ESF greets and welcomes you in Obergurgl!
Jan 05, 2016
ESF greets and welcomes you in Obergurgl!
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Dr. Aigars Ekers
ESF-EUROCORES Coordinator PESC - Physical and Engineering Sciences Unit
ESF and its instruments
ESF Conference“Quantum Engineering of States and Devices”
Obergurgl, Austria, 5 - 10 June 2010
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Outline
• What is ESF?
• What are the ESF instruments?
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ESF in Setting Science Agendas for Europe
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.
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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
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About ESF
• Established in 1974
• Offices in Strasbourg, Brussels, Ostend
• ESF budget: 58M€ in 2009 including COST
• Staff: equivalent to 170 full time in 2009 including COST Office
• ESF headquarters, Strasbourg
• Marine Board, Ostend
• Research Conferences Unit,15th floor and COST, 21st floor, Tour Generali, Brussels
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ESF covers all scientific domains
Standing Committee domains•Humanities •Social Sciences •Life, Earth & Environmental Sciences •Medical Sciences •Physical and Engineering Sciences
Expert Board/Committee domains•Marine Sciences•Polar Sciences •Space Sciences
•Radio Astronomy•Nuclear Physics•Materials Science and Engineering
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ExploratoryWorkshops
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Member Organisation Fora
Science PolicyBriefings
ResearchConferences
Research Networking Programmes
Forward Looks
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Implementing agent for the COST office
through EC contract
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Implementing agent for the COST office
through EC contract
Strategic Plan 2006-2010
Coordination ofERA projects
Peer Reviewsupport
Coordination ofEUROHORCs projects
EUROCORES Research Programmes
ESF Activities
SCIENCESTRATEGY
SCIENCESYNERGY
SCIENCEMANAGEMENT
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Open Calls for Proposals
ESF issues annual calls for proposals for:
• Exploratory Workshops
• Research Conferences
• Research Networking Programmes
• EUROCORES themes and projects
www.esf.org/calls
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Range of InstrumentsFunding available to researchers
Exploratory
Workshops
Conferences
RNPs
EUROCORES
Fund
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Number of researchersper instrument
10 30 100
15 k€
100 k€
1 m€
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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 actionplans
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• Address science policy issues of key concern to the ESF Member Organisations and the wider scientificcommunity
• Draw on the advice and expertise of researchers
• Provide consensus on strategy recommendations to policy makers
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Science Policy Briefings
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• Small specialist ‘think-tank’ meetings
• ‘Bottom-up’ topics based on open calls
• To determine next necessary steps in the development of new topics
• Should catalyse significant and/or strategic activities
• 25-30 scientists involved
• ESF grant per event: 15k€
• Annual calls open beginning of March with deadline end of April
www.esf.org/workshops
Exploratory Workshops
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• 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 100k€-130k€ 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
Research Networking Programmes
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Research Conferences
• 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
• 4-5 day events, 20-25 invited speakers, up to 120 selected participants
• Grants of 20-60k€ per conference, including support earmarked for early-stage researchers
• Conference Chairs select participants and may distribute grants to young researchers
www.esf.org/conferences
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Research Conferences
www.esf.org/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
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• European-scale bottom-up collaborative research scheme in all scientific disciplines
• Topics for new EUROCORES submitted by scientists, peer-reviewed 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 5–10M€ over 3 years
• Annual calls for new topics (called Themes) open 1 March with deadline end of May
www.esf.org/eurocores
EUROCORES(European Collaborative Research Programmes)
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No EUROCORES:spontaneous
national research
events
EUROCORES:coherent
transnational research
effort
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
EUROCORES Vision
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EUROCORES structure (in ideal case a complete graph)
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)
CRP5 CRP2
CRP4 CRP3
CRP1
EUROCORES Programme
EUROCORES-wide networking: conferences, workshops, schools, exchange visits, dissemination
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ESF wishes you a productive eventand
welcomes future applications!