Transcript High-level Summary of Work Programmes

High-level Summary of Work
Programmes
Official Draft Work Programmes of the
European Commission’s forthcoming
funding calls:
http://ec.europa.eu/research/horizon2020/i
ndex_en.cfm?pg=h2020-documents.
Pillar I: Excellent Science
• European Research
Council (ERC) Funding:
Frontier research by the
best individual teams
• Future and Emerging
Technologies:
Collaborative research to
open new fields of
innovation
• Marie Sklodowska-Curie
actions (MSCA):
Opportunities for training
and career development
• Research infrastructures
(including einfrastructure): Ensuring
access to world-class
facilities
Pillar II: Industrial
Leadership
Pillar III: Societal
Challenges
• Leadership in enabling
and industrial
technologies (LEITs): 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
• Health, demographic
change and wellbeing
• Food quality and marine
research
• Energy
• Transport
• Climate action, resources
and raw materials
• Inclusive societies
• Science with and for
society
• Spreading excellence and
widening participationno further information
available
How to read Work Programmes?
• Broad theme/focus areas
• Sub themes/ focus areas
• Topic – 2014/15 or 2015
e.g. MG.1.2-2015: XXX
SEAC.1.2014.2015: XXX
ICT 1 – 2014: XXX
e.g. CALL – ENERGY EFFICIENCY
A – Buildings and consumers
EE 1 – 2014: Manufacturing of prefabricated modules for
renovation of building
Pillar I: Excellent Science
• European Research Council (ERC) Funding:
Frontier research by the best individual teams
• Future and Emerging Technologies: Collaborative
research to open new fields of innovation
• Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions (MSCA):
Opportunities for training and career development
• Research infrastructures (including einfrastructure): Ensuring access to world-class
facilities
Pillar I: ERC Grants
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Ground-breaking, high-gain/ high-risk research, frontier research across Europe.
Scientific excellence is the sole criterion on the basis of which ERC frontier research grants are
awarded.
A 'bottom-up' basis without predetermined priorities approach
The ERC puts particular emphasis on the frontiers of science, scholarship and engineering, It
encourages proposals of an interdisciplinary nature which cross the boundaries between different
fields of research, pioneering proposals addressing new and emerging fields of research or
proposals introducing unconventional, innovative approaches and scientific inventions.
PI- hosted by an EU organisation
Team members: any legal entity (SA participants can’t be PI only team members)
It is expected that the research project will be implemented within the territory of the EU but this
does not exclude field work or other research activities in cases where these must necessarily
be conducted outside the EU or the Associated Countries in order to achieve the scientific
objectives of the project/activity.
It is also expected that the host institution will be the only participating legal entity. However,
where they bring scientific added value to the project, additional team members may be hosted
by additional legal entities which will be eligible for funding, and which may be legal entities
established anywhere, including outside the EU, or international organisations. Legal entities
established outside the EU shall be eligible for funding provided that their participation is
deemed essential for carrying out the action.
ERC frontier grant types
Starting Grants:
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PIs at the career stage at which they are starting their own independent research team or programme. The PI shall
have been awarded their first PhD at least 2 and up to 7 years prior to the publication date of the call for
proposals of the ERC Starting Grant.
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PI should also be able to demonstrate a promising track record of early achievements appropriate to their
research field and career stage.
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Starting Grants may be awarded up to a maximum of EUR 1 500 000 for a period of 5 years
Consolidator Grants:
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PIs at the career stage at which they may still be consolidating their own independent research team or
programme. The PI shall have been awarded their first PhD over 7 and up to 12 years prior to the publication
date of the call for proposals of the ERC Consolidator Grant.
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PI will have produced several important publications without the participation of their PhD supervisor. AND be
able to demonstrate a promising track record of early achievements appropriate to their research field and
career stage.
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Consolidator Grants may be awarded up to a maximum of EUR 2 000 000 for a period of 5 years
Advanced Grants:
PIs at the career stage at which they are already established research leaders with a recognised track record of
research achievements.
