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APRE 2013
www.apre.it
Agency for the Promotion of the European Research
Elena Giglio
[email protected] «Innovation in SME» &
«SPACE»
H2020
National Contact Point
Space Weather Conference Florence, Oct. 22-24 2014.
Horizon 2020 SPACE Work Programme 2015
[WHAT IS APRE?]
MISSION Promoting and supporting Italian participation to the EU
Research and Innovation programmes (R&I) Improve the “Quality” of the Italian participation in
European programmes for R&I.
Italian non-profit research organisation
1989 - created as a “Task Force” of the Ministry
of Education, University and Research
25 years of
experience
[Institutional Interlocutors]
European Commission
European Parliament
Italian Representative
Office in Belgium
Programme Committees
Ministry of University
and Research
APRE (NCP)
Ministry of Economic
Development
Ministry of Agriculture,
Food and Forestry
Ministry of Environment,Protection of Land and Sea
Regions
[APRE LIASON OFFICE]
Direct link with international stakeholders (European Institutions, liaison offices and research bodies , others)
Advocacy activities
Participation to EU events and information days (on their behalf, if needed!)
Meeting room!
Bruxelles
Rome
[APRE HELPDESKS]
To strengthen the cooperation at local level,
to provide tailored services responding to local needs
Abruzzo
Basilicata
Calabria
Campania
Emilia Romagna
Friuli Venezia Giulia (Trieste)
Friuli Venezia Giulia (Udine)
Lombardia
Marche
Molise
Piemonte
Puglia
Sardegna
Sicilia
Sportello dello stretto
(R.Calabria - Messina)
Toscana
Umbria
Veneto
[INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE]
5FP
6FP 7FP ~ 100 projects
~ 80 projects
~ 20 projects
International projects (as coordinator or partner)
H2020 Participation rules
Horizon 2020 LEIT- Space 2014- 2015
Focus on Key novelties in Horizon 2020
Excellent Science
European Research Council
Frontier research by the best individual teams
Future and Emerging Technologies
Collaborative research to open new fields of innovation
Marie Skłodowska Curie actions
Opportunities for training and career development
Research infrastructures (including e-infrastructure)
Ensuring access to world-class facilities
Industrial Technologies
Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies
ICT, nanotechnologies, materials, biotechnology, manufacturing, space
Access to risk finance
Leveraging private finance and venture capital for research and innovation
Innovation in SMEs
Fostering all forms of innovation in all types of SMEs
Societal Challenges
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 reflective societies
Security society
European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT)
Spreading Excellence and Widening Participation
Science with and for society
Joint Research Center (JRC)
[Horizon 2020]
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Rules for Participation: what’s new?
Covering all research programmes and funding bodies
Aligned to the Financial Regulation, coherent with other new EU Programmes.
1. A SINGLE SET OF RULES
2. ONE PROJECT - ONE FUNDING RATE. Maximum of 100% of direct costs (except
for actions close to market, where a 70% maximum will apply)
Indirect eligible costs: a flat rate of 20% of direct eligible costs
3. SIMPLE EVALUATION CRITERIA
Excellence – Impact - Implementation
New approach to work programmes and calls
Types of action / funding rates
Countries eligible to receive funding General Annex A
• Horizon 2020 associated countries Check Funding Guide for up-to-date
information whether agreements are signed:
http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/docs/h2020-funding-guide/cross-cutting-
issues/international-cooperation_en.htm
For Switzerland the agreement has been signed but only for Excellent Science (incl.
Marie Curie actions), ITER and EURATOM
•Third countries listed in General Annex A
•International European interest organisations
• EU-Member States
• The Overseas Countries and Territories (OCT) linked to the
MS: Anguilla, Aruba, Bonaire, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands,
Curaçao, Falkland Islands, French Polynesia, Greenland, Montserrat, New
Caledonia, Pitcairn Islands, Saba, Saint Barthélémy, Saint Helena, Saint Pierre
and Miquelon, SintEustatius, SintMaarten, Turks and Caicos Islands, Wallis
and Futuna .
