The new programme of EU funding for
research and innovation
Eevi Laukkanen
University of Warwick, 21 November 2013
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Introduction
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10 year strategy aimed at making the EU more dynamic and competitive
- Three key drivers: Smart, sustainable and inclusive growth
Headline targets
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
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Seven flagship initiatives:
Innovation Union
Youth on the
move
A digital agenda
for Europe
Resource
efficient Europe
An industrial
policy for the
globalisation era
An agenda for
new skills and
jobs
European
platform against
poverty
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The European Union’s funding instrument for research
and innovation from 2014-2020
• Budget of € 70.2 billion
• From 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)
• Promise of simplified access for all
 Horizon 2020 overarching priority:
Exiting the economic crisis and sustainable growth
 Key features:
• Concentrates on key societal challenges
• Focuses resources on areas of high growth and innovation potential
• Key measures to support industrial leadership, particularly innovative
SMEs
• Leverage private investment in key technologies (PPPs, Joint
Technology Initiatives)
• Encourages pooling of resources through Public Public partnerships
/ ERA-NETs
• Help overcome the innovation divide
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Key features are complemented by:
• More open, bottom up areas
• Significant investment in excellence
• European Institute of Innovation and Technology: building
Knowledge and Innovation Communities (KICs)
• Work of the Commission’s own Joint Research Centre (JRC)
for scientific support to policy
FP7
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Framework Programme
Research themes
SME participation important
Growing importance of
innovation
Range of funding rates,
complex rules
Horizon 2020
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Integrates FP, EIT, CIP
Societal Challenges
Strong industry focus
overall
Covering the entire cycle
from basic idea to market
Single reimbursement
rate for all
28 EU Member States (Croatia joined in 2013)
Associate Countries (similar list to FP7 expected)
• Still under negotiation
• Some might not sign agreement in time for Horizon 2020 start
but can still apply as long as the agreement is signed in time
for grant signature.
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Third countries (funding will depend on GDP)
• BRIC no longer eligible for automatic funding
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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”
Smart cities and
communities
Sustainable food
security
Water innovation
Personalising health
and care
New ideas for
Europe
Blue growth
Disaster resilience
Competitive lowcarbon energy
Digital security
Waste
Mobility for growth
Energy Efficiency
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)
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Pillar 1 – Excellent Science
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Total budget = €21.6 billion
Overall objective: “to strengthen the excellence of
European research”
European Research Council
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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
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
Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Actions
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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)
FP7
ITN
Horizon 2020
ITN
Innovative Training Networks
(Early Stage Researchers)
IEF
IOF
IIF
IF
Individual Fellowships
(Experienced Researchers)
CIG
IAPP
IRSES
COFUND
RISE
COFUND
Research and Innovation Staff Exchange
(Exchange of Staff)
Cofunding or regional, national and
international programmes
Also: Researchers’ Night
Future Emerging Technologies
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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’
FET Flagships
•‘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
•‘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
Types of project
• 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
Objectives
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• 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.
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
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
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Quantum computation, simulation,
communication, metrology, sensing
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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
All are single stage applications
Research Infrastructures
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ESFRI Roadmap – identifies new pan-European RIs
or major upgrades to existing ones
ERIC – legal instrument at EU level to facilitate the
joint establishment and operation of RI of European
interest
Background information at:
• http://ec.europa.eu/research/infrastructures
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FP7 supported:
• 73 Integrating Activity networks supporting access to c. 800
RIs for about 7000 users per year
• 67 e-Infrastructure projects
• 18 design studies for new RIs
• 45 preparatory phases of ESFRI projects
• Support for construction of ESFRI projects
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Developing the European Research Infrastructures (RI) for
2020 and beyond:
 Developing new world class RIs
 Integrating and opening national RIs of pan-European
interest
 Development, deployment and operation ICT based eInfrastructures
Foster innovation potential of RI and their human capital
Reinforcing European RI policy and international co-operation
Call
Opens
Closes
Developing new worldclass RIs
11 Dec 2013
2 Sept 2014
Budget
70 M
Integrating and opening
RIs of European interest
11 Dec 2013
2 Sept 2014
90 M
E-Infrastructures
-Open Access
- All others
11 Dec 2013
15 Apr 2014
2 Sept 2014
13 M
82 M
Support to Innovation,
Human Resources,
policy and international
operation
11 Dec 2013
2 Sept 2014
22 M
All are single stage applications
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Pillar 2 – Industrial Leadership
(€ million, 2014-2020)
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Strategic investments in key technologies (e.g. advanced
manufacturing, micro-electronics) 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
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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
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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Nanotechnology and Advanced materials
• Bridging the gap between nanotechnology research and market
• Nanotechnology and advanced materials for more effective Healthcare
• Nanotechnology and advanced materials for low carbon energy
technologies and energy efficiency
• Cross-sector potential of Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials to
drive competitiveness and sustainability
• 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
NB: Based on draft. Subject to change
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Biotechnology
• Cutting-edge biotechnologies as future innovation drivers
 Synthetic biology
 New bioinformatics
• Biotechnology based industrial processes driving
competitiveness and sustainability
 Widening industrial application of enzymatic processes
 Downstream processes unlocking biotechnological transformations
• Innovative and competitive platform technologies
 Metagenomics as innovation driver
NB: Based on draft. Subject to change
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Micro- and nano-electronics
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Photonics
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Advanced Manufacturing and Processing
Contained in ICT work
programme
• Implemented through three PPPs:
 Factories of the Future: FoF
 Energy Efficient Buildings: EeB
 Sustainable Process Industries: SPIRE
• Roadmaps of PPPs in public domain
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Also contribution topics to Societal Challenges
• Waste – moving towards a circular economy through industrial symbiosis
• Transport – next generation of batteries for fully electric automotive applications
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New generation of
components and
systems
Advanced
Computing
Future Internet
Content
technologies and
information
management
Robotics
Micro- and
nano-electronic
technologies/
Photonics
Cross-cutting and horizontal activities and International
Co-operation
Robotics
PPP
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Advanced
5G PPP
Photonics
PPP
To foster a cost-effective competitive and innovative space industry
and research community to develop and exploit space infrastructure to
meet future Union policy and societal needs
• Develop innovative space technology from idea to demonstration in space
• Use space data, incl. Earth Observation data, for scientific, public and
commercial purposes
• Work with Member States’ and European Space Agency research activities
• Boost Space industry competitiveness and capacity for innovation
• Use European space infrastructure to full capacity
• International cooperation in space science and exploitation
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Note that infrastructure development of Galileo and GMES (now
Copernicus) funded outside Horizon 2020
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Funding for single beneficiaries for investment in research and
innovation projects. Two types of funding will be provided:
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Debt funding: loans and guarantees for investment in a project
Equity funding: investment of capital in a project
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Funding is mainly designed for early stage SMEs, or in some
cases at the expansion stage
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Some risk financing for a basic or applied research project by
a public organisation (university, research institute) is also
planned, under the new ‘Risk-Sharing Finance Facility’
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Funds will be managed by the European Investment Bank
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“The specific objective is to stimulate growth by means of increasing the levels of
