EU funding opportunities and Public-Private Partnership in Robotics. Bjoern Juretzki European Commission DG CONNECT Unit A2 (Robotics)

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1 EU funding opportunities and Public-Private Partnership in Robotics Bjoern Juretzki European Commission DG CONNECT Unit A2 (Robotics)

2 Overview Introduction to Horizon 2020 Robotics LEIT Work Programme Public-Private Partnership in Robotics

3 General overview New framework research program covering the period from Total funding volume for this period: 70.2bn (compared to around 50bn in FP7) Despite an overall budget decrease, more funding for R&D&I than ever before Still not finally approved by legislator

4 What s new in Horizon 2020? A single programme bringing together three separate programmes/initiatives* Coupling research to innovation from research to commercialisation, all forms of innovation Simplified access, for all companies, universities, institutes in all EU countries and beyond. *The 7th Research Framework Programme (FP7), innovation aspects of Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme (CIP), EU contribution to the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) 4

5 Simplification Replacing the various methods to calculate indirect costs with one flat rate (25%) One funding rate, regardless whether university or company: 100% (70% for closer to market actions) Less financial checks, more trust Much faster negotiations and shorter time-to-contract

6 New tools Pre-commercial procurement (PCP) to steer development of solutions towards concrete public sector needs, whilst comparing alternative approaches from various vendors Focus on prototype development Public Procurement of Innovation (PPI) Public sector to act as launch customer / early adopter / first buyer of innovative commercial end-solutions newly arriving on the market Focus on actual deployment Turning research process upside down: end-users are in the driving seat Creating reference applications and customers

7 Rationale Health care Climate Change Energy Efficiency Transport Security Public sector efficiency Public sector is faced with important challenges Addressing these often requires solutions for which no commercially stable solutions exist yet: In many cases, solutions are near the market and would be provided if clear requirements/sufficient demand expressed by the market (PPI) In other cases, still R&D required to de-risk technology and comparison of competing approaches before committing to deploy (PCP) Public procurement enables buyers to steer industrial R&D to its needs

8 How does it work PCP to steer the development of solutions towards concrete public sector needs, whilst comparing/validating alternative approaches from various vendors PPI to act as launching customer / early adopter / first buyer of innovative commercial end-solutions newly arriving on the market Applied R&D / Pre-commercial Procurement (PCP) Public Procurement of Innovative Solutions (PPI) Phase 0 Curiosity Driven Research Phase 1 Solution design Supplier A Supplier B Supplier C Supplier D Phase 2 Prototype development Supplier B Supplier C Supplier D Phase 3 Original development of limited volume of first test products / services Supplier B Supplier D Supplier(s) A,B,C,D and/or X PCP: specific approach to procure R&D services, enabling: Price/quality products that better fit public sector needs Earlier customer feedback for companies developing solutions Better take-up/wider commercialisation of R&D results Phase 4 Deployment of commercial end-products Diffusion of newly developed products / services Also normally multiple sourcing here to keep competition going

9 PCP Benefits Suppliers - Better products - Economies of scale - Wider market size - Shorter Time to market -First buyer of early R&D -Shared risks & benefits - New lead markets - Increase export - Global competitiveness Pre-commercial Procurement Government - Quality of public services - Focus on political priorities - Improve innovation climate - Attract foreign investment - Increase employment - Reduce cost of procurement - Reduce risk of innovation Get the Best Product - Address public market innovation failure - Shape product development to public needs - Increase technology knowledge - Reduce risk in commercial tendering - Favour supplier competition Procurers at the Lowest Price - Pooling of resources - Economies of scale - No licensing costs - First time right product - EU interoperable - Attractive to venture capitalists - Reduce unforeseen expenditure

10 Cross-border PCP Example I - SILVER Goal: Procure robotics solutions to care for 10% more elderly people living independently at home with the same amount of care staff by 2020 Partners: City of Odense and region of Southern Denmark (Denmark), city of Västerås (Sweden), cities of Vantaa and Oulu (Finland), city of Stockport (UK), city of Eindhoven (Netherlands) Seven bidders successfully passed the initial tender evaluation, now entering PCP phase 1 (solution design) Procurement budget: 1.8million

11 Horizon 2020: Three priorities Excellent science (receives 32% of total funding) raising the level of excellence in Europe's science base and ensuring a steady stream of world-class research to secure Europe's long-term competitiveness Societal challenges (38%) reflecting the policy priorities of the Europe 2020 strategy and addressing major concerns shared by European citizens Leadership in Enabling and Industrial Technologies/LEIT (22%) making Europe a more attractive location for R&I by promoting activities where businesses set the agenda.

