ECSEL Call 2015
Work Plan and submission tools
Yves Gigase
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Where to find?
Check out the ECSEL website and the participant portal for H2020
Documents:
• Work Plan: schedule, budget, topics, evaluation procedure
including criteria, national rules, TRLs
• Guide for applicants: further details on Part A, B and C; regional
funding; further explanation on evaluation criteria
• Grant Agreement template
Other:
• Consortium Agreement
• The H2020 guides
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Calls
• 2 Calls
– Research Innovation Action (RIA)
– Innovation Action (IA)
Call
Type
Type equivalence
ECSEL
2015-1
Research and Innovation Industrial/Applied
Action (RIA)
Research projects
3-4
ECSEL
2015-2
Innovation Action (IA)
5-8
Experimental
development projects
TRL focus
• TRLs? Look for them in the Work Plan
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TRL’s : RIA
Name
Hardware
Software
Results
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Schedule: Same for both calls
Date
Activity
12 May at 17:00:00
Deadline Project Outline (PO)
15 June (tentative)
Feedback on PO
8 September at 17:00:00
Deadline Full Project Proposal (FPP)
27 October (tentative)
Feedback on Evaluation and Selection
November
Change requests
Mid December
Funding Decision
January - April
Grant Preparation phase
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Reimbursement rates
Type
RIA
IA
For profit (non SME)
25%
15%
SME
30%
25%
University/Other
40%
40%
EU Contribution as % of the eligible cost according to H2020 (beneficiaries may
ask for a lower contribution)
National contributions: see Annex G of the Work Plan
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Budgets: EU estimated expenditure
RIA
IA
50 MEuro
95MEuro
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Budgets:
National
Pre commitment (€)
Austria AT
Belgium BE
Belgium BE Brussels
Bulgaria, BG
Czech Republic CZ
Denmark
Finland FI
France FR
Germany DE
Greece EL
Hungary HU
Ireland IE
Israel IL
Italy IT
Latvia
Malta
Netherlands NL
Norway NO
Poland PL
Portugal PT
Romania RO
Slovak Republic SK
Spain ES
Sweden SE
United Kingdom UK
Total National Funding
GRAND TOTAL
JU
Call 2015-1
Call 2015-2
All Calls
10,000,000
12,000,000
1,000,000
500,000
2,500,000
1,300,000
4,000,000
1,000,000
20,000,000
20,000,000
1,000,000
8,000,000
5,000,000
2,500,000
420,000
0
10,000,000
10,000,000
420,000
2,500,000
1,500,000
1,500,000
36,920,000
31,000,000
45,000,000
100,000,000
800,000
10,000,000
5,500,000
1,250,000
64,770,000
132,690,000
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145,000,000
Topics: Example
Chapter Sub Chapter / Topic
6.5 Smart Production
5.1.5-1 Instant access to a Virtual dynamic factory.
5.1.5-2 Increased Information transparency between field devices
and ERP.
5.1.5-3 Real-time sensing & networking in challenging
Environments.
5.1.5-4 Process Industry as an agile part of the Energy system.
5.1.5-5 Management of critical Knowledge to support
maintenance decision making.
5.1.5-6 Automation service and function development process.
5.1.5-7 Open simulator platform.
5.1.5-8 Automation system for distributed manufacturing.
5.1.5-9 Balancing of system security and production flexibility.
5.2 Semiconductor manufacturing
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Topics
• Maximum three topics, most important one at
level of call page
• Note that National priorities may be applicable to
specific topics (refer to Annex G).
• Objectives of each topic can be found in the
MASP.
• Proposals that cut across disciplines, support
platform building, interoperability, establishment
of open standards are particularly encouraged.
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PO versus FPP
Project Outline
• some information is not yet required
(work packages for example)
• Participants, budgets: as complete and
precise as possible
• Changes are possible! But limit them!
• Evaluated by two experts
• Blocking but with low threshold: only
proposals that do not fit in the ECSEL
programme will be blocked
• Expect feedback from national
authorities on eligibility of partners,
eventually funding availability, synergy
with national policy, etc
Full Project Proposal
• ALL information is required
• Participants and budgets: definitive
• Evaluated by four experts
• Selection is a PAB decision based on
a ranked list of proposals
established by the PAB
• Evaluation report will be made
available after the PAB decision.
