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Horizon 2020
Opportunities for Materials GRP
Warwick’s GRPs and Horizon 2020
Cross-cutting theme
in H2020
LEIT:
Factories of the
Future
Challenge 6:
Cultural heritage and
European identities
Challenge 3:
Secure, Clean and
Efficient Energy
Challenge 6:
Europe as a global
actor
LEIT:
Nanotechnology,
materials,
bioeconomy
Challenge 2:
Food Security
Challenge 1:
Health, demographic
change and
wellbeing
Challenge 6:
Europe in a changing
world
Focus Area
Smart Cities and
Communities
Content
Policy context
Europe
2020
Innovation
Union
Materials specific
policies
Funding
opportunities in
Horizon 2020
Pillar 1
(ERC, FET,
MSCA)
Pillar 2
(LEIT)
Pillar 3
(Challenges)
Practicalities
and support
Participant
Portal
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National
Contact
Points
Europe 2020
Europe 2020 is the EU's growth strategy for current decade. It aims
at making the EU a smart, sustainable and inclusive economy.
75% of the population
aged 20-64 should be
employed
3% of the EU's GDP should
be invested in R&D
The share of early school
leavers should be under 10%
and at least 40% of younger
generation should have a
tertiary degree
The "20/20/20"
climate/energy targets
should be met
20 million fewer people
should be at risk of
poverty
Europe 2020
• Seven Flagship Initiatives:
Innovation
Union
Youth on the
move
An industrial
policy for the
globalisation era
A digital agenda
for Europe
An agenda for
new skills and
jobs
Resource
efficient Europe
European
platform against
poverty
Innovation Union
• Horizon 2020 is only a funding instrument for EU policies and
strategies, i.e. Innovation Union, which focuses on:
– creating a genuine single European market for innovation that will
attract innovative companies and businesses;
– stimulating private sector investment i.e. through public-private
partnerships between the Commission and industry;
– supporting business-academia collaborations in education to develop
new curricula addressing innovation skills gaps;
– involving everyone in innovation through social innovation.
EU Industrial Policy
• EU industrial policy helps to stimulate growth and competitiveness in the manufacturing sector and the EU economy as a whole.
• The aim is that industry accounts for approximately 20 % of GDP
by 2020 (15.1 % at present).
• The 2014 Communication, 'For a European Industrial
Renaissance', stresses the need for Europe to focus on post-crisis
growth and modernisation and calls on EU countries to recognise
the central importance of industry for creating jobs and growth.
• LEIT part of Horizon 2020 supports this policy.
EU Industrial Policy - KETs
• Key Enabling Technologies (KETs) are a priority for European
industrial policy.
• The European Strategy for KETs aims to increase their exploitation
in the EU and to reverse the decline in manufacturing to stimulate
growth and jobs.
• KETs are instrumental in modernising Europe’s industrial base and
in driving the development of entirely new industries.
Horizon 2020 overview
• The EU's funding programme for research and innovation
• Runs for seven years from 2014 – 2020
• Almost €80 billion of funding
• Structured around three pillars including a wide range of
different funding schemes
Overview
• Focus on societal challenges EU society is facing (e.g. health,
clean energy, food security, integrated transport)
• Covering the entire cycle from research to innovation –
from basic research to bringing ideas to the market
• Opportunities for Materials GRP:
Grants for individual researchers and groups of researchers,
funding for European collaborative research, mobility, close to
market activities, etc.
Horizon 2020 structure
Excellent
Science
European Research
Council (ERC)
Future and Emerging
Technologies (FET)
Marie SkłodowskaCurie Actions (MSCA)
Research
Infrastructures
Industrial
Leadership
Societal
Challenges
Health and Wellbeing
Leadership in
Enabling and
Industrial
Technologies (LEIT)
- ICT, NMBP, Space
Access to Risk
Finance
Innovation in SMEs
Energy
Transport
Food security
Climate action
Societies
Security
Spreading excellence and widening participation, Science with
and for society, Fast Track to Innovation Pilot
European Institute of
Innovation and
Technology (EIT)
EURATOM
Joint Research Centre
(JRC)
Horizon 2020 overall policy objectives
• Overcoming the effects of the economic crisis and high
unemployment rate
• Achieve smart, sustainable and inclusive economic growth
• Ensuring Europe
– produces world-class science and technology;
– removes barriers to innovation;
– and makes it easier for the public and private sectors to
work together in delivering solutions to big challenges facing
society
Horizon 2020
The basics on participation
Who is eligible?
