industrial partners in horizon 2020 ben williams, eu team, funding development, ris

Industrial Partners in Horizon 2020

Ben Williams, EU Team, Funding Development, RIS

Research and Innovation Service


• Intro to Horizon 2020

• Industrial participation in Horizon 2020

• Engaging Industry

Agenda



The European Team

Funding Development TeamMartin Hamilton, Head of Funding Development

Ben WilliamsEuropean Manager

Sanita DeviEU Finance Officer

Keri DunningEuropean Post Award

Administrator

Jesús OrtegaEU Research

Development Manager

Maggie CredlandEU Funding

Administrator

Alex BraithwaiteEU Finance Officer



• 2007-13, €52.521bn

• 4 “Pillars”

• Large or small/medium research projects• Changes implemented after mid-term review and

financial crisis

• ‘Bridging the gap’ activities, especially in final calls

Framework Programme 7



• European Commission released a proposal on 30th November 2011

• Three broad areas:• Tackling Societal Challenges• Creating Industrial Leadership and Competitive

Frameworks• Raising Excellence in the Science Base

What is the structure of Horizon 2020?


Horizon 2020 vs FP7Horizon 2020 Objective Specific Areas FP7 Equivalent

Tackling societal challenges

Multi-disciplinary, collaborative research projects - Grand Challenges

Health, demographic changes and wellbeing Cooperation: Health Theme

Food security and bio-based economy

Cooperation: Food, Agriculture and Fisheries Biology Theme

Secure, clean and efficient energy Cooperation: Energy Theme

smart, green and integrated transport Cooperation: Transport Theme

Resource efficiency and climate Cooperation: Environment Theme

Inclusive, Innovative and Responsive Societies Cooperation: SSH Theme

Secure societies Cooperation: Security Theme

Creating industrial leadership & competitive frameworks

Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies

Cooperation: covering ICT, NMP and Space themes

Innovation in SMEs Capacities: Research for the benefit of SMEs

Access to risk finance Risk-sharing Finance Facility

Raising excellence in the science base

‘Bottom-up’ research

European Research Council (ERC) European Research Council (ERC)

Marie Curie Marie Curie Future and Emerging Technologies (FET)

Cooperation: ICT theme FET component

European research infrastructures Capacities: Research Infrastructures



• Not a straight continuation from FP7

• Inclusion of Innovation• Incorporates 3 funding programmes in the field of

research and innovation:

• The Framework Programme• The Competitiveness and Innovation Programme (CIP)• The European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT)

How will Horizon 2020 differ from FP7?



• Topics for funding are much broader• Topics are less prescriptive

• Much more emphasis on use of results• Uptake of results into products/processes/society

requires non-academic partners, and frequently industrial partners

How will Horizon 2020 differ from FP7?



Duration: 7 years, 2014-2020

Budget: €70.2 billion awarded

Or is it €79bn??!!

Duration and Budget


The Role of Industry



• Collaborative projects» Societal Challenges» Roles as RTD performers, end users, quality control,

prototyping and proof of concept

• ITNs» Mandatory non-academic partner» Intersectoral opportunities» Offer placements / training» Little commitment

Generally



• LIET topics (ICT, NMP, Space)

• JTIs

• PPPs

• ITNs – EID scheme

• Marie Curie RISE

Specifically



• Horizon 2020 will not work without them

• Better reimbursement of costs

• ‘Catch up’ with other EU member states

BIS has been attempting to redress the imbalance of UK industrial participation since early FP7 compared to DE and FR.

Why should they participate?



Funding

Reimbursement (%)

Activity Horizon 2020 FP7

Research and Innovation 100 75

Innovation 100 (70) 50

Coordination/support 100 100

Indirect costs 25 60

One model for all partners



Reimbursement vs. FP7 - academia

€100k total direct costs identified

FP7

60% overheads. 75% reimbursement

€100k direct costs

€60k indirect costs

€160k total

€120k reimbursed by EC

€75k for research

€45k for overheads

H2020

25% overheads.100% reimbursement



€125k total


€100k for research




Reimbursement vs. FP7 - industry

€100k total direct costs identified

FP7

20% overheads. 50% reimbursement



€120k total


€50k for research


H2020

25% overheads.100% reimbursement



€125k total


€100k for research




• Do we manage them? At what level?

– Transformation Funds?

– Hubs?

– Schools?

– Faculties?

– Personal?

• Do we need to manage them?

How do we manage industrial links?



How do we encourage involvement of strategic links, personal links and new links?



What barriers do you feel could prevent industry from

participating?

How can we overcome them?

How would you sell H2020 to them?



• Split into groups

• Write as many ideas as you can on separate post-its

• ‘Cluster’ common ideas into groups

Barriers



• Impact – how much impact will the problem identified have on Industrial participation

• “Solve-ability” – is there an obvious solution immediately? Or not?

Barriers



Barriers

“Solve-ability”- +

+

Imp

act



For the problems that are of high impact and low solve-ability:

• What could be done to make this lower impact on participation?

• What could be done to start solving the issue? – e.g. what are the constituent parts of the problem that can be addressed?

Barriers – next step

Industrial Partners in Horizon 2020

Ben Williams, EU Team, Funding Development, RIS

industrial partners in horizon 2020 ben williams, eu team, funding development, ris

Documents

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innovation service intro

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