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Korean Scientific Cooperation Network with the European Research Area

1 http://www.koranet.eu

KORANETPilot Joint Call

ILN meeting

Brussels, September 24th 2009



Specificity of European RTD projects with Korea

• Small and very new European experience on the Korean side (going beyond already existing purely bilateral cooperation)

• Need for training on FP7/ERA-NET scheme

• Need for explaining what is expected from Korean partners



Common standards for the selection & funding

of RTD projects

• Identification of priorities and preferred funding schemes of the programme owners on the basis of a questionnaire (-> elaboration of the global structure of the Pilot Joint Call)

• Discussion and validation of a KORANET Concept Paper by all partners -> common understanding

• Publication of the KORANET PJC in all countries

• Clear definition of the standards

• Problem of a common understanding (what and who can be financed, by which means, what is the amount of funding…)



Ensuring the selection of the best proposals

• Through a very good selection of the evaluators (e.g. avoiding conflicts of interest, national balance, thematic expertise)

• Two-step evaluation procedure (min. 2 written peer reviews per proposal – one Korean, one European; then selection panel consisting of European and Korean panelists)

• Funding parties need to endorse the result of the evaluation before the (individual national) funding of the selected proposals

• Problem: how to reach a relatively important number of proposals? -> keep the PJC topic large and broad (esp. with a ‘smaller’ country such as Korea)



Easy, transparent systems - attractive to funding

organisations • Lessons learnt from other joint calls: keep the process as simple as

it can be, thorough planning of all steps and common understanding of joint call of all funding partners necessary

• Eligible costs: one package for all partners

• National contact point system with a joint call secretariat for a better communication with national applicants

• Proposal submission and written peer review: electronic (PT-Outline, already successfully used with other calls)



Budgetary aspects

• What is funded? Mainly mobility/workshops/smaller other costs

• PJC -> small funding (25.000 euros per year per project for 2-year projects)

• Avoid imbalance of budget allocated to the joint call by each funding partner

• Virtual common pot

• Confirmation letters of the funding parties announcing the respective contribution to the budget (12/2009)



Thank you!

Céline Delacourt-Gollain

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