Value Added Materials
Unit Materials - ERC - COST
Portfolio Analysis
Renaud VUIGNIER, Stagiaire
Helge WESSEL, Programme Officer
Renzo TOMELLINI, Head of Unit
DG Research and Innovation - Directorate Industrial Technologies/Materials
February 2013
Research and
Innovation
© Deyan Georgiev, #38170704,
2013. Source : Fotolia.com
Portfolio analysis
• 
Why?
• In order to have a current and precise overview of the Unit projects.
• It will then help determine the optimal budget management and
resource mix, and to schedule activities to best achieve the Unit
operational goals.
Example : fields of applications, Technology Readiness Level (TRL), etc.
• 
What?
• Unit RTD/Materials (G3) in FP7
208 projects
• ERC - European Research Council in FP7
432 projects on materials out of 3523
• COST – European Cooperation in Science and Technology
538 Actions from 10 different domains
Policy
Research and
Innovation
Methodology
"Technology
and market
perspective
for future
Value Added
Materials"
Categories definition
Categories
inspired by
study:
Data on projects
• Abstracts
• Discussions
Sort by categories,
budget and
participant types
• Statistics
• Graphs
Analysis
Policy
Research and
Innovation
Categories
 Energy
 Transport
 Environment
 Cross-cutting
 Health
 Others / Networking
 ICT
All categories are analysed more in details, with
subcategories, in the following pages.
Limits
 Cross-cutting:
difficulties
to
decide
on
a
particular category
 Field of research versus categories of application
Policy
Research and
Innovation
Unit G3
Unit G3 projects in FP7
Total 208 projects
EC contribution by categories
Total 776 Mio Euros
12%
4%
26
22 projects
Energy
20%
Health
42 projects
13%
Cross-Cutting
22 projects
16%
38 projects
18%
25 projects
17%
ICT
Transport
33 projects
Environment
Other/Networking
Policy
Research and
Innovation
G3 portfolio
Results
Unit G3 projects in FP7
Subcategory Energy
48 projects (energy + energy cross-cutting)
Total EC contribution 181 Mio Euros
6%
5%
Energy
Energy
saving// efficiency
efficiency
Energy
saving
Energy storage
Energy Energy storage
13%
Energy cross-cutting
Energy Energy cross-cutting
14%
62%
Energy generation
Energy Energy generation
Management, transmission
and distribution of energy
Energy Management, transmission and distribution of energy
Policy
Research and
Innovation
G3 portfolio
Results
Unit G3 projects in FP7
Subcategory ICT
43 projects (ICT + ICT cross-cutting)
Total EC contribution 158 Mio Euros
Computational methodology
5% 1%
ICT Cross-cutting
42%
31%
21%
Materials for computing equipment
Other ICT manufacturing
Telecommunication
Policy
Research and
Innovation
G3 portfolio
Results
Unit G3 projects in FP7
Subcategory Transport
33 projects (transport + transport cross-cutting)
Total EC contribution 140 Mio Euros
Transport Lightweight materials
16%
28%
Transport Cross-cutting
56%
Transport Electrical vehicles
Policy
Research and
Innovation
G3 portfolio
Results
Unit G3 projects in FP7
Subcategory Health
25 projects
Total EC contribution 129 Mio Euros
Prostheses and biomaterials for
regenerative medicine Orthopaedics
Prostheses and biomaterials for
regenerative medicine Cardiovascular
8% 2% 2%
29%
Prostheses and biomaterials for
regenerative medicine Cancer Research
59%
Drug manufacturing
Diagnostic technologies and substances
Policy
Research and
Innovation
G3 portfolio
Results
Unit G3 projects in FP7
Subcategory Environment
33 projects (environment + environment cross-cutting)
Total EC contribution 128 Mio Euros
Environment Waste management
3%
14%
Environment Cross-cutting
33%
21%
29%
Environment CO2 technologies
Environment Water and waste water
treatment
Environment Air pollution Control
Policy
Research and
Innovation
G3 portfolio
Participants
• Organisation type:
• 
Universities
• 
Industries
SMEs and non-SMEs
• 
Public bodies
