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H2020 SC5 research objectives and program implementation
Arnoldas MILUKAS Head of Unit
European Commission - EASME,
H2020 Environment & Resources Unit
Content of the presentation
• Policy context – Horizon 2020 and its Societal Challenge 5
• Implementation of the Societal Challenge 5
• Examples of projects
Horizon 2020
1. Health2. Food 3. Energy4. Transport5. Climate action,
environment, resource efficiency and raw materials
6. Inclusive societies7. Security
LEIT – Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies• ICT• Nano, new materials
(including SILC II)• Biotechnology• SpaceAccess to Risk FinanceInnovation in SMEs
European Research Council
Future and Emerging Technologies
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
Research Infrastructures
Societal Challenge 5: Climate Action, Environment, Resource Efficiency and
Raw Materials
• To achieve a resource – and water - efficient and climate change resilient economy and society,
• The protection and sustainable management of natural resources and ecosystems, and
• A sustainable supply and use of raw materials, in order to meet the needs of a growing global population within the sustainable limits of the planet's natural resources and eco-systems.
Objective:
Broad lines of activities (2014-2020):
Fighting and adapting to climate change
Sustainably managing natural resources and ecosystems
Sustainable supply of non-energy and non-agricultural raw materials
Transition towards a green economy through eco-innovation
Global environmental observation and information systems
Cultural heritage
Societal Challenge 5: Climate Action, Environment, Resource Efficiency and
Raw Materials
3 calls
• Waste: A resource to recycle, reuse and recover raw materials
• Water innovation: Boosting its value for Europe
• SC5: Growing a low carbon, resource efficient economy with a sustainable supply of raw materials
Contribution to 3 other Focus Area calls:
• Energy-efficiency
• Disaster-resilience: Safeguarding society and adapting to climate change
• Blue growth: Unlocking the potential of the oceans
Societal Challenge 5: Climate Action, Environment, Resource Efficiency and
Raw Materials - Work Programme 2014-2015:
Increased emphasis on delivering innovative solutions
Transformative agenda
Systemic approach to innovation
Unlocking private and public investment in future solutions
Large-scale demonstration projects with replication potential
Societal Challenge 5: Climate Action, Environment, Resource Efficiency and
Raw Materials - Work Programme 2016-2017
Focus:
3 multiannual calls: Greening the Economy
Industry 2020 in the Circular Economy (part)
Smart and Sustainable Cities
Key objectives for 2016-2017:
Climate action• Climate services• Low-carbon Europe• Arctic dimension
Nature-based solutions:• For territorial resilience• For sustainable cities
Systemic eco-innovation for a circular economy
Sustainable growth by harnessing:
• Earth observation data
• Cultural heritage
Mainstreaming water R&I
Raw materials
Societal Challenge 5: Climate Action, Environment, Resource Efficiency and
Raw Materials - Work Programme 2016-2017
2 multiannual calls:
"Building a low-carbon, climate resilient future: climate action in support of the Paris Agreement"
"Greening the economy in line with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)"
• Total indicative budget 2018-2020 €1.1bn, of which 387.5 €m for 2019
• 2019 topics open: 14 November 2018
• Next call deadline: 19 February 2019
Focus: moving to a greener, more resource efficient and climate-resilient
economy in sync with the natural environment demonstrating a strong commitment to supporting the UN's
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the targets of the COP21 Paris Agreement
Societal Challenge 5: Climate Action, Environment, Resource Efficiency and
Raw Materials - Work Programme 2018-2020
Call "Building a low-carbon, climate resilient future: climate action in support of the Paris Agreement"
Decarbonisation
Climate adaptation, impacts and services
Inter-relations between climate change, biodiversity and ecosystem services
The Cryosphere
Knowledge gaps [in 2020]
Earth observation [in 2020]
Budget in 2019: €116 million
Call "Greening the economy in line with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)"
Connecting economic and environmental gains -the circular economy
Raw materials
Water for our environment, economy and society
Innovating cities for sustainability and resilience
Protecting and leveraging the value of our natural and cultural assets: Earth observation; nature-based solutions, disaster risk reduction and natural capital accounting; heritage alive
Budget in 2019: €256.10 million
Societal Challenge 5 in practice
• Budget of €3 billion over 7 years (2014-2020)
• Budget of €1,06 billion for the years 2018-2020
• What kind of projects are we looking for?• Research and Innovation Actions - new knowledge
• Innovation Actions – new technologies and new solutions
• Coordination and Support Actions
• Average budget per grant - 6.16 M €
• Average number of partners – 19
• Average duration – 41 months
What are our core activities?