12 Leadership in Enabling and Industrial Technologies 1. A new generation of components and systems: engineering of advanced embedded & resource efficient components/systems 2. Next generation computing: advanced and secure computing systems and technologies, including cloud computing 3. Future Internet: software, hardware, infrastructures, technologies and services 4. Content technologies and information management: ICT for digital content, cultural and creative industries 5. Robotics 6. Micro- and nanoelectronics and photonics: key enabling technologies

13 Overview Introduction to Horizon 2020 Robotics LEIT Work Programme Public-Private Partnership in Robotics

14 Robotics in LEIT WP Overview Two relevant calls in WP : Call 1 (Dec 2013 April 2014) Call 2 (October 2014 April 2015) Total funding volume: 157 million Making use of new instruments such as PCP Call content prepared in close cooperation with academic and industrial stakeholders in the context of the Public- Private Partnership in Robotics Highly recommended to read the Strategic Research Agenda prepared by the PPP:

15 Strong focus on innovation and market-relevant developments From the call text: "Priority is given to projects driven by industrial or market needs and that are expected to produce step changes in abilities" Making use of innovation-oriented instruments such as robotics use cases and pre-commercial procurement Each call prioritises different market domains Increased Technology Readiness Levels as an expected impact Impact on market shares of European robotics manufacturers expected

16 Call 1 Three target outcomes: 1. RTD for industrial and service robotics ( 57 million) Prioritises the following market domains: manufacturing, agriculture, commercial, civil Improve the level of robotics abilities in the context of these market domains by addressing: cognitive ability, decisional autonomy, dependability, flexibility, interaction capability, manipulation ability, motion capability, perception ability Advances expected in cognition, human-robot interaction, mechatronics, navigation, perception and technology combinations (e.g. physical HRI) Sub target outcomes (but no ring-fenced budget): Shared resources (e.g. test beds), benchmarking, system development processes and techniques/system design and engineering

17 Call 1 cont. 2. Robotics use cases ( 12 million) Focus on introducing, testing and validating promising and innovative robotics solutions in real-world conditions No focus on particular application domains Strong involvement of stakeholders such as robotics industry, system integrators and end-users is essential 3. Pre-commercial procurement ( 5 million) demand-driven innovation action Focus on public safety and monitoring of environment and infrastructures Call 1 Deadlines: Call opening on 11th December 2013 Call closure on 23rd April 2014

18 Call 2 Five target outcomes: 1. RTD for industrial and service robotics ( 50 million) Prioritises the following market domains: healthcare, consumer, transport Advances expected in same technologies and abilities as in call 1, just in different market domains 2. Industry-academia cross-fertilisation ( 12 million) Shared research infrastructures Small- to medium-scale experiments with industrial platforms No preference for market domains

19 Call 2 cont. 3. Robotics use cases ( 12 million) Same scheme as in Call 1: Focus on operational deployment of robotics systems No preference for market domains 4. Pre-commercial procurement ( 5 million) Same scheme as in Call 1: demand-driven innovation action Focus on healthcare 5. Community building and Robotic competitions ( 4 million) Supporting the European robotics community with respect to networking, outreach, technology watch, standardisation Organisation of robotic competitions Call 2 Deadlines: Call opening on 15th October 2014 Call closure on 14th April 2015

20 Other funding sources Many other potential funding sources for robotics available read allwork Programmes, not only the LEIT WP! Some examples: Societal Challenge 1/Health and well-being: Service robotics for assisted living environments ( 24.6 million) Societal Challenge 2/Food security, marine and maritime research: Delivering sub-sea technologies/underwater robots for new services at sea ( 16 million) NMP/Factories of the Future: Highly flexible and near-autonomous robotics systems ( 36 million) FET Proactive 2/Knowing, doing, being: New concepts & new generic paradigms in cognitive systems and robots; new morphological designs such as nano- and micro-robots, multi-robot systems or unconventional robot shapes ( 20 million)

21 Further Information Dedicated Information Day will take place in Luxembourg on 13 th /14 th January 2014 FAQ document in preparation Text of Work Programme: agenda/files/h2020%20leit- ICT%20WP% %20- %2031%2010% pdf

22 Overview Introduction to Horizon 2020 Robotics LEIT Work Programme Public-Private Partnership in Robotics

23 What is a PPP? " a government service or private business venture which is funded and operated through a partnership of government and one or more private sector organisations." (Wikipedia) PPP stands for Public-Private Partnership Public side = European Commission Private side = Companies, universities (which can be public bodies), research organisations, NGOs Goal: To strengthen the competitive position of Europe in a particular business sector Mutual development of research strategy & commitment to invest in a sector Not limited to research, also looking at other areas such as regulation, policy, trade, non-technical barriers, etc.

