Funding opportunities for the Materials GRP
Eevi Laukkanen
University of Warwick, 8 January 2014
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Brief overview
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The European Union’s funding instrument for research and innovation
(2014-2020)
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Horizon 2020 overarching priority:
Exiting the economic crisis through sustainable growth
• Budget of € 70.2 billion
• Coupling research to innovation – from basic research to bringing ideas to
the market
• Focus on societal challenges EU society is facing (e.g. health, clean
energy, food security, integrated transport)
• Focuses resources on areas of high growth and innovation potential
• Key measures to support industrial leadership, particularly innovative SMEs
• More open, bottom up areas
• Significant investment in excellence
• Promise of simplified access for all
• Leverage private investment in key technologies (PPPs, JTIs)
• Encourages pooling of resources through Public-Public partnerships
Excellent
Science
Industrial
Leadership
Societal
Challenges
Health and Wellbeing
European Research
Council (ERC)
Leadership in Enabling
and Industrial
Technologies (LEIT) ICT, KETs, Space
Future and Emerging
Technologies (FET)
Food security
Transport
Energy
Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Actions (MSCA)
Climate action
Access to Risk Finance
Research Infrastructures
Societies
Security
Innovation in SMEs
Widening Participation; Science with and for Society
European Institute of Innovation
and Technology (EIT)
EURATOM
Joint Research Centre (JRC)
Overall objective: “to strengthen the excellence of European
research”
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World class science is the foundation of tomorrow’s
technologies, jobs and wellbeing
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Europe needs to develop, attract and retain research talent
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Researchers need access to the best infrastructures
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Total budget €21.6 billion
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Strategic investments in key technologies (e.g. advanced
manufacturing, nanotechnologies and materials) underpin
innovation across existing and emerging sectors
Europe needs to attract more private investment in research
and innovation
Europe needs more innovative SMEs to create growth and
jobs
Emphasis on combining enabling technologies to find
solutions for societal challenges – particularly energy
efficiency targets, sustainability and climate change objectives
Total budget €15.04 billion
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Concerns of citizens and society + EU policy objectives
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Breakthrough solutions come from multi-disciplinary
collaborations, including social sciences and humanities
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Addressing challenges requires full research & innovation
cycle, from research to market
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Focus on policy priorities without predetermining technologies
or types of solutions to be developed
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Total budget €26.2 billion
Excellent Science
Industrial Leadership
Societal Challenges
• Bottom-up funding
• Defined topics
• Defined topics
• Basic and applied
research
• Applied research
• Applied research
• Investigator centred
projects (ERC)
• Transnational,
multidisciplinary, multisectoral projects
• Transnational,
multidisciplinary, multisectoral projects
• PhD training (MSCA)
• Innovation Actions
• Fellowships (MSCA)
• Research & Innovation
Actions
• Research & Innovation
Actions
• Networking (MSCA)
• Transnational,
collaborative projects
for novel technology
ideas / concepts (FET)
• “Excellence over
impact?”
• Innovation Actions
• SME actions
• SME actions
• Industrial problem
solving
• Societal problem solving
• “Impact over
excellence?”
• “Impact over
excellence?”
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28 EU Member States (Croatia joined in 2013)
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Associated Countries (similar list to FP7 expected)
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Third countries (funding will depend on GDP)
• BRIC no longer eligible for automatic funding
• List of eligible third countries in Horizon 2020 ‘General
Annexes’:
http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/data/ref/h2020/wp/20
14_2015/annexes/h2020-wp1415-annex-ga_en.pdf
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Basic model for ‘Research and Innovation actions’ =
collaborative projects
• 100% direct costs +
• 25% indirect costs (overhead)
Basic model for “Innovation actions” projects = collaborative
closer to market projects
• 70% direct costs +
• 25% indirect costs
For Universities involved in innovation projects: 100% direct costs
Some calls different – e.g. inducement prizes
Marie Curie calls different – fixed allowances
Pillar 1 – Excellent Science
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The ERC seeks to fund the best ‘frontier research’ proposals
submitted by excellent researchers, with excellence as the single
peer review criterion.
