Ευκαιρίες Χρηµατοδότησης ραστηριοτήτων Έρευνας και Ανάπτυξης στους Κλάδους της Μηχανικής HORIZON 2020 The EU Framework Programme For Research And Innovation (2014-2020) Τσούµπανου Λίνα Επιστηµονικός Λειτουργός Τοµέας Ευρωπαϊκών Ερευνητικών Προγραµµάτων και ιεθνούς Συνεργασίας Ίδρυµα Προώθησης Έρευνας Ευκαιρίες Χρηµατοδότησης ραστηριοτήτων Έρευνας και Ανάπτυξης στους Κλάδους της Μηχανικής Πολιτιστικό Εκπαιδευτικό Κέντρο ΕΤΕΚ - 9 Νοεµβρίου 2013
CONTENT HORIZON 2020 - In Brief - Main Features Structure of HORIZON 2020 Rules for Participation Funding Opportunities Related to the Field of Engineering Timeline How to Participate The Role of RPF
Main Features NEXT FP: HORIZON 2020 The EU Framework Programme For Research And Innovation (2014-2020) Will last 7 years, from 2014 to 2020 Total budget more than 70 billion Part of the proposals for the next EU budget (MFF), complementing Structural Funds, education, etc.
NEXT FP: HORIZON 2020 Main Features Core part of Europe 2020, Innovation Union & ERA: Responding to the economic crisis to invest in future jobs and growth Addressing people s concerns about their livelihoods, safety and environment Strengthening the EU s global position in research, innovation and technology
The Structure of HORIZON 2020 Three Priorities: 1. Excellent Science 2. Industrial Leadership 3. Societal Challenges
Priority 1. Excellent science Why: World class science is the foundation of tomorrow s technologies, jobs and wellbeing Europe needs to develop, attract and retain research talent
Priority 1: Excellent Science *All funding figures in this presentation are subject to the pending Multiannual Financial Framework Regulation by the EP and the Council
Why: Priority 2. Industrial leadership Europe needs to attract more private investment in research and innovation Strategic investments in key technologies (e.g. advanced manufacturing, micro-electronics) underpin innovation across existing and emerging sectors Europe needs more innovative SMEs to create growth and jobs
Priority 2: Industrial Leadership
Why: Priority 3. Societal challenges Concerns of citizens and society and the EU policy objectives (climate, environment, energy, transport etc) cannot be achieved without innovation Breakthrough solutions come from multi-disciplinary collaborations, including social sciences & humanities Promising solutions need to be tested, demonstrated and scaled up
The Structure of HORIZON 2020 Priority 3: Societal Challenges *Additional funding for nuclear safety and security from the Euratom Treaty activities (2014-2018)
Strong participation by SMEs Integrated approach - around 20% of the total budget for societal challenges and LEITs to go to SMEs. Simplification of particular benefit to SMEs (e.g. single entry point). A new SME instrument, will be used across all societal challenges as well as for the LEITs A dedicated activity for research-intensive SMEs in 'Innovation in SMEs'. 'Access to risk finance' will have a strong SME focus (debt and equity facility)
Simplification Rules for Participation 1. A single set of rules Adapted for the whole research and innovation cycle Covering all research programmes and funding bodies Aligned to Financial Regulation, coherent with other EU Programme 2. One project one funding rate Maximum of 100% of the total eligible costs (except for actions close to market, where a 70% maximum will apply) Indirect eligible costs: a flat rate of 25% of direct eligible costs 3. Simple evaluation criteria: Excellence Impact Implementation (Excellence only, for the ERC) 4. New forms of funding aimed at innovation: pre-commercial procurement, inducement prizes, dedicated loan and equity instruments 5. International participation: facilitated but better protecting EU interests
Simplification Rules for Participation 6. Simpler rules for grants: broader acceptance of participants accounting practices for direct costs, flat rate for indirect costs, no time-sheets for personnel working full time on a project, possibility of output-based grants 7. Fewer, better targeted controls and audits Lowest possible level of requirements for submission of audit certificates without undermining sound financial management Audit strategy focused on risk and fraud prevention 8. Improved rules on intellectual property Balance between legal security and flexibility Tailor-made IPR provisions for new forms of funding A new emphasis on open access to research publications
Types of Action, Rules, Conditions, Reimbursement Rates Single set of rules
Conditions for participation in an action A. Minimum conditions General Participation Rules For standard collaborative actions: At least three legal entities independent of each other and each established in a different Member State or an Associated Country For ERC, SME instrument, programme co-fund, coordination and support, training and mobility actions: One legal entity established in a Member State or in an Associated Country B. Additional conditions: To be set out in the work programme or work plan, e.g. number of participants, type of participants etc
Eligibility for Funding Automatically for the following legal entities: Legal entities established in the Member States and Associated Countries International European Interest Organisations Legal entities identified in the WPs Other legal entities if: Participation is deemed essential for carrying out the action by the Commission or the relevant funding body Provided for in an international agreement between the Union and a third country or international organisation
Eligibility for funding Participation is Open to a Wide Range of Organisations as: Research Groups at Universities or Research Institutes Companies Intending to Innovate Small or Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) Public or Governmental Administration Early-Stage and Experienced Researchers Institutions/Research Infrastructures of Transnational Interest Organisations and Researchers from Third Countries International Organisations Civil Society Organisations
COST REIMBURSEMENT Changes from FP7 PERSONNEL COSTS Wider acceptance of average personnel costs (now under unit costs) Broadening the basic conditions for acceptance of average personnel cost accounting practices. Acceptance of supplementary payments for non-profit organisations of up to 8000 Euro/year/person Simplifying participation for SMEs Providing in the Rules for a unit cost system for SME owners and physical persons without a salary. and more in the Horizon 2020 Grant Agreement The Grant Agreement will add further elements of simplification regarding personnel costs like simplified provisions on productive hours and clear minimum rules on time recording.
