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Horizon 2020: Europe's Innovation Strategy

An overview of Europe's Horizon 2020 strategy, aimed at promoting smart, sustainable, and inclusive growth through research and innovation. Learn about the key targets and initiatives driving the Innovation Union.

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Horizon 2020: Europe's Innovation Strategy

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  1. Horizon 2020 OverviewUniversity of Bristol24 May 2012 Emma Careyemma.carey@bbsrc.ac.uk http://www.ukro.ac.uk

  2. UK Research Office • Based in Brussels • Established in 1984 • Mission to facilitate effective UK participation in EU research, innovation and HE programmes • Staff of 12 • Sponsored by the seven UK Research Councils • Receives subscriptions from over 140 research organisations* • Range of services for sponsors and subscribers • Research Council policy work • Brussels liaison • For more information see www.ukro.ac.uk * check at http://www.ukro.ac.uk/aboutukro/Pages/subscribers.aspx UK Research Office

  3. UKRO’s Services UK Research Office * Subscribing institutions: http://www.ukro.ac.uk/aboutukro/Pages/subscribers.aspx

  4. Understanding the European Context:Europe 2020 and the Innovation Union http://www.ukro.ac.uk

  5. EU 2020 strategy - 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 "20/20/20" climate/energy targets should be met (including an increase to 30% of emissions reduction if the conditions are right); • The share of early school leavers should be under 10% and at least 40% of younger generation should have a tertiary degree; and • 20 million fewer people should be at risk of poverty Understanding the EU context

  6. EU 2020 Strategy 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 EU Research

  7. Other Key Policy Drivers • Knowledge Triangle • European Research Area (ERA) • Freedom of researchers, knowledge, technology • Ljubljana Process • Partnership approach; fifth freedom; ERA governance • The Bologna Process • European Higher Education Area (EHEA) by 2010 EU Research

  8. What is the Innovation Union? Highlights • European Innovation Partnerships • European Research Area framework • Streamlined EU programmes • New financial instruments • Reform of standardisation system • Public procurement of innovation • Social innovation pilot • Stronger monitoring • Innovation Convention • Tackling weaknesses : under-investment in R & D, framework conditions, fragmentation of research and innovation efforts • Strengthening partnerships: involvement of all actors • A series of proposals which aim to improve framework conditions and access to finance for research and innovation in Europe, and so to ensure that innovative ideas can be turned into products and services – helping to create growth and jobs

  9. Underlying Logic of Innovation Union Collaborating internationally Pooling efforts for breakthroughs Maximising social and regional benefits Getting good ideas to market Strengthening the knowledge base

  10. How was the proposal developed? • Public consultation on ‘Common Strategic Framework for Research and Innovation’ (CSFRI) held Feb – April 2011 • Results available at: http://ec.europa.eu/research/csfri • Name consultation ran in parallel – Horizon 2020 • Also input from: EU Presidencies; European Parliament Reports; stakeholder workshops run by C’ion Development of Horizon 2020

  11. CSFRI Green Paper ConsultationCommission Analysis of Public Responses • Initial Analysis of responses: • Simplification is vital • Research and innovation should be brought under the same roof • Collaborative research should remain the bedrock of the next programme • Some of the funding should be structured around ‘Grand Challenges’ • could include, for example, climate change, energy security and efficiency, demographic ageing and resource efficiency Development of Horizon 2020

  12. CSFRI Green Paper ConsultationCommission Analysis of Public Responses • Initial Analysis of responses cont’d • The European Research Council (ERC), Marie Curie and Research Infrastructure programmes are successful and should be continued; • To help foster innovation, topics should be less prescriptive and there should also be sufficient support given to smaller projects and consortia; • CSFRI should address all stages of the innovation chain • CSFRI should support basic research as well as more applied ‘agenda-driven’ research Development of Horizon 2020

  13. What happens next? • 30 November 2011Adoption of Commission Proposal for Horizon 2020 • from 30 November 2011Legislative Procedure (‘co-decision’): European Parliament readings and Council Common positions • Ongoing • Parliament and Council negotiations on EU budget 2014-2020 • Mid 2012 • Final calls under FP7 to bridge gap towards Horizon 2020 • Q3 2013 Conciliation and adoption of next FP • 1 January 2014 Start of Horizon 2020 Development of Horizon 2020 Sept June Dec

