FET. Future and Emerging Technologies. H

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Future and Emerging

Technologies.

H2020 2016-2017

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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€)

(*) approximate figure for the duration of H2020 (2014-2020)

"Future and emerging technologies shall support

collaborative research in order to extend Europe’s capacity

for advanced and paradigm-changing innovation."

HORIZON 2020 - THE FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME FOR RESEARCH AND INNOVATION (2014-2020)

Pathfinding Europe's technological future(s)

FET: ~2,6 B€*

Excellent

Science

24,4 B€

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The power of FET complementary

schemes

Individual research projects

FET-Open

Early Ideas Critical mass making a case

FET Proactive

Exploration and Incubation Common research agenda

FET Flagships

Large-Scale Partnering Initiatives

Exploring Developing Addressing novel ideas topics & communities grand challenges

Roadmap based research

Open, light and agile

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FET WP2016-17 Overview

• Call - FET-Open – Novel ideas for radically new

technologies

• FETOPEN-01-2016-2017: FET-Open research and innovation actions

• FETOPEN-02-2016: FET-Open Coordination and Support Actions

• FETOPEN-04-2016-2017: FET Innovation Launchpad

• Call - FET Proactive – Boosting emerging technologies

• FETPROACT-01-2016: FET Proactive: emerging themes and communities • FETPROACT-02-2017: FET ERANET Cofund

• FETPROACT-03-2016: FET ERANET Cofund in Quantum Technologies

• Call - FET Proactive – High Performance Computing

• FETHPC-01-2016: Co-design of HPC systems and applications

• FETHPC-02-2017: Transition to Exascale Computing

• FETHPC-03-2017: Exascale HPC ecosystem development

• Call - FET FLAGSHIPS – Tackling grand interdisciplinary

science and technology challenges

• FETFLAG-01-2016: Partnering environment for FET flagships

• [FET Flagship Core Projects (within FPAs, under Other Actions in WP)]

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Official version of FET WP 2016 - 2017:

http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/data/ref/h2020/wp /2016_2017/main/h2020-wp1617-fet_en.pdf

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FET

-Open.

FET

H2020

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• FET Open supports the early-stages of the science and

technology research and innovation around new ideas towards

radically new future technologies. It also funds coordination and

support activities for such high-risk forward looking research to

prosper in Europe.

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_{Note that 40% of the H2020 budget for FET is earmarked for FET Open.}

• FETOPEN-01-2016-2017: FET-Open research and innovation actions

• FETOPEN-04-2016-2017: FET Innovation Launchpad

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Call - FET-Open – Novel ideas for radically new

technologies

FET-Open

259,5M*

FETOPEN-1-2016-2017 FET-Open RIA

84+84+84M*

FETOPEN-2-2016

FET-Open CSA

3M

FETOPEN-3-2017

FET-Open CSA

1,5M

FETOPEN-4-2016-2017 FET Innovation

Launchpad

3M

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FET-Open Research and Innovation Actions

• Continuity with WP2014-15 – more than 50% budget increase

• Early stages of R&I on any new technological possibility

• Scope defined by FET gatekeepers

• Expected impact

• Establish baseline of feasibility and innovation potential

• European thought-leadership and future leaders

• New R&I practices

• Collaborative projects (RIA) up to 4M funding (indicative)

• 3 cut-off dates with 84MEuro each

• Single step submission, '1+15' pages

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FET-Open Research and Innovation Actions

• Specific Challenge:

• […] new foundations for radically new future technologies

• […] early stage, high risk visionary science and technology

projects to investigate new ideas.

• […] agile, risk-friendly and highly interdisciplinary research

approaches

• […] collaborations that are open to all sciences and

disciplines and that dissolve the traditional boundaries

between them.

• […] The renewal of ideas

• […] renewal of actors taking these new ideas forward.

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FET-Open Research and Innovation Actions

• Scope:

• This topic supports the early stages of research to

establish a new technological possibility. […]

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New

knowledge

New technologies

and their

applications

Dream

'Vision'

S&T Breakthrough

as Proof-of-Concept

Establish possibility

FETOPEN-01-2016-2017

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Scope:

[…] Proposals are sought for

collaborative

research with all of the following characteristics

('FET gatekeepers'):

• Long-term vision

• Breakthrough scientific and technological target • Novelty • Foundational • High-risk • Interdisciplinary Future and Emerging Technologies Interdisciplinary Novelty S&T targeted Foundational High-Risk Long-term vision

FET-Open Research and Innovation Actions

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• Long-term vision: the research proposed must address a new and radical long-term vision of a science- and technology-enabled future that is far beyond the state of the art and not currently foreseen by technology roadmaps.

• Breakthrough S&T target: research must target a scientifically ambitious and technologically concrete breakthrough, argued to be a crucial step towards

achieving the long-term vision. The plausibility of the proposed breakthrough(s) to be attained within the life-time of the project must be argued in the proposal.