All 28 EU Member States:
• Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic,
Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary,
Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands,
Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden,
United Kingdom
Who is eligible?
• Overseas Countries and Territories (OCT) linked to the Member
States
– Anguilla, Aruba, Bermuda, Bonaire, British Virgin Islands, Cayman
Islands, Curaçao, Falkland Islands, French Polynesia, Greenland,
Montserrat, New Caledonia, Pitcairn Islands, Saba, Saint Barthélémy,
Saint Helena, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Sint Eustatius, Sint Maarten,
Turks and Caicos Islands, Wallis and Futuna
• Associated Countries:
– Norway, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the former Yugoslav Republic
of Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Turkey, Israel, Moldova, Switzerland
(partial association Pillar 1 + SEWP + Euratom), Faroe Islands, Tunisia
and Ukraine.
• Third countries (whether they can receive funding depends on
GDP/list in WP)
Horizon 2020
Pillar 1: Excellent Science
Excellent Science Rationale
“…reinforce and extend the excellence of the Union’s science base
and to consolidate the European Research Area in order to make
the Union’s research and innovation system more competitive on a
global scale…”
• Activities under this pillar cover the breadth of Europe’s
research and innovation needs
• Forward-looking, long-term skill development and capacity
building to support emerging European talent
• Largely science-driven pillar with many ‘bottom-up’
opportunities
European Research
Council
What is the ERC?
“The fundamental activity of the ERC is to provide
attractive, long-term funding to support excellent
investigators and their research teams to pursue groundbreaking, high-gain/high-risk research.”
“Scientific excellence is the sole criterion on the basis of
which ERC frontier research grants are awarded.”
“The ERC’s frontier research grants operate on a ‘bottomup’ basis without predetermined priorities.”
ERC Work Programme 2016 text
ERC Grant Schemes
Starting Grants
• For PIs 2-7 years from PhD, up to €2 million for 5 years
Consolidator Grants
• For PIs 7-12 years from PhD, up to €2.75 million for 5 years
Advanced Grants
• For leading researchers, up to €3.5 million for 5 years.
Synergy Grants
• for 2 to 4 PIs, up to €15 million for 6 years. No call in 2016 or 2017.
Proof of Concept
• For ERC grant holders only, up to €150,000 for 18 months
ERC Frontier Research Grant Schemes
• The ERC seeks to fund the best ‘frontier research’ proposals
submitted by excellent researchers in the area of their choice.
• Funds projects led by a Principal Investigator, if necessary
supported by a research team (no requirement for
collaboration or forming a team across different EU countries)
• 25 panels in 3 domains which proposals can be submitted to:
• Physical Sciences and Engineering (PE)
• Life Sciences (LS)
• Social Sciences and Humanities (SH)
• Not suitable for consortium type proposals
Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Actions (MSCA)
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
Work
Programme
“.. Ensure excellent and innovative
research training as well as attractive
career and knowledge-exchange
opportunities through cross-border and
cross-sector mobility of researchers to
best prepare them to face current and
future societal challenges.”
Total budget: €6.2bn
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
Innovative Training Networks (ITN)
• For Early Stage Researchers
Individual Fellowships (IF)
• For Experienced Researchers
Research and Support Staff Exchange (RISE)
• Exchange visits (secondments) of staff
Innovative Training Networks
European Training
Networks
• At least three
beneficiaries from
different MS/AC
• Doctoral programme
enrolment optional
• Maximum 540
researcher-months
European Joint
Doctorates
European Industrial
Doctorates
• At least three
beneficiaries from
different MS/AC
• Doctoral programme
enrolment mandatory
• Joint governance,
admission, selection,
supervision,
monitoring and
assessment mandatory
• Award of joint, double
or multiple doctoral
degree mandatory
• Maximum 540
researcher-months
• At least one academic
and one non-academic
partner (primarily
enterprises)
• Doctoral programme
enrolment mandatory
• Joint governance,
admission, selection,
supervision,
monitoring and
assessment mandatory
• Maximum 180
researcher-months
Individual Fellowships (IF)
Outgoing
Return
New
Research and Innovation Staff Exchange
(RISE)
•
“Aim to promote international and inter-sector collaboration through research
and innovation staff exchanges, and sharing of knowledge and ideas from
research to market (and vice-versa) for the advancement of science and
development of innovation”
•
Should involve institutions from the academic and non-academic sectors
(particularly SMEs) based in MS/AC and/or third countries
•
Development of partnerships in the form of joint research and innovation
activities between the participants
•
Knowledge sharing via international and/or inter-sector mobility through two
way secondments of staff with built-in return mechanism – no recruitment of
new staff!
