Creative industries and

sustainability in H2020

Contents

1. Our reading of EU funding

2. Specific opportunities

3. Next steps

EU funding is designed to address key strategic

challenges

DG CONNECT DG GROWTH DG CULTURE

INNOVATION – EVERYTHING INCLUDES ICT

DEVELOPMENT FUNDS, SOME OF WHICH ARE FOCUSED ON INNOVATION

CULTURE (AND CREATIVE INDUSTRIES?)

• Low adoption of state-of the-art ICT

• Skills • Atomized markets as a

result of fragmentation and fragmentation for different markets (e.g. Language)

• Difficult for innovative SMEs to scale up quickly

+ SOCIETAL CHALLENGES

• Cross-sectoral and cross-regional collaboration

• Using cluster organisations to support SMEs and to facilitate innovation and structural change

• Near-market demonstrators to test new industrial value chains and give rise to emerging industries

• Skills

• Facilitating access to finance

• Enlarging the market place

• Expanding international reach

• Reinforcing co-operation with other sectors and policies

Innovation Funds - > DG Connect

• Horizon 2020 funding

• ICT Innovation Vouchers

• European Investor Gate

Industrial funds -> DG Growth

• Cluster Excellence Programme

• COSME Cluster Internationalisation Programme for SMEs

• INNOSUP

• Startup Europe (Unit E3 Net Innovation): www.startupeurope.eu (with Connect)

Creative Europe -> DG Culture

• Culture

• Media

• Creative Europe Financial Facility

But... Pretty strong support mechanisms for these already (Creative Europe Desks)

• ERDF

• Interreg

• Urbact

And endless others...

Others

The main funds have sustainability as a “cross-cutting theme” Funds for agencies in red; for businesses / orgs in blue; For both in green; Historic focus in yellow boxes

... And so sustainability can fit within any

of the key H2020 strands

These are innovation funds and so are

focused on technology but...

“Investing in world class research and

innovation in the field and by promptly

transforming knowledge assets into business

successes and responsible solutions for

Europe’s most urgent sustainability and

societal challenges” – draft work programme

for 2016 -17n

>>”climate related expenditure should exceed

35% of the budget”

1. Our reading of EU funding

2. Specific opportunities

3. Next steps

INNOSUP12015: Cluster facilitated

projects for new value chains

To develop new cross sectoral industrial

value chains across the EU, by building

upon the innovation potential of SMEs.

Support for 5- 10 projects per year.

First stage concept note of 10 pages.

30 – 04 - 2015

ICT 10–2015: Collective Awareness Platforms

for Sustainability and Social Innovation

a. Collective awareness pilots for bottom up

participatory innovation paradigms

b. Multidisciplinary research on collective

awareness platforms (Internet Science)

c. Digital Social Platforms (DSP)

d. Coordinating pilots and research

activities in CAPs

14 – 04 - 2015

Under societal challenges…

Support to research on cultural heritage

-Secure, clear and efficient energy

-Cultural heritage and European identities

-Mitigating the impacts of climate change on

cultural heritage

-European Research Infrastructures

-Integrating society in science and innovation

1. Our reading of EU funding

2. Specific opportunities

3. Next steps

Timings for H2020

Workplan for 2015 being developed

Consultation with national representatives

Publication of draft work programme

Q1 2015

Q2 2015

Q3 2015

Next steps?

1. Develop this report, showing the transnational

partnership and a clear idea for a programme

meeting the draft aspirations

2. Targeted approaches to members of the

Programming Committee (civil servants, publicly

available online)

3. Check call documents for impact and apply as

a partnership

March - April

May - June

October