PPP Impact Report 2017

III. Teaming up with EU Member States and Regions in Europe
IV. The Photonics PPP – Open, Transparent and Democratic Decision
Making Based on Broad Community Involvement
Table 1: Overview of ongoing
ERA-Nets Plus or Cofund
Actions.
Source: VDI TZ GmbH.
While EU Member States and Regions are not part of the PPP, they are connected to
the Platform Photonics21 since the very beginning. In the P21 Mirror Group,
representatives of national and regional funding organisations involved with photonics
funding meet and update each other regularly. One core activity of this group is the
preparation and the implementation of transnational calls for funding, each by a
number of Member States and Regions particularly well positioned and/or interested in
the specific area.
Presently, there are three ERA-Net Plus or Cofund Actions ongoing (see table below),
implementing the European work programmes at a transnational and regional level and
mobilising another €70–€80M from the public and the private sector for photonics
research and innovation in Europe.
1. ERANET+ OLAEplus (Organic and large area electronics)
www.olaeplus.eu/
Joint Funding Volume
Member states and regions involved
€18M UK (coord.), AT, CAT (ES), DE, FLA (BE), IL, PL
Number of projects started
Duration
10 10/2011–09/2016
2. ERANET+ BiophotonicsPlus (Photonic appliances for life sciences and health)
www.biophotonicsplus.eu/
Joint Funding Volume
Member states and regions involved
€15M DE (coord.), CAT (ES), FLA (BE), IL, LV, TUS (IT), UK
Number of projects started
Duration
11 09/2012–08/2017
3. ERANET Cofund PhotonicSensing (Photonics based sensing)
https://photonicsensing.eu/
Joint Funding Volume
Member states and regions involved
€18M AT (coord.), DE, FLA (BE), IL, PL, PT, TR, TUS (IT), UK
Number of projects started
n. a. (submission/selection
ongoing)
Duration
04/2016–03/2021
Fig. 17: Governance structure
and decision making process
of the Photonics PPP. The
Photonics21 community
drives the Photonics PPP.
Source: VDI TZ GmbH.
The Photonics PPP strategy preparation and implementation relies on a close
cooperation between Photonics21 Work Groups and Boards with its 3000 members
from Industry and Research Organisations and the European Commission. A condition
sine qua non for ensuring a fruitful cooperation between industry, science community
and policy and for having all decisions taken supported and owned by all parties is to
have open, transparent and democratic structures and processes.
Photonics21 community drives
the Photonics PPP
Fully democratic structure and decision making
Government
election
Parliament
election
People
Executive Board
representation and execution
12 members
Board of Stakeholders decision-making 100 members
7 Work Groups
strategy development
> 3000 members/> 1000 affiliations
Photonics Community
PPP Partnership Board
Decision making and responsibilities in the strategy process are based on the agreed
principles 33 between the European Commission and Photonics21.
The strategy development and the identification of research and innovation priorities
rely on the three organisational layers of the European Technology Platform
Photonics21 with following roles and tasks:
• The Work Groups (WGs) are the major source of strategy development (Multiannual
Roadmap and R&I priorities) within the ETP Photonics21
• The Board of Stakeholders (BoS) reviews the outcomes of the work group strategy
and votes on the strategic priorities.
• The Executive Board (EB) coordinates the input of the work groups and executes the
decisions of the Board of Stakeholders. In this role, it is the mouthpiece of the ETP
Photonics21 towards the European Commission in the Photonics21 PPP.
• The Photonics PPP Partnership Board is consisting of the two partners of the PPP, the
democratically elected Photonics21 Executive Board and the European Commission.
The Partnership Board is responsible for the implementation of the PPP strategy.
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See Photonics21 website: www.photonics21.org/download/Photonics-PPP/Photonics-PPP_
Research--Innovation-Process.pdf?m=1485867632
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