
no longer be signed for funding as agreed for the programme. But for
contracts to be signed by a certain date, and no later, there are a
number of steps well before then.

FP7 itself ends in 2013. That means that the remaining funds have to
be allocated ("committed" in our jargon) and contracts signed before
then. Which probably means that the last calls may be around the end
of 2012, beginning of 2013 - that gives time for call publication
(against the appropriate Work Programme), consortium formation,
proposal preparation, proposal submission, proposal evaluation,
contract negotiation and contract signature.

There are already two calls in the pipeline now. The bigger one (about
787 million) is still open and closes mid-January. Remember this
amount is our contribution and so the total project volume is greater.

http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/page/cooperation?callIdentifier=FP7-ICT-2011-8

I understand that there is also a slightly smaller one which will be
published quite soon - mid-January? - and which will then close
mid-April.

There is also an on-going open call:

http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/page/cooperation?callIdentifier=FP7-ICT-2011-C

Other details can be found elsewhere on the web-site.

One final point. People often ask me how to actually get involved. You
can of course read all up on the programme, put together a consortium
and simply submit a proposal. Experience seems however to indicate
that it is useful to have people in any consortium who have been
through the process before. There is then another way and that is to
register in our database as an expert. In that way you can be called
upon to participate in both proposal evaluations and project reviews.
This is paid of course.

Regards,

Gordon