Horizon 2020The EU Framework Programme for Research

and Innovation

Health, Demographic Change and Wellbeing

Lul Raka, NCP for Horizon 2020 – Health

What is Horizon 2020?

– Commission proposal for a 80 billion euro research and 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

Three priorities:

1. EXCELLENT SCIENCE

2. INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP

3. SOCIETAL CHALLENGES

Horizon 2020 Societal Challenges

• Health, Demographic Change and Wellbeing• Food Security, Sustainable Agriculture and Forestry Marine,

Maritime and Inland Water Research and the Bioeconomy• Secure, Clean and Efficient Energy• Smart, Green and Integrated Trasport• Climate Action, Environment, Resource Effciency and Raw

Materials• Europe in a changing worl- Inclusive, Innovative and reflective

societies• Secure societies-Protecting freedom and security of Europe and

its citizens

Priority 3 Societal challenges• Why:• EU policy objectives (climate,

environment, energy, transport etc) cannot be achieved without innovation

• Breakthrough solutions come from multi-disciplinary collaborations, including social sciences & humanities

• Promising solutions need to be tested, demonstrated and scaled up

*Additional €1 050m for nuclear safety and security from the Euratom Treaty activities (2014-18). Does not include ITER.

HEALTH, DEMOGRAPHIC CHANGE AND WELL-BEINGMain Specific Challenges

• 1. Prevention

• Better understanding and management of the relationship between environment, behaviour, nutrition, genetics and their contribution to health and disease.

• Facilitating active and healthy ageing, and the prevention, delay and attenuation of disease and disability with tools and services including those supporting self care.

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… Challenges

• 2. Combating and curing disease

• Better understanding the mechanisms of disease and redefining their taxonomies

• Better understanding of the normal processes of human growth and development

• Promoting conditions favouring drug discovery and development (through public private partnerships)

• The development and validation of innovative therapies, medical technologies, and vaccines and diagnostics

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• 3. Increasing the sustainability and efficiency of the health and social care sector

• Research in health systems, investment in capacity building, exchange of information between national systems, technology and quality assessments, investigation of health interventions, the socioeconomic impacts of health and disease.

• Assistive and independent living solutions, ethics, service innovation, and societal uptake of innovation.

• Enhancing preparedness for emerging epidemics and other emerging health threats.

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Overarching features

• Provision for the long-term study of well characterised, large populations; data collection and processing.

• Development of and support for both biological and data infastructures (bio-banks, cohorts, animal models, etc.) and for other medical research facilities and infrastructures.

• Support for the development of tools and technologies including –omics, high throughput research, systems biology and imaging, and for research using these.

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Overarching features

• Support for regulatory sciences (drug safety, clinical trials, cell & gene therapies, specialist manufacturing, etc.)

• Support for converting knowledge into innovation, for the improvement of clinical practice and the development of marketable products and services.

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Partnering

• Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs):• Through Joint Technology Initiatives or other formal structures (§ 187.)• Via contractual arrangements, which provide inputs for workprogrammes• Only when criteria met, e.g. clear commitments from private partners• Public-Public Partnerships (P2Ps):• Through “ERA-Nets” for topping up individual calls/ actions (replacing current

ERA-Net, ERA-Net Plus, Inco-Net, Inno-net)• Through participation in joint programs between Member States (§ 185.)• Supporting agendas of Joint Programming Initiatives when in line with Horizon

2020• Only when criteria met, e.g. financial commitments of participating countries • European Innovation Partnerships• Not funding instruments, but for coordination with broader policies and

programmes

Open calls in Health

http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/opportunities/h2020/search/search_topics.html#c,topics=topicFileName,callIdentifier,callTitle,identifier,title,description,tags,flags/s/

Health /1/1/0&+title/desc

Kosovo: some relevant documents

• WBC-inco.net. (2009)NATIONAL BACKGROUND REPORT ON HEALTH RESEARCH FOR KOSOVO.

• The National Research Programme of the Republic of Kosovo

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Kosovo: some of the relevant stakeholders

• Ministry of Health • Ministry of Education ,Science and Technology• University of Prishtina (and other HEI)• National Institute of Public Health• University Clinical Centre of Kosova• SHSKUK• Kosovo Agency for Medical Products• Private institutions of higher education(Rezonanca, QEAP, etc.)• Kosovo Agency for Food and Veterinary• ……

http://ec.europa.eu/programmes/horizon2020/

Contactlul.raka@uni-pr.edu

lulraka@hotmail.com