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Access to Research Funding – Ireland’s Experience
Dr Imelda Lambkin, 29 April 2013
[email protected] +353-1-727 2665http://www.fp7ireland.com
FP7… More than 1,500 successful FP7 applicants Ranging from bright young research fellows through to high tech SMEs
and multinational corporations using FP7 as a business opportunity Funding of more than €500M since 2007 i.e. over twice the funding to
Ireland in FP6 Currently averaging €100M coming into Irish research per year Ireland’s industry drawdown: 4 times that of FP6 at over €110M 78% of industry funding to SMEs
The FP7 experience - snapshots New research jobs at the Tyndall National Institute at the cutting-edge
of telecommunications, nanoelectronics, medical devices & environmental monitoring
Intel collaborating with Microsoft, SAP, Siemens, BMW, IBM etc in ICT, Nanotech, e-Health, Manufacturing (energy) and local partners include TCD, UCD, WIT, Tyndall, Lake Communications
The Irish Research Council co-funding more than 50 international research fellowships in Science Engineering and Technology
Professor Kevin O’Rourke, TCD, Ireland’s first ERC Advanced Grant studying Trade and the Great Depression in a Long Run Perspective
National Contact Points:Interaction versus FP7 Success
EU Average = 22%
22% 31%18%
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437 186209
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100%
No contact withNCP
Someinteraction with
NCP
Detailedinteraction with
NCP
Not Successful
Successful
OUR OFFER…
We……guide you to the piece of the programme that’s right for you right now…or influence next year’s Call to position you for success
…help you find the right partners …and handhold you through the writing of your application
…help you find the time to do it…and make you feel at home abroad
Some observations… Several universities now have twice their funding from FP6 70 participants have > €1M for participation in a single proposal Companies often have the same success rates as academics Use of the ‘Research for the Benefit of SMEs’ programme, targeted
to low tech companies, is a huge success story for Ireland We’re beginning to see results/impacts of projects We compare ourselves to Finland, Denmark and Austria, small
countries with longer histories of S&T investment: population adjusted figures place Ireland slightly behind Finland and Denmark and parallel to Austria
And the UK? Population adjusted figures place Ireland ahead
The future… Planning for Horizon 2020: positioning Ireland for success; leveraging
national investments; providing quality support systems
NOW: Final calls under FP7 NOW: Work programme design for Horizon 2020 Q2 2013: Adoption of H2020 legislation Q1-Q4 2013: Project teams forming; proposal preparation
starts 1/1/2014: Horizon 2020 launch of first calls