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Will fund projects led by a Principal Investigator, if necessary
supported by a team (no need for pan-European collaboration)
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Will operate on a ‘bottom-up’ basis, without pre-determined
research priorities. 25 panels in 3 domains which proposals can be
submitted to:
 Physical Sciences and Engineering
 Life Sciences
 Social Sciences and Humanities
Total ERC budget: €11.6bn (compared with €7.5bn in FP7)
Starting Grants
2-7 years postdoc
Up to €1.5-2m for 5 years
Consolidator Grants
7–12 years postdoc
Up to €2-2.75m for 5
years
Advanced Grants
Leading researchers
Up to €3-3.5m for 5 years
Synergy Grants
2 – 4 PIs
Up to €15m for 6 years
Proof of Concept
ERC grant holders
€150k for up to 18 months
Horizon 2020 general funding rate of 100% direct
+ 25% indirect costs applies
Call identifier
Publication date
Deadline
ERC-2014-StG
11 December 2013
25 March 2014
ERC-2014-CoG
11 December 2013
20 May 2014
ERC-2014-AdG
17 June 2014
21 October 2014
ERC-2014-PoC
11 December 2013
1 April 2014
1 October 2014
ERC-2015-StG
tbc
3 February 2015
ERC-2015-CoG
tbc
12 March 2015
ERC-2015-AdG
tbc
2 June 2015
ERC-2015-PoC
tbc
23 April 2015
1 October 2015
Call budget, €M
(estimated number
of grants)
485
(370)
713
(400)
450
(200)
15
(100)
411
(315)
603
(340)
640
(285)
15
(100)
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Operates in a ‘bottom-up’ basis
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Open to all research and innovation domains – from basic
research to market take-up
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Mobility is a key requirement
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Aim: develop new knowledge / enhance skills of people
behind research and innovation
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Dissemination and public engagement through public
outreach activities
Total budget: €6.2bn (compared with €4.7bn in FP7)
Horizon 2020 - MSCA
ITN
IF
RISE
COFUND
Innovative Training Networks
(Early Stage Researchers)
Individual Fellowships
(Experienced Researchers)
Research and Innovation Staff Exchange
(Exchange of Staff)
Cofunding or regional, national and international
programmes
Simplified funding, based on unit costs
Call identifier
Publication date
Deadline
Call budget, €M
MSCA-ITN-2014
11 December 2013
09 April 2014
405.18
MSCA-RISE-2014
11 December 2013
24 April 2014
70
MSCA-IF-2014
12 March 2014
11 September 2014
240.50
MSCA-COFUND2014
10 April 2014
02 October 2014
80
MSCA-ITN-2015
02 September 2014
13 January 2015
370
MSCA-RISE-2015
06 January 2015
28 April 2015
80
MSCA-IF-2015
12 March 2015
10 September 2015
213
MSCA-COFUND2015
14 April 2015
01 October 2015
80
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Expanded from ICT and Energy in FP7 to be used as cross-cutting
funding scheme
Supports alternative ideas, concepts or paradigms of risky or nonconventional nature but with a technological concreteness
Open, light and agile
Roadmap based research
FET Open
FET Proactive
•‘Fostering novel ideas’
•‘Nurturing emerging
themes and communities’
•Individual research
projects
•Open research clusters
•Early ideas and promising
new areas
•3 topics: Global Systems
Science (GSS); Knowing,
doing being: cognition
beyond problem solving;
Quantum simulation
FET Flagships
•‘Tackling grand
Interdisciplinary science
and technology challenges’
•Common research agendas
•Graphene
•Human Brain
•Support to Flagships
High-Performance Computing (HPC) Strategy
Developing the next generation towards
exascale
2 call topics
Characteristics
• Long Term Vision and
breakthrough S&T targeted
• Foundational – develop the basis
for a new kind of technology
• High-Risk – complex projects that
cross multiple disciplines
• Novelty – new ideas and concepts,
not incremental
• Interdisciplinary
• Non-topical and non-descriptive
• Involve new and high-potential
research and innovation players
• Impact through leading-edge S&T
that is more open, collaborative,
creative and closer to society
Types of project
• Early Proof of Principle of a new
technological possibility, together
with its scientific basis, as
foundational contribution for a
radically new line of science and
technology research; or
• Establish a solid baseline of
feasibility and potential for a new
technological direction, ready for
early take-up with an early-stage
emerging innovation ecosystem
of high-potential actors.