  14. Horizon 2020 - overview

  15. What’s new? • A single programme bringing together three separate programmes/initiatives (FP7/CIP/EIT) • Coupling research to innovation – from research to retail, all forms of innovation • Focus on societal challenges facing EU society, e.g., health, clean energy and transport • Simplified access, for all companies, universities, institutes in all EU countries and beyond. Horizon 2020 Sept June Dec

  16. Proposed Horizon 2020 Structure • Excellent Science Base • European Research Council (ERC) • Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) • Marie Curie Actions • Research Infrastructures • Industrial Leadership and Competitive Frameworks • Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies: • ICT; Nanotechnologies; Advanced Materials; Biotechnology; • Advanced Manufacturing and Processing; and Space • Access to risk finance • Innovation in Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) Development of Horizon 2020 Development of Horizon 2020 • Tackling Societal Challenges • Health, demographics changes and well being • Food security, sustainable agriculture marine and maritime research • and the bio-economy • Secure, clean and efficient energy • Smart, green and integrated transport • Climate action and resource efficiency including raw materials • Inclusive, innovative and secure societies • European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) • Joint Research Centre (JRC) • Euratom (2014-2018)

  17. Horizon 2020 – three priorities Horizon 2020 Sept June Dec

  18. Horizon 2020 – Reimbursement Rates • Eligible Direct Costs: 100% reimbursement • Eligible Indirect Costs: 20% flat rate (of eligible direct costs) • Applies equally to all types of partner • Possibilities of deviation for some programmes (e.g. Marie Curie) • No real indirect costs option • Likely to be subject of debate during co-decision process Development of Horizon 2020

  19. Horizon 2020 – Excellent Science

  20. Priority 1: Excellent Science - rationale • World class science is the foundation of tomorrow’s technologies, jobs and wellbeing • Europe needs to develop, attract and retain research talent • Researchers need access to the best infrastructures Horizon 2020

  21. Excellent Science - breakdown Horizon 2020 Sept June Dec

  22. Excellent Science - ERC • Continuity with FP7. 77% increase in funding. Will continue: • to operate autonomously led by a Scientific Council • to operate on a ‘bottom-up basis • to have ‘research excellence’ as sole criterion • to fund ‘individual teams’ • to provide funding for starting researchers to make transition to independence • to support new ways of working with potential to create breakthrough results • Scope for continuation of 4 current schemes and flexibility to ‘develop the mix of support measures to respond to emerging needs’ Horizon 2020

  23. Excellent Science - ERC • By 2020, ERC aims to demonstrate: • That the best researchers are participating in the ERC’s competitions • That ERC funding has led directly to scientific publications of the highest quality & to commercialisation of innovative technologies / ideas • That the ERC has contributed significantly to making Europe a more attractive environment for the world’s best scientists Horizon 2020

  24. Excellent Science - ERC • New for Horizon 2020 • Reinforced budget to build on success of FP7 grant schemes • Improved governance: • Full time president based in Brussels (position merged with Secretary General) • Strengthened role of Scientists in the Steering Committee of the ERCEA • Better links between the Scientific Council and the Executive Agency Horizon 2020

  25. Excellent Science - FET • Expanded from ICT to be used as cross-cutting instrument • Supports frontier research: alternative ideas, concepts or paradigms of risky or non-conventional nature • Supported under three strands: • FET Open: fostering novel ideas • FET Pro-Active: nurturing emerging themes and communities • FET Flagships: tackling grand interdisciplinary science and technology challenges Horizon 2020

  26. Excellent Science – Marie Curie • Overarching objective: • “to ensure optimum development and dynamic use of Europe’s intellectual capital in order to generate new skills and innovation and, thus, to realise its full potential across all sectors and regions” • Goes from 9 actions to 4 broader lines of activity: • Fostering new skills by means of excellent initial training of researchers • Doctoral level training: innovative, intersectoral, interdisciplinary, international • Follows on from ITN scheme (including new European Industrial Doctorate and Innovative Doctoral Programme strands) Horizon 2020

