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Earth Observation and GEOSS in

Horizon 2020 Stimulating Innovation in Europe with Earth Observation

Berlin, 2nd June 2016

Jose Miguel Rubio Iglesias, Policy Officer

DG Research and Innovation

European Commission

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Earth Observation – The context (I)

- The global capacity to observe the Planet is evolving radically

Lower costs of satellite launchers, commercial micro-satellites, sensor networks and Internet of Things, UAVs, Citizens' observatories, crowdsourcing, social media

- New EO business models triggered by the ongoing data revolution

Vast quantities of EO data are becoming increasingly available on a free, full and open basis, opening opportunities for Europe to stay at the forefront of EO exploitation globally

- Innovation in EO depends on capacities to discover, access and process data of different types

• EO can be a vector for innovation, jobs and growth, but the fragmentation of the European EO landscape needs to be overcome, relying on big data analytics, cloud processing and Internet technologies. Calls for increase data interoperability and better cyberinfrastructures to scale-up businesses.

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- The renewed GEO mandate (2016-2025)

More than 100 governments and 90 participating organisations working together voluntarily till 2025 to enhance discovery, access and exploitation of EO data for Societal Challenges through the GEOSS.

- Copernicus deployment and operations

Successful launches of first Sentinel satellites (1A,2A,3A,1B), 4/6 services operational, full capacity by 2020, flagship contribution to GEO, data dissemination still an issue.

- EO in support to EU commitments to international frameworks

• 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, Paris Agreement on Climate, Sendai Framework, etc., triggering a demand for reliable EO data, new acquisition and integration approaches (complementing statistical data)

Earth Observation – The context (II)

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(Some) European contributions to GEOSS

EU and associated countries

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Horizon 2020: addressing Europe's challenges

- Investing in research and innovation 2014-2020

- Budget of €77 billion

- Contributing to the Juncker Commission's policy agenda as a core component of Europe 2020 & Innovation Union:

• - Investing in jobs and growth

• - Addressing people’s concerns ('societal challenges')

• - Strengthening the EU’s global position in R&I

- Coupling research to innovation to maximise impact

- Most open to international collaboration;

- Promotes open access to knowledge (mandatory Open Access to publication, pilot Open Access to research data)

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Carlos Moedas Commissioner R, S&I

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Earth Observation Research within H2020 Societal Challenge 5 5.5 Developing comprehensive and sustained global environmental observation and information systems Overall goal: Comprehensive environmental observation and information systems

to ensure the delivery of the long-term data and information.

Support to policies: to assess and predict the condition and trends of climate, natural resources (including raw materials), biodiversity and ecosystem services,

as well as to evaluate low-carbon and climate mitigation and adaptation policies

Incentive for business: to stimulate the smart use of strategic resources; to

support the development of evidence-based policies; to foster new services; and to develop new opportunities in global markets.

Indicative budget for 2014 + 2015: € 60 Mio*, 2016 + 2017: € 60 Mio* * Including actions in other Societal Challenges

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-SC5-16-2014: Making Earth Observation and Monitoring

Data usable for ecosystem modelling and services: ECOPOTENTIAL, SWOS

-BG-8-2014: Developing in-situ Atlantic Ocean Observations

for a better management and exploitation of the maritime resources– AtlantOS

-SC5-18a-2014: Coordinating European Observation Networks to reinforce the knowledge base for climate, natural

resources and raw materials – ConnectinGEO

-SC5-15-2015: Strengthening the European Research Area in the domain of Earth Observation ERA-PLANET

-SC5-18b-2015: Integrating North African, Middle East and Balkan Earth Observation capacities in GEOSS – GEOCRADLE

-SC5-17-2015: Demonstrating the concept of 'Citizens‘

Observatories' GROW, SCENT, LANDSENSE, GROUNDTRUTH2.0

GEO-related projects from H2020 WP 2014-2015

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MyGEOSS project (2015-2016)

Commission initiative (DG RTD & JRC)

to promote the development of

innovative applications (mobile or web-based) using openly available data (including crowdsourced and GEOSS data).

Relevance of use in Europe

Ease of use by non-expert users

Innovative characteristics of the app

Contribution to environmental or social objectives

Most of the applications are developed through three open calls for innovative ideas.

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MyGEOSS project (2015-2016)

- All apps to be based on open data and open code fully reusable (EU Public License)

- In the 3 calls we received 170 innovative ideas (55 in the first

call, 48 in the second and 66 in the third) of which 40% from SMEs 38% from research centres, and 22% from individuals.