INDIRECT COSTS Unique method: 25 % flat-rate Aiming at simplifying project management and reducing recurrent errors. Combined with practical guidance for large research infrastructures on how costs can be accepted as direct costs
Eligible Costs Max Grant is based on eligible costs To be considered for reimbursement, expenditure must satisfy the eligibility criteria Eligibility: Actual Incurred by the beneficiary Incurred during the project (exception) Determined in accordance with usual accounting and management principles and practices For the purposes of the project Economical, efficient and effective Recorded in accounts of beneficiary / third party Inclusion in the overall budget of the GA
TYPES OF ACTION Research and Innovation Actions (new) Innovation Actions (new) Coordination and Support Actions Marie Curie Actions (ITN, IF, RISE, COFUND) ERC grant schemes (Starting; Consolidator; Advanced Grants; Proof of Concept Grant; Synergy Grant) Pre-Commercial Procurement (PCP) Public Procurement of Innovative Solutions (PPI) (new) Fast Track to Innovation Pilot (new) SME Instrument (new) ERA-NET Programme Co-Fund Action (new) Inducement Prizes (new) Dedicated loan and equity instrument (new)
TYPES OF ACTION Innovation Action innovation action' means an action primarily consisting of activities directly aiming at producing plans and arrangements or designs for new, altered or improved products, processes or services. For this purpose they may include prototyping, testing, demonstrating, piloting, large-scale product validation and market replication; Funding rate Maximum rate of 70%, indirect cost flat rate 25%; exception: 100% maximum funding rate for non profit organisations Established ex ante in the WP the calls that will be published under each specific objective and, for each call, the topics covered and, for each topic, the corresponding type of action that will be supported.
to be launched in 2015; Fast Track to Innovation Pilot: for innovation actions with a maximum of 5 partners and a maximum of 3 Million per project Union contribution; bottom-up driven logic; continuously open calls with three cut-off dates per year; time to grant not exceeding 6 months; selected actions will not require the approval by the Programme Committee; covering all fields across LEITs and SC
SME Instrument Bottom-up approach within the frame of the SC and LEITs each SC & LEIT defines a broad topic Continuously open call with around 4 cut-off dates per year Only SMEs allowed to apply for funding and support Minimum condition: participation of one SME Combination of demonstration activities (testing, prototyping, ), market replication encouraging the involvement of end users or potential clients, and research
Funding Opportunities Related to the Field of Engineering PRIORITY 2- LEIT ICT (1) The overall aim of EU research and innovation funding in the field of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) under Horizon 2020 is to bring the benefits of progress in these technologies to European citizens and businesses, while at the same time addressing Europe's societal challenges. This EU investment will support the ICT research and innovation that can best deliver new business breakthroughs, often on the basis of emerging technologies. [In particular, ICT in Horizon 2020 will support the development of ICT in Science, ICT in industrial leadership and ICT in societal challenges.]
PRIORITY 2 LEIT ICT (2) A new generation of components and systems Smart Cyber-Physical Systems: Next generation embedded ICT systems to provide citizens and businesses with a wide range of innovative applications and services. Methods for engineering Cyber-physical Systems that are able to respond in real-time to dynamic and complex situations while preserving control, system safety, reliability and dependability features. Advanced Computing Customised and low power computing: Encouraging the move towards a low-power computing continuum spanning embedded systems, mobile devices, desktops, data centres, etc. Research should aim at radically increasing the productivity in programming and maintaining codes by marginalising the need for dual expertise - application engineering and computer system engineering.
