Horizon 2020 - Innovation Programme

- Current EU Calls for Metnet purposes

Jarmo Raittila,

Senior Technology Adviser - Tekes

National Contact Point (NCP) / NMP – Horizon 2020

19.2.2015 - Metnet Workshop / Hämeenlinna

DM #

Outline I. Horizon 2020 – introduction & overview II. Horizon 2020 Rules III. Leadership in Enabling and Industrial Technologies (LEIT) IV. Key Enabling Technologies (KETs) V. Technology Readiness Levels (TRLs) VI. Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) VI. NMP Calls in 2015 VII. Practical Issues

Tekes – the Finnish Funding Agency for Innovation

Tekes is the most important publicly funded expert organisation for financing research, development and innovation in Finland. We boost wide-ranging innovation activities in research communities, industry and service sectors. A broad-based view on innovation Tekes promotes a broad-based view on innovation: besides funding technological breakthroughs, Tekes emphasises the significance of service-related, design, business, and social innovations. Funding for challenging R&D and business development Tekes works with the top innovative companies and research units in Finland. Every year, Tekes finances some 1,500 business research and development projects, and almost 600 public research projects at universities, research institutes and universities of applied sciences. Research, development and innovation funding is targeted to projects that create in the long-term the greatest benefits for the economy and society. Tekes does not derive any financial profit from its activities, nor claim any intellectual proprietary rights.

I. Horizon 2020 – introduction & overview What is Horizon 2020?

European Commission initiative for a research & innovation funding programme (2014-2020)

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

Responding to the economic crisis to invest in future jobs and growth

Addressing people’s concerns about their livelihoods, safety and environment

Strengthening the EU’s global position in research, innovation and technology

Horizon 2020: Key elements

• A single programme with three pillars: societal challenges,

industrial competitiveness and excellence in science

• More emphasis on innovation

• More involvement of industry via the industrial deployment of key enabling technologies, and through PPPs - institutional and contractual

• Simplified access for all stakeholders

Horizon 2020

Excellent science

European Research Council

Future and EmergingTechnologies

Marie Curie actions

Research infrastructures

Industrial leadership Societal challenges

Access to risk finance

Innovation in SMEs

Health, demographic change and wellbeing

Food security, sustainable agriculture, marine and maritime research & the bioeconomy

Secure, clean and efficient energy

Smart, green and integrated transport

Climate action, resource efficiency and raw materials

Inclusive, innovative and secure societies

Indicative Budget: 24,4 Bio. €*

Indicative Budget: 17.0 Bio. M€*

Indicative Budget: 29.7 Bio. M€*

Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies

Total indicative budget: 77 Billion €*

20% from Pillar II+III to SME’s (~8,7 mrd€)

This table of contents lists all of the separate parts of the

Horizon 2020 Work Programme (2014-2015):

1. General Introduction

2. Future and Emerging Technologies

3. Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions

4. European research infrastructures (including e-Infrastructures)

5. Introduction to LEITs (Leadership in Enabling and Industrial Technologies )

i Information and communication technologies

ii Nanotechnologies, Advanced materials, Advanced manufacturing and processing, Biotechnology

iii Space

6. Access to risk finance

7. Innovation in SMEs

8. Health, demographic change and wellbeing

9. Food security, sustainable agriculture and forestry, marine and maritime and inland water research and the

bioeconomy

10.Secure, clean and efficient energy

11.Smart, green and integrated transport

12.Climate action, environment, resource efficiency and raw materials

13.Europe in a changing world – inclusive, innovative and reflective Societies

14.Secure societies – Protecting freedom and security of Europe and its citizens

15.Spreading excellence and widening participation

16.Science with and for society

17.Communication and Dissemination

18.General Annex

This table of contents lists all of the separate parts of the

Horizon 2020 Work Programme (2014-2015):

