The document discusses Ireland's participation in the European Union's Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development (FP7). It provides statistics on Ireland's success in securing funding from the first four calls of the FP7's Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) programme, with Irish organizations winning over €13 million out of €32 million total funding. It encourages Irish organizations to think bigger and take advantage of more aspects of the FP7 programme to support research and innovation.

1. Growing Irish Future Internet research - European perspectives Irish Future Internet Forum, 3 Dec 2009 [email_address] +353-1-727 2665 http://www.fp7ireland.com

2. Framework Programme for RTD At €50 billion - it’s the largest research fund in the world The first €billion Call for funding was in ICT Talking European… 1,800 applicants; 418 projects; €107 million; 23% success rate ICT, Health, Nanotech and People account for 63% of the funding Almost 1000 evaluators on the European Commission database So how European are we?

3. Routes Into FP7 Over 90% of evaluators rate the FP evaluation system similar or better than national systems

4. A limited set of Challenges that respond to well-identified industry and technology needs and/or target specific socio-economic goals Pervasive and Trustworthy Network and Service Infrastructures ; Cognitive Systems, Interaction, Robotics; Components, systems, engineering; Digital Libraries and Content; ICT for Health; ICT for mobility, environmental sustainability and energy efficiency; ICT for Independent Living, Inclusion and Governance; Future and Emerging Technologies The ICT Programme

5. For example: WIT, Tyndall/UCC, NUIG, UL, DCU, TCD, UCD, NUIM, RCSI, CIT, Intel, Lake, Ericsson, IBM, Google, Cyntelix, Datel, Incoras, Risaris, Symantec, Synopsys, MAC, Red Hat, Eblana, Firecomms, Biosensia … overall funding of ~ €32m of which ~€12m to industry Ireland in the ICT Programme: 91 projects * Call 3 was a direct repeat of call 1 – hence very large number of proposals and poor success rate Call 1 Call 2 Call 3 * Call 4 Overall Global 17.3% 16.4% 8.5% 20.2% 15% Ireland 20.4% 20.6% 6.8% 23.4% 19%

7. Challenge 1: Pervasive and Trustworthy Network and Service Infrastructures ICT Call 1 - €525 million budget for Challenge 1 Global: 641 proposals – 127 funded projects Ireland: 83 proposals – 22 funded projects: ~€10m [Cyntelix, Datel, DCU, IBM, Incoras, Intel, Lake, Ericsson, Risaris, Symantec, TCD, UCD, NUIG, WIT] ICT Call 2 - €40 million budget for Challenge 1 Global: 84 proposals – 14 funded projects Ireland: 13 proposals – 4 funded projects: ~€2m [WIT, TCD, Intel] Joint Call with Security - €20 million budget for Challenge 1 Global: 56 proposals – 9 funded projects Ireland: 4 proposals – 2 funded projects: ~€275k [WIT]

8. Challenge 1: Pervasive and Trustworthy Network and Service Infrastructures ICT Call 4 - €190 million budget for Challenge 1 Global: 284 proposals – 46 funded projects Ireland: 29 proposals – 4 funded projects: ~€1.4m [Intune, DCU, TCD, Google] ICT Call 5 - €367 million budget for Challenge 1 Global: 574 proposals – ??? funded projects Ireland: large volume of activity in this Call!!!! Take a look at Ireland’s participation in the 2007-2008 ICT Work Programme at http://www.fp7ireland.com/Page.aspx?SP=96

9. Take home messages Challenge 1 is a strong area for Ireland 32 out of 93 funded projects, €13.6 million out of ~ €32 million funding But only 3 of the projects have >1 Irish participant Only 3 co-ordinators from Ireland Use the full programme: fund PIs through the ERC, train mobile researchers (success rates 20-70%), build European infrastructure, act as a research provider to lower tech SMEs; fund your outreach programme

10. Remember: the FP7 opportunity is growing by €1 billion a year to you need to think big

11. National Support Network for FP7 Resourced by 12 organisations For ICT talk to Stephen O’Reilly and Gerard Kennedy [email_address] [email_address] www.fp7ireland.com

12. Which of these statements is true? Mopping up local funding has displaced FP activity FP7 is very bureaucratic FP7 success rates are very low Irish companies don’t know how to do it FP7 is for researchers outside the PRTLI/SFI fold … none of the above Talk to any member of the National Support Network for FP7 for further details