European Framework Programme for Business
EU Horizon 2020
What’s New?
Stephen Alexander
Legal & Financial NCP
H2020UK National Contact Points
National Contact Points are a Technology Strategy
Board Resource to assist UK Business in engaging
with EU RTD & Innovation Funding opportunities
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Horizon 2020
FP7 2007-2013 ~ €52b
People
4,750 M€
Capacities
4,097 M€
Ideas
7,510
Cooperation
32,413 M€
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Co-operation programme: budget breakdown
Space
Socio-Economics
Security
Health
Transport
Food Ag & Biotech
Environment
Energy
ICT
Nanotechnologies,
Materials and
Processes
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European FrameworkHorizon
Programme2020
for Business
– objectives
& structure
FP7UK
Europe 2020 priorities
International cooperation
European Research Area
Shared objectives and principles
Tackling Societal Challenges
Health, demographic change and wellbeing
Food security and the bio-based economy
Secure, clean and efficient energy
Smart, green and integrated transport
Climate action, resource efficiency, including
raw materials
Inclusive, innovative and reflective societies
Secure societies
Creating Industrial Leadership and
Competitive Framework
Information and Communication
Technologies (ICT)
Nanotech. Materials, Manf. & Processing
Biotechnology
Space
Access to risk finance
Innovation in SMEs
Excellence in the Science Base
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Frontier research (ERC)
Future and Emerging Technologies (FET)
Skills and career development (Marie Curie)
Research infrastructures
Simplified access
Common rules, toolkit of
schemes
Coherent with other EU and MS
actions
funding
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Budget distribution
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H2020 Changes
1. A new structure and focus
• Only one Specific Programme
• 3 main pillars
• More focus on societal challenges rather than specific
Technologies
• More focus on innovation, closer-to-market activities
• More cross-cutting activities
2. New programming cycle
• Three year strategic programming, cutting across all pillars
• This drives 12 focus areas food security, health care, green
energy, security....)
• Encapsulated in two-year work programmes and related funding
opportunities
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Funding opportunities in Horizon 2020
• Some are broadly similar to FP7 and recognisable
• ERC, MSC, FET, infrastructures
• Technology ‘Themes’ in LEIT – ICT, NMP, Space,
Biotechnology
• But:
• Big focus (& budget) in societal challenges
• Shift in TRLs in LEIT (as well as societal challenges)
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Rules for Participation: what’s new?
• PARTICIPATION PROCESSES SIMILAR TO FP7
• Workprogrammes, calls, proposals, evaluation, grant – BUT...
• SIMPLE & UNIFORM EVALUATION CRITERIA
• Excellence
• Proposals
– Impact – Implementation
evaluated ‘as-is’ – no more ‘negotiations’
• Compressed
grant preparation period could impact Consortium
agreement timescales?
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MARIE CURIE REFERENCE RATES REDUCED: also impacts scale
of unit costs for SME owners without a salary (i.e. only two Marie Curie
reference rates, 1720 productive hours, 25% indirect costs –
reimbursement lower than FP7)
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Rules for Participation: what’s new?
• AUDIT CERTIFICATE(CFS)
• Only at final cost claim and Reimbursement >€325k
• Can be claimed as ‘other’ direct cost (not subcontract)
• LARGE RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE COSTS
• Overhead costs for large research infrastructures claimed as
‘direct’
• Methodology and inspection required
• TRAC costings could be basis for this?
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LESS INPUT ON PROPOSAL IDEAS FROM COMMISSION
OFFICERS
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No formal ‘pre-proposal’ check as in ICT
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Potential traps for academia!
• THE INNOVATION FOCUS, TRL SHIFT, INDUSTRY INVOLVEMENT
• Potentially different style of proposal
• ‘Impact’ is increasingly important
• Industrial and SME involvement, but...
• Potential conflict between academic and industry interests?
• MULTIDISCIPLINARY
• Wider agenda for projects
• Will come into evaluation
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SMEs AND GENDER ISSUES INCREASINGLY IMPORTANT
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May be used where required in tie-breaking for projects on
same score
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UK National Contact Point (NCP) structure
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UK wider support
• H2020 NCPs
• More resource
• Taken in-house by Technology Strategy Board
• Greater integration with Lead Technologists, KTNs, EENs
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Knowledge Transfer Networks (KTNs)
• Reformed as single ‘KTN Ltd’
• The industry outreach mechanism for TSB
• Some offices already established, cross-cutting function
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Enterprise Europe Network (EENs)
• TSB bidding for EENs in English regions
• UKRO?
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Advice and Assistance:
FP7UK National Contact Points
Stephen Alexander
Legal & Financial NCP
Phone: 07771-722217
eMail: stephen.alexander@tsb.gov.uk
UK Website: www.h2020uk.org.uk
EU Website: www.ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal
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