1. General Introduction

2. Future and Emerging Technologies

3. Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions

4. European research infrastructures (including e-Infrastructures)

5. Introduction to LEITs (Leadership in Enabling and Industrial Technologies )

i Information and communication technologies

ii Nanotechnologies, Advanced materials, Advanced manufacturing and processing, Biotechnology

iii Space

6. Access to risk finance

7. Innovation in SMEs

8. Health, demographic change and wellbeing

9. Food security, sustainable agriculture and forestry, marine and maritime and inland water research and the

bioeconomy

10.Secure, clean and efficient energy

11.Smart, green and integrated transport

12.Climate action, environment, resource efficiency and raw materials

13.Europe in a changing world – inclusive, innovative and reflective Societies

14.Secure societies – Protecting freedom and security of Europe and its citizens

15.Spreading excellence and widening participation

16.Science with and for society

17.Communication and Dissemination

18.General Annex

Pillar I - Excellent Science

Pilari II – Industrial Leadership

Pilari III – Societal Challenges

General issues

II. Horizon 2020 Rules

Types of action • RIA: Research and innovation actions

• IA: Innovation actions

• CSA: Coordination and support actions

• Minimum participation conditions • At least three legal entities each established in a different Member State or an

Associated Country, for collaborative actions (and minimum one entity for CSAs)

Evaluation criteria • Excellence – Impact – Quality and efficiency of the action (similar with FP7)

• Thresholds are depending on the call conditions

Time to Grant shortened • Maximum 8 months (5 to evaluation results and 3 to Grant Agreement)

• Grant preparation rather than negotiation

(proposals are evaluated "as is" and not "what could be")

Simplified funding rates

• Horizon 2020

• One project = One rate • For all beneficiaries and all activities in the grant.

• Defined in the Work Programme:

‒ Up to 100 % of the eligible costs;

‒ but limited to a maximum of 70 %

for innovation actions (non-profit organisations to a maximum of 100%).

• Single indirect cost model • 25% flat rate for all

FP7

The WP approach of Horizon 2020

A strong challenge-based approach, allowing applicants to have considerable freedom to come up with innovative solutions

Simplified list of possible types of action (e.g. research and innovation at 100%; innovation actions at 70%,…)

Strong emphasis on expected impact, less prescription

Cross-cutting issues mainstreamed (e.g. social sciences, gender, international co-operation…)

Work programmes with 2-year duration

Cooperative Projects

What is a Cooperation Project?

Calls for proposals: 1 per year

Topics: predefined (top-down approach)

Project funding: SMEs: 70 % or 100%

Average project budget:

small and medium-sized projects: € 3 - 5 M

large projects: € 6 - 18 M

Project duration: 2-5 years

Partners: min. 3 from 3 European countries, average of 6 - 10

How does a typical project structure look like?

• The coordinator

is responsible for the whole

project towards the European

commission.

• Work package leaders

form the management board of

the project and manage their

group.

• Important

if SMEs and industry is

involved in the project, IPR

have to be managed carefully!

Coordinator

WP1 WP2 WP3 WP4 WP5

UNI 1

SME 2

IND 1

SME 1

UNI 3

SME 2

INT 1

UNI 1

INT 1

IND 1

UNI 2

UNI 2

SME 1

UNI 3

SME 3

Work package leaders

EU

What are the rules for participation?

at least 3 independent partners in 3 different Member States (MS) or Associated Countries (AC)

Partners can be European universities, SMEs and large industries, public bodies, NGOs, international organisations….. Practically everybody in Europe!

top-down: EC defines topics and format (funding scheme) of projects

funding (based on location of partners)

100% for basic research (TRL 1-4)

70% for applied research (TRL 5-8)

15

HORIZON 2020

Priority 2: Industrial Leadership

Priority 1: Excellent Science

Priority 3: Societal Challenges

This Work Programme

15

III. Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies

• Key enabling technologies and support to innovative SMEs to exit the economic crisis

• Emphasis on R&D and innovation areas with strong industrial dimension and based on industrial needs

• Involvement of industrial participants and SMEs to

maximise expected impact

• LEIT projects should be outcome oriented and should bring close to application the technologies developed

Leadership in Enabling and Industrial Technologies (LEIT)

A strategic programming approach

Work programme preparation based on guidance obtained from strategic programming exercise

To increase impact of the funding, and a more integrated approach

Work programmes with 2 year-duration

Leitmotif of the first work programme : economic crisis and the path to sustainable growth - Horizon 2020 can make a significant contribution to this effort

'key drivers' used to identify areas on which resources and effort will be focused for maximum impact

o focusing on sustainable competitiveness, innovation and growth;

o measures to leverage engagement of industry, including SMEs;

o access to finance;

o developing new knowledge and contributing to skills;

o deployment of enabling technologies;

o measures to address the research and innovation divide;

o supporting strong partnership with Member States; and

o strategic approach to international cooperation.

