HORIZON 2020 The new programme for Research and Innovation

HORIZON 2020The new programme for Research and

Innovation

UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRAResearch Service

May 2014

What is Horizon 2020?

It is the new European programme for Research and Innovation;

It has a budget of 79.000M€ and it will be ongoing from 2014 to 2020;

It is oriented to solve challenges;

Biannual work programme;

It foresees a high number of collaborations with SMEs;

It is organised in 3 pillars:

Research ServiceMay 2014

Excellent Science

• Frontier research (European Research Council)

• Future and Emerging Technologies (FET)

• Skills and career development (Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions)

• Research infrastructures

Creating Industrial Leadership and Competitive

Frameworks

• Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies (LEIT)

• Access to risk finance

• Innovation in SMEs

Tackling Societal Challenges

• Health, demographic change and wellbeing

• Food security and the bio-based economy

• Secure, clean and efficient energy

• Smart, green and integrated transport

• Supply of raw materials• Resource efficiency and

climate action• Inclusive, innovative and

secure societies


EXCELLENT SCIENCEPillar I


Excellent science

Calls open in 2014: European Research Council (4 calls) 1.662 million € Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (6 calls) 800 million € Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) (4 calls) 200 million € European Research Infrastructures (including e-Infrastructures) (4 calls)

277 million €


European Research Council

The European Research Council supports research in the knowledge frontier, as well as innovative ideas in new scientific fields;

The ERC wants to encourage competitive non-oriented research in all fields, with the only premise of scientific excellence;

ERC principles: • 1 principal investigator, 1 institution, 1 project & 1 selection criterion:

scientific excellence;• There are no consortia, networks nor co-financing;• Projects from all areas are funded;• Bottom-up approach;• The principal investigator can be of any nationality, age and find

herself in any stage of her scientific career.Work programme: https://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal//doc/call/h2020/common/1587810-erc_c(2013)_8632_en.pdf


https://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/doc/call/h2020/common/1587810-erc_c(2013)_8632_en.pdf

ERC: funding schemes

Advanced GrantsFor established researchers pursuing high-risk, ground-breaking projects. Features:•>12 y. of experience since completion of PhD and a track-record of significant research achievements in the last 10 years.•Funding up to 2,5 million •Duration up to 5 years;•Call closed (deadline 21/10/2014).

Starting GrantsFor researchers with potential to become independent leaders in their field. Features:•2-7 years of experience since completion of PhD;•Funding up to 1,5 million;•Duration up to 5 years;•Call closed (deadline 25/3/2014).

Consolidator GrantsFor researchers consoliding their scientific team.

Features:•7-12 years of experience since completion of PhD;•Funding up to 2 million;•Duration up to 5 years;•Call open (deadline 20/5/2014).

Proof of ConceptTo establish the innovation potential of ideas arising from an ERC project.Features:•For researchers with an ongoing ERC, or finished less than 12 m. before publ. call;•Funding up to 150.000 €;•Duration up to 18 months;•Call open (deadline 1/4/2014 & 1/10/2014).


Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions

It is the main programme for the professional development of PhDs; The MSCA supports the development of the scientific career and the

training of researchers from any discipline, emphasising mobility and the cooperation between companies and academia;

It offers funding for PhD students and postdocs in all stages of their scientific career, promoting transnational mobility, intersectorial and scientific discipline transition

Bottom-up approach

Work programme: http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/data/ref/h2020/wp/2014_2015/main/h2020-wp1415-msca_en.pdf

Remember the mobility requirement: researchers shall not have resided or carried out their main activity in the country of their host organisation for more than 12 months in the 3 years immediately prior to the reference date


MSCA-IF Workshop

on the 26th June!

http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/data/ref/h2020/wp/2014_2015/main/h2020-wp1415-msca_en.pdf

Innovative Training Networks Objectives:

• Increase PhD and Master’s students’ excellence;• Structure research and predoctoral training

Scope: PhD students Expected impact:

• Increase the potential of the predoctoral researchers providing them with new career and academic perspectives;

• Achieve cooperation among participant institutions


Individual Fellowships Objective: increase the creativity and innovative potential of experienced

researchers. Scope:

• Individual and transnational actions that are awarded to the best researchers or those who are the most promising;

• Focused on career development, not on experience;• Career Restart Panel and Reintegration Panel.

Expected impact: extracting the full potential from researchers and achieve a significant leap in their careers, both in the academic and non-academic sectors.


SOCIAL CHALLENGESPillar III


Typology of projects

Cooperative projects: • Research and Innovation Actions:

Actions focused on generating new knowledge and/or ascertain the viability of new or improved technology, product, process, service or solution;

They can include basic and applied research, technological development and integration, test and validation of prototypes.

• Innovation Actions Support for market-oriented innovation; Including the creation of prototypes, tests, demonstrations,

validation of products at large scale and commercial application.


Social Challenges

Social Challenge I: Health, demographic change and wellbeing; Social Challenge II: Food security, sustainable agriculture and forestry,

marine and maritime and inland water research and the bioeconomy; Social Challenge III: Secure, clean and efficient energy; Social Challenge IV: Smart, green and integrated transport; Social Challenge V: Climate action, environment, resource efficiency and

raw materials; Social Challenge VI: Europe in a changing world - Inclusive, innovative and

reflective societies; Social Challenge VII: Secure societies - protecting freedom and security of

Europe and its citizens.


