FP7 — Eligibility & Participation

While FP7 participants can in principle be based anywhere, there are different categories of country which may

have varying eligibility for different specific and work programmes:

•   Member States - The EU-27;

•   Associated Countries - with science and technology cooperation agreements that involved contributing
to the framework programme budget;

•   Candidate Countries - currently recognised as candidates for future accession;

•   ICPC1 - all countries which are categorized as having a developing and emerging economies, and which
are not considered as industrialized countries

•   Third Countries - countries that do not belong to the above categories.

There are two ways for EGYPT to participate:

1. Opening of all themes to 3rd countries in which minimum of 3 different EU Member States (MS) or
Associated countries (AC) should be participating and beyond this minimum all 3rd countries can
participate, and hence EGYPT is funded.

2. Specific International Cooperation Actions (SICA) minimum of 4 participants from different countries, 2
from International Cooperation Partner Countries (ICPC) - e.g. Egypt and other Mediterranean, African,
Asian and Latin American country + 2 MS or AC.

s   ICPC including EGYPT would always be funded

s   Participants or Legal Entities shall include researchers from universities, research centers or any other academic entity, private sector and industry, NGOs.

FP7 — Funding Instruments

Collaborative research projects will be funded through 3 common financial instruments:

1.Collaborative Projects: Research Projects by international consortia that vary in size and scope.

2.Networks of Excellence: Joint programmes for long-term cooperation and commitment to integrate resources.

3.Coordination and support actions: Like networking, exchanges, studies, workshops, conferences ... etc.

4.Other instruments: Technology Platforms leaded by industrial initiatives, People Mobility Actions (Fellowships),...etc.

Funding under these instruments will be granted by competitive calls for proposals published on the website: http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/home en.html. from 22nd OF DECEMBER 2006.

FP7 — Evaluation Criteria

FP7 Specific and Work Programmes specify principles and criteria for evaluation:

1.              S/T quality (in relation to the topics addressed by the call)

2.              Impact (as specified in the work programmes)

3.              Implementation (management structure, consortium, resources)

EGYPTIAN independent experts are encouraged to register in the Call for Individual Experts to participate in FP7 evaluation process of the http://cordis.europa.eu/research openings/home.html

 

For more info:

EC Community Research and Development

Information Service

(all about EU research and innovation)

http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/home en.html

 

 

Dr. Reem El-Khodary

 FP7 Focal Point- Menoufeya University

 Email- r.elkhodary@gmail.com

  Mobile: 0122187819