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Valorisation Centre

Valorisation Centre

The Valorisation Centre supports, stimulates and facilitates scientists and faculties in the valorisation of its knowledge by means of:

• Cooperation with companies• Protection of Intellectual Property• Business development, spin-offs• Lifelong learning• Acquisition of external funding

(strategy, training, advice, management)

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EU funding

Benefits:

• Team up with European scientists, building networks

• Visibility in Brussels• Image building, branding of TU Delft’s name• Wide range of complementary funding

programs• Advantageous funding characteristics

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Strategy

Implementation

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Directly, throughCommittees or atMember state level

Rules & regulations forParticipation andfunding

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Effective strategies

Strategic level • financial level; first identify your targets: what are your

financial sources now, and where will you be in 5 years?• scientific level: what are your scientific competencies, can you

identify a few areas in which you want you excel on a EU level? Also, build your competencies, first as partner than as applicant/coordinator, or first individual grants, than multipartner research grants

• Appoint strategic staff and train them to get to know Brussels:• Policy documents – also for EuroMed region• Framework documents, rules of participation• Lobbying groups in Brussels

• Management information systems (nr of bids, nr of grants, etc)

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Effective support structure

Implementation levelDefine the right support structure for legal,

financial and managerial support for those scientists that are busy acquiring EU funding.

• Centralised or decentralised?• What kind of staff needed? Legal, financial and

managerial• Training of staff, invest!• Financial accountancy system in place, FP proof?

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Centralized:• Board & Deans strategic choices based on MIS• Central services:

• Finance & Control (F&C) financial accountancy system, timeregistration, direct/indirect cost

• Legal Affairs (BJO) EU grant agreements, consortium agreements, IP protection

• Policy & Strategy (BMO) MIS

De-centralized:• Faculty:

• Faculty Secretaries Implementation of EU programs in the faculty

• Technology Transfer Officers (TTO) Scout for relevant calls• Contract managers first advisor for scientists (legal & financial

info• Project Administrators draw up declarations, arrange for auditing

• Department• Dep. Secretaries helping contract managers in large faculties

Overview EU-support structure TU Delft

Valorisation centre- project management

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EUROPEAN GRANTS

•Research•FP7 http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/home_en.html •CIP http://ec.europa.eu/cip/index_en.htm •DG specific calls and tenders

http://ec.europa.eu/contracts_grants/index_en.htm •Education (Life Long Learning)

•Erasmus Mundus MSc & Erasmus Mundus Doctoratehttp://ec.europa.eu/education/external-relation-

programmes/doc72_en.htm •Individual training

•Marie Curie ITN, IEF, Incoming, outgoinghttp://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/people/home_en.html

•Bilateral• DG external relations: EUROMED and EU NEIGHBOURHOOD PROGRAM (ENPI)

http://ec.europa.eu/external_relations/mideast/index_en.htm

http://www.enpi-info.eu/

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Building up experience and capacities

Junior staff can be steered to individual scholarships 1-5 years, than network to become partner another 5 years

Senior staff should network to become partner, after 10 years- coordinatorships and ERC.

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Example of support of Valorisation Centre in case of a specific FP7

project• ACQUISITION:

• Advice to scientist on the FP program, work programs, call info, laise with NCP, Brussels

• Advice on consortium building• Advice on writing a competative proposal• Advice on budgeting• Registration of proposal , • Part A and B submitted

• CONTRACT NEGOTIATION:• Negotiation meeting, NEF, • Grant agreement(s) • Consortium agreements

• IMPLEMENTATION (project management)• PROVIDE TRAINING to scientists and support staff

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Thank you

Theresia TwicklerEU grants advisor and Sr. Project manager

t.m.g.twickler@tudelft.nl +31 15 2782127