Horizon 2020
Louise Mothersole
UK National Contact Point
for Transport
Horizon 2020 Work Programme 2016-17
Contents
• Introduction
• Application Process
• Calls overview for the next two years
• Example of past projects from last WP
• How to ensure success – tips for a good application
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Introduction
National Contact Points are government employees whose role is
to support, guide and advise all potential participants in Horizon
2020
Network both across sectors within the UK and within sectors
across the EU and beyond
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The Three Pillars of Horizon 2020
Excellent Science
European Research Council
Future and Emerging Technologies
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
Research Infrastructures
Industrial Leadership
Societal Challenges
Leadership in Enabling and Industrial
Technologies:
• Information & Communication
Technologies
• Space
• Nanotechnologies, Advanced
Materials, Advanced Manufacturing
and Processing, and Biotechnology
Health, demographic change and
wellbeing
Access to Finance
Smart, green and integrated transport
Innovation in SMEs
Climate action, environment, resource
efficiency and raw materials
Food security, sustainable agriculture and
forestry, marine and maritime and inland
water research, and the Bioeconomy
Secure, clean and efficient energy
Europe in a changing world - inclusive,
innovative and reflective societies
Secure societies - protecting freedom and
security of Europe and its citizens.
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Structure of Smart, green and integrated transport
• Joint Undertakings
- Clean Sky
- SESAR
- Shift2Rail
• Collaborative Work Programme
- Mobility for Growth
- Automated Road Vehicles
- European Green Vehicle Initiative
• Small Business Innovation for Transport (SME
Instrument)
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Transport Work Programme for 2016/2017
• Mobility for Growth (€210.1m/€225.5m)
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Aviation
Waterborne
Safety
Urban Mobility
Logistics
Intelligent Transport Systems
Infrastructure
Socio-Economic and Behavioural Research and Forward Looking Activities
for Policy Making
• Automated Road Transport (€64m/€50m)
• European Green Vehicle Initiative (€78.5m/€128m)
• SME Instrument (€57.8m/€61.2m)
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Urban Mobility
• MG-4.1-2017: Increasing the take up and scale-up of innovative
solutions to achieve sustainable mobility in urban areas (2-Stage, IA,
€2m- €5m)
• MG-4.2-2017: Supporting ‘smart electric mobility’ in cities (2-Stage,
IA, €4m- €5m
• MG-4.3-2017: Innovative approaches for integrating urban nodes in
the TEN-T core network corridors (1-Stage, CSA, €1m- €2m)
• MG-4.4-2016: Facilitating public procurement of innovative
sustainable transport and mobility solutions in urban areas (1-Stage,
CSA, €0.6m- €1m)
• MG-4.5-2016: New ways of supporting development and
implementation of neighbourhood-level and urban-district-level
transport (2-Stage, RIA, €2m- €4m)
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Other topics in Smart, green and integrated transport
• MG-3.5-2016: Behavioural aspects for safer transport (2-Stage, RIA,
€4m- €9m)
• MG-6.1-2016: Innovative concepts, systems and services towards
‘mobility as a service’ (2-Stage, RIA, €3m- €3.5m)
• MG-8.4-2017: Improving accessibility, inclusive mobility and equity,
new tools and business models for public transport in prioritised
areas (2-Stage, RIA, €1m- €3m)
• MG-8.5-2017: Shifting paradigms: Exploring the dynamics of
individual preferences, behaviours and lifestyles in influencing travel
and mobility choices (2-Stage, RIA, €1m- €2m)
• GV-10-2017: Demonstration (pilots) for integration of electrified Lcategory vehicles in the urban transport systems (1-Stage, IA, €7m€10m)
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Three types of Action (Call for Proposals)
• Research and Innovation Action (RIA)
– Low Technology Readiness Level research and innovation (TRL)
– All organisations funded at 100% of direct costs plus additional 25%
towards indirect costs
• Innovation Actions (IA)
– Higher TRL
– All non-profit organisations funded same as RIA
– For-profit-organisations funded at 70% of direct costs plus additional
25% of that towards indirect costs
• Coordination and Support Actions (CSA)
– Coming together in large networks to discuss and agree potential
research, standards, legislation, etc
– Funded same as RIA (ie 100% +25% for all)
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Submission process
• All on line via Participant Portal
• Submission is either Single Stage or Two Stage
• Single Stage is as it sounds.
– max 70 pages for RIA or IA and 50 pages for CSA
– For 2016 closes on 26th Jan 2016
– For 2017 closes on 1st Feb 2017
• Two Stage (never CSA but not all RIA/IA):
– 1st Stage is 10 pages, Excellence and part of Impact only,
closes 20th Jan 2016 (or 26 Jan 2017)
– 2nd Stage, if successful at Stage 1, is full proposal (max 70
pages), closes on 29th Sep 2016 (or 19 Oct 2017)
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Evaluation
• Excellence (how good is the idea?)
• Impact (what difference will it make?)
• Quality and efficiency of the implementation (how good is
the project plan?)
• All scored out of 5 (so maximum score is 15)
– Impact weighted 1.5 times in Innovation Actions for ranking
• Evaluation Rules are published – read them
• Guidance to Evaluators is published – read it
• All suitable personnel should be enrolled as potential
Evaluators (i.e. Experts) as this gives very valuable insight
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Information Days & Brokerage Events
• Smart Green and Integrated Transport Information Day
was held on 5th Nov in Brussels
– Full details of the participants seeking partners at the
associated Brokerage event
• An Information day for the Automated Road Transport
theme was held by ERTRAC on 6th Nov in Brussels
• An Information Day for Smart Cities and Communities, inc
the Transport theme, was also held on 6th Nov in Brussels.
• European Transport NCPs have a website for partner
search
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Useful sources of information
• Templates for proposals (RIA/IA/CSA) exist that give
information about what each section should contain
• IPR Helpdesk has templates for e.g. Memoranda of
Understanding between potential collaborators
• Annotated Model Grant Agreement is THE rule book
• Enterprise Europe Network also help with partner
searching
• UK NCP always happy to answer questions, review
proposals, recommend additional sources of help, etc
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Results from 2014/2015
• All projects funded by EC since 1990 published and
searchable including participants and abstracts
• Searching for ‘Urban Mobility ‘ in Horizon 2020 Transport
Programme returns 24 results:
- E.g. MG-5.3-2014: Tackling urban road congestion results in Opening
the cycling and walking tracking potential with funding of almost
€3m and the involvement of Southend-on-Sea Borough Council
• MG-8.3-2015: Facilitating market uptake of innovative
transport infrastructure solutions
- NO PROPOSALS RECEIVED
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How to build a winning team AND influence
future calls for proposals
• Get involved
– Join a European Technology Platform and get involved in their
working groups – they work to advise the EC as to the future
programme requirements
– Join and be active in other European bodies, organisations and
networks (e.g. POLIS, CIVINET UK & Ireland)
– Participate in a CSA – your basic costs will be covered
• All of these initiatives have the benefits of:
– Working alongside potential future partners
– Demonstrating to others your value as a partner
– Helping to inform the future work programme
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Any Questions?
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