EUROPEAN RESEARCH AND INNOVATION OFFICE
Michael Browne
Head of European Research & Innovation
University College London
Presentation Structure
- Introduction to UCL
- UCL’s strategy for Horizon 2020
- Connecting with innovation actors on a
European (global) scale
- Examples of how Research Technology
Organizations & SMEs can work together
A bit about me/UCL
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London’s Global University
More than 700 FP7 projects
Total cumulative budget of €400M
110 ERC Projects
Europe’s lead HEI in Health research
Consistently ranked in top 5 HEIs
in Europe across all of FP7
• UK lead in collaborative research
• Plan to be Europe lead in collaborative
research
HORIZON 2020 REPRESENTS A SIGNIFICANT
OPPORTUNITY
UCL’s Horizon 2020 Mission Statement
Dedicated Proposal Writing Support Service
Horizon 2020 = €80 billion: Focus areas
International
Cooperation
European
Research Area
Tackling Societal Challenges
Creating Industrial Leadership and
Competitive Frameworks
•Health, demographics and wellbeing
•Food security and sustainable bio-resources
•Secure, clean and efficient energy
•Smart, green and integrated transport
•Resource Efficiency and Climate Challenge
•Secure and inclusive societies
•Leadership in enabling technologies (ICT,
nanotech, bio-economy, manufacturing, space
& biotechnology
•Access to risk finance
•Integrating research, education and
innovation (EIT)
Seamless Connections
Europe
2020
priorities
•Innovation in SMEs
Excellence in the
Science base
•Frontier research (ERC), FET
•Skills and career development - Marie Curie
Coherent with other EU
and MS actions
•Priority research infrastructures
Common rules, toolkit of funding schemes
Simplified Access
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Vision2020: connecting research and
innovation actors across Europe
Key objective for UCL is to work with other
sectors across Europe
Primary focus is SMEs – from all thematic
areas (focus on innovation)
Vision2020 is central to UCL’s strategy to
connect with SMEs – this is already
happening – Kitforkids, Cell2b and iQur
Thank you!
www.ucl.ac.uk/reseach/europe
michael.browne@ucl.ac.uk
Michael Browne