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University of Manchester
11 September 2013
Sobia Aslam
[email protected]
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Introduction to Horizon 2020
Overview of the Structure
Cross-cutting Issues
Highlights of Practical Aspects
How to get involved
Questions
introduction
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The European Union’s new funding instrument for research
and innovation from 2014-2020
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Budget of EUR 70.2 billion
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The follow on programme to FP7
EC Horizon 2020 website: http://ec.europa.eu/research/horizon2020/index_en.cfm?pg=home
EC Horizon 2020 proposal: http://ec.europa.eu/research/horizon2020/index_en.cfm?pg=h2020-documents
• Coupling research to innovation – from basic
research to market, all forms of innovation
• Focus on societal challenges facing EU society, e.g.,
health, clean energy and transport
• Simplified access, for all companies, universities,
institutes in all EU countries and beyond
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Official programme launch 1 January 2014
Before then:
 First Calls for Proposals expected on 11.12.2013
 Draft Work Programmes might be published in the
autumn
 Watch out for info days, brokerage events
Excellent
Science
Industrial
Leadership
Societal
Challenges
Health and Wellbeing
European Research
Council (ERC)
Future and Emerging
Technologies (FET)
Leadership in Enabling
and Industrial
Technologies (LEIT) ICT, KETs, Space
Food security
Transport
Energy
Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Actions (MSCA)
Climate action
Access to Risk Finance
Research Infrastructures
Societies
Security
Innovation in SMEs
Widening Participation; Science with and for Society
European Institute of Innovation
and Technology (EIT)
EURATOM
Joint Research Centre (JRC)
Sustainable food
security
Personalising health
and care
Blue growth
Smart cities and
communities
Water innovation
New ideas for
Europe
Disaster resilience
Competitive lowcarbon energy
Digital security
Mobility for growth
Energy Efficiency
Waste
Pillar 1 – Excellent Science
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Total budget = €21.6 billion
Brings the four programmes together for first time
New Committee structure: one PC for ERC / MSCA /
FET; one for RI
Should bring greater cohesion
Overall objective: “to strengthen the excellence of
European research.”
European
Research
Council
Research
Infrastructures
Marie
SklodowskaCurie Actions
Future and
Emerging
Technologies
European Research Council
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The ERC seeks to fund the best ‘frontier research’ proposals
submitted by excellent researchers, with excellence as the single
peer review criterion.
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Will fund projects led by a Principal Investigator, if necessary
supported by a team (no need for pan-European collaboration).
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Will operate on a ‘bottom-up’ basis, without pre-determined
research priorities. 25 panels in 3 domains which proposals can be
submitted to:
 Physical Sciences and Engineering
 Life Sciences
 Social Sciences and Humanities
Starting Grants
Consolidator Grants
Advanced Grants
Synergy Grants
Proof of Concept
Please see the ERC’s April 2013 statement on the timing of the 2014 calls:
http://erc.europa.eu/update-ERC-calls-proposals-2014
Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Actions
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Operates in a ‘bottom-up’ basis, open to all research
and innovation areas
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Mobility is a key requirement
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Key areas supported:
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Fostering new skills by means of excellent initial training of
researchers
Nurturing excellence by means of cross-border and cross-sector
mobility
Stimulating innovation by means of cross-fertilisation of
knowledge
Co-funding of activities
FP7
ITN
Horizon 2020
ITN
Innovative Training Networks
(Early Stage Researchers)
IEF
IOF
IIF
IF
Individual Fellowships
(Experienced Researchers)
CIG
IAPP
IRSES
COFUND
RISE
COFUND
Research and Innovation Staff Exchange
(Exchange of Staff)
Cofunding or regional, national and
international programmes
Future Emerging Technologies
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Expanded from ICT and Energy to be used as cross-cutting funding
scheme
Supports frontier research: alternative ideas, concepts or paradigms of
risky or non-conventional nature
FET
FET
FET
Open
Proactive
Flagships
•Fostering novel ideas
•Nurturing emerging
themes and
communities
•10 Topics
•Tackling grand
Interdisciplinary
science and
technology
challenges
•Graphene
•Human Brain
•Support to Flagships
High Performance
Computing PPP
•HPC towards Exascale
•7 Topics
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Non-topical and Non-descriptive
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Characteristics
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Long Term Vision and S&T targeted
Foundational – develop the basis for a new kind of technology
High-Risk – complex projects that cross multiple disciplines
Novelty – new ideas and concepts, not incremental
Interdisciplinary
Two Types of Projects
• Early Proof of Principle of a new technological possibility, together with its
scientific basis, as foundational contribution for a radically new line of science
and technology research; or
• Establish a solid baseline of feasibility and potential for a new technological
direction, ready for early take-up with an early-stage emerging innovation
ecosystem of high-potential actors.