innovation in SMEs, covering their different innovation needs over the whole
innovation cycle for all types of innovation, thereby creating more fast-growing,
internationally active SMEs.”
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Replaces Research for SMEs instrument (R4SME)
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Dedicated SME instrument, only SMEs can apply and hold grants
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Target highly innovative SMEs looking to develop and grow in international
environment
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Single company or consortia of SMEs only
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Allows for out-sourcing of research through subcontracting
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Three stage support through innovation cycle
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One project can access all three in order
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One application per year, in all fields across LEIT and Societal Challenges
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Stage 1: Feasibility
• 6 month project
• ~ €50k lump sum funding
• to assess technological / commercial potential of project
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Stage 2: Innovation Activity
• 12 – 24 month duration
• €1m - €3m funding
• Emphasis on demonstration and market replication, encouraging the
involvement of end users or potential clients
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Stage 3: Commercialisation phase
• No direct funding
• Simplified access to debt and equity financial instruments
• Assistance with IPR protection
Pillar 3 – Societal Challenges
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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  fewer but broader and less
prescriptive topics
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Total budget €26.2 bn
Societal Challenges
€ bn
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
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Health, demographic change
and wellbeing
Horizon 2020 Health - Context
JPIs
EIP Active and Healthy Ageing
Work programme
Health, Demographic
Change and Wellbeing
Health for Growth
Commission healthcare programme
Ambient
Assisted
Living
MS and EU Joint
Programme
Research
Innovation
Deployment
Draft Work Programme for 2014-2015:
 Calls divided into the 8 specific activity areas
Understanding health, ageing and diseases
Effective health promotion, diseases prevention,
preparedness and screening
Improving diagnosis
3 topics / €120M
Innovative treatments and technologies
Advancing active and healthy aging
Integrated, sustainable, citizen-centred care
6 topics / €302M
6 topics / €119M
3 topics/€207.2M
4 topics / €73.6M
7 topics/€185.6M
5 topics / €84M
Improving health information, data exploitation and
providing an evidence base for health policies and
regulation
Co-ordination activities e.g. AHA EIP; More years, Better 15 topics / €67M
Lives; Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases
Note: Many two stage applications – reflects broad
response base sought
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Innovative Medicines Initiative homepage http://www.imi.europa.eu/
European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials
Partnership homepage - http://www.edctp.org/
More Years Better Lives homepage - http://www.jpdemographic.eu/
Joint Programme on Neurodegenerative Disease homepage http://www.jp-demographic.eu/
Joint Programme on Antimicrobial Resistance homepage http://www.jpiamr.eu/
Food Security, Sustainable
Agriculture, Marine and Maritime
Research and the Bio-economy
2014-2015 Calls divided into 3 specific activity areas:
1. Sustainable food security
• Sustainable food production systems
• Safe food and sustainable consumption
• Global drivers of food security
2. Blue Growth: Unlocking the potential of the Oceans
• Sustainably exploiting the diversity of marine life
• New offshore challenges
• Ocean observation technologies/systems
• Horizontal aspects, socio-economic sciences, innovation,
engagement with society and ocean governance
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3. Innovative, sustainable and inclusive bioeconomy
• Sustainable agriculture and forestry
• Sustainable and competitive bio-based industries
• Cross-cutting actions covering all activities
+ Contributions to other focus areas: Waste
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Useful links:
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European Commission pages on EU-funded research on the bioeconomy, plus details
of new EU Bioeconomy Strategy: http://ec.europa.eu/research/bioeconomy/policy/
European Commission pages on EU ‘Blue Growth’ strategy:
http://ec.europa.eu/maritimeaffairs/policy/blue_growth/index_en.htm
European Innovation Partnership on Agriculture: http://ec.europa.eu/agriculture/eip/
Joint Programming Initiative on Agriculture, Food Security and Climate Change (UK
among the participating countries): http://www.faccejpi.com/
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Secure, Clean and Efficient
Energy
Draft Work Programme 2014-2015 Calls divided into 3 specific activity areas:
1. 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
2. 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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Modernising the single European electricity grid
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Enhanced energy storage technologies
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Sustainable biofuels and alternative fuels for transport
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Sustainable use of fossil fuels
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Social, environmental and economic aspects of the energy system
3. Smart Cities and Communities
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Commercial-scale solutions with a high market potential, integrating energy,
transport and ICT sectors
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European Commission, DG Research & Innovation / Energy website
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SET Plan webpages
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European Commission, DG Energy website
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Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Joint Technology Initiative (FCH JTI)
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Knowledge and Innovation Community on InnoEnergy
http://ec.europa.eu/research/energy/index_en.cfm
http://ec.europa.eu/energy/technology/set_plan/set_plan_en.htm
http://ec.europa.eu/energy/index_en.htm
http://www.fch-ju.eu/
http://www.kic-innoenergy.com/
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Climate Knowledge and Innovation Community
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Smart Cities and Communities EIP
http://www.climate-kic.org/
http://ec.europa.eu/energy/technology/initiatives/smart_cities_en.htm
Smart, green and integrated
transport
Aviation
Four broad lines of activity:
1) Resource-efficient transport
that respects the environment
and public health
Rail
Mode of transport
Road
2) Better mobility and
accessibility, less congestion,
more safety and security
Waterborne
Urban mobility
3) Global leadership for the
European transport industry
4) Socio-economic and
behavioural research and
forward looking activities for
policy making
Transport
integration
Logistics
Intelligent transport
systems
Infrastructures
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European Commission’s Transport website
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http://ec.europa.eu/research/transport/index_en.htm
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Transport Research & Innovation Portal
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http://www.transport-research.info/web/index.cfm
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The European Green Cars Initiative website
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http://www.green-cars-initiative.eu/public/
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Clean Sky website
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http://www.cleansky.eu/
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2011 Transport White Paper - Roadmap to a Single European Transport Area
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http://ec.europa.eu/transport/themes/strategies/2011_white_paper_en.htm
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2012 Transport Communication – Research and Innovation for Europe’s Future
Mobility
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http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=COM:2012:0501:FIN:EN:PDF
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Flightpath 2050 – Europe’s Vision for Aviation (2011)
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http://ec.europa.eu/transport/modes/air/doc/flightpath2050.pdf
Climate action, resource
efficiency and raw materials
Fighting and adapting to
climate change
Protecting the
environment, sustainably
managing natural
resources and ecosystems
Sustainable supply of nonenergy and nonagricultural raw materials
To achieve: Transition to a green economy through eco-innovation
+ Global environmental
observation and
information systems
Contributing
to focus areas
Waste: a resource to recycle, reuse
and recover raw materials
Water innovation: boosting its value
for Europe
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1. 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
2. Water innovation: Boosting its value for Europe
• Integrated approaches to water and climate change
• Bringing innovative water solutions to the market
3. Fighting and adapting to climate change
• Better understanding of climate change and reliable projections
• Innovative adaption and risk prevention measures
• Climate change mitigation policies
4. Sustainably managing natural resources and ecosystems
• Functioning of ecosystems, interactions with social systems and their
role in sustaining economy and human beings
• Support for decision making and public engagement
5. Ensuring the sustainable supply of non-energy and nonagricultural raw materials
• Better knowledge on availability
• Promotion of sustainable supply (exploration, extraction, processing,
recycling and recovery)
• Alternatives for critical raw materials
