Horizon 2020 – Future Emerging TechnologiesDepartment of Physics

8th May 2014

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Presenter: Renata SchaefferExt: 61648Email: rs530@admin.cam.ac.uk

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The Budget

Budget increase from €53bn in FP7 to €77bn in Horizon 2020 (at current prices)

OTHERS: 5,8B€ (Spreading excellence & widening participation, Science & Society, JRC, EIT)

Excellent Science 24,4bn€

Societal Challenges

29,6bn€

Industrial Leadership

17bn€

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Pillar structure

H2020 will focus resources on 3 key priorities:

Excellent Science (1) ERC (13B€) FET (Future and

Emerging Technologies) (2.7B€)

Marie Curie Actions (6.1B€)

European Research Infrastructures (2.4B€)

Societal Challenges (3) Health, demographic change and

wellbeing European Bioeconomy Challenges Secure, clean and efficient energy Smart, green and integrated

transport Climate action, resource efficiency

and raw materials Europe in a changing world Secure societies

Industrial Leadership (2) Leadership in

enabling and industrial technologies

Innovation in SMEs and Access to risk finance

Widening Participation, Science with and for Society

EURATOM Joint Research Centre (JRC)

EIT)

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Overview of FET schemes

• FET-Open • FET Coordination and Support Actions

• FET-Proactive initiatives• Global Systems Science (GSS)• Knowing, doing and being: cognition beyond problem solving• Quantum Simulation• Towards exascale high performance computing (HPC)

• FET Flagships• The Graphene• Human Brain Project

Future and emerging technologies shall support collaborative research in order to extend Europe’s capacity for advanced and paradigm-changing innovation. It shall foster scientific collaboration across disciplines on radically new, high-risk ideas and accelerate development of the most promising emerging areas of science and technology as well as the Union wide structuring of the corresponding scientific communities."

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Future and Emerging Technologies (FET)

Expanded from ICT and Energy to be used as cross-cutting funding scheme

Supports frontier research: alternative ideas, concepts or paradigms of risky or non-conventional nature (similar to ERC)

Open, light and agile Roadmap based research

FET Open

• Exploring novel ideas

• Individual research• Early ideas• Coordination and

support action

FET Proactive

• Developing topics and communities – cluster of research projects

• Global System Sciences• Knowing, doing being-

cognition beyond problem solving

• Quantum simulation• Towards exascale high

performance computing

FET Flagship

• Tackling grand interdisciplinary science and technology challenges

• Graphene• Human Brain (HBP)• Support for Flagships

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FET Open:

1. FET OPEN – Novel ideas for radically new technologies Open is open – All technologies, no

thematic restriction Cut off dates: 30/09/2014, 31/03/2015 and

29/09/2015 Total budget: 160M€ in 2014 – 2015 Instrument:

Research and Innovation Action – 154M€

Coordination and Support Actions (CSA) – 6M€

FET

Long –term vision

High Risk

Novelty

Foundational

Interdisciplinary

S&T targeted

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FET Open: FET Gatekeepers

Long-term vision: a new, original or radical long-term vision of technology-enabled possibilities going far beyond the state of the art

•Breakthrough S&T target: scientifically ambitious and technologically concrete breakthroughs plausibly attainable within the life-time of the project.

•Foundational: the breakthroughs must be foundational in the sense that they can establish a basis for a new line of technology not currently anticipated.

•Novelty: new ideas and concepts, rather than the application or incremental refinement of existing ones.

•High-risk: the potential of a new technological direction depends on a whole range of factors that cannot be apprehended from a single disciplinary viewpoint.

•Interdisciplinary: the proposed collaborations must go beyond current mainstream collaboration configurations in joint S&T research, and must aim to advance different scientific and technological disciplines together and in synergy towards a breakthrough.

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FETOPEN 1: FET – Open research projects

Specific challenge: Supporting a large set of early stage, high risk visionary science and technology collaborative research projects is necessary for the successful exploration of new foundations for radically new future technologies. Nurturing fragile ideas requires an agile, risk-friendly and highly interdisciplinary research approach, expanding well beyond the strictly technological disciplines. Recognising and stimulating the driving role of new high-potential actors in research and innovation, such as women, young researchers and high-tech SMEs, is also important for nurturing the scientific and industrial leaders of the future.

Project size: 2 to 4M€ 1 step submission and evaluation of a 16 pages proposal Proposals are not anonymous

Deadlines 30/09/2014 31/03/2015 29/09/2015

Budget 77M€ 38.5M€ 38.5M€

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FETOPEN 2: FET – Coordination and Support Activities 2014

Specific challenge: The challenge is to make Europe the best place in the world for collaborative research on future and emerging technologies that will renew the basis for future European competitiveness and growth, and that will make a difference for society in the decades to come.