• Novelty: the research proposed for achieving the breakthrough must be based

on cutting-edge knowledge, new ideas and concepts, rather than in the mere application or incremental refinement of existing ones.

• Foundational: the breakthroughs that are envisaged must be foundational in the

sense that, if achieved, they would establish an essential basis for a new kind of technology and its future uses, not currently anticipated.

• High-risk: the inherently high risk of the research proposed will be reflected in a flexible but effective methodology for exploring alternative directions and options, supported by open and agile research and innovation practices.

• Interdisciplinary: the proposed collaborations are expected to go beyond

'waterfall' configurations in multi-disciplinary science- and technology research. Instead they should seek new solutions through genuine exchanges, mutual

learning, cross-fertilisation and synergistic advances among distant disciplines in order to open unexplored areas of investigation and new directions for joint

research.

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Expected Impact:

• Initiating or consolidating a baseline of feasibility or a radically new line of technology and its future uses by establishing the essential

proofs-of-principle and their foundational scientific underpinnings.

• Strengthening European leadership in the early exploration of visionary, new and emerging technologies, beyond academic excellence and with global recognition. This impact can be reinforced by involving also new high-potential actors such as young, both female and male, researchers and high-tech SMEs that may become the European scientific and

technological leaders and innovators of the future.

• Impact is also sought in terms of the take up of new research and innovation practices for making leading-edge science and technology research more open, collaborative, creative and closer to society. •

FET-Open Research and Innovation Actions

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FET-Open is extremely competitive

Is FET-Open really the right scheme for you?

• Check out LEIT and Societal Challenges workprogrammes

• FET is not ERC: collaboration, science and technology are all

essential ingredients.

• It is not because something has not been done before that it

is sufficiently novel for FET

• FET is not the long-term end of an established industry's

road-map (radical novelty, interdisciplinarity,…)

• An exciting long-term vision is essential, but also a new and

plausible idea on how to get there

• Writing a good FET-Open proposal is probably as hard as

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FET-Open Coordination and Support Actions

• Continuity with WP2014-15 with some new sub-topics

• Specific Challenge: The challenge is to make Europe the best

place in the world for collaborative research and innovation

on future and emerging technologies that will secure and

renew the basis for future European competitiveness and

growth, and that will make a difference for society in the

decades to come.

• Coordination and Support Actions (CSA)

• Single step submission

FETOPEN-02-2016

FETOPEN-03-2017

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FET-Open Coordination and Support Actions

Expected Impact:

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• Strengthening globally recognised European leadership in the early exploration of visionary, new and emerging technologies, beyond

academic excellence and with a strong engagement of scientists, citizens, innovators and policy makers.

• Improved long-term innovation potential in Europe both from the abundance of novel ideas and the range of actors ready to take them forward.

• Improved understanding of the range of possible impact mechanisms for long-term science and technology research.

• Improved readiness across Europe to engage in silo-breaking research collaboration and to take up new research and innovation practices.

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FETOPEN-02-2016

FETOPEN-03-2017

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FET-Open Coordination and Support Actions

• Scope

• FET Exchange – networking in future and emerging R&I areas [2016

and 2017]

• FET Communication – visibility and outreach [2016]

• FET Conference – 2018 [2016]

• FET Innovation Greenhouse – capacity for facilitating earliest stages

of innovation from FET research [2016]

• FET Futures – looking for new topics and strategies [2017]

FETOPEN-02-2016

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FET-Open Coordination and Support Actions

• Scope […]

• FET Exchange [2016 and 2017]: actions for structuring and

strengthening an emerging FET-relevant science and technology

research and innovation topic and the interdisciplinary

communities involved in this topic. This may include, for example,

research roadmapping, stimulating (formal and informal) learning

and exchange, expanding the range of disciplines (including the

life sciences and humanities where relevant), involving new actors

such as young researchers, entrepreneurs and high-tech SMEs,

and broadening stakeholder engagement (multi-actor or citizen).

[…]

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FETOPEN-02-2016

FETOPEN-03-2017

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FET-Open Coordination and Support Actions

• Scope […]

• FET Communication [2016]: raising the visibility and impact

of FET through novel and creative approaches for reaching out to

various stakeholders and well beyond the research communities.

This may include, for example, collecting, aggregating and

disseminating information from the entire range of FET projects

and activities, and using an appropriate mix of channels and

formats to engage with the target audiences, including scientists,

students, media, policy makers, the business community and the

general public. This subtopic should include public engagement

processes as discussed in the introduction of this FET Work

Programme.

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FET-Open Coordination and Support Actions

• Scope […]

• FET Conference [2016]: supporting the organisation of the

fourth European Future and Emerging Technologies Conference

and Exhibition (see for example

http://www.fet11.eu/

). The

conference shall showcase progress and results from FET

research, attract high-tech SMEs, investors and entrepreneurs

that might take FET results forward, seed new ideas across

disciplines, foster a dialogue between science, policy and society

on future and emerging technologies (through public

engagement), explore new ways of combining research and

innovation and involve high-potential actors that will make the

difference. Proposals will address pre-conference communication

activities, the local organisation, participant assistance and

post-conference follow-up. The event shall take place in early 2018.

