ICT – EU Japan Coordinated Call
Objective ICT-2013.10.1
EU-Japan research and development Cooperation
European Commission - DG INFSO
"The views expressed in this presentation are those of the author
and do not necessarily reflect the views of the European Commission"
JAPAN – EU Research and Development Cooperation
-Background-
Logic: Program to Program co-operation
1st EU-Japan Symposium
2008 Jun. 8- Jun. 10
@ Brussels
2nd Japan -EU Symposium
2009 Oct. 13 -14
@ Tokyo
3rd EU-Japan Symposium
2010 Oct. 20-21
@ Tampere
4th Japan -EU Symposium
2012 Jan. 19
@ Tokyo
http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/foi/research/eujapan/index_en.htm
Outline of the Coordinated Call
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Opening: 2 October 2012
Close : 29 November 2012
Funding : to EU communities from EC
Funding : to Japanese communities from Japan
Administration:
Evaluation : Joint evaluation committee from
Japan and EU
Evaluation: end of January-February 2013
Project start : April 2013 (Tentative)
Project life time : 36 months
Cooperation Field between Japan and EU
EU-Japan ICT Coordinated Call Topics:
a) Optical Communications
b) Wireless Communications
c) Cybersecurity for improved resilience against cyber threats
d) Extending the cloud paradigm to the Internet of Things - Connected objects and
sensor clouds within the service perspective
e) Global scale experiments over federated testbeds: Control, tools and applications
f) Green & content centric networks
Key characteristics
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Excellent proposals
Solid consortia
Innovative work
Proven implementation capability
Good impact both on EU and JP
Catalytic role for further bilateral cooperation
Budget
• EC Funding for the European project
• 1.5 M Euros X 6= 9 M Euros
• MIC/NICT Funding for the Japanese project
• Similar amount
Expected Impact (Generic)
Collaborative targeted research and prototyping
enable deepened and continued collaboration
between European and Japanese researchers and
industry, towards the creation of sustainable
research links benefiting researchers and
industry competitiveness of both sides.
1,5 M€ for EU partners
+similar budget from Japan
STREP
FP7-ICT2013-EU-Japan
DDL: 29 Nov 12 (TBC)
a) Optical Communications
■ Aim
 to achieve efficient and reliable Ethernet transport at 100 Gbit/s rates
using single-mode or multi-mode fibre for enhanced capacities in short
and long range all-optical networks
 to prove, and if needed, contribute to further advancement of standards
such as IEEE802.3ba, ITU-T G.709, and OIF Implementation Agreement
 Developments of components if needed are to be integrated into an
overall system view
■ Impact
 Efficient high rate Ethernet transport and standardisation spin off
 Key enabling technologies for the future generations of high-speed alloptical networks with improved economic, spectral and energy efficiency
 Joint EU-Japan contribution to standardization bodies and fora
b) Wireless technologies
• The use of millimetre bands, both in the context of in-door,
in-house applications and the possibility to look for use in
outdoor applications like sensing or fibre extensions.
• Achievement of short-range wireless transmission and
networking in the teraherz frequency bands.
• A roadmap towards a possible common standardisation in
future high-capacity short-range technologies and sensing
technologies.
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Impact
• Better exploitation of new spectrum parts for short range,
very high capacity communication and high resolution
sensing applications.
• Key enabling technologies for the future generations of
short-range wireless systems with improved economic,
spectral and energy efficiency.
