Horizon 2020 EU s 8th framework programme for research and innovation

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Ministeriet for Forskning, Innovation og Videregående Uddannelser

Horizon 2020 –

EU’s 8th framework programme for research and innovation

Melanie Büscher

NCP for SSH

NCP for Legal/ Finance Issues

E-mail: [email protected]

Tlf.: 7231 8729

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Ministeriet for Forskning, Innovation og Videregående Uddannelser Styrelse for Forskning og Innovation

Your National Contact Point

EuroCenter: Tlf. 35446240 [email protected]

We are part of the EU-DK Support Network www.eusupport.dk

(as is SDU and South Denmark European office)

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In brief…

An instrument for growth and jobs

 bringing together three separate

programmes/initiatives – EIT, CIP and FP7 – into a single programme

 coupling research to innovation - from research to retail, all forms of innovation, also social

innovation

 focusing on societal challenges facing the EU, e.g. health, clean energy and transport

 With an increased focus on cross- and

multidisciplinarity

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Providing simplified access – How?

 One set of rules for entire Horizon 2020

 Shorter grant (minus 100 days)

 5 month evaluation+ 3 month contract

 Simple reimbursement rates:

a. Research projects:

 100 % of all project-related direct costs plus 25 % for the indirect costs (overhead) b. Innovation projects:

 70 % of all project-related direct costs

 (100 % for non-profit legal entities like SDU) plus 25 % for the indirect costs (overhead)

 Less control and audits

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European Research Council

Future and Emerging Technologies

Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

Research Infrastructures

Leadership in enabling and industrial

technologies

Health, demographic change and well-being;

Food security, sustainable agriculture, marine and maritime research, and the

bioeconomy;

Secure, clean and efficient energy;

Smart, green and integrated transport;

Climate action, resource efficiency and raw

materials;

EXCELLENT

SCIENCE INDUSTRIAL

LEADERSHIP SOCIETAL CHALLENGES

Horizon 2020

Access to risk finance

Innovation in SMEs

Inclusive, innovative and reflective societies.

Total: 77 billion EUR incl. JRC and EIT

Secure societies.

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European Research Council

Future and Emerging Technologies

Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

Research Infrastructures

Leadership in enabling and industrial

technologies

Health, demographic change and well-being;

Food security, sustainable agriculture, marine and maritime research, and the

bioeconomy;

Secure, clean and efficient energy;

Smart, green and integrated transport;

Climate action, resource efficiency and raw

materials;

EXCELLENT

SCIENCE INDUSTRIAL

LEADERSHIP SOCIETAL CHALLENGES

Horizon 2020

Access to risk finance

Innovation in SMEs

Inclusive, innovative and reflective societies.

13,095

2,696

6,162

2,488

7,472 13,557

2,842

0,616

3,851 5,931

6,339

3,081

1,309 Secure societies. _1,695 Science with and for Society (0,462)

Spreading excellence and widening participation (0,816)

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Horizon 2020 is different

 Strong challenge-based approach, allowing

applicants to have considerable freedom to come up with innovative solutions

 Less prescription, strong emphasis on expected impact

 Cross-cutting issues mainstreamed (fx socio-

economic sciences and humanities, gender,

international)

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Participant portal

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Horizon 2020

Horizon 2020 is the new EU funding programme for research and innovation running from 2014 to 2020 with a €70 billion budget. The first calls for proposals for Horizon 2020 are envisaged for December 2013.

Its simplified rules and submission and grant

management tools should facilitate participants' tasks.

For practical guidance, see the H2020 Funding Guide.

H2020 supports SMEs with a new instrument that runs throughout various funded research and innovation fields, so it should be easy for SMEs to find opportunities in many calls.

H2020 also aims to enhance EU international research cooperation so there are more opportunities for Third Country participation.

Having built H2020 around the main societal challenges like an ageing population, food security, energy efficiency, the EU attaches high importance to embed socio-economic sciences and humanities into the work programme.

Another important priority of the Commission is to ensure gender is embedded in the design of Horizon 2020 project proposals.

Other calls

This page lists additional research activities, initiatives executed by several Member States or joint programmes, co-funded calls, thematic opportunities, and intergovernmental actions.

Call updates

The page displays the latest updates to the calls, like change of deadlines.

Search

The call search tool has several filtering options to help you select funding opportunities that are most relevant to your activities.