– Exchanges between MS/AC only: secondments must be inter-sectoral
– Exchanges between MS/AC and third countries: secondments can be same
sector and/or intersectoral
Useful Links
• UKRO Subscriber factsheet on Marie Curie Actions
https://www.ukro.ac.uk/subscriber/Factsheets/factsheet_msca.pdf
• Commission’s Marie Curie Actions websites
ec.europa.eu/research/mariecurieactions and
ec.europa.eu/programmes/horizon2020/en/h2020-section/mariesklodowska-curie-actions
• UK NCP Helpdesk
Email: mariecurie-uk@bbsrc.ac.uk
Phone: + 32 2 230 0318
Website: www.ukro.ac.uk/mariecurie
Future and Emerging
Technologies (FET)
What is FET?
FET “shall support collaborative research in order to extend
Europe's capacity for advanced and paradigm-changing
innovation. It shall foster scientific collaboration across disciplines
on radically new, high-risk ideas and accelerate development of
the most promising emerging areas of science and technology as
well as the Union-wide structuring of the corresponding scientific
communities.”
(Regulation establishing Horizon 2020)
What is FET?
FET Open
Exploring novel ideas
• Early ideas
• Collaborative research
projects
• Bottom-up: nonprescriptive with
regard to the nature or
purpose of the
envisaged technologies
Open, light and agile
FET Proactive
FET Flagships
Developing topics &
communities
Addressing grand
challenges
• Exploration and
incubation
• Topical clusters of
research projects
• Specific areas defined
in the Work
Programme
• Also: separate call to
implement part of the
European HPC strategy
• Large-scale partnering
initiatives
• Common research
agendas
• Two Flagships
launched: Graphene
and the Human Brain
Project
Roadmap based research
What is funded in FET Open
• Research and Innovation Actions:
– Non-prescriptive with regard to nature or purpose of technologies
– Characteristics:
Long-term vision
Break-through
scientific and
technological
target
Novelty
Foundational
High-risk
Interdisciplinary
– Expected Impact:
• Initiating or consolidating a baseline of feasibility or a radically new
line of technology and its future uses by establishing the essential
proofs-of-principle and their supporting scientific underpinnings
• Strengthening European thought-leadership on visionary, new and
emerging technologies, beyond academic excellence
More information
• FET in Horizon 2020:
http://ec.europa.eu/programmes/horizon2020/en/h2020section/future-and-emerging-technologies
• Strategic Research Agenda of ETP4HPC:
http://www.etp4hpc.eu/strategy/strategic-research-agenda/
• Graphene Flagship: http://graphene-flagship.eu/
• Human Brain Project: https://www.humanbrainproject.eu/
Horizon 2020
Pillar 2: Industrial Leadership
Mapping opportunities for funding
Europe 2020
Innovation Union
Horizon 2020
Pillar 2: Industrial
Leadership
Leadership in Enabling and Industrial
Technologies
NMBP Work
Programme
2016/17
Calls with several topics
Topics
ICT Work
Programme
2016/17
Calls with several topics
Topics
Cross-cutting Work
Programme 2016-17
Calls with several topics
Topics
Industrial Leadership - Rationale
• Aim: to speed up development of
technologies and innovations that
will underpin tomorrow's businesses
and help innovative European SMEs
to grow into world-leading
companies
• Promotes activities in which industry
sets the agenda
• Provides major investment in key
industrial technologies
• Maximises growth potential of
European companies by providing
adequate financing levels
• Places Europe at the forefront of the
new industrial revolution
Leadership in Enabling and
Industrial Technologies
(LEIT)
- ICT, KETs, Space
Access to Risk Finance
Innovation in SMEs
Leadership in Enabling and
Industrial Technologies (LEIT)
Leadership in Enabling and Industrial
Technologies (LEIT) - Introduction
• Key Enabling Technologies (KETs), ICT and Space as areas of key
industrial competence determining Europe’s global
competitiveness.
