Horizon 2020 – Societal Challenge 5Can we improve our performance?

Have Your Say…

Dr. Brian Donlon, EPA Research Manager

7th October 2016Croke Park, Dublin

Talk Content

1. Results to Date (FP7 & H2020)

2. EPA Activities & Support Role

3. Concluding Remarks Interactive Session

1. Results to Date (FP7)n Under FP7 Approx €18m under Theme 6.

n 6 projects led by Irish Partners, Involved in 55 projects

n Key Areas Marine, Environmental Technologies, Natural Resources

Mgt

n Also success in Climate and Env & Health

n Across FP7 – Approx €50m drawn down by Environmental

Researchers

n Big successes in Agriculture, Marie Curie, SME, ERC, Energy and ICT

1. SC5 Results to mid 2016EU Countries Nr of

participantsEU grant

(EUR)Total cost

(EUR)Austria 70 20,424,345 24,586,072Belgium 159 46,375,369 53,502,588Bulgaria 11 693,686 1,158,766Croatia 11 1,061,708 1,062,333Cyprus 17 4,103,876 5,472,781Czech Republic 20 5,577,055 8,468,130Denmark 73 24,293,010 30,227,008Estonia 10 2,520,971 4,304,300Finland 69 25,139,624 35,670,725France 205 71,748,849 95,332,439Germany 290 124,351,939 170,687,347Greece 83 26,824,396 30,620,751Hungary 28 6,468,328 7,672,274Ireland 31 9,653,840 13,352,201Italy 226 75,705,983 97,170,732Latvia 4 642,632 934,656Lithuania 4 1,321,569 1,709,776Luxembourg 4 986,800 986,800Malta 6 1,293,375 1,293,375Netherlands 184 72,868,737 82,190,663Poland 49 10,472,481 12,790,350Portugal 102 27,618,415 32,030,324Romania 41 6,060,517 9,852,217Slovakia 14 1,738,749 2,086,803Slovenia 32 8,752,213 12,199,856Spain 293 106,621,995 136,026,033Sweden 79 30,933,729 45,590,599United Kingdom 272 119,728,247 136,144,096

EU 2,387 833,982,437 1,053,123,993

5 Countries > 200 successes.

Irish Success >€9m

Av IE Award = €311k

3. EPA Activities Members of SC5 Programme Committee Chair of Advisory Group Horizon2020 SC5 Working Group EPA active in Climate and Water JPIs (Huge interest in the Joint

Calls) EPA members of Task Forces on Water & Raw Materials Annual Information Days Annual Roadshows Joint Call with SFI Investigators Programme to catalyse

participation in H2020

3. Support Activities (ctd.) Catalogue of Irish Expertise in Environmental Research (>195,000

views) Droplet.ie – EPA H2020 Catalogue of Irish researchers in national/EU

water projects Dissemination (Newsletter, Website) Close linkages with other societal challenges as well as ERC , Marie

Curie, Mapping activities of research areas under Horizon2020 SC5 Queries, Review of proposals, One-to-one meetings Partner Search requests Funding (EPA & EI)

Online Catalogue of Expertise

Based on 2007/2008 results

Since the launch of the H2020 Catalogue of Environmental Expertise, there have been > 195,000 Hits/Views

280 Profiles

http://erc.epa.ie/h2020catalogue

Who is Viewing the Online Catalogue of Expertise?

Based on 2007/2008 results

Mapping Research Excellence

Mapping studies reports:H2020 SC5 08-2017 - Innovative nature-based solutions for hydro-meteorological risk reductionH2020 SC5-SCC2-2016 - Innovative nature-based solutions for climate and water resilience in citiesH2020 CIRC-02-2017/17 - Potential of efficient nutrient recovery from waterH2020 CIRC-02-2017 - Towards the next generation of water systems and servicesH2020 SC5-01-2017 - Exploiting the added value of climate servicesH2020 SC5-03-2017 - Integrated European regional modelling and climate prediction servicesH2020 SC5-14-2017 - Raw materials and Innovation actionsH2020 SC5-18-2017 - Novel in-situ observation systemsEU Water Research & Capability

Financial Support (EI & EPA)

Coordination support for academics (€12,500) Travel grants for academic researchers ERC grant applications (€8,000)www.horizon2020.ie

Event Support (€3,000) EPA/ESAI Grassroots workshop scheme (€600)www.epa.ie/researchandeducation/research/epafunding/eventsupport/

3. Concluding Remarks

Building on areas where we have excellent research capacity (Top

10 Worldwide) such as in Materials science, Nanotechnology,

Agricultural Sciences, Chemistry, Computer Science &

Microbiology

Climate Change and Water – EPA aligned and JPI linkages

SME successes in FP7 & Competitiveness Innovation Programme

(CIP)

10 to date in H2020

3. Concluding Remarks (ctd.)

H2020 – challenging target set Nationally (€1.25bn) 60% of H2020 aimed at Sus Dev, 35% to climate change (2018-

2020 targets) Opportunities in Raw Materials, climate/water, SME eco-

innovation Potential deficit in researcher capacity in SC5 (SFI joint call may

assist) Liaise with & support from others (Specialisation Strategy,

Materials, Prioritise National investments incl Innovation 2020)

SC5 Support Team

HAVE YOUR SAY

How can we improve our performance? Further Support Needed? How can we increase our participation rate ? How can we increase Success rate Irish Research Roadshow in Brussels? Paris?

Complete Survey Monkey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/2016EPAH2020SC5Survey