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Electronic tools
• COMPASS: Worklflow
• EPS: Electronic Proposal System
• SyGMa: System for Grant Management
• Use of electronic signature
• Paperless
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Information
H2020 Participant Portal:
http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/h
ome.html
Online manual for H2020:
http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/docs/h2020-fundingguide/index_en.htm
User guide for the submission tool:
http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/data/support/sep_us
ermanual.pdf
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Helpdesks
For questions on any aspect of grant applications and the EU
Research Framework Programmes, including beneficiary
registration and data updates, please refer to the :
http://ec.europa.eu/research/index.cfm?pg=enquiries
For any IT-related problems that you might experience with the
Submission system, please contact the :
http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/api/contact/index.html
Questions specific to ECSEL:
calls@ecsel.europa.eu
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Proposal submission
• Register your company (PIC number)
• Use the portal to register your proposal
(coordinator)
Proposal consists of:
• Part A: consortium information including
financial information (cost, funding)
• Part B: Pdf with technical description
• Part C: Country specific information required
(specific for ECSEL)
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Tick boxes
In Part A tick boxes (FPP and PO)
– Set of boxes to allow (or not) industry associations
to access the full proposal
– Main area of the proposal (3 boxes, one or more
or none)
• design technologies, process and integration, equipment, materials and manufacturing for
micro- and nanoelectronics while targeting miniaturisation, diversification and differentiation,
heterogeneous integration
• processes, methods, tools and platforms, reference designs and architectures, for software
and/or control-intensive embedded/cyber-physical systems, addressing seamless connectivity
and interoperability, functional safety, high availability, and security for professional and
consumer type applications, and connected services;
• multi-disciplinary approaches for smart systems, supported by developments in holistic design
and advanced manufacturing to realise self-reliant and adaptable smart systems having
sophisticated interfaces and offering complex functionalities based on e.g. the seamless
integration of sensing, actuating, processing, energy provision and networking.
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Two Budgets !!
Budget according
to national rules
Budget according
to H2020 rules
25% of DC
x% of DC
Indirect cost
Other direct cost
Equipment, Travel
Materials, etc
JU
Funding
Direct cost:
Subcontracting
National
Funding
Direct cost:
Personnel
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Clean room costs
Provided that the Commission Decision
authorizing the use of unit costs is adopted,
beneficiaries, other than those who comply with
conditions listed in ECSEL Model Grant
Agreement and can declare capitalized and
operating costs for large research infrastructure,
may declare the eligible costs related to
operating clean room on the basis of unit costs
established in line with a methodology set up in
a Commission Decision
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Compelling motivation
The ECSEL programme welcomes proposals of any size
that will be evaluated on their merits against the
defined criteria. However, the PAB will expect
compelling motivation for any proposal with a total
Requested EU contribution (Column K of the Part A 3Budget proposal) approaching or exceeding
respectively 1/4 of the EU budget of the RIA call or 1/3
of the IA call.
The compelling motivation will be described in Part B of
the proposal under chapter 2.1 Expected impacts.
Presentation Context (name) - DATE !
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SME
• The SMEs will have to do a self-assessment,
please refer to the SME chapter in this
document for further information
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Legal Status
• Participants are encouraged to check/update
their legal data, in particular the “Research
and Innovation legal statuses” as funding
percentages depend on it.
Presentation Context (name) - DATE !
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Part B
• Use the template !!!
• For the FPP fill in all sections, including the
public summary
Presentation Context (name) - DATE !
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Part C
• Check out in the Work Plan under the section
on national rules what you are expected to
provide to national authorities. Not all require
a Part C.
• Upload this in the Part C section
Presentation Context (name) - DATE !
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Page limits
• None!
• Provide a right balance between general and
detail.
Presentation Context (name) - DATE !
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Grant Agreement
Differences with the H2020 grant agreement:
• 1. The funding percentages for the EU contribution are
different than under H2020. The applicable values for these
Calls are given in the WP2015.
• 2. For partners from entrusting states (see WP2015) the
national contribution is added to the EU contribution; the sum
of the two contributions represents the JU Grant.
• 3. Amendments are required when changing the budgets of
the partners
Look up the annotated JU GA:
http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/data/ref/h2020/grant
s_manual/amga/h2020-amga_en.pdf
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Evaluation
Submission of Full Project Proposal
Start of JU GA preparation
Admissibility and JU eligibility check
PAB decision on change requests
Evaluation by experts
Handling of change requests)
Score of proposals
(under/above threshold)
Communication to coordinator
Selection in PAB, funding, synergy
with EU and national policies
Final ranking
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Some last points
• In case of equal score, the proposal with higher
impact score is ranked higher – for both RIA and IA
• Large size does not equate to large impact
• Buzzwords (e.g. “huge opportunity”)
counterproductive if not quantified
• The economic impact needs context and specificity
• The arguments must be compelling for both experts
and public authorities…