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FET-Open Coordination and Support Actions

• Scope […]

• FET Futures [2017] : identifying strategy options, challenges

and opportunities to stimulate and organise interdisciplinary

research and innovation towards new and visionary technologies

of any kind. Actions should rely on evidence from FET activities

(e.g., portfolio, constituency, results) and from other sources

(including other funding bodies or private initiatives worldwide,

like those using prize schemes or challenges). They should aim at

open and dynamic stakeholder participation using creative

methods and on-line tools/social networks. This topic should

include public engagement processes as discussed in the

introduction of this FET Work Programme.

•

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FET-Open Coordination and Support Actions

• Scope […]

• FET Innovation Greenhouse [2016]: actions for establishing a

Europe-wide capacity for innovation, exploitation and

entrepreneurship stemming from the visionary, high-risk

interdisciplinary science and technology research supported by

FET. Greenhouse provides innovation support services to help

bridging the gap between FET research and its application in

industry and for society. The focus should be on enabling the

earlier creative and learning stages of innovation from FET

research, for which the classical path of business plans and

investors is still premature, many options are still open and a

more exploratory, risk-friendly and tailored support is needed. A

wide technological scope, a strong specificity to FET and

complementarity with existing greenhouse initiatives and

innovation services are of prime importance. This subtopic also

welcomes support to the actions funded under the FET Innovation

Launchpad (FETOPEN-04-2016-2017) and for networking and

exchange among them.

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FET-Open Innovation Launchpad

• New topic in WP2016-17

• This topic aims at funding further innovation related

work (i.e. activities which were not scheduled to be

funded by the original project) to verify and

substantiate the innovation potential of ideas arising

from FET funded projects and to support the next

steps in turning them into a genuine social or

economic innovation.

• Coordination and Support Action

• single step submission, '1+7' pages

• Inspired by the successful ERC Proof-of-Concept (PoC) scheme

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Dream

Reality

FET and innovation?

New

knowledge

New technologies

and their

applications

An

innovation

engine

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Indirect innovation from a FET project

• Innovation is usually not foreseen in original Grant Agreements for FET

• The 'Dream' of a FET project is rarely investor ready

• Can be done through follow-up projects but takes a long time (which may

indeed be needed)

• Innovation may happen at the fringes of a project (a tool, a technique, an

unexpected path)

• Entire consortium may not be interested

• Partners may not be the optimal vehicles to exploit

• An SME may not exist yet, or may have been created only as a side-effect

of the original project

• There may be enthusiasm to exploit, but zero experience to do so,

especially in FET (e.g. a PhD student who wants to take something up but

has no clue how to go about doing it)

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New

knowledge

New technologies

and their

applications

Dream

Reality

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FET-Open Innovation Launchpad

• Scope (1/2)

• Short and focused actions (18 months indicative, 100K funding)

• Early innovation steps to improve market- and investor-readiness

• Based on results from an ongoing or recently finished FET project

• Any FET-funded project from FP7 or H2020, ongoing or maximum 1 year from end-date of

originating project to call deadline

• The link with the originating project is to be substantiated in the proposal

• No additional S&T research

• No actions that are/were foreseen in originating project

• No direct link needed with originating consortium

• Single participant possibility

• Assurance on necessary rights and agreements to be stated in the

proposal

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FET-Open Innovation Launchpad

• Scope (2/2)

• No prescribed actions but 'fitness for purpose' will be evaluated,

for example

• the definition of a commercialisation process to be followed (start-up…),

• market and competitiveness analysis,

• technology assessment,

• consolidation of intellectual property rights and strategy,

• scenario and business case development,

• developing contacts and support relevant activities with for instance, industrial transfer partners, potential licence-takers, investors, societal organisations or potential end users

• Complementary to ODI and SME schemes

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FET-Open Innovation Launchpad

• Expected Impacts

• Increased innovation potential from FET projects

(is there evidence that the chance of succeeding will be increased

through this action?)

• Creation of concrete innovations (start-up or otherwise)

(concreteness of the innovation idea to move closer to market than

in the originating project)

• Stimulating entrepreneurial mindset in FET research world

(is this providing a strong role model for going beyond the research

world?)

• Seeding growth and the creation of jobs

(is there a credible pathway presented towards a more inclusive

society, growth and jobs?)

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• The message is not that it is not possible or not desirable to have

innovation within a FET project! Sometimes it does work (e.g.,

SME-driven projects).

• Innovation Launchpad is definitely not the only way to get more

innovation out of FET projects.

• The important thing is not what happens in the Launchpad CSA,

but what happens afterwards! A launchpad supports the launch.