• Improve social awareness
6. Enabling the transition towards a green economy through ecoinnovation
• Strengthen eco-innovation and market uptake
• Innovative policies and societal changes
• Resource efficiency through digital systems
7. Developing comprehensive and sustained global
environmental observation and information systems
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European Commission pages on EU-funded Environmental research
http://ec.europa.eu/research/environment/index_en.cfm
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European Innovation Partnership on water:
• http://ec.europa.eu/environment/water/innovationpartnership/index_en.htm
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Joint programming initiatives:
• Water: http://www.waterjpi.eu/home
• Oceans: http://www.jpi-oceans.eu/home
• Climate: http://www.jpi-climate.eu/home
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Life+ programme:
• http://ec.europa.eu/environment/life/funding/lifeplus.htm
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Europe in a Changing World:
Inclusive, Innovative and
Reflective Societies
Overcoming the
crisis: new ideas,
strategies and
governance
structures
Young generation in
an innovative,
inclusive and
sustainable Europe
Reflective societies:
cultural heritage
and European
identities
To achieve: inclusive and innovative European societies in a context
of unprecedented transformations and growing global
interdependencies
Europe as a global
actor
New forms of
innovation
1. Overcoming the crisis: new ideas, strategies and governance
structures for Europe
• The reform of the EU economic governance structure to better
secure financial and economic stability
• The social, political and cultural consequences of and responses to
the crisis
• Understanding the evolution of the crisis
• The impacts of broader global trends on the EU’s economy
2. Young generation in an innovative, inclusive and sustainable
Europe
• The situation of young people, their capabilities, prospects and
needs – from the economic, social and individual perspective
• How to ensure the full participation of young people in an innovative,
inclusive and sustainable Europe?
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3. Reflective societies: cultural heritage and European identities
• European diversities, cultural heritage and identity formation - ‘Unity
in diversity’
• Intellectual, artistic and historical legacy of the EU
• Digital technologies for European cultural heritage
4. Europe as a global actor
• International cooperation in research and innovation
• Research to support Europe’s role as a global actor
5. New forms of innovation
• Social and public sector innovation, new business models
• Modernisation of public administration, incl. ICT-enabled open
government
• Uptake of technologies in education, training and inclusion
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European Commission pages on Socio-economic Sciences and Humanities
research
http://ec.europa.eu/research/social-sciences/index_en.html
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European Commission pages on the Innovation Union
http://ec.europa.eu/research/innovation-union/index_en.cfm
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EU vision for ‘Deep and Genuine Economic and Monetary Union’
http://ec.europa.eu/commission_20102014/president/news/archives/2013/04/20130430_1_en.htm
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Youth on the move
http://ec.europa.eu/social/main.jsp?catId=950&langId=en
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Joint Programming Initiative (JPI) on Cultural Heritage
http://www.jpi-culturalheritage.eu/
Secure Societies – Protecting
Freedom and Security of
Europe and its Citizens
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Fighting Crime and Terrorism
• Forensics topics
• Law enforcement capabilities
• Urban Security
• Ethical /Societal Dimension
Border security & External security
• Maritime border security
• Border crossing points
• Supply chain security
• Information management
• Conflict prevention and peace building
• Ethical/societal dimension
Digital security: cybersecurity, privacy and
Disaster-resilience
trust
• Crisis Management
• Privacy
• Disaster resilience & Climate
• Access control
Change
• Secure information sharing
• Critical infrastructure protection
• Trust eServices
• Communication technologies and
interoperability
• Risk management and assurance models
• Ethical / Societal Dimension
• The role of ICT in critical infrastructure
protection
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European Commission pages on EU-funded research on Security:
• http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/policies/security/index_en.htm
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EU Security Industrial Policy Communications
• http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/policies/security/industrialpolicy/communication/index_en.htm
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EU Internal Security Strategy
• http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/home-affairs/what-we-do/policies/internalsecurity/internal-security-strategy/index_en.htm
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EU Cyber Security Strategy
• http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/home-affairs/what-we-do/policies/internalsecurity/internal-security-strategy/index_en.htm
Cross-cutting aspects: Science with and for Society,
Social Sciences and Humanities, ICT
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Objective is to “build effective cooperation between science
and society, recruit new talent for science and pair scientific
excellence with social awareness and responsibility”
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Better alignment of the research and innovation process and
its outcomes with the values, needs and expectations of
European society = Responsible Research and Innovation
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Cross-cutting issue in Horizon 2020 + dedicated work
programme to further develop, disseminate and support good
RRI practices all across Europe
1. Making science education and careers attractive for young people
2. Promoting gender equality in research and innovation
3. Integrating Society in Science and Innovation
4. Developing governance for the advancement of Responsible
Research and Innovation (RRI)
5. Networking and sharing knowledge about Science with and for
society
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European Commission pages on Science in Society:
http://ec.europa.eu/research/science-society/index.cfm
“Social sciences and humanities (SSH) research will be fully integrated
into each of the general objectives of Horizon 2020”
Excellent
Science
Base
• SSH fully supported under the ERC, MCSA and
research infrastructures
• FET calls for “intense collaboration across
disciplines…cognitive sciences, social sciences or
economics…and with the arts and humanities”
• “Societal engagement on responsible
nanotechnology”
Industrial
Leadership
• “Innovative materials for creative industries”
• “Developing smart factories that are attractive to
workers”
• “Human-centric digital age”
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“SSH will be mainstreamed as an essential element of the activities needed to tackle
each of the societal challenges”
Health
Food security
• “Individual
empowerment for selfmanagement of health”
• “A systems approach
for the reduction,
recycling and reuse of
food waste”
• “Promoting mental
wellbeing in the ageing
population”
• “Optimising the
efficiency and
effectiveness of health
care systems and
reducing inequalities”
• “Unlocking the growth
potential of rural areas
through enhanced
governance and social
innovation”
• “Transport societal
drivers”
• “The human factor in
the energy system”
• “Consumer
engagement for
sustainable energy”
• “Tackling malnutrition
in the elderly”
Transport
• “Traffic safety
analysis and
integrated approach
towards the safety of
Vulnerable Road
Users”
Energy
• “Socio-economic
research on energy
efficiency”
Climate action
• “More effective
ecosystem restoration
in the EU”
• “The economics of
climate change and
linkages with
sustainable
development”
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Generally referred to in call topics
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Skills sets necessary
Security
• “The role of new
social media
networks in national
security”
• “Better understanding
the links between
culture and disaster”
• “Impact of climate
change in 3rd
countries on Europe’s
security”
• economics, sociology, dissemination, market research, implementation
and acceptability planning, management of market change, behaviour
and social interaction studies, ethical studies etc.
• 25% of technological change is new science
• 75% of technological change is achieving acceptance (Vilnius)
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Inter / multidisciplinary approach
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Problem solving dimension to calls
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Excellent Science
ICT in bottom up
schemes: ERC,
MSCA, FET, and eInfrastructures
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Industrial
Leadership
Societal
Challenges
ICT in LEIT – micronano-electronics
KET and photonics
KET
ICT embedded in
Societal Challenges
Health: e-health, self management of health, improved diagnostics, improved
surveillance, health data collection, active ageing, assisted living;
• “Advancing active and healthy ageing with ICT: Service robotics within assisted living
environments”
• “Advancing active and healthy ageing with ICT: early risk detection and intervention”
•
“Advanced ICT systems and services for integrated care”
• “self-management of health and disease: decisional support systems and patient
empowerment supported by ICT
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Food:
• Ocean observation technologies “Acoustic and imaging technologies”
• “Forecasting and anticipating effects of climate change on fisheries and aquaculture”
• “Improved data and management models for sustainable forestry”
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Energy: smart cities; energy efficient buildings; smart electricity grids; smart
metering;
• “New ICT based solutions for energy efficiency”
• “Modelling and analysing the energy system, its transformation and impacts

