HORIZON 2020
Excellent ScienceGlobal ChallengesCompetitive Industries
Open to the world!
1. What is Horizon 2020?
2. International cooperation in Horizon 2020
3. Cooperation with Russia in FP7
4. Horizon 2020 – what is in it for Russia?
Structure
What is the EU's Horizon 2020 programme?
• Almost €80 billion (current prices) research and innovation funding programme (2014-2020)
• A core part of Europe 2020, Innovation Union & European Research Area− Investing in future jobs and growth− Addressing concerns about livelihoods, safety and environment− Strengthening the EU’s global position in research, innovation
and technology
• Coupling research to innovation – from research to retail, all forms of innovation
• Focus on societal challenges facing EU society, e.g. health,clean energy and transport
• Open for participation to all companies, universities, institutes inall EU countries and beyond
Three priorities
Excellent science
Industrial leadership
Societal challenges
Horizon 2020: structure
Science for Society, Spreading Excellence, JRC, EIT, Euratom
Excellent Science
European Research Council
Future and Emerging Technologies
Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions
Research infrastructures
Industrial Leadership
Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies
(ICT, nano, materials, biotech, manufacturing,
space)
Access to risk finance
Innovation in SMEs
Societal Challenges
Health
Food
Energy
Transport
Climate
Inclusive societies
Security
European Research Council (ERC)
Frontier research by the best individual teams 13.1
Future and Emerging Technologies
Collaborative research to open new fields of innovation
2.7
Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions (MSCA)
Opportunities for training and career development 6.1
Research infrastructures (including e-infrastructure)
Ensuring access to world-class facilities 2.5
Total 24.4
Priority 1 - Excellent scienceFunding (€ billion, 2014-2020)
Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies (LEITs)
(ICT, nanotechnologies, materials, biotechnology, manufacturing, space)
13.6
Access to risk finance
Leveraging private finance and venture capital for research and innovation
2.8
Innovation in SMEs
Fostering all forms of innovation in all types of SMEs
0.6 + complemented
by expected 20% of budget of societal
challenges + LEITs and
'Access to risk finance' with strong SME focus
Priority 2 - Industrial leadership Funding (€ billion, 2014-2020)
Total 17.0
Priority 3 - Societal challenges Funding (€ billion, 2014-2020)
Additional funding for nuclear safety and security from the Euratom Treaty activities (2014-2018)
Health, demographic change and wellbeing 7.5
Food security, sustainable agriculture, marine and maritime research & the Bioeconomy
3.8
Secure, clean and efficient energy * 5.9
Smart, green and integrated transport 6.3
Climate action, resource efficiency and raw materials 3.1
Inclusive and reflective societies 1.3
Secure societies 1.7
Science with and for society 0.5
Spreading excellence and widening participation 0.8
Total 30.9
International cooperation in Horizon 2020 (1)
• International cooperation = key cross-cutting priority of Horizon 2020, in particular to:
Strengthen the Union's excellence, as well as its economic competitiveness
Tackle global societal challenges
Support the Union's external policies
• Basic approach provided by Horizon 2020 Regulation and Rules for Participation
• Strategy for international cooperation (COM(2012) 497): enhancing and focusing international cooperation activities (in terms of areas and partners)
International cooperation in Horizon 2020 (2)
Most importantly:
Horizon 2020 is open to participation from across the world!
Clear ambition to substantially increase participation of international partners!
How?
• General opening
• Targeted international cooperation actions across Horizon 2020
General opening
• Horizon 2020 is open to participation from across the world
• Automatic EU funding for their participation in R&I actions for:
EU Member States (including overseas departments and overseas territories)
Countries associated to Horizon 2020 ("Associated Countries", such as Israel, Moldova, Norway, Serbia, Turkey, [Switzerland], …)
exhaustive list of countries in annex to work programme [but: no longer BRIC + Mexico in this list!]
General opening
• For other countries (such as Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, India, Japan, Mexico, Russia, United States,…), EU funding for their participation in R&I actions only in exceptional cases:
such funding is provided for in a bilateral scientific and technological cooperation or similar agreement
funding for entities established in these countries is included in the call text (e.g. "… entities established in Russia … will be eligible to receive funding…")
the Commission deems the participation of the entity essential for carrying out the project, for instance because it provides:
• outstanding competence / expertise
• access to (unique) research facilities / infrastructure
• access to a particular geographical environments
• access to (unique) data (sets)
Targeted actions
• Targeted international cooperation activities across Horizon 2020: area for cooperation and partner specified upfront
• Areas identified based on analysis of a set of criteria to ensure common interest and mutual benefit:
Research and innovation excellence
Framework conditions/access to markets
Contribution to international commitments
Frameworks to engage in cooperation and lessons learned
• Differentiation by countries/regions: enlargement/neighbourhood/EFTA, industrialised and emerging countries, developing countries
• International cooperation as part of strategic planning for each part of Horizon 2020
• Result: roadmaps for international cooperation with international partners
Participation in FP7: key figures (1)*
FP7 Collaboration Projects: 298
Russian Participations: 486
EU Contribution: 66,460,461 €
Applicants Success Rate: 22.85%
RUSSIAN FEDERATION
*Excluding People and Ideas Specific Programmes
Participation in FP7: key figures (2)*
*Excluding People and Ideas Specific Programmes
Participation in FP7: key figures (3)*
*Excluding People and Ideas Specific Programmes
Participation in FP7: Timiryazev Agricultural Academy
OPTIMISC (Optimizing Miscanthus Biomass Production)
Project duration: from 01/10/2011 to 31/03/2016
Objective: to obtain and screen a large variety of Miscanthusvarieties and species with desirable properties
Project Coordinator: UNIVERSITAET HOHENHEIM (Germany)
Project Participants: 12 organisations from 8 countries
Project EU Contribution: € 2,997,576
Research Field: Biotechnology
Horizon 2020 – What is in it for Russia? (1)
