Demystifying the Calls Every word counts€¦ · Demystifying the Calls –Every word counts Grigoris Chatzikostas, Senior H2020 Expert. 2 What is Horizon2020? Societal Challenges

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Demystifying the Calls – Every word counts

Grigoris Chatzikostas,

Senior H2020 Expert

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What is Horizon2020?

Societal Challenges

Excellent Science

Industrial Leadership

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➢Grants for Research and Innovation – 100% funding of all activities and participants

➢Grants for Innovation – 70% funding of all activities and participants –except non-profit (100%)

➢Support and Coordination Actions

➢Programme Co-funding Actions

➢EIC Accelerator aka SME-Instrument – Instrument to support specific SME activities in three phases

➢Pre-Commercial Procurement (PCP) – Steer development to public sector needs

➢Public Procurement of Innovative Solutions (PPI) – First buyer for innovative solutions

➢Prizes – Support for two key categories of prizes (recognition and inducement)

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Horizon 2020 instruments

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SC2 at a glance

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Commission Services involved in SC2

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Key Statistics

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Funding statistics 1/4

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Schedule for 2020

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Calls overview

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SC2 SFS Sustainable Food Security topics

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SC2 BG Blue Growth topics

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SC2 RUR Rural Renaissance topics

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SC2 FNR Food and Natural Resources topics

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SC2: Open innovation, open science, open to the world

Open innovation • €500 mio for multi-actor projects (interactive innovation linked to EIP-

AGRI)

Open science Research data sharing by default Open science clouds: Food cloud demonstrators (10M€) & Blue cloud

services (6M€)

Open to the world89M€ on EU-AFRICA partnership on Food and Nutrition Security and

Sustainable Agriculture (11 projects): food systems, sustainable intensification and income diversification

23M€ on EU-CHINA (5 projects):foodsafety, soilmanagement and bio-based fertilisers

64M€ on"All Atlantic Ocean Research Alliance"(8 projects):coordination, marine ecosystems and new value chains

PRIMA

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Multi-Actor Approach (MMA) 1/3

A multi-actor project needs to demonstrate:

• how the project proposal's objectives and planning are targeted to needs / problems and opportunities of end-users

• complementarity with existing research and best practices

[What is the project's added value? - Avoid recycling projects: repetition and continuation of former projects – more of the same]

• sufficient involvement of key actors with complementary types of knowledge (scientific and practical) should be reflected in the composition of the project consortium to reach the project objectives and make its results broadly implemented.

[Include partners beyond scientists, such as farmers, farmers' groups, advisors etc - Don't forget to think about involving multipliers to strengthen impacts]

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A multi-actor project:

• As a minimum, should result in substantial easily understandable practical knowledge for broad dissemination in the common EIP format

[focus on concrete and concisely written results (not project activities description): possibly some 100 EIP practice abstracts in a practitioners/farmers' language, best practices resulting from the projects' work, some qualitative audio-visual material, etc

Do not reinvent the wheel : use existing long term available dissemination channels for practitioners, lasting beyond the project period, eg websites of Ministries, farmers' organisations, advisors …]

• Facilitation/mediation between actors and involving for instance RD operational groups, are strongly recommended

[but don't make impossible promises and mix up funding sources and policies: H2020 consortia cannot start up Operational Groups]


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• "multi-actor" is more than a strong dissemination requirement or a broad actors/ stakeholders' board

• "all along the project" *: a clear role for the different actors in the work plan, from the participation in the planning of work and experiments, their execution up until the dissemination of results and the possible demonstration phase.

• Project proposals should illustrate sufficient quantity and quality of knowledge exchange activities

Actor: an organization taking part in project activities

Stakeholder: person/ organization expressing a view/stake at a certain moment during the project


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Multi-Actor Approach in practice (1/4)

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How to understand a SC2 Call:

• Study the SC2 call very carefully, word by word

• Look at relevant policy documents of EC, and particularly DG AGRI and DG RTD

• Look at previous relevant projects in H2020 and FP7

•Participate in info days or collect the presentations

•Make sure you « tick » all the boxes

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RUR-06-2020: Innovative agri-food value chains: boosting sustainability-oriented competitiveness

Innovation Action (≈ €7M/proposal); 3 projects Background

─ Food systems face many interlinked challenges, which jeopardise their sustainability

─ Call for: innovative systemic approaches to redesign agri-food value chains, with a view to unlock their full potential to deliver economic, environmental and social benefits while also addressing power imbalances between farmers and other operators

─ Such co-created innovative designs of agri-food value chains are emerging, but not all are equally sustainable.