• Joint identification of standardization requirements and
contribution to standardization bodies and fora
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Wireless FP7 Projects
4G and beyond
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ARTIST4G (IP, DoCoMO, Mitsubishi) - interference
management
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EXALTED (IP) – 4G and M2M
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BeFEMTO (STREP, NEC, DoCoMo) - Femtocells/LTE-A
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BuNGee (STREP) - High-capacity 4G
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FREEDOM (STREP) – Femtocells, scalability
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MONET (STREP) – hybrid ad hoc/satellite networks
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HURRICANE (STREP) – handover/cooperative networking
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eMobility NetWorld (CA) – Mobility, wireless Internet
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UNIVERSELF (IP, NEC) – network management and selforganisation
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SOCRATES (STREP) – Self-organisation, wireless
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SENSEI (IP, NEC) – Sensor networks
Cognitive radio
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ACROPOLIS (NoE) - Cooperative communication
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QoSMOS (IP, NEC Japan and UK) - Opportunistic spectrum
access
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E3 (IP) – Cognitive wireless systems
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EUWB (IP) – Coexisting short-range radio, UWB
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FARAMIR (STREP, Toshiba) - Dynamic Spectrum Access
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QUASAR (STREP) - Secondary spectrum access
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ARAGORN (STREP, Toshiba) – Self-configuration
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COGEU (STREP) - TV white spaces
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SACRA (STREP) - Multi-band cognitive radio (HW)
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SAPHYRE (STREP) – Voluntary sharing, self-organisation
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WHERE2 (STREP) – Radio estimators, positioning
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ONEFIT (STREP, NEC) – Cognitive management systems
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SENDORA (STREP) – Sensor network aided cognitive radio
Spectrum efficiency
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PHYDAS (STREP) – Filter bank-based multicarrier
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ROCKET (STREP) – Agile spectrum usage
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CARE (CA) - Antennas
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LOLA (STREP) - Latency M2M
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SAMURAI (STREP) – Multi-user MIMO
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MIMAX (STREP) – Advanced MIMO
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EU-MESH (STREP) – QoS, mobility and security
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WALTER (STREP) – UWB testbed
Energy Efficiency
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EARTH (IP, DoCoMo) - wireless networks
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ECONET (IP) – fixed networks
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TREND (NoE) – all network segements
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C2POWER (STREP) - terminals
c) Cybersecurity for improved
resilience against cyber threats
• Research on cybersecurity for improved resilience against
cyber threats (leak of information, denial of service,
malware)
• Develop technologies and strategies for:
• improving and enhancing cybersecurity in heterogeneous networked,
service and computing environments
• facilitate the early identification of cyber-attacks.
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Cybersecurity
 Demonstrable and state-of-the-art prototype to improve
and enhance cybersecurity against existing and emerging
cyber threats in Europe and Japan.
 Potential research topics include: privacy protection,
database security, secure software development,
fundamental security technologies based on cryptographic
methods and protocols for cloud security, smart-phone
security and future network security.
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Impact
• Established international critical mass to develop
new approaches and instruments in the fight
against emerging cyber threats.
• Reinforced policy coordination between the EU
and Japan as well as other potential international
partners.
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Trust and Security FP7 Projects
http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/security/projects_en.htm
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d) Extending the Cloud paradigm to the Internet of
Things ‐ Connected objects and sensor clouds within
the service perspective
Peter Friess / Maria Tsakali
peter.friess@ec.europa.eu / maria.tsakali@ec.europa.eu
Call opening: 2nd October 2012
Call closing: 29th November 2012
Research Objective
What are you looking for?
•Current cloud technology lacks features for secure and flexible services
that make use of distributed sensing devices and a high quantity of object
instances.
•The research should focus on the combination of Cloud and
Internet of Things (IoT) technologies and to investigate the
development of cloud‐based service platforms taking into account
the IoT perspectives on massive data storage and communication
needs in the cloud for the execution of real‐time services.
What are you looking for? – Details of scope
•Sound demonstration on how the Internet of Things concept can be enriched and completed by the Cloud
paradigm and approach (on sensor, infrastructure, middleware and applications towards end ‐users level).
•Establishment of a scalable and flexible service platform architecture for enabling secure and smart, partly
virtualised, services with processing, integrating, and visualizing contents combined with ambient real life information.
•Additional focus on an Internet of Things‐Cloud reference test facilities for ensuring global interoperability for
connectivity, services and privacy by design/trusted solutions.
•Concentration on the Smart Cities perspective with a) a business context (business process improvements and
industrial applications) and b) societal context (social and environmental applications).
