Horizon 2020Opportunities for Social Sciences

& Humanities research

Excellent Science

European Research Council (ERC)

Future and Emerging Technologies (FET)

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

Research Infrastructures

Industrial Leadership

Leadership in Enabling and

Industrial Technologies (LEIT) -

ICT, KETs, Space

Access to Risk Finance

Innovation in SMEs

Societal Challenges

Health and Wellbeing

Food security

Transport

Energy

Climate action

Societies

Security

Horizon 2020 structure

Widening Participation; Science with and for Society

European Institute of Innovation

and Technology (EIT)Joint Research Centre (JRC)EURATOM

• Supported through ‘Excellent Science’ – Pillar 1 (17% of ERC

budget (in the past!) , 11-12% of MSCA funding, support to major

SSH research infrastructures)

• Integrated in ‘Leadership in Enabling and Industrial Technologies’

– Pillar 2, where relevant

• Integrated in all ‘Societal Challenges’ – Pillar 3

• SSH play a major role in the Societal Challenge 6: “Europe in a

changing world – inclusive, innovative and reflective societies”

SSH in Horizon 2020

“Social sciences and humanities (SSH) research will be fully

integrated into each of the general objectives of Horizon 2020”

• 37% of topics are flagged as SSH relevant (incl. Societal

Challenge 6)

• Societal Challenges range: 48% in „Climate action“, 34% in

„Security“ (SC6: 80%)

• Industrial Leadership: 21% of ICT topics are SSH relevant

(while less than 10% in NMP)

SSH in the 2014/15 WPs

• Approximately 30% of all SSH flagged topics were missing

partners with relevant expertise.

• In 2014, 67% of all SSH partners in consortia were from higher

education establishments (47%) or research organisations (20%).

17% of all SSH partners came from private for profit entities, such

as for-profit research organisations, SMEs or consultancies.

• For project consortia led by an SSH partner, the SSH coordinators

come predominantly from the EU-15 (92%).

• Countries with the highest shares of SSH coordinators are

Germany (19%), the Netherlands and the UK (13%).

• Full report on embedding SSH in 2014 calls is available here.

Social Sciences and Humanities

• Participant Portal: topics with strong SSH-relevance are "flagged"

• Expert advisory groups of each Societal Challenge include SSH

researchers

• Evaluation panels of the Societal Challenges need to include experts

with SSH competences

• Call text and evaluation criteria need to be adjusted to SSH: for example

in the scope section and in the description of the specific

challenge/problem

• A regular review of the implementation of interdisciplinarity in each

Societal Challenge to be organised for Horizon 2020

Integrating SSH – practical steps by the EC

European Research Council

• The ERC seeks to fund the best ‘frontier research’ proposals submitted by excellent researchers, with excellence as the singlepeer review criterion.

• Will fund projects led by a Principal Investigator, if necessary supported by a team (no need for pan-European collaboration)

• Will operate on a ‘bottom-up’ basis, without pre-determined research priorities. 25 panels in 3 domains which proposals can be submitted to:

• Physical Sciences and Engineering

• Life Sciences

• Social Sciences and Humanities

Total ERC budget: €11.6bn (compared with €7.5bn in FP7)

European Research Council – What is funded?

• Research beyond what is known, accepted or widely adopted

• Supports novel and visionary thinking to open promising paths towards powerful new technologies

• Interdisciplinary collaborations that seek genuine cross-fertilisation and deep synergies between the broadest range of advanced sciences (incl. SSH) and cutting-edge engineering disciplines

• Collaborative research projects between blue-sky science and research driven by societal challenge/industrial competitiveness – “bottom up but targeted”

FET focus

Horizon 2020Pillar 2 – Industrial Leadership

• Emphasis on combining enabling technologies to find

solutions for societal challenges – particularly energy

efficiency targets, sustainability and climate change

objectives

Leadership in Enabling and Industrial Technologies (LEIT)

• Strengthening the cultural and social aspects of innovation

– NMBP-34-2017: Governing innovation of nanotechnology through enhanced

societal engagement

• SSH as a source of creativity in development of services and

products

– ICT-36-2016: Boost synergies between artists, creative people and

technologists

• Societal aspects

– ICT-28-2017: Robotics Competition, coordination and support

• Business and management models

– EEB-08-2017: New business models for energy-efficient buildings through

adaptable refurbishment solutions

The role of SSH in industrial leadership

Horizon 2020Pillar 3 – Societal Challenges

European Commission:

• “The Societal Challenges bring together different technologies, sectors, scientific disciplines, social sciences and humanities and innovation actors to find solutions to problems faced by EU societies”

• “112 of 437 topics in 2014-2015 Work Programme, excluding ‘SC6 – Inclusive, innovative and reflective societies’ can be flagged as SSH-relevant, representing a share of 25% of all topics”

• “The aim to make the call texts more general and less prescriptive might be in conflict with the need to draft texts with the necessary level of detail and reference to relevant SSH research”

The role of SSH in Societal Challenges

Examples of SSH relevant topics in other Societal Challenges: Health

SC1-PM-14–2016: EU-Japan cooperation on Novel ICT Robotics based solutions for active and healthy ageing at home or in care facilities

• Proposals should build on advances in this domain, and should combine multi-disciplinary research involving behavioural, sociological, health and other relevant disciplines.

Examples of SSH relevant topics in other Societal Challenges: Food security

SFS-29-2017: Socio-eco-economics – socio-economics in ecological approaches

• …proposals will involve drawing up an economic, environmental and social comparison of identified production systems implementing ecological approaches and conventional farms in the same sectors of production.

Examples of SSH relevant topics in other Societal Challenges: Transport

MG-8.4-2017: Improving accessibility, inclusive mobility and equity: new tools and business models for public transport in prioritised areas

• Proposals should address all the following aspects:

• Analysis of the characteristics of prioritised areas in terms of spatial, demographic and socio-economic characteristics and identification of the factors that influence mobility and accessibility.

• Exploring travel behaviour and social habits of the population in a disaggregated way and assessing travel demands in prioritised areas.

• Addressing mobility needs of vulnerable to exclusion population groups such as: elderly, children, youth, disabled, people in poverty etc., as well as possible limitations to the use of new transport business models (e.g. IT illiteracy of elderly or low educated persons, pricing, etc.). Identification of gender-related specificities in each group is strongly recommended.

• Critical assessment of existing innovative organisational and operational frameworks aimed at delivering new mobility solutions and their impact on inclusive mobility and equity

Examples of SSH relevant topics in other Societal Challenges: Climate

SC5-21-2016-2017: Cultural heritage as a driver for sustainable growth

SC5-22-2017: Innovative financing, business and governance models for adaptive re-use of cultural heritage

• Projects should:

• map and analyse existing successful business and management models, financing mechanisms and governance arrangements for adaptive re-use of groups of cultural heritage monuments, cultural landscapes, buildings or sites;

• develop and validate methods, tools, indicators and matrixes…

• propose innovative governance arrangements…

• identify cultural, social, economic, institutional, legal, regulatory and administrative barriers and bottlenecks at city, regional, national and EU level…

Embedding SSH in actions

• Health, Demographic Change and Wellbeing - SSH research could provide the

economic and social analysis necessary for reforming public health systems;

• Smart, green and integrated transport - SSH research analyses the socio-

economic aspects of transport, prospective studies and technology foresight;

• Climate action and resource efficiency - SSH research tackles the cultural,

behavioural, socio-economic and institutional change in order to move to a more

self-reliant and resource efficient economy;

• Societal Challenge 6 - there is a range of topics covering areas like new ideas,

strategies and governance structures for overcoming the crisis in Europe and co-

creating growth, innovation in the public sector enabled by ICT, business model

innovation, social innovation, European cultural heritage, history, culture and

identity;

• Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies - the arts and humanities

might be an essential source for creativity in development of services and product

design.

Examples of the role of SSH

• Behavioural aspects

• Consumption and lifestyles

• Management, governance

• Public awareness & acceptance

• Policy support / assessment

• Social innovation

• Markets, business development

• Economic systems and instruments

SSH aspects in SC include…

Background: competitiveness as overall goal, mainly technological approach, SSH is not everywhere

SSH aspects include mainly:

• User behaviour and acceptance

• Management and governance issues

• Risk assessment and management

• Development of business models

But also: Strengthening cultural and social aspects of innovations; SSH as a source of creativity for developing new products /services

SSH aspects in LEIT

SSH aspects in LEIT

Human-technology-interaction, user perspectives, data protection

Societal needs, user acceptance, risk assessment, governance

Development of new business models, responsible consumer

behaviour

New, sustainable business models

ICT

Nanotechnologies Biotechnology

Advanced Materials

Manufacturing

Societal Challenge 6Europe in a Changing World:

Inclusive, Innovative and Reflective Societies

Societal Challenge 6 aims at fostering a greater understanding of Europe, by providing solutions and support inclusive, innovative and reflective European societies with an innovative public sector in a context of unprecedented transformations and growing global interdependencies.

