Transcript HORIZON 2020: The New EU Framework Programme for Research

HORIZON 2020
The New EU
Framework Programme for
Research and Innovation
2014-2020
Stéphane Hogan
Science Counsellor, European Commission
EU Delegation to the African Union
Why the EU supports Research & Innovation
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Investing in future growth and development
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Addressing people’s concerns about their livelihoods,
safety and environment
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Strengthening the EU’s global position in research,
innovation and technology
Supporting competitiveness & improving quality of life
How the EU support research & innovation:
funding and enabling conditions
Funding: the Framework programmes (FP)
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FP7: €55 billion for research and innovation
Enabling conditions
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European Research Area (eg mobility), IPR…
The Framework programmes
& International Cooperation
• very open to international cooperation
• Africa in FP7 (as of September 2013)
• 45 countries involved
• 1315 participations in 565 projects
• total EU-funding received: €178 million
• Mainly (82%) in Cooperation programme (€145.7 million)
AFRICA in FP7
40.0
Leading participants
37.3
EU contribution (€m)
35.0
30.0
25.0
20.0
16.1
15.0
10.0
15.0
13.4
12.3
12.0
8.5
8.2
7.7
5.3
5.0
0.0
3.79
3.72
3.66
3.66
3.36
3.24
3.06
2.73
1.88
1.86
AFRICA in FP7 – examples of projects (1)
• OPTIMUNISE - Optimising the impact and cost-effectiveness of
child health intervention programmes of vaccines and micronutrients
in low-income countries
• Aim: to use health and demographic surveillance system sites in
Africa to register information routinely on all interventions in
childhood (eg vaccinations, supplementation, and de-worming) given
at health centres or in campaigns; and use this information to
measure the overall impact of child health programmes.
• From March 2011 to February 2016, EU contribution €3 million.
• Led by Statens Serum Institute (Denmark) with 2 other European
partners and 4 African partners: Ghana Health Service and INDEPTH
Network (Ghana), Centre de Recherche en Santé de Nouna (Burkina
Faso) and Instituto Nacional de Saúde Pública (Guinea-Bissau).
[ www.indepth-network.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1216&Itemid=1074 ]
AFRICA in FP7 – examples of projects (2)
• CLIMAFRICA - Climate change predictions in Sub-Saharan Africa:
impacts and adaptations
• Aim: to develop tools to better understand & predict climate change,
assess its impact on African ecosystems and populations and develop
appropriate adaptation strategies.
• From January 2010 to September 2014, EU contribution €3.5 million.
• Led by the Euro-Mediterranean Centre on Climate Change (Italy) with
9 other European partners and 8 African partners: Centre d'Étude de
Recherche et de Production en Information pour l'Environnement et
le Développement Durable (Burkina Faso), Unité de recherche sur la
productivité des plantations industrielles (Congo), Council for
Scientific and Industrial Research (Ghana), IGAD Climate Prediction
and Application Centre (Kenya), University of Malawi, University of
Cape Town (South Africa), Agricultural Research Corporation (Sudan)
and University of Lomé (Togo). [www.climafrica.net ]
AFRICA in FP7 – examples of projects (3)
• QWECI - Quantifying Weather and Climate Impacts on Health in
Developing Countries to understand the climate drivers of vectorborne diseases (malaria, Rift Valley Fever and tick-borne diseases).
• Aim: to understand the climate drivers of the vector-borne diseases
of malaria, Rift Valley Fever, and certain tick-borne diseases, which
affect human and livestock health and have economic implications in
Africa, in order to assist with their short-term management and make
projections of their future likely impacts.
• From February 2010 to July 2013, EU contribution €3.5 million.
• Led by University of Liverpool (UK) with 5 other European partners
and 7 African partners: Kwame Nkrumah University of S&T (Ghana),
University of Malawi, Université Cheikh Anta Diop (Senegal), Centre
de Suivi Ecologique (Senegal) and Institut Pasteur de Dakar
(Senegal) and University of Pretoria (South Africa).
• for more information: www.liv.ac.uk/qweci/
AFRICA in FP7 – examples of projects (4)
• AFRICA BUILD - Building a Research and Education Infrastructure
for Africa
• Aim: to improve capacity for health research and education in Africa,
through Information Technologies, that will provide innovative
learning and research opportunities.
