Analysis and inventory of FP7 marine-related proposals - European ...

Analysis andinventory of FP7 marine-related ed proposalsposa1. MethodologyThe methodology applied for identifying and analysing FP7 marine related proposals selectedfor funding across the four specifi c programmes for calls published in 2007-2008 and closingbefore 31/12/2008 includes the following steps:1.1. Extraction of dataInformation has been extracted from the RTD database “Corda” as of 15th May 2010 47 . Onlythe projects in the main list have been considered to facilitate and improve the reliability of thedata (projects in reserve lists are not considered). The EU contribution amount mentioned inthis study for proposals selected for funding is based on the sum of the EU contribution ofindividual proposals. In other words, even though only part of the EU contribution may directlyrelate to marine activities, the whole EU contribution of the proposal has always been takeninto account. Therefore financial information provided in this analysis does not reflect theactual marine-related content of the project. All budget estimates are purely indicative andare mentioned only for information purposes. When, for some reason (i.e: grant agreement notsigned), there is no information on the “CORDA database” about the fi nal EU contribution, anextrapolation has been carried out on the basis either of the EC contribution requested by theproject or the EU contribution recommended during the negotiation process.1.2. Selection of calls for proposalsThe analysis has been carried out on the results of 109 calls having closed in 2007 and 2008in the four 48 specifi c programmes: “COOPERATION” (53 calls), “IDEAS” (5 calls), “PEOPLE”(21 calls), “CAPACITIES” (30 calls). Only the calls closing before 31/12/2008 have been considered,no matter the year mentioned in the call identifi er 49 . ERANETS calls falling under the“COOPERATION” (SP1) have been considered separately in order to distinguish them from thetraditional thematic calls and identify them more clearly. Certain very specifi c calls have beenexcluded from the analysis such as calls regarding joint technology initiatives (“ARTEMIS 2008-1” IMI-2008 -1 or “JU – ENIAC-1- 2008”) or certain article 169 initiatives such as “AAL-2008-1”). For the two-stage evaluation calls, only the fi rst stage has been considered for submittedproposals while only the fi nal results of the second stage have been considered for selectedproposals.47The provisional data based on evaluation results are subject to modifi cation (see Disclaimer)48EURATOM calls have not been considered in this analysis49Indeed certain calls with «2009» in their call identifi er but closing in 2008 have been considered. See list of calls for details57