The European Affairs & Grants Office helps researchers obtain international funding and manage grants. It has 15 years of experience managing over €12 million in FP7 grants. The office can help with all stages of the grant process from writing applications to reporting. Horizon 2020 provides more funding than FP7 and emphasizes societal challenges, impact, and simplifying rules to get grants funded sooner. The office is available to advise on identifying relevant calls and ensuring applications are competitive.

1. EUROPEAN AFFAIRS &
GRANTS OFFICE
Helping you to successfully obtain
international funding
& manage your international grants
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2. Who we are
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European Affairs & Grants Office
Director, Fabien Calvo
Espace Maurice Tubiana
Coordination & project
management
Consortium Task Forces
o Data sharing platform
o Immunotherapy
o Clinical imaging
o Patient genomics
o Clinical Trials
o Education & Training
GR, DKFZ, NKI,
KI, VHIO, CCC
EIT grant

3. Success stories
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 European Affairs Office’s experience
− 15 years’ experience
− Managing over 29* European FP7 grants
*16 in health
− 12.2 million € total amount FP7
− Coordination as project leader - totaling over 8
million €
− Experience writing successfully funded projects
 Experience as grant reviewer
 Future success:
Helping you to succeed in getting more international
projects funded

4. • What’s new in H2020
• How our office can help
• Funding opportunities & deadlines
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5. More EU funding than ever before
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• Almost €77 billion from 2014 to 2020 (up from 50.5 billion in FP7)
• More funding for basic research (ERC grants)
• More funding for SMEs (small-to-medium sized enterprises)

6. European Commission’s focus has shifted
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* total budget in societal
challenges
Unified program
Emphasis on societal challenges
From research to market
 SME participation should increase to 20%* (up from 15%)
 Focus on “technology readiness levels” TRLs
Impact & gender parity
 SME participation & gender balance can be used in
“tie-break” situations
 More focus on impact of research
 Emphasis on jobs created

7. Focus on triple “i” elements
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European Commission’s focus has shifted

8. Simplified rules
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 3 elements of evaluation & review*
* For ERC grants – the only criteria is “excellence”
 Time to grant is reduced
 Your research project starts sooner
(5 months evaluation + 3 months negotiation)
Excellence ImpactImplementation

9. Simplified rules
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 One project – one funding rate  simplified budgets
overheads  25%
 Less paperwork
 No timesheets for full time employees (pending internally)
 Standard reporting period = 18 months (some exceptions)
 EC wants fewer deliverables/milestones (less work for everyone)
 Reports must be submitted before the deliverable deadline
 Fewer, better targeted controls & audits

10. HOW OUR OFFICE CAN HELP
Please contact us

11. How our office can help
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Which calls will be open and when are the deadlines?
Do I (or we) meet the call requirements?
Can I get help editing the scientific English in my final application?
Is our proposed project a good match to the call text?
Do I/we need to include other partners (ex. small business)?
What if I decide to coordinate the project—how much extra work is
involved?
before you start writing

12. How our office can help
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 Before grant submission
Budget preparation & coordination with partners
Scientific English editing
Overview of other GR projects
 During grant submission
 Grant agreement negotiation (before the grant starts)
Amendments – change of partners
 Reporting
Financial forms; verify reports meet requirements
 Final report & grant wrap-up

13. HORIZONS 2020 OVERVIEW
What grants can I apply for?

14. European Commission’s unified view
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Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI)
Industrial
Leadership
Societal
Challenges
Excellent
Science

15. European Commission’s unified view
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• (LEIT) nano &
biotechnology
• Venture capital for
research
• Small-to-medium
sized enterprises
• Health
• Food security
• Climate &
environment
• ERCs
• (FET) radically new
future technologies
• Marie Curie
fellowships,
training, staff
exchange
• Infrastructures, ie.
ECRIN
Industrial Leadership Societal Challenges Excellent Science
- EIT health
- Euratom
- IMI innovative medicine
bottom-up
funded projects
Of potential interest