If the FET Innovation Launchpad leads to a change of mindset, a few

spin-offs, commercial successes or gazelles, then it is a success!

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FET-Open Innovation Launchpad

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FET-Open Innovation Launchpad

• 100K funding, 18 months indicative duration

• single step submission (CSA), '1+7' pages

• 2 deadlines

Opening: 01 Mar 2016

FETOPEN-04-2016-2017 (CSA)

1.20M Euro 1.80M Euro 29 Sep 2016 27 Sep 2017

FETOPEN-04-2016-2017

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FET

-Proactive.

FET

H2020

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Call - FET Proactive – Boosting emerging

technologies

• FET Proactive addresses promising directions for

research on future technologies in order to build up a European

critical mass of knowledge and excellence around them.

FET-Proactive – boosting

emerging technologies

95M

FETPROACT-01-2016 Emerging themes and communities

80M

FETPROACT-02-2017 FET ERANET Cofund

5M

FETPROACT-03-2016 FET ERANET Cofund on quantum

technologies

10M

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Call - FET-Proactive – boosting emerging

technologies

• Emerging themes and communities

• Almost 3x budget increase compared to WP2014-15

• Further opening up to all technology areas

• 10 sub-topics identified from on-line public consultation and other

sources

• New design in WP2016-17 - more 'bottom-up' while still strategic

• FET ERANET Cofund

• FET ERANET Cofund on quantum technologies

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FET-Proactive –emerging themes and

communities

• Scope: Proposals should address research and innovation

activities, aimed at jointly exploring directions and options to

establish a solid baseline of knowledge and skills, and to foster

the emergence of a broader innovation ecosystem for a new

technology as well as a fertile ground for its future take-up (e.g.,

through public engagement processes when relevant, or through

formal and informal education). Proposals should address a single

of the specific subtopics within one of the following areas:

• Area 1: Future technologies for societal change

• Area 2: Biotech for better life

• Area 3: Disruptive information technologies

• Area 4: New technologies for energy and functional

materials

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• Future technologies for societal challenges

• Being human in a technological world

• New science for a globalised world

• Biotech for better life

• Intra- and inter-cell bio-technologies

• Bio-electronic medicines and therapies

• Cognitive neuro-technologies

• Disruptive information technologies

• New computing paradigms and their technologies

• Quantum engineering

• Hybrid opto-electro-mechanical devices at the nano-scale

• New technologies for energy and functional materials

• Ecosystem engineering

• Complex bottom-up construction

10 sub-topics from FET Pro-active consultation

20M max 20M max 30M max 30M max

FETPROACT-01-2016

Up to 80M total

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FET-Proactive –emerging themes and

communities

• Expected Impacts

• Maturing themes and structuring communities through jointly

exploring options

• Emergence of a broader innovation eco-system for a new

technology

• Larger projects: 4-10MEuro, up to 5 years (compare

FET-Open: up to 4MEuro) addressing a single theme

• Optional use of cascade funding (e.g., for prize)

• Single deadline, single step submission

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Future technologies for societal change (1/2)

a) Being human in a technological world

critical interdisciplinary explorations of potentially game-changing impacts of future technologies on humanity, in plausible as well as in extreme scenarios. This can include individual, gender, organisational, economic, cultural and societal impacts, for instance from changes to self- or social perception, to our narratives, or to human development (e.g., cognitive, physical) or evolution. Visions being addressed should be radically forward looking and relatively unexplored, such as

hyperconnectivity, human augmentation, hybridisation of nature, life extension, extra-sensorial perception or real/virtual blending. The work should provide fresh perspectives that challenge current thinking,

include ethical and social aspects, reflecting on the purposes, impacts and motivations for the research and innovation activity, the associated uncertainties, areas of ignorance, assumptions, questions and

dilemmas; and by this crystalize through active stakeholder

engagement concrete options for shaping a worthwhile and responsible future.

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Future technologies for societal change (2/2)

b) New science for a globalised world

tools and methods (mathematical, technological,

social/organisational,…) for the collaborative study, projection and engineering of large scale open socio-technological and –ecological systems characterised by complexity and inherent uncertainty due to, among others, partial knowledge, ignorance and conflicting world-views by different actors. These tools and methods should include the study of informal opinion groups emerging on the Internet at a global level, and focusing on global topics such as Global Systems Science as a new

integrative science approach, the emergence of global solutions as

patchworks of local ones, non-rationality, the impact of open-data, the dynamics of social and cultural divides, of peace and conflict, and

various incentives, drivers and enablers of change and innovation, including the arts.

