ESF greets and welcomes you in Obergurgl ESF
ESF greets and welcomes you in Obergurgl!
ESF and its instruments ESF Conference “Quantum Engineering of States and Devices” Obergurgl, Austria, 5 - 10 June 2010 Dr. Aigars Ekers www. esf. org ESF-EUROCORES Coordinator PESC - Physical and Engineering Sciences Unit • 2
Outline • What is ESF? • What are the ESF instruments? www. esf. org 3
ESF in Setting Science Agendas for European Science Foundation provides a common platform to its Member Organisations in order to: • advance European research • explore new directions for research at the European level ESF’s purpose to serve the needs of European research community in a global context through a range of activities ESF’s values: excellence, openness, responsiveness, pan. European, ethical awareness and human values. www. esf. org • 4
ESF Member Organisations ESF is an independent association of 79 Member Organisations research funding organisations research performing organisations academies and learned societies in 30 countries www. esf. org • 5
About ESF • Established in 1974 • Offices in Strasbourg, Brussels, Ostend • ESF budget: 58 M€ in 2009 including COST • Staff: equivalent to 170 full time in 2009 including COST Office • ESF headquarters, Strasbourg • Marine Board, Ostend • Research Conferences Unit, 15 th floor and COST, 21 st www. esf. org floor, Tour Generali, Brussels • 6
ESF covers all scientific domains Standing Committee domains • Humanities • Social Sciences • Life, Earth & Environmental Sciences • Medical Sciences • Physical and Engineering Sciences www. esf. org Expert Board/Committee domains • Radio Astronomy • Marine Sciences • Nuclear Physics • Polar Sciences • Materials Science and • Space Sciences Engineering • 7
ESF Activities Strategic Plan 2006 -2010 SCIENCE STRATEGY SCIENCE SYNERGY SCIENCE MANAGEMENT Forward Looks EUROCORES Research Programmes Peer Review support Science Policy Briefings Research Networking Programmes Coordination of EUROHORCs projects Exploratory Workshops Research Conferences Coordination of ERA projects • Implementing agent for the COST office through EC contract • Member Organisation Fora www. esf. org • 8
Open Calls for Proposals ESF issues annual calls for proposals for: • Exploratory Workshops • • Research Conferences • EUROCORES themes and projects Research Networking Programmes www. esf. org/calls www. esf. org • 9
Range of Instruments Funding available to researchers Funding level EUROCORES 1 m€ RNPs 100 k€ Conferences 15 k€ Exploratory Workshops 10 www. esf. org 30 100 Number of researchers per instrument 10
Forward Looks • • • Medium to long-term scientific perspectives Multidisciplinary topics viewed at a European level Bring together scientists with policy makers Wide consultation Result in major reports and action plans www. esf. org/flooks www. esf. org • 11
Science Policy Briefings • Address science policy issues of key concern to the ESF Member Organisations and the wider scientific community • Draw on the advice and expertise of researchers • Provide consensus on strategy recommendations to policy makers www. esf. org/spb www. esf. org • 12
Exploratory Workshops www. esf. org • • • Small specialist ‘think-tank’ meetings • • Should catalyse significant and/or strategic activities ‘Bottom-up’ topics based on open calls To determine next necessary steps in the development of new topics 25 -30 scientists involved ESF grant per event: 15 k€ Annual calls open beginning of March with deadline end of April www. esf. org/workshops • 13
Research Networking Programmes www. esf. org • Networking to enable major scientific endeavours over a four- to five-year period • Supported by Member Organisations according to interest • Typically include workshops, conferences, exchange visits, summer schools and dissemination • Can link to other initiatives, including the EC Framework Programme • • • Financing in the range of 100 k€-130 k€ per year 6, 500 participants per year in 45 -50 programmes For new programmes starting January 2012 call opens on July 1, 2010 with deadline on October 14 www. esf. org/programmes • 14
Research Conferences www. esf. org • Cover the latest topics, proposed by the scientific community and aimed at its benefit • Stimulate dialogue between early-stage researchers and established scientists • • Full organisational support by ESF conference organisers • Grants of 20 -60 k€ per conference, including support earmarked for early-stage researchers • Conference Chairs select participants and may distribute grants to young researchers 4 -5 day events, 20 -25 invited speakers, up to 120 selected participants www. esf. org/conferences • 15
Research Conferences 25 -45 conferences per year in 10 scientific domains: ● Basic Science ● Global Change Research ● Biomedicine ● Humanities & Social Sciences ● Chemistry ● Life Sciences: Biology+ ● Mathematics ● Environmental Sciences ● Global Health ● Physics/Biophysics & Environmental Sciences Calls for 2012 conferences is open with deadline 15 September www. esf. org/conferences • 16
EUROCORES (European Collaborative Research Programmes) • European-scale bottom-up collaborative research scheme in all scientific disciplines • Topics for new EUROCORES submitted by scientists, peerreviewed and recommended by ESF standing committees • Topics with sufficient support from national funding agencies developed in new EUROCORES programmes in an open call procedure • Research funding remains national, networking & coordination via ESF • Typical EUROCORE: up to 80 research groups arranged in 5 -15 collaborative research projects; budget 5– 10 M€ over 3 years • Annual calls for new topics (called Themes) open 1 March with deadline end of May www. esf. org/eurocores • 17
EUROCORES Vision No EUROCORES: spontaneous national research events EUROCORES: coherent transnational research effort www. esf. org Objective: to achieve major advances of cutting-edge topics and ensure a leading position of European research Topics: bottom-up, all disciplines Preconditions: hot topics and critical mass of researchers to achieve a breakthrough Selection criteria: scientific quality, strategic importance Mechanism: synchronous launch of national projects; reinforced collaboration and networking 18
EUROCORES structure (in ideal case a complete graph) OR ES C O R CRP 1 Pr og ra m EU CRP 5 CRP 4 CRP 2 CRP 3 EUROCORES-wide networking: www. esf. org m e Individual research groups national funding Research and networking activities within CRPs individual project budget Programme coordination and networking across the CRPs ESF (programme N&C budget) conferences, workshops, schools, exchange visits, dissemination • 19
ESF wishes you a productive event and welcomes future applications!
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