http://www.ictic.org/h/v/hpc25314/pw.pdf FP7UK EU Funded Collaborative Research Introduction to H2020 Peter Walters FP7UK National Contact Point Team The 7th Research Framework Strengthen the scientific and technological base of European industry; Encourage Europe s international competitiveness, while promoting research that supports EU policies. Some Numbers: Total Budget 52 B Budget 9.2 B 1900 UK Participations Grant ~ 750 M Duration 7 Years 2007-2013 1
FP7 Areas of Research 2011-2013 Socio-economic goals Public Private Partnerships Technology roadblocks 5. for 6. for Health, a low Ageing Well, carbon Inclusion economy and Governance Green Car Energy 1 Pervasive and Trusted Network Efficient and Service Infrastructures Buildings 2 Cognitive Systems and Robotics 3 Alternative Paths to Components and Systems 4 Technologies for Digital Content and Languages ARTEMIS 7. for the Enterprise and Manufacturing Factory of the Future ENIAC 8. for Learning and Access to Cultural Resources Future Internet Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) The future...... is now! 2
What is new? A single programme (FP7 + CIP + EIT) Strong focus on societal challenges (game changing for ) More innova&on Reaching out to non- tradi0onal actors More risk taking Strengthened support for high- tech SMEs More open, light & fast schemes Budget 79 B (at current prices) Growth, Jobs & Competitiveness Better articulation of research and innovation Seamless funding from idea to market H2020: What s Important? Industrial Excellent Societal Challenges leadership Science 3
Generation of H2020 Commission Council European Parliament Horizon 2020 Legislation Commission Communication The proposal The three documents Member State oversight On 25 June 2013, political Stakeholder agreement Groups was reached Programme Committees Establishing Regulation Rules for the participation and dissemination Specific programme Advisory Groups & Multi-annual Work Programmes (with indicative budget) Independent expert input http://ec.europa.eu/research/horizon2020/index_en.cfm?pg=h2020-documents 7 Main elements of H2020 A simple funding model: 100% Direct Costs + 25%... Faster time to grant, Less audits Time-to-grant of 8 months ("5 + 3 months ) Dedication of budgets to key topics SME Research & Innovation, Energy and FET Fast Track to Innovation Pilot: A Fast Track to Innovation pilot is to be launched in 2015 : INNOVATION and Simplification 8 4
Forms of funding Grants Direct financial contribution by way of donation in order to finance an action Prizes Financial contribution given as reward following a contest Procurement Supply of assets, execution of works or provision of services against payment Financial instruments Equity or quasi-equity investments; loans; guarantees; other risk-sharing instruments Research and innovation actions To establish new knowledge and/or to explore the feasibility of a new or improved technology, product, process, service or solution. May include basic and applied research, technology development and integration, testing and validation on a small-scale prototype in a laboratory or simulated environment. 5
Innovation actions Producing plans and arrangements or designs for new, altered or improved products, processes or services. May include prototyping, testing, demonstrating, piloting, large-scale product validation and market replication. Coordination and support actions Actions consisting primarily of accompanying measures such as: standardisation, dissemination, awareness-raising and communication, networking, coordination or support services, policy dialogues mutual learning exercises and studies, including design studies for new infrastructure may also include complementary activities of networking and coordination between programmes in different countries. Single Participant Possible 6
Research and innovation actions Specific Targeted Innovation actions Research PPPs Photonics, Projects HPC, 5G, FoF, Green (STReP) veh, etc JTIs Types of actions supported by grants ENIAC + ARTEMIS + EPoSS = ECSEL Networks Pre-commercial procurement of Excellence & Public Integrated Projects procurement of innovative solutions Co-fund Coordination and support actions SME instrument Think SBRI SME instrument in Horizon 2020 14 7
SME support: integrated approach 'Innovation in SMEs' Eurostars II Enhancing Innovation Capacity Market-driven Innovation Access to Risk Finance 20 % budgetary target in Industrial & Social Collaborative projects SME instrument 15 SME instrument IDEA business coaching throughout the project MARKET? Concept & Feasibility Assessment DemonstraCon Market ReplicaCon Research Development Procurement CommercialisaCon SME window EU financial facilities 10 Page proposal Based upon First 50 k Grant Commercialisation Plan 10% success rate 1 5 M Grant Delivers Business plan etc 50% success rate = First Commercialisation Plan Intro: http://www.ictic.org/h/smeinst.pdf No Direct Financial support Mentoring etc by Support Projects Gotchas: Money to SMEs Only Strict limit on no of applications by given company 8