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Principal Investigators for the prestigious ERC Advanced Grant are expected to be active researchers and to have a
track record of significant research achievements in the last 10 years
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Advanced Grants may be awarded up to a maximum of EUR 2 500 000 for a period of 5 years
Proof of Concept Grants: ERC Proof of Concept Grants may be used for conducting further work (i.e. activities which
were not scheduled to be funded by the original ERC frontier research grant) to verify the innovation potential of an
idea arising from an ERC funded project. Proof of Concept Grants are therefore on offer only to PIs whose proposals
draw substantially on their ERC funded research.
Future and Emerging Technologies: Collaborative
research to open new fields of innovation
FET Open supports early-stage joint science and technology research
around new ideas for radically new future technologies.
• Non-prescriptive, New technological possibilities, inspired by
cutting-edge science, unconventional collaborations or new
research and innovation practices. Early detection of promising new
areas, developments and trends, along with attracting new boldvisioned and high-potential research and innovation players will be
key.
• 40% of the overall FET budget in Horizon 2020
FET Proactive nurtures emerging themes and communities by
addressing a number of promising exploratory research themes with
the potential to generate a critical mass of inter-related projects that,
together, make up a broad and multifaceted exploration of the
themes and build a European pool of knowledge and excellence.
FET Proactive- 4 themes
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Global Systems Science (GSS) aims to radically improve the way in which scientific knowledge can
stimulate, guide, and help evaluate policy and societal responses to global challenges like climate
change, global financial crisis, global pandemics, and growth of cities – urbanisation and migration.
This is a highly interdisciplinary theme with strong impacts across different sectors of policy and
society.
'Knowing, doing and being: cognition beyond problem solving' aims at renewing ties between the
different disciplines studying knowledge, cognition and related issues (e.g., embodiment, ,
development, insight, identity, responsibility, culture…) from various perspectives (e.g., neural,
physical, social, ecological), to artificial cognitive systems beyond the level of dull task execution or
repetitive problem solving. This topic has been selected to stimulate new interdisciplinary
configurations and for its potential to boost future innovation potential in robotics, materials and
cyber-physical systems.
'Quantum Simulation' challenges the research community to develop solutions using quantum
technologies that will ultimately address real world problems, with a potential for disruptive
change. It focuses on quantum simulation to address problems that are fundamentally beyond the
reach of classical computing, e.g. in quantum materials science or the life sciences.
'Towards exascale high-performance computing' is the science and technology building block of
Europe's trailblazing and timely initiative to achieve world-class extreme scale computing
capabilities in terms of platforms, technologies and applications. The increasing demand for
computing power from all areas of modern science and industrial engineering cannot be met
without radically new architectures, new algorithmic approaches and the interdisciplinary codesign of software and applications.
FET Flagships
Support ambitious large-scale, science-driven research aimed
at grand interdisciplinary S&T challenges.
• The Graphene flagship pushes the science and
technologies for a new class of material beyond the era of
silicon, bringing graphene and related 2D-materials, from
academic labs to industry, manufacturing and society.
• Human Brain Project (HBP) aims to simulate and better
understand the Human Brain in order to develop new
diagnostic tools and treatments for brain diseases, as well
as new classes of low-energy technologies with brain-like
intelligence, such as neuromorphic computing.
Example: FETPROACT 1 - 2014: Global Systems Science (GSS)
Specific challenge: The ambition is to improve the way scientific knowledge can help inform and evaluate policy and societal responses to global
challenges like climate change, global financial crises, global pandemics, and growth of cities – urbanisation and migration patterns. These
challenges entangle actions across different sectors of policy and society and must be addressed by radically novel ideas and thinking for
producing, delivering, and embedding scientific evidence into the policy and societal processes.