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RIA - Research and Innovation Action
Lead to new knowledge, new or improved technology
IA - Innovation Action
Focus on closer-to-the-market activities
prototyping, scaling-up, to produce new or improved products or
services
Ideal for ideas that could generate spin-off company
Decoding H2020 funding opportunities—an overview
CSA - Coordination and Support Action
Coordination and networking of research & innovation projects, programs
and policies
- standardization, dissemination, communication, policy dialogues…
PPP – Public Private Partnership
Links Europe’s industry (both large & small) with researchers, academia +
the European Commission to cooperate in data research and innovation
€ € €

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- 200K up to 30 million €
- Project length is generally 3 to 5 years
- International - 3 different EU member partners
- Interdisciplinary
- Inter-sector (SMEs, private sector, hospitals, patient orgs)
- Gender balanced/gender parity
- SME participation & gender parity can be used to tie break
Keys to success—research & innovation actions
Societal Challenges
HealthDecoding H2020 funding opportunities:

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PM-20-2017: Methods research for improved health economic evaluation
PM-19-2017: PPI for uptake of standards for the exchange of digitalised
healthcare records
PM-17-2017: Personalised computer models and in-silico systems for
well-being
PM-16-2017: In-silico trials for developing and assessing biomedical
products
PM-11-2016-2017: Clinical research on regenerative medicine
PM-03-2017: Diagnostic characterisation of rare diseases
HCO-08-2017: Actions to bridge the divide in European health research
and innovation
HCO-08-2017: Actions to bridge the divide in European health research
and innovation
Societal Challenges
HealthDecoding H2020 funding opportunities

19. Decoding H2020 funding opportunities:
(TRL) Technology Readiness Levels
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Industry
Society
TRL 9
TRL 8
TRL 7
TRL 6
TRL 5
TRL 4
TRL 3
TRL 2
TRL 1
EIT
Marie
Curie
fellowships
FET
ERC
RIA
Research &
innovation
CSA
Coordination
& support
PPP
Public-
private
partnership

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TRL 9
TRL 8
TRL 7
TRL 6
TRL 5
TRL 4
TRL 3
TRL 2
TRL 1
Product
complete
Product
development
Technology
demonstration
Technology
development
Laboratory
research
Basic
research
Approval
Basic Research
Phase III Trials
Phase II Trials
Phase I Trials
Candidates selected
Target identification
Decoding H2020 funding opportunities:
(TRL) Technology Readiness Levels

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Topics 2016 – 2017
 Big Data
 Large Scale Pilot actions in sectors best benefitting
from data-driven innovation
 Internet of things
 Creating “smart environments”
 iPhone apps to measure health
(LEIT) Leadership in Enabling & Industrial
Technologies
Industrial
Leadership

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- Funding: European Federation of Pharmaceutical
Industries + EU commission
- Topics developed by pharma
- Cancer Core Europe members on Scientific
Committee
- Developing topics include:
 Sharing of patient data within EU
 Immuno-oncology
- 2-stage Submission process
- EIT health
- Euratom
- IMI innovative medicine

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- Gustave Roussy has experience:
- Creation of a pan-European
paediatric clinical trials network
- EIT health
- Euratom
- IMI innovative medicine

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Excellent science from the bottom-up
In brief – you decide
which scientific questions
are of interest
(no pre-scripted topics)
Excellent Science
ERC, FET
Marie Curie

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FET - Future and Emerging Technologies
FET Open (“open” = bottom-up)
7 of 24 funded projects were health-related
- MRG-GRammar …make a significant breakthrough in deciphering and
evolving the regulatory code.
- CONQUER will explore a fundamentally new contrast mechanism with
the potential to push magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) far beyond its
limits…
FET Proactive
Biotech for better life:
- Intra- and inter-cell biotechnologies
- New computing paradigms and their technologies
Excellent Science
ERC, FET
Marie Curie

