FET-Open in Horizon2020
Work Programme 2014-2015
Roumen Borissov
Future and Emerging Technologies FET-Open
Research Executive Agency
Content
• Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) in Horizon 2020
• FET-Open according to Work Programme 2014- 2015 – an overview
• Evaluation criteria for proposals submitted to the current call of FET-Open
• Evaluation procedure for FET-Open RIA
• FET-Open CSA
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FET in Horizon 2020
Excellent Science pillar in H2020
• European Research Council (13B€)
• Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions (6,1B€)
• Future and Emerging Technologies
• Research infrastructures programme (2,4B€)
"Future and emerging technologies shall support
collaborative research in order to extend Europe’s capacity for advanced and paradigm-changing innovation. It shall foster scientific collaboration across disciplines on radically new, high-risk ideas and accelerate development of the most promising emerging areas of science and technology as well as the Union wide structuring of the corresponding scientific communities."
HORIZON 2020 - THE FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME FOR
FET: 2,7 B€
• To promote and support the emergence of radically new technology areas that will renew the basis for future European competitiveness and growth and will make a difference for society in the decades to come.
• To initiate and shape the development of European research and innovation eco-systems around such future and emerging technologies, as seeds of future industrial leadership and potential solutions for
societal challenges.
• To turn Europe into the best environment for responsible and dynamic multi-disciplinary collaborations on such future and emerging
technologies, including facilitating the wider training of researchers in new areas.
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FET in Horizon 2020
FET mission
Individual research projects
FET-Open
Early Ideas
Topical clusters of research projects
FET Proactive
Exploration and Incubation
Common research agendas
FET Flagships
Large-Scale Partnering Initiatives
Exploring Developing Addressing
novel ideas topics & communities grand challenges
Roadmap based research Open, light and agile
FET in Horizon 2020
Content
• Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) in Horizon 2020
• FET-Open according to Work Programme 2014-2015 – an overview
• Evaluation criteria for proposals submitted to the current call of FET-Open
• Evaluation procedure for FET-Open RIA
• FET-Open CSA
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FET-Open : novel ideas for radically new technologies
FET Open in WP2014-15
“FET-Open is open!”
• No thematic restriction, not necessarily ICT emphasis
o New areas: space research, medicine, energy…
o TRL 1-3, successful FET project result is a proof of a concept in a lab
• Bottom-up, but targeted - not blue sky research
• Collaborative research
• Total budget: ~160M€ in 2014-15
• Instrument
o Research and Innovation Action - 154M€
FET-Open call
FET Open in WP2014-15
• Submission & Evaluation
o 1 step submission - 1 step evaluation based on FET specific evaluation criteria
o High quality peer review – 4 experts per proposals to best address multi-disciplinary nature of FET
• Grant Agreement Preparation (GAP) – the grants are based on the submitted proposals
o The information necessary for the preparation of the Description of action (DoA) has to be in the proposal
o During GAP certain details are fixed, like project periods, starting date, addressing the ethics recommendations, financial issues, like third parties
• Time to contract of max. 8 months from cut-off date
o ESR within 5 months, contracts within 3 extra months
FETOPEN 1: FET-Open research projects
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Specific challenge
• Supporting a large set of early stage, high risk visionary science and technology collaborative research projects is
necessary for the successful exploration of new foundations for
radically new future technologies. Nurturing fragile ideas requires an agile, risk-friendly and highly interdisciplinary research approach, expanding well beyond the strictly technological disciplines.
Recognising and stimulating the driving role of new high-potential actors in research and innovation, such as women, young researchers and high-tech SMEs, is also important for nurturing the scientific and industrial leaders of the future.