GSS will put to full use the abundance of data on social, economic, financial, technological, and ecological systems available today. GSS
emphasises systems thinking and the need to integrate/link data, models, and policies across all policy sectors with all societal actors. GSS will
build on results from, among others, Complex Systems Science, Network Science, Mathematics of Big Data, the life sciences, social sciences and
humanities, behavioural sciences, statistics, econophysics, etc.
Scope: Proposals must address all of the below elements, necessary to successfully embed scientific evidence in the policy processes for tackling
global challenges:
• Research grounded in theoretical foundations of, among others, systemic risk, decision making under uncertainty or conflicting evidence,
mathematics and computer science for Big Data (including their characteristics), algorithmic game theory, cascading/escalating effects in
networks, integration and visualisation of Big Data…
• Contributions to solving real world problems in one selected problem area - for instance tackling systemic risk in finance/economics, managing
growth of cities and migration, or global pandemics – and in particular to tackle cross-cutting policy dependencies and interactions affecting the
area of choice.
• Novel ideas and technologies to generate and better communicate the scientific evidence-base: advanced simulation of highly interconnected
systems; mathematical and tools for analysing (often unstructured) Big Data; integration of the whole spectrum of structure and unstructured
data; methods to deal with conflicting data and modeling results; novel data visualisation tools.
• Society/human-centred technologies, for instance, new approaches to allow citizens to actively participate in the policy process, to collectively
gather and integrate data, analyse evidence, and novel methods to better judge and use scientific evidence: methods, e.g. games, gamification,
and narratives to clearly and consistently convey data and modeling results and thereby to stimulate societal responses.
The Commission considers that proposals requesting a contribution from the EU of between EUR 2 and 3 million would allow this specific
challenge to be addressed appropriately. Nonetheless, this does not preclude submission and selection of proposals requesting other amounts.
Expected impact:
• Level to which research proposed is rooted in policy needs, promotes system thinking, and is delivering consistent messages from conflicting
data and model results.
• Level of use/uptake of GSS tools and methods in the policy and societal processes, including in EC policies.
• Capacity of GSS to help integrate societal responses across policy domains and cross-cutting authorities by development of a system-wide
integrated evidence base of data and models.
Type of action: Research and Innovation Actions (100% funding)
The conditions related to this topic are provided at the end of this call and in the General Annexes.
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
• The Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions ensure excellent and
innovative research training as well as attractive career and
knowledge-exchange opportunities through cross-border and
cross-sector mobility of researchers to best prepare them to face
current and future societal challenges.
• The Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions are open to all domains of
research and innovation, from basic research up to market take-up
and innovation services. Research and innovation fields as well as
sectors are chosen freely by the applicants in a fully bottom-up
manner.
• Mobility is a key requirement in the Marie Skłodowska-Curie
actions. Researchers receive funding on the condition that they
move from one country to another to broaden or deepen their
competences.
Innovative Training Networks (ITN)
Objective:
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The Innovative Training Networks (ITN) aim to train a new generation of creative, entrepreneurial and innovative
early-stage researchers, able to face current and future challenges and to convert knowledge and ideas into
products and services for economic and social benefit.
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Partnerships take the form of collaborative European Training Networks (ETN), European Industrial Doctorates (EID)
or European Joint Doctorates (EJD).
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At least three beneficiaries (or at least two for EID) located in three different EU Member States and/or Associated
Countries. Above this minimum, the participation of institutions from any country or organisation is possible
under the conditions provided by the Horizon 2020 Rules for Participation.
Individual Fellowships (IF)
Objective:
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The goal of Individual Fellowships is to enhance the creative and innovative potential of experienced researchers
wishing to diversify their individual competence in terms of skill acquisition at multi- or interdisciplinary level
through advanced training, international and intersectoral mobility.
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Individual Fellowships provide opportunities to acquire new knowledge and to work on research in a European
context (EU Member States and Associated Countries) or outside Europe. The scheme particularly supports the
return and reintegration of researchers from outside Europe who have previously worked here. It also develops or
helps to restart the careers of individual researchers that show great potential, considering their experience.