Scope: Proposals shall address one of the following topics:

•FET Observatory: identifying new opportunities and directions for FET research

•FET Communication: communicating on FET projects and activities

•FET Exchange: structuring an emerging FET-relevant topic and communities

•FET Conference: supporting the organisation of the third FET Conference

•FET Prizes: identifying suitable areas for prizes and competitions in FET

•FET Impact: Assessing the impacts of the FET programme

Project size: 0.3 to 0.5M€ per topic, up to 1M€ for FET ConferenceDeadlines 30/09/2014

Budget 3.0M€

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FETOPEN 3: FET – Coordination and Support Activities 2015

Specific challenge: The challenge is to make Europe the best place in the world for collaborative research on future and emerging technologies that will renew the basis for future European competitiveness and growth, and that will make a difference for society in the decades to come.

Scope: Proposals shall address one of the following topics:• FET Exchange: structuring an emerging FET-relevant topic and communities• FET Take-Up: actions for stimulating take-up of FET research results towards impact

and innovation

Project size: 0.3 to 0.5M€ per topic

Deadlines 31/03/2015 29/09/2015

Budget 1.5M€ 1.5M€

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FETPROACT 1-3: 2014

Project sizes: 2 to 4M€ (GSS 2-3M€)

-> Deadline: 1/04/2014

Total Budget: 35M€ in WP 2014 – 2015• Results expected by 1 September!• 184 proposals submitted• Updated WP 2014-2015 to be published at the end of June

1. FETPROACT 1: Global Systems Science (GSS) – 20142. FETPROACT 2: Knowing, doing, being: cognition beyond problem solving (GSS) – 20143. FETPROACT 3: Quantum simulation – 2014

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FET - High Performance Computing

HPC is an important asset for the EU's innovation capacity of strategic importance to the EU's industrial and scientific capabilities as well as its citizens: developing innovative industrial products and services, increasing competitiveness, addressing societal and scientific grand challenges more effectively.

Europe has the technology, knowledge and human skills to develop capabilities covering the whole technological spectrum of the next HPC generation (exascale computing)

Importance of developing state-of-the-art HPC technologies, systems, software, applications and services in Europe

All relevant actors, public and private, need to work in partnership Invites the EC to elaborate its plans for HPC to support academic and industrial

research and innovation under H2020

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FET – HPC: Critical Technologies, addressing Societal Challenges

• Health, demographic change and well-being (Personalised medicine, pharma/bio-medical simulations, Virtual

Physiological Human, Human Brain Project)• Smart, green and integrated transport engineering

(performance, sustainability, energy efficiency)• Inclusive, innovative societies

(Smart Cities, multivariable decision/analytics support)• Climate action

(Simulators for Climate & Earth Sciences, Gas&Oil)• Secure, clean and efficient energy

(Fusion, nuclear plant simulations)• Food security, sustainable agriculture, marine research and the bio-economy

(simulation of sustainability factors (e.g. weather forecast, stock plagues and diseases control, etc))

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FETHPC 1: HPC core Technologies, Programming Environments and Algorithms for Extreme Parallelism and Extreme Data Applications - 2014

Specific challenge: Addressing the exascale challenges to achieve, by 2020, the full range of technological capabilities for exascale-class HPC systems which are balanced at all levels and validated with significant application drivers

Scope:

a. Core technologies and architectures (e.g. processors, memory, interconnect and storage) and their optimal integration into HPC systems, platforms and prototypes

b. Programming methodologies, environments languages and tools: new programming models for extreme parallelism and extreme data applications

c. APIs and system software for future extreme scale systems

d. New mathematical and algorithmic approaches (e.g. ultra-scalable algorithms for extreme scale systems with quantifiable performance for existing or visionary applications)

Project size: 2 to 4 M€, up to 8M€ per topic a)

Budget: 93.4M€ -> Deadline 25/11/2014, with a minimum of 60% to be allocated to research under part a) of the scope

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FETHPC 2: HPC Ecosystem Development – 2014

HPC Ecosystem Development – 2014

Specific challenge: To develop a sustainable European HPC Ecosystem

Scope:

•Coordination of the HPC strategy : coordination of the activities of stakeholders such as ETP4HPC, PRACE, application owners and users (including emerging HPC applications), the European exascale computing research community, the open source HPC community, etc.

•Excellence in High Performance Computing Systems : boost European research excellence on the key challenges towards the next generations of high-performance computing systems; cutting across all levels – hardware, architectures, programming, applications; ensure a durable integration of the relevant European research teams; self-sustainability of the research integration on the longer-term

Project size: 2 to 4 M€

Budget: 4M€ -> Deadline 25/11/2014

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Conditions for participation

Minimum conditions: FET, LEIT and Societal Challenges (apart from JTIs)

For standard collaborative actions (RIA and IA) 3 legal entities, each established in different MS/ACFor CSA : 1 legal entityFor SME Instrument and programme co-fund 1 legal entity established in a MS/AC

Industry participation is highly advisable even if not a requirement!

