ISMA ▪ UCBL ▪ INNO ▪ KT
Experience from a successful ERA-WIDE project
A.Gektin
Institute for Scintillation Materials NAS of Ukraine
Project: Strengthening Ukraine and EU research cooperation in
the field of Material Sciences
• Acronym : SUCCESS
WHAT WE KNEW AT THE BEGINNING:
FP7-INCO-2011-6: INTEGRATING EUROPE'S NEIGHBOURS INTO THE
EUROPEAN RESEARCH AREA (ERA-WIDE).
 THE OBJECTIVE OF THIS ACTION IS TO REINFORCE THE COOPERATION CAPACITIES
OF RESEARCH CENTERS LOCATED IN THE EUROPEAN NEIGHBOURHOOD POLICY (ENP)
COUNTRIES, WHICH ARE NOT ASSOCIATED TO FP7, IN THE THEMATIC PRIORITIES OF
FP7.
 THUS, ERA-WIDE PROPOSALS SHOULD TARGET ONE OF THE FOLLOWING
COUNTRIES… UKRAINE…
The ERA-WIDE activities covered by the call are:
Networking with research centers in Member States or Associated Countries
in view of disseminating scientific information, identifying partners and
setting up joint experiments;
Developing training modules to build competency and facilitate the
participation in FP7 of the centers located in the targeted third countries;
Developing the research centers’ strategy in order to increase their scope
(regional coverage, activities) and to improve their responses to the socioeconomic needs of their countries and of the region.
Program mission:
 Stimulation of the co-operation and strategic partnership
between EC and Ukraine within FP7 priorities – “Nano
technologies, materials and new technologies”
Integration of Ukraine to “European scientific community”
MAIN ACTIVITIES :
Analysis: strategy of the cooperation between ISMA and EC scientific and
R&D centers on the base on SWOT analysis.
Twinning activity: scientific cooperation of ISMA and UCBL (mutual
scientific projects, European workshops and conference management,
scientists exchange, access to European scientific facilities
International cooperation: scientific&development promotion, use of
European “technology platform” and European scientific facilities
integration to EC programs in favor of later FP7 progress.
Education and training activity: students and PhD study, general
educational activity, cooperation with EC universities
THE TEAM :
Coordinator: ISMA (Institute for Scintillation Materials, Ukraine) – one of
World recognized leader in scintillation physics and engineering
UCBL – University of Claude Bernard Lyon (France) – one of luminescence and
material science European leadership centers
Inno TSD (France) – well known European consulting company in the field of
innovation and science
KT (Ukraine) – Ukraine consulting company 13 years experience in the
innovation and international project promotion and development
Scientific and business links as back ground to success:
* scientific level at the field of expertise
* International recognition and good references
* Experience with other submissions
ISMA. International projects:
LHC (CERN, Switzerland), BELLE (KEK, Japan), BaBar (SLAC, USA),
PiBeta (PSI, Switzerland), neutrino search (OPERA), NEMA (France),
astrophysics GLAST (international NASA mission), AGILE (EC) etc.
ISMA. Engineering and business links:
Sciemens, GE, Philips Medical Systems – medical imaging, ORNL (USA),
Smith Heimann (Germany) – security etc.
Questions we have to reply to our self at first and in proposal
secondly
1. What is the reason to Europe invest something to your project?
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Which benefits can get Europe?
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What can receive Ukraine (except the cash)? (Do not be too pragmatic)
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Which practical contribution could be obtained at the end of the project
(technology, materials, know-how, fundamental knowledge etc)
Questions we have to reply to our self at first and in proposal
secondly
2. Are you sure that partnership with your collaborator is deep, back
grounded and corresponded to the scale for the program goal.
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How many years you are in the collaboration?
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Are your partner and mutual activity reasonable for scale of the
project?
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How you topics corresponds to the European (an World) community
priorities?
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Can you prove pointed above issues by “historical examples and
references”?
Questions we have to reply to our self at first and in proposal
secondly
3. Can you and your partner attract to the project young generation of
scientists and engineers? Who will continue the “project line” in future?
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Are you ready and have internal educationally oriented infrastructure?
(young scientists itself, diploma and PhD students, links to Universities
etc)
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Are your “young generation” is ready represent and support your
scientific level abroad
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Language problem?
Questions we have to reply to our self at first and in proposal
secondly
4. Are you sure and can you argue that your organization and partner
are really the country leader and visible center at the World R&D map
of such activity?
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List of internationally recognized conferences, projects, publications,
patents etc (try to check impact factor as useful criteria)
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Confirm links to the other centers
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Do you have some examples that could be pointed at proposal
(confidential, security …)
Questions we have to reply to our self at first and in proposal
secondly
5. Let’s dream a little bit.
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What is the future in 3 years (after the project complete)?
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Is the project the core for the later development and progress or will
resolve concrete problem only?
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Are you forecast correlated with your partner view and policy in this
field?
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What are the trends for this activity in a future?
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Can you explain these issue shortly (examples vs “general words”)?
Questions we have to reply to our self at first and in proposal
secondly
6. How this project can helps to other countries?
 Do you cooperate with neighbor European countries?
 Can it helps to broad European cooperation in this field?
Questions we have to reply to our self at first and in proposal
secondly
7. What is your organization strategic goal from the project? What
you would like to receive from the project in general?
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Scientific, engineering etc?
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Co-operative (introduction to European scientific community)?
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Access to European facilities?
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Will be your company “ambitions” satisfy and at which level
Questions we have to reply to our self at first and in proposal
secondly
8. Economical benefits from cooperation.
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Can you demonstrate ability to fund your activity without EC grant?
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Can you explain the synergy of your and EC partner cooperation?
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Can you link an extra funding with necessity of additional
“networking” activity
Questions we have to reply to our self at first and in
proposal secondly
9. Can you explain twinning benefits for your and EC
organizations ?
Can later other organizations (countries) , merge to the project?
Results and conclusions:
We finally get the EC grant at about
0.5 mln Euros
We upscale the level of own
experience
We create the platform for the
“permanent” cooperation with EC
institute
We receive (I hope) access to Europe
scientific facilities