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Fellowships are either European Fellowships or Global Fellowships. European Fellowships are held in EU Member
States or Associated Countries and are open to researchers currently within and outside Europe. The country where
the European Fellowship is held is subject to the rules of mobility. Global Fellowships are based on a secondment to
a third country and a mandatory 12 month return period to a European host. The country where the Global
Fellowship secondment takes place is subject to the rules of mobility, whereas the return phase is not.
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In Individual Fellowships (IF), the beneficiary shall be a participant established in an EU Member State or
Associated Country and employing the researcher during the project.
Research and Innovation Staff Exchange (RISE)
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The RISE scheme will promote international and inter-sector collaboration through research and innovation staff
exchanges, and sharing of knowledge and ideas from research to market (and vice-versa) for the advancement of
science and development of innovation. The scheme fosters a shared culture of research and innovation that
welcomes and rewards creativity and entrepreneurship and helps to turn creative ideas into innovative products,
services or processes.
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Exchanges can be for both early-stage and experienced researchers' levels and can also include administrative,
managerial and technical staff supporting the research and innovation activities of the proposal.
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Participants in the Research and Innovation Staff Exchange (RISE) shall be established in at least three different
countries of which at least two must be EU Member States and/or Associated Countries. If all participants are
from the same sector (either only academic or only non-academic), at least one participant must be from a third
country. Above this minimum, the participation of institutions from any country or organisation is possible under
the conditions provided by the Horizon 2020 Rules for Participation.
Co-funding of regional, national and international programmes (COFUND)
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The COFUND scheme aims at stimulating regional, national or international programmes to foster excellence in
researchers' training, mobility and career development, spreading the best practices of Marie Skłodowska-Curie
actions.
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This will be achieved by co-funding new or existing regional, national, and international programmes to open up
to, and provide for, international, intersectoral and interdicisplinary research training, as well as transnational and
cross-sector mobility of researchers at all stages of their career.
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Participants submit multi-annual proposals for new or existing doctoral programmes or fellowship programmes
that may be run at regional, national or international level. The evaluation is organised in two different panels: A)
Doctoral programmes and B) Fellowship programmes. Support cannot be awarded to researchers who are already
permanently employed at the host organisation.
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Participants in the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Co-funding of regional, national and international programmes
(COFUND) shall be legal entities established in an EU Member State or Associated Country that fund or manage
doctoral programmes or fellowship programmes for researchers. International European interest organisations
that fund or manage doctoral programmes or fellowship programmes for researchers can also participate in this
action.
European Researchers' Night (NIGHT)
The European Researchers' Night aims to bring
researchers closer to the general public and to increase
awareness of research and innovation activities, with a
view to supporting the public recognition of
researchers, creating an understanding of the impact of
researchers' work on citizen’s daily life, and
encouraging young people to embark on scientific
careers.
Call for Marie Skłodowska-Curie Co-funding of regional, national and international programmes (COFUND)
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Objective: The COFUND scheme aims at stimulating regional, national or international programmes to foster excellence in researchers'
training, mobility and career development, spreading the best practices of Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions. This will be achieved by cofunding new or existing regional, national, and international programmes to open up to, and provide for, international, intersectoral and
interdisciplinary research training, as well as transnational and cross-sectoral mobility of researchers at all stages of their career.
