AEP,12 Avenue George V, 75008 ParisMini-biography- Diploma: Ingénieur Agronome de l’INA-Paris-Grignon (1991) and DEA of INA-PG and University de Compiègne (1991).
- Currently: Executive Manager of AEP, the European Association for Grain Legumes Research, which is an associative Europe-based but international-active network which facilitates multidisciplinary scientific approach and interface with producers, breeders and industry.
- Expertise: Coordination of the networking activities in the legume and grain legume community; Managing Editor of the quarterly Grain Legumes Magazine and of the web site
www.grainlegumes.com; Partner in different EU projects and especially leader of the Work Package ‘Dissemination of knowledge’ in the Grain Legumes Integrated Project (GLIP, 2004-2008); In-between role for legume community and decision makers.
- I am proud to be one of the GL-TTP Founding Members since this non-exclusive collaborative platform is a unique tool for durable and sustainable partnerships which are devoted to tackle specific issues by exploiting especially advanced techniques and therefore to make value of scientific knowledge for concrete applications and progress in the real life. I am convinced that the GL-TTP will build added value upon the groundwork, relationships and experience from AEP and associated legume network.
Opportunities for complementary sources of funds for GL-TTP projectsAnne Schneider
AEP, European association for grain legume research, Executive headquarters, 12 avenue George V, 75008 Paris, France
a.schneider-aep@prolea.comOne of the strengths of GL-TTP is to build upon partnerships between authoritative scientists and private companies. Combining efforts will speed the progress and reduce costs of joint activities but it will also enable to be stronger for raising complementary funds for your joint projects.
During the First GL-TTP workshop, the common interests and possible projects will be assessed throughout the sessions and discussions and the different opportunities for planning an associated budget will be considered.
In Europe, one of the opportunities for source of additional funds is the Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development (FP7), the EU's main instrument for funding research in Europe. FP7 will run from 2007 to 2013 and is also designed to respond to Europe’s employment needs and competitiveness. FP7 supports research in selected priority areas.
FP7 is made up of four main blocks of activities plus a fifth specific programme on nuclear research. Among the 10 themes of the major block called ‘Cooperation’, the FP7 theme 2 ‘Food, Agriculture and Biotechnology’ aims to ”Build a European Knowledge Based Bio-Economy” (KBBE), by bringing together science, industry and other stakeholders, to exploit new and emerging research opportunities that address social, environmental and economic challenges. In this theme 2, there are three activities:
- Sustainable production and management of biological resources from land, forest and aquatic environments;
- Fork to farm: Food (including seafood), health and well being;
- Life sciences, biotechnology and biochemistry for sustainable non-food products and processes.
In principle FP7 participants can be based anywhere but there are different categories of country that may have varying eligibility for different work programmes:
- Member states – The EU-25;
- 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;
- Third countries – the participation of organisations or individuals established in countries that are not Member States, candidates or associated should also be justified in terms of the enhanced contribution to the objectives of FP7.
The instruments used in FP7 are of three main categories: ‘Collaborative Projects’, ‘Networks of Excellence’ and ‘Coordination and Support Actions’.
The other proposed funding schemes are Individual projects (ERC in Ideas), Support for training and career development actions (for the implementation of Marie Curie actions), and Research for the benefit of specific groups (in particular SMEs).