• Collaborative Research and
Innovation Actions (min 3 partners)
Objectives
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Three topics
Exploratory: to stimulate the
exploration of a variety of
directions by building up
critical mass of researchers
and groups
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Path finding: translating
science into concrete
technological directions by
projects that build on proof of
concept, while high risk, to
take them to the next level of
development
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Knowing, doing, being: cognition
beyond problem solving
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Renewing ties between disciplines
studying knowledge and cognition from
various perspectives
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Potential to boost innovation potential in
robotics, materials and cyber systems
Global Science System
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Improve way scientific knowledge can
stimulate and help societal responses to
global challenges such as climate change
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Highly interdisciplinary
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Strong policy implications
Quantum simulation
3.
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Quantum computation, simulation,
communication, metrology, sensing
Call
Opens
Closes
Budget, €
FET Open
11 Dec 2013
30 Sep 2014
31 March 2015
29 Sep 2015
77 M
37 M
40 M
FET Proactive
11 Dec 2013
1 April 2014
10 + 15 + 10 M
FET HPC 1
11 Dec 2013
25 Nov 2014
94 M
FET HPC 2
11 Dec 2013
25 Nov 2014
4M
FET HPC 3
11 Dec 2013
25 Nov 2014
2M
NB: Single-stage calls
Pillar 2 – Industrial Leadership
Pillar 3 – Societal Challenges
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Horizon 2020 collaborative projects are a little different!
• A strong challenge-based approach – broader topics
• Covers whole research to close-to-market continuum
• Strong involvement of industry, especially SMEs
• Applicants have considerable freedom to come up with
innovative solutions – less prescription
• Strong emphasis on expected impact
• More cross-cutting aspects (e.g. SSH, gender, international
collaboration)
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Research and innovation actions (R&I)
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Innovation actions
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Co-ordination and support actions (CSA)
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Prizes
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Fast-track to innovation
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SME instrument
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ERA-NET Cofund
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Pre-Commercial Procurement (PCP)
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Public Procurement of Innovative Solutions (PPI)
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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”
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Funding rate: 100% + 25% indirect costs
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Multi-beneficiary
• Minimum: three legal entities each of which established in a different
Member State or associated country
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Respond to challenges set in the Societal challenges or
Industrial Leadership pillars
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Bottom up in FET open (directed in FET proactive)
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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”
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Funding rate: 70% (100% for non-profit) + 25% indirects
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Multi-beneficiary
• Minimum: three legal entities each of which established in a different
Member State or associated country
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Respond to challenges set in the Societal challenges or Industrial
Leadership pillars
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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”
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Funding: 100% + 25% indirects
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Mono or Multi-beneficiary
• Minimum one legal entity established in a Member State or Associated
Country
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Respond to direction given in the Societal Challenges or
Industrial Leadership pillars, and in FET
2014-2016 Strategic Programme
 Aims at ensuring a coherent, evidence-based
implementation
 Will guide the preparation of the work programmes
 Defines areas of special focus for the first work
programmes
2014-2015 Work Programmes
 Two-year work programmes
 Common topics structure: “Specific challenge”,
“Scope”, “Expected Impact”, “Type of action”
Pillar 2 – Industrial Leadership
Leadership in Industrial and
Enabling Technologies (LEIT)
Cross-cutting
theme in H2020
LEIT:
Factories of the
Future
Challenge 6:
Cultural heritage
and European
identities
Challenge 6:
Europe in a
changing world
Challenge 3:
Secure, Clean
and Efficient
Energy
LEIT: Advanced
materials
Challenge 2:
Food Security
Challenge 1:
Health,
demographic
change and
wellbeing
Challenge 6:
Europe as a
global actor
Challenge 5:
Climate action
Challenge 4:
Smart, Green and
Integrated
Transport
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Emphasis on combining enabling technologies to find solutions
for societal challenges – particularly energy efficiency targets,