  27. Excellent Science – Marie Curie • Nurturing excellence by means of cross-border and cross-sector mobility • Opportunities for researchers at all career levels • Supports cross-border and cross-sector mobility • Follows on from FP7 individual fellowships • Stimulating innovation by means of cross-fertilisation of knowledge • Staff exchange – international cross-border and/or inter-sectoral • Follows on from IAPP/IRSES schemes • Co-funding of activities across other three strands • Aims to “leverage additional funds to increase the numerical and structural impact of MCA” Horizon 2020

  28. Excellent Science – Marie Curie • New for Horizon 2020: • Simplification and rationalisation of activities • Improved participation of businesses and other socio-economic actors • Increased possibility of portability of grants • Stronger emphasis on communicating results and on outreach activities • New name! Now to be called the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Horizon 2020

  29. Excellent Science – Research Infrastructures • Three main objectives: • Developing the European research infrastructures for 2020 and beyond • Fostering the innovation potential of research infrastructures and their human capital • Reinforcing the European research infrastructure policy and international co-operation Horizon 2020

  30. Horizon 2020 – Industrial Leadership

  31. Priority 2: Industrial Leadership- rationale • 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 Horizon 2020

  32. Priority 2: Industrial Leadership- aims • Acknowledge crucial role of private sector in bringing innovation to the market • Aims to make Europe a more attractive location for businesses to invest in R & D and innovation • Range of activities in which businesses set the agenda • Strong focus on addressing market failures: • Insufficient strategic investment in key technologies underpinning innovation across a wide range of sectors • Insufficient access to risk capital to set up new businesses and allow them to grow • Potential contribution to growth of SMEs not fully exploited Horizon 2020

  33. Priority 2: Industrial Leadership- • Maintain and build global leadership in enabling technologies and space • Underpin innovation across a range of sectors • Activities are technology-driven and range from research all the way up to demonstration and piloting • Both agenda-driven activities and more open areas • Integration in solutions for societal challenges will be supported together with the societal challenges (e.g., through cross-cutting actions) Horizon 2020

  34. Industrial Leadership- breakdown Horizon 2020 Sept June Dec

  35. Industrial Leadership – Key Enabling Technologies • Collaborative research and innovation projects • Strong focus on industrial involvement and applied research • Key Enabling Technologies encompasses: • Information & Communication Technologies (ICT) • Nanotechnologies • Advanced Materials • Biotechnology • Advanced Manufacturing and Processing • Space

  36. Industrial Leadership – Key Enabling Technologies ICT: Will be embedded across all areas (i.e., excellence, societal challenges, industrial leadership Also six dedicated activity lines under KET: • New generation of components and systems • Next generation computing • The future of the internet • Content technologies & info. Management • Advanced interfaces and robots • Micro- and nanoelectronics and photonics

  37. Industrial Leadership – Key Enabling Technologies Nanotechnologies: Similar to FP7 with a greater focus on the societal dimensions of nanotechnologies Funding under five headings: • Developing next generation nanomaterials, nanodevices, & nanosystems • Ensuring the safe development & application of nanotechnologies • Developing the societal dimension of nanotechnology • Efficient synthesis & manufacturing of nanomaterials, components and systems • Developing capacity-enhancing techniques, measuring methods and equipment

  38. Industrial Leadership – Key Enabling Technologies Advanced Materials: Objective to achieve innovation “in all industrial sectors, particularly for high value markets” Includes: • Cross-cutting & enabling materials technologies • Materials development and transformation • Management of material components • Materials for a sustainable industry • Materials for creative industries • Metrology, characterisation, standardisation and quality control; • Optimisation on the use of materials

  39. Industrial Leadership – Key Enabling Technologies Biotechnology: Funded under three areas: • Boosting cutting-edge biotechnologies as future innovation drivers • Biotechnology-based industrial processes; • Innovative and competitive platform technologies Advanced Manufacturing and Processing • Technologies for factories of the future • Technologies enabling energy-efficient buildings • Sustainable and low-carbon technologies in energy intensive process industries • New, sustainable business models