Useful: Steve Bradley SME National Contact Point 07501 463314 steve.bradley@tsb.gov.uk https://www.h2020uk.org/steve-bradley-smes 07501 463314 The SME Instrument is to be used in the space to enable Open and Disruptive Innovation action Info day 24 January Brussels see http://ec.europa.eu/programmes/horizon2020/en/ news/info-day-open-disruptive-innovationinnovation-and-entrepreneurship-supporthorizon-2020-work First batch: 18 June 2014 90 M Budget 9
First work programme and calls for proposals 19 Remember the three pillars Societal Challenges Industrial leadership Excellent Science 10
Europe 2020 priorities Societal Challenges Health, demographic change and wellbeing Food security, sustainable agriculture and the bio-based economy Secure, clean and efficient energy Smart, green and integrated transport Climate action, resource efficiency and raw materials Inclusive, innovative and reflective societies Secure Societies Industrial Leadership Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies Nanotech., Materials, Manuf. and Processing Biotechnology Space 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 Europe 2020 priorities Societal Challenges Health, demographic change and wellbeing Food security, sustainable agriculture and the bio-based economy Secure, clean and efficient energy Smart, green and integrated transport Climate action, resource efficiency and raw materials Inclusive, innovative and reflective societies Secure Societies Industrial Leadership Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies Nanotech., Materials, Manuf. and Processing Biotechnology Space 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 11
Work programme structure General introduction (incl. Strategic Programme) Excellent Science (not ERC) Societal Challenges Industrial Leadership Societal Challenges Science with and for Society Widening Participation Annexes Excellent Science Industrial leadership NB: Distinct WPs for: ERC & Euratom https://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/funding/ reference_docs.html#h2020-work-programmes-2014-15-main-wp 23 Societal Industrial Challenges leadership Excellent Science in Industrial Leadership A new genera0on of components and systems Advanced Compu0ng Future Internet Content technologies and informa0on management Robo0cs Micro- and nano- electronic technologies, Photonics Cross- CuGng AcCviCes IoT, Human Centricity, Cyber Security Horizontal InnovaCon accons Support: Finance, Entrepreneurship, Open Disrup0ve Innova0on scheme Interna0onal Coopera0on ac0ons Factory of the Future Call EU- Brazil and EU- Japan Research R and Development Coopera0on http://www.ictic.org/h/doc%20index.html 12
Call Timetable Call Call ID Variants Open Close Notes 1 H2020--2014 11-Dec-13 23-Apr-14 Japan H2020-EUJ-2014 07-Jan-14 10-Apr-14 1 H2020--2014 37 phases 1 and 2 01-Mar-14 Various Batch Dates ODI Scheme 1 H2020--2014 14 a,b,c 15-Jul-14 25-Nov-13 5G 2 H2020--2015 15-Oct-14 21-Apr-15 Brazil H2020-EUB-2015 15-Oct-14 21-Apr-15 25 DraJ Workprogramme ObjecCves (1) Budget M 2014 2015 A new generation of components and systems - - 1 2014: Smart Cyber-Physical Systems 56 2 2014: Smart System Integration 48 2014: Advanced Thin, Organic and Large Area Electronics 3 (TOLAE) technologies 38 Advanced Computing 4 2015: Customised and low power computing 57 Future Internet 5 2014: Smart Networks and novel Internet Architectures 24 6 2014: Smart optical and wireless network technologies 30 7 2014: Advanced Cloud Infrastructures and Services 73 2015: Boosting public sector productivity and innovation through 8 cloud computing services 22 9 2014: Tools and Methods for Software Development 25 2015: Collective Awareness Platforms for Sustainability and 10 Social Innovation 37 11 2014: FIRE+ (Future Internet Research & Experimentation) 31.5 12 2015: Integrating experiments and facilities in FIRE+ 18 13 2014: Web Entrepreneurship 10 14 2014: Advanced 5G Network Infrastructure for the Future Internet 125 13