sustainability and climate change objectives
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Cross-cutting themes:
• Integration of technologies
• Demonstration of capacity to make and deliver innovative products and
services
• User and customer pilots to prove feasibility and added value
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
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Strong focus on industrial involvement and applied
research
Developing industrial capacity in focus areas:
• Key Enabling Technologies (KETs)
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Micro- and nano-electronics,
Photonics
Nanotechnologies
Advanced Materials
Biotechnology
Advanced Manufacturing and Processing
KETs -
Combining several key enabling
technologies for advanced products
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Nanotechnology and Advanced materials
• Bridging the gap between nanotechnology research and market
• Nanotechnology and advanced materials as enablers of applications in
Health (cancer/diabetes/Alzheimer's)
• Nanotechnology and advanced materials for low carbon energy and
energy efficiency
• Safety of nanotechnology-based applications and support for the
development of regulation
• Addressing generic needs in support of governance, standards, models
and structuring in nanotechnology, advanced materials and production
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Bridging the gap between nanotechnology research and markets
• NMP1 – 2014: Open access pilot lines for cost effective
nanocomposites
• NMP4 – 2014: High definition printing of multifunctional materials
• NMP5 – 2014: Industrial-scale production of nanomaterials for printing
applications
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Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials for more effective
healthcare
• NMP10 – 2014: Biomaterials for the treatment of diabetes mellitus
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Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials for low-carbon energy
technologies and energy efficiency
• NMP13 – 2014: Storage of energy produced by decentralised sources
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Exploiting the cross-sector potential of Nanotechnologies and
Advanced Materials to drive competitiveness and sustainability
• NMP18 – 2014: Materials solutions for use in the creative industry
sector
• NMP20 – 2014: Widening materials models
• NMK21 – 2014: Materials-based solutions for the protection or
preservation of European cultural heritage
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Safety of nanotechnology-based applications and support for the
development of regulation
• NMK28 – 2014: Assessment of environmental impact of nanomaterials
 Implemented as single and two-stage calls for ‘Research & Innovation
Actions’ and ‘Innovation Actions’, deadline on 5 May 2014
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Addressing generic needs in support of governance, standards,
models and structuring in nanotechnology, advanced materials and
production
• NMK31 – 2014: Novel visualisation tools for enhanced nanotechnology
awareness
• NMK33 – 2014: The Materials “Common House”
• NMK34 – 2014: Networking and sharing of best practices in
management of new advanced materials via eco-design of products
Implemented as single stage calls for ‘Coordination and Support
Actions’, deadline on 5 May 2014
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Biotechnology
• Cutting-edge biotechnologies as future innovation drivers
 e.g. synthetic biology/bioinformatics
• Biotechnology-based industrial processes driving
competitiveness
 e.g. enzyme tool-kits
• Innovation and competitive platform technologies
 e.g. “Omics” technologies to drive innovation
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Cutting edge biotechnologies as future innovation drivers
• BIOTEC1 – 2014: Synthetic biology – construction of new organisms for
new products and processes
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Biotechnology-based industrial processes driving competitiveness
• BIOTEC3 – 2014: Widening industrial application of enzymatic
processes (i.e. biocatalysis)
 Implemented as two-stage calls for ‘Research and Innovation Actions’
(BIOTEC1-2014) and ‘Innovation Actions’ (BIOTEC3-2014), deadline on
12 March 2014
New generation of
components and
systems
Content
technologies and
information
management
Advanced
Computing
Future Internet
Robotics
Micro- and
nano-electronic
technologies/
Photonics KETs
Cross-cutting and horizontal activities and International
Co-operation
Robotics
PPP
5G PPP
Photonics
PPP
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A new generation of components and systems
• ICT 3 – 2014: Advanced Thin, Organic and Large Area Electronics
(TOLAE) technologies Biotechnology-based industrial processes driving
competitiveness
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Micro- and nano-electronic technologies, Photonics
• ICT26 – 2014: Photonics KET
• ICT29 – 2014: Development of novel materials and systems for OLED
lighting
 Implemented as single-stage calls for ‘Research and Innovation
Actions’ and ‘Innovation Actions’ (as well as ‘Coordination Actions’, ‘Pre –
commercial procurement actions’) deadline on 23 April 2014
LEIT Public Private
Partnerships (PPPs)
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Factories for the Future: FoF
Energy Efficient Buildings: EeB
Photonics
Sustainable Process Industries through Resource and
Energy Efficiency: SPIRE
Robotics
Advanced 5G Network Infrastructures: 5G