1. All Calls for Proposals of Horizon 2020 are fully open to Russian participation in all fields and areas.
2. International participation - Horizon 2020 can connect the best teams and individual researchers from Russia with Europe’s top researchers and innovators
3. Horizon 2020 helps to connect Russian scientists and universities with business and industry from around the world
Horizon 2020 – What is in it for Russia? (2)
4. Horizon 2020 offers access to Europe's knowledge, access to data, access to infrastructures and access to world-leading scientific networks
5. Participation in Horizon 2020 provides opportunities to market one's ideas, know-how and technologies internationally
6. Russian scientists can be funded in the Marie SklodowskaCurie mobility programme and by the European Research Council (ERC)
Funding for Russian participants in Horizon 2020
• Individual grants and scholarships under the Marie Sklodowska Curie mobility programme and by the European Research Council (ERC) are available for Russian scientists
• EU funding for Russian participants in collaborative R&I actions is possible on an exceptional basis
• For Russian co-funding mechanisms please see the presentation by I.Kuklina / R.Burger of 25 November 2014
How to find topics for international cooperation (1)
How to find topics for international cooperation (2)
ERA-NET instrument
The "ERA-NET instrument" under Horizon 2020 supports public-public partnerships in their preparation, establishment of networking structures, design, implementation and coordination of joint activities as well as topping up of single joint calls and of actions of a transnational nature.
Typically, an ERA-Net brings together research-funding organisations that wish to implement a joint transnational call for research proposals (for which the EU can provide 'top-up' funding).
From 2004 to 2012, over €2 billion of public funding were spent by different programmes investing jointly in coordinated research across borders.
Funding organisations from "third countries" (such as Russia) can and do participate in ERA-Nets.
Ongoing ERA-NETs with Russian participation
• ERA.Net RUS Plus – strengthening STI links between Russia and the European Research Area: Ministry of Education & Science, RFBR, RFH, Ural and Far Eastern Branches of Russian Academy of Sciences. Foundation for Assistance to Small Innovative Enterprises (FASIE).
• ERA-IB 2 - the ERA-NET "Towards an ERA in Industrial Biotechnology" 2: Russian funding partners since 2011: FASIE.
• EuroTransBio – an ERA-NET in Biotechnology: Russian funding partner since 2012: FASIE.
• ASPERA 2 – an ERA-NET on Astroparticle Physics: Russian funding partner: RFBR.
• EUPHRESCO 2 - European Phytosanitary Research Coordination II: Russian partner: All-Russian Plant Quarantine Centre (FGU VNIIKR).
• M-era.Net - an ERA-NET in materials science and engineering: Russian funding partner: FASIE.
• BONUS - Baltic Sea Science – Network of Funding Agencies (Art. 185 initiative): RFBR participates in the BONUS calls on the basis of a Memorandum of Cooperation.
H2020 call for expressions of interest from experts
Join the database of independent experts for European research and innovation.
The European Commission appoints independent experts to assist with research and innovation assignments including the evaluation of proposals, monitoring of projects, and evaluation of programmes, and design of policy.
