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April 2013

Steering Committee:
Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labor, Ministry of
Science and Technology, Ministry of Foreign Affairs,
Ministry of Finance and the Council for Higher
Education – Planning and Budgeting Committee.
Chairman of the Steering Committee – Mr. Avi Hasson,
Chief Scientist, Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labor.
General Manager: Mr. Marcel SHATON
ISERD Aims at
Maximizing the benefits of participation in the
Framework Program

Israel is an Associated State that allows it full participation in the Framework RTD Programs since 1996 (mid FP4).

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Years
FP Budget Annual Budget

Why Israel participates in the
Framework Programmes
• Integration of Israeli market in globalization process
• Increase Israeli business penetration in
Europe
• Increase visibility of Israeli academic community in Europe
• Enhance cooperation between industry and academia in Israel

Benefits of participation
• Access to new technology/techniques
• Access to new markets/key customers
• Better sector knowledge
• Involvement in new standards
• Playing in the major leagues
• Funding

Added Value for a Company
Participating in FP7
 Strategic partnerships
 Synergy of resources
 Market intelligence
 Access to research of the entire project
 Shorter time to market
 Name recognition
 Standardization
 Funding for large R&D projects
 Integration in the European market

Basic research
Applied academic
Research & Support
Policy research
International
Programs
Support Programs
Along the R&D Chain
VATAT . ISF
MOST and other ministries
OCS . MET
Competitive
R&D

Barriers
• Distance
• Language
• Related EU schemes not available to Associated
Countries (AC)
• Council Research Group closed to AC
• Outside of the “Acquis Communautaire”
• Local reluctance to new schemes
• Local bureaucratic inertie
• Weak local bureaucratic synergies

Dilemmas
• Coordinator versus Partner
• Funding model
• Funding scheme
• Assistance: NCP versus consultant
• Partner research
• Participation in Coordination and Support Action
(CSA) Project
• Centralized system

Joint Programming
• European Technology Platforms (ETPs),
Joint Technology Initiatives (JTIs),
ERA-Nets
• Process of building Strategic Research Agenda
• Funding

• Encouragement of Israeli entities to participate in
FP and other related programs
• Interface between the Israeli government and the European Union for FP matters
• Representation of Israel in the programs committees of the European Commission
• Serve as NCPs for the different themes in FP7 and participation in networking projects
• Information dissemination and assistant with projects ’ submission and management

Europe - normalization
• Themes Committees
• NCPs
• Support measures
• Networking
• Economic & scientific attaches
• Participation in conferences
• Partner search
Israel - assimilation
• Awareness
• Reduce anxiety
• Information
- Workshops, info days
- Weekly presentations
- Help desk
- Database
- Participation in conferences
- Consultants
- EURAD Forum
• Partner search
• Support fund
• Red-Team

First Steps
• Government decision
• Establishment of Steering Committee
• Establishment of support team (ISERD)
• Nomination of ISERD’s representatives as delegates to the programme committees
• Appointment of FP officers in the universities
(EURAD)
• Establishment of consultant’s corpus
• Dealing with tax issues

COOPERATION
32413M€
10 Thematic Areas
Health 6100M€
Agri & Bio 1935M€
ICT 9050M€
NMP 3457M€
Energy 2350M€
Environment
1890M€
Transport (incl.
AERO) 4160M€
Socio Economic
Sciences and the
Humanities 623M€
Space 1430M€
Security 1400M€
FP7 Structure
IDEAS
7510M€
Supporting, investigatordriven research projects carried out across all fields
PEOPLE
4750M€
Strengthening the human potential in research and technology in
Europe
Initial Training of
Researchers
Life-long training
& Career
Development
Industry-academia pathways
International
Dimension
Specific support action
CAPACITIES
4097M€
Research
Infrastructures
1715M€
Research for the benefits of SMEs
1336M€
Regions of
Knowledge
126M€
Research Potential
340M€
Science in Society
330M€
International
Cooperation 180€

EXCELLENT
SCIENCE 24.5 € B
European Research
Council-ERC 13 268M€
Frontier research by the best individual teams
Future and Emerging
Technologies3 100M€
Collaborative research to open new fields of innovation
Marie Curie 5752M€
Opportunities for training and career development
Research
Infrastructures 2478M€
Ensuring access to world-class facilities
INDUSTRIAL
LEADERSHIP17.9 € B
ICT
Nanotechnologies
Materials
Manufacturing
Biotechnology
Space
Access to risk finance
3538M€
Leveraging private finance and venture capital for research and innovation
Innovation in SMEs
619M€
Fostering all forms of inno vation in all types of SMEs
SOCIETAL
CHALLENGES30€ B
Health 8033M€
Demographic change and wellbeing
Food4152M€ security, sustainable agriculture, marine and maritime research & the bioeconomy
Secure, clean and efficient energy3994M€
Transport6802M€
Smart, green and integrated
Climate action3160M€ resource efficiency and raw
Homeland Security
Innovative societies

ISERD ’ s Organigram (FP7)
Ministry of
Foreign Affairs
Steering Committee
Ministry of
Science, Culture
& Sport
Council for
Higher Education
Sub Committee
Ministry of
Industry, Trade
& Labor
Ministry of
Finance
Marketing & Communication
System Administrator
Database Manager
Director
Health; Bio;
Environment; Energy
General Director
Mr. Marcel Shaton
Legal and
Financial; SME,
RoK, RP, ERC
Director
Nano; Transport;
Space; Security
Director
ICT; RI
Assistant to the Director
Secretary
Director
People, SSH; SiS
NCP
Health;
Agri & Bio
NCP
Energy;
Env.; ERC
NCP
NMP;
Trans.
NCP
Security;
Space
NCP
ICT
NCP
RI
NCP
People;
SSH, SiS

(The Israel contribution to FP7 so far 471.6M
€ )
Submitted Participations
Successful Participations
Industry
Success by sector: Universities
Others
Submitted Proposals
Successful Proposals
Success rate
Value of Israeli grants:
647.1 M €
Industry
Universities
Others
Overall value of projects with at least one Israeli partner
Overall value of projects with at least one Israeli
Industrial partner
7607
1764
379
1107
278
5115
1236
23.2%
159 M€
434.7 M€
53.4 M€
18.8 B€
2,222 B€

 Health; Food Agriculture and Biotechnology; Environment;Energy :
Ms. Ayala Karniol , ayala@iserd.org.il
 Information Communication Technology; Security :
Mr. Aviv Zeevi , aviv@iserd.org.il
 Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Processes;
Transport (Incl. Aeronautics); Space; Research Infrastructures :
Dr. Nili Mandelblit , nili@iserd.org.il
 Marie Curie Fellowships; Socio-economic sciences and humanities; Science in
Society:
Ms. Smadar Hirsh , smadar@iserd.org.il
 Western Europe and Eastern Europe:
Mr. Uzi Bar Sade , uzi@matimop.org.il