How did competence centres in France develop? The CARNOT programme. Arnaud TORRES «Carnot» Programme Officer

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1 How did competence centres in France develop? The CARNOT programme Arnaud TORRES «Carnot» Programme Officer

2 Agence Nationale de la Recherche

3 ANR objectives To provide France with a competitive research funding agency in line with international standards To stimulate French research, bring more flexibility, reactivity and, as a consequence, competitiveness while keeping a good balance between fundamental and applied research To promote innovation by encouraging emergence of cross disciplinary projects and developing partnerships between industrial and academic partners To increase French research impact within the European and more broadly international research community by privileging excellence

4 ANR organization 7 scientific departments: A non thematic department 6 Thematic departments: Biology and health ICT and nanotechnologies Sustainable energy and environment Ecosystems and sustainable development Process and engineering Human and social sciences A transverse department: Competitiveness and partnerships Carnot Programme

5 ANR principle characteristics Legal status: Public administration since 1st January 2007 Instruments: Call for proposals Thematic call Non-thematic bottom up call ( blue sky ) Consortium Open Public/private partnership Peer review projects evaluation Budget:

6 ANR 2009 key figures Budget: 830 M 58 calls for proposals, 14 open to international cooperation Strong attractiveness Research community: 6,036 projects submitted 13,000 peer reviewers 2,000 committee members Competitiveness clusters: 1,032 submitted projects supported by French clusters Average success rate: 23 % Substantial funding per selected project Academic projects: <390,000 > Public/private partnership projects: <770,000 >

7 Presentation of the Carnot Programme

8 Objectives of the Carnot programme Derived from French the research pact, the objective of the Carnot programme is to develop partnership research in order to: Bring together the public research players and the socioeconomic world Make the transition from fundamental research to industrial research more fluid

9 Principles of the Carnot programme Defined in 2005, following a discussion on a new system inspired by foreign models (Germany, UK): Identifying, via a call for proposals, the institutes with a strong affinity with companies Awarding of a label by the French Ministry for Higher Education and Research for 4 years Funding proportional to the contractual income

10 Chronology 1 st call for proposals end Carnot labels in April nd call for proposals end Carnot labels in February 2007 Management of the Carnot programme entrusted to ANR in 2006 Constitution of the programme s steering committee Creation of the Association des Instituts Carnot (AICarnot) in February 2007

11 Management of the programme Management of calls for proposals and monitoring of labelled institutes (mid term and final assessments) Agreements Scope and Governance 4-years progress objectives Use of funding (annual addendum) Updated of procedures (calculations, controls, etc.) Calls for dedicated projects In 2007, Inter-Carnot AAP: P2IC Since 2009, Carnot-FhG: PICF Financing external audits and expertises For 2010, a budget 60 M is allocated for the whole programme

12 Becoming a Carnot institute... Committing to progress objectives defined by the Carnot charter: Quality and professionalism Research strategy and programmes Relations with socioeconomic partners Industrial property Relations with academic research International relations Governance Pooling of resources / integration Belonging to a community of values and objectives federated by an association structure (the AICarnot) Benefiting from specific financial support

13 Financing Funding allocated to the research organisations that agree to place partnership research at the heart of their strategy To support actions of: scientific renewing with a view to future exploitation of results (maintaining a phase advance in relation to the needs expressed by companies) ~ 80% of the total amount of the funding professionalism (tasks of management and administration of research) and development of the relationship with the players of the socioeconomic world (visibility) ~ 20% of the total amount of the funding

14 Calculation of the funding The funding must act as an incentive It is calculated over a base rate of eligible income which takes into account, for each Carnot institute: incomes from contractual research incomes from intellectual property consolidated annual budget of the Carnot institute The base rate is increased by 20% for contracts signed with SMEs

15 Eligible income General criteria (Board of the ANR, 2006): Income from research partnership contracts financed by public or private structures (excluding States, European Union, international organisations, national agencies) which are either the end users of the results or structures acting as intermediaries for users companies.

16 Steering Committee of the Carnot programme Chairman Christian COLLETTE Vice-Chairman Jean-Jacques GAGNEPAIN Members Catherine LASSALE Anne-Lucie WACK Brigitte SERREAULT Patrice DESMAREST Bernard DUBUISSON Jacques JARRIN Robert MAHLER Carlos MORENO Gerd MULLER Harilaos LOUKOS Jean DEREGNAUCOURT Patrick MEHLEN Paul FRIEDEL Yves DUBREIL Institutional Representatives Ministry for Higher Education and Research Ministry for the Economy, Finances and Employment OSEO-Innovation ANR Role: Participate at the selection process of the institutes evaluate the different components of the system Study the impact of the programme on the French partnership research

17 Location of the 33 Carnot institutes

18 The Carnot institutes network A multidisciplinary research network Staff : 17,000 professionals (including ~ 5,000 PhD) 4 major fields: - Electronics / Micro and Nanotechnologies / Optics - Living science and ecosystems - Mechanics, Materials, Chemistry, Energy - Transport, Aeronautics, Space An annual consolidated budget of 1.45 b

19 The programme is opening up to Europe A bilateral French-German ANR-BMBF agreement over a 3 years cycle Objectives of the Carnot-Fraunhofer dedicated calls for proposals: Create a close link for a long time between the 33 Carnot institutes and the 59 Fraunhofer institutes Work on strategic activity sectors identified by the institutes themselves Develop French-German collaborative research by improving the position and the image of public institutes of both countries. A big success and a high involvement of institutes: 2009: 11 financed projects 2010: 39 proposals, with: 28 Carnot institutes 36 Fraunhofer institutes 9 projects are funded

20 First assessment and prospects of the Carnot Programme

21 Assessment methodology Following the evolution in time of the turnover (amount, partners, customers, ) of each institutes (done by ANR) Monitoring of labelled institutes by mid term and final assessments (done by the Steering Committee) Impact assessment study, even if the programme is not old enough (in progress, by Ministry for Higher Education and Research and ANR) Making some polls in the scientific communities (public and private) about the image and the awareness of the programme (done for ANR by Opinionway): 9,376 contacts 1,984 answers, including 424 scientists from industry

22 Turnover derived from the partnership research M Total 2008: 215,7 M 12% 7% 9% 8% 6% 13 30% 20 Turnover in constant euros (exc. inflation) Between 2005 and 2008, the turnover from the eligible income for Carnot funding increased by 30 % for the 20 first Carnot Institutes

23 105,5M Origin of the eligible incomes The analysis of 5,000 contracts declared to ANR for 2008 enabled the income to be distributed according to the type of customers Total: 215,7 M BC # 1 BC # 2 CAC40 (26 BC) Others SMEs Outside of France Public companies Public authorities

24 First results There is a good balance between the research offer of the Carnot institutes and the industrial fields The Carnot institutes benefit from the strength of a network with an association as catalyst The Carnot institutes siphon off 30% of the company expenses to the public institutions, and this part is increasing The system (programme, label and institutes) put in place is promising and enables the growth of partnership income : +30% in 3 years According to a poll, this system begins to be well known and seems to be well estimate by the private sector

25 Prospects Starting of the «Carnot 2.0» programme process, following the positive decision of Ministry for Higher Education and Research regarding the future of the programme: End of the impact assessment study on the actual programme Definition on the new programme Launch of the Call Carnot 2, open to all the scientific community, at the beginning of November 2010 End of submission in January 2011 New label in April 2011 In the French economy recovery plan (a national loan of 35 b ), the Carnot programme was chosen as one of the investment of the future. Starting in 2010, 500 M (not expendable) will be dedicated to the programme, for funding some specific actions of the institutes.

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