This short guide will give you ideas how you can find partners to work with on a project.
If you are just starting out on project work, it can be a good idea to find partners who are already writing project bids and team up with them.
If you have an idea and need more people to join it, use this guide to find them.
Erasmus+ Key Action 2 Fact Sheets are now available.
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Knowledge Alliances Fact Sheet
Sector Skills Alliances Fact Sheet
Capacity Building in HE Fact Sheet
Capacity Building in the Field of Youth Fact Sheet
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The European Commission are encouraging Higher Education institutions to work in partnership with businesses on innovative projects that address teaching and learning. The projects are expected to generate long term partnerships which develop entrepreneurship.
The funding is called Knowledge Alliances and is part of the Erasmus+ scheme. Although the deadline for 2014 has recently closed, it takes time to develop a strong consortium and project idea. The External Projects Team is encouraging staff to get thinking on project ideas for 2015. To help have we have created a factsheet giving an overview of the fund.
It is expected that the 2015 deadlines will be in March/April, with calls coming out around November 2014.
Download Knowledge Alliance factsheet here
The External Projects Team can help you to find project partners and can help develop project ideas. Anyone who is interested should contact the team on exteranlprojects@staffs.ac.uk
The most important changes are outlined below:
| Description | FP7 | Horizon2020 |
| Focus | Research | Research and Innovation |
| Budget | 55 billion € | ~ 79 billion € |
| Components | Cooperation, Capacities, People, Ideas, Euratom, JRC | Excellent Science, Industrial Leadership, Societal challenges, Spreading Excellence, Science for Society, EIT, JRC, Euratom |
| Funding rate (up to) for research | 75% | 100% |
| Funding rate (up to) for Demonstration/ Innovation projects | 50% | 70% 100% for non-profit organizations |
| Overhead/indirect costs | Different models (20% 60% or actual) | 25% |
| Time-to-grant | 12 months in average after submission of proposal | reduced to 8 months |
| Ex-ante financial viability check | All beneficiaries exceeding 500,000 EUR EU contribution | Coordinators |
| Audit certificates to be submitted | All beneficiaries exceeding 375,000 EUR EU contribution – cumulative in periods | All beneficiaries exceeding 325,000 EUR EU contribution – only one at the end of the project |
| Interest on pre-financing | Reported by the coordinator | No need to declare |
| Thematic approach | “Cooperation” 10 themes | Will be under “Industrial leadership” and “Societal challenges” |
| Frontier Research, ERC | New in FP7 – Ideas block | Extended under the “Excellent Science” pillar |
We are now two years into our HEIF programme and a lot has happened. So I thought it would be useful to provide some high level figures on the activity that has taken place from Aug 2011- July 2013. Please find attached a document demonstrating the outputs achieved to date. View here: HEIF mid term review – External Copy (Nov 2013)
Alex Harvey, HEIF Programme Manager
Following the launch of the new European Horizon 2020 funding programme last week, UKRO have made factsheets for each of the new strands. You can access these by logging onto their site http://www.ukro.ac.uk/subscriber/funding/Pages/index.aspx.
The diagram below outlines the funding areas which are covered by H2020. URKO has factsheets for each of these topics. You can click on the diagram to enlarge it.
To be able to access this information, you will need to sign up for an UKRO account if you do not have one already. Alternatively, you can contact the External Projects Team requesting which factsheets you require and we can send them out.
The University has a high level of success in applying for European funding. If you have not been involved with an EU project before a good place to start might be to look at small funds that can help you meet other European partners. If you already have potential European links, a good place to start is by being a partner on a project.
If you are interested in making an application to Horizon 2020, make the External Projects Team your first port of call. externalprojects@staffs.ac.uk
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The External Project Team has added a new funder factsheet for the British Council -designed to give you an introduction to the organisation