DraJ Workprogramme ObjecCves (2) 2014 2015 Content technologies and information management 15 2014: Big data and Open Data Innovation and take-up 50 16 2015: Big data - research 39 17 2014: Cracking the language barrier 15 2014: Support the growth of innovative Creative Industries 18 SMEs 15 2015: Technologies for creative industries, social media and 19 convergence. 41 20 2015: Technologies for better human learning and teaching 52 21 2014: Advanced digital gaming/gamification technologies 17 22 2014: Multimodal and Natural computer interaction 31 Robotics 23 2014: Robotics 74 24 2015: Robotics 83 Micro- and nano-electronic technologies, Photonics 25 2015: Generic micro- and nano-electronic technologies 50 26 2014: Photonics KET 47 27 2015: Photonics KET 44 28 2015: Cross-cutting KETs 56 2014 Development of novel materials and systems for OLED 29 lighting 18 DraJ Workprogramme ObjecCves (3) 2014 2015 Cross-Cutting Activities 2015: Internet of Things and Platforms for Connected Smart 30 Objects 51 31 2014: Human-centric Digital Age 7 32 2014: Cybersecurity, Trustworthy 38 2014: Trans-national co-operation among National Contact 33 Points 4 Horizontal Innovation actions 34 2015: Support for access to finance 15 35 2014: Innovation and Entrepreneurship Support 7 2015: Pre-commercial procurement open to all areas of 36 - public interest requiring new solutions 4 2014-15 Open Disruptive Innovation Scheme (implemented 37 - through the SME instrument) 90 Fast Track Innovation Pilot International Cooperation actions 2015: International partnership building and support to 38 dialogues with high income countries 3 2015: International partnership building in low and middle 39 income countries 11 14
DraJ Workprogramme ObjecCves (4) Budget M 2014 2015 EU-Brazil Research and Development Cooperation in Advanced Cyber Infrastructure EUB 1 2015: Cloud Computing, including security aspects 3.5 EUB 2 2015: High Performance Computing (HPC) 2 EUB 3 2015: Experimental Platforms 1.5 EU-Japan Research and Development Cooperation in Net Futures 2014: Technologies combining big data, internet of things EUJ 1 in the cloud 1.5 EUJ 2 2014: Optical communications 1.5 EUJ 3 2014: Access networks for densely located users 1.5 2014: Experimentation and development on federated EUJ 4 Japan EU testbeds 1.5 Societal Industrial Challenges leadership Excellent Science HPC in Excellent Science E-Infrastructures High-Performance Computing (HPC) Strategy Future and Emerging Technologies Digital Science Individual research projects Early Ideas FET Open Open research clusters Incubation FET Proactive Common research agendas Large-Scale Initiatives FET Flagships 15
FET Workprogramme ObjecCves Future and Emerging Technologies Calls FET Open FET OPEN 1 2014/2015: FET - Open Research projects r 77 77 FET OPEN 2 2014: Cordination & Support Activities 2014 c 3 FET OPEN 3 2015: Cordination & Support Activities 2015 c 3 FET Proactive FETPROACT 1 2014: Global Systems Science (GSS) r 10 2014: Knowing, doing, being: cognition beyond FETPROACT 2 problem solving r 15 FETPROACT 3 2014: Quantum simulation r 8 2 Call FET Proactive towards exascale high performance computing 2014: HPC Core Technologies, Programming FETHPC-1 Environments and Algorithms for Extreme Parallelism and Extreme Data Applications r 93.4 FETHPC-2 2014 HPC Ecosystem Development r 4 Call FET -Flagships-tackling grand interdisciplinary science and technology challenges FETFLAG 1 2014: Framework Partnership Agreement no budget no budget FETFLAG 2 2015: Graphene FET Flagship Core Project r 89 FETFLAG 3 2015: Human Brain Project FET Flagship Core Project r 89 FETFLAG 4 2014/2015: Policy environment for FET Flagships c 1.6 FET SNIPPETS Information Day on Proactive Initiatives and Flagships http://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/news/horizon-2020-future-emergingtechnologies-fet-information-day FET Open Gatekeepers: Long-term vision, Breakthrough S&T target, Foundational, Novelty, High-risk, Interdisciplinary Project size: 2 to 4M 1 step submission and evaluation of a 16 pages proposal Proposals are not anonymous Deadlines 30/09/2014 31/03/2015 29/09/2015 Budget 77 M 38,?5 M 38,5M 16
Societal Challenges Industrial leadership HPC in Excellent Science Excellent Science einfrastructures part of Excellence Pillar Call ID Title Close Budget (M ) Managing, preserving and computing with big EINFRA-1-2014 research data 02-Sep-14 55 EINFRA-2-2014 e-infrastructure for Open Access.. 15-Apr-14 13 Towards global data e-infrastructures Research EINFRA-3-2014 Data Alliance.. 02-Sep-14 4 Pan-European High Performance Computing EINFRA-4-2014 infrastructure and services 02-Sep-14 15 EINFRA-5-2015 Centres of Excellence for computing applications 14-Jan-15 40 EINFRA-6-2014 Network of HPC Competence Centres for SMEs 02-Sep-14 2 EINFRA-7-2014 Provision of core services across e-infrastructures 02-Sep-14 6 EINFRA-8-2014 Research and Education Networking GÉANT 02-Sep-14 0 e-infrastructures for virtual research environments EINFRA-9-2015 (VRE). 14-Jan-15 42 NCP: Katie Lambert 01235 445622 RINCPUK@stfc.ac.uk Societal Challenges Excellent Science Industrial leadership H2020 Societal Challenges DG Connect: Organisational Configuration RTD F (SANCO) RTD E AGRI RTD K ENER C RTD H MOVE C RTD I CLIM/ENV ENTR F RTD B, C ENTR G SC1 Health SC2 Food SC3 Energy SC4 Transport SC5 Climate SC6 Inclusive, Innovative SC7 Security CNECT H1, H2 CNECT G3 CNECT H5 CNECT H5 CNECT H5 CNECT G2, G4 H2, H3 CNECT H4 17