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Biotech for better life (1/3)

a) Intra- and inter-cell bio-technologies

new technologies to enable the study and engineering of processes

within and between biological cells, and their exploitation for purposes such as sensing, signalling, imaging, regulating, curing or for mimicking or re-engineering the intra- and inter-cell physics and dynamics. This can include the use of natural cells, optimised, therapeutic and

compound, synthetic ones or combinations of these, as well as cell-free techniques. Where needed, multiscale mathematical modelling and

computational simulation can be included. Proposals under this subtopic should also explore the paradigm-changing potential of these

technologies, for instance in the bio-medical field.

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Biotech for better life (2/3)

b) Bio-electronic medicines and therapies

using adaptive nerve or brain stimulation for precise regulatory control of organs or other biological processes inside the human body, in order to restore or maintain healthy conditions. This includes technologies for bio-electronic medicines, drug-free therapies, adaptive drug release, closed-loop BNCI, more invasive stimulation, or development of

neurotransmitter sensor/actuator systems, all within a setting of personalised and adaptive medicine and the tight integration of

diagnostic and therapeutic capabilities (theranostics). A Responsible Research and Innovation approach, including aspects of ethics, as well as social science and humanities should be taken into account.

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Biotech for better life (3/3)

c) Cognitive neuro-technologies

• integrated interdisciplinary approaches combining theory and novel technology-based experiments for understanding the circuits and

pathways of higher-level cognitive functions (such as navigation, goal-oriented behaviour, motivation and reward, memory, knowledge and belief formation, reasoning and decision making, emotion, interaction, communication), the related principles of neural coding and operation within and between brain regions and the role of the physical and

social/cultural environment in bringing them about. Proposals should focus on non-validated, leading-edge methodologies and technologies specifically relevant to cognitive neuroscience. Target applications could include, for example, adaptive human interfaces, specific brain interfaces and neuro-prosthetics to restore or support cognitive functions or to

address unmet therapeutic needs.

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Disruptive information technologies (1/3)

a) New computing paradigms and their technologies

• new foundations for computing, including bio-, nature- and socio-inspired ones that can encompass also aspects of communication,

interaction, mimickry or differentiation (adaptation, learning, evolution), as well as non-technological aspects like organisational or

physical/virtual architectural ones, and tailored to future and emerging challenges and requirements in highly interdisciplinary settings and for new kinds of mathematical and computational approaches in science.

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Disruptive information technologies (2/3)

b) Quantum engineering

• reproducible, economical and scaleable approaches, architectures and techniques for designing and realising devices and systems that exploit quantum phenomena, such as superposition and entanglement, for

achieving new or radically improved functionalities (for instance in sensing, precision measurement, transduction, secure communication, control, simulation and computation) and demonstrated in the context and boundary conditions of a specific application area (for example in

the biological, medical, materials, process, energy or standards domain).

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Disruptive information technologies (3/3)

c) Hybrid opto-electro-mechanical devices at the

nano-scale

• new working principles and their first-time validation in nano-,

molecular- or atomic-scale devices based on the interaction and mutual control of multiple physical degrees of freedom to achieve new or

radically improved functionalities and application scenarios under

plausible operating conditions. The interacting degrees of freedom are those involved in e.g. optics, scale electromagnetism, nano-mechanics and phonons and fluctuations.

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New technologies for energy and functional

materials (1/2)

a) Ecosystem engineering

• new models, materials, processes, devices and systems going beyond a

single dimension for extreme energy and resource efficiency and

recovery, and footprint management into circular ecosystems (energy, raw materials, waste, water,…). New approaches and technologies for extremely efficient energy generation (e.g., artificial photosynthesis or microfluidic conversion), transfer, conversion, high-density storage and consumption. The targeted improvements with respect to the state of the art are to be stated in quantitative terms. Genuine cross-fertilisation and deep synergies between the broadest range of advanced sciences and cutting-edge engineering disciplines for emerging ecological

technologies seeking holistic paradigms, striving to reduce or eliminate the environmental impact, and the replacement of toxic/pollutant

substances by ecofriendly materials should be considered. First time validation and assessment of these results in the context of integrated synergetic circular economy solutions or other quasi self-sufficient

environments.

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New technologies for energy and functional

materials (2/2)

b) Complex bottom-up construction

• new technologies and methods for self-organisation, assembly and

adaptation of materials and physical devices/systems with complex functionality (including for instance energy storage, conversion or recovery), complex composition and/or spanning a range of scales

(nano, meso) and with superior properties on each of them. Energy and resource/material availability, ecofriendlyness and efficiency are to be taken into account). Where needed, multiscale mathematical modelling and computational simulation of materials and related production or self-organisation processes can be included.