• Emphasis on areas of research and innovation with a strong
industrial dimension and where mastering new technological
opportunities will enable and drive innovation
• Some features:
– Involvement of PPPs
– Cross-cutting KETs
– Contributions to solving
Societal Challenges and to Focus Areas
LEIT – Key Enabling Technologies
• Strong focus on industrial involvement and applied research
• Developing industrial capacity in focus areas:
– Key Enabling Technologies (KETs)
• Micro- and nano-electronics,
• Photonics
• Nanotechnologies
• Advanced Materials
• Biotechnology
• Advanced Manufacturing
and Processing
Technology Readiness Levels
TRL 1
Basic principles observed
TRL 2
Technology concept formulated
TRL 3
Experimental proof of concept
TRL 4
Technology validated in lab
TRL 5
Technology validated in relevant environment (industrial environment
in the case of KETs)
TRL 6
Technology demonstrated in relevant environment (industrial
environment in the case of KETs)
TRL 7
System prototype demonstration in operational environment
TRL 8
System complete and qualified
TRL 9
Actual system proven in operational environment (competitive
manufacturing in the case of KETs; or in space
Research and Innovation action
• Description
– “Action primarily consisting of activities aiming to establish
new knowledge and/or to explore the feasibility of a new
or improved technology, product, process, service or
solution”
• Funding rate: 100% + 25% indirect costs
• Multi-beneficiary
– Minimum: three legal entities each of which established in a
different Member State or associated country
Innovation action
• Description
– “Action primarily consisting of activities directly aiming at
producing plans and arrangements or designs for new,
altered or improved products, processes or services. For
this purpose they may include prototyping, testing,
demonstrating, piloting, large-scale product validation and
market replication”
• Funding rate: 70% (100% for non-profit) + 25% indirect
costs
• Multi-beneficiary
– Minimum: three legal entities each of which established in a
different Member State or associated country
Coordination and Support action
• Description
– “Action consisting primarily of accompanying measures
such as standardisation, dissemination, awareness-raising
and communication, networking, coordination or support
services, policy dialogues and mutual learning exercises
and studies, including design studies for new
infrastructure”
• Funding: 100% + 25% indirect costs
• Mono or Multi-beneficiary
– Minimum one legal entity established in a Member State or
Associated Country
Nanotechnology, Advanced Materials,
Biotechnology & Advanced
Manufacturing & Processing
NMBP 2016-17
• Strong focus on industrial participation and growth of EU
economy and manufacturing base
• Quantifiable impact crucial
• Split between two Work Programme parts:
– Part 5.ii ‘Nanotechnologies, Advanced Materials, Biotechnology and
Advanced Manufacturing and Processes’
– Part 17 ‘Cross-cutting Activities (Focus Areas)’
• Includes three public-private partnerships:
– Factories of the Future (FoF)
– Energy-Efficient Buildings (EeB)
– Sustainable Process Industries (SPIRE)
• New cross-cutting focus area: ‘Industry 2020 in the Circular
Economy’
• Calls relating to Nano & Adv. Materials for Health & Energy
NMBP: 5.ii NMPB Work Programme
Call 1: Energy-Efficient Buildings
• Eight topics – four in 2016, four in 2017
Call 2: Nanotechnologies, Advanced Materials, Biotechnology and Production
• Adv. Materials & Nanotech for High-Added value Products & Process Industries (7
topics)
• Green Vehicles (1 topic)
• Adv. Materials & Nanotech for Healthcare (8 topics)
• Adv. Materials & Nanotech for Energy Applications (4 topics)
• Eco Design & New Sustainable Business Models (2 topics)
• Biotechnology (8 topics)
• Modelling for development. of Nanotech & Adv. Materials (3 topics)
• Science-based Risk Assessment & Management of NMB (4 topics)
• Innovative & Responsible Government of New & Converging KETs (8 topics)
NMBP 2016-17
• Funding instruments:
– RIA = 35 topics
– IA = 23 topics
– CSA = 18 topics
• TRL levels:
– 21 topics have none
– Majority (29) between 4-6
– Limited number (15) between 5-7
• SME Instrument topic: 2 x topics
• Pilots call: developing products for market in 5-7 years; building
industrial value chains; reducing development risk; high TRL
NMBP: 2016 call details
NMBP
• Open: Oct 2015
