FET-Open proposal: Mission (im)possible
Prof. Fabio Babiloni
Dept. Medicina
Molecolare
Vice chair per FETOPEN
[email protected]
FET Open: perchè è una Mission (im)possible?
Quante sottomissioni
fatte: 805
Budget: 40 milioni di
euro
Costo medio di progetto
3.5 milioni di euro
Progetti finanziabili nella
call: 12-13
Rapporto di successo:
12/805 = 1,4-1,5%
Valore di soglia per
provare ad essere
finanziati: 14.85 (su 15).
Questi criteri li conosciamo tutti
Excellence
Impact
Implementation
Clarity of targeted
breakthrough and its
specific science and
technology
contributions towards a
long-term vision.
Novelty, level of
ambition and
foundational character.
Range and added
value from
interdisciplinarity.
Appropriateness of
the research methods.
Importance of the
new technological
outcome with regards
to its transformational
impact on technology
and/or society.
Quality of measures
for achieving impact on
science, technology
and/or society.
Impact from
empowerment of new
and high potential
actors towards future
technological
leadership.
Quality of the
workplan and clarity of
intermediate targets.
Relevant expertise
in the consortium.
Appropriate
allocation and
justification of
resources (personmonths, equipment,
budget).
Threshold: 4/5
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Weight:
60%
Threshold: 3,5/5
Weight: 20%
Threshold: 3/5
Weight: 20%
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Excellence
1. Clarity of targeted breakthrough and its specific
science and technology contributions towards a
long-term vision.
• Is there a clearly defined long-term vision?
• Is there a clear description of the proposed breakthrough
research? The breakthrough could be related to a problem
that has resisted resolution for years and the proposal
suggests a plausible idea for a solution
• Relevance of the targeted breakthrough for the long-term
vision – it should be outlined how the breakthrough would
lead to the long-term vision
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Excellence
2. Novelty, level of ambition and foundational
character.
• Is the research proposed novel? – it should be more than
continuation of research going on for years
• Is the research proposed ambitious and far-reaching, not
just another small incremental step along a path already
being followed?
• Does the research proposed have a potential to start a
new line of investigation, which can be followed for years
and can lead to completely new technologies?
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Excellence
3. Range and added value from interdisciplinarity.
• To what extent the main idea requires involvement of
knowledge and methodology from different disciplines?
• How are these different disciplines intertwined and how the
ideas from different disciplines support the scientific
breakthrough?
4. Appropriateness of the research methods.
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Is the analysis of the state-of-the-art comprehensive and
complete?
•
Relevance of the chosen methods for the achieving the
project objectives
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Impact
1. Importance of the new technological outcome with
regards to its transformational impact on
technology and/or society.
• Is the long-term technological outcome clearly defined?
• Is the transformational impact on technology, on society or
on both convincingly argued?
• It is not sufficient to have just a scientific impact based
simply on peer reviewed publications!
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Impact
2. Quality of measures for achieving impact on
science, technology and/or society.
• Are the "standard" measures (scientific publications,
website) properly described and planned?
• Does the proposal goes sufficiently far beyond the
"standard" measures? For example, are there additional
measures, based on new media included?
• Is it clearly explained how the dissemination measures
would support achieving the expected impact?
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Impact
3. Impact from empowerment of new and high
potential actors towards future technological
leadership.
• Are there young researchers in the consortium, especially
principle investigators, who would keep up the research in
a long run?
• Are there SMEs in the consortium with sufficient budget,
who would take up the results from the project and would
eventually carry them over towards innovation and market
realization?
• Are there new actors, who are usually underrepresented in
the specific tasks to be performed by the project (for
example, is there a proper gender balance)?
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Implementation
1. Quality of the work plan and clarity of intermediate
targets.
• Are the objectives specific, measurable, attainable,
relevant, and time-bound (SMART)?
• Is there a clear description of work packages, project
periods, tasks and deliverables?
• Are the intermediate targets (milestones) properly defined
and timely?
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Implementation
2. Relevant expertise in the consortium.
• Is the expertise in the consortium of high enough quality in
order to tackle all proposed tasks?
• Is the interdisciplinarity at the ideas level properly reflected
in the composition of the consortium?
• Is the consortium well-balanced, without redundancies?
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Implementation
3. Appropriate allocation and justification of resources
(person-months, equipment, budget).
• Do the person-months allocated correspond to the proposed
tasks to be performed?
• Is the necessary equipment present or properly described
and budgeted?
• Is the overall budget comprehensive, well-balanced, and
convincing?
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Direttamente dalla REA: FET Open in WP2014-15
FET gatekeepers - the kind of research that FET is looking for
Long-term vision: a new, original or radical long-term vision of technologyenabled possibilities going far beyond the state of the art
Breakthrough S&T target: scientifically ambitious and technologically concrete
breakthroughs plausibly attainable within the life-time of the project.
Foundational: the breakthroughs must be foundational in the sense that they
can establish a basis for a new line of technology not currently anticipated.
Novelty: new ideas and concepts, rather than the application or incremental
refinement of existing ones.
High-risk: the potential of a new technological direction depends on a whole
range of factors that cannot be apprehended from a single disciplinary viewpoint.
Interdisciplinary: the proposed collaborations must go beyond current
mainstream collaboration configurations in joint S&T research, and must aim to
advance different scientific and technological disciplines together and in synergy
towards a breakthrough.
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