EUROTECH Meetings

Copenhagen/Taastrup

18th – 19th November 2012

Sunday, November 18th 14:30 - 18:00

Welcome, Presentation on DTI - Søren Stjernqvist

Session on RTO Impact - follow-up to discussion at last meeting

• Report on Working Group (Brussels, September 27th) - Georg Rosenfeld

• Presentations: • TNO impact brochure – Jan Mengelers

• imec impact study – Luc Van den hove

• VTT innovation origins ("SFINNO") study – Erkki Leppävuori

RTO participation in FP7 (Benchmarking study for TNO by Agentschap NL) - Jan Mengelers

RTO aspects of the recent evaluation of the Research Council of Norway - Ernst Kristiansen

Technopolis report : “Getting the Balance Right : Basic Research, Missions and Governance for Horizon 2020” – Chris Hull

Technopolis Report: “Getting the Balance Right: Basic Research, Missions and

Governance for Horizon 2020”

Full report about 60 pages:

• analyses the scientific literature on the relationship between research (basic, applied etc.) and innovation

• makes comparisons of how governments around the world spend on different kinds of research

Summary brochure about 10 pages:

• summarises and interprets key points from the report

Both documents to be published on December 4th (EARTO Innovation Prize ceremony)

Monday, November 19th 9:30 - 12:00

Presentation of the Danish Innovation System – Ministry representative

Horizon 2020 and related EU developments: Budget, Rules for Participation – Chris Hull

Reports from Working Groups and Other EU Matters

• Security Working Group – Albert van der Steen

• AERTOs – Jens Neugebauer, Ernst Kristiansen

• KETs - Georg Rosenfeld

• SET Plan/EERA - Erkki Leppävuori (newly elected Chair of EERA)

• ERIAB - Hans-Jörg Bullinger

Round table: Update on recent innovation policy developments in the different countries

Change of Presidency at Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft – Hans-Jörg Bullinger

Update on Horizon 2020 Cost-Reimbursement

October 10th - Competitiveness Council

• 100% + 25%, no option on real cost (non-profits get 100% + 25% in close-to-market actions)

– Mid-term review of funding model

– Possible transfer of certain indirect costs to direct costs (project-related use of “big infrastructures ”)

• Official negotiating position of the Council

• Unexpected outcome

European Parliament: Rapporteur Ehler continues to push for real-cost option (“ECA takes no account of incentive effect, leverage effect, added value, widening participation”, etc.)

November 6th - European Court of Auditors report on EU accounts for 2011

• “Research spending errors double” (from 1.4% in 2010 to 3.0% in 2011)

What chance now that ITRE will back Ehler?

Time for RTOs to prepare “Plan B”?

Update on Horizon 2020 Budget

Commission: €80bn

Parliament: €100bn

Who knows? €60bn?

Anything less than about €75bn would be a cut in real terms measured against today’s spending of about €10bn per annum

Anything substantially less than €75bn may force a rethink of H2020 actions & priorities: what to cut?

Talk of EP refusing to agree to budget, which would mean “rolling over” 2012 budget

H2020 Timeline

22nd-23rd Nov: EU Summit on budget (Multiannual Financial Framework 2014-2020)

28th Nov: Vote Horizon 2020 Package in ITRE

11th Dec: Council Partial General Agreement - Specific Programme

13th-14th Dec: EU Summit (final budget decision?)

13th-14th Dec: EP vote on H2020 (no nlikely?)

Trilogue

”Putting Science into Standards”

Initiative by JRC with CEN-CENELEC and EARTO (FhG, TNO and VTT participated on behalf of EARTO n an initial exploratory meeting)

Idea is to actively promote work on new standards

Approach is to organise thematic workshops with experts from industry, politics and research

Pilot event 24th-25th April, in Brussels, focused on eco-innovation (and based on EU Eco-Innovation Action Plan):

• Environmental protection

• Construction and the built environment

• Energy efficiency

• Resource efficiency

Intended outcome: Agreed priorities for new standards If pilot successful, further focused expert workshops – otherwise abandon

EARTO would like your support to identify 1 RTO expert for each topic

Commission Communication ”Reinforced

ERA Partnership for Excellence and Growth”

COM(2012) 393 final

“With the explicit objective of opening up and connecting EU research systems, the ERA reform agenda

focuses on five key priorities:

• More effective national research systems

• Optimal transnational co-operation and competition

on common research agendas, grand challenges and infrastructures

• An open labour market for researchers

facilitating mobility, supporting training and ensuring attractive careers

• Gender equality and gender mainstreaming in research

encouraging gender diversity to foster science excellence and relevance

• Optimal circulation and transfer of scientific knowledge

to guarantee access to and uptake of knowledge by all”

Cross-border mobility of funding!

Recommendations - Member State governments principal addresses - If little or no progress

before end of 2014, Commission may legislate

Memorandum of Understanding

“EARTO is a voluntary-membership-based organisation for which this Memorandum of Understanding

constitutes a voluntary, non-binding informal agreement, without legal status under Belgian law. The

Commission acknowledges that EARTO’s members operate within legislative and administrative

frameworks that may limit their autonomy and freedom of action.”

Memorandum of Understanding - I

EARTO WILL recommend to its members that they carry out, by the end of 2013, the actions that are

set out below, in accordance with applicable legislation and with the specific characteristics of each

member organization:

Open recruitment

in line with the basic principles of the EU Charter for Researchers and the EU Code of Conduct for

the Recruitment of Researchers, using the EURAXESS jobs portal.

Careers and Gender

in line with the basic principles of the EU Charter for Researchers and the EU Code of Conduct for

the Recruitment of Researchers.

Seek to obtain and use, or continue to use, the EU Human Resources Excellence in Research logo.

a gender strategy (e.g. gender equality and its development, gender-specific career development

measures, gender-blind work-life balance measures).

Pensions and Doctoral Training

Explore the possibility of joining an EU-wide Supplementary Pension Fund, once proposed.

…in accordance with the remit and objectives of each individual member organisation, structured

programmes for doctoral training in line with the basic EU Principles for Innovative Doctoral Training.

Memorandum of Understanding - II

Research – Business Cooperation, Mobility, Twinning/Teaming

Continue, or further develop, involvement with large and small firms in order to support their

innovation and competitiveness strategies.

Explore, develop and start, or continue to implement, in accordance with the remit and objectives of

each individual member organisation, research-business mobility programmes for the training of

excellent researchers for research and business, aiming at increasing their mobility between business

and research.

Explore the possibility of developing, in a cost-efficient way, co-operation with research

organisations (“twinning”) and/or regions (“teaming”) in other EU Member States, building on existing

experience and taking advantage of research and innovation strategies for smart specialisation.

Open Access to Publications and Data

Explore, develop and start, or continue to implement, efficient policies, accepted by the research

community, for open access to publications resulting from publicly-funded research and already in the

public domain.

Explore, develop and start, or continue to implement, comprehensive principles, standards and

procedures for open access to research data emanating from publicly-funded research and already in

the public domain.