Horizon 2020

Priorités thématiques et dimension internationale

Aurélie Pancera, Expert PASRI

The Multiannual Financial Framework 2014-2020

• 1. Smart & inclusive growth (€491bn)

• 2. Sustainable growth, natural resources (€383bn)

• 3. Security and citizenship (€18.5bn)

• 4. Global Europe (€70bn)

• 5. Administration (€62.6bn)

Total: € 1,025bn

Education, Youth, Sport

Connecting Europe Cohesion Competitive

Business SMEs

Horizon 2020

Key challenge: stabilise the financial and economic system while taking measures to create economic opportunities

What is Horizon 2020

– Commission proposal for a 80 billion euro research and innovation funding programme (2014-2020)

– A core part of Europe 2020, Innovation Union & European Research Area:

• - Responding to the economic crisis to invest in future jobs and growth

• - Addressing people’s concerns about their livelihoods, safety and environment

• - Strengthening the EU’s global position in research, innovation and technology

Three priorities

1. Excellent science

2. Industrial leadership

3. Societal challenges

Priority 1. Excellent science

• Why:

– World class science is the foundation of tomorrow’s

technologies, jobs and wellbeing

– Europe needs to develop, attract and retain research talent

– Researchers need access to the best infrastructures

• Proposed funding (million euro, 2014-2020)

European Research Council

Frontier research by the best individual teams

13 268

Future and Emerging Technologies

Collaborative research to open new fields of innovation

3 100

Marie Curie actions

Opportunities for training and career development

5 572

Research infrastructures (including e-infrastructure)

Ensuring access to world-class facilities

2 478

Priority 2. Industrial leadership

• Why: – Strategic investments in key technologies (e.g. advanced

manufacturing, micro-electronics) underpin innovation across existing and emerging sectors

– Europe needs to attract more private investment in research and innovation

– Europe needs more innovative SMEs to create growth and jobs

Leadership in enabling and

industrial technologies (ICT,

nanotechnologies, materials, biotechnology, manufacturing, space)

13 781

Access to risk finance

Leveraging private finance and venture capital for research and innovation

3 538

Innovation in SMEs

Fostering all forms of innovation in all types of SMEs

619 complemented by

6 829 (expected 15% of

societal challenges + LEIT) and

'Access to risk finance' with strong SME focus

Proposed funding (million euro, 2014-20)

Priority 3. Societal challenges

• Why: – Concerns of citizens and society/EU policy objectives

(climate, environment, energy, transport etc) cannot be achieved without innovation

– Breakthrough solutions come from multi-disciplinary collaborations, including social sciences & humanities

– Promising solutions need to be tested, demonstrated and scaled up

• Proposed funding (million euro, 2014-2020)

Health, demographic change and wellbeing 8 033

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

4 152

Secure, clean and efficient energy* 5 782

Smart, green and integrated transport 6 802

Climate action, resource efficiency and raw materials

3 160

Inclusive, innovative and secure societies 3 819

• *Additional €1 788m for nuclear safety and security from the Euratom Treaty activities (2014-2018). Does not include ITER.

Seventh Framework Programme (FP7)

Ideas

Cooperation

• Health • Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, and Biotechnology • Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) • Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and New

Production Technologies (NMP) • Energy • Environment (including Climate Change) • Transport (including Aeronautics) • Socio-Economic Sciences and Humanities • Space • Security

• Research Infrastructures • Research for the benefit of SMEs • Regions of Knowledge • Research Potential • Science in Society • Support for the Coherent

development of Research policies • International Cooperation

€ 32413

€ 4750

€ 7510

€ 4097

€ 1751

€ million

Horizon 2020 – Objectives and structure

Creating Industrial Leadership and Competitive Frameworks

Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies

Access to risk finance

Innovation in SMEs

Excellence in the Science Base

Frontier research (ERC)

Future and Emerging Technologies (FET)

Skills and career development (Marie Curie)

Research infrastructures

Shared objectives and principles

Common rules, toolkit of funding schemes

Europe 2020 priorities

European Research Area

Simplified access

International cooperation

Dissemination & knowledge tranfer

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

EIT contribute to addressing these challenges

Horizon 2020 and partnering • Public private partnerships:

– Trough Joint Technology Initiatives or other formal structures (Art. 187)

– Trough contractual agreements, which provide inputs for work programmes

– Only when criteria met, e.g. clear commitments from private partners

• Public public partnerships:

– Trough « ERA-Nets » for topping up individual calls/actions (replacing current ERA-Net, ERA-Net Plus, Inco-Net, Inno-net)

– Trough participation in joint programmes between EU Member States –can include other countries (Art. 185)

– Supporting agendas of Joint Programming Initiatives when in line with Horizon 2020

– Only when criteria met, e.g. financial commitments of participating countries

• European Innovation Partnerships:

– Not funding instruments, but for coordination with broader policies and programmes

International cooperation – International cooperation is crucial to address many

Horizon 2020 objectives.

– Principle of general openness: the programme will remain to be the most open funding programme in the world.

– Horizon 2020 shall be open to the association of: acceding countries, candidate countries and potential candidates and selected third countries that fulfil the relevant criteria (capacity, track record, close economic and geographical links to the Union, etc.).