COSME

Programme for the Competitiveness of Enterprises and SMEs (COSME) will run from 2014 to 2020, with a planned budget of

€2.3bn. It will facilitate SME access to finance, create supportive environment for business creation, help small businesses operate outside their home countries and improve their access to markets.

FP7 and CIP – previous programmes

FP7 and CIP are previous instruments to fund research and innovation activities in Europe for the period 2007 to 2013. You can view closed calls information of these programmes.

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Work programme - content

 Specific challenge: sets the context, describes the problem to be addressed: why is intervention necessary

 Scope: specifies the focus and the boundaries of the potential action BUT without overly describing specific approaches

 Expected Impact: describes the key elements of what is

expected to be achieved in relation to the specific challenge

 Type of Action

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Research and Innovation Actions

Primarily consisting of activities aiming

 to establish new knowledge and/or

 to explore the feasibility of a new or improved technology, product, process, service or solution.

 May include basic and applied research, technology

development and integration, testing and validation on a small-scale prototype in a laboratory or simulated

environment.

Projects may contain closely connected but limited

demonstration or pilot activities aiming to show technical

feasibility in a near to operational environment.

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Innovation actions

primarily consisting of activities directly aiming at producing plans/arrangements/designs for new, altered or improved products/processes/services.

Include prototyping, testing, demonstrating,

piloting, large-scale validation, market replication

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SME Instrument (primarily bottom-up)

3-stages support covering whole innovation cycle

Phase 1: concept and feasibility assessment (risk assessment, design study, pilot application)

 Lump sump 50.000 euro,

Phase 2: R&D, demonstration, market replication (development, prototyping, testing, resarch)

 Funding rate 70%,

Phase 3: Commercialisation (support via networking, training, information, IP management etc)

 Access to risk finance

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• Young 4: The young as a driver of social change

• Specific challenge: ”Meeting the challenges of an ageing population and a

transformation into a more sustainable social and economic model, characterized by (…) necessitates profound changes in the European society concerning our lifestyles, consumption patterns, the way we do business (…). These challenges cannot be met without willingness and personal commitment of the individuals who will be forming the core of our future society. (…)

• Scope: ”Research should analyse the norms, values and attitudes of young people in Europe, as well as as their expectations regarding public policy and organisation of economic, social and private life (…). This should include young adults of

different ages and sexes, coming from different geographical, socio-economic, ethnic and religious background (…)

• Expected impact: Research is expected to provide important insights into the perspective of socio-ecological transition from the point of view of young people.

It will advance our knowledge about young adults in Europe, (…) This will

contribute to public policies designed to meet the challenge of transition into a

more sustainable economic, political and social model (…)

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Generally

 Minimum requirement: three legal entities

from three different EU (or associated) countries (exceptions, fx ERC)

 Third countries and international organisations:

 Can participate

 Industrialised countries and ”emerging economies”: no EU contribution, unless stated otherwise in the work programme

 Time-to-grant: 8 months (from call deadline to

signature of grant agreement)

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Dissemination and exploitation of results

 Open access

 If dissemination through scientific journals, then open access is required

 Open access to research results (in particular data) CAN be required. Expected in ERC og FET (Future and Emerging Technologies)

 Exploitation of results

 Work programme might have some

requirements (fx non-exclusive licenses)

 Obligations to inform Commission after the

project (fx when not taking a patent)

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Evaluation Process

 Chain of individual, consensus and panel review maintained.

New:

 Dealing with multi-disciplinary/ sectoral proposals

 New expert profiles/ ”new blood”

 Call for experts planned for november!

 More experts per proposal

 Clear procedures for cases where experts disagree

 Dealing with 8 month time-to-grant

 New procedures, fx no recommendations for substantial

changes; stopping evaluation when threshold failed

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Scoring/Weights/Thresholds

 Each criterion scores out of 5; minimum 3;

overall threshold 10.

 For Innovation actions and SME instrument:

 Impact criterion will be weighted by factor of 1,5

 And it will be considered first when scores are

equal.

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Next steps – some suggestions

1. Identify your possibilities (talk to SDU Grant Office, South Denmark EU Office or EuroCenter, for example)

2. If there is a match: look for consortium partners inside and outside your network – maybe someone is already putting a proposal together?

3. Think in multidisciplinary consortia

4. Identify stakeholders, ask: ”What can I do for you?”

5. Start describing the ”expected impact” of your project idea. Why? To get focused on the political agenda.

6. Apply for EUopSTART

7. Write a real good project plan and get someone to read it

through and give feedback

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