› Maritime and Marine Technologies for a new ERA
Filiz Aslan
Project Management Jülich
Brokerage Event, 15th February 2017
Aim of MarTERA
› To strengthen the European Research Area (ERA) in
maritime and marine technologies as well as Blue Growth
› Focus of development given to technologies (instead of
sectors)
› Large impact to a wide range of application fields
› To bring industry and research actors across borders together
will strengthen Europe’s economic position
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MarTERA project
› 18 Ministries and funding organisations participating
› Duration: 5 years
› Co-funded call in 2017 with about 30 Mio. €
› Deadline for submission foreseen: 31.03.2017
› Further calls for 2019, 2020, 2021
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MarTERA project: Co-funded Call
› 5 Priority Areas fixed in cooperation with the partners and JPI
Oceans
› Priority Area 1: Environmentally friendly maritime technologies
› Priority Area 2: Development of novel materials and structures
› Priority Area 3: Sensors, automation, monitoring and
observations
› Priority Area 4: Advanced manufacturing and production
› Priority Area 5: Safety and security
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Call Process: 2 step procedure
Step 1
Submission of
pre-proposals
Call opening
15.12.2016
Step 2
Opening: 01.06.2017
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Submission of
full proposals
Deadline for preproposals
submission:
31.03.2017
Deadline for full
proposal
submission:
08.09.2017
Communication of
decisions and start
of Step 2
Full
proposals
Communication of
outcomes and start
of of the contract
negotiations
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Participating countries
› European Member States: Belgium (Flanders), France,
Germany, Ireland, Italy, Malta, Netherlands, Poland,
Portugal, Romania, Spain,
› Associated countries: Norway and Turkey
› Third countries: Argentina, Belarus and South Africa
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MarTERA Call criteria
› Proposed project must relate to one of the topics/sub-topics in
the Priority Area Matrix
› The project proposals should involve industry.
› At least two independent eligible legal entities from two
different European Member States or associated countries
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Legal entities/consortia from Argentina, Belarus and South Africa: at
least two independent eligible legal entities from at least two different
European Member States or associated countries
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MarTERA Call criteria
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The proposal should be novel and not correspond with on-going or
completed projects funded by other instruments, programmes or
projects.
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Requested funding range 1 to 2 Mio € per project
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The total amount of funding requested from a funding organisation in
a proposal may not be higher than the available budget for this
organisation.
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MarTERA Call criteria
› Project duration: 36 months
› Pre-proposal and the full proposal must be submitted correctly
and completely before the respective deadlines via the
MarTERA Submission Tool (www.martera.eu )
› Proposal must be written in English
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Pre-proposal submission
› The pre-proposal consists of different parts which have to be
filled in online.
› Please note that you can save your text only if it does not
contain more characters than pre-defined within the
submission tool.
› see Guidelines for Pre-Proposal Submission
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Submission tool www.martera.eu
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Content pre-proposal
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PROJECT OBJECTIVES summary, general objectives of the project
(strategic, commercial, etc.), scientific and/or technological aims of the
project, relevance to the scientific scope
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STATE OF THE ART in research and development, earlier research
activities and experience of partners in the proposed field etc.
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EXPLOITAITION PLAN economic and scientific advantage/expectations
and potential of the project (commercialisation of results, potential IPR, etc.)
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ADDED VALUE European added value in carrying the work at European
level
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Content pre-proposal
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FUNDING AND RISK necessity for funding and risk, scientific and
technological risks, investigations with a risky character
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WORKPLAN: methodology, research design, first work plan details
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CONSORTIUM COMPOSITION: describe the consortium partners and the
necessity of cooperation
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FINANCIAL PLAN: personnel, travel, material and equipment,
consumables, other costs like subcontracts, depreciation and rent/leasing,
overheads requested funding, total own contribution, total costs
› some types of costs may not be fundable by all funding
organisations
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Step 1: Selection process
Call opening
15.12.2016
Eligibility check against
national criteria
Deadline for preproposals submission:
31.03.2017
Submission of
pre-proposals
Eligibilty check against the
transnational criteria (Call
Office)
Steering Committee
Meeting selection of
pre-proposals that go to
Step 2 (31.05.2017)
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Step 2: Evaluation and selection process
Step 2 opening
01.06.2017
International Expert
Panel Meeting: one
ranking list
Steering
Committee
Meeting
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Submission of fullproposals
Fullproposal
Deadline for
full-proposal
submission:
08.09.2017
Remote evaluation
by International
Experts
Outcome sent to applicants. Start of
national negotioations (01.12.2017)
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Timeline till end of Step 2
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Further information at www.martera.eu
Documents
›
MarTERA Call
Announcement
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MarTERA Priority
Areas Matrix
›
MarTERA National
Guidelines
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MarTERA Guidelines
for Pre-proposal
Submission
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Thank you for your attention!
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