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FET-Proactive ERANET Cofund on Quantum

Technologies

• Expected impact:

• Opportunity for closer coordination and greater mobilisation and

pooling of resources from regional, national and EU levels

• Complementary to EU WP

• Spreading excellence across Europe

• Better overview of multiple levels of development

• Increased awareness of synergies and complementarities

• Scope

• New principles, experiments, technologies, devices and systems

• Demonstrations, critical assessment, benchmarking

• Quantum-enabled applications

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EU investments pioneered in FET…

o

~ 20 years of EU investment in quantum

o

Sensing & metrology, communication, computing

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World-class scientific and technical expertise

o

Nobel prize laureates

o

Steady increase of EU funding: ~350 M€ until now

o

FET ~250 M€, ERC ~100 M€, MSCA,

European Metrology Research Programme (EMRP)/

European Metrology Programme for I&R

(

EMPIR) in

the area of metrology

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National initiatives recently launched

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Quantum Technologies

Context

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QT funding in H2020 outside FET

LEIT Work Programme 2016-2017

ICT-30-2017: Photonics KET 2017

Calling for "Disruptive approaches to optical manufacturing by 2 and 3 D opto-structuring:

… Novelty may be related for example to the laser source, to the optical system for light manipulation, to light-matter interaction or to the exploitation of quantum effects."

ICT-31-2017: Micro- and nano-electronics technologies

Calling for "… Technologies exploiting the quantum effects in solid-state devices are also relevant. Advanced explorative technology development at TRL 2-3 is called for."

SC7 - Secure Societies, Digital Security Focus Area

DS-05-2016: EU Cooperation and International Dialogues in Cybersecurity and Privacy Research and Innovation

"Identify new opportunities for cyber security innovation in Europe by looking at emerging trends and disruptive technologies (such as quantum cryptography)"

DS-06-2017: Cryptography

Calling for "New techniques, such as quantum safe cryptography, which are secure from quantum computers and other advances in computing and cryptanalysis"

Calling for "Proposals on quantum key distribution addressing challenges such as improved

performance (higher bit rates, increased loss and noise resilience), network integration (coexistence on existing infrastructure) and the development of new protocols beyond key distribution. Proposals on

quantum key distribution should include experimentation and validation with end-users in realistic and relevant scenarios such as for mobile communication backhauling, optical access networks or data-centre to data-data-centre communication."

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FET-Proactive ERANET Cofund on FET

(think 'Chistera' follow-up)

• Scope

coordinate national and regional programmes for research in the FET

domain by implementing a joint transnational call for proposals

(resulting in grants to third parties) with EU cofunding. […] These

activities should in particular cover the following areas:

• Share information on existing research programmes, strategic

research agendas and technological roadmaps, among research

funding organisations and with the relevant other stakeholders;

• Jointly identify emerging topics where transnational cooperation

and support to community structuration is most needed, in

complementarity with the FET programme;

• Develop strategic agendas for these topics and accompany the

structuration of the related communities though workshops and

support to transversal activities.

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FET-Proactive ERANET Cofund on FET

(think 'Chistera' follow-up)

• Expected impact:

• Amplification of the support to FET topics at the national level;

• Faster emergence of technologies through enhanced coordination;

• Identification and emergence of candidate FET Proactive and FET

Flagship topics and communities;

• Enhanced complementarities and synergies in Europe in the FET

domain.

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FET-Open 259,5M*

FETOPEN-1-2016-2017 FET-Open Research and Innovation Actions 252M* FETOPEN-2-2016 FET-Open Coordination and Support Actions 3M FETOPEN-3-2017 FET-Open Coordination and Support Actions 1,5M FETOPEN-4-2016-2017 FET Innovation Launchpad (CSA) 3M

FET-Flagships 185M

FETFLAG-01-2016 Partnering environment for FET Flagships 9M [Other Actions 2017] Core project funding 176M

FET Proactive – High Performance Computing

85M

FETHPC-01-2016 Co-design of HPC systems and applications (RIA) 41M FETHPC-02-2017 Transition to Exascale Computing (RIA) 40M FETHPC-03-2017 Exascale HPC ecosystem development (CSA) 4M

FET-Proactive – boosting emerging

technologies 95M

FETPROACT-01-2016 Emerging themes and communities (RIA) 80M FETPROACT-02-2017 FET ERANET Cofund 5M FETPROACT-03-2016 FET ERANET Cofund on quantum technologies 10M

FET WP2016-2017

624,5M*

*in part fr om 20 18 budget

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FET

-Open

Call condit

ions.

FET

H2020

2016 - 2017

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Conditions for the Call – FET-Open

Topic Budget 2016 (€ Million) Budget 2017 (€ Million) Deadlines Opening FETOPEN-01-2016-2017 (RIA) 84.00 84.00 84.00* 11 May 2016 17 Jan 2017 27 Sep 2017 8 Dec 2015 FETOPEN-02-2016

(CSA) 3.00 11 May 2016 8 Dec 2015

FETOPEN-03-2017 (CSA)