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Funding per project: approximately 2 to 4M€
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Budget: 154M€ Deadlines 30/09/2014 31/03/2015 29/09/2015
Budget 77 M€ 38,5 M€ 38,5M€
FET Open in WP2014-15
Results from cut-off dates 1&2
• 643 RIA proposals submitted by cut-off date 1
• 24 proposals selected for funding from the first evaluation, some of them already started work
• Success rate for RIA~3,7%
• 670 proposals submitted by cut-off date 2
• Expected number of funded proposals ~ 12 -> ~1,8%
success rate
FET Open in WP2014-15
FET Open in WP2014-15
FET gatekeepers - the kind of research that FET is looking for
FET Open in WP2014-15
Long-term vision: a new, original or radical long-term vision of technology- enabled possibilities going far beyond the state of the art
Breakthrough S&T target: scientifically ambitious and technologically concrete breakthroughs plausibly attainable within the life-time of the project.
Foundational: the breakthroughs must be foundational in the sense that they can establish a basis for a new line of technology not currently anticipated.
Novelty: new ideas and concepts, rather than the application or incremental refinement of existing ones.
High-risk: the potential of a new technological direction depends on a whole
range of factors that cannot be apprehended from a single disciplinary viewpoint.
Interdisciplinary: the proposed collaborations must go beyond current
mainstream collaboration configurations in joint S&T research, and must aim to
advance different scientific and technological disciplines together and in synergy
towards a breakthrough.
Composition of proposals
Section 4 & 5 are not covered by the page limit.
Section 1,2 & 3 are strictly limited to 15 pages!
Cover page strictly limited to 1 page
FET Open in WP2014-15
Part A: Administrative part of the proposal Part B : Scientific part of the proposal
16 pages – core proposal Cover page
Section 1: S&T Excellence Section 2: Impact
Section 3: Implementation Additional information
Section 4: Members of the consortium E.g. legal entity, CV, subcontract, third party Section 5: Ethics and Security
Ethics self-assessment & supporting documents
Security checklist
Content
• Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) in Horizon 2020
• FET-Open according to Work Programme 2014- 2015 – an overview
• Evaluation criteria for proposals submitted to the current call of FET-Open
• Evaluation procedure for FET-Open RIA
• FET-Open CSA
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Excellence Impact Implementation Clarity of targeted
breakthrough and its specific science and technology
contributions towards a long-term vision.
Novelty, level of ambition and
foundational character.
Range and added value from
interdisciplinarity.
Appropriateness of the research methods.
Importance of the new technological
outcome with regards to its transformational impact on technology and/or society.
Quality of measures for achieving impact on science, technology
and/or society.
Impact from
empowerment of new and high potential actors towards future technological
leadership.
Quality of the
workplan and clarity of intermediate targets.
Relevant expertise in the consortium.
Appropriate allocation and justification of
resources (person- months, equipment, budget).
Evaluation criteria RIA
Excellence
1. Clarity of targeted breakthrough and its specific science and technology contributions towards a long-term vision.
• Is there a clearly defined long-term vision?
• Is there a clear description of the proposed breakthrough research? The breakthrough could be related to a problem that has resisted resolution for years and the proposal
suggests a plausible idea for a solution
• Relevance of the targeted breakthrough for the long-term vision – it should be outlined how the breakthrough would lead to the long-term vision
Evaluation criteria RIA
2. Novelty, level of ambition and foundational character.
• Is the research proposed novel? – it should be more than continuation of research going on for years
• Is the research proposed ambitious and far-reaching, not just another small incremental step along a path already being followed?
• Does the research proposed have a potential to start a new line of investigation, which can be followed for years and can lead to completely new technologies?
Excellence
Evaluation criteria RIA
3. Range and added value from interdisciplinarity.
• To what extent the main idea requires involvement of knowledge and methodology from different disciplines?
• How are these different disciplines intertwined and how the ideas from different disciplines support the scientific
breakthrough?
4. Appropriateness of the research methods.
• Is the analysis of the state-of-the-art comprehensive and complete?
