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HORIZON 2020

HORIZON 2020. The New EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation 2014-2020. Stéphane Hogan Science Counsellor, European Commission EU Delegation to the African Union. Why the EU supports Research & Innovation. Investing in future growth and development

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HORIZON 2020

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  1. HORIZON 2020 The New EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation 2014-2020 Stéphane Hogan Science Counsellor, European Commission EU Delegation to the African Union

  2. Why the EU supports Research & Innovation • Investing in future growth and development • Addressing people’s concerns about their livelihoods, safety and environment • Strengthening the EU’s global position in research, innovation and technology Supporting competitiveness & improving quality of life

  3. How the EU support research & innovation: funding and enabling conditions Funding: the Framework programmes (FP) • FP7: €55 billion for research and innovation Enabling conditions • European Research Area (eg mobility), IPR…

  4. The Framework programmes & International Cooperation • very open to international cooperation • Africa in FP7 (as of September 2013) • 45 countries involved • 1315 participations in 565 projects • total EU-funding received: €178 million • Mainly (82%) in Cooperation programme (€145.7 million)

  5. AFRICA in FP7 Leading participants

  6. AFRICA in FP7 – examples of projects (1) • OPTIMUNISE - Optimising the impact and cost-effectiveness of child health intervention programmes of vaccines and micronutrients in low-income countries • Aim: to use health and demographic surveillance system sites in Africa to register information routinely on all interventions in childhood (eg vaccinations, supplementation, and de-worming) given at health centres or in campaigns; and use this information to measure the overall impact of child health programmes. • From March 2011 to February 2016, EU contribution €3 million. • Led by Statens Serum Institute (Denmark) with 2 other European partners and 4 African partners: Ghana Health Service and INDEPTH Network (Ghana), Centre de Recherche en Santé de Nouna(Burkina Faso) and InstitutoNacional de SaúdePública (Guinea-Bissau). [ www.indepth-network.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1216&Itemid=1074 ]

  7. AFRICA in FP7 – examples of projects (2) • CLIMAFRICA - Climate change predictions in Sub-Saharan Africa: impacts and adaptations • Aim: to develop tools to better understand & predict climate change, assess its impact on African ecosystems and populations and develop appropriate adaptation strategies. • From January 2010 to September 2014, EU contribution €3.5 million. • Led by the Euro-Mediterranean Centre on Climate Change (Italy) with 9 other European partners and 8 African partners: Centre d'Étude de Recherche et de Production en Information pour l'Environnement et le Développement Durable (Burkina Faso), Unité de recherche sur la productivité des plantations industrielles (Congo), Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (Ghana), IGAD Climate Prediction and Application Centre (Kenya), University of Malawi, University of Cape Town (South Africa), Agricultural Research Corporation (Sudan) and University of Lomé (Togo). [www.climafrica.net ]

  8. AFRICA in FP7 – examples of projects (3) • QWECI - Quantifying Weather and Climate Impacts on Health in Developing Countries to understand the climate drivers of vector-borne diseases (malaria, Rift Valley Fever and tick-borne diseases). • Aim: to understand the climate drivers of the vector-borne diseases of malaria, Rift Valley Fever, and certain tick-borne diseases, which affect human and livestock health and have economic implications in Africa, in order to assist with their short-term management and make projections of their future likely impacts. • From February 2010 to July 2013, EU contribution €3.5 million. • Led by University of Liverpool (UK) with 5 other European partners and 7 African partners: Kwame Nkrumah University of S&T (Ghana), University of Malawi, Université Cheikh Anta Diop (Senegal), Centre de Suivi Ecologique (Senegal) and Institut Pasteur de Dakar (Senegal) and University of Pretoria (South Africa). • for more information: www.liv.ac.uk/qweci/

  9. AFRICA in FP7 – examples of projects (4) • AFRICA BUILD - Building a Research and Education Infrastructure for Africa • Aim: to improve capacity for health research and education in Africa, through Information Technologies, that will provide innovative learning and research opportunities. • From August 2011 to July 2014, EU contribution €2 million. • Led by University of Madrid (Spain) with 3 other European partners and 4 African partners: University of Ghana, University of Yaoundé (Cameroon), Ministry of Communications & Information Technology (Egypt) and University of Bamako (Mali). • for more information: www.africabuild.eu • 1st AFRICA BUILD conference in Yaoundé on 25 November 201: (http://africabuild.eu/conference/yaounde)

  10. Horizon 2020

  11. What is Horizon 2020 ? • European Union's €79 billion research and innovation funding programme (2014-2020) • A core part of Europe 2020, Innovation Union & European Research Area: • Responding to economic crisis to invest in future jobs & growth • Addressing people’s concerns about their livelihoods, safety and environment • Strengthening the EU’s global position in research, innovation and technology

  12. What Horizon 2020 is not: • A development aid programme • A bilateral cooperation programme It is a programme focussed on European needs and global challenges, open to international cooperation.

  13. Three priorities • Excellent science • Industrial leadership • Societal challenges

  14. Proposed funding (all figures in billion euro, over the period 2014-2020)* • All funding figures in this presentation are subject to the pending Multiannual Financial Framework Regulation by the EP and the Council

  15. Proposed funding (€ billion, 2014-2020)

  16. Proposed funding (€ billion, 2014-2020) • Additional funding for nuclear safety and security from the Euratom Treaty activities (2014-2018)

  17. Simplification: summary • Single set of simpler and more coherent participation rules • Better balance between trust and control • Moving from several funding rates for different beneficiaries and activities to just two • Replacing the four methods to calculate overhead or “indirect costs” with a single flat rate • Successful applicants to get working more quickly: time-to-grant of 8 months; with some exceptions

  18. Strong participation by SMEs • Integrated approach - around 20% of the total budget for societal challenges and LEITs to go to SMEs • Simplification of particular benefit to SMEs (e.g. single entry point)

  19. International cooperation • International cooperation is crucial to address many Horizon 2020 objectives • Principle of general openness: Horizon 2020 will continue to be the most open funding programme in the world • Targeted actions to be implemented taking a strategic approach to international cooperation Do not view EU grants solely as a source of funding, but as a means to build deep & long-term cooperation.

  20. Next stepsTentative schedule • Horizon 2020 information events • Adoption of work programme and publication of first calls for proposals • First deadlines for submission from October 2013 11 December 2013 from March 2014

  21. Sources of information • Horizon 2020 web site: http://ec.europa.eu/research/horizon2020 • Participant portal: http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal • Google, LinkedIn… & specialised databases (eg: Healthcompetence.eu) • Horizon 2020 information events in Europe:http://ec.europa.eu/research/horizon2020/index_en.cfm?pg=h2020-events • Horizon 2020 information events in Africa: • South Africa – 7 October 2013 • Ghana – 4 November 2013 • Burkina Faso - 6 November 2013 • Ethiopia – 5 December 2013 • …

  22. Thank you for your attention! Find out more: www.ec.europa/research/horizon2020

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