24 Private side of the PPP Not-for-profit organisation eurobotics aisbl founded under Belgian law President, Vice-Presidents and Board of Directors recently elected Membership fees:

25 Governance structure of private side Board of Directors (BoD) Robolution Capital Aldebaran End-user (TBD) President Bernd Liepert KUKA Advisory Board (CEOs/CTOs, leading academics) KUKA KU Heriot- Finmecca EUnited Leuven Watt IIT Fraunhofer Blue Claas Siemens Schunk Univ. IPA IK4 University ABB nica Robotics of Oulu Tecnalia University RURobots Botics of Naples SDU DLR eurobotics Industry Board Representatives from industry Vice President Industry Rainer Bischoff Vice President Research Herman Bruyninckx eurobotics Research Board Representatives from research KIT SSSA General Assembly BoD communicates with the EC

26 PPP Contractual Arrangement The European Commission (=public side) and eurobotics aisbl (=private side) will sign a contractual arrangement Contractual arrangement will cover: the objectives of the partnership the commitments of the partners key performance indicators outputs to be delivered the governance structure

27 Political mission of the PPP Improving the innovation capability of European companies and academic institutes involved in robotics Increasing Europe's market share in industrial, professional service and domestic service robotics Keeping jobs in Europe through higher automation Enabling the wide-spread introduction of robotics technologies in non-traditional sectors Addressing key societal challenges such as demographic change

28 Vision and mission of the PPP in Robotics Vision: A higher quality of life for everyone through robotics. The European robotics community will lead the world in robotics by creating, designing, developing, innovating, manufacturing and distributing robotic product and services: thereby meeting many societal needs of EU citizens. Mission: Creating and deploying robotic products and services for high quality work and personal life. society shall benefit better living inside and outside factories improve quality of life directly and indirectly

29 Specific goals of the PPP in Robotics Develop strategic goals of European robotics and foster their implementation Improve industrial competitiveness of EU through innovative robotic technologies Position robotics as a key enabler for solving Europe s societal challenges Strengthen networking activities of the European robotics community Promote European robotics Contribute to policy development and addressing ethical, legal and societal issues Reach out to new users and markets

30 Benefits of being a member ability to inform EC on industrial and academic needs, to shape the R&D&I agenda and to take part in the preparations of calls, the setting priorities and the definition of EC work programmes great networking opportunities (meeting, exchanging & establishing relations with representatives of the European robotics community) being visible as member of the European robotics community creating a strong European robotics community & ecosystem being represented at high political levels business development; market intelligence

31 Joint development of Work Programme together with community Goal of Public-Private Partnership in Robotics: To strengthen the competitive position of Europe in robotics Basic principle: To translate priorities of industry into EC Work Programmes and Calls for Proposals More innovation can only happen in cooperation with industry we have to understand better what their needs and requirements are Academia alone cannot succeed in making innovation happen We want to fund research that matters to industry!

32 Strategic Research Agenda Strategic Research Agenda is key document Written by the community Defines research priorities, technologies to be developed, sectors to be incorporated Builds on SRA from 2009, but will be heavily updated EC will use SRA as a basis to develop work programmes, calls for proposals Drafting has started in Sept 2012, consultation is on-going, will be updated annually Wide participation essential

33 Current status of PPP More than 145 companies, universities, research organisation, end-users, trade fair organisers, venture capitalists have already joined the eurobotics aisbl New sectors such as agriculture and healthcare also represented New BoD elected during last European Robotics Forum in March 2013 (annual event of the European academic and industrial community) PPP application submitted, currently being assessed Signature of Contractual Arrangement expected in Dec 2013, PPP to start formally in Q1 2014

34 Contact European Commission: Bjoern Juretzki, European Commission, DG CONNECT bjoern.juretzki@ec.europa.eu eurobotics aisbl: Secretary General: Uwe Haass (uwe.haass@eu-robotics.net) Industry: Rainer Bischoff (rainer.bischoff@kuka.com) Academia: Herman Bruyninckx (herman.bruyninckx@mech.kuleuven.be) PPP Website:

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