• Involve new and high-potential research and innovation players
Objectives
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Exploratory: to stimulate the
exploration of a variety of
directions by building up
critical mass of researchers
and groups
Path finding: translating
science into concrete
technological directions by
projects that build on proof of
concept, while high risk, to
take them to the next level of
development
Nine Candidate Topics
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Time for Time
Constructive Symbiosis
Adaptive bottom-up
construction
New possibilities at the
nano-bio-chem interface
Knowing, doing, being
Ecological technology
Exploiting light-matter
interactions
Quantum technologies
Global Science System
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Graphene
Human Brain Project
Support to the FET Flagships
Research Infrastructures
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Developing the European Research Infrastructures (RI) for
2020 and beyond:
 Developing new world class RIs
 Integrating and opening national RIs of pan-European
interest
 Development, deployment and operation ICT based eInfrastructures
Foster innovation potential of RI and their human capital
Reinforcing European RI policy and international co-operation
Pillar 2 – Industrial Leadership
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Strategic investments in key technologies (e.g. advanced
manufacturing, micro-electronics) underpin innovation across
existing and emerging sectors
Europe needs to attract more private investment in research
and innovation
Europe needs more innovative SMEs to create growth and
jobs
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Strong focus on industrial involvement and applied
research
Developing industrial capacity in focus areas:
• Key Enabling Technologies (KETs)
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Micro- and nano-electronics,
Photonics
Nanotechnologies
Advanced Materials
Biotechnology
Advanced Manufacturing and Processing
Pillar 3 – Societal Challenges
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Concerns of citizens and society + EU policy objectives
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Breakthrough solutions come from multi-disciplinary
collaborations, including social sciences and humanities
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Addressing challenges requires full research &
innovation cycle, from research to market
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Focus on policy priorities without predetermining
technologies or types of solutions to be developed
Food
Challenge
Energy
Challenge
Transport
Challenge
Climate
Challenge
Health
Challenge
Security
Challenge
IIR
Challenge
Health, demographic change
and wellbeing
1. Understanding health, wellbeing and disease
•Understanding the determinants of health, improving health promotion and disease prevention
•Improved understanding of health and disease
•Improving surveillance and preparedness
2. Preventing Disease
•Developing effective prevention and screening programmes + assessment of disease susceptibility
•Improving diagnostics and prognosis
•Better preventive and therapeutic vaccines
3. Treating and managing disease
•Treating disease, including developing regenerative medicine
•Transferring knowledge to clinical practice and scalable innovation actions
4. Active ageing and self-management of health
•Active ageing and self-management of health
•Individual awareness and empowerment for self-management of health
5. Methods and data
•Improving health information and better use of health data
•Improving scientific tools and methods to support policy making and regulatory needs
•Using in-silico medicine for improving disease management and prediction
6. Health care provision and integrated care
•Promoting integrated care
•Optimising efficiency and effectiveness of healthcare provision and reducing inequalities by evidence-based
decision making
• Draft Work Programme currently unavailable
• Topics may include:
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Unravelling the complexity of health and disease
Personalised, safer, and more effective health interventions
Advancing active and healthy ageing
Integrated, sustainable, citizen centred care
Managing data, providing evidence for policies and regulation
Focus Area likely to be personalising health and care
Food Security, Sustainable
Agriculture, Marine and Maritime
Research and the Bio-economy
1. Sustainable agriculture and forestry
•developing more sustainable and productive agriculture and forestry systems
•developing services for thriving rural livelihoods
•mitigation of climate change
2. Sustainable and competitive agri-food sector for a safe and healthy diet
•developing healthy and safe foods
•enabling better consumer choices, and competitive food processing methods which use less
resources
•making the food sector more competitive
3. Unlocking the potential of aquatic living resources
•securing food supplies by developing sustainable and environmentally friendly fisheries
•increasing the competitiveness of European aquaculture
•boosting marine innovation through biotechnology