  40. Industrial Leadership – Key Enabling Technologies Space: • GMES not funded • Galileo funded under Space in Horizon 2020 • Likely to be more emphasis on industrial and SME participation • Proposed areas of funding are: • Enabling European competitiveness, non-dependence & innovation in space activities • Enabling advances in space technologies • Enabling exploitation of space data • Enabling European research in support of international space partnerships

  41. Industrial Leadership – Access to Risk Finance • Remedy market deficiencies in assessing risk finance for research and innovation • Debt funding facility – loans, guarantees, counter-guarantees • Demand-driven component: first come, first served • Policy-driven component: focusing on key sectoral policies of the Union • Equity funding facility – early stage venture capital • Start-up window: focus on early stage • Growth window: expansion and growth stage investments in conjunction with Equity Facility for Growth of COSME • Primarily demand-driven, possibility of earmarking for particular policy goals.

  42. Industrial Leadership – Innovation in SMES • Objective “to stimulate growth by means of increasing the levels of innovation in SMEs, covering their different needs over the whole innovation cycle for all types of innovation, thereby creating more fast-growing, internationally active SMES” • Article 18 of Horizon 2020 provides integrated approach to stimulating SME participation across Horizon 2020 • 15% of total budget of societal challenges and enabling and industrial technologies to go to SMEs • Simplification key element of approach

  43. Industrial Leadership – Innovation in SMES Broad lines of activity: • Mainstreaming SME support – dedicated instrument used in societal challenges and industrial leadership • For all types of innovative SMEs and all types of innovation • Used in all societal challenges and enabling and industrial technologies • Bottom-up • Allowing for single SME projects where these address European-level challenges • 3 phases: concept and feasibility; R&D, demonstration, market replication; commercialisation

  44. Industrial Leadership – Innovation in SMES • Support for research intensive SMEs • Target research-intensive SMEs in high-tech sectors • Should show capability to commercially exploit project results • Implemented by Article 185 initiative building on ‘Eurostars’ • Enhancing the innovation capacity of SMES • Activities across Horizon 2020 • Supporting market-driven innovation

  45. Horizon 2020 – Societal Challenges

  46. Priority 3: Societal challenges - rationale • Concerns of citizens and society/EU policy objectives (climate, environment, energy, transport, etc.) cannot be achieved without innovation • Breakthrough solutions come from multi-disciplinary collaborations, including social-sciences and humanities • Addressing challenges requires full innovation cycle: research + innovation • Compared to FP7 – emphasis on projects that solve specified challenges, NOT prescribing the specific topics, research fields, disciples, technologies or sectors to be addressed Horizon 2020

  47. Societal challenges – How have they been selected? • Selection of challenges stems directly from Europe 2020 strategy, taking into account: • Need to focus on limited number of major challenges • EU level nature of the challenge • State of the economy and society in Europe and worldwide • Europe’s performance and trends in the related domains • Need for an approach co-ordinated at EU level. Horizon 2020

  48. Societal challenges – Cross-cutting issues • Focus on policy priorities without predetermining technologies or types of solutions to be developed • Bringing together resources and knowledge across fields, technologies and disciplines • Activities to cover cycle from research to market; focus on innovation-related activities (e.g. piloting, demonstration, demand side policies – public procurement, standards, etc. • Social Sciences and Humanities – integral part of the activities to address all challenges. Horizon 2020

  49. Societal Challenges - breakdown Horizon 2020 Sept June Dec

  50. Societal Challenges - Health • Objective: improve lifelong health and wellbeing • Three key areas: • Prevention – through increasing understanding of relationships in all areas relating to health: genetic, environmental, socio-economic factors, healthy approach to aging • Disease – to understand the development processes & process of disease & its spread in order to stimulate innovative drugs and therapies • Health and Social Care –to improve sustainability & efficiency of care provision, plus management & effects of emerging health threats (e.g. epidemics) Horizon 2020

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