1.50 17 Jan 2017 20 Sep 2016

FETOPEN-04-2016-2017

(CSA) 1.20 1.80 29 Sep 2016 27 Sep 2017 1 Mar 2016

Total: 88.20 113.80

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• Single stage procedure

• High quality peer review (remote) by 4 experts

• Interdisciplinary final panel review

• Time table for evaluation and GA signature

• Time to Inform (TTI) - outcome of the evaluation within 5 months

• Time to Grant (TTG) - signature of the GA within 8 months

• Eligibility and admissibility conditions - parts B and C of

the General Annexes to the Work Programme

• Grant Agreement Preparation (GAP) - grant completely

based on proposal (no negotiation)

• Proposal score calculation at consensus stage (per

criterion) - median of the scores from individual

evaluators

Conditions for the Call – FET Open

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Proposal submission

1 step submission and evaluation

Feedback TTI 5 months

Ethics screening/ass

essment Panel review Cross-reading

Quality check Remote evaluations Expert selection Eligibility check

Applicant Research Executive Agency

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Proposal composition (RIA)

• Part A: Administrative part of the proposal

• Part B: Narrative part of the proposal (core proposal)

• Cover page (1 page A4)

• Section 1: S&T Excellence

• Section 2: Impact

• Section 3: Implementation

• Section 4: Members of the consortium (Additional information)

• Section 5: Ethics and Security (Additional information)

• Page limit: Sections 1, 2 and 3 together are strictly limited to 15

pages A4. No page limits apply to Sections 4-5.

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Proposal composition (CSA)

• Part A: Administrative part of the proposal

• Part B: Narrative part of the proposal (core proposal)

pages A4. No page limits apply to Sections 4-5.

• Remark: For FETOPEN-04-2016-2017 (Innovation Launchpad)

sections 1-3 are limited to 7 pages A4.

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Evaluation Criteria, Scoring and Thresholds (RIA)

Excellence Impact Implementation

• Clarity and novelty of long-term vision, and ambition and

concreteness of the targeted breakthrough towards that vision.

• Novelty, non-incrementality and plausibility of the proposed research for achieving the targeted breakthrough and its foundational character

• Appropriateness of the research methodology and its suitability to address high scientific and

technological risks

• Range and added value from interdisciplinarity, including measures for exchange, cross-fertilisation and synergy.

• Importance of the new technological outcome with regards to its transformational impact on technology and/or society.

• Impact on future European scientific and industrial leadership, notably from involvement of new and high potential actors.

• Quality of methods and measures for achieving impact beyond the research world and for

establishing European though leadership, as perceived by industry and society.

• Soundness of the work plan and clarity of intermediate targets.

• Relevance of expertise in the consortium.

• Appropriate allocation and

justification of resources (person-months, equipment).

Threshold: 4/5

Weight: 60% Threshold: 3.5/5 Weight: 20% Threshold: 3/5 Weight: 20%

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Evaluation Criteria, Scoring and Thresholds (CSA)

• Clarity and pertinence of the objectives

• Soundness of the concept, and credibility of the proposed methodology

• Quality of the proposed coordination and/or support measures

• The extent to which the outputs of the project would contribute to each of the expected impacts mentioned in the work

programme under relevant topic

• Quality of the proposed measures - exploit and disseminate the project results (including management of IPR), and to manage research data where relevant - communicate the project

activities to different target audiences

• Quality and effectiveness of the work plan, including extent to which the resources assigned to work packages are in line with their objectives and deliverables

• Appropriateness of the

management structures and procedures, including risk and innovation management

• Complementarity of the

participants and extent to which the consortium as whole brings together the necessary expertise

• Appropriateness of the allocation of tasks, ensuring that all

participants have a valid role and adequate resources in the project to fulfil that role

Threshold: 3/5

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Evaluation Criteria, Scoring and Thresholds (Launchpad)

• Clarity and quality of the

innovation idea and its link with the previous or ongoing FET project indicated in the proposal.

• Concreteness of objectives and their pertinence for moving the output of FET research through the initial steps of a process leading to a commercial or social innovation.

• Suitability and necessity of the proposed activities to reach the stated objectives, including their complementarity to actions already foreseen or expected from the previous or ongoing FET project.

• Added innovation potential with respect to the FET project from which this innovation originates.

• Extent of economic and/or societal benefits resulting from this innovation as identified in the proposal.

• Suitability of measures for taking the innovation beyond the

research world, including through engagement with prospective exploitation partners, other stakeholders, users or society.

• Quality of workplan and management.

• Relevance of expertise in the consortium.

• Appropriate allocation and

justification of resources (person-months)

Threshold: 3/5

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• Collation of all individual comments, per sub-criterion, from the 4 IERs

- may be mutually contradicting (no consensus) - full transparency

• Final score per criteria is decided by the final panel review

• Final score for the proposal is calculated as the weighted sum (see

evaluation criteria) of the final scores from the 3 evaluation criteria

• Final panel review adds also some additional comments

Feedback to proposers - Evaluation Summary

Report (ESR)

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• 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

• Consortium agreement required, in principle prior to the signature

of the grant agreement

• Horizon 2020 Open Research Data Pilot – not part of the

evaluation, but the participation in the pilot (default option) is very important in order to ensure maximal efficiency from the EC investments in research (requires a Data Management Plan

deliverable)

Some additional important information

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FET

-Proactive

Call condit

ions.