Scope: Each proposal funded under the COFUND scheme shall have a sole participant that will be responsible for the availability of the
necessary matching funds to execute the proposal. Participants submit multi-annual proposals for new or existing doctoral programmes
or fellowship programmes that may be run at regional, national or international level. The evaluation is organised in two different
panels: A) Doctoral programmes and B) Fellowship programmes. Support cannot be awarded to researchers who are already permanently
employed at the host organisation. Doctoral programmes address the development and broadening of the research competencies of earlystage researchers. The training follows the EU Principles on Innovative Doctoral Training. Collaboration with a wider set of partners,
including from the non-academic sector, which may provide hosting or secondment opportunities or training in research or transferable
skills, as well as innovative elements of the proposed programme, will be positively taken into account during the evaluations. Each
researcher must be enrolled in a doctoral programme. Attention is paid to the quality of supervision and mentoring arrangements as well
as career guidance. Fellowship programmes fund individual research training and career development fellowships for experienced
researchers. The programmes supported should have regular selection rounds following fixed deadlines or regular cut-off dates, allowing
fair competition between the researchers applying. The selections should be based on open, widely advertised competition, with
transparent international peer review and the selection of candidates on merit. Mobility types supported by fellowship programmes may
be similar to the ones supported under Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships. On top of transnational mobility, applicants are
encouraged to include elements of cross-sectoral mobility into their programmes. Fellowship programmes should be based on individualdriven mobility, i.e., researchers should be able to freely choose a research topic and the appropriate host organisation fitting their
individual needs. Limitations regarding the researchers' origin and destination should be avoided. Given that the aim of the co-funded
fellowship programmes is the support of individual fellows, research teams will not be funded. Proposed fellowship programmes are
encouraged to cover all research disciplines ("bottomup"), but can also focus on specific disciplines. In this case the range of covered
disciplines should allow reasonable flexibility for the researchers. Programmes that prioritise specific research disciplines based on
national or regional Research and Innovation Strategies for Smart Specialisation (RIS3 strategies) will also be supported. Researchers
supported under this scheme should comply with the mobility rules of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions. Existing programmes can
deviate from this rule if duly justified in the proposal by the applicant.
Expected impact:
The COFUND scheme will on a voluntary basis exploit synergies between European Union actions and those at regional and national level,
as well as with other actions at international level. The scheme will have a leverage effect on regional, national or international funding
programmes for early-stage researchers and experienced researchers. This impact is expected to extend to:
1. enabling the relevant regional, national and international actors to contribute significantly to the development within their own setting of
high quality human resources, by introducing and/or further developing the trans-national dimension of their offers;
2. increasing the numerical and/or qualitative impact, in terms of supported researchers or working/employment conditions;
3. combating fragmentation in terms of objectives, evaluation methods and working conditions of regional, national or international offers
in this area.
Type of action: Marie Skłodowska-Curie COFUND (Programme Co-fund Action).
CONDITIONS FOR THIS CALL
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Publication date: 10 April 201412
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Deadline(s): 02 October 2014 at 17.00.00 Brussels time
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Indicative budget: EUR 80.00 million from the 2014 budget. Of this amount, EUR 30 million is allocated to Doctoral Programmes.
The European Union contribution has maximum overall of EUR 10 million to a single applicant legal entity for one call.
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Duration: Selected programmes will have a duration of 36 to 60 months from the starting date specified in the Agreement. This
duration includes also the time that is needed to select or recruit the researchers.
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Eligibility and admissibility conditions: The eligibility conditions for Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions apply. Please read the dedicated
section in this part of the work programme. The admissibility conditions are described in part B of the General Annexes to the work
programme, with the following exception:
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The following supporting documents will be required to determine the operational capacity: • A description of the profile of the
persons who will be responsible for carrying out the proposed work; • A description of administrative resources to implement the
programme; • A description of partner organisations who will be contributing towards the work by hosting researchers.
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Evaluation criteria: The selection and award criteria for Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions apply. Please read the dedicated section in
this part of the work programme.
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Evaluation procedure: The evaluation procedure for Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions apply. Please read the dedicated section in this
part of the work programme.
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Proposal page limits and layout: A maximum length of the proposal is of 30 pages. Experts will be instructed to disregard any excess
pages. The minimum font size allowed is 11 points. The page size is A4, and all margins (top, bottom, left, right) should be at least 15
mm (not including any footers or headers). Ensure that the font type chosen is clearly readable (e.g. Arial or Times New Roman).
