ISERD ISrael Europe R D Directorate Your Port For

ISERD ISrael Europe R&D Directorate Your Port For In ISRAEL April 2013

ISERD Steering Committee: Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labor, Ministry of Science and Technology, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Finance and the Council for Higher Education – Planning and Budgeting Committee. Chairman of the Steering Committee – Mr. Avi Hasson, Chief Scientist, Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labor. General Manager: Mr. Marcel SHATON ISERD Aims at Maximizing the benefits of participation in the Framework Program

Israel is an Associated State that allows it full participation in the Framework RTD Programs since 1996 (mid FP 4).

Framework Program’s Budget

Why Israel participates in the Framework Programmes • Integration of Israeli market in globalization process • Increase Israeli business penetration in Europe • Increase visibility of Israeli academic community in Europe • Enhance cooperation between industry and academia in Israel

Benefits of participation • • • Access to new technology/techniques Access to new markets/key customers Better sector knowledge Involvement in new standards Playing in the major leagues Funding

Added Value for a Company Participating in FP 7 § § § § § Strategic partnerships Synergy of resources Market intelligence Access to research of the entire project Shorter time to market Name recognition Standardization Funding for large R&D projects Integration in the European market

Support Programs Along the R&D Chain Risk Basic research VATAT. ISF MOST and other ministries Applied academic Research & Support Policy research International Programs OCS. MET EU Nofar FP Tnufa TORS BA INCU Bilateral EUREKA Seed ET N Fu. AG M nd ET MAGN Competitive R&D Market Proximity

Barriers • Distance • Language • Related EU schemes not available to Associated Countries (AC) • Council Research Group closed to AC • Outside of the “Acquis Communautaire” • Local reluctance to new schemes • Local bureaucratic inertie • Weak local bureaucratic synergies

Dilemmas • • • Coordinator versus Partner Funding model Funding scheme Assistance: NCP versus consultant Partner research Participation in Coordination and Support Action (CSA) Project • Centralized system

Joint Programming • European Technology Platforms (ETPs), Joint Technology Initiatives (JTIs), ERA-Nets • Process of building Strategic Research Agenda • Funding

ISERD Aims • Encouragement of Israeli entities to participate in FP and other related programs • Interface between the Israeli government and the European Union for FP matters • Representation of Israel in the programs committees of the European Commission • Serve as NCPs for the different themes in FP 7 and participation in networking projects • Information dissemination and assistant with projects’ submission and management

ISERD activities Europe - normalization Israel - assimilation • • • Awareness • Reduce anxiety • Information - Workshops, info days - Weekly presentations - Help desk - Database - Participation in conferences - Consultants - EURAD Forum • Partner search • Support fund • Red-Team Themes Committees NCPs Support measures Networking Economic & scientific attaches • Participation in conferences • Partner search

First Steps • • Government decision Establishment of Steering Committee Establishment of support team (ISERD) Nomination of ISERD’s representatives as delegates to the programme committees • Appointment of FP officers in the universities (EURAD) • Establishment of consultant’s corpus • Dealing with tax issues

FP 7 Structure COOPERATION 32413 M€ 10 Thematic Areas IDEAS 7510 M€ PEOPLE 4750 M€ CAPACITIES 4097 M€ Health 6100 M€ Supporting, investigatordriven research projects carried out across all fields Strengthening the human potential in research and technology in Europe Research Infrastructures 1715 M€ Agri & Bio 1935 M€ ICT 9050 M€ NMP 3457 M€ Energy 2350 M€ Environment 1890 M€ Transport (incl. AERO) 4160 M€ Socio Economic Sciences and the Humanities 623 M€ Space 1430 M€ Security 1400 M€ Initial Training of Researchers Life-long training & Career Development Industry-academia pathways International Dimension Specific support action Research for the benefits of SMEs 1336 M€ Regions of Knowledge 126 M€ Research Potential 340 M€ Science in Society 330 M€ International Cooperation 180€

EXCELLENT INDUSTRIAL SOCIETAL SCIENCE - 24. 5 € B LEADERSHIP-17. 9 € B CHALLENGES-30€ B European Research Council-ERC -13 268 M€ Frontier research by the best individual teams Future and Emerging Technologies-3 100 M€ Collaborative research to open new fields of innovation Marie Curie - 5752 M€ ICT Health -8033 M€ Nanotechnologies Demographic change and wellbeing Materials Manufacturing Biotechnology Space Access to risk finance 3538 M€ Leveraging private finance and venture capital for research and innovation Research Infrastructures 2478 M€ Innovation in SMEs 619 M€ Ensuring access to world-class Fostering all forms of inno vation in all types of SMEs security, sustainable agriculture, marine and maritime research & the bioeconomy Secure, clean and efficient energy- 3994 M€ Transport- 6802 M€ Smart, green and integrated Climate action- 3160 M€ resource efficiency and raw Homeland Security Innovative societies 3819 M€ Opportunities for training and career development Food- 4152 M€

ISERD’s Organigram (FP 7) Steering Committee Ministry of Foreign Affairs Ministry of Science, Culture & Sport Marketing & Communication Database Manager Health; Bio; Environment; Energy NCP Energy; Health; Agri & Bio Env. ; ERC Ministry of Industry, Trade & Labor Sub Committee General Director Assistant to the Director Mr. Marcel Shaton Legal and Financial; SME, Ro. K, RP, ERC System Administrator Director Council for Higher Education Ministry of Finance Secretary Director Nano; Transport; Space; Security ICT; RI People, SSH; Si. S NCP NMP; Trans. NCP Security; Space NCP ICT NCP RI NCP People; SSH, Si. S

(The Israel contribution to FP 7 so far 471. 6 M€ ) Submitted Participations 7607 Successful Participations 1764 Industry Universities 1107 Others Success by sector: 379 278 Submitted Proposals 5115 Successful Proposals 1236 Success rate 23. 2% Value of Israeli grants: 647. 1 M€ Industry 159 M€ Universities 434. 7 M€ Others 53. 4 M€ Overall value of projects with at least one Israeli partner 18. 8 B€ Overall value of projects with at least one Israeli Industrial partner 2, 222 B€

ISERD Departments’ Directors q Health; Food Agriculture and Biotechnology; Environment; Energy : Ms. Ayala Karniol, ayala@iserd. org. il q Information Communication Technology; Security : Mr. Aviv Zeevi, aviv@iserd. org. il q Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Processes; Transport (Incl. Aeronautics); Space; Research Infrastructures : Dr. Nili Mandelblit, nili@iserd. org. il q Marie Curie Fellowships; Socio-economic sciences and humanities; Science in Society: Ms. Smadar Hirsh, smadar@iserd. org. il q Western Europe and Eastern Europe: Mr. Uzi Bar Sade, uzi@matimop. org. il