4. Sustainable and competitive bio-based industries
•transforming conventional industrial processes and products into bio-based resource and energy
efficient ones
•developing integrated bio-refineries
•better use of biomass from primary production
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Calls divided into the four specific activities, plus a number of topics within
two ‘Focus Areas’:
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Sustainable agriculture and forestry (5 topics)
Sustainable and competitive agri-food sector (4 topics)
Unlocking the potential of aquatic living resources (5 topics)
Sustainable and competitive bio-based industries (6 topics)
Focus area on sustainable food security (17 topics)
Focus area on blue growth (17 topics)
 plus 1 topic each under other focus areas on Waste and Personalising Health
and Care
Types of projects to be funded:
• Collaborative projects (CP) with 100% reimbursement rates, and first market
replication projects (CP-CTM) with 70% reimbursement rates
• Coordination and Support Actions (CSA)
• 2x ERA-NETs
• 3x topics to be funded via the SME Instrument
• Also: Public-Private Partnership on Bio-Based Industries
Secure, Clean and Efficient
Energy
Reducing energy
consumption and carbon
footprint by smart and
sustainable energy use
Low cost, low carbon
energy supply
Alternative fuels and
mobile energy sources
A single, smart European
electricity grid
New knowledge and
technologies
Robust decision making
and public engagement
Low cost, low carbon
energy supply
Projects implementing the main aims of the
European Strategic Energy Technology
(SET) Plan will be a big priority
1. Reducing energy consumption and carbon footprint by smart and sustainable use
•Bring to mass market technologies and services for a smart and efficient energy use
•Unlock the potential of efficient and renewable heating-cooling systems
•Foster European Smart cities and Communities
2. Low-cost, low-carbon electricity supply
•Develop the full potential of wind energy
•Develop efficient, reliable and cost-competitive solar energy systems
•Develop competitive and environmentally safe technologies for CO2 capture, transport, storage and re-use
•Develop geothermal, hydro, marine and other renewable options
Alternative fuels and mobile energy sources
•Make bio-energy more competitive and sustainable
•Reducing time to market for hydrogen and fuel cells technologies
•New alternative fuels
4. A single, smart European electricity grid
5. New knowledge and technologies
6. Robust decision making and public engagement
7. Market uptake of energy innovation
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Calls for proposals divided into three Focus Areas:
Energy Efficiency (16 topics)
Competitive Low Carbon Energy (20 topics)
Smart Cities and Communities (2 topics)
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Types of projects to be funded:
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Collaborative projects (with 100% reimbursement rate)
Coordination and Support Actions
Several ERA-NETs
Several topics funded via public procurement
Also: some topics funded through the Energy Efficient Buildings and Sustainable
Process Industries Public Private Partnerships
Smart, green and integrated
transport
Aviation
Four broad lines of activity:
1) Resource-efficient transport that
respects the environment and
public health
Rail
Mode of transport
Road
2) Better mobility and accessibility,
less congestion, more safety and
security
Waterborne
Urban mobility
3) Global leadership for the
European transport industry
Logistics
4) Socio-economic and behavioural
research and forward looking
activities for policy making
Transport integration
Intelligent transport
systems
Infrastructures
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Four calls:
Mobility for Growth (46 topics)
Clean Vehicles (10 topics)
Blue Growth (4 topics)
Smart Cities and Communities (2 topics)
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Types of projects funded:
• single or two-stage Collaborative Projects (CPs) with 100% or 70%
reimbursement rates
• single stage Coordination and Support Actions (CSAs)
• Small Business Innovation Research for Transport
• inducement prize in 2015 for the cleanest engine
Climate action, resource
efficiency and raw materials
Fighting and adapting to
climate change
Sustainable management
of natural resources and
ecosystems
Sustainable supply of nonenergy and nonagricultural raw materials
To achieve: Transition to a green economy through eco-innovation
Contributing
to focus areas
Waste: a resource to recycle, reuse
and recover raw materials
Water innovation: boosting its value
for Europe
Disaster resilience: safeguarding and
securing society, including adapting
to climate change
1. Fighting and adapting to climate change
•Better understanding of climate change and reliable projections
•Innovative adaption and risk prevention measures
•Climate change mitigation policies
2. Sustainability managing natural resources and ecosystems
•Functioning of ecosystems, interactions with social systems and their role in sustaining economy and human
beings
•Support for decision making and public engagement
3. Ensuring the sustainable supply of non-energy and non-agricultural raw materials