Winners 1st call

Winners 2nd call

MyGEOSS project (2015-2016)

Winners 3rd call – April 2016 (I)

FaceBee by CS Systèmes d’Information’ JOCS team

MIGRATE – MIGRation pATterns in Europe by Poli GeoWizards

FluSense by Data Lions

Walk and the City by National Technical University of Athens

PHOTO synthesis by GLOBE

GEOAVALANCHE by Geobeyond Srl

FLASH: FLu Alert Shot by QoL42

MyGEOSS project (2015-2016)

Reduce Food Waste by Madspild Design Kollektiv

Itree by Terranea and Eoxplore

CLOOPSy, Platform for Sentinel-based mapping by Remote Sensing Group

at the University of Pavia

Odour Collect by Fundacion Ibercivis

CityFocus by GEOLAB

My Simulated Sky at Night by GFZ, Cégep de Sherbrooke, and

interactive scape GmbH

Winners 3rd call – April 2016 (I)

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Earth Observation in Horizon 2020 Areas covered in 2016-2017

- One coordinated package of EO related activities across WPs 2016-2017 of Horizon 2020.

- Common objective: to accompany the investments made by the EU in Copernicus and in the GEOSS.

- Societal Challenge 5 WP "Climate action, environment, resource efficiency and raw materials" focus on GEOSS, notably the development of global environmental observation & information systems.

- Leadership in Industrial Technologies - Space WP focus on the evolution of Copernicus and the exploitation of existing European space infrastructure.

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Earth Observation in Horizon 2020 Areas covered in 2016-2017

Societal Challenges (5 +2) WPs

• GEO Societal Benefit Areas / Societal Challenges

• Global and in-situ observing systems (including citizen observatories)

• Cross-cutting issues: data, international cooperation, markets

Leadership in Industrial Technologies - Space WP

• Copernicus user uptake: stimulate business environment and foster public demand

• Copernicus evolution: services, data infrastructure

• Cross-cutting: technologies, international cooperation, market intelligence

'SC2' + 'SC5' WP 2016/2017

2016/2017

Societal Challenge 2: Blue Growth – demonstrating an ocean of opportunities (H2020-BG-2016-2017)

Indicative budget

(M€)

BG-9-2016: An integrated Arctic observing system (RIA) 15.0

BG-12-2016: Towards an integrated Mediterranean Sea Observing System (RIA) 8.0

Societal Challenge 2: Sustainable Food Security – resilient agri-food chains (H2020-SFS-2016-2017)

Indicative budget

(M€)

SFS-43-2017: Earth Observation services for the monitoring of agricultural production in Africa (RIA)

10.0

Societal Challenge 5: Earth Observation (H2020-SC5-2016-2017) Indicative budget

(M€)

SC5-18-2017 - Novel in-situ observation systems (RIA) 15.0

SC5-19-2017 - Coordination of citizens' observatories initiatives (CSA) 4.6*

SC5-20-2016 - European data hub of the GEOSS information system (RIA) 10.0

Total EO related 2016/2017 58.0

* This amount corresponds to three topics (not included in the total).

Closed & evaluated

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Upcoming GEO-related topics in H2020

SC5-18-2017: Novel in-situ observation systems

Research and Innovation Action

- To develop lower and cost in-situ technological solutions building on latest developments that can be adapted to operational environments.

- Can consider concepts such as Citizens' Observatories, UAVs, disposable sensors.

- Quality standards and data exchange interoperability are prominent criteria

- Links to GEO initiatives and Copernicus should be established, improving their in-situ components

- Should create new opportunities and market development for Earth observation commercial sector in Europe

Deadline: 07/03/17, single stage

Suggested size 4-5 Mio, More than 1 project to be funded

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Upcoming GEO-related topics in H2020

SC5-19-2017: Coordination of citizen observatories initiatives

Coordination and Support Action

- To bring citizens' observatories and related communities together to

highlight best practices, identify barriers and synergies, promote standards, facilitate integration, stimulate a gradual uptake by public authorities.

- Social innovation opportunities, sustainability approaches, data

management and interoperability to be addressed

- Coherent approach towards GEOSS and Copernicus

- Consortia to include a broad range of stakeholders (public, private, citizens)

- Should bring Europe to a leading role in the integration and uptake of

citizens' information in GEOSS.

Deadline: 07/03/17, single stage

Suggested size 1 Mio, only one project to be funded

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Upcoming GEO-related topics in H2020

SFS-43-2017: Earth observation services for the monitoring of agricultural production in Africa

Research and Innovation Action

- To increase the use of EO capabilities and systems to produce timely,

objective, reliable, and transparent crop and livestock production projection at the national and regional level for Africa.

