Funding Opportunities
COGAIN Office
COGAIN Camp
30.05. - 03.06.2005, Copenhagen, Denmark
Agenda
 16:15 Introduction to funding opportunities (COGAIN Office)
 16:45 Group work
In parallel: Finance Clinic (Hannele Auffermann)
 17:30 General discussion / Groups present their ideas
 18:00 The end
Motivation
 Not much money for research in a Network of Excellence
 Deliverables require hard work
 True integration arises from personal contacts, people working
together
Funding Opportunities – Examples
 EC Funded
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IST Call 5
Marie Curie
Erasmus Mundus
 The European Science Foundation (ESF)
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EUROCORES (EUROpean Science Foundation COllaborative RESearch)
 European Research Council (ERC)
 Nordic Council of Ministers
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Nordiskt utvecklingscenter för handikapphjälpmedel (NUH)
NordForsk
 Bilateral
 National calls
EU Slang
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IST: Information Society Technologies
FP: Framework Programme
FET: Future and Emerging Technologies
STREP: Specific Targeted Research Project
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Typically 5-8 partners, 2-3 year goals, SME’s involved
 IP: Integrated Project
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Typically 3-5 year goals but no maximum time limit, SME’s involved
CA: Coordination Action
SSA: Specific Support Action
MS: Member States of the EU
AS: Associated States
ACC: Associated Candidate Countries
SME: Small and Medium sized Enterprises
IST Call 5, FP6
2-stage STREPs in FET *
 Instruments: STREP, CA, SSA
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CA & SSA submitted directly, deadline short STREPs 20.9.2005 (FET *)
STREPs in two stages
 1st stage STREPs
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Deadlines: 20.9.2005 (FET *)
Short proposal with a technical description, max. 5 pages
 2nd stage STREPs
STREPs that passed the 1st stage are invited to submit full proposals
 Specific cut-off date, at least 2 months
 Final cut-off date: 14 February 2006
http://fp6.cordis.lu/fp6/call_details.cfm?CALL_ID=55
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* Note: Here was a mistake, only FET has 2–stage STREPs (not eInclusion nor Multimodal interfaces)!
2.5.7 Multimodal interfaces
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To develop natural and easy to use interfaces that communicate
intelligently via several modalities or with multilingual capabilities.
 Focus
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Natural interaction between humans and the physical or virtual
environment (IP, STREP)
Multilingual communication systems (IP, STREP)
 Deadline: 21 September 2005
 Funding: 54 M€ (60/40 split between IPs/STREPs)
http://fp6.cordis.lu/fp6/call_details.cfm?CALL_ID=208
2.5.11 eInclusion
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Mainstreaming accessibility in consumer goods and services
Next generation assistive systems that empower people with (in particular cognitive)
disabilities and aging citizens…
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Experience and Application Research (IP)
Development of innovative solutions for persons with cognitive disabilities
(STREP)
Federating the fragmented assistive technology industry… (AC)
…structuring the co-operation among centres for accessibility… (AC)
Development and constitution of … tech. platforms to … ageing population… (SSA)
 Deadline: 21 September 2005
 Funding: 29 M€ (50/50 split between IPs/STREPs, ACs, SSAs)
http://fp6.cordis.lu/fp6/call_details.cfm?CALL_ID=208
Future and Emerging Technologies (FET)
 FET Open Scheme
 Highly innovative new ideas – open to widest possible spectrum
of research opportunities
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Project proposals not addressed by any other IST call
 Deadline: 20.9.2005 (short STREP, full STREP: 14.2.2006)
 Instruments: STREP, CA, SSA
 Funding: Total 60 M€ (evenly spread among 4 cut-off dates)
http://www.cordis.lu/ist/fet
http://fp6.cordis.lu/fp6/call_details.cfm?CALL_ID=55
Marie Curie
 Conferences and Training Courses
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Supports (funding) organizing conferences and training courses
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organisational costs, participation of researchers
Next call to open 18 January 2006, with deadline on 17 May 2007
 Funding for Individual researchers
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Mobility grants for European fellowships, International fellowships
Next deadlines 18 Jan 2006 and 15 Feb 2006
 Promoting Excellence
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Excellence grants for research teams, Excellence awards for individuals
Deadline 15 Feb 2006
 European Reintegration Grants
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For researchers returning home
Several upcoming deadlines: 19 Oct 2005, 19 Jan 2006, 19 April 2006, 19 July 2006
http://europa.eu.int/comm/research/fp6/mariecurie-actions/indexhtm_en.html
Erasmus Mundus
 Co-operation and mobility programme for education
 Actions
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Erasmus Mundus Masters Courses
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Erasmus Mundus scholarships
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Integrated courses, with at least 3 different EU universities & countries
For third-country graduate students and scholars
Partnerships (with third-country higher education institutions)
Enhancing attractiveness
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Supports activities that improve profile, visibility & accessibility
 Funding non-European participants might have some impact
 This years specific calls closed, new calls published annually
http://europa.eu.int/comm/education/programmes/mundus/index_en.html
Researcher’s Mobility Portal
http://europa.eu.int/eracareers/index_en.cfm
Misc. EC calls
 Co-operative research projects [FP6-2004-SME-COOP]
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For SMEs to support research within SMEs (with research institutions)
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Min. 3 SMEs
14 September 2005
http://fp6.cordis.lu/fp6/call_details.cfm?CALL_ID=189%20#
 EC proposal deadlines by category:
http://www.eucenter.org/deadlines.php
European Science Foundation (ESF)
EUROCORES themes
 Opportunity to affect the future project proposal themes!