•Road‐mapping and recommendations for further activities in the combination of Internet of Things and Cloud.
•Technology for enabling real‐time secure communication services with connecting trillions objects and cloud
service users.
•Creation of long-lasting partnerships with industry and academia
Research Objective
Is this new or has it been called before?
Although some EU-Japan co-operation on Internet of Things has taken
place in the context of support actions, this collaboration is new and goes
one step further.
Current project portfolio
• IOT projects / support actions like IOT-A, Butler, iCore IOT-i etc. (Call 5
and 7) are bundled in the IERC – Internet of Things European Research
Cluster
• Cloud projects (call 1, 5) like RESERVOIR, VISION- CLOUD, OPTIMIS, CONTRAIL,
etc. http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/ssai/projects-call5_en.html
Research Objective
What do you NOT want?
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Proposal relating only to Internet of Things and Cloud and not clearly
demonstrating the integrated perspective
Academia-driven proposals
Lack of relevant industry participation on both sides
Missing long-term vision and planned activities of the EU-Japan cooperation
Research Objective – Key actors
Who are the leading players?
Industry and academia from both sides are very actively doing research in
these two domains, also taking
into account the societal perspective
Is there a key group of actors or ETP driving this?
• IERC - Internet of Things European Research Cluster
• EIoTA - European Internet of Things Alliance (explicitly between EU and
Japan)
• EPoSS
• Cloud projects (call 1, 5) like RESERVOIR, VISION- CLOUD, OPTIMIS, CONTRAIL,
etc.
http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/ssai/projects-call5_en.html
Research Objective
Are there any additional / background documents?
Software & services, Cloud projects
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http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/ssai/projects_en.html
http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/ssai/projects-call5_en.html
IERC Clusterbook 2012
http://www.internet-of-things-research.eu/pdf/IERC_Cluster_Book_2012_WEB.pdf
Future Outlook
What are prospects of this area in H2020?
This call bridges to H2020 by
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Integrating related and complementary areas
Focusing on innovation partnerships
Providing a roadmap for further research collaborations in these areas
Long lasting industrial and academic partnerships
Futur Internet Research
& Experimentation (FIRE)
e) Global scale experiments over federated testbeds:
Control, tools and applications
Call opening: 2nd October 2012
Call closing: 29th November 2012
What is FIRE?
Validation
FIRE Research
Long-term
Research
Large Scale
Experiments
Requirements
FIRE Experimental Facility
User Communities
Test bed 1
Test bed 1
Test bed 2
Test bed 4
Test bed 3
Exp 2
Test bed 2
Exp 5
Test bed 9
Test bed 3
Test bed 5
Test bed 4
Exp 4
Exp1
Test bed 6
Test bed 5
Exp
3
Test bed 7
Test bed 6
Test bed 7Federated
Test bed 8
Service Testbeds
Test bed 8
Federated Network Testbeds
FIRE current projects
Experimental Facilities
CONFINE
EXPERIMEDIA
OFELIA
OPENLAB
Smart Santander
TEFIS
BONFIRE
CREW
http://www.ict-fire.eu/
Experimentally-driven Research
CONECT
SCAMPI
EULER
CONVERGENCE
LAWA
HOBNET
SPITFIRE
NOVI
RESUMENET
ECODE
Coordination and Support Actions
FIRESTATION
Research Objective EU-JP call
Target
• The goal is to enable experiments across testbeds as a framework for
understanding the management of heterogeneous resources, the
access to these resources and the evaluation of their usage.
What we are looking for:
 - Software solutions that are suited to control and deploy an
experiment, using distributed resources of various testbeds, possibly
wired and wireless.
 - Solutions will be demonstrated for various scenarios ranging from
wireless testing to Information‐Centric networking.
 - The solutions should then be disseminated for a large adoption,
eventually going beyond the testbed framework if appropriate.
