Multi-Annual Financial Framework
Horizon 2020 &
Connecting Europe Facility
Terena General Assembly
26 October 2011
Brussels
Kostas Glinos
European Commission - DG INFSO
Head of Unit, Géant and e-Infrastructures
Multiannual Financial Framework
(MFF) Commission proposal – 29/06/2011
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Smart and Inclusive Growth - 47.89%
• Economic, Social and Territorial Cohesion - 36.68%
• Cohesion policy - 32.78%
• Connecting Europe Facility - 3.90%
• CSF research and innovation - 7.80%
• Others - 3.40%
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Sustainable Growth: Natural Resources - 37.36%
• CAP (direct payments + market expenditure) - 27.50%
• Rural development - 8.77%
• Others - 1.09%
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Security and citizenship - 1.81%
Global Europe - 6.83%
Administration - 6.11%
Significant re-distribution in key
policy areas
90,0
80,0
70,0
+23,2%
60,0
50,0
40,0
30,0
20,0
10,0
0,0
Research and
innovation
Education and
culture
Infrastructure
funding
Security and
citizenship
Global Europe
2007-2013
54,9
9,1
12,9
11,5
56,8
2014-2020
80,0
15,2
50,0
18,5
70,0
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Horizon 2020 – Objectives and
structure
Europe 2020 priorities
European Research Area
International cooperation
Shared objectives and principles
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Tackling Societal Challenges
Health, demographic change and wellbeing
Food security and the bio-based economy
Secure, clean and efficient energy
Smart, green and integrated transport
Supply of raw materials
Resource efficiency and climate action
Inclusive, innovative and secure societies
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Simplified access
Creating Industrial Leadership and
Competitive Frameworks
 Leadership in enabling and industrial
technologies
 ICT
 Nanotech., Materials, Manuf. and
Processing
 Biotechnology
 Space
 Access to risk finance
 Innovation in SMEs
Excellence in the Science Base
Frontier research (ERC)
Future and Emerging Technologies (FET)
Skills and career development (Marie Curie)
Research infrastructures
Common rules, toolkit of funding schemes
Dissemination & knowledge transfer
CSF - HORIZON 2020
Forthcoming steps
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30 November 2011 – EC adoption of Horizon 2020 draft
legislative proposal
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5 December – 1st Innovation Convention
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6 December – Presentation to the Competiveness Council
Connecting Europe Facility (1)
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Infrastructure spending declining
• …whereas investment in infrastructure stimulates growth
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To promote the completion of EU single market
• "transport core network“ (EUR 21,7B + 10B from
cohesion)
• "energy priority corridors" (9,1B)
• and key digital infrastructure (9,2B)
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Total budget: EUR 50 billion
Connecting Europe Facility (2)
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Common legislative basis
• Unified view, flexibility
• CEF Regulation proposal COM(2011) 665
• …completed by guidelines per area
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Combine market-based instruments and EU direct
support
• Role of EIB, Project Bonds
Telecommunications / Digital
Infrastructures in CEF
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focused public intervention to stimulate private investment
in broadband where the market case is weak, and
development of common platforms for digital services
support increasingly mobile citizens,
reduce transactions costs for enterprises, in particular SMEs
in search of growth opportunities beyond home markets,
enable the emergence of digital single market,
stimulate growth of cross-border services
Telecom / Digital Infrastructures
(from Guidelines, COM(2011) 657/3)
• Broadband networks
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Deployment of passive and active physical infrastructure,
associated facilities and services
Driven by Digital Agenda objectives for 30/100 Mb/s
Up to 270B investment required by 2020!
 Financial instruments
• Digital Service infrastructures
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Core service platforms + generic services
Remove bottlenecks for single market, economies of
scale
Mutual reinforcement approach
1. Broadband networks roll-out
- Financing deployment of broadband networks
trough CEF
2. Enhanced supply of broadband
- Creating critical mass and potential markets for
applications
4. Enhance demand for broadband
3. Development of digital services
- Enhanced supply of digital services will create
foster new applications that will in turn need
more bandwidth
- Digital services deployed by the CEF act as
European public goods (core layers)
Digital Service Infrastructures
(from Guidelines, COM(2011) 657/3)
• Trans-European high-speed backbone
connections for public administrations
• Cross-border delivery of eGovernment services
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eID, eProcurement, e-Justice, eHealth,…
• Access to public sector information and
multilingual services
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European heritage, PSI, …
• Safety and security
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Safer internet, CERTS,…
• ICT solutions for intelligent energy networks
and Smart Energy Services
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Smart metering, smart energy solutions,…
ICT Services of public interest
(from Guidelines, COM(2011) 657/3)
Trans-European high-speed backbone connections for public
administrations
“A public trans-European backbone service infrastructure will provide very
high speed and connectivity between public institutions of the EU in areas
such as public administration, culture, education and health.”
“ Core service platform… In particular it will provide connectivity for
other trans-European services inter alia those mentioned in this Annex.
This infrastructure will be fully integrated in the Internet as a key
capacity for trans-European public service and will support the
adoption of emerging standards (IPv6)…”
“The integration of the core platform into the European public services
will be facilitated by the deployment of generic services: authorisation,
authentication, inter-domain security and bandwidth on demand,
federation of services, mobility management, quality control and
performance control, integration of national infrastructures. Interoperable
'cloud computing' …”
See: http://ec.europa.eu/budget/reform/commission-proposals-for-the-multiannual-financial-framework-20142020/index_en.htm
Next steps
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MFF proposals adopted by Commission on 29
June 2011
CEF Regulation proposals adopted on 19 October
2011
MFF discussion in the General Affairs Council
Co-decisions in 2013
Study to be launched in 2012 on trans-European
backbone for public services