Social Challenge I Biannual work programme: 2014 – 2015

Understanding health, ageing and disease:PHC 2- 2015: Systems medicinePHC 3- 2015: Understanding common mechanisms of diseases and their

relevance in co-morbidities

Effective health promotion, disease prevention, preparedness and screening:PHC 4- 2015: Health promotion and disease prevention: improved inter-

sector co-operation for environment and health based interventionsPHC 9- 2015: Vaccine development for poverty-related and neglected

infectious diseases: HIV/AIDS (1 stage)

Improving diagnosis: PHC 11- 2015: Development of new diagnostic tools and technologies: in

vivo medical imaging technologies PHC 12- 2014 & 2015: Clinical validation of biomarkers &/or diagnostic

medical devices


Social Challenge I

Innovative treatments and technologies:PHC 14- 2015: New therapies for rare diseases PHC 15- 2014/15: Clinical research on regenerative medicine (1 stage)PHC 16- 2015: Tools and technologies for advanced therapies PHC 18- 2015: Establishing effectiveness of health care interventions in

the paediatric population

Advancing active and healthy ageing:PHC 21- 2015: Advancing active and healthy ageing with ICT: early risk

detection and intervention (1 stage)PHC 22- 2015: Promoting mental wellbeing in the ageing population


Social Challenge I

Integrated, sustainable, citizen-centred carePHC 24- 2015: Piloting personalised medicine in health and care systemsPHC 25-2015: Advanced ICT systems and services for Integrated Care (1

stage)PHC 27- 2015: Self-management of health and disease and patient

empowerment supported by ICT (1 stage)PHC 28- 2015: Self-management of health and disease and decision

support systems based on predictive computer modelling used by the patient him/herself (1 stage)

PHC 29- 2015: Public procurement of Innovative eHealth services (1 stage)

Improving health information, data exploitation and providing an evidence base for health policies and regulationPHC 30- 2015: Digital representation of health data to improve disease

diagnosis and treatment (1 stage)PHC 33- 2015: New approaches to improve predictive human safety

testing


Social Challenge IDeadlines:

1 stage: 21/4/15

2 stages: 14/10/14 & 25/2/15


Social Challenge VI

Biannual work programme: 2014 – 2015 Overcoming the crisis: new ideas, strategies and governance

structures for Europe:• EURO-5-2015: ERA-NET on Smart Urban Futures (07/01/2015)• EURO-6-2015: Meeting new societal needs by using emerging

technologies in the public sector (21/04/2015)

The young generation in an innovative, inclusive and sustainable Europe:• YOUNG-4-2015: The young as a driver of social change (07/01/2015)• YOUNG-3-2015: Lifelong learning for young adults: better policies for

growth and inclusion in Europe (07/01/2015)

New forms of innovation.• INSO-1-2015: ICT-enabled open government (21/04/2015)• INSO-4-2015: Innovative schemes for open innovation and science 2.0

(31/03/2015)• INSO-5-2015: Social innovation Community (31/03/2015)


Social Challenge VI

Reflective societies: cultural heritage and European identities:• REFLECTIVE-2-2015: Emergence and transmission of European cultural

heritage and Europeanisation (07/01/2015)• REFLECTIVE-3-2015: European cohesion, regional and urban policies

and the perceptions of Europe (07/01/2015)• REFLECTIVE-4-2015: Cultural opposition in the former socialist

countries (07/01/2015)• REFLECTIVE-5-2015: The cultural heritage of war in contemporary

Europe (07/01/2015)• REFLECTIVE-6-2015: Innovation ecosystems of digital cultural assets

(21/04/2015)• REFLECTIVE-7-2014: Advanced 3D modelling for accessing and

understanding European cultural assets (30/09/2014)• REFLECTIVE-8-2015: Communication and dissemination platform

(07/01/2015)


Social Challenge VI Europe as a global actor:• INT-01-2015: Enhancing and focusing research and innovation cooperation with

Australia, USA, Brazil, South Africa, Ukraine• INT-02-2015: Encouraging the research and innovation cooperation between EU and

Southern Mediterranean Neighbourhood, Eastern Partnership• INT-03-2015: Europe's contribution to a value-based global order and its contestants• INT-04-2015: The EU’s contribution to global development: in search of policy coherence• INT-05-2015: Rethinking the EU crisis response mechanism in light of recent conflicts• INT-06-2015: Re-invigorating the partnership between the two shores of the

Mediterranean• INT-07-2015: Towards a new geopolitical order in the South and East Mediterranean

region• INT-08-2015: The European Union and the Eastern Partnership• INT-09-2015: The EU, Turkey and its wider neighbourhood• INT-10-2015: The EU and integration challenges in the Balkans• INT-11-2015: European cultural and science diplomacy: exploiting the potential of

culture and science in the EU’s external relations• INT-12-2015: The cultural, scientific and social dimension of EU-LAC relations• DEADLINE: 07/01/2015


The importance of Networking

What are your colleagues up to? Can you collaborate with them?

If this is your first European project consider being a partner;

• There are no small roles;

• Once you have started, it will be easier to participate in more projects;

Sell your expertise;

Either as a partner or as a coordinator, the Research Service will help you.


Conditions for the participation

Oriented research; Formation of a consortium with at least 3 independent institutions

established in different EU member or associated countries;• Possibility of including 3rd countries only if they provide indispensable

added value. If their participation is essential they will receive funding; if it is not, they will not receive any funding.

Bear in mind that each call might have specific requirements:• Indispensable (mandatory participation) countries;• Number of participants;• Participation of certain entities (trade unions, NGOs, hospitals...).

Present the full proposal within the deadline.


Research Service:

information on calls, templates

Evaluation By independent experts; Possibility of 2-stage evaluations. Self evaluation forms can guide your writing; Check with colleagues; Check with the Research Service.


You can become an evaluator and

get first hand experience!

Three criteria:• Scientific excellence: objectives and approach;• Impact:

Communication of the project; Exploitation of results; OPEN ACCESS Integration of new knowledge.

Evaluation


Importance of European

approach

• Implementation: Work plan; Experience of participants; Management structures.

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