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Indicative timetable for evaluation and grant agreement: Information on the outcome of the evaluation (one stage): Maximum 5
months from the final date for submission. Indicative date for the signing of grant agreements: Maximum 3 months from the date of
informing applicants. Consortium agreement: Not applicable - this is a mono-beneficiary action.
Research infrastructures (including e-infrastructure)
Ensuring access to world-class facilities
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Research infrastructures are facilities, resources and services that are used by the
research communities to conduct research and foster innovation in their fields.
Where relevant, they may be used beyond research, e.g. for education or public
services.
• They include: major scientific equipment (or sets of instruments); knowledgebased resources such as collections, archives or scientific data; e-infrastructures,
such as data and computing systems and communication networks; and any other
infrastructure of a unique nature essential to achieve excellence in research and
innovation.
• Such infrastructures may be 'single-sited', ‘virtual’ or 'distributed'.
Broad areas:
• Developing new world-class research infrastructures
• Integrating and opening research infrastructures of pan-European interest
• e-Infrastructures
• Support to Innovation, Human resources, Policy and International cooperation
Pillar II: Industrial Leadership
• Leadership in enabling and industrial
technologies (LEITs): 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
FOCUS AREA: INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION
TECHNOLOGIES CALLS
• Sub-focus area: A new generation of components
and systems
• Sub-focus area: Advanced Computing
• Sub-focus area: Future Internet
• Sub-focus area: Content technologies and
information management
• Sub-focus area: Robotics
• Sub-focus area: Micro- and nano-electronic
technologies, Photonics
• Sub-focus area: ICT Cross-Cutting Activities
FOCUS AREA: NANOTECHNOLOGIES, ADVANCED MATERIALS, BIOTECHNOLOGY AND ADVANCED
MANUFACTURING AND PROCESSING
Sub-focus area: Bridging the gap between nanotechnology research and markets
Sub-focus area: Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials for more effective Healthcare
Sub-focus area: Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials for low-carbon energy technologies and
Energy Efficiency
Sub-focus area: Exploiting the cross-sector potential of Nanotechnologies and Advanced
materials to drive competitiveness and sustainability
Sub-focus area: Safety of nanotechnology-based applications and support for the development of
regulation
Sub-focus area: Addressing generic needs in support of governance, standards, models and
structuring in nanotechnology, advanced materials and advanced manufacturing and processing
CALL FOR BIOTECHNOLOGIES
Sub-focus area: Cutting-edge biotechnologies as future innovation drivers
Sub-focus area: Biotechnology-based industrial processes driving competitiveness and
sustainability
Sub-focus area: Innovative and competitive platform technologies
CALL FOR FACTORIES OF THE FUTURE
CALL FOR ENERGY-EFFICIENT BUILDINGS
CALL FOR SUSTAINABLE PROCESS INDUSTRIES
Pillar III: Societal Challenges
• Health, demographic change and wellbeing
• Food quality and marine research
• Energy
• Transport
• Climate action, resources and raw materials
• Inclusive societies
• Science with and for society
• Spreading excellence and widening participationno further information available
Pillar III: Societal Challenges
HEALTH, DEMOGRAPHIC CHANGE AND WELLBEING – Focus area:
personalising health and care
• Topics in the call are divided into 7 areas which reflect the need for
a translational and integrated approach to the challenge, providing
support both to longer and mid-term research as well as to shorter
term innovation activities.
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Understanding health, ageing and disease
Effective health promotion, disease prevention, preparedness and
screening
Improving diagnosis
Innovative treatments and technologies
Advancing active and healthy ageing
Integrated, sustainable, citizen-centred care
Improving health information, data exploitation and providing an
evidence base for health policies and regulation
Example
Understanding health, ageing and disease
PHC 1 – 2014: Understanding health, ageing and disease: determinants, risk factors and pathways
Specific challenge: The development and preservation of good health, and the occurrence and evolution of common diseases and disabilities result from
varying degrees of interaction between the genetic make-up of individual human beings and behavioural, environmental, occupational, nutritional and
other modifiable lifestyle factors. This applies from the earliest stages of development throughout life.