DG Connect http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/connect/sites/cnect-site/files/organi_en.pdf HPC Call Timetable Call ID Budget (M ) Open Close Notes EINFRA-4-2014 EINFRA-6-2014 FETHPC-1 FETHPC-2 17 11-Dec-13 2 Sept-14 97.4 11-Dec-13 25-Nov-14 EINFRA-5-2014 40 11-Dec-13 14-Jan-15 H2020- -2015 57 15-Oct-14 21-Apr-15 36 18
Participation in Projects Minimum conditions For SME Instrument, programme co-fund, CSA 1 legal entity established in a MS/AC For standard collaborative actions At least, 3 independent legal entities, each established in different MS/AC Additional conditions may be set out in the Work Programme Funding to: Entities established in MS or associated countries or third country identified in the WP Entities created under Union law International European interest organisation Other entities may be funded if participation is essential or foreseen in bilateral arrangement between the Union and third country/international organisation Evaluation of proposals Award criteria Excellence Impact Higher weighting for innovation actions Quality and efficiency in the Implementation Details, weightings and thresholds be laid down in WP Evaluation carried out by independent experts Some calls may use a 2 stage submission procedure 19
Selection criteria Operational capacity Operational capacity means that the applicants must have the professional competencies and qualifications required to complete the proposed action or work programme: it may be assessed on the basis of specific qualifications, professional experience and references in the field concerned. Financial capacity Only coordinators of actions with EU contribution equal or superior 500.000 will be checked, except specific cases No verification for public bodies, entities guaranteed by MS or AC and higher and secondary education establishments The Money!! Grant = rate ( Direct + Indirect ) Grant = rate x Direct (1 + 0.25) Research & Innovation Grant = 1 x 1.25 Direct Innovation Grant = 0.7 x 1.25 Direct Innovation (not for profit) Grant = 1.0 x 1.25 Direct 20
Reimbursement Rates!! 1 Direct Cost reimbursement rate by action (same rate for all beneficiaries and all activities): Up to 100% for Research and Innovation actions Up to 70% for innovation (non-profit entities up to 100%) Up to 70% for PCP co-fund, 33% for ERANET co-fund, 20% for PPI co-fund 1 method for calculation of indirect costs: Flat rate of 25% of total direct costs, excluding subcontracting, costs of third parties and financial support to third parties If provided in WP, lump sum or unit costs Funding of the action not exceed total eligible costs minus receipts see also http://tinyurl.com/h2020-imd Controls and audits Audit certificates Only for final payments when total EU contribution claimed on the basis of actual costs + average personnel costs 325,000 EUR Certificates on the methodology Optional certificates on average personnel costs Ex-post audits Audits limited to 2 years after payment of the balance 21
Intellectual Property Rights - Results Ownership Beneficiary generating the results Joint-ownership in specific circumstances Protection If results capable of commercial/industrial exploitation If not protected, EU may assume ownership Exploitation Best efforts obligation; WP may foresee additional obligations Transfer and exclusive licences to a third country EC may object (competitiveness, ethical principles, security) Dissemination https://www.iprhelpdesk.eu/ Open access to scientific publications and under certain conditions to research data Some really useful stuff The Portal: https://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/ en/home.html www.ictic.org 22
Your way in: https://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/home.html An unofficial resource www.tinyurl.com/h2020index 23
Innovation Activities directly aiming at producing plans and arrangements for new, altered or improved products, processes or services May include: Protyping, Testing, Demonstrating, Piloting, Large-scale product validation and Market replication 24
Extract from WP DraJ 21 2014: Advanced digital gaming/game technologies Specific Challenge: Digital games and game making mechanics applied in non-leisure contexts.. Scope: a. Research & Innovation actions: Multidisciplinary research experimentations and collaboration on advanced digital gaming technologies and components.. b. Innovation actions: Stimulate technology transfer and new non-leisure applications by SMEs traditionally working on digital games.. Types of action: a. Research & Innovation Actions Proposals requesting a Large contribution are expected b. Innovation Actions Proposals requesting a Small contribution are expected http://www.ictic.org/h/v/hpc25314/pw.pdf / FET National Contact Point Technology Strategy Board: Business Support Group 0300 321 4357 TSB H2020 Web Presence https://www.h2020uk.org Twitter @eurobits Peter Walters peter.walters@tsb.gov.uk 012 434 303 70 Useful Files: www.tinyurl.com/h2020index 25