 Themes are ideas for new EUROCORES Programmes
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Innovative, sound research themes (not projects)
Theme should be attractive to 70-200 European researchers
Fields: Physical & engineering sciences, Medical, Social, …
Funding for the actual research projects comes from national funding organisations
(research councils), who are members of ESF
 Annual theme proposals
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Next deadlines 15 June 2005, 15 June 2006
Selected themes are developed into programmes
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ECRP Call for project proposals: May 2006
Funding starts: March-May 2007 (typically for 3-4 years, tot. 5-12 M€ programme budget)
http://www.esf.org/
European Research Council (ERC)
 Supports European basic research
 New body, still under development  no open calls yet
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ERC Identification Committee has been formed to identify possible
members of ERC Scientific Governing Council
 In the future, ERC will
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“provide funding to research projects of individual teams,
selected on the basis of scientific excellence,
through international peer review”
http://europa.eu.int/comm/research/future/basic_research/index_en.html
Nordiskt utvecklingscenter för handikapphjälpmedel
(NUH)
 The Nordic Development Centre for Rehabilitation Technology
 Themes for 2005-2007
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User involvement in product development and service provision
Communication
Children and disabilities
The elderly, disability and the home
 Funds max. 50% of the total budget
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Awards tot. 200 000 € to Nordic projects and seminars every year
1-3 year projects
 No deadline for proposals
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Decisions are made in the following steering board meeting(s)
http://www.nuh.fi/
NordForsk
 Nordic Research Board, established 1 January 2005
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NorFA is now part of NordForsk
 Funds Nordic co-operation within research and research
education
1. Institutional grants (planning, mobility, networks, courses, …)
2. Personal grants (mobility, e.g. visiting professors)
 Proposal should include at least 3 Nordic countries
 Many activities open also to countries in the Nordic region
(Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and North-Western Russia)
http://www.nordforsk.org/
Bilateral collaboration
 Collaboration between two countries
 E.g. in Japan
National Institute of Science and Technology Policy (NISTEP)
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Collaboration with: UK, Germany, Sweden, Finland, …
Sponsors international workshops, seminars, & researchers giving
presentation in international conferences etc.…
http://www.nistep.go.jp/
National calls
 Everyone can apply for funding from national research councils
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The Academy of Finland
Tekes – National Technology Agency of Finland
Group work
 Brainstorming for new project ideas
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Preferably supporting COGAIN goals 
Try to be as concrete as possible (with examples)
 Collect ideas
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Select a secretary who writes down ideas
Groups present the ideas to everybody
Groups
 Groups working for ideas possible for, for instance:
1. Giving a voice to our user (creating a synthesized version of the user’s own voice and
integrating it with eye typing) (Multimodal interaction)
2. Gaze control for people with cognitive disabilities (eInclusion)
3. Eyes and games (FET?)
4. Eye tracker development (3D tracker, FET?)
5. Innovations for gaze control (FET)
6. Nordic collaboration (NUH & NordForsk)
7. WP8: joint education (Marie Curie & Erasmus Mundus)
8. Ideas for major research themes (EUROSCORES themes)
9. General brainstorming – ideas for future calls
10. Ideas for potential joint student projects (ideas for mobility grants)
11. Past proposal re-preparation
12. Other specific ideas?
In parallel: Finance Clinic – consultation in COGAIN budget issues
To Be Continued…
 Slides & funding related links available on COGAIN Portal
 Please SEND info about COGAIN related funding opportunities
to be distributed on COGAIN web & mailing lists!
 Discussion forum for funding ideas and opportunities