• First Stage Deadline: 8 December 2015
• Second Stage Deadline: 25 May 2016
PILOTS 2016 (RIA / IA)
• Open: 1 Oct 2015
• First Stage Deadline: 8 December 2015
• Second Stage Deadline: 24 May 2016
FOF / EeB / SPIRE 2016 (RIA / IA / CSA)
• Open: 1 Oct 2015
• Deadline: 21 January 2016
NMBP: 2017 call details
NMBP / BIOTEC 2017 (RIA / IA)
• Open: 11 May 2016
• First Stage Deadline: 27 October 2016
• Second Stage Deadline: 4 May 2017
Energy Efficient Buildings 2017
• Open: 20 September 2016
• Deadline: 19 January 2017
NMBP / BIOTEC 2017 (CSA)
• Open: 20 September 2016
• Deadline: 19 January 2017
2017 topic examples
Call for Energy Efficient Buildings
• EEB-05-2017: Development of near zero energy building
renovation
• EEB-06-2017: Highly efficient hybrid storage solutions for power
and heat in residential buildings and district areas, balancing the
supply and demand conditions
• EEB-07-2017: Integration of energy harvesting at building and
district level
• EEB-08-2017: New business models for energy-efficient
buildings through adaptable refurbishment solutions
2017 topic examples
Call for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnologies for High
Added Value Products and Process Industries
• NMBP-04-2017: Advanced material concepts for intelligent bulk
material structures
• NMBP-05-2017: Advanced materials and innovative design for
improved functionality and aesthetics in high added value
consumer goods
• NMBP-06-2017: Improved material durability in buildings and
infrastructures, including offshore
• NMBP-07-2017: Systems of materials characterisation for
model, product and process optimisation
2017 topic examples
Call for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnologies for Healthcare
• NMBP-12-2017: Development of a reliable methodology for
better risk management of engineered biomaterials in Advanced
Therapy Medicinal Products and/or Medical Devices
• NMBP-13-2017: Cross-cutting KETs for diagnostics at the pointof-care
• NMBP-14-2017: Regulatory Science Framework for assessment
of risk benefit ratio of Nanomedicines and Biomaterials
• NMBP-15-2017: Nanotechnologies for imaging cellular
transplants and regenerative processes in vivo
• NMBP-16-2017: Mobilising the European nano-biomedical
ecosystem
2017 topic examples
Call for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnologies for Energy
Applications
• NMBP-19-2017: Cost-effective materials for “power-tochemical” technologies
• NMBP-20-2017: High-performance materials for optimizing
carbon dioxide capture
Modelling for the Development of Nanotechnologies and
Advanced Materials
• NMBP-25-2017: Next generation system integrating tangible and
intangible materials model components to support innovation in
industry
2017 topic examples
Biotechnology
• BIOTEC-05-2017: Microbial platforms for CO2-reuse processes in
the low-carbon economy
• BIOTEC-06-2017: Optimisation of biocatalysis and downstream
processing for the sustainable production of high value-added
platform chemicals
• BIOTEC-07-2017: New Plant Breeding Techniques (NPBT) in
molecular farming: Multipurpose crops for industrial
bioproducts
• BIOTEC-08-2017: Support for enhancing and demonstrating the
impact of KET Biotechnology projects
2017 topic examples
Science-Based Risk Assessment and Management of
Nanotechnologies, Advanced Materials and Biotechnologies
• NMBP-28-2017: Framework and strategies for nanomaterial
characterisation, classification, grouping and read-across for risk
analysis
• NMBP-29-2017: Advanced and realistic models and assays for
nanomaterial hazard assessment
NMBP: Policy context
• Commission web pages on Industrial Policy ec.europa.eu/growth/industry
• PPP Factories of the Future
http://ec.europa.eu/research/industrial_technologies/factories-of-thefuture_en.html
• PPP Energy-Efficient Buildings
http://ec.europa.eu/research/industrial_technologies/energy-efficientbuildings_en.html
• PPP Sustainable Process Industry
http://ec.europa.eu/research/industrial_technologies/sustainable-processindustry_en.html
• Communication: ‘Towards a Circular Economy: A zero waste programme for
Europe’
http://cor.europa.eu/en/activities/stakeholders/Documents/COM(2014)%20398%2
0final.pdf
• Communication: ‘European Industrial Renaissance’
http://ec.europa.eu/growth/industry/policy/renaissance/index_en.htm
Information and Communication
Technologies (ICT) in LEIT
What is ICT in LEIT?