•Better knowledge on availability
•Promotion of sustainable supply (exploration, extraction, processing, recyling and recovery)
•Alternatives for critical raw materials
•Improve social awareness
4. Enabling the transition towards a green economy through eco-innovation
•Strengthen eco-innovation and market uptake
•Innovative policies and societal changes
•Resource efficiency through digital systems
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Calls for proposals divided into three Focus Areas:
Waste (13 topics)
Water Innovation (15 topics)
Disaster resilience (20 topics)
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Types of projects to be funded:
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Single or two-stage collaborative projects (CP) with 100% and 70% reimbursement rates
5 x ERA-NETs
1 topic to be funded via the SME Instrument
1 co-ordination action for Pre-Commercial procurement (PCP) and 1 co-ordination action for
Public Procurement for Innovation (PPI)
• 1 (possible) Inducement Prize
Europe in a Changing World:
Inclusive, Innovative and
Reflective Societies
Inclusive societies
Innovative societies
Reflective societies
To achieve: inclusive and innovative European societies in a context
of unprecedented transformations and growing global
interdependencies
Overcoming the crisis: new ideas, strategies and
governance structures for Europe
1. Inclusive societies
• The mechanisms to promote smart, sustainable and inclusive growth
• Resilient, inclusive, participatory, open and creative societies in Europe
• Strengthening Europe’s role as a global actor
• Promotion of sustainable and inclusive environments through innovative spatial
and urban planning and design
2. Innovative societies
• Strengthen the evidence base and support for the Innovation Union and European
Research Area (ERA)
• New forms of innovation, incl. social innovation and creativity
• Innovative, creative and productive potential of all generations
3. Reflective societies
• Cultural heritage
• European values and identities
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+ Focus Area: Overcoming the crisis – new ideas, strategies and governance
structures for Europe
Inclusive societies
• Europe for the young generation (7 topics)
• Europe as a global actor (12 topics)
• Cooperation with third countries (1 topic)
• Boosting its value for Europe (15 topics)
Innovative societies
• Achieving Innovation Union and ERA (9 topics)
• New forms of innovation (10 topics)
• Digital empowerment of citizens (7 topics)
Reflective societies
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Overcoming the
crisis (14 topics)
• Cultural heritage (10 topics)
• European values and identities (8 topics)
Types of projects to be funded:
• Single stage collaborative projects (CP) and Coordination and Support Actions (CSA) with 100%
reimbursement rate and some closer to market CPs with 70% reimbursement
• 1 x ERA-NET on ‘Uses of the past’
• Several prizes for European Women Innovators, innovation in the public administration, European
Capital of Innovation, European social innovation etc.
• Public procurement, framework contracts, expert contracts on innovation policy and ERA
Secure Societies – Protecting
Freedom and Security of
Europe and its Citizens
1. Fight crime, illegal trafficking and terrorism
•Avoiding incidents and mitigating potential consequences
•New technologies & capabilities for fighting (cyber) crime, terrorism and illegal trafficking.
•Understanding and tackling terrorist ideas and beliefs
2. Protect & improve resilience of critical infrastructures, supply chains and transport modes
•New technologies, processes and capabilities to help protect critical infrastructures, systems and services
•Analysing and securing networked infrastructures against any type of threats
3. Strengthen security through border management
•Technologies and capabilities to improve border security, including control and surveillance issues
•Consideration of effectiveness, compliance with legal / ethical principles, respect of fundamental rights, etc.
•Improved integrated European border management
4. Improve cyber security
•Prevention, detection and management of cyber-attacks
•Research to enable quick reactions to new developments in trust and security
•Particular attention to protection of children
5. Increase Europe’s resilience to crises and disasters
•Technologies and capabilities to support different types of emergency management operations in crises and disasters
•Interoperation between civilian and military capabilities; development of dual-use technologies to enhance this interoperability.
6. Ensure privacy and freedom and enhance the societal, legal and ethical understanding of security and risk
•Safeguarding the human right of privacy
•Controlling personal data
•Perceptions, insecurity and the role of the media
•Ethical, legal and human rights issues
7. Enhance standardisation and interoperability of systems, including for emergency purposes
•Pre-normative and standardisation activities supported across all mission areas
•Integration and interoperability of systems and services
•Communication, distributed architecture, human factors.
