20. ERPA Project –
Horizon 2020
 Horizon 2020 = the new EU programe for Research &
Innovation
 Started 01/01/2014 for 7 years
 78.6 billion €
 Collaborative projects with European dimension
 Funding 70 to 100% of eligible project costs
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Horizon 2020
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Future and Emerging Technologies (FET)
Marie S . Curie actions
Frontier Research
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Nanotechnologies,
advanced materials and
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ICT
Space
Access to risk finance &
SMEs
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Health
Food, agriculture,
maritime &
bioeconomy
Energy
Climate action /
environment
Transport
Inclusive society
Secure society
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Horizon 2020
 Questions
o Can ERPA be a coordinator?
• If not, should ERPA members be favorized as
coordinators/partners? How to do it?
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20. ERPA Project –
Horizon 2020: Phases
 SME only, innovation “champion’s league”, high growth
 Single company support (+ collaboration), 70% EC funding
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20. ERPA Project –
Horizon 2020: Pilot in 2015
 Objectives
o Reduce time from idea to market
o Increase participation of industry, first-time applicants, SMEs
o Stimulate private sector investment in R&I
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20. ERPA Project –
Horizon 2020: Pilot in 2015
 Key features
o Bottom-up logic, one common call, permanently open,
3 cut-offs per year, time-to-grant 6 months
o Innovation actions (70%) — grant up to €3 mn
o Consortia max. 5 — mandatory industry involvement
o Impact criterion has higher weighting in evaluations
o Budget 200 million € in 2015/2016 — ca. 100 projects expected
with average EU contribution of 2 million €
o Future of pilot decided after full evaluation
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 Portal for finding all funding areas 
http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal
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20. ERPA Project –
Horizon 2020 – Cosmetics Projects
(e.g.)
 Animal testing – finding non animal testing alternatives
o Emphasis on market driven approach : exploitation of R&D results
to commercialize new innovations tools and products
o Development of new computational modelling to replace animal
testing and increase the efficiency of research, by predicting better
the toxicity of cosmetics than trial animal tests
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20. ERPA Project –
Horizon 2020 – Cosmetics Projects
(e.g.)
 Horizon 2020 Nanotechnologies topic “Increasing the
capacity to perform nano-safety assessment”
o Innovative solutions cutting across research and technological fields
with a strong innovation and market driven approach to develop
mechanism-based understanding of toxicity
 Horizon 2020 Personalising Health & Care “New approaches
to improve predictive human safety testing”
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20. ERPA Project –
Horizon 2020 – Cosmetics Projects
(e.g.)
 Personnalising health and care
o Topic: New approaches to improve predictive human safety testing
o Specific challenge: Current approaches assessing the safety of chemical substances in
humans are expensive and time consuming, and may be of limited relevance as a
predictor of adverse effects. Better approaches are needed both to improve the
efficiency of predictive toxicological testing to address key areas of concern for
human health and to meet regulatory requirements. Safety testing is of worldwide
concern and therefore international cooperation may be an important element in
addressing the challenge.
o Details: 2- stage call for proposals with following deadlines: 2014-10-14(stage 1) &
2015-02-24 (stage 2)
o Requirements: involvement of research communities, SMEs, industry and regulatory
agencies , international cooperation (USA)
o Budget: 10-15Million Euros
o Follow up of NOTOX project (Cosmectics Europe co funder)
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Horizon 2020 – Cosmetics Projects
(e.g.)
3rd HEALTH PROGRAMME (2014-2020)
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The program has 4 overarching objectives. It seeks to:
o Promote health, prevent diseases and foster supportive environments for healthy
lifestyles taking into account the 'health in all policies' principle,
o Protect Union citizens from serious cross-border health threats,
o Contribute to innovative, efficient and sustainable health systems,
o Facilitate access to better and safer healthcare for Union citizens.
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Annual Workplan 2014 budget of € 54, 4 million
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Info day presentations: http://ec.europa.eu/chafea/documents/health/infoday10062014-hp_en.pdf
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Details: Grants with a co-funding of 60% eligible costs by EC, deadline for the
calls on 25th September 2014.
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