Expected to show continuity from NMP theme under FP7
Roadmaps in the public domain
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“Transition to more competitive, demand-driven
industries with lower waste generation and energy
consumption”
• FoF 2 – 2014: Manufacturing processes for complex
structures and geometries with efficient use of materials
Implemented as single-stage call for ‘Research &
Innovation Actions’, deadline 20 March 2014
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“Drive the creation of a high-tech building industry, which
turns energy efficiency into a sustainable business,
fostering EU competitiveness in the construction sector on
a global level”
• EeB1 – 2014: Materials for building envelope
• EeB2 – 2014: Adaptable envelopes integrated in building
refurbishment projects
Implemented as single-stage call for ‘Innovation Actions’
(EeB1-2014) and ‘Research & Innovation Actions’ (EeB22014), deadline 20 March 2014
Pillar 3 – Societal Challenges
Societal Challenges
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SC1 Health, demographic change and wellbeing
6.6
SC 2 Food security, sustainable agriculture, marine and
maritime research & the Bioeconomy
3.4
SC3 Secure, clean and efficient energy
5.2
SC4 Smart, green and integrated transport
5.6
SC5 Climate action, environment, resource efficiency and
raw materials
2.7
SC6 Inclusive, innovative and reflective societies
1.2
SC7 Secure societies
1.5
Food
Challenge
Energy
Challenge
Transport
Challenge
Climate
Challenge
Health
Challenge
Security
Challenge
IIR
Challenge
Food Security, Sustainable
Agriculture, Marine and Maritime
Research and the Bio-economy
Blue Growth: Unlocking the potential of the Oceans
• Sustainably exploiting the diversity of marine life
• New offshore challenges
Example topics:
 BG-3-2014: Novel marine derived biomolecules and industrial
biomaterials
 BG-6-2014: Delivering the sub-sea technologies for new services at
sea
Innovative, sustainable and inclusive bioeconomy
• Sustainable agriculture and forestry
• Sustainable and competitive bio-based industries
Example topic:
 ISIB-5-2014: Renewable oil crops as a source of bio-based products
 Implemented as two-stage calls for ‘Research & Innovation Actions’ ,
deadline on 12 March 2014
Secure, Clean and Efficient
Energy
Low-cost, low-carbon energy
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Accelerating the development of transformative energy technologies
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Renewable electricity and heating/cooling
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Enhanced energy storage technologies
Example topics:
 LCE 1 - 2014: New knowledge and technologies
 LCE 2 – 2014/2015: Developing the next generation technologies of
renewable electricity and heating/cooling
 Implemented as two-stage calls for ‘Research & Innovations Actions’,
deadline on 1 April 2014
 LCE 10 – 2014: Next generation technologies for energy storage
 Implemented as one-stage call for ‘Research & Innovation Actions’,
deadline on 7 May 2014
Energy efficiency
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Bring to mass market technologies and services for a smart and efficient
energy use
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Unlock the potential of efficient and renewable heating-cooling systems
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Foster uptake of energy efficiency technologies in industry
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Innovative finance for sustainable energy
Example topic:
 EE 1 – 2014: Manufacturing of prefabricated modules for renovation of
buildings
 Implemented as single stage call for ‘Innovation Actions’, deadline on 20
March 2014
Smart, green and integrated
transport
Aviation, Rail vehicles, Waterborne transport, Green vehicles
 Competitiveness of European transport industry through cost efficiency and
innovation
 Enhancing the environmental performance of transport modes
Example topics:
 MG.1.1-2014. Competitiveness of European aviation through cost
efficiency and innovation
 MG.2.3-2014. New generation of rail vehicles
 MG.4.1-2014. Towards the energy efficient and very-low emission vessel
 Implemented as two-stage calls for Research & Innovations Actions’ and
‘Innovation Actions,’ deadline on 18 March 2014
 GV.1-2014. Next generation of competitive lithium ion batteries to meet
customer expectations
 Implemented as single stage call for ‘Research & Innovation Actions’, deadline
on 28 August 2014
Climate action, resource
efficiency and raw materials
Waste: A resource to recycle, reuse and recover raw materials
• Addressing whole production and consumption cycle – waste prevention,
design of processes and products for recyclability, reuse, waste
management
Example topics:
 WASTE-2-2014: A systems approach for the reduction, recycling and
reuse of food waste  Two-stage call for ‘Research & Innovation Actions’
 WASTE-3-2014: Recycling of raw materials from products and buildings
 One-stage call for ‘Research & Innovation Actions’
Ensuring the sustainable supply of non-energy and non-agricultural raw
materials
• Alternatives for critical raw materials
Example topic:
 SC5 -12-2014/15: Innovative and sustainable solutions leading to
substitution of raw materials  One-stage call for ‘Research & Innovation
Actions’, deadline for all three on 8 April 2014
Practicalities of proposal
preparation
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Two selection criteria
• Financial capacity: in line with financial regulation and rules for participation
