Transcript National Skills Academy Network

EUSSET, 2012, Siegen
A (short notice) glimpse over the
Horizon 2020
(btw anyone share a taxi for 13.09 train to Koln?)
Personal perspectives on transitions by Tom McEwan
Chair, BCS Interaction SG 2009-11
Sources: cordis.europa.eu and scotlandeuropa.com
Denmark in the EU Chair
• “The Presidential agenda will be broadly divided between four main
areas, and the intention is for the Presidency to make Europe a more
financially responsible; a more economically dynamic; a safer and
a much greener Union, in which its citizens can prosper. The green
agenda Denmark is promoting will cut across all policy areas,
including agriculture, regional policy, transportation and the internal
market.
• Another priority will be to further the development of Digital Single
Market (...) reducing the number of barriers to online (...legislation to)
remove the economic, logistical and legal obstacles which impede
digital business. (...) foster consumer confidence and online
protection, especially by harmonising and easing the regulations
applying to cross border digital trade in the Internal Market”
• (Source ScotlandEuropa.com)
Research and Innovation
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The Danish Presidency will
Focus on the implementation of the Innovation Union flagship initiative of the
Europe 2020 strategy, which aims, inter alia, to create a European Research
Area (ERA) by 2014 and remove the barriers to researchers’ mobility and
cross‐border cooperation.
(...) achieve Member State agreement on the overall objectives of the new
Horizon 2020 framework for European research and innovation, which has
been allocated a budget of €80bn under the MFF 2014‐2020.
(...) discuss the Commission’s proposals to change the regulation on the
establishment of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology
(EIT), which will both ensure its continuation and provide with a connection to
the Horizon 2020 framework.
(...) ensure that there is a close relationship between the creation of innovative
ideas and their translation into marketable solutions which will foster growth.
But there doesn’t seem much directly in
their schedule for us
• Feb 27‐28: High‐level conference on “a Digital Single Market by 2015”
• Mar 21‐23: International Conference on “Research Infrastructure”
• Apr 23‐25: Conference on “Science in Dialogue”
– and: Informal meeting of Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs
Council
• May 7‐9: High‐level European “e‐Health Conference”
• The real action is in the Competitiveness Council, Council of Ministers
and the Parliament
After Framework 7 Comes ...
• Horizon2020 and COSME - Programme for the Competitiveness of
Enterprises and SMEs (the new CIP) proposals have been published
30 November 2011
• Horizon 2020 (€80 billion) EU funding for research and innovation will
be focused on three strategic objectives, implemented through specific
programmes and a dedicated financial contribution to the EIT.
– Excellent Science
– Industrial Leadership
– Societal Challenges
• COSME (€2.5bn)
– The Programme for the Competitiveness of Enterprises and SMEs, COSME
will focus on financial instruments and support to the internationalisation of
enterprises and it will be simplified – to make it easier for small businesses to
benefit from it.
Horizon 2020 – latest [Date: 2012-02-22]
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“Innovation ministers came together to discuss the Commission's proposals
for Horizon 2020 at a Competitiveness Council meeting in Brussels on 21
February. The plans for a new streamlined EU research and innovation
funding programme, set to kick off in 2014, were outlined by Research,
Innovation and Science Commissioner Máire Geoghegan-Quinn on 30
November 2011.
At the meeting, presided over by Danish Minister for Science, Innovation and
Higher Education Mr Morten Østergaard, ministers discussed cross-cutting
issues within the Horizon 2020 programme, with a particular focus on the role
of social sciences and humanities, as well as small and medium-sized
enterprise (SME) participation
The Commission's draft plan states that the EUR 80 million Horizon 2020
budget will focus on supporting excellence in the science base, tackling
societal challenges and securing industrial leadership and competitive
frameworks.” (source http://cordis.europa.eu/fetch?CALLER=EN_NEWS&ACTION=D&RCN=34325
Next stop the EU parliament! Adoption by 2013
Horizon 2020 seems more integrated with
other funding
• Horizon 2020 is a key pillar of Innovation Union, (for Europe's global
competitiveness – although leading in many technologies, increasing
competition from traditional powers and emerging economies alike.
• Funding provided by Horizon 2020 will be easier to access thanks to
this simpler programme architecture, a single set of rules and
less red tape.
– single flat rate for indirect costs and only two funding rates - for research and for
close to market activities respectively;
– single point of access for participants;
– less paperwork in preparing proposals; and no unnecessary controls and audits.
– Funding received within 100 days of grant application
• Seeking synergies with funds under the EU's Cohesion policy
– identify and advise potential centres of excellence in underperforming regions
– EU Structural Funds can be used to upgrade infrastructure and equipment.
– EUSSET to bring these areas to their attention?
“Excellent science” in Europe €24.6 bn
• Strengthen the EU's position as a world leader in science.
• “€13.2bn for the highly successful European Research Council (ERC),
which provides substantial grants to top-level individual researchers
working in Europe. (Some of you, or your star students?)
• Investment of €3.1bn in future and emerging technologies (FET) to
open up new fields of research and innovation. (Some Sociallyembedded FET?)
• A budget of €5.75bn for the Marie Curie Actions to develop research
and innovation skills through the training, mobility and career
development of researchers.
• Funding of €2.4bn will also be available for supporting access to, and
networking of priority research infrastructures across Europe”.
Industrial Leadership €17.9bn
• To make Europe a more attractive location to invest in research and
innovation.
– “It will include major investments in key industrial technologies such as Information
and Communication Technologies (ICT), nanotechnologies, biotechnology and
space (total of €13.7bn).
– It will facilitate access to risk finance, which has a high leverage on private
investment and has been shown to be a very valuable tool in fighting the lack of risk
capital following the financial crisis (Dedicated budget of €3.5bn).
– It will also provide EU-wide support for innovation in SMEs with high growth
potential.”
• A mechanism to support EUSSET engagement with industry?
Societal challenges €31.7bn
• Six areas “tackling the major issues affecting the lives of European
citizens”. (Come to Papa!!)
• Health, demographic change and well-being;
• Food security, sustainable agriculture, marine and maritime research
and the bio-based economy;
• Secure, clean and efficient energy;
• Smart, green and integrated transport;
• Climate action, resource efficiency and raw materials;
• Inclusive, innovative and secure societies.
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• EUSSET to contribute the social-awareness dimension for
projects for the first five (talk with