HORIZON 2020

EU Research and Innovation Programme

Opportunities and Challenges

Vanya Simeonova

Peter Jongebloed

International

Helpdesk

7 February, 2013

Horizon 2020 programme

EC proposal for research and innovation funding programme (2014-2020) aiming to:

Respond to the economic crisis to invest in future jobs and growth

Address people’s concerns about their livelihoods, safety and environment

Strengthen the EU’s global position in research, innovation and technology

Drivers of HORIZON 2020

Excellence

EU2020 strategy

Seven societal challenges

Research and innovation (ERA)

European problems European solutions

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Seven flagship initiatives

Seven Flagship Initiatives

Smart Growth Sustainable Growth Inclusive Growth

Innovation

« Innovation Union »

Climate, energy and

mobility

« Resource efficient

Europe »

Employment and skills

« An agenda for new

skills and jobs »

Education

« Youth on the move » Competitiveness

« An industrial policy for

the globalisation era »

Fighting poverty

« European platform

against poverty » Digital society

« A digital agenda for

Europe »

Completing ERA by 2014

European Research Area:

"A unified research area open to the world based on the Internal Market, in which researchers, scientific knowledge and technology circulate freely.... “

Priorities: More effective national research systems; Transnational; An open labor market for researchers co-operation and competition; Gender equality and gender mainstreaming in research; Optimal circulation and transfer of scientific knowledge.

Seven Societal Challenges

Health, and well-being;

Food security, sustainable agriculture, marine research &

bioeconomy

Secure, clean and efficient energy;

Smart, green and integrated transport;

Climate action, resource efficiency and raw materials;

Understanding European society and societal change

Protecting freedom and security in Europe.

EU 2020 targets

Employment 75% of the 20-64 year-olds to be employed

R&D 3% of the EU's GDP to be invested in R&D

Climate change / energy greenhouse gas emissions 20% 20% of energy from renewables 20% increase in energy efficiency

Education Reducing school drop-out rates below 10% at least 40% of 30-34–year-olds completing third level education

Poverty / social exclusion at least 20 million fewer people in risk of poverty & social exclusion

...and as the EU researchers informed me we shall....

-Foundation of technologies, jobs, wellbeing

-Attract and retain research talent

-Access to the best infrastructures

-Investments in key technologies -Innovation across sectors -Attract private investment in R&D -SMEs to create growth and jobs

-Concerns of the society (environment etc...)

-Multidisciplinary collaborations, including

social sciences & humanities

-Promising solutions to be tested and scaled

up

Europe 2020 Priorities

Tackling Societal Challenges

-Health, demographic change and wellbeing

-Food sec.,sust.agriculture,marine res. & bioeconomy

-Secure, clean and efficient energy

-Smart, green and integrated transport

-Supply of raw materials, resource efficiency& climate

-Inclusive, innovative & secure societies

Creating Industrial Leadership

-Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies (Biotechnology,…) -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

Common rules, toolkit of funding schemes

European Research Area

Simplified access

International cooperation

Coherence with other

EU and MS actions

Shared objectives and principles

Horizon 2020: the EC vision

Success in the FP7 programme

What is new in Horizon 2020

A single programme bringing together three separate programmes/initiatives

Coupling research to innovation – from research to retail, all forms of innovation

Focus on societal challenges facing EU society, e.g. health, clean energy and transport

Simplified access, for all companies, universities, institutes in all EU countries and beyond

Horizon 2020 partnership instruments

Public-private partnership Public-public partnership European innovation

partnership

• Grants for collaborative

transnational projects

• Contractual agreement:

(PPP Bio-based)

• Knowledge and

Innovation communities

(KICs’)

• ERA-Nets

• Joint Programming

Initiatives (JPIs’)

• Not funding

instruments, but for

coordination with

other programmes

(DG - Agro)

• Links with regional

policies

Participation of SMEs

Integrated approach - around 15% of the total budget

A dedicated activity for research-intensive SMEs in 'Innovation in

SMEs‘

Access to risk finance' - strong SME focus (debt and equity facility)

Enterprise networks involvement (EU, the Netherlands)

Widening participation

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-Support regions in building up their research and innovation capacity

Development of smart specialisation strategies

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-Widen participation

-Better coordination between the funding programmes

-Support policy reforms

Widening participation

• acceding countries

• candidate countries

• potential candidates and selected third countries that fulfil the relevant criteria

(capacity, track record, close economic and geographical links to the Union, etc.)