Research Objective in details
• - Research will focuses on Software Defined Networking
(SDN) paradigm which enables parallel deployment of
slices assigned to virtual network providers.
• - The activity should produce a demonstration of the
relevance of the proposed solutions in a heterogeneous
environment.
• - The software developed in the research projects should
target deployment and evaluation in the available testing
facilities on both sides (OFELIA, OpenLab, JGN‐X).
Research Objective
Expected Impact
Interoperability of distributed resources for experiments across
heterogeneous testbeds to help researchers both from academia
and industry from Japan and Europe to work together for the
future of internet
Avoid
- Proposal relating only to future internet
research and not clearly demonstrating the
integrated perspective
- Pure academia-driven proposals
- Missing long-term vision and planned
activities of the EU-Japan co-operation
Thanks for your attention!
Contacts:
Further Information:
Jacques Babot
Team Leader for International activities
European Commission
Communications Networks, Content &
Technology
Experimental Platforms
http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/fire
http://www.ict-fire.eu
FIRE LinkedIn: //linkd.in/x1CcZ1
Jacques.babot@ec.europa.eu
f) Green and Content-centric networks
• Change in network architecture from host-oriented to
content-centric networking
• Particular importance are issues related to naming,
addressing and routing as well as resource control, access
analysis and Digital Rights Management
• Needs to address the migration perspective from the
current Internet protocols and architecture
• Integration with power consumption information to enable
optimization of contents location and routing
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Impact
• Content centric networking architecture for low energy
efficient content delivery and associated standardisation
requirements
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Typical Projects
• 4WARD/SAIL NetInf - Network of Information
• PSIRP/PURSUIT PubSub - Publish Subscribe
Routing
• COMET CMP - Content Mediation Plane
• CONVERGENCE CONET – Content Network
• Xerox PARC CCN/NDN - Content-Centric
Networking /Named Data Networking
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Special requirements
 Two proposals submitted (EU and MIC/NICT):
 The description of the work (part B) will be
common for the two coordinated proposals
 Two different administrative parts.
 The EU FP7 proposal cover the EC
participants and their costs.
 The proposal submitted to MIC/NICT cover
the Japanese participants and their costs
Special requirements
 The Part B must contain as an Annex a final draft
of a required Coordination Agreement to be
signed between the two consortia of two
coordinated projects (see Annex 4 of the Guide)…
showing that the two consortia have already
taken into account how they are going to
regulate their cooperation activities, and in
particular how they are going to deal with IPR
issues in a balanced way, respecting the FP7
Rules of Participation.
Special requirements
 Proposals must demonstrate a balanced effort
between the two coordinated projects and a
research plan properly involving coordinated
research activities between Europe and Japan
EU-Japan ICT Coordinated Call
- Background Information at web sites EU-Japan Future Internet symposium 2008-2012
http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/foi/research/eujapan/index_en.htm
EU-Japan FIRE workshop – Aalborg (9/5/2012) presentations
http://www.ict-fire.eu/events/eu-japan-workshop-aalborg.html
EU-Japan at ICT Proposers Day – Warsaw (26-27/09/2012)
http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/events/cf/ictpd12/itemdisplay.cfm?id=8435
A supporting website of advice, information and documentation:
http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/
Contact Points
EC: Francisco Ibanez, Bernard Barani (General)
Wireless, CCN: Pertti Jauhiainen
Optical: Bart Van Caeneghem, Pertti Jauhiainen
Security: Martin Muehleck
IoT/Cloud: Peter Friess, Maria Tsakali
FIRE: Jacques Babot
Japanese research activity information:
Contact : Tatsuo Tai, international-rad@soumu.go.jp
(MIC) or Masayuki Fujise, info-itaku@ml.nict.go.jp (NICT)
Proposals and projects in the coordinated call
FP7-ICT-EU-Japan
Background information
Getting help with your proposal
The ICT theme provides:
 Model grant agreements, guides, checklists, etc. at:
http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/find-doc_en.html
 An ICT Information desk for proposers’ questions
ict@ec.europa.eu
 An IPR Helpdesk http://www.ipr-helpdesk.org/index.html
 A Helpdesk for electronic proposal submission
support@epss-fp7.org
 And a network of National Contact Points in Europe and
beyond:
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http://cordis.europa.eu/ist/ncps.htm
EU JP Coordinated Call -Structure
EU Proposal – in English
JP Proposal – In JP
Part A – admin details for EU
partners
Part A – admin details for JP
partners
Part B: Common describing the work of all EU and JP participants
Part B - In English (being
evaluated)
Part B – In JP
Annex draft Co-ordination agreement
Consortium agreement
Focused projects (STREPs)
For the EU-JP call
• Purpose: Objective driven research more limited in scope than
an IP
• Target audience: Industry incl. SMEs, research institutes,
universities
• Typical duration:
36 months
• Optimum consortium:
3-6 participants
• Typical total EU contribution: 1.500.000 €
• Fixed workplan and fixed partnership for duration
Minimum consortia
• Three independent legal entities from three different
EU Member States or Associated countries (presently:
Albania (AL), Bosnia-Herzegovina (BA), Croatia (HR),
the Faroes (FO), Iceland (IS), Israel (IL), Liechtenstein
(LI), FYR of Macedonia (MK), Montenegro (ME),
Norway (NO), Serbia (SR), Switzerland (CH), Turkey
(TR)
• EEIGs composed of members that meet the criteria
above can participate
• International (intergovernmental) organisations can
participate
• Participants from third countries if in addition to
minima
Proposal Part A (online)
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A2
A3
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Title, acronym, objective etc.
free keywords
2000 character proposal abstract
previous/current submission (in FP7)
• Legal address/administrator address/R&D
address
• Clear identification as SME/Public
body/Research centre/ Educ. establishment
• Proposer identification code PIC (later calls)
• More cost detail (direct/indirect costs
distinguished)
Specific requirements for coordinated call Part A
A1
• Duration: No more than 36 months
• 2000 character proposal abstract: Including Title
and acronym of the coordinated proposal
[submitted to the MIC/NICT
• previous/current submission (in FP7): Include
here the acronym of the coordinated proposal to
the MIC/NICT
A2
• Only include in this section the participants to the
EU call
• Use Proposer identification code (PIC) if you have
it
A3
• Total EC contribution for the EU proposal can not
exceed € 1.5 m
Proposal Part B (pdf format only)
Part B format directly linked to evaluation criteria
Summary
• S&T quality (bullet points = sections)
• Implementation (idem)
• Impact (idem)
Ethics
Section lengths recommended
Part B templates are available through the EPSS
Specific requirements for coordinated call Part B
Part B is common for the two coordinated calls and
should clearly describe the activities by both the
EU and JP participants.
Specific requirements for coordinated call Part B
Part B is common for the two coordinated calls and
should clearly describe the activities by both the
EU and JP participants.
Specific requirements for coordinated call Part B
Part B must contain as an Annex a final draft of a
required Coordination Agreement to be signed
between the two consortia of two coordinated
projects (see Annex 4 of the Guide). The content of
the Coordination Agreement will not be examined
during the evaluation, but should show that the two
consortia have already taken into account how they
are going to regulate their cooperation activities, and
in particular how they are going to deal with IPR
issues in a balanced way, respecting the FP7 Rules of
Participation.
(A specific Consortium Agreement is also required for
the participants in the EU project; this is not included
in the proposal.)
Specific requirements for coordinated call
Coordination Agreement
1.
INTRODUCTION
2.
PARTIES
3.
PREAMBLE
4.
DEFINITIONS
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SUBJECT
6.
TECHNICAL PROVISIONS
6.1.
Tasks of each party
6.2.
Non-financial resources made available
6.3.
Project schedule
6.4.
Changes
7.
COORDINATION AND MANAGERIAL PROVISIONS
7.1.
Co-ordination and management
7.2.
Powers and responsibilities
7.3.
