Horizon 2020

Lee Vousden

International Knowledge and Innovation Unit - EU

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What is Horizon 2020?

• Commission proposal for approximately 80B€* research and innovation funding programme (2014-20)

• Part of proposals for next EU budget, complementing Structural Funds, education, etc.

• A core part of Europe 2020, Innovation Union & European Research Area

* in current prices – could be presented as 90B€

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What’s new?

• A single programme bringing together three separate programmes/initiatives

– FP7, EIT and innovation parts of CIP

• More innovation “from research to retail”

• Focus on societal challenges e.g. health, clean energy and transport

• Easier access for participants through simplification of the rules for participation (again)

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• Excellence is main funding criterion

• Support across the innovation spectrum

• Focus on societal challenges (ageing population, food security, climate action etc)

• Enhanced support for European Research Council

• Focus on cross-cutting technologies (ICT, nano, bio)

• Mainstreaming of social sciences and humanities

• Radical simplification (less paperwork, audit burden, shorter ‘time to grant’ etc)

Well aligned with UK priorities

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• “UK’s top priority is budgetary restraint, thereby ensuring that the EU budget contributes to domestic fiscal consolidation”

• “Growth and competitiveness, both of which are underpinned by innovation, are priority areas for the UK and should have a proportionately larger share of a smaller budget.”

• European Parliament likely to support ambitious H2020 budget (100M€?)

Horizon 2020 budget

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• 10 October: Competitiveness Council – Rules of Participation

• November: ITRE Committee vote, MFF deal?!

• 10 December: Competitiveness Council

• Early 2013: EP Plenary (€)

• Launch of Horizon 2012: 1 January 2014

• ... But “launch” of first calls in October 2013?!

• UK – Review of UK support-system with new system in place summer 2013.

Timeline

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Proposed Structure (PGA)

Excellent

Science

Societal Challenges

Common eligibility & reimbursement rules Simplification

Health, demographic change and well-being

Food security, sustainable agriculture, bio-economy

Secure, clean and efficient energy

Smart, green and integrated transport

Climate, Resource efficiency, Raw materials

Inclusive, innovative and reflective societies

ERC

Mobility

Infrastructures

Overarching framework [multiple legal bases]

Industrial Leadership

Technologies

Financial instruments

SMEs

FET

Secure societies

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Funding breakdown

B€ % of total

Excellent Science 27.8 32%

Industrial Leadership 20.3 23%

Societal Challenges 35.9 41%

EIT 1.5 standalone + 1.6 from other

pillars

1.8% standalone

(or 3.6% overall)

JRC 2.2 2.5%

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Budget breakdown

European Research Council Frontier research by the best individual teams

15.0

Future and Emerging Technologies Collaborative research to open new fields of innovation

3.5

Marie Curie actions Opportunities for training and career development

6.5

Research infrastructures (including e-infrastructure)

Ensuring access to world-class facilities

2.8

Excellent science (B€, 2014-20)

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Health, demographic change and wellbeing 9.1

Food security, sustainable agriculture & the bioeconomy 4.7

Secure, clean and efficient energy 6.5

Smart, green and integrated transport 7.7

Climate action, resource efficiency and raw materials 3.6

Inclusive, innovative and secure societies 4.3

Budget breakdown

Societal challenges (B€, 2014-20)

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Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies (LEIT) ICT, nanotechnologies, materials, biotechnology, manufacturing, space

15.6

Access to risk finance Leveraging private finance and venture capital for research and innovation

4.0

Innovation in SMEs Fostering all forms of innovation in all types of SMEs

0.7

Budget breakdown

Industrial leadership (B€, 2014-20)

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LEIT

• Overall 13.8B€

– 3.8B€ for “NMP”

– 7.9B€ for “ICT”

• 1.6B€ for photonics and nanoelectonics – two of the Key Enabling Technologies

– Rest for Space and Biotech

– “Joker in the pack” - Key Enabling Technologies

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KETs

• Commission Communication 2009

• KETs are knowledge intensive and associated with high R&D intensity, rapid innovation cycles, high capital expenditure and highly-skilled employment.

• They enable process, goods and service innovation throughout the economy and are of systemic relevance.

• They are multidisciplinary, cutting across many technology areas with a trend towards convergence and integration. KETs can assist technology leaders in other fields to capitalise on their research efforts.

• Nanotechnology, micro- and nano-electronics, photonics, advanced materials and biotechnology- with manufacturing as a cross-cutting technology

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KET HLG Report

•11 Recommendations on issues like IP, use of TRLs, rebalancing of EU funding, State-Aids, skills ...

•Strong emphasis on crossing “The Valley of Death” between R&D and market

•Post report increased interest in multiKET projects as the source of technological innovation

•30% of KETs budget (6B€) to be earmarked for multiKETs?

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Valley of Death

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KET Capex Range KET Pilot Line

KET Deployment

Project

< 25M€ <100M€ <250M€ >250M€

Adv Manuf X X

Biotech X X

Materials X X

Materials X

Materials X X

Nanoelec X X X

Nanoelec X X

Nanoelec X X

Nanoelec X X

Photonics X X

Photonics X X

Photonics X X

Photonics X X

Pilot & Deployments

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ICT

• But 7.9B€ is less than 9.1B€!

• “Challenge oriented” aspects going out

– ICT for X (Health, Transport, ...)

– About 1/3 of FP7-ICT

• FET moving to “Excellent Science”

• 9.1B€ FP7-ICT = 16B€ H2020-ICT?

• Pilot-lines and demonstrators coming in

– Expensive hobby

– Co-ordination of H2020, SCF, National, EIB, ...

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ICT – PGA Wording

1. A new generation of components and systems:

engineering of advanced embedded and energy and

resource efficient components and systems

2. Next generation computing: advanced computing

systems and technologies, including cloud computing

3. Future Internet: infrastructures, technologies and

services

4. Content technologies and information management: ICT

for digital content and creativity

5. Advanced interfaces and robots: robotics and smart

spaces

6. Micro- and nanoelectronics and photonics

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ICT – Implementation

• ARTEMIS and ENIAC likely to be merged

• Existing ICT-related Public Private Partnerships to continue

– EeB, FoF, GC, FI

• PPPs for robotics and photonics (and process engineering)

– Robotics MoU with Neelie Kroes signed in Sep

• Linkage between KETs (photonics, nanoelectonics, nanotech, biotech, advanced materials and advanced manufacturing) to be developed through multiKET projects

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Other Issues

• Budget (general)

• Big budget increase proposed for EIT

• Balance of spend between pillars

• Rules for Participation

• Committee structure

• Venture Capital

• Joint working between “challenges” and “technologies”

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