Fourth FP7 Monitoring Report
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EUROPEAN COMMISSION DIRECTORATE GENERAL FOR RESEARCH & INNOVATION The Director-General Fourth FP7 Monitoring Report MONITORING REPORT 2010 4 August 2011 TABLE OF CONTENTS 0 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY.....................................................................................................1 1 INTRODUCTION ...............................................................................................................3 2 FP7 PARTICIPATION PATTERNS IN 2010..........................................................................5 2.1 Overall participation ..................................................................................................... 5 2.1.1 Calls, proposals, applicants and corresponding success rates........................................ 6 2.1.2 Project costs, requested EU contribution and corresponding success rates.................... 6 2.1.3 Signed grant agreements, participants and EU contribution .......................................... 11 2.2 Participation by funding scheme .............................................................................. 12 2.3 Participation by type of organisation ....................................................................... 12 2.3.1 Academia participation................................................................................................... 15 2.3.2 Participation of research organisations.......................................................................... 17 2.3.3 Industry participation...................................................................................................... 17 2.4 International and regional dimensions of FP7......................................................... 20 2.4.1 EU Member States ........................................................................................................ 21 2.4.2 Candidate and Associated Countries............................................................................. 28 2.4.3 Third Countries .............................................................................................................. 30 2.4.4 Regional dimension ....................................................................................................... 32 2.5 Women participation and the gender dimension in FP7 ........................................ 34 2.5.1 Patterns of women participation in FP7 projects............................................................ 34 2.5.2 Women participation in FP7 advisory groups, panels and committees.......................... 37 3 FP7 IMPLEMENTATION IN 2010 – MANAGEMENT AND QUALITY ISSUES ..........................39 3.1 Dissemination activities............................................................................................. 39 3.1.1 Internet........................................................................................................................... 39 3.1.2 National Contact Points meetings.................................................................................. 41 3.2 Quality assessment of proposal evaluation and the redress procedure............. 42 3.2.1 Proposal evaluation ....................................................................................................... 42 3.2.2 Redress procedure ........................................................................................................ 43 3.3 The FP7 Ethics Framework - Ethics reviews and ethics audits............................. 44 3.4 Time-to-grant............................................................................................................... 46 3.5 Independent assessment of FP7 implementation by National Contact Points... 46 3.5.1 Project life cycle............................................................................................................. 46 3.5.2 FP7 in general context................................................................................................... 48 3.6 Simplification .............................................................................................................. 50 3.6.1 Simplification measures in FP7...................................................................................... 50 3.6.2 Perception of simplification in FP7 by National Contact Points...................................... 53 3.7 Monitoring sustainable development in FP7 ........................................................... 56 3.7.1 FP7 and the renewed EU Sustainable Development Strategy....................................... 56 3.7.2 Web-based monitoring tool on research for sustainable development .......................... 57 3.7.3 Achievements regarding FP7 contribution to sustainable development......................... 57 4 FP7 IMPLEMENTATION IN 2010 – SPECIAL FOCUS .........................................................60 4.1 European Research Council...................................................................................... 60 4.1.1 The ERC Executive Agency (ERCEA)........................................................................... 61 4.1.2 The ERC peer review evaluation process...................................................................... 61 4.1.3 ERC calls ....................................................................................................................... 62 4.2 The Research Executive Agency (REA) ................................................................... 62 4.2.1 The REA in 2010 ........................................................................................................... 63 4.2.2 Programme management in the REA ............................................................................ 64 4.2.3 Overall appreciation....................................................................................................... 65 4.3 Marie Curie Actions .................................................................................................... 66 4.3.1 General overview........................................................................................................... 66 4.3.2 Focussing on researchers' careers ................................................................................ 67 4.3.3 Implementation of the calls ............................................................................................ 68 4.4 EURATOM.................................................................................................................... 70 4.4.1 Nuclear fission and radiation protection......................................................................... 70 4.4.2 Fusion energy ................................................................................................................ 72 4.5 Joint Technology Initiatives ...................................................................................... 73 4.5.1 Clean Sky Joint Undertaking.......................................................................................... 74 4.5.2 Innovative Medicines Joint Undertaking (IMI) ................................................................ 76 4.5.3 ARTEMIS (Embedded Computing Systems) and ENIAC (Nanoelectronics) Joint Undertakings .............................................................................................................................. 77 4.5.4 Fuel Cells & Hydrogen Joint Undertaking (FCH JU) ...................................................... 79 4.6 Article 185 (ex-169) Initiatives ................................................................................... 80 4.7 Risk-Sharing Financial Facility (RSFF)..................................................................... 81 4.8 Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)............................................. 83 4.9 Participation of SMEs................................................................................................. 86 4.9.1 Funding for SMEs under the Themes of the Cooperation Programme .......................... 86 4.9.2 Funding for SMEs under the Cooperation Themes by country ...................................... 87 4.9.3 Participation degree of SMEs by country....................................................................... 88 5 FP7 ACHIEVEMENTS AND FIRST PROJECT OUTCOMES ...................................................90 ANNEX A: MONITORING SYSTEM FOR FP7..........................................................................94 ANNEX B: STATISTICAL TABLES ON PARTICIPATION PATTERNS ..........................................97 ANNEX C: STATISTICAL RESULTS OF NCP SURVEY ON FP7 PROMOTION AND IMPLEMENTATION IN 2010................................................................................100 ANNEX D: GLOSSARY ......................................................................................................110 ANNEX E: KEY REFERENCES ...........................................................................................113 0 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The fourth FP7 Monitoring Report covers the implementation of the Framework Programme in the years 2007-2010. It is based on the FP7 monitoring system, which was designed as an internal management tool using a core set of performance indicators. In section 2 this document provides a detailed analysis of FP7 participation patterns in 2010. FP7 implementation management and quality issues are the focus of section 3 and include the current situation with regard to the simplification process and also the results of a survey on the perception of FP7 implementation and simplification by National Contact Points (NCPs).