Focus Areas

Strategic programming identifies focus areas, each covered by a specific call, that:

o Bring together activities from different challenges and enabling

technologies

o Provide support across the innovation chain from research, to

development, to proof of concept, piloting, demonstration

projects, and to setting standards and policy frameworks.

o Make use of the full spectrum of funding schemes and types of action

e.g. research and innovation actions, innovation actions, ERANets,

SME instrument…

o Integrate different perspectives, including from the social sciences and

humanities, gender perspectives, and international strategy

18

Key enabling technologies and support to innovative SMEs to exit economic crisis

• Emphasis on R&D and innovation areas with strong industrial

dimension. Activities primarily developed through relevant industrial

roadmaps. (ETPs) • Involvement of industrial participants and SMEs to maximise

expected impact => evaluated in proposal !

• Funded Projects will be outcome oriented, developing key technology building blocks and bring them closer to the market.

Focus Areas

III. Industrial mastering and deployment of Key Enabling Technologies (KETs)

What are KETs?

• Six strategic technologies

• Driving competitiveness and growth opportunities

• Contributions to solving societal challenges

• Knowledge- and Capital- intensive

• Cut across many sectors

• Nanotechnologies

• Advanced Materials

• Micro- and nano- electronics

• Photonics

• Biotechnology

• Advanced Manufacturing

European KET Strategy:

• EC Communications

(2009)512 & (2012)341

• KET High-level Group

The issues regarding KETs

• Europe has strong position in science and in patenting activity

• EU actors are at top of patent ranking in each KET

• But there is a gap between the technology base and the manufacturing base

• We need to add product development (e.g. demonstrators) and competitive manufacturing to the technologies

From Lab to Industry to Market

• Cross-Cutting KETs in Horizon 2020

• 30% of KETs budget to integrated KETs projects

• Activities closer to the market and applications

• Pilot activities to combine at least 2 different KETs and

integrated advanced manufacturing technologies

• Contributing to solving societal challenges

• Open to international cooperation

• Key principles to encourage a responsible approach

to research and innovation

V. Technology Readiness Levels (TRLs) Definitions and Criteria for R&D&I funding under EU policies and laws

Source : Communication from the EC - ‘A European strategy for Key Enabling Technologies – A bridge to growth and jobs’ – 26-06-2012

The LEIT part of the WP uses Technology Readiness Levels (or TRL) from 3-4 up to 7-8

Synergies with other EU, national or regional programmes are encouraged: Some topics are particularly suitable for additional funding

e.g. to explore paths to commercial exploitation or to deploy H2020-funded technologies

Covering the innovation cycle from research to market

H2020 – LEIT/KETs: From R&D to close-to-market activities

• Use of Technology Readiness Levels (TRLs from 3-4 to 8)

• Both funding rates

100% funding: TRLs 3-6

70% funding : TRLs 5-8

• Cross-cutting KETs (combinations of KETs)

• Seamless coverage provided by FETs/ERC – LEIT – Societal Challenges

• Ground prepared in FP7 (first pilots and demonstrators, innovation activities)

Work Programme topics

•Structure reflects the challenge based approach

•3 key features :

• Specific Challenge o sets context, problem to be addressed, why intervention is necessary

• Scope o delineates the problem, specifies the focus and the boundaries of the

potential action BUT without overly describing specific approaches

• Expected Impact o describe the key elements of what is expected to be achieved in

relation to the specific challenge

Special characteristics

• Industry has a leading role in defining research priorities

• Pre-defined budget ensures continuity and commitment

• Focused on enabling industrial technologies

• Increased use of SME-friendly instruments and

demonstration

• H2020: Roadmap under preparation with large stakeholder

involvement and public consultation

V. Public Private Partnerships(PPPs)

PPPs in Horizon 2020

PPPs identified in the Specific Programme

Industrial Investment Package of 10 July 2013 :

JTIs/JUs

contractual PPPs

P2Ps

For H2020 in LEIT:

JTI: Joint Technology Initiative on Electronic Components and Systems for European Leadership (ECSEL)

JTI on bio-based industries (BBI) Robotics Photonics Advanced 5G Network Infrastructures Factories of the Future (FoF) cPPPs Energy-efficient Buildings (EeB) Sustainable Process industry (SPIRE)