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Funding Model (as per Horizon 2020)

Simplified funding:

Direct Costs:• 100% for Research and Innovation actions (+CSA)• 70% for Innovation (non-profit entities up to 100%)WP to specify the reimbursement rate (RIA or IA)

Indirect Costs:• Flat rate of 25% of total direct costs, excluding subcontracting, costs

of third parties and financial support to third parties

*Funding of the action not exceed total eligible costs minus receipts

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Submission Process

FET- Open Continuously open Cut-off date every 6 months March & Sept, starting as of Sept 2014FET- Proactive Fixed deadline call: 1st April 2014Submission & Evaluation 'Short' proposals , 1 step submission using FET specific template 1 stage evaluation based on FET specific evaluation criteria 4 experts per proposals to best address multi-disciplinary nature of FET

researchGrant Grant based on proposal 'as-is' -> No negotiation

• All information needed has to be in the proposal! (remember IPR, management structure, access right, business plan)

Time to contract of max. 8 months from call deadline/cut-off date

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Eligibility

Standard criteria / FET specific criteria

The part B (cover page and sections 1, 2 and 3) is strictly limited to 16 A4 pages and shall consist of: A single A4 title page with acronym, title and abstract of the proposal. Maximum 15 A4 pages consisting of an S&T section (section 1), an Impact section (section 2) and an Implementation section (section 3).

A proposal that do not comply with these page limits will be declared ineligible.

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Eligibility – cont…

Part A: Administrative part of the proposal

Part B: Scientific part of the proposal16 pages – core proposal • Cover page • Section 1: S&T Excellence • Section 2: Impact • Section 3: Implementation

Additional information • Section 4: Members of the consortium

• I.E: . legal entity, CV, subcontract, third party • Section 5: Ethics and Security

• Ethics self-assessment & supporting documents• Security checklist

Cover page limited to 1 pageSection 1,2 &3 are limited to 15 pages

Section 4 & 5 are not included in the page limit

FET annotated proposal template available

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Evaluation Criteria: Research projectExcellence Impact Implementation

Clarity of targeted breakthrough and its specific science and technology contributions

Importance of the new technological outcome with regards to its transformational impact on technology and/or society.

Quality of the work plan and clarity of intermediate targets.

Novelty, level of ambition and foundational character

Quality of measures for achieving impact on science, technology and/or society.

Relevant expertise in the consortium.

Range and added value from interdisciplinary

Impact from empowerment of new and high potential actors towards future technological leadership.

Appropriate allocation and justification of resources (person-months, equipment, budget).

Appropriateness of the research methods

Threshold:4/5Weight:60%

Threshold:3.5/5Weight:20%

Threshold:3/5Weight:20%

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Evaluation Criteria: CSAExcellence Impact Implementation

Clarity of objectives Transformational impact on the communities and/or practices for high-risk and high-impact research

Quality of the work plan and management structure

Contribution to the coordination and/or support of high-risk and high-impact research for new or emerging areas or horizontally

Appropriateness of measures for spreading excellence, use of results, and dissemination of knowledge, including engagement with stakeholders

Relevant expertise in the consortium.

Appropriateness of the coordination and/or support activities

Appropriate allocation and justification of resources (person-months, equipment, budget).

Threshold:3/5Weight:40%

Threshold:3/5Weight:40%

Threshold:3/5Weight:20%

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Evaluation Summary Report

S&T Excellence Impact Implementation

Panel comments

Expert 1 comments

Expert 2 comments

Score /5 Expert 3 comments

Expert 4 comments

Total weighted score /5

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Evaluation Process

Eligibility Check

Individual Reading

(Remote/on Site)

Consensus Panel Review

Process monitored by independent experts

YES?

Evaluators invited on a call-by-call basis

Balanced selection of experts (scientific expertise, geography, gender)

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Events and Consultations

1. Which network & Internet of Things technologies in Horizon 2020 EU Programme? Deadline 27/06/2014 http://

ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/news/which-network-internet-things-technologies-horizon-2020-eu-programme

2. Have your say on Future and Emerging Technologies! Deadline 15/06/2014Ideas collected are to contribute to the FET WP 2016-2017, especially FET Proactive Initiatives http://

ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/news/have-your-say-future-and-emerging-technologies

3. Future and Emerging Technologies homepage http://

ec.europa.eu/programmes/horizon2020/en/h2020-section/future-and-emerging-technologies

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Research Office EU Team

Renata Schaeffer

Questions on: General queries, funding opportunities and EU policy

Catherine Hill

Questions on: Coordinator grants

Sarah Saemian

Questions on: General queries, Participant Portal and EPSS

Bethan Jones

ERC Officer