Transport: smart transport equipment, infrastructures and services; innovative
transport management systems; safety aspects
• “Intelligent infrastructure”
• “Connectivity and information sharing for intelligent mobility”
• “System modelling and life-cycle cost optimisation for waterborne assets
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Climate: ICT for increased resource efficiency; earth observation and monitoring
• “Integrated approaches to water and climate change”
• “Harnessing EU water research and innovation results for industry, policy makers and
citizens”
• “Making Earth Observation Data usable for ecosystem modelling and services”
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Societies: Digital inclusion; social innovation platforms; e-government services; eskills and e-learning; e-culture
•
•
•
•
•
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“Advanced 3D modelling for accessing and understanding European cultural assets”
“Innovation ecosystems of digital cultural assets”
“Innovation in the public sector by using emerging ICT technologies”
“ICT-enabled open government”
“Platform for ICT for learning and inclusion”
Security: Cyber security; ensuring privacy and protection of human rights on-line
• “Cybercrime on Industrial Control systems protection”
• “Tools and infrastructure for the fusion, exchange and analysis of big data for forensic
investigation”
• “Internet Forensics to combat organized crime”
• “Detection and analysis of terrorist generated content on the Internet”
• “The role of new social media networks in national security”
• “Secure Information Sharing”
• “The role of ICT in Critical Infrastructure Protection”
How does it work in practice?