Robotics PRIORITY 2 LEIT ICT (3) To improve the level of industrial and service robotics abilities.εssential for the deployment of robots is the development/establishment of commonly adopted systems development techniques and technologies (system design, engineering, architecture, integration). Factories of the Future Public Private Partnership which builds on Europe's strengths in engineering and manufacturing technologies and supports the pan- European effort for re-industrialisation by uplifting the innovation capacity of manufacturing sector. Methods for Integrative Control and Optimisation of Discrete and Continuous Processes supporting engineers in their aim of detecting, measuring and monitoring the variables, events and situations which affect the performance, energy-use and reliability of manufacturing systems.
PRIORITY 2 LEIT ICT (4) ICT Innovation for Manufacturing SMEs For Europe's competitiveness in manufacturing, it is crucial that advances in ICT are taken up in engineering and manufacturing "at large" as soon as they have the appropriate maturity level. More innovative and competitive technology suppliers, in particular SMEs, both on the level of ICT and on the level of manufacturing equipment, able to supply manufacturers with new equipment, components, and tools for improved manufacturing and engineering operations.
PRIORITY 2- LEIT Nanotechnologies, Advanced Materials, Biotechnology and Advanced Manufacturing and Processing (1) Call for EeB Energy-efficient Buildings Worth at least 1.3 trillion Euros of yearly turnover (2010), the European construction sector and its extended value chain (e.g. material and equipment manufacturers, construction and service companies) is the largest European single activity (9.6% GDP) and industrial employer (30.7% of industrial employment). Furthermore the built environment affects the life and work of all EU-citizens: The construction sector also has a crucial impact on the EU environment and energy policies as buildings use 40 % of total EU energy consumption and generate 36% of Green-House Gases in Europe while the replacement rate of the existing stock is very small (1-2% per year). The construction sector is on the critical path to decarbonise the European economy by 2050. In order to achieve this objective it must enable reducing its CO2 emissions by 90% and its energy consumption by as much as 50%.
PRIORITY 2- LEIT Nanotechnologies, Advanced Materials, Biotechnology and Advanced Manufacturing and Processing (2) Call for EeB Energy-efficient Buildings EeB 1 2014: Materials for building envelope EeB 2 2014: Adaptable envelopes integrated in building refurbishment projects EeB 3 2014: Development of new self-inspection techniques and quality check measures for efficient construction processes EeB 5 2015: Innovative design tools for refurbishment at building and district level EeB 6 2015: Integrated solutions of thermal energy storage for building applications EeB 7 2015: New tools and methodologies to reduce the gap between predicted and actual energy performances at the level of buildings and blocks of buildings EeB 8 2015: Integrated approach to retrofitting of residential buildings
PRIORITY 2- LEIT Nanotechnologies, Advanced Materials, Biotechnology and Advanced Manufacturing and Processing (3) NMK 21-2014: Materials-based solutions for the protection or preservation of European cultural heritage Call for SPIRE Sustainable Process Industries SPIRE 6 2015: Energy and resource management systems for improved efficiency in the process industries
PRIORITY 2 LEIT SPACE (1) Objective: to foster a cost-effective competitive and innovative space industry (including SMEs) and research community to develop and exploit space infrastructure to meet future Union policy and societal needs, as well as enable the European space research community to develop innovative space technologies and operational concepts "from idea to demonstration in space", and to use space data for scientific, public, or commercial purposes. Actions will address: European Global Navigation Satellite Systems (EGNSS) and Earth Observation Space Surveillance and Tracking System EU Space Industry s Competitiveness in the Global Market Space Infrastr. for the benefit of Citizens and Space Science
PRIORITY 2 LEIT SPACE (2) Actions/Topics among others will be: SME-based EGNSS applications New ideas for Earth-relevant Space Applications Climate Change relevant space-based Data reprocessing and calibration Space Weather Access technologies and characterisation for Near Earth Objects In-Space electrical propulsion and station keeping Space Robotics Technologies Space exploration Life support Technology demonstrator projects for exploration Technology developments for commercial imaging Passive means to reduce the impact of Space Debris
SC PRIORITY 3 SC3 - Secure, Clean and Efficient Energy (1) Energy Efficiency Smart Cities and Communities
SC PRIORITY 3 SC3 - Secure, Clean and Efficient Energy (2) Competitive Low-Carbon Energy
SC PRIORITY 3 SC 4 - Smart, Green and Integrated Transport (1) FOCUS AREAS Mobility for Growth Green Vehicles Small Business and Fast Track Innovation for Transport
SC PRIORITY 3 SC 4- Smart, Green and Integrated Transport (2) 1. Mobility for Growth Aviation Rail Road Waterborne Urban Mobility Logistics Intelligent Transport Systems Infrastructure Socio-economic and Behavioural Research & Forward Looking Activities for Policy Making 2. Green Vehicles 3. Small Business and Fast Track Innovation for Transport
SC PRIORITY 3 SC 5 - Climate Action, Environment, Resource Efficiency & Raw Materials (1) Objective: to achieve a resource and water efficient and climate change resilient economy and society, the protection and sustainable management of natural resources and ecosystems, and a sustainable supply and use of raw materials, in order to meet the needs of a growing global population within the sustainable limits of the planet's natural resources and eco-systems. Actions will address: gaps in the knowledge base needed to understand changes in the environment, identify the policies, methods and tools that would most effectively tackle the above mentioned challenges, and support innovators and businesses to bring green solutions to the market.