Simplification of participation rules

Horizon 2020 Financial Scheme

Total budget proposed: ~80 billion euro / seven years

P1 Excellence Science Base: €24 598 million

P2 Building Industrial leadership in Europe: €17 938 million

P3 Tackling societal challenges for better Europe: €31 748 million

Food security and sustainable agriculture:

Phosphorus use issues in the EU

Knowledge, tools, services and innovations to support more productive, environmentally-friendly resource-efficient and resilient agriculture and forestry, supply sufficient food, feed, biomass and other raw-materials and deliver ecosystems services.

Enhance productivity and the adaptive capacity of plants, animals and production systems to cope with rapidly changing environmental/climatic conditions and scarce natural resources.

Move towards a low energy, low emission and low waste economy, and to reduced natural resources demand and reduce food losses along the entire food and feed supply chain. Use of biomass and by-products from agriculture and forestry for a wide range of non-food applications.

Multi-disciplinary approaches to improve the performance of plants, animals, micro-organisms, while ensuring efficient resource use (water, land, soil, nutrients, energy and other inputs) and the ecological integrity of rural areas.

Opportunities for rural communities for primary production and delivery of eco-systems services, production of new and diversified products (food, feed, materials, energy), low-carbon short-chain delivery systems

Cohesion of rural areas to prevent economic and social marginalisation, resource management

Climate change, resource efficiency and raw materials:

Phosphorus use issues in the EU

Sustainable supply of non-energy and non-agricultural raw materials, knowledge base on raw materials and develop innovative solutions for the cost-effective and environmentally friendly exploration, extraction, processing, re-use, recycling and recovery of raw materials

Promote the sustainable supply and use of raw materials, including mineral resources, from land and sea, covering exploration, extraction, processing, re-use, recycling and recovery

Find alternatives for critical raw materials

Improve societal awareness and skills on raw materials

Enabling the transition towards a green economy and society through eco-innovation

Budget project costs H2020

• Maximum of 100% of the total eligible costs (except “close to market” actions: 70%)

• Indirect eligible costs: a flat rate of 25% of direct eligible costs

• Project Coordination: Direct costs 100%+ flat rate 25% (in

KP7 was 60%)

Since 30/11/11: EP and Council negotiate on EC proposal

2013: around April last calls FP7

Since end 2012 trilateral negotiations in process:

MS-EP-EC budget 2014-2020 (budget Horizon 2020)

By end 2013: Adoption of legislative acts by Parliament and Council on Horizon 2020

1/1/2014: Start Horizon 2020; launch of first calls

Horizon 2020 Time line

EU policies

Strategic Research Agenda of European Technology Platforms

Foresight studies Project portfolio Input from stakeholders

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Commission Proposal for the Work Programme

Advisory group

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Call for Proposals

Dutch Core group

Dutch Advisory board

Feedback

How is the lobby of Horizon 2020 organized?

Get aquatinted

Horizon 2020 programs

Project idea within the

Horizon 2020 programs priorities

Draft project proposal

Consultations

Coordinated lobby actions

Road Map Horizon 2020 proposals

Networking-

Consortiums

core groups

Information and support on H2020

Participants portal CORDIS: http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/page/calls Horizon 2020 site: http://ec.europa.eu/research/horizon2020/index_en.cfm?pg=home&video=none

Information and support on H2020

Wageningen International Helpdesk:

Peter Jongebloed: Manager WI Helpdesk, contact point ASG, AFSG, SSG, RIKILT, CVI, IMARES Vanya Simeonova: contact person ESG Christianne Marcelis: contact point PSG Jaap Richter Uitdenboogaardt: financial and legal services Reynout Hana: legal services