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Project BEBB

Project BEBB. Better Environment – Better Business. LOGO HERE. HORIZON 2020. and the environmental project opportunities the programme will offer Disclaimer :

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Project BEBB

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  1. Project BEBB BetterEnvironment – Better Business LOGO HERE

  2. HORIZON 2020 and the environmental project opportunities the programme will offer Disclaimer: Status of discussions as of today, 02/09/2013, in the absence of a final decision of the legislators on the programmes and on agreements with the Member States on work-programmes for 2014 and 2015

  3. MAIN PRIORITIES OF HORIZON 2020

  4. PRIORITY 1

  5. PRIORITY 1 WHY? • World class science is the foundation oftomorrow’s technologies, jobs and wellbeing • Europe needs to develop, attract and retain research talent • Researchers need access to the bestinfrastructures

  6. PRIORITY 1 OPPORTUNITIES: • Frontier research by the best individual reasearceres - substantial grants to top-level individual researchers working in Europe • Collaborative research to open new fields of innovation • Opportunities for training and career development • Ensuring access to world-class facilities

  7. PRIORITY 2

  8. PRIORITY 2 WHY? • Strategic investments in key technologies underpin innovation across existing and emerging sectors • Europe needs to attract more private investment in research and innovation • Europe needs more innovative small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to create growth and jobs

  9. PRIORITY 2 OPPORTUNITIES: • Make Europe a more attractive location to invest in research and innovation • Major investments in key industrial technologies such as (ICT, nanotechnologies, materials, biotechnology, manufacturing, space) • Facilitate access to risk finance

  10. PRIORITY 3

  11. PRIORITY 3 WHY? • Concerns of citizens and EU policy (society) objectives(climate, environment, energy, transport, etc) cannotbe achieved without innovation • Breakthrough solutions come from multi-disciplinarycollaborations, including social sciences & humanities • Promising solutions need to be tested, demonstratedand scaled up

  12. PRIORITY 3 OPPORTUNITIES: • The goal will be more than ever to bring excellent research results to market • To deliver direct benefits to citizens, such as affordable health-care, protection against cyber-crime, and the transition to a resource-efficient, low-carbon economy

  13. SIMPLIFIED RULS 1 • a more transparent program architecture • a single set of rules for participation, including on eligibility for funding, evaluation and IPR • Replacing the four methods to calculate overhead or indirect costs with a single flat rate (25%) and only two funding rates - for research (100%) and for close to market activities respectively (70%) • streamlined funding rules, for instance allowing the use of researchers' own accounting methods

  14. SIMPLIFIED RULS 2 • audit strategy focused on risk and fraud prevention • no time-sheets for personnel working full time on a project, possibility of output-based grants • further simplified provisions in the Grant Agreement and implementing procedures to facilitate access to Horizon 2020 (e.g. common IT platform) • earlier project starts (100 days less from application to grant) • Improved rules on intellectual

  15. IN DETAILS... Structural simplification: • a simpler program architecture centered on three strategic objectives, making it easier for participants to identify where funding opportunities exist • a single set of participation rules, on issues such as eligibility, evaluation or Intellectual Property Rights, applying to all components of Horizon 2020, with deviations only possible when justified by specific needs

  16. IN DETAILS... Simpler funding rules: • simpler reimbursement of direct costs, with a broader acceptance of beneficiaries' usual accounting practices • the possibility of using unit personnel costs (average personnel costs), including for SME owners without a salary • simplification of time-recording by providing a clear and simple set of minimum conditions; in particular abolition of time-recording obligations for staff working exclusively on an EU project

  17. IN DETAILS... Simpler funding rules: • indirect costs will be covered by a single flat-rate applied to the direct costs as a general rule - removing a major source of financial errors and complexity • two funding rates but only one predetermined rate applicable to all participants and activities in the same project: one project - one rate • lump sums, prizes, output based funding for specific areas where this has proved appropriate

  18. IN DETAILS... New control strategy - balance between trust and control: • an ex-ante financial capacity checks required only for project private coordinators • a reduction of the number of certificates on financial statements by requiring only one such certificate per beneficiary at the end of the project • reduction of the limitation period for ex-post audits from five to four years • 7% of Horizon 2020 beneficiaries being subject to audit over the whole programming period

  19. BUDGET UNDER 7FP • 4 kinds of indirect costs • actual • real • 60% • 20% • 2 funding rates for RTD activities - 50% and 75% depending on the beneficiary • Different funding rate for different budget heading - management, demo, RTD and others

  20. BUDGET UNDER H2020

  21. STRONG PARTICIPATION BY SMEs • Integrated approach - around 20% of the total budget for societal challenges and LEITs goes to SME Instrument • SME participation in collaborative R&D or innovation projects (all three priorities) • Innovation in start-ups, spin-offs and young companies (Eurostars2) • Access to risk finance (debt and equity facility) • Exchange and mobility of researchers involving SMEs (Marie Curie actions)

  22. FP7 TRANSFERRED INTO H2020

  23. FP7 TRANSFERRED INTO H2020

  24. FP7 TRANSFERRED INTO H2020

  25. NEXT STEPS...

  26. THANK YOU FOR THE ATTENTION !!! Chamber of Commerce and Industry - Stara Zagora office@chambersz.com ; www.chambersz.com

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