Follow-up and Supervision
Specific requirements for coordinated call
Coordination Agreement
8.
FINANCIAL PROVISIONS
8.1.
Financial plan
8.2.
Mutual payments
8.3.
Costs to be claimed under the coordination activities
8.4.
Changes
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PROVISIONS REGARDING INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS (IPR), DISSEMINATION
AND USE
9.1.
Ownership of foreground
9.2.
Protection of IPR
9.3.
Dissemination/Confidentiality
9.4.
Access rights (licences and user rights)
Specific requirements for coordinated call
Coordination Agreement
10.
GENERAL PROVISIONS
10.1.
Entry into force
10.2.
Duration / Termination
10.3.
Amendments to the CooA
10.4.
Confidentiality
10.5.
Treatment of classified data or information, treatment of dangerous materials
10.6.
Breach / non-compliance and associated liability, indemnification or penalties
10.7.
Survival
10.8.
Partial invalidity
10.9.
Communication
10.10.
Applicable law and jurisdiction
10.11.
Number of copies, languages and signature process
Eligibility checks
• Date and time of receipt of proposal on or before
deadline
Firm deadlines - except for Continuously open calls
• Minimum number of eligible, independent partners
As set out in work programme/call
• Completeness of proposal
Presence of all requested administrative forms (Part
A) and the content description (Part B)
• In scope of the call
• Mirror proposal
Specific requirements for coordinated call
Eligibility Criterion
Any proposal submitted to the European
Commission as a response to the Coordinated
Call with JP must be coordinated with a proposal
submitted to the MIC/NICT of JP.
Proposals which do not include coordination
between the FP7 project and a JP proposal will
be considered ineligible. (see Annex 2 of Guide
for Applicants for this call) .
Evaluation process
• On-site evaluation / remote evaluation
• Independent experts
• One step evaluation
Eligibility
Check?
Individual
reading
Consensus
Panel
(with
Hearings)
Specific requirements for coordinated call
Evaluation
The English version of the common Part B
submitted to the EU call will be evaluated in a
common evaluation according to the EU
evaluation rules by a common group of
evaluators.
2 EU evaluators and 2 JP evaluators per proposal
Collaborative projects - Evaluation
1. Scientific and technical quality
• Soundness of concept, and quality of
objectives
• Progress beyond the state-of-the-art
• Quality and effectiveness of the S & T
methodology and associated workplan
Collaborative projects - Evaluation
2. Implementation
• Appropriateness of the management
structures and procedures
• Quality and relevant experience of the
individual participants
• Quality of the consortium as a whole
(including complementarity, balance)
• Appropriate allocation and
justification of the resources to be
committed (staff, equipment)
Collaborative projects - Evaluation
3. Impact
• Contribution at the European and JP
level to the expected impacts listed in
the workprogramme under the
relevant activity
• Appropriateness of measures for the
dissemination and/or exploitation of
project results, and management of
intellectual property
Specific requirements for coordinated call
Evaluation
To ensure a genuine EU-JPcooperation, priority in the
evaluation will be given to proposals that demonstrate
a balanced effort between the two coordinated
projects and a research plan properly involving
coordinated research activities between Europe
andJP.
This will be reflected in the evaluation under the criteria
“Impact” and “Implementation”; (see Annex 2 of the
Guide for Applicants for this call).
Evaluation criteria scoring
• Scale of 1-5 (and 0)
• Criterion threshold 3/5
• Overall threshold 10/15
Specific requirements for coordinated call
Selection of Proposals
• Up to one proposal per topic will be funded
under this call: That is one proposal for each one
of the 6 topics (a-f) implemented via Small or
medium scale focused research projects
(STREPs).
• Proposals will only be selected for funding on
the condition that their coordinated Brazilian
project will be funded by JP.
Proposals and projects in the coordinated call
FP7-ICT-EU-Japan
Background information
mutual trust
cooperation
win-win
1st coordinated call 2011
ad hoc
participations
2nd coordinated call 2012