CIRCA SERVICES
TO HELP YOU
WIN AND MANAGE PROJECTS
IN THE
EU R&D FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME
CIRCA Group offers a range of support services for organisations wishing to submit proposals to the €50 billion EU Framework 7 Programme. CIRCA's consultants have wide experience as FP Project Leaders, Project Managers, Proposal evaluators, National Delegates, National Contact points and team members, and several are currently managing major FP6 projects on behalf of clients. Weoffer the following services:
- Assistance in writing FP7 proposals in most thematic areas
- Partner-searching
- Pre-Submission evaluation of completed proposals
- Support for the contract negotiation stage with the Commission
- Management of FP7 projects
Clients for CIRCA Group's FP Support services include:
- Danish Inst for Fisheries Research
- Argutus Medical Ltd
- BioRefineries Ireland Ltd.
- Trinity College Dublin
- Danish Technical University
- University of Turku
- Almir Business Ltd.
- Eurofish Internat. Organisation
- Teagasc
- SIFCO Turbines Inc.(Ireland)
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- University College Cork
- National Univ of Ireland Galway
- National Univ of Ireland Maynooth
- University of Bergen
- MyCareTeam Inc. (USA)
- Institutesof Technology (Waterford,Tralee, Sligo, Limerick)
- Frankfurt University Hospital
- Internat Council for Exploration of the Sea
- Tipperary Institute
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Contact: Aidan Kennedy akennedy@circa.ie or 087-6348480
Irish Targets for FP7 
In 2007, the Cabinet Committee on Science, Technology and Innovation agreed that Ireland would target €600m in EU Framework Funding (FP7) over the next six years to 2013, i.e., €100 million per annum in EU funding for research and technology, according to the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment.
When are you applying? We can help...............Contact:
Aidan Kennedy akennedy@circa.ie or 087-6348480
FP7.........Irish Successes
Irish research organisations in the Seventh Framework Programme for research and technological development (FP7) have secured around €42 million, particularly in the following areas of research: ‘Information and Communication Technologies’ (€20 million), ‘Health’ (over €5 million), and ‘Food, Agriculture, and Biotechnology’ (€3 million).
They also secured significant funding through ‘Marie Curie Actions’ for research training, career development
and researcher mobility schemes (over €3 million), and ‘Research Infrastructures’, which optimise the
use and development of the best and existing research infrastructures in Europe (over €2 million).
Irish researchers are lead coordinators in 23 FP7 projects and over 160 Irish organisations are involved in 139 projects (based on data up to October 2008).
Source: Research*eu Web: http://ec.europa.eu/research/research-eu
Irish researchers were particularly successful in getting funding for research training, career development and mobility schemes, through the 'Human resources and mobility' parts (which are also known as 'Marie Curie Actions') of the programme 'Structuring the European Research Area (ERA)'. Here, 162 Irish research participants
received more than €54 million.
Ireland was also successful in areas such as 'Information Society Technologies' (over €42 million); 'Nanotechnology and Nanosciences' (nearly €21 million); and 'Sustainable Development, Global Change and Ecosystems' (€17 million). Irish organisations were also active in coordinating and participating in projects under FP6.
In FP6, 891 Irish organisations were involved in 715 projects; and 175 of these were led by Irish organisations.
The Sixth Framework Programme for Research (FP6), which ran between 2002 and 2006, supported about €200 million of Irish research.
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