- Integration of data from multiple sources (EO, models, climate predictions

and projections, ground observations) is required

- Support to GEOGLAM and AfriGEOSS initiative, contribution to the EU-Africa

Research Partnership on FNSSA

- Foster participatory approaches to collecting relevant information and data,

taking into account the widespread women's engagement in agriculture

Deadline: 14/02/17, single stage

Suggested size 10 Mio

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Horizon Prize on Earth Observation

- Challenge prizes (‘inducement’ prizes) offering a cash reward to whoever can most effectively meet a defined challenge (no matter "how").

- The aim is to stimulate innovation to find solutions to problems that matter to European citizens (and not ordinarily developed through grants or procurement), creating big impact.

- WP 2016 foresees expert group tasked to design a prize for new products and services that harness Earth observation data (in-situ, remote sensing, citizens' observatories, crowdsourcing).

- Solutions should be taken up by industry and put on the market to respond to citizens' needs.

- Should leverage the GEOSS and complement MyGEOSS activities.

- Might be included in future WP 2018-2020

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Other EO topics in H2020 WP 2016- 2017

LEIT/space: Earth Observation (H2020-EO-2016 and H2020-EO-2017)

EO-1-2016 : Downstream applications CLOSED

EO-2-2016: Downstream applications for public sector users CLOSED

EO-3-2016: Evolution of Copernicus services CLOSED

EO-1-2017: Downstream applications (IA) Deadline:01/03/2017

EO-2-2017: EO Big Data Shift (RIA) Deadline:01/03/2017

LEIT/space: Competitiveness of the European Space Sector:

Technology and Science (H2020-COMPET-2017)

COMPET-2-2017: Competitiveness in Earth observation mission technologies

(RIA) Deadline:01/03/2017

SME Instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2016-2017)

SMEInst-04-2016-2017: Engaging SMEs in space research and development

SMEInst-11-2016-2017: Boosting the potential of small businesses in the

areas of priorities of Societal Challenge 5 (including GEOSS EO data)

Continuously open call

SMEInst-11-2016-2017: Boosting the potential of small

businesses in the areas of priorities of Societal Challenge 5 (including GEOSS EO data) - SME Instrument helps high-potential SMEs to develop

groundbreaking innovative ideas for products, services or processes that are ready to face global market competition.

- Support close-to-market activities through a phased approach. - EU-based or country associated to H2020 SME eligible. - This topic focus on eco-innovative SMEs in all areas addressing climate

action, environment, resource efficiency and raw materials challenge, including (…) harnessing GEOSS Earth observation data.

- Focus on SMEs showing a strong ambition to develop, grow and internationalise

- All kinds of ideas, products, processes, services and business models (…) for commercialisation are welcome

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SME Instrument phased support

More on: https://ec.europa.eu/programmes/horizon2020/en/h2020-section/sme-instrument

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Future beyond 2017

- Currently thinking of the future H2020 WP 2018-2020.

- Stakeholder consultations and targeted meetings ongoing (like the

GEO European Projects' Workshop)

- Three overarching areas of actions under consideration:

- Developing EO services of the future that address the full

innovation chain, for business and citizens.

- Levelling European capacities to discover, access and process

EO data of multiple type and origins, across platforms and for various

communities.

- Contributing to GEO activities of high strategic value to EU, in

particular science diplomacy for Sustainable Development (COP-21,

2030 Agenda, Sendai, etc.)

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EO R&I and the European Commercial Sector Workshop, Brussels 21-22 September 2016

- Builds on "Engaging the Private Sector in GEO" workshop (September

2014) & Copernicus Data Value Chain workshop (April 2016)

- Forward-looking workshop, take stock of new ideas and business

models, necessary framework conditions, innovation deals.

- Three main themes to be addressed:

1. To characterise the current EO market in Europe and globally and

its future trends (new EO services and products);

2. To identify R&I actions in support to the delivery of new EO

services and products and definition of appropriate measures

3. To elaborate a mechanism for consulting/involving the European

commercial sector towards GEO and Copernicus.

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Register as expert! • For proposal evaluation

• For project reviews

Where?

At the PARTICIPANT PORTAL:

http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/experts/index.html

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Come to our Info Day – 14 September 2016

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Thank you

Berlin observed by Sentinel-2A

28 July 2015

Copyright Copernicus Sentinel data (2015)/ESA