Official programme launch 1 January 2014
Before then:
First Calls for Proposals expected on 11.12.2013
 Draft 2-year Work Programme published in the autumn at:
http://ec.europa.eu/research/horizon2020/index_en.cfm?pg=h2020
-documents
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
European Commission Participant Portal: to become the
main entry point for EU research and innovation funding
• Calls will be deposited here, with improved search function!
• Proposal submission via Participant Portal
• Will also be used for negotiations, project management, evaluators,
documentation…
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Topic: SFS 7 - 2014: Optimising external nutrient inputs in intensive crop production systems in Europe
European crop production is facing more and more difficulties in remaining competitive in the global
market for many reasons. One of these reasons is certainly the high cost of external nutrient inputs
necessary
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Call title: Sustainable Food Security
Call identifier: H2020-SFS-2014/2015
Status: Open
Deadline: 2014-03-18
Topic: WATER 2 – 2014/2015: Integrated approaches to water and climate change
The rising demands of a growing world population for food, water, materials and energy will put
increasing pressures on land use, water resources and ecosystems. Energy consumption is expected
to increase,
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Call title: Water Innovation: Boosting its value for Europe
Call identifier: H2020-WATER-2014/2015
Status: Open
Deadline: 2014-03-18
Topic: WATER 5 – 2014/2015: Strengthening international R&I cooperation in the field of water
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Call title: Water Innovation: Boosting its value for Europe
Call identifier: H2020-WATER-2014/2015
Status: Open
Deadline: 2014-03-18
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Publication of work programmes and calls for proposals:
• The first work programme will cover 2014 and 2015