Work Programme

Societal Challenge 6

• European Commission pages on the Innovation Union http://ec.europa.eu/research/innovation-union/index_en.cfm

• European Commission pages on SSH research

http://ec.europa.eu/research/social-sciences/index_en.html

• Horizon 2020 web pages on SSHhttp://ec.europa.eu/programmes/horizon2020/en/area/social-sciences-humanities

• European eGovernment Action Plan http://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/european-egovernment-action-plan-2011-2015

• EU vision for ‘Deep and Genuine Economic and Monetary Union’ http://ec.europa.eu/commission_2010-2014/president/news/archives/2013/04/20130430_1_en.htm

• Joint Programming Initiative (JPI) on Cultural Heritage http://www.jpi-culturalheritage.eu/

• EU’s Strategy for international cooperation in research and innovation http://ec.europa.eu/research/iscp/index.cfm?lg=en&pg=policy

EU Policy Context

Co-creationSocietal and economic potential of co-creation; cultural heritage, creativity

and design and participative and evidence-based policy-making,

including R&I policies and Science 2.0

Reversing Inequalities Understanding sources and impacts of

inequalities in Europe and beyond, developing solutions to the rise of

inequalities and mechanisms of inclusive innovation

Engaging GloballyAnticipative and responsive capacities,

developing EU security and defence cooperation, analysing migration, supporting the EC’s strategy for international cooperation in R&I

(science diplomacy)

Understanding EuropeEuropean legitimacy, cultural and

historical literacy, preservation and management of cultural resources,

cultural institutions as hubs of social innovation, efficient ICT services and

cultural digital resources

What Will Be Funded in 2016-17

2016-17 Calls

• 6 topics in 2016; call open October 2015; deadline: 2 February 2016; budget: €23.50M

• 7 topics in 2017; call open October 2016; deadline 2 February 2017; budget: €33.15M

Co-creation for Growth and Inclusion

• 9 topics in 2016; call open October 2015; deadline: 2 February 2016; budget: €43.50M (incl. €5M for ERA-NET-Cofund)

• 1 topic in 2017 (CSA); call open October 2016; deadline 2 February 2016; budget: €3M

Reversing Inequalities and Promoting Fairness

• 2 topics in 2016; call open October 2015; deadline: 14 April 2016; budget: €11.50M

• 8 topics in 2017; call open October 2016; deadline 2 February 2017; budget: €30.50M

Engaging Together Globally

• 4 topics in 2016; call open October 2015; deadline: 2 February 2016; budget: €19.50M

• 11 topics in 2017; call open October 2016; deadline 2 February 2017; budget: €47.50M (incl. €5M for ERA-NET-Cofund)

Understanding Europe – Promoting the European public and Cultural Space

Also funded under SC6 Work programme

• New business models for inclusive, innovative and reflective societies

• Contribution to call H2020-SMEInst-2016-2017: €10.80 M in 2016 and €11.40 in 2017

SME Instrument

• European Capital of Innovation: €1.20M from the 2017 budget

• European Social Innovation Competition: €0.20M in 2016 budget and €0.20M in 2017

• Horizon Prize for Social Innovation in Europe: €2M from the 2016 budget

Prizes

• €20.68M from the 2016 budget and €20.68M from the 2017 budget

Budget

Net4Society publication on SSH opportunities

Call identifierCall closure

date

No. of proposals submitted

No. of retained proposals

Success rate % (of eligible proposals)

INSO-2014 2014/04/29 120 8 7.41 %

INT-INCO-2014 2014/04/29 33 5 16.67 %

EURO-SOCIETY-2014 2014/06/03 127 14 11.57 %

REFLECTIVE-SOCIETY-2014

2014/06/03 20 3 20%

YOUNG-SOCIETY-2014 2014/06/03 118 8 7.27 %

REFLECTIVE-7-2014 2014/09/30 94 4 4.44 %

SC6 results 2014

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