Understanding these factors, their interactions and the extent to which they contribute to disease development is important for the development of
preventive and therapeutic measures supporting good health, prolonged active independence and a productive working life, not least in the context of
changing demographic patterns and the ageing of the European population. In particular, proposals should contribute to improving risk identification and
validation, and will allow better diagnosis, risk-based prevention strategies and policies.
Scope:
EITHER:
i. The identification of health trends and determinants, their validation, and the validation of risk factors for disease and disability, through the
generation, integration and validation of data derived from relevant disciplines (e.g. molecular, behavioural, nutritional, clinical, environmental
epidemiology; exposure sciences; genetics, epigenetics, etc.). This should involve the exploitation of existing cohorts and longitudinal studies and the
assessment of the necessity to establish new ones, as well as where relevant, the valorisation of knowledge gained from population-based bio-banks.
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ii. The identification of determinants and pathways characteristic of healthy and active ageing (from early stages of development onwards) and of health
deterioration caused by time, disease accumulation and the abovementioned risk factors and their interactions.
In both cases, sex and gender differences should be taken into account.
The Commission considers that proposals requesting a contribution from the EU of between EUR 4 and 6 million would allow this specific challenge to be
addressed appropriately. Nonetheless, this does not preclude submission and selection of proposals requesting other amounts.
Expected impact: In both cases, proposals should provide a better understanding of the combined effects of factors causing health and disease, with the
knowledge generated underpinning the future development of evidence based prevention, diagnostic, therapeutic and other strategies.
For option:
i. This should provide evidence for risk identification, underpinning future preventive, diagnostic and therapeutic strategies and policies
For option:
ii. This should provide a better understanding of pathways of healthy ageing, underpinning future strategies for the promotion of healthy ageing,
targeted disease prevention and clinical interventions
Type of action: Research and innovation actions
The conditions related to this topic are provided at the end of this call and in the General Annexes
FOOD SECURITY, SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY, MARINE AND
MARITIME AND INLAND WATER RESEARCH AND THE BIOECONOMY
Call for Sustainable Food Security
• Sustainable food production systems
• Safe food and healthy diets and sustainable consumption
• Global drivers of food security
Call for Blue Growth: Unlocking the potential of Seas and Oceans
• Sustainably exploiting the diversity of marine life
• New offshore challenges
• Ocean observation technologies/systems
Horizontal aspects, socio-economic sciences, innovation, engagement with society and
ocean governance across the blue growth focus area
SECURE, CLEAN AND EFFICIENT ENERGY
CALL – ENERGY EFFICIENCY
• Buildings and consumers
• Heating and cooling
• Industry and products
• Finance for sustainable energy
CALL – COMPETITIVE LOW-CARBON ENERGY
• Renewable electricity and heating/cooling
• Modernising the European electricity grid
• Providing the energy system with flexibility through enhanced energy storage technologies
• Sustainable biofuels and alternative fuels for the European transport fuel mix
• Enabling the decarbonisation of the use of fossil fuels during the transition to a low carbon
economy
• Social, environmental and economic aspects of the energy system
CALL – SMART CITIES AND COMMUNITIES
• Enhancing the roll-out of Smart Cities and Communities solutions by stimulating the market
demand
CALL – SMEs AND FAST TRACK TO INNOVATION FOR ENERGY
TRANSPORT
CALL ‘MOBILITY FOR GROWTH’
Areas addressing mode-specific challenges (technical and socio-economic)
1. Aviation
2. Rail
3. Road
4. Waterborne
Areas addressing transport integration specific challenges (technical and socio-economic)
5. Urban
6. Logistics
7. Intelligent Transport Systems
8. Infrastructure
Areas addressing cross-cutting issues
9. Socio-economic and behavioural research and forward looking activities for policy making
CALL ‘GREEN VEHICLES’
CALL ‘SMALL BUSINESS AND FAST TRACK INNOVATION FOR TRANSPORT’
Example: MG.1.1-2014. Competitiveness of European aviation through cost efficiency and innovation
Specific challenge: The aviation sector contributes 2% to the EU GDP. It is also an important source of jobs creating directly 1.7 million jobs
(among which 480 000 skilled jobs in aeronautics) and supporting another 2 million indirect jobs. The aeronautics sector alone generates a
turnover of EUR 70 billion and exports 60% of its production. With 12% of its turnover invested in research and innovation, aeronautics is
one of the most research intensive sectors and is one of the world leaders in terms of production, employment and exports. The long life
cycle of aircraft requires long term investments with high risks. In order to preserve its leadership and jobs, the European aviation industry
must have the capacity to deliver the best products and services in a time and cost efficient manner and to offer new and innovative
products, vehicles and services, with improved environmental performance.