•
Such as ministries
• 
Research Centres
Examples : Max Planck Gesellschaft, CNRS, JRC
• 
Others
Associations, Chambers of Commerce and industry
Policy
Research and
Innovation
G3 portfolio
Participants
•  Number of participants
total 2420
1429 without duplicates
 EC Contribution
Total 776 Mio Euros
1% 1%
2% 2%
19%
20%
14%
34%
17%
23%
28%
Universities
Research Centres
SMEs
Companies
Public bodies
Others
Policy
Research and
Innovation
39%
G3 portfolio
Focus on SMEs
 495 SMEs participating in projects of Unit G3 in FP7
(434 without duplicates)
 EC contribution to SMEs 134 Mio Euros
(out of 776 Mio Euros, ~17%)
Distribution by categories
Transport
RTD/G/03
Y Transport
2% 1%
Energy
RTD/G/03 Y Energy
12% 2%
17%
21%
12%
25%
23%
25%
17%
Health
RTD/G/03 Y Health
Environment
RTD/G/03 Y Environment
21%
22%
ICT
RTD/G/03 Y ICT
Other / Networking
RTD/G/03 Y Other/Cross-cutting
Cross-Cutting
Policy
Research and
Innovation
ERC
ERC - European Research Council in FP7
432 projects on materials out of 3523 (12,3%)
730 Mio Euros out of 5,8 billion Euros* (12,6%)
(total FP7 for ERC = 7,5 billion Euros)
10%
45 projects
4%
15 projects
1%
 EC contribution per category
12%
Cross-Cutting
55 projects
Energy
Health
ICT
Environment
Transport
58%
15%
250 projects
66 projects
Policy
Research and
Innovation
*Total operational budget spent to date
COST
European Cooperation in
Science and Technology
 From 2007, 538 Actions in 10 Domains for a budget of 123
Mio Euros, FP7 via the European Science Foundation
 Funding for networking and dissemination activities, thus the
participating scientists must have secured research funding
from other national or European sources
 Key instrument for scientific networking, collaboration,
exchange, training and dissemination activities
 Actions are means to pool and share national research
investments. COST estimates that each Action pools about
3.3 Mio Euros per year or about 100.000 Euros per
participating researcher per year (OECD/Eurostat, Frascati
Manual, 2002).
Policy
Research and
Innovation
COST
 Materials: broad definition
'from wood to nano'
151 Actions out of 538, 28%
31 Mio Euros out of 123*, ~25%
10%
 Value Added Materials
97 Actions out of 538, 18%
20 Mio Euros out of 123*, ~16%
1%
12%
9%
2%
13%
46%
15%
43%
15%
16%
18%
Cross-Cutting
Environment
Energy
Health
ICT
Transport
Policy
Research and
Innovation
*Total operational budget spent to date
Results in relation
with market perspectives
180000000
180 Mio
400 Bio €
€400.000.000.000
Energy
140000000
140 Mio
350 Bio €
120000000
120 Mio
ICT
100000000
100 Mio
€
300 Bio €
Cross-Cutting
160000000
160 Mio
€350.000.000.000
€300.000.000.000
Environment
Portfolio Analysis FP7
Unit G3
80000000
80 Mio
€250.000.000.000
250
Bio €
60000000
60 Mio
€200.000.000.000
200
Bio €
20000000
20 Mio
Health
Transport
40000000
40 Mio
0
€150.000.000.000
150
Bio €
€100.000.000.000
100
Bio €
50 Bio €
€50.000.000.000
€-
2008
2015
Market growth
for added value materials
2020
Policy
Research and
Innovation
2030
2050
Summary
Material science is of crucial importance to tackle the Grand
Challenges of our society. Value Added Materials belong to the Key
Enabling Technologies and can deliver valuable solutions to
improve quality of life of the European citizens, stimulate
growth, wealth and job creation.
This portfolio analysis:
 Gives an overview of the FP7 project portfolio of the Unit
RTD/Materials and of projects on material science of the European
Research Council (ERC) and the COST Actions.
 Shows that material science plays an important role along the
innovation value-chain and that research on materials is also
largely cross-cutting as it encompasses multiple disciplines and
various fields of application.
 Contributes to the strategic discussion about future European
research.
Policy
Research and
Innovation