• Call identifier: FP7-ICT-2011-7
• Date of publication: 28 September 2010
• Deadline: 18 January 2011, at 17:00.00 Brussels local time
• Indicative budget: EUR 778.5 million
Large scale integrating collaborative projects (IPs) are objective-driven research projects, which aim at generating new knowledge, including new technology, or common resources for research in order to improve European competitiveness, or to address major societal needs. They have clearly defined scientific and technological objectives directed at obtaining specific results, which could be applicable in terms of development or improvement of products, processes, services or policy. As such, they may also be targeted to special groups, such as SMEs.
Large scale integrating projects have a comprehensive “programme” approach: including a coherent integrated set of activities dealing with a range of aspects and tackling multiple issues and aimed at specific deliverables; there will be a large degree of autonomy to adapt content and partnership (all types of stakeholders) and update the work plan, where/as appropriate.
Activities
The activities to be carried out in the context of an IP can include:
• research and technological development activities, reflecting the core activities of the project, aimed at a significant advance beyond the established state-of-the-art
• demonstration activities, designed to prove the viability of new technologies that offer a potential economic advantage, but which cannot be commercialised directly (e.g. testing of product-like prototypes)
• activities to disseminate research results and to prepare for their take-up and use, including knowledge management and IPR protection
• management activities, over and above the technical management of individual work packages, linking together all the project components and maintaining communications with the Commission
• training of researchers and key staff, including research managers and industrial executives (in particular for SMEs and any potential users of the knowledge generated by the project).
The training should aim to improve the professional development of the personnel concerned
• other activities if required
How to apply
The coordinator
For a given proposal, the coordinator acts as the single point of contact between the participants and the Commission. The coordinator is generally responsible for the overall planning of the proposal and for building up the consortium that will do the work.
Focusing your planned work
The work you set out in your proposal must correspond to one or more of the topics, and associated funding scheme(s), indicated in this call for proposals. Proposals that fail to do so will be regarded as ineligible.
Who can participate?
In principle, a legal entity may participate in a proposal no matter where it is established.
However, there are certain minimum conditions that have to be met relating to participation from the EU and Associated countries. These conditions vary between funding schemes (see section 2), and may also vary from call to call. See the call fiche for the conditions applicable to this call.
The EU Member States are:
Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom.
The Associated Countries are:
Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Faroe Islands, FYR Macedonia, Iceland, Israel, Liechtenstein, Montenegro, Norway, Serbia, Switzerland, Turkey.
Other countries may become associated during the course of FP7. The latest news will be posted on the CORDIS web site.
Eligibility conditions:
The general eligibility criteria are set out in Annex 2 of this work programme, and in the guide for applicants5. Please note that the completeness criterion also includes that part B of the proposal shall be readable, accessible and printable.
Only information provided in part A of the proposal will be used to determine whether the proposal is eligible with respect to budget thresholds and/or minimum number of eligible participants.
The minimum number of participating entities required, for all funding schemes, is set out in the Rules for Participation. See Appendix 1 of the ICT work programme for further details on the minimum number of participants.
The minimum number of participants in an ERA-NET consortium is 3 independent legal entities which finance or manage publicly funded national or regional programmes. Each of these must be established in a different Member State or Associated Country.
For more information: http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/dc/index.cfm?fuseaction=UserSite.FP7DetailsCallPage&call_id=376#infopack