PPPs: roadmap process

• Roadmap defined with large stakeholder involvement and public

consultation

• Concrete technological and sector related objectives – commitment from industry to reach them and to provide the necessary RDI investments

• Implementation through H2020 with links to other programmes (national, structural funds, industrial)

• Monitoring strategies

• Participation in PPPs' steering bodies according to individual governance arrangements

• Using H2020 instruments Calls for proposals oriented to PPP priorities, participation in calls fully open

VI. NMP Calls in 2015

The calls and indicative budgets are:

• Call for Nanotechnologies, Advanced Materials and Production

(254 M€)

• Call for FoF - Factories of the Future (77 M€)

• Call for EeB – Energy-efficient Buildings (64 M€)

• Call for SPIRE – Sustainable Process Industries (77 M€)

Nanotechnologies, Advanced Materials and Advanced Manufacturing and Processing

The objective of the “Nanotechnologies, Advanced Materials

and Advanced Manufacturing and Processing” Work

Programme is the successful mastering, integration and

deployment of these Key Enabling Technologies (KET’s)

by European industry. It is a key factor in strengthening

Europe's productivity and innovation capacity and ensuring

Europe has an advanced, sustainable and competitive

economy, global leadership in high-tech application sectors

and the ability to develop effective and sustainable

solutions for societal challenges.

Nanotechnologies, Advanced Materials and Production

(In Work programme the calls are separated into 6 general parts)

1. Bridging the gap between nanotechnology research and markets

2. Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials for more effective Healthcare

3. Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials for low-carbon energy

technologies and Energy Efficiency

4. Exploiting the cross-sector potential of Nanotechnologies and Advanced

materials to drive competitiveness and sustainability

5. Safety of nanotechnology-based applications and support for the

development of regulation

6. Addressing generic needs in support of governance, standards, models

and structuring in nanotechnology, advanced materials and advanced

manufacturing and processing

Nanotechnologies, Advanced Materials and Production

(In Participant Portal they are divided between type of the call)

• H2020-NMP-PILOTS

• H2020-NMP-two-stage call

• H2020-NMP-CSA (Coordination and Support Action)

• H2020-NMP-ERA-NET (strengthening cooperation between national research

programmes and research funding agencies)

PPP (Public Private Partnership) Initiatives:

• H2020-FoF (Factories of the Future)

• H2020-EeB (Energy- efficient Buildings)

• H2020-SPIRE (Sustainable Process Industries)

NMP calls – Deadlines / 2015:

call name call deadline

• H2020-NMP-PILOTS-2015 26/03/2015

• H2020-NMP-two-stage-2015 26/03/2015; 08/09/2015

• H2020-NMP-CSA-2015 26/03/2015

• H2020-NMP-ERA-NET-2015 26/03/2015

• SME Instrument: Phase 1 and Phase 2:

18/03, 17/06, 17/09, 16/12 – 2015

• H2020-FoF-2015 04/02/2015

• H2020-EeB-2015 04/02/2015

• H2020-SPIRE-2015 04/02/2015

• Bridging the gap between nanotechnology research

and markets

Addresses three value chains: Lightweight multifunctional materials and composites, Structured surfaces and Functional fluids

Expected activities: Developing integration of technologies for using nanomaterials in industry

Calls 2015 NMP

NMP 2: Integration of novel nanomaterials into existing production lines, IA

NMP 3: Manufacturing and control of nano-porous materials, IA

NMP 6: Novel nanomatrices and nanocapsules, RIA

NMP 7: Additive manufacturing for table-top nanofactories, RIA

• Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials for more

effective Healthcare

Potential to enable more effective therapies and diagnostics for important diseases

Development to the point where they can be considered fit for purpose in preparation of, but not including, clinical trial stages

Gender issues and the diversity of patients should be considered

Calls 2015 NMP

NMP 11: Nanomedicine therapy for cancer, RIA

NMP 12: Biomaterials for the treatment and prevention of Alzheimer’s disease, RIA

• Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials for low-carbon

energy technologies and Energy Efficiency

Support EU goals to increase use of renewable energy sources and improve energy efficiency

Demonstrate technology readiness and assess time-to-market

NMP 14: ERA-NET on Materials (including Materials for Energy), ERA-NET (COFUND)