FET

H2020

2016 - 2017

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Conditions for the Call – FET Proactive

Topic Budget 2016 (€ Million) Budget 2017 (€ Million) Deadlines Opening FETPROACT-01-2016

(RIA) 80.00 12 Apr 2016 8 Dec 2015

FETPROACT-02-2017

(ERA-NET-Cofund) 5.00 24 Jan 2017 20 Sep 2016

FETPROACT-03-2016 (ERA-NET-Cofund)

10.00 12 Apr 2016 8 Dec 2015

Total: 90.00 5.00

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• Single stage procedure

• High quality peer review (remote) by 4 experts

• Interdisciplinary final panel review

• Time table for evaluation and GA signature

• Time to Inform (TTI) - outcome of the evaluation within 5 months

• Time to Grant (TTG) - signature of the GA within 8 months

• Eligibility and admissibility conditions - parts B and C of

the General Annexes to the Work Programme

• Grant Agreement Preparation (GAP) - grant completely

based on proposal (no negotiation)

• Proposal score calculation at consensus stage (per

criterion) - Median of the 4 individual scores from

Individual Evaluation Reports (IER)

Conditions for the Call – FET Proactive

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Proposal submission

1 step submission and evaluation

Feedback TTI 5 months

Ethics screening/ass

essment Panel review Cross-reading

Quality check Remote evaluations Expert selection Eligibility check

Applicant European Commission

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Proposal composition (RIA)

• Part A: Administrative part of the proposal

• Part B: Narrative part of the proposal (core proposal)

pages A4. No page limit applies to Sections 4-5.

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Evaluation Criteria, Scoring and Thresholds (RIA)

The following aspects are taken into account:

• Clarity of targeted breakthroughs and of the science and technology contributions towards establishing a solid baseline of knowledge and skills for the specific theme being addressed.

• Novelty, level of ambition and foundational character.

• Appropriateness of the

methodology to narrow down multiple options and to address high scientific and technological risks.

• Range and added value from interdisciplinarity, including measures for exchange, cross-fertilisation and synergy.

• The extent to which the outputs of the project contribute at the European or International level to:

• the expected impacts listed under this topic in the workprogramme.

• the transformation of technology and/or society.

• structuring effects on

multidisciplinary communities of researchers and stakeholders.

• innovation potential and

leadership from the emergence of a new innovation ecosystem, the empowerment of new and high potential actors and from public engagement.

• Soundness of the workplan and clarity of intermediate targets • Relevance of expertise in the

consortium

• Appropriate allocation and justification of resources (person-months, equipment)

Threshold: 4/5

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• Collation of all individual comments (anonymous, no scores), per

sub-criterion, from the 4 IERs - may be mutually contradicting (no consensus) - full transparency

• Final score per criteria is decided by the final panel review

• Final score for the proposal is calculated as the weighted sum (see

evaluation criteria) of the final scores from the 3 evaluation criteria

• Final panel review adds also some additional comments

Feedback to proposers - Evaluation Summary

Report (ESR)

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• 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

• Consortium agreement required, in principle prior to the GA

signature

• Horizon 2020 Open Research Data Pilot – not part of the

evaluation, but the participation in the pilot (default option) is very important in order to ensure maximal efficiency from the EC investments in research (requires a Data Management Plan

deliverable)

Some additional important information

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Selecting projects for funding

• Funding decisions are based on ordered list of

proposals scoring above all thresholds, and:

FETPROACT-01-2016 When selecting projects for

funding, from the budget available for this topic a maximum of EUR 20 million will be allocated for each of the areas 1 and 4, and a

maximum of EUR 30 million for each of the areas 2 and 3.

FETPROACT-02-2017

FETPROACT-03-2016 at most one ERA-NET-Cofund will be funded under each of these topics.

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MUSE MAGNETRODES _{g.tec (VERE)}

Off-site exhibition: Graphene

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Thursday 22 October

Multi-disciplinarity for Future Technology

(09:00-10:30, Auditorium 6)

 identify best practices in running multi-disciplinary projects involving ≠ research communities

Speakers:

Koen BERTELS (Delft University of Technology), Mikael FOGELSTROM (Chalmers University of Technology),

Thomas LIPPERT (Jülich Supercomputing Centre), Barbara MAZZOLAI (Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, IIT) and Clivia M. SOTOMAYOR TORRES (ICN2 Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology)

Transformative Impact of Excellent Science

(11:00-12:30, Auditorium 1)

 explore the transformational impact of excellent science in research & innovation

Speakers:

Roberto VIOLA (DG Connect Director General), Katrin AMUNTS (Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH), Markus ASPELMEYER (University of Vienna) and Mateo VALERO (Barcelona Supercomputing Center)