- Need to understand the structure and behavioural challenges across a variety of incentives inherent in agri-food value chains, how these agri-food sectors affect sustainability and innovation in practice, and what kind of adjustments would be desirable to facilitate good identified practice at a systemic level, in order to contextualise and understand the replicability of the best practices

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Requirements

─ Build on the state of the art, map and assess existing innovations, and (re)design and pilot innovative systemic approaches to agri-food value chains that unlock their full potential to achieve economic, social and environmental sustainability and foster cooperation, notably involving farmers

─ Combine diverse forms of innovation

─ Assess and validate the benefits (sustainability performance) of the innovative agri-food

value chains: comprehensive methods (quantitative and qualitative), with attention to

✓the trade-offs and synergies between sustainability dimensions

✓the fair distribution of costs, benefits and risks among all actors involved in the agri-food value chains

─ Scrutinize factors enabling and hindering innovative approaches─ Develop and disseminate recommendations, best practice guidelines and toolkits

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Cross-cutting issues─ Multi-actor approach─ Cooperation: projects under topic RUR-06-2020 (obligatory) and RUR-07-2020 (encouraged)

• Expectations:➢Long-term, win-win economic relationships between actors from agri-food chains which effectively collaborate towards common sustainability objectives;➢Better understanding and fairer distribution of costs, benefits and risks amongst the actors involved in the innovative agri-food chains which are piloted, tested and demonstrated;

➢A portfolio of innovative sustainable business models well-functioning in operational environment;

➢Strengthened farmers' position in agri-food value chains through innovative approaches that enhance transparency, information flow and management capacity;

➢Enhanced positive socio-economic and environmental impacts of agri-food value chains.

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RUR-07-2020 Reducing food losses and waste along the agri-food value chain

Innovation Action (≈ €6M/proposal); 2 projects Background

─ Reducing food losses and waste all along the agri-food value chain is not straightforward, as the problem is a result of manifold and highly interlinked causes

─ Much is known about the causes and many innovative solutions are already available

─ Need for demonstration and market replication of innovative solutions

─To avoid shifting the burden of food losses and waste from one stage of the agri-food value chain to another, it is important to coordinate the innovative actions to tackle food losses and waste along all stages of the agri-food value chain

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Requirements

─ Building on the state of the art, identify, validate and demonstrate innovative, effective ways to reduce food losses and waste, with a focus on preventing avoidable losses and waste of perishable products, all along the agri-food value chain

─ Consider diverse forms of innovation that allow actors:✓to better organize and coordinate their activities,✓to monitor conditions, to eliminate the many intricate direct and indirect causes of inefficiency, ✓and, hence, to discard as little food as possible all along the agri-food value chains✓without compromising on food quality, including safety, and sustainability.

─ Measure and monitor food losses and waste (and associated economic and environmental costs) along the agri-food value chains → should be compatible with the EU legislation, but may be complemented with measurement of materials not covered by the legislation (e.g., farm losses)

─ Scrutinize factors enabling and hindering innovative approaches

─ Develop and disseminate recommendations, best practice guidelines and toolkits

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Cross-cutting issues

─ Multi-actor approach

─Activities to inform diverse actors along the agri-food chain, including consumers and policymakers, about the innovative solutions to food losses and waste, influencing their behaviour in relation to this issue, and supporting policy development and implementation

─ Complementarities with selected projects under topic RUR-07-2020 and other relevant EU projects, as well as contribute to relevant initiatives at EU level

─ Cooperation: projects under topic RUR-07-2020 (obligatory) and RUR-06- 2020 (encouraged)

─ At least TRL 6-7

Useful link: https://ec.europa.eu/food/safety/food_waste/stop_en

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FNR-08-2020: Supporting the food safety systems of the future

• European citizens need to have access to safe and wholesome food of highest standards (General Food Law)

• But: consumer concerns & technological developments and innovations -> reflect on the food safety system of the future

• Integrate stakeholders, map the state of play, strengthen R&I, exchange knowledge & data, improve coherence, develop innovative approaches on communication, explore avenues for long-term-science-policy-society interfaces

• Be flexible to respond in real-time to potentially fest changing policy scenarios

• Deliver a platform for European cooperation, develop innovative models for collaboration

• Develop a Food Safety SRIA

• Develop models to inform civil society on science base RA process

Coordination and support action (€3M/proposal); 1 project

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FNR-08-2020: Supporting the food safety systems of the future

Important Source: General Food Law

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Demystifying the Calls Every word counts€¦ · Demystifying the Calls –Every word counts Grigoris Chatzikostas, Senior H2020 Expert. 2 What is Horizon2020? Societal Challenges