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HORIZON 2020
Work Programme Cycle
EARMA Conference 2016
Dr Neville Reeve
Horizon 2020 policy
DG Research and Innovation
Points to be Covered
• Horizon 2020
• What is a work programme
• Horizon 2020 state of play
• What have we learnt from previous work programmes
• Strategic programming
• Commission priorities
• Specific programme - gaps
• Foresight
• Consultation
• Engagement of the Member States
Horizon 2020
The European Union programme for research
and innovation for 2014-2020
• Key instrument to stimulate and leverage R&I
investment for securing Europe's future
• Integration of research and innovation aimed at
delivering more breakthroughs and discoveries
• Focus on societal challenges facing
EU society,
• Simplified access
• New instruments that address broader
range of stakeholders
What is a work programme
• Funding priorities
• Structure of calls and topics
• 2 years duration
Smooth implementation
• 2-year work programme accepted:
o R&I investments supporting policy priorities
o More planning security for applicants
• Challenge-based approach confirmed giving
applicants much freedom to come up with innovative
solutions
• User-friendly IT systems and Participant Portal
• Simplified business processes
o 8 months time-to-grant met in ca. 90% of
cases, excluding ERC grants, which are not bound by
this target
High demand
By end of 2015:
• Over 94,500 (full) eligible proposals requesting
total of around €294 billion of EU contribution
» of which over 10,000 projects
retained for funding
Success
rate:
12-14 %
» with 43,000 project partners.
• Around one third of successful applicants are
newcomers (i.e. not participated in FP7)
• Around 8,900 grant agreements signed.
Increased industry participation
(figures
end 2015)
• 42 % industrial participation in pillar 2 (Industrial
Leadership) and pillar 3 (Societal Challenges)
• 20% budgetary target for SMEs achieved
• New SME instrument:
o € 500 M for highly innovative SMEs
o 1,444 SME projects funded
(1,166 in Phase 1 & 278 in Phase 2)
o Fast impact and first success stories
(e.g. follow-on private financing due
to SME instrument support)
The Immunovia AB
company was accepted
for trading on the
Nasdaq First North in
Stockholm. The CEO said:
"The SME instrument has
been a decisive financial
and confidence support
to convince investors to
subscribe to our share
issue this year (2015)
required to entry in the
market in US and EU."
New instruments
• Horizon Prizes:
5 inducement prizes
(2014-15) in key
areas with a total
combined budget of €
6 million
• Innovation Procurement: € 100 million for topping-up of
call budgets and support to networks of public procurers, but
rather slow uptake
• Fast Track to Innovation Pilot: € 100 million for closeto-market innovation actions implemented by modestlysized consortia (3 to max. 5 partners) with a strong industry
component (duration: 2015-16; assessment in 2017)
Embedding cross-cutting priorities
• Social Science and Humanities: 37 % of call topics
flagged for SSH; in 2014 involvement of 921 SSH
partners in 219 projects receiving €236 million for
SSH.
• Gender: Gender dimension integrated in more than
100 call topics; 40% gender target for evaluation
panels
• Ongoing work to enhance SSH and gender integration
in projects (information & communication).
Issues to address
Further efforts needed for
• International cooperation: drop in non-associated
third country participations, largely due to drop for
Southern Neighbourhood countries and new
conditions for BRIC-M
• Climate change and sustainable development:
expenditure targets for climate action (35%) and
sustainable development (60%) not yet achieved
Flexible response to new challenges
• Ebola: After declaration of global
emergency in August 2014, quick
mobilisation of €24.4 million
from Horizon 2020 for urgent
research projects complemented by
€215 million from the Commission
and the European pharmaceutical industry through the
Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI).
• Zika virus: Horizon 2020 is mobilising €10 million for
urgent research in early 2016.
2016-17 - 2nd work programme
• EUR 16 billion investment: 63 calls – 600 topics
• Contribution to the Jobs, Growth and Investment
agenda and support to other Commission priorities,
notably
 Energy Union;
 Digital Single Market;
 Strengthening the industrial base.
• Continuing of challenge-based approach and new part
with cross-cutting activities (focus areas)
• Incorporating lessons learned from WP 2014-15
Policy
Research
and
Innovation
2016-17 Cross-cutting priorities
• More topics for international cooperation (+ 25%)
• Stepped up efforts to embed social sciences and
humanities, gender dimension and responsible
research and innovation
• More explicit references to climate action and
dimensions of sustainable development
• Synergies with European Cohesion Policy ("seal of
excellence")
• SME instrument budget increased to € 740 M
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2016-17 – Other improvements and
modifications
• 'Expected Impact' tightened and better tailored to
the type of action and programme part
• Evaluation criteria clarified
• In two-stage calls introduction of a dynamic
threshold to ensure 3:1 success rate in stage two
• Higher funding rates for pre-commercial public
procurement (PCP) and procurement of
innovative solutions (PPI)
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Strategic programming for 2018-20 WP
01-06/2016
04-09/2016
10/2016
11/2016…..
Elaboration and adoption of work programmes
Elaboration and adoption of work progr
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Commission Priorities
• Jobs, Growth and Investment
• Digital Single Market
• Energy Union and Climate
• Internal Market
• A Deeper and Fairer Economic and Monetary Union
• A Balanced EU-US Free Trade Agreement
• Justice and Fundamental Rights
• Migration
• A Stronger Global Actor
• Democratic change
Commission Priorities-II
• Open Science
• Open to the World
• Open Innovation
Foresight:
Areas of challenge and opportunity
• Hyper-connectivity and Big Data
• Falling cost of energy
• Migration and changing demographics
• Health and aspirations
• Climate change, oceans and space becoming world
pacifying / unifying projects
• Primary sector innovation is strategic
• Biotechnology: the next wave
• Global instability: the new norm
Consultation
• Advisory groups
• Chairs of Advisory Groups
• Targeted and open consultation exercises
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Engagement with Member States
• Programme committee configurations
• Strategic programme committee
• Key discussions on main priorities
• scoping papers
• overarching document on strategic programming
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Big Tickets
• New 'focus areas‘
• Integration across the WP, scale, scope, wide use of
instruments, political relevance, …..
• 12 focus areas in 2014-15; 9 in 2016-17; ? 2018-20
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Next steps in 2017
• Interim Evaluation of Horizon 2020 presented in
autumn 2017, preceded by
o public consultation in autumn 2016 and
o report of a High Level Group expected for summer
2017
• Adoption Work Programme 2018-2020 in late
autumn 2017 incorporating results of interim
evaluation
• Preparation next Framework Programme
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For further information
• Learn more about Horizon 2020
http://ec.europa.eu/horizon2020
• Participant Portal
http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/home.html
• Helpdesk
http://ec.europa.eu/research/enquiries
• Expert evaluators needed!
http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/expert
s/index.html
Thank you for your attention!
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