Evaluation
Grant Agreement Preparation
Project monitoring
Policy feedback
The whole Project life-cycle More than 1000 proposals to be
evaluated yearly GAP - 24 projects in GAP ongoing Project monitoring– currently 220
projects Policy feedback
• Cooperation with parent DG's –RTD and GROW
• Input to Work Programme• Clustering projects
What projects are we financing?
Currently we are monitoring 220 projects:
- 70 on Eco-Innovation: Waste, Water, Circular Economy
- 57 on Climate Action, Earth Observation, Arctic Dimension
- 34 on Natural Resources, Nature Based Solutions, Blue Growth, Cultural Heritage
- 58 on Raw Materials and SILC II
Eco-Innovation – Water - iMETland
IA - €3M – 11 partners – 36 months
WHAT? “Electroactive" bacteria purifying water IDEA: a new, environmentally friendly way to purify sewage water
HOW? The water is purified the natural way, by underground microorganisms that produce electricity and break down organic waste with innovative constructed wetland
RESULT: clean water, with zero energy cost and no residual pollution
Societal Challenge 5 Projects
Copyrights by iMETland
16
The four cities involved in the project, Copenhagen, Hamburg, Lisbon and Genoa, will engage enterprises, citizens and academia in 16 participatory value chain based partnerships to create and develop eco-innovative solutions.
Demos:• Copenhagen: mixed plastic waste • Genoa: wood waste• Hamburg: WEEE• Lisbon: food
Societal Challenge 5 Projects
Circular Economy - FORCE
IA - €9,7M – 24 partners – 48 months
Copyrights by FORCE
Societal Challenge 5 Projects
• NATURAL RESOURCES – SponGES
RIA - €10M – 20 partners – 48 months
• Sponges have been living in the oceans for half a billion years
• Nevertheless – we know almost nothing of those living in the deep seas
• SponGES project is studying the deep sea sponges:
• Strengthening the knowledge about the deep sea sponge ecosystems of the North Atlantic.
• How to preserve and sustainably use deep sea sponge?
• What role they could play in recycling ocean's waste?
• What is the biotechnological and medical potential of these ecosystems?
Copyrights by SponGES
• EARTH OBSERVATION – ECOPOTENTIAL
RIA - €15M – 49 partners – 48 months
One Lithuanian partner - KLAIPEDOS UNIVERSITETAS - and one Lithuanian Protected Area – Curonian Lagoon
• Focus on a network of internationally recognized Protected Areas (23) in Europe and beyond, as well as of their Park Managers
• Use data from the Copernicus programme & existing in-situ data and identify data gaps
• Build Earth Observation (EO) data products to characterize ecosystems state and changes
• Build models capable of assimilating EO and in-situ data, capable to include uncertainty estimates
• Identify relevant ecosystem services & estimate the future state of ecosystems
• Contribution to the GEO Ecosystem Community of Practice
Societal Challenge 5 Projects
Copyrights by Tomas Ruginis
RAW Materials – VAMOS
IA - 9,2M€ - 19 partners – 42 months
• Breakthrough solution:
• the underwater mining machine
• the innovative slurry transportation system
• The mining system will also minimise all associated environmental impacts.
• This new extraction system will be possibly used in all submerged hard-rock environments.
Societal Challenge 5 Projects
Copyrights by VAMOS
Floating Slurry Hose& Umbilical
Hose reel
Processing facility
Deployment Vessel
Mining Vehicle
Orebody
Copyrights by VAMOS
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Arnoldas MILUKAS Head of Unit EASME,
H2020 Environment & Resources Unit