Work programme explains what is funded (topics, grant
schemes) and the expected policy impact

Calls for proposals give details on the timeline (deadline,
evaluation, results) and the eligibility criteria

Topics structure: “Specific challenge”, “Scope”, “Expected
Impact”

Structure reflects challenge based approach
• Specific challenge
 Sets context, the problem to be addressed, why intervention is necessary
• Scope
 Delineates the problem, specifies the focus and the boundaries of the
potential action BUT without overtly describing specific approaches
• Expected impact
 Describes the key elements of what is expected to be achieved in relation
to the specific challenge

Evaluation (and therefore success) reflects this structure

State any specific requirements
• international component, involvement of SME/other stakeholder, use of
specific data source (eg GMES), open access/open data pilot

Suggest budget required to do the action

State what kind of action (i.e. project) is called for

Explain any unusual evaluation criteria

State whether it is a one or two-stage application process
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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”

Funding rate: 100% + 25% indirects
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Multi-beneficiary
• Minimum: three legal entities each of which established in a different
Member State or associated country

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)

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% indirects

Multi-beneficiary
• Minimum: three legal entities each of which established in a different
Member State or associated country

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

Mono or Multi-beneficiary
• Minimum one legal entity established in a Member State or Associated
Country

Respond to direction given in the Societal Challenges or
Industrial Leadership pillars, and in FET
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Horizon 2020 collaborative projects are 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 activities (e.g. SSH, gender, international
collaboration)
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 in a
changing world
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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