Register online at:
http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/experts/index.html
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CO-FUNDING MECHANISMS OF RUSSIAN-EUROPEAN S&T
COOPERATION
EU FUNDING SOURCES
managed by the European Commission (EC)
budget of nearly € 80 billion for seven years (2014-2020)
coupling research to innovation
selection of projects based on regular open calls for proposals
and international peer review
majority of activities are of a multilateral, international
character, each involving different actors from academia
and industry
open for participation by Russian entities, in partnership with
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EU's Framework Programme for Research and
Innovation "Horizon 2020"
EU FUNDING SOURCES (2)
EU's Framework Programme for Research and Innovation Horizon 2020
Science for Society, Spreading Excellence, JRC, EIT, Euratom
Excellent Science
European Research Council
Future and Emerging Technologies
Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions
Research infrastructures
Industrial Leadership
Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies
(ICT, nano, materials, biotech, manufacturing,
space)
Access to risk finance
Innovation in SMEs
Societal Challenges
Health
Food
Energy
Transport
Climate
Inclusive societies
Security
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Fundamental
research
Applied research
Development and
production
Russian funding sources
Inn
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ste
ps
Business
Ministry of Industry and
Trade of the Russian
Federation and other
Ministries, RUSNANO, RVC
Мinistry of
Education and
Science of the
Russian
Federation
RNF,
RFBR,
RHF, RAS
Business
Business
Participants of the
cooperation
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RUSSIAN FUNDING SOURCES
Ministry of Education & Science (MON)
Ministry of Industry & Trade - aeronautics research
Roscosmos - Space research
Rosatom - nuclear energy research
specialised agencies - actions within their remits, e.g.o Foundation for Assistance to Small Innovative Enterprises (FASIE),
o Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR),
o Russian Foundation for the Humanities (RFH),
o Russian Science Foundation (RSF),
o Skolkovo Foundation (for commercialization),
o special university funds,
o […]
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RUSSIAN FUNDING SOURCES (2)
managed by the MON
budget line 2.2 "Support for research in the context of
cooperation with EU countries" –
o 6.18 billion Roubles (ca. € 125 million) for collaboration with
the EU and EU Member States for the period 2014 – 2020
o up to a maximum of 50 million Roubles (ca. € 1 million) per
project, for a period of up to 4 years
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Federal Targeted Programme "R&D in Priority
Areas of Development of the Russian S&T
Complex 2014-2020" (FTP R&D)
FUNDING SUPPORT FROM THE RUSSIAN MON
FTP R&D calls under budget line 2.2 and other
relevant budget lines
open collaboration in Horizon 2020 in selected
priority areas
coordinated EU-Russia calls
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CO-FUNDING MECHANISMS: PROCEDURES
N.B. All Horizon 2020 calls are open to Russian participants.
The following slides describe the procedures whereby
funding for participation in Horizon 2020 projects may be
provided by Russian national funding bodies in those cases
where the Russian participant of a Horizon 2020 project
proposal requires and requests such funding support.
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FUNDING SUPPORT FROM THE RUSSIAN MON:
PROCEDURE FOR COOPERATION IN HORIZON 2020 (1)
Step 1
•Among all of the announced topics in the Horizon 2020 programme, the MON selects the ones prioritized for the Russian Federation (i.e. those for which financial support to the Russian participants can in principle be provided)
Step 2
• For these selected topics, the EU posts information (e.g. on the H2020 Participant Portal) about the possibility for Russian research organisations to apply for funding in Russia (as a part of joint EU-Russia consortia)
Step 3
•While the EU coordinator submits a proposal to the EC under the Horizon 2020 call, the Russian partner(s) of the consortia submit(s) a corresponding proposal to the Russian funding body (e.g. the MON)
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FUNDING SUPPORT FROM THE RUSSIAN MON:
PROCEDURE FOR COOPERATION IN HORIZON 2020 (2)
Step 4.1
• The European Commission carries out its standard evaluation procedure of all Horizon 2020 project proposals, including those with Russian participants.
Step 4.2
• The Russian funding party carries out its standard evaluation procedure of Russian proposals which are part of a submitted Horizon 2020 project proposal and which have been submitted to the given Russian funding body.
Step 5
• After the EC evaluation under Horizon 2020 and the national evaluation in Russia, both sides exchange information about the evaluation results, including the list of proposals (with Russian participation) which may be funded.
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FUNDING SUPPORT FROM THE RUSSIAN MON:
PROCEDURE FOR COOPERATION IN HORIZON 2020 (3)
Step 6
• Where the EU and Russian national evaluations overlap, the Horizon 2020 project and its Russian part will be funded by, respectively, the European Commission and the Russian funding body according to their funding rules.
Step 7
•The Russian participant of a H2020 project will sign the EU Grant Agreement as well as a separate agreement with the Russian funding body. Russian participants without EU funding are exempt from financial reporting to the EU (Article 9 of the EU Grant Agreement), but will have to submit a regular financial & scientific report to the Russian funding body.
Step 8•Where the EU and Russian national evaluation evaluations do not overlap,
alternative arrangements will have to be found by the project partners.
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MON is ready to support the selected projects already in 2015
RUSSIA'S COUNTRY PAGE ON HORIZON 2020 PARTICIPANT PORTALhttp://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/data/ref/h2020/other/hi/h2020_localsupp_russia_en.pdf
USEFUL LINKS
• Horizon 2020 official webpage: http://ec.europa.eu/programmes/horizon2020/
• Participant Portal:
http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/
• European Commission – Research & Innovation:
http://ec.europa.eu/research/index.cfm
• Delegation of the European Union to the Russian Federation: http://www.EUinRussia.ru
Science & Technology section:
• Ministry of Education & Science of the Russian Federation (for enquiries about the possibility of funding support):
• EU-Russia Year of Science 2014:
http://eu-russia-yearofscience.eu
http://godnauki-rossiya-ec.ru
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