Four calls:
1. Fighting Crime and Terrorism
•Forensics topics
2. Enhancing societal resilience to
natural and man-made disasters
•Law enforcement capabilities
•Crisis Management
•Urban Security
•Disaster resilience and Climate Change
•Ethical /Societal Dimension
•Critical infrastructure programme
•Communication technologies and interoperability
•Ethical / Societal Dimension
3. Improving Border Security
•Maritime border security
4. Providing enhanced cyber security
(inc. privacy and data use)
•Border crossing points
•Privacy
•Supply chain security
•Access control
•Ethical/social dimension
•Secure information sharing
•Trust eServices
•Risk management and assurance models
•The role of ICT in critical infrastructure protection
Cross-cutting aspects and international co-operation
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Overall aim is to bring the benefits of progress in
technologies to European citizens and businesses
ICT is essential to address Europe's societal
challenges (e.g. sustainable healthcare, healthy
ageing, better security, lower carbon economy,
intelligent transport)
Support for development of ICT in Science, ICT in
industrial leadership and ICT in societal challenges
Excellent
Science
Industrial
Leadership
Societal
Challenges
ICT in bottom up
schemes ERC,
MSCA, FET, and
eInfrastructure
ICT in LEIT –
micronanoelectronics
KET and
photonics KET
ICT embedded in
Societal
Challenges
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Health: e-health, self management of health, improved
diagnostics, improved surveillance, health data collection,
active ageing, assisted living;
• Example topic: “ICT solutions for older people with cognitive
impairments”
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Food: “Food chain data standardisation”
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Energy: smart cities; energy efficient buildings; smart
electricity grids; smart metering;
• Example topic “Market uptake of energy efficiency products and
services via ICT”
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Transport: smart transport equipment, infrastructures
and services; innovative transport management
systems; safety aspects
• Example topic: “ICT for smart logistics”
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Climate: ICT for increased resource efficiency; earth
observation and monitoring
• Example topic: “Roadmap for electronic waste”
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Societies: Digital inclusion; social innovation
platforms; e-government services; e-skills and elearning; e-culture
• Example topic: “Preservation of digital art”
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Security: Cyber security; ensuring privacy and
protection of human rights on-line
• Example topic: “Secure information sharing”
Social Sciences and Humanities
across Horizon 2020
“Social sciences and humanities (SSH) research will be fully integrated
into each of the general objectives of Horizon 2020”
Excellent
Science
Base
• SSH fully supported under the ERC, MCSA and
research infrastructures
• FET calls for “intense collaboration across
disciplines…cognitive sciences, social sciences or
economics…and with the arts and humanities”
• “Societal engagement on responsible
nanotechnology”
Industrial
Leadership
• “Innovative materials for creative industries”
• “Developing smart factories that are attractive to
workers”
• “Human-centric digital age”
“SSH will be mainstreamed as an essential element of the activities needed to tackle
each of the societal challenges”
Health
• “Individual
empowerment for selfmanagement of health”
• “Promoting integrated
care”
• “Optimising the
efficiency and
effectiveness of health
care systems and
reducing inequalities”
Food security
• “Socio-economic
challenges, price
shocks, food choice
and hidden hunger”
• Unlocking the growth
potential of rural areas
through enhanced
governance and social
innovation”
• “Diet, impulsivity and
compulsivity”
Energy
• “Consumer
engagement for energy
efficiency”
• “The human factor in
the energy system”
• “The economics of
climate change
mitigation”
Transport
• “Monitoring user
behaviour, mobility
patterns and social
acceptance in the
context of new social
trends and future
demand”
• “Transport societal
drivers”
Climate action
Security
• “Urban metabolism:
novel concepts and
mechanisms to
reconcile urban and
natural resources
management”
• “The role of new social
media networks in
national security”
• “Interactions and
trade-offs between
sustainable energy,
land use, water
resources and climate
change”
• “Impact of climate
change in 3rd countries
on Europe’s security”
• “Better understanding
the links between
culture and disaster”
Inclusive, innovative and reflective societies
“Always more inequalities? New
views on equality, solidarity and
democracy”
“Reflections of Europe’s colonial
past in today’s European Union”
“Conflict heritage – the cultural
heritage of war in contemporary
Europe”
“The young as a driver of socioecological transition”
“Translation and
multilingualism”
“The future of European
integration – ‘More Europe – less
“Digital social platforms”
“Unity in diversity: prospects of a
Europe?’”
“Empowering citizens to manage
European identity and public
“Individual reactions to the crisis
and monitor their personal data”
sphere”
and challenges to European
“Preservation of digital art”
“Museums in the 21st Century”
solidarity”
International Co-operation
across the Programme
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No specific programme for international co-operation, but collaborating with
third countries is highlighted across Horizon 2020
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Pillar 1 (open to researchers from third countries)
• European Research Council
• Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
• Research Infrastructures
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Pillar 2 (international collaborations strongly encouraged)
• Key Enabling Technologies
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Pillar 3 (numerous topics recommending international collaborations)
• All Societal Challenges
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EURATOM and COST
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Funding Instruments
• research and innovation projects (collaborative projects with
international partners)
• networking activities
• joint initiatives with international partners such as coordinated
calls and joint calls
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Who can participate?