• Operational capacity: assessed ability to carry out the project effectively
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Three award criteria
• Excellence, Impact, Implementation
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Each criteria scored out of 5
• Threshold for each is 3
• Overall threshold: 10
• For innovation actions impact score weighted at 1.5
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Proposals then ranked by scores
Projects funded according to ranking within budget
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Priority order for proposals with same score
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• Highest excellence score*; then highest impact score*; then size of budget for
SMEs; then gender balance in project team
*) for ‘Innovation actions’ this order is reversed
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The extent to which work corresponds to topic description
Clarity and pertinence of objectives
Credibility of approach
Soundness of approach including transdisciplinary aspect
Progress beyond state of art
Quality and efficiency of implementation
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Coherence and effectiveness of the work plan, including
appropriateness of allocation of tasks and resources
Appropriateness of management structures and procedures,
including risk management
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The extent to which project outputs will contribute at European
and/or international level to
• Enhancing innovation capacity and integration of knowledge
• Strengthening the competitiveness and growth of companies by developing
and delivering innovations meeting the needs of European and global
markets
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Effectiveness of the proposed project to exploit and disseminate
results (including management of IPR), to communicate the project,
and to manage research data where relevant
Note: for innovation actions impact criterion weighted at 1.5
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Check the Horizon 2020 calls - do they cover your research area?
Get active with networking and building links with potential partners
Who are the key players?
Who has been involved in previous projects / stakeholder groups?
How can you meet them?
• Attending national and Commission events
• Joining the EU evaluators database
• Joining relevant stakeholder groups
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Sign up for UKRO Portal, and choose ‘policy’ category
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Participation options
• Coordinator = responsible for leading the project, managing the
project finances and representing the Consortium vis-à-vis the
Commission
• Partner = responsible for delivering its part of the project and
managing its share of the funding
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Third parties:
• Sub-contractor = contracted by one of the beneficiaries to carry
out specialised tasks that are not ‘core’ project tasks
• Other third party = making available its resources to a
beneficiary or in very specific cases carrying out parts of the
work on behalf of a beneficiary
Beneficiaries
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Co-ordinator
 Prepares and submits proposal
 Links with the Commission and the consortium members
 Monitors compliance on the project
 Financial distribution, record keeping, reports to the
Commission
 Organises scientific and project management meetings
 Maintains the Consortium agreement
Partner
 Works on their work package(s)
 Submits reports to Co-ordinator
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Be focused and know what you want to do
Find out who the key ‘players’ are
Take up all opportunities for contact
Raise your profile
Consider what your ‘unique selling point’ is
Attend EC Information days – good networking
opportunity
Use networks and other EU initiatives to “advertise” your
availability and expertise
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Existing contacts
FP7 Projects: http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/projects_en.html
EU conferences (including information events around Horizon 2020
calls): http://ec.europa.eu/programmes/horizon2020/newsroom
Other brokerage events – e.g. “Info Day and Networking Event:
Organic Electronics in Horizon 2020”, 14 - 14 February 2014, Brussels
Contacts through project evaluation work – sign up as expert!
European Technology Platforms: http://cordis.europa.eu/technologyplatforms – incl. Future Textiles and Clothing (FCT), Advanced
Engineering Materials and Technologies (EuMat) events,
Partner searches
• NMP partner search: https://www.nmp-partnersearch.eu/index.php
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NCPs
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CORDIS
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Enterprise Europe Network
Sign up to the UKRO portal and you will receive:
 Updates on the likely funding priorities for Horizon 2020 in
each planned area
 Updates on key events
 Updates on call dates and management/financial issues
 Updates on opportunities to feed in to the programme’s
development (i.e. formation of expert advisory groups,
evaluator registration, other calls for expressions of interest)
 ‘UKRO understands’: early information
 New: UKRO Horizon 2020 Factsheets!
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Questions?
Contact
University of Warwick’s European Advisor at UKRO:
Email: Blazej.Thomas@bbsrc.ac.uk
Phone: +32 2 286 9057
Email: Eevi.Laukkanen@bbsrc.ac.uk
Phone: +32 2 286 9055