Scope: Regarding aircraft, research and innovation actions could target the development of technologies and methodologies which have
the potential to save costs and time across the whole life cycle of the aircraft (design, production, maintenance, overhaul, repair and
retrofit), including for certification aspects. Research and innovation actions could also target the integration of additional functions (e.g.
sensing, actuating) or materials in structural components of the aircraft, the increased use of automation and artificial intelligence in
control systems allowing versatility and new capabilities or to provide passenger with additional services on-board of the aircraft or at the
airport. Regarding air transport operations, research and innovation actions could target cost efficiency of ground operations, as well as
innovative approaches which can reduce the needs or accelerate the pace of the training of personnel.
The Commission considers that proposals requesting a contribution from the EU of between EUR 5 to 8 million each would allow this
specific challenge to be addressed appropriately. Nonetheless, this does not preclude submission and selection of proposals requesting
smaller or larger amounts.
Expected impact: Actions will demonstrate in a quantified manner their potential to mature the Technology Readiness Level (TRL; please
see part G of the General Annexes), in the range 1-6, of technologies and concepts that can make a significant contribution towards the
following high level goals by 2050 with reference year 2000: • The whole Europe aviation industry is strongly competitive and retains
leading edge design, manufacturing and system integration capabilities and associated jobs thanks to significantly decreased development
costs (including a reduction of costs of certification by 50%).
Actions will also provide ad-hoc indicators to measure the expected progress in terms of, for example, reduction of production or
certification times and costs, when comparing the situation before the start of the action and after the implementation of its results. In the
case of novel products and services, the potential markets will be identified together with the potential corresponding volumes / value.
Type of action: Research and Innovation Actions
The conditions related to this topic are provided at the end of this call and in the General Annexes.
CLIMATE ACTION, RESOURCES AND RAW MATERIALS
Call for Waste: a resource to recycle, reuse and recover raw materials
Call for Water innovation: boosting its value for Europe
Call for Growing a low carbon, resource efficient economy with a
sustainable supply of raw materials
– Fighting and adapting to climate change
– Protecting the environment, sustainably managing natural resources, water, biodiversity
and ecosystems ensuring the sustainable supply of non-energy and non-agricultural raw
materials
– Enabling the transition towards a green economy through eco-innovation
– Developing comprehensive and sustained global environmental observation and
information systems
INCLUSIVE SOCIETIES
• Call for overcoming the crisis: new ideas, strategies
and governance structures for Europe
• Call for the young generation in an innovative,
inclusive and sustainable Europe
• Call for reflective societies: cultural heritage and
european identities
• Europe as a global actor
• New forms of innovation
SCIENCE WITH AND FOR SOCIETY
• Call for making science education and careers
attractive for young people
• Call for promoting gender equality in research and
innovation
• Call for integrating society in science and innovation
• Call for developing governance for the advancement
of responsible research and innovation
Spreading excellence and widening
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