A new generation of
components and
systems
Big Data
PPP
Content
Innovation and
Entrepreneurship
Support
Advanced Computing
and Cloud
Computing
Robotics and
Autonomous
Systems
SPARC
PPP
Responsibility and
Creativity
Joint Calls with
Japan, Brazil, South
Korea
5G
PPP
Future Internet
ICT KETs:
Photonics
PPP
Micro- and
nanoelectronics
Photonics
International
Cooperation
Activities
Other actions,
including prizes
What is funded (Work Programme
2016/17?
• Content
Big Data
PPP
– To foster advances along three ecosystems: data value chain (big data),
content value chain (creative, social media and convergence industries),
knowledge value chain (advanced knowledge and learning technologies
• Robotics and Autonomous Systems
SPARC
PPP
– Technical capabilities targeted: systems development, interaction,
mechatronics and perception/navigation/cognition
– Systems abilities targeted: configurability, adaptability, interaction
capability, dependability, motion capability, manipulation and grasping,
perception, decisional autonomy and cognitive ability
• ICT Key Enabling Technologies
Photonics
– Photonics
PPP
– Micro- and nanoelectronic technologies
Cross-cutting Activities
Additional Work Programme
2017 topic examples
Pilots
• PILOTS-03-2017: Pilot Lines for Manufacturing of Nanotextured
surfaces with mechanically enhanced properties
• PILOTS-04-2017: Pilot Lines for 3D printed and/or injection
moulded polymeric or ceramic microfluidic MEMS
• PILOTS-05-2017: Paper-based electronics
International Cooperation
in NMBP and ICT
What is international cooperation?
• In the context of Horizon 2020, international co-operation
refers to collaboration with any legal entity based in the socalled ‘third countries’ that are neither EU Member States nor
Associated Countries.
2012 Commission COM on INCO in Research
and Innovation
• Stressed that global challenges call for global responses and are
drivers for international cooperation in research and
innovation.
• Highlighted the fact that engaging in international cooperation
is essential to attract talent, access knowledge and markets and
thus increase the EU's competitiveness.
• Effect: openness of Horizon 2020 to the rest of the world and
embedding international cooperation across the entire
programme.
Roadmaps for INCO
• In September 2014, Commission published Roadmaps for some
third countries and regions of the world.
• They define research priorities (incl. materials) that will be
pursued together by the EU and its international partners
• Roadmaps exist for the following partners and regions: Brazil,
Canada, China, India, Japan, Republic of Korea, Russia, South
Africa, USA, European Neighbourhood Countries (Eastern
Partnership and Southern Neighbourhood.
• Materials a priority for: USA, Japan, China, Brazil, South Korea
Eligibility for funding of TCs
• Only less developed economies (countries mentioned in
Annex A to the WP) are automatically eligible for EU funding.
• Developed and developing economies, such as the USA,
Canada, Australia, New Zealand, BRIC, Mexico, etc. no longer
automatically qualify for EU funding.
Eligibility for funding of TCs
• Exceptionally, funding may be provided in the
following cases:
– Under the existence of a bilateral agreement specifying
such funding i.e. EU-US agreement for Societal Challenge 1
– When such funding is specifically mentioned in the call text
or topic
– When Commission deems participation of an entity
essential for the success of the project because it can
provide expertise that cannot be found in Europe, access to
data, infrastructures, geographical area, etc.
National funding programmes for TC that no
longer qualify for EU funding
• CONACYT – sponsors Mexican organisations participating in any
Horizon 2020 action.
• Australian National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)
funding – Australian participations in actions under Societal Challenge
1 (Health, demographic change and wellbeing)
• Russian Federal Programme – sponsors Russian scientists
participating in any part of Horizon 2020
• MSIP/MOTIE funding in South Korea – Regular calls for proposals
launched by relevant ministries in Korea
• ASTIP Programme – sponsors Chinese participations in all actions
under Societal Challenge 2
Research Participant Portal
Horizon 2020 call search
Topic descriptions in Pillar 2 & Pillar 3
Available Support
Materials: Further Information
The UKRO Portal contains news of the latest
developments within the Societal Challenges:
• Calls and results
• Resources
• Events
• Policy developments
An overview factsheet is also available
on the UKRO portal for each Societal
Challenge.
www.ukro.ac.uk
UK National Contact Points
Advanced manufacturing and processing
Craig Sharp
07920 750 631
NCP-AdvMan@innovateuk.gov.uk
Nanotechnologies and advanced materials
Kalyan Sarma
07802 768 120
NCP-Nanotech@innovateuk.gov.uk
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