NMP 15: Materials innovations for the optimisation of cooling in power plants, IA

NMP 16: Extended in-service life of advanced functional materials in energy technologies (capture, conversion, storage and/or transmission of energy), IA

Calls 2015 NMP

• Exploiting the cross-sector potential of

Nanotechnologies and Advanced materials to drive

competitiveness and sustainability

Enabling multi-sectorial potential, by developing and advancing technological

readiness of solutions with break-through potential

International cooperation is particularly appropriate

NMP 19: Materials for severe operating conditions, including added-value functionalities, RIA

NMP 22: Fibre-based materials for non-clothing applications, IA

NMP 23: Novel materials by design for substituting critical materials, RIA

NMP 24: Low-energy solutions for drinking water production, IA

NMP 25: Accelerating the uptake of NMP technologies by SMEs, SME Instrument (70%)

Calls 2015 NMP

• Safety of nanotechnology-based applications and

support for the development of regulation

Risk management should be addressed in the supply chain, including regulatory support and risk governance

All projects should align with the EU Nanosafety Cluster and international cooperation is encouraged

NMP 29: Increasing the capacity to perform nano-safety assessment, RIA

NMP 30: Next generation tools for risk governance of nanomaterials, RIA

Calls 2015 NMP

• Addressing generic needs in support of governance,

standards, models, and structuring in NMP

Addressing general needs in areas including infrastructure, metrology and standards, skills and networking, dissemination, business models, etc.

Calls 2015 NMP

NMP 32: Societal engagement on responsible nanotechnology, CSA

NMP 38: Presidency events, CSA

NMP 40: Support for clustering and networking in the micro- & nanofluidics community, CSA

FoF 8: ICT-enabled modelling, simulation, analytics and forecasting

technologies, RIA & CSA

FoF 9: ICT Innovation for Manufacturing SMEs (I4MS), IA&CSA

FoF 10: Manufacturing of custom made parts for personalised products, RIA

FoF 11: Flexible production systems based on integrated tools for rapid

reconfiguration of machinery and robots, IA

FoF 12: Industrial technologies for advanced joining and assembly

processes of multi-materials, IA

FoF 13: Re-use and re-manufacturing technologies and equipment for

sustainable product lifecycle management, RIA

FoF 14: Integrated design and management of production machinery and

processes, RIA

Calls 2015 FoF PPP

EeB 5: Innovative design tools for refurbishment at building and district

level, IA

EeB 6: Integrated solutions of thermal energy storage for building

applications, RIA

EeB 7: New tools and methodologies to reduce the gap between predicted

and actual energy performances at the level of buildings and blocks of

buildings, IA

EeB 8: Integrated approach to retrofitting of residential buildings, IA

EE 2: Buildings design for new highly energy performing buildings, IA (SC 3)

Calls 2015 EeB PPP

Calls 2015 SPIRE PPP

SPIRE 5: New adaptable catalytic reactor methodologies for Process

Intensification, RIA

SPIRE 6: Energy and resource management systems for improved efficiency in

the process industries, RIA

SPIRE 7: Recovery technologies for metals and other minerals, IA

SPIRE 8: Solids handling for intensified process technology, IA

EE 18: New technologies for utilization of heat recovery in large industrial

systems, considering the whole energy cycle from the heat production to the

delivery and end use, IA (SC 3)

LCE 2: Developing the next generation technologies of renewable electricity

and heating/cooling: solar heating for industrial processes, RIA (SC 3)

02-2014 DM

• A maximum TTG of 8 months

5 months for informing all applicants

on scientific evaluation

3 months for signature of GA

Some exceptions apply, including complex actions or where requested by applicants

VIII. Practical Issues

Time to grant: speeding up the process

Time to grant: speeding up the process cont'd

How to speed up the process

Preparation rather than negotiation: - Each proposal evaluated 'as it is', not as 'what

could be'

- Final GA based to maximum extent possible on Part B of the proposal

Legal entity validated in parallel

e-communication & e-signature of grants.

02-2014 DM

https://www.nmp-partnersearch.eu/index.php

http://www.nmpteam.com/

Thank you for your Attention!

Think BIG see NANO

more information:

jarmo.raittila@tekes.fi

http://www.tekes.eu/en/basics/