SC 5 - Climate Action, Environment, Resource Efficiency and Raw Materials (2) Fighting and Adapting to Climate Change Integrated approach to water, Air quality, Adaptation to Climate Change Protecting the environment, sustainably managing natural resources, water, biodiversity and ecosystem Ecosystem restoration, Eco-innovative Waste Mngt., Risk Reduction Plans Ensuring the sustainable supply of non-energy and non-agricultural raw materials Innovative & Sustainable Production/ Recycling/ Substitution of Raw Materials Enabling the transition towards a green economy through eco-innovation Industrial Symbiosis, Near-Zero Waste, Water Research & Innovation in Industry Developing comprehensive and sustained global environmental observation and information systems Earth Observation and Applications/ Exploitation of Data Cultural Heritage: Mitigating Impact of Climate Change on Cultural Heritage
SC PRIORITY 3 SC 7 - Secure Societies Protecting Freedom & Security of Europe and its Citizens Objective: This Challenge is about protecting our citizens, society and economy as well as our assets, infrastructures and services, our prosperity, political stability and wellbeing. Any malfunction or disruption, intentional or accidental, can have detrimental impact with high associated economic or societal costs. Actions will address: to enhance the resilience of our society against natural and man-made disasters, ranging from new crisis management tools to communication interoperability, and to develop novel solutions for the protection of critical infrastructure (call 1); to fight crime and terrorism ranging from new forensic tools to protection against explosives (call 2); to improve border security, ranging from improved maritime border protection to supply chain security and to support the Unions external security policies including through conflict prevention and peace building (call 3); and to provide enhanced cybersecurity (call 4), ranging from secure information sharing to new assurance models.
SC PRIORITY 3 SC 7 - Secure Societies Protecting Freedom & Security of Europe and its Citizens Call 1 - Disaster-resilience: safeguarding and securing society, including adapting to climate change - 23 topics on: Crisis management Disaster Resilience & Climate Change Critical Infrastructure Protection Communication technologies and interoperability Ethical/Societal Dimension Call 2 Fight against crime and Terrorism - 17 topics on: Forensics Law enforcement capabilities Urban security Ethical/Societal Dimension Fast track to Innovation Topic
SC7 - Secure Societies Protecting Freedom & Security of Europe and its Citizens Call 3 Border Security and External Security 14 topics on: Maritime Border Security Border crossing points Supply Chain Security Information management Conflict prevention and peace building Ethical Societal Dimension Call 4 Digital Security: Cybersecurity, Privacy and Trust 6 topic on: Privacy Access Control Risk management and assurance models The role of ICT in Critical Infrastructure Protection Secure Information Sharing Trust eservices
Timeline towards Adoption and Publication of Work Programmes Subject to inter-institutional decisions on MFF and H2020 Informal consultation of Member States : Sept to mid-nov 2013 Opinion at or after third meeting Adoption of (provisional) Work Programme: 10 December 2013 Publication of first calls for proposals: 11 December 2013
How to Participate Project idea Rules for Participation: Annual Work Programmes and Calls for Proposals (thematic areas, budget, timeline, minimum requirements) Develop the Project idea and set-up a project partnership Submit the proposal to the EC (Electronic Submission Proposal System): According to the rules and deadlines specified in the Call Proposal evaluation (by the EC): 3-7 independent experts Communication of results to applicants Negotiation with the EC Sign the Grant Agreement and start of the Project For more info: Participant Portal: http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/page/home
Ευκαιρίες Χρηµατοδότησης ραστηριοτήτων Έρευνας και Ανάπτυξης στους Κλάδους της Μηχανικής Πολιτιστικό Εκπαιδευτικό Κέντρο ΕΤΕΚ 9 Νοεµβρίου 2013
Further Info
RPF The Role of Research Promotion Foundation in supporting the participation of Cypriot researchers to FPs Coordination of the National Contact Point (NCP) system for the Horizon 2020 through a Centralised NCP network Informing and raising awareness Advising, assisting and training For more information: www.research.org.cy, 22205000
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