• Any legal entity based in a third country
• However, only countries that have a GDP below EUR 3 trillion
will be eligible to receive automatic funding
Basic participation details
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28 EU Member States (Croatia joined in 2013)
Associate Countries (similar list to FP7 expected)
• Still under negotiation
• Some might not sign agreement in time for Horizon 2020 start
but can still apply as long as the agreement is signed in time
for grant signature.
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Third countries (funding will depend on GDP)
• BRIC no longer eligible for funding
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Two-year work programmes for 2014-15
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Harmonised structure across all EC Directorate-Generals
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Strategic Programme defines overall focus areas
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Topics structure: “Specific challenge”, “Scope”,
“Expected Impact”
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Publication of work programmes and calls for
proposals
• The first work programmes will cover 2014 and 2015
• The first calls are expected to be launched in December
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Work programmes explain what is funded (topics,
grant schemes) and the expected policy impact
Calls for proposals give details on the timeline
(deadline, evaluation, results) and the eligibility criteria
CP: Collaborative Project
CSA: Coordination and Support Action
SME Instrument
cPPP: contractual Public/Private partnership
ERANET
Prizes
PCP: Pre-contractual procurement
PPI: Public procurement of innovative solutions
“Traditional” multi-national, multi-partner
collaborative projects
100% - predominantly research
70% - largely closer to market “innovation
projects”
“Traditional” multi-national, multi-partner
support actions
100% or 70%
SMEs only – research can be subcontracted
to HEIs
Vehicle to pursue specific technological
roadmap. Part funded by industry. EU
funding element from Horizon 2020. Issue
research calls – same funding regime as
Horizon 2020
Research programmes run by network of
national funders in specific field part
funded by EU from Horizon 2020. Issue
research calls on their own funding
regimes
All or nothing specific competitive calls –
content varies
Non-competitive actions
Non-competitive actions
Practical aspects of Horizon
2020
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Commission promises single set of rules
Now rules are based on general EU Financial
Regulation
Should be coherent with rules of other funding
instruments (Structural funds, Erasmus+)
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Single funding rate per project
• 100% for research projects
• 70% for innovation projects (100% for non-profit organisations
including universities)
• Rate defined in the Work Programme
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Indirect cost flat rate 25%
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No time sheets for staff working full-time on Horizon
2020 projects
Shorter time to grant (5+3 months)
Promise of broader acceptance of participants’
accounting practices
Promise of risk and fraud prevention based audit
strategy
One audit certificate (Certificate on the Financial
Statements) at the end of each project per beneficiary
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To be single entry point to Horizon 2020 grant
management
Move to electronic signatures only
• Legal Entity Representative (LEAR) will nominate those
authorised to sign
• eReceipt – digitally signed PDF
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Still under development
Web book for applicants, participants and experts
planned
• To include glossary and FAQ database
• Will guide through the manual
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Horizon 2020 Manual User manual
• Text based guidance for participants
• Will include Vademecum
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Horizon 2020 Vademecum
• For Commission/agency staff
How to get involved and how to influence
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Drafts the Horizon 2020 work programmes
Seeks internal and external input during the
development stage
Internal input from relevant policy Directorate-Generals
External input from a range of stakeholders
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Expert Advisory Groups
Programme Committees
European Technology Platforms
Joint Programming Initiatives
European Innovation Platforms
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Become active in a ETPs and or relevant EIPs
Follow the work of JPIs in your area
Attend stakeholder/networking/brokerage events
Contact colleagues in other Member States
Become an evaluator to learn more about the process
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Commission maintains a database of independent
experts
Experts are called upon for the
• evaluation of proposals
• the review of projects
• the monitoring of programmes or policies
Experts:
 need high level expertise in research or innovation in
any scientific and technological field, including
managerial aspects and industry expertise
 have at least a university degree
 have to be available for occasional, short-term
assignments
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Check the Horizon 2020 proposals-Do they cover your research area?
Think about networking and building links with potential partners now
Who are key players?
Who has been involved in previous projects / stakeholder groups?
How can you meet them?
• Attending events
• Joining the EU evaluators database
(http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/page/experts)
• Joining European Technology Platforms or other relevant
stakeholder groups
Position yourself as a key partner.
Some areas, such as Marie Curie and the ERC, are bottom-up so you
could start early thinking about potential proposal ideas for H2020
Sign up for UKRO Portal, and choose ‘policy’ category
Any
questions?