Legal entities established in countries not listed in
Annex A and international organisations will only be
eligible for funding:
• If explicitly mentioned in the call text • When funding for such participants is provided for under a bilateral scientific and technological agreement or any other arrangement between the Union and an international organisation or a third country • When the Commission deems participation of an entity essential for carrying out the action funded through Horizon 2020
Further information available ec.europa.eu/embrace-space
There is a place for SPACE everywhere
Policy Context
• European Satellite Navigation Programmes (GALILEO, EGNOS)
• Copernicus Programme
• Space Surveillance and Tracking (SST) Support Framework
Decision
• 2011 Commission Communication, “Towards a space strategy for
the EU that benefits its citizens”
• 2013 Commission Communication, “Releasing the potential for
growth of the space sector”
• Council Conclusions and EP Resolutions
• 2013 Commission Communication and associated European
Council Conclusions on Defence
Horizon 2020 Specific Programme
Navigation solutions powered by Europe
Work programme 2014 - 2015
Research Executive Agency (REA) Call handling, receipt of proposals, evaluation process, grant agreement
preparation, grant agreements signature, receipt of reporting, reviews,
payments, audits
European GNSS Agency (GSA)
Executive Agency for SMEs
(EASME) ex-Executive Agency for Competitiveness and Innovation
(EACI)
Space Research implementation
• Protection of European assets in and from space (PROTEC) • Competitiveness of the European Space Sector (COMPET) • Earth Observation (EO)
• European Satellite Navigation Programmes (GALILEO)
• New SME instrument
Horizon 2020 Space Work Programme 2014
WP 2014 Space Weather
Scope: Exploratory work studying new ideas for data analysis and modelling of
space weather with a view to enhancing the performance of space weather
prediction. Proposals can cover the full range of space weather phenomena from the
solar cycle, flares and coronal mass ejections to the effects of the solar wind in the
near-earth environment and the evolution in between.
The Commission considers that proposals requesting a contribution from the EU of
between EUR 2 and 4 million
Expected impact: Proposals are expected to deliver new insights into the
detailed processes that generate space weather. This should contribute to new
services able to predict, with a significantly higher precision than today, space
weather events affecting the Earth and the near Earth space environment.
Type of action: Research and innovation actions
Protection of European assets in and from space • Space Weather • Access technologies and characterisation for Near Earth Objects (NEOs)
CALL Type of action Total Budget Budget
suggested for proposal
Number proposal
submitted
PROTEC-1-2014 R&I action 8 M€ 2M - 4M
18 PROTEC-2-2014 R&I action 11
Central evaluations 08 June –03 July 2015
Closure Call 8 April 2011 Before the 8th
september 2015 Remote evaluations 11 May -05 June 2015
Horizon 2020 Space Work Programme 2015
Space weather projects in FP7
FP7 funding of space weather related projects:
over EUR 37 million
20 collaborative projects
approximately 165 organisations (universities, research institutes and companies)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5XN2GYI2PQ&index=3&list=PLmwl0nkG0dPEP_Y-IyzNL00XpMXuEsbyd
Effects on
Ground Systems
EURISGIC – geomagnetically
induced currents in power
systems
Ionospheric effects
AFFECTS – ionosphere,
impact on communications
POPDAT – database of
ionospheric waves
catalogues
MISW – effects on GNSS
Global modelling
SWIFF – couplings at solar
surface, in space and at Earth
SOTERIA – better databases of
existing data & simulation
models
Atmospheric effects
ATMOP –
thermosphere, better
tracking of space
objects in LEO
Effects on Spacecraft
SPACECAST – radiation belt, solar
energetic particles
SEPServer – SEP data and events
PLASMON – plasmasphere, radiation belt
COMESEP – coronal mass ejections,
solar energetic particles, geomagnetic storms
MAARBLE – ULF/VLF database,
radiation belt dynamics
SIDER – radiation shielding of composite
enclosures
SPACESTORM – radiation belt, mitigation
of effects on satellites
Data exploitation
ECLAT – magnetosphere,
data mining & visualisation
HESPE – solar high-energy
data analysis
eHeroes – DB&models for
space exploration
SHOCK – plasma, kinetic modelling
SOLID – irradiance data & modelling
F-CHROMA – solar flares
The SME Instrument in HORIZON 2020
Themes for 2014-2015
• SME Instrument Phase 1: Status update after cut-off 18/06/2014
• SME Instrument Phase 1: Status update after cut-off 24/09/2014
SME Instrument Phase 2: Status update after cut-off 09/10/2014
2.666 proposals received (success rate: 6%)
1,944 proposals received
580 proposals received
SME Instrument: 6 lessons learnt from the first
1. Too much focused on the project and not enough on the business opportunity;
2. Not convincing when describing the company (you have to explain why your
company will succeed and not your competitor);
3. Not providing enough information on competing solutions;
4. Having a too low level of innovation, planning to develop a product that already
exists on the market;