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Excellent science from the bottom-up
ERC – frontier research
− Researchers at all career stages can apply for funding
− Looking for projects at the frontiers of science that are interdisciplinary,
pioneering, address new & emerging fields, introduce unconventional,
innovative approaches
− The single peer review criteria is excellence
Starting Fall 2017
Consolidator 9 Feb 2017
Advanced 31 Aug 2017
Proof-of-concept 25 Apr 2017 / 05 Sept
Excellent Science
ERC, FET
Marie Curie

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Excellent science from the bottom-up
ERC evaluation & peer review
for Starting, Consolidator and Advanced Grants
− Single-stage submission, two-stage evaluation
Step 1: 5-page synopsis, CV & track record
Step 2: 15-page full proposal description (plus what’s above)
− Interview with PI is part step 2 evaluation for Starting and Consolidator
(not for Advanced Grants)
− PI must choose the panel—up to 15 leading researchers
− For interdisciplinary proposals: can choose primary and secondary
panel
Excellent Science
ERC, FET
Marie Curie

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Excellent science from the bottom-up
Marie Curie actions
RISE – research and innovation staff exchange
− 4 year program, 4-6 organizations
− Minimum 3 participants in 3 different countries and either:
o Include a Third Country (ie. USA, Israel, Canada)
o Or 1 academic & 1 non-academic
− Activities: skills acquisition, workshops, conferences, career development
(ITN) Innovative Training Networks (PhD students)
− European Training Network
> min. 3 partners in & outside academia, 3 EU countries
− European Industrial Doctorates
> 1 academic, 1 non-academic, in 2 EU countries
− European Joint Doctorates
> min. 3 academics create network to deliver joint degrees
> to promote international, intersectoral and multi/interdisciplinary
collaboration
Excellent Science
ERC, FET
Marie Curie

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Excellent science from the bottom-up
Individual Fellowships*
*Researchers must not have lived, worked, or studied in the host
institute’s country in the past 3 years*
European
− 12 to 24 months, from any country to Europe
− Help to reintegrate researchers coming back to Europe
Global
− 12 to 24 months plus return phase
− Secondments from Europe to Third Country
− Mandatory 12 month return phase in Europe (not subject to mobility
rule)
− Special considerations for “Career Restart” and “Reintegration”
Excellent Science
ERC, FET
Marie Curie

30. Evaluation &
negotiaton
Preparation
phase Project lifetime
Application
CallFor
Proposal
OngoingManagement
Evaluation
Timeline
(months)
Pre-call
0 5-8
6 to 12 mo. before
submission
Submission
ContractNegotiation
SignGrantAgreement
ProjectStart
ProjectClose-out
5 8 0-60
Periodicreporting
18, 36, final
Grants office can help during entire project lifetime
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31. Evaluation criteria
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 EXCELLENCE:
‒ trans-disciplinary
‒ proposed work is ambitious, innovation potential, beyond state of the art
(e.g. ground-breaking objectives, novel concepts and approaches)
 IMPACT:
‒ enhancing innovation
‒ developing innovations meeting the needs of markets;
‒ environmental and socially important impact;
‒ exploit and disseminate project results, manage research data
 IMPLEMENTATION:
‒ coherence and effectiveness of the work plan
‒ appropriate allocation of tasks and resources
‒ complementarity of the participants within the consortium
‒ appropriate management, including risk and innovation management

32. Thank you!
Director European Affairs
& CSO Cancer Core Europe
Fabien Calvo
Fabien.Calvo@gustaveroussy.fr
Scientific Officer
Alysia vandenBerg
Alysia.vandenberg@gustaveroussy.fr
Program Manager
Arnauld Forest
Arnauld.FOREST@gustaveroussy.fr
Project Manager
Giovanni Scoazec
giovanni.scoazec@gustaveroussy.fr