– Targeted actions to be implemented taking a strategic approach to international cooperation (dedicated measures in the 'Inclusive, innovative and secure societies' challenge).

New strategy for international cooperation in research and innovation

Need to engage more actively and strategically in international cooperation:

• Three main objectives:

– Strengthen the Union's excellence and attractiveness in research and innovation as well as its industrial and economic competitiveness

– Tackle global societal challenges

– Support the Union's external policies

• Combining openness with better targeted actions

• Strengthened partnership with Member States

• Stronger contribution of research and innovation to external policies of

the Union

Key novelties • General opening of Horizon 2020, but with more restricted approach to automatic funding

• Targeted activities with scale and scope to achieve impact

• Multi-annual roadmaps for key partner countries/regions

• Stronger partnership with Member States

• Common principles for conduct of international cooperation

• Stronger role for Union in international organisations and multilateral fora

• Strengthen implementation, governance, monitoring and evaluation

Dual approach • Openness:

– Horizon 2020 open to participation from across the world – Restricted list of countries whose entities are eligible for automatic funding from

Union budget

• Targeted actions: 1. Identifying areas for international cooperation on the basis of the Union's policy

agenda 2. Flexible differentiation by countries/regions to provide further focus

multi-annual roadmaps for cooperation with key partners

Evaluation criteria applicable to the Collaborative project proposals submitted under FP7

S/T QUALITY

“Scientific and/or

technological excellence

(relevant to the topics

addressed by the call)”

Threshold: 3/5

IMPLEMENTATION

“Quality and efficiency of the

implementation and the

management”

Threshold: 3/5

IMPACT

“Potential impact through

the development, dissemination and use of

project results” Threshold: 3/5

Soundness of concept, and

quality of objectives

Progress beyond the state-of the-art

Quality and effectiveness of the S/T methodology and associated work plan

Global threshold: 10/15

Appropriateness of the

management structure and procedures

Quality and relevant experience of the individual participants

Quality of the consortium as a whole (including complementarity, balance)

Appropriateness of the allocation and justification of the resources to be committed (budget, staff, equipment)

Contribution, at the

European [and/or international] level, to the expected impacts listed in the work programme under the relevant topic/activity

Appropriateness of measures for the dissemination and/or exploitation of project results, and management of intellectual property.

¿Qui peut participer dans H2020?

• N’importe quelle entité juridique établie dans un pays:Cualquier entidad jurídica establecida en cualquier país, tales como: – universités et groupes de recherche, – Centres de recherche publiques et privés, – Grandes entreprises et PMEs, – Asociations ou groupements d’entreprises, particulièrement les PMEs, – Hôpitaux; – Administration Publique, etc.,

• A condition qu’elle soit disposée à: – Engager le temps et les ressources nécessaires pour le développement correct

du projet. – Assumer (et partager) les risques avec les autres partenaires du projet, dérivés

de la mise en œuvre de celui-ci. – Travailler en réseau pour partager les connaissances au sein d’un consortium

international. – Accepter que la langue de travail soit l’anglais.

¿Quelles caractéristiques devront avoir les projets financés par Horizon 2020?

Projets de recherche, développement et innovation (démonstration) en relation avec une

technologie, un produit, un processus ou un service déterminé...

– ….qui répondent aux exigences mentionnées dans le programme de travail de l’appel

– ... qui apportent una valeur ajoutée au niveau international, en répondant à un besoin de solutions ou amélioration existant;

– … qui respectent les principes éthiques fondamentaux, entre lesquels ceux qui se trouvet dans la

Charte des Droits Fondamentaux de l’Union Européenne... – ... qui comptent sur la participation d’au moins 3 entités indépendantes de 3 Etats membres ou Etats

associés (à moins que l’appell spécifie d’autres critères). Dans la pratique, les consortium sont constitués d’un nombre plus élevé de partenaires.

– ... Avec un budget global pouvant varier entre un demi million et plusieurs millions d’euros – ... Avec une durée pouvant varier entre 2 et 5 ans.

¿Quels projets ne se financent pas via Horizon

2020?

De manière générale: • Ceux qui ne répondent pas aux activités de RDI ou autres activités

mentionnées dans les programmes de travail. • Ceux qui n’ont qu’un caractère local ou national et où la dimension

européenne ou internationale ne se justifie pas. • Ceux qui ne représentent pas une innovation réelle par rapport aux

avancées déjà existentes au niveau européen et/ou international. • Ceux avec une dimension budgétaire et temporelle très réduite (inférieure

à un demi million et 1 an).

¿Quels avantages à participer dans

Horizon 2020?

• Augmenter sa compétitivité. • Collaboration avec des entités d’autres pays et réseaux internationaux. • Internationalisation de stratégies et marchés. • Partager le risque des activités de recherche et développement

technologique. • Accès à l’information privilégiée au niveau européen et à des nouvelles

connaissances. • Rénovation technologique. • Amélioration de l’image de l’entité participant: visibilité et prestige. • Financements privilégiés (subventions) des activités de recherche,

développement technologique et démonstration. • Possibilité de faire face à plusieurs à des défis scientifiques et industriels

de notre temps, de plus en plus complexes et interconnectés, et augmenter les connaissances sur ces défis sociétaux.