5. Proposing just an idea without any concept for its commercialisation;
6. Just trying their luck (the SME Instrument is not a lottery!).
Good Practice in proposal writing
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Electronic Submission
Electronic Submission System accessed from the call page
• ECAS password
• PICs for all partners
• Prepare proposal,
• On-line for Part A structured part
• Upload Part B - pdf file(s)
• Submit the proposal!
• Validation checks
• Complete submission, before the 17h00 deadline!!
Put yourself in the shoes of the experts!!!! 1) Understand the work programme topic and address its essential spirit
o A proposal fully out of scope is ineligible
o A proposal partially out of scope will score low
2) Respect requirements and instructions in the work programme (e.g. maximum
amount of requested EU funding, SME participation) and in Guide for Applicants (e.g. page limits).
3) Proposers need to convince the evaluation experts
o They are under time pressure during both the individual evaluation and the consensus meeting (logistical and financial constraints).
o Make it easy for them to find the answers in your proposals to the questions (see Guides for Applicants) they have to answer to assess the proposal against the evaluation criteria.
o They must justify their marks, give them evidence. Don’t let them guess.
o Avoid inconsistencies in the proposal to make a good impression
o Evaluators are instructed to look at the substance, not the presentation, but a careful presentation helps
Proposal Preparation - Part B: General
Check List: Does the planned work fit with the call for proposals?
Is the application for the right funding scheme?
Is the proposal eligible?
Does the proposed work raise ethical issues?
Does the proposal follow the required structure?
Befor Submission:
• Agreement with all members of the consortium to submit the proposal?
• Part B in pdf?
• Familiarity with SEP?
• Validated and submitted the last version?
1.1 Concept and objectives GOOD PRACTICE:
Address the key questions:
o Why? What problem are you trying to solve?
o What is the European added value?
o Is it a European priority?
o Why now?
o Why you? Best consortium?
o Is the project realistic from a scientific viewpoint? Which risks?
Start with a single high level objective that will help the evaluator to immediately relate the proposal to the topic of the call
What is the evaluator looking for? Quickly understand what the proposal is about, objective, scope and
relevance to the call (Abstract & beginning of first section)
Project Idea matches with the call – refer to the call text and expected
impacts listed in the work programme
Support/help and useful links •Participant Portal
http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/home.html
• H2020 video: how to apply?
http://ec.europa.eu/programmes/horizon2020/en/news/horizon-2020-video-how-apply
• International cooperation
http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/docs/h2020-funding-guide/cross-cutting-issues/international-cooperation_en.htm
• DG Enterprise & Industry – SPACE Research
http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/policies/space/research/index_en.htm
• Focus on SPACE Weather
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5XN2GYI2PQ&index=3&list=PLmwl0nkG0dPEP_Y-IyzNL00XpMXuEsbyd
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Elena Giglio [email protected]
National Contact Point
SMEs & SPACE
APRE Via Cavour, 71 00184 - Roma
www.apre.it Tel. (+39) 06-48939993 Fax. (+39) 06-48902550
Thank you!