Open Materials Research and Innovation in Europe

K. J. KurzydlowskiEuropean Materials Forum

European Materials Forum

• Launched in 2004• To stimulate strong contacts between research

community and industry• Provides a forum to advocate independent

scientific advices• President Prof. Michal KLEIBER• Represented by Prof. K. J. Kurzydlowski, Director

of Applied Research Funding Agency of Poland

Open innovation system – funding

• In what sense the current system is closed and locked?• Fragmentation in terms• Private and public• National and European• • National spending exceeds by far European• 95 to 5%• Approximately 1/3 of spending comes from the

National (Domestic) Funding Agencies

On average NF Agencies act separately

• Provide funding within administrative borders• Against the intensifying diffusion of business

activities• Against the increasing mobility of human

resources• A clear need to diffuse the borders between

the NFA

Some actions already in place

• ERA-NETS, Joint Planning, Eureka, Eurostars

• M-era.Net - a European network of public funding organisations and funding programmes on materials science and engineering

• 25 European countries • 37 funding organisations, (29 national and 8 regional) • The whole innovation chain from basic to applied

research and innovation • A single ERA-NET contract

• Austria: FFG: www.ffg.at• Austria: bmvit: www.bmvit.gv.at• Austria: FWF: www.fwf.ac.at• Belgium-Flemish: FWO: www.fwo.be• Belgium-Flemish: IWT: www.eurotransbio.eu• Belgium/Walloon Region: DGo6: http://spw.wallonie.be/• Cyprus: RPF: www.research.org.cy• Germany: BMBF: www.bmbf.de• Germany: DFG: www.dfg.de• Germany: JULICH: www.ptj.de• Germany: KIT: www.ptka.kit.edu• Estonia : ETF: www.etf.ee• Spain Andalusia: IDEA: www.agenciaidea.es• Spain Asturias: IDEPA: www.idepa.es• Spain BasqueCountry: Innobasque: www.innobasque.com• Spain Madrid: fmi+d: www.madrimasd.org• Finland: Tekas: www.tekes.fi• France: ANR : www.agence-nationale-recherche.fr• France MidiPyrenees: RMP:

http://www.midipyrenees.fr/Midi-Pyrenees,3650

The M-era.Net Consortium Hungary: OTKA: www.otka.hu Israel: MATIMOP: www.matimop.org.il Iceland: RANNIS: www.rannis.is Italy: MIUR: www.miur.it Italy Piemonte: REGIONE PIEMONTE:

www.regione.piemonte.it & FINPIEMONTE: www.finpiemonte.it

Lithuania: RCL: www.lmt.lt Luxembourg: FNR: www.fnr.lu Latvia: LAS: www.lza.lv Netherlands: NWO: www.nwo.nl Norway: RCN: www.rcn.no Poland: NCBiR: www.ncbir.gov.pl Portugal: FCT: www.fct.pt Romania: UEFISCDI: www.uefiscdi.ro Sweden: Vinnova: www.vinnova.se Slovenia: MESCS: www.mizks.gov.si Slovakia: SAS: www.sav.sk Turkey: Tübitak: www.tubitak.gov.tr UK: TSB: www.innovateuk.org

Sets a stage for further actions, in particular strengthening participation of SMEs

• The efficient way is to take advantage of "European coordination groups"

• Especially in the field of materials support of such organizations as E-MRS and FEMS

• Support the European SMEs with Materials KIC• Materials KIC with participation of NFA

Innovation system open for SMEs

• SME free to apply with public research organizations to NFA disregarding their country of origin

• Simple and efficient system for granting access to resources of public research organizations

• Access to specialized research infrastructure • The cost of R&D shared by EU and NFA