• Relevance of the chosen methods for the achieving the
Excellence
Evaluation criteria RIA
Impact
1. Importance of the new technological outcome with regards to its transformational impact on
technology and/or society.
• Is the long-term technological outcome clearly defined?
• Is the transformational impact on technology, on society or on both convincingly argued?
• It is not sufficient to have just a scientific impact based simply on peer reviewed publications!
Evaluation criteria RIA
2. Quality of measures for achieving impact on science, technology and/or society.
• Are the "standard" measures (scientific publications, website) properly described and planned?
• Does the proposal goes sufficiently far beyond the
"standard" measures? For example, are there additional measures, based on new media included?
• Is it clearly explained how the dissemination measures would support achieving the expected impact?
Impact
Evaluation criteria RIA
3. Impact from empowerment of new and high potential actors towards future technological leadership.
• Are there young researchers in the consortium, especially principle investigators, who would keep up the research in a long run?
• Are there SMEs in the consortium with sufficient budget, who would take up the results from the project and would eventually carry them over towards innovation and market realization?
• Are there new actors, who are usually underrepresented in the specific tasks to be performed by the project (for
example, is there a proper gender balance)?
Impact
Evaluation criteria RIA
Implementation
1. Quality of the work plan and clarity of intermediate targets.
• Are the objectives specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, and time-bound (SMART)?
• Is there a clear description of work packages, project periods, tasks and deliverables?
• Are the intermediate targets (milestones) properly defined and timely?
It is very important to remember that the work plan,
described in the proposal will become Description of action in case the proposal is selected for funding!
Evaluation criteria RIA
2. Relevant expertise in the consortium.
• Is the expertise in the consortium of high enough quality in order to tackle all proposed tasks?
• Is the interdisciplinarity at the ideas level properly reflected in the composition of the consortium?
• Is the consortium well-balanced, without redundancies?
Implementation
Evaluation criteria RIA
3. Appropriate allocation and justification of resources (person-months, equipment, budget).
• Do the person-months allocated correspond to the proposed tasks to be performed?
• Is the necessary equipment present or properly described and budgeted?
• Is the overall budget comprehensive, well-balanced, and convincing?
Implementation
Evaluation criteria RIA
Content
• Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) in Horizon 2020
• FET-Open according to Work Programme 2014- 2015 – an overview
• Evaluation criteria for proposals submitted to the current call of FET-Open
• Evaluation procedure for FET-Open RIA
• FET-Open CSA
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Proposal submission
Eligibility check
Expert selection
Remote evaluation
Quality check
Cross- reading
Panel review
Ethics
screening Feedback
One step submission and evaluation
Evaluation procedure
Feedback – ESR sent to the proposers (1)
• Contains the collated individual comments per sub- criterion from the four remote evaluators.
• We are completely transparent and present to the proposers all individual expert opinions without
modifications. This means that some comments could be mutually contradicting – we believe that consensus is not always possible, especially for frontier interdisciplinary research
Evaluation procedure
Feedback – ESR sent to the proposers (2)
• The intermediate score from the remote evaluation, which is the input for the panel discussion, is the median from the individual scores assigned to the proposal. This takes care of any extreme scores, when they are "outliers."
• The panel has the power to modify, either by consensus or via voting, the scores from the remote evaluation and to provide additional comments.
Evaluation procedure
Additional important details on proposal preparation
• Operational capacity – reflected in the score for Criterion 3
• In/out of scope – not in terms of topics; reflected in the scores for Criteria 1 & 2
• Ethics assessment – not part of the evaluation
• Horizon 2020 Open Research Data Pilot – not part of the evaluation but the participation in the pilot is very
important in order to ensure maximal efficiency from the EC investments in research
Evaluation procedure
Content
• Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) in Horizon 2020
• FET-Open according to Work Programme 2014- 2015 – an overview
• Evaluation criteria for proposals submitted to the current call of FET-Open
• Evaluation procedure for FET-Open RIA
• FET-Open CSA
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