HORIZON 2020 EU Research and Innovation Programme

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HORIZON 2020

EU Research and Innovation Programme

Opportunities and Challenges

Vanya Simeonova Peter Jongebloed

International Helpdesk

7 February, 2013

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Horizon 2020 programme

EC proposal for research and innovation funding programme (2014-2020) aiming to:

 Respond to the economic crisis to invest in future jobs and growth

 Address people’s concerns about their livelihoods, safety and environment

 Strengthen the EU’s global position in research,

innovation and technology

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Drivers of HORIZON 2020

 Excellence

 EU2020 strategy

 Seven societal challenges

 Research and innovation (ERA)

 European problems European solutions

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Seven flagship initiatives

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Seven Flagship Initiatives

Smart Growth Sustainable Growth Inclusive Growth

Innovation

« Innovation Union »

Climate, energy and mobility

« Resource efficient Europe »

Employment and skills

« An agenda for new skills and jobs »

Education

« Youth on the move » Competitiveness

« An industrial policy for the globalisation era »

Fighting poverty

« European platform against poverty » Digital society

« A digital agenda for

Europe »

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Completing ERA by 2014

European Research Area:

"A unified research area open to the world based on the Internal Market, in which researchers, scientific knowledge and technology circulate freely.... “

Priorities:

 More effective national research systems;

 Transnational;

 An open labor market for researchers co-operation and competition;

 Gender equality and gender mainstreaming in research;

 Optimal circulation and transfer of scientific knowledge.

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Seven Societal Challenges

 Health, and well-being;

 Food security, sustainable agriculture, marine research &

bioeconomy

 Secure, clean and efficient energy;

 Smart, green and integrated transport;

 Climate action, resource efficiency and raw materials;

 Understanding European society and societal change

 Protecting freedom and security in Europe.

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EU 2020 targets

Employment

75% of the 20-64 year-olds to be employed

R&D

3% of the EU's GDP to be invested in R&D

Climate change / energy

greenhouse gas emissions 20%

20% of energy from renewables 20% increase in energy efficiency

Education

Reducing school drop-out rates below 10%

at least 40% of 30-34–year-olds completing third level education

Poverty / social exclusion

at least 20 million fewer people in risk of poverty & social exclusion

... and as the EU researchers

informed me we shall....

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-Foundation of technologies, jobs, wellbeing -Attract and retain research talent

-Access to the best infrastructures

-Investments in key technologies -Innovation across sectors

-Attract private investment in R&D -SMEs to create growth and jobs

-Concerns of the society (environment etc...) -Multidisciplinary collaborations, including social sciences & humanities

-Promising solutions to be tested and scaled

up

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Europe 2020 Priorities

Tackling Societal Challenges - Health, demographic change and wellbeing

-Food sec.,sust.agriculture,marine res. & bioeconomy -Secure, clean and efficient energy

-Smart, green and integrated transport

-Supply of raw materials, resource efficiency& climate -Inclusive, innovative & secure societies

Creating Industrial Leadership - Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies (Biotechnology,…)

-Access to risk finance -Innovation in SMEs

Excellence in the Science Base -Frontier research (ERC)

-Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) -Skills and career development (Marie Curie) -Research infrastructures

Common rules, toolkit of funding schemes

European Research Area

Simplified access

International cooperation

Coherence with other EU and MS actions Shared objectives and principles

Horizon 2020: the EC vision

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Success in the FP7 programme

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What is new in Horizon 2020

 A single programme bringing together three separate programmes/initiatives

 Coupling research to innovation – from research to retail, 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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Horizon 2020 partnership instruments

Public-private partnership Public-public partnership European innovation partnership

• Grants for collaborative transnational projects

• Contractual agreement:

(PPP Bio-based)

• Knowledge and

Innovation communities (KICs’)

• ERA-Nets

• Joint Programming Initiatives (JPIs’)

• Not funding

instruments, but for coordination with other programmes (DG - Agro)

• Links with regional policies

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Participation of SMEs

 Integrated approach - around 15% of the total budget

 A dedicated activity for research-intensive SMEs in 'Innovation in SMEs‘

 Access to risk finance' - strong SME focus (debt and equity facility)

 Enterprise networks involvement (EU, the Netherlands)

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Widening participation

Coh es io n poli cy ^-Support regions in building up their research and innovation capacity

Development of smart

specialisation strategies

Accompanyin g measures

- ^Twinning

-ERA

-ERA chairs support for access to

international networks

Horiz on 20 20 -Widen

participation

-Better

coordination between the funding

programmes

-Support policy

reforms

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Widening participation

• acceding countries

• candidate countries

• potential candidates and

selected third countries that

fulfil the relevant criteria

(capacity, track record, close

economic and geographical

links to the Union, etc.)

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Simplification of participation rules

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Horizon 2020 Financial Scheme

Total budget proposed: ~80 billion euro / seven years

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P1 Excellence Science Base: €24 598 million

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P2 Building Industrial leadership in Europe: €17 938 million

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P3 Tackling societal challenges for better Europe: €31 748 million

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Food security and sustainable agriculture:

Phosphorus use issues in the EU

Knowledge, tools, services and innovations to support more productive, environmentally-friendly resource-efficient and resilient agriculture and forestry, supply sufficient food, feed, biomass and other raw-materials and deliver ecosystems services.

Enhance productivity and the adaptive capacity of plants, animals and production systems to cope with rapidly changing environmental/climatic conditions and scarce natural resources.

Move towards a low energy, low emission and low waste economy, and to reduced natural resources demand and reduce food losses along the entire food and feed supply chain. Use of biomass and by- products from agriculture and forestry for a wide range of non-food applications.

Multi-disciplinary approaches to improve the performance of plants, animals, micro-organisms, while ensuring efficient resource use (water, land, soil, nutrients, energy and other inputs) and the ecological integrity of rural areas.

Opportunities for rural communities for primary production and delivery of eco-systems services, production of new and diversified products (food, feed, materials, energy), low-carbon short-chain delivery systems

Cohesion of rural areas to prevent economic and social marginalisation, resource management

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Climate change, resource efficiency and raw materials:

Phosphorus use issues in the EU

Sustainable supply of non-energy and non-agricultural raw materials, knowledge base on raw materials and develop innovative solutions for the cost-effective and environmentally friendly exploration, extraction, processing, re-use, recycling and recovery of raw materials

Promote the sustainable supply and use of raw materials, including mineral resources, from land and sea, covering exploration, extraction, processing, re-use, recycling and recovery

Find alternatives for critical raw materials

Improve societal awareness and skills on raw materials

Enabling the transition towards a green economy and society through eco-innovation

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Budget project costs H2020

• Maximum of 100% of the total eligible costs (except “close to market” actions: 70%)

• Indirect eligible costs: a flat rate of 25% of direct eligible costs

• Project Coordination: Direct costs 100%+ flat rate 25% (in

KP7 was 60%)

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 Since 30/11/11: EP and Council negotiate on EC proposal

 2013: around April last calls FP7

 Since end 2012 trilateral negotiations in process:

MS-EP-EC budget 2014-2020 (budget Horizon 2020)

 By end 2013: Adoption of legislative acts by Parliament and Council on Horizon 2020