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:
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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
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EXCELLENT SCIENCEPillar I
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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 €
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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
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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).
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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
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MSCA-IF Workshop
on the 26th June!
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
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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.
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SOCIAL CHALLENGESPillar III
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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Social Challenge IDeadlines:
1 stage: 21/4/15
2 stages: 14/10/14 & 25/2/15
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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)
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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)
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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Importance of European
approach
• Implementation: Work plan; Experience of participants; Management structures.
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