• From August 2011 to July 2014, EU contribution €2 million.
• Led by University of Madrid (Spain) with 3 other European partners
and 4 African partners: University of Ghana, University of Yaoundé
(Cameroon), Ministry of Communications & Information Technology
(Egypt) and University of Bamako (Mali).
• for more information: www.africabuild.eu
• 1st AFRICA BUILD conference in Yaoundé on 25 November 201:
(http://africabuild.eu/conference/yaounde)
Horizon 2020
What is Horizon 2020 ?
• European Union's €79 billion research and innovation
funding programme (2014-2020)
• A core part of Europe 2020, Innovation Union &
European Research Area:
− Responding to economic crisis to invest in future jobs &
growth
− Addressing people’s concerns about their livelihoods,
safety and environment
− Strengthening the EU’s global position in research,
innovation and technology
What Horizon 2020 is not:
• A development aid programme
• A bilateral cooperation programme
It is a programme focussed on European needs and
global challenges, open to international cooperation.
Three priorities
Excellent
science
Industrial
leadership
Societal
challenges
Proposed funding
(all figures in billion euro, over the period 2014-2020)*
European Research Council (ERC)
Frontier research by the best individual teams
Future and Emerging Technologies
Collaborative research to open new fields of
innovation
13.1
2.7
Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions (MSCA)
Opportunities for training and career development
6.2
Research infrastructures (including e-infrastructure)
Ensuring access to world-class facilities
2.5
⃰ All funding figures in this presentation are subject to the pending Multiannual
Financial Framework Regulation by the EP and the Council
Proposed funding (€ billion, 2014-2020)
Leadership in enabling and
industrial technologies (LEITs)
(ICT, nanotechnologies, materials,
biotechnology, manufacturing, space)
13.6
Access to risk finance
Leveraging private finance and venture
capital for research and innovation
Innovation in SMEs
Fostering all forms of innovation in all
types of SMEs
2.8
6.2
+ complemented by
expected 20% of budget
of societal challenges +
LEITs and
'Access to risk finance'
with strong SME focus
Proposed funding (€ billion, 2014-2020)
Health, demographic change and wellbeing
7.47
Food security, sustainable agriculture, marine and
maritime research & the Bioeconomy
3.85
Secure, clean and efficient energy *
5.93
Smart, green and integrated transport
6.33
Climate action, resource efficiency and raw materials
3.08
Inclusive and reflective societies
1.30
Secure societies
1.69
Science with and for society
0.46
Spreading excellence and widening participation
0.82
⃰ Additional funding for nuclear safety and security from the Euratom Treaty activities
(2014-2018)
Simplification: summary
• Single set of simpler and more coherent participation rules
• Better balance between trust and control
• Moving from several funding rates for different
beneficiaries and activities to just two
• Replacing the four methods to calculate overhead or
“indirect costs” with a single flat rate
• Successful applicants to get working more quickly:
time-to-grant of 8 months; with some exceptions
Strong participation by SMEs
• Integrated approach - around 20% of the total budget for
societal challenges and LEITs to go to SMEs
• Simplification of particular benefit to SMEs
(e.g. single entry point)
International cooperation
• International cooperation is crucial to address many
Horizon 2020 objectives
• Principle of general openness: Horizon 2020 will continue
to be the most open funding programme in the world
• Targeted actions to be implemented taking a strategic
approach to international cooperation
Do not view EU grants solely as a source of funding,
but as a means to build deep & long-term cooperation.
Next steps
Tentative schedule
• Horizon 2020 information events
from October 2013
• Adoption of work programme and
publication of first calls for proposals
11 December 2013
• First deadlines for submission
from March 2014
Sources of information
• Horizon 2020 web site: http://ec.europa.eu/research/horizon2020
• Participant portal: http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal
• Google, LinkedIn… & specialised databases (eg: Healthcompetence.eu)
• Horizon 2020 information events in Europe:
http://ec.europa.eu/research/horizon2020/index_en.cfm?pg=h2020-events
• Horizon 2020 information events in Africa:
• South Africa – 7 October 2013
• Ghana – 4 November 2013
• Burkina Faso - 6 November 2013
• Ethiopia – 5 December 2013
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HORIZON 2020
Thank you
for your attention!
Find out more:
www.ec.europa/research/horizon2020