Open Materials Research and
Innovation in Europe
K. J. Kurzydlowski
European Materials Forum
European Materials Forum
• Launched in 2004
• To stimulate strong contacts between research
community and industry
• Provides a forum to advocate independent
scientific advices
• President Prof. Michal KLEIBER
• Represented by Prof. K. J. Kurzydlowski,
Director of Applied Research Funding Agency
of Poland
Open innovation system – funding
• In what sense the current system is closed and
locked?
• Fragmentation in terms
• Private and public
• National and European
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• National spending exceeds by far European
• 95 to 5%
• Approximately 1/3 of spending comes from the
National (Domestic) Funding Agencies
On average NF Agencies act
separately
• Provide funding within administrative borders
• Against the intensifying diffusion of business
activities
• Against the increasing mobility of human
resources
• A clear need to diffuse the borders between
the NFA
Some actions already in place
• ERA-NETS, Joint Planning, Eureka, Eurostars
• M-era.Net - a European network of public funding
organisations and funding programmes on materials
science and engineering
• 25 European countries
• 37 funding organisations, (29 national and 8 regional)
• The whole innovation chain from basic to applied
research and innovation
• A single ERA-NET contract
The M-era.Net Consortium
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Austria: FFG: www.ffg.at
Austria: bmvit: www.bmvit.gv.at
Austria: FWF: www.fwf.ac.at
Belgium-Flemish: FWO: www.fwo.be
Belgium-Flemish: IWT: www.eurotransbio.eu
Belgium/Walloon Region: DGo6: http://spw.wallonie.be/
Cyprus: RPF: www.research.org.cy
Germany: BMBF: www.bmbf.de
Germany: DFG: www.dfg.de
Germany: JULICH: www.ptj.de
Germany: KIT: www.ptka.kit.edu
Estonia : ETF: www.etf.ee
Spain Andalusia: IDEA: www.agenciaidea.es
Spain Asturias: IDEPA: www.idepa.es
Spain BasqueCountry: Innobasque: www.innobasque.com
Spain Madrid: fmi+d: www.madrimasd.org
Finland: Tekas: www.tekes.fi
France: ANR : www.agence-nationale-recherche.fr
France MidiPyrenees: RMP: http://www.midipyrenees.fr/MidiPyrenees,3650
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Hungary: OTKA: www.otka.hu
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Israel: MATIMOP: www.matimop.org.il
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Iceland: RANNIS: www.rannis.is
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Italy: MIUR: www.miur.it
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Italy Piemonte: REGIONE PIEMONTE:
www.regione.piemonte.it & FINPIEMONTE:
www.finpiemonte.it
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Lithuania: RCL: www.lmt.lt
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Luxembourg: FNR: www.fnr.lu
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Latvia: LAS: www.lza.lv
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Netherlands: NWO: www.nwo.nl
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Norway: RCN: www.rcn.no
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Poland: NCBiR: www.ncbir.gov.pl
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Portugal: FCT: www.fct.pt
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Romania: UEFISCDI: www.uefiscdi.ro
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Sweden: Vinnova: www.vinnova.se
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Slovenia: MESCS: www.mizks.gov.si
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Slovakia: SAS: www.sav.sk
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Turkey: Tübitak: www.tubitak.gov.tr
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UK: TSB: www.innovateuk.org
Sets a stage for further actions, in particular
strengthening participation of SMEs
• The efficient way is to take advantage of "European
coordination groups"
• Especially in the field of materials support of such
organizations as E-MRS and FEMS
• Support the European SMEs with Materials KIC
• Materials KIC with participation of NFA
Innovation system open for SMEs
• SME free to apply with public research
organizations to NFA disregarding their
country of origin
• Simple and efficient system for granting access
to resources of public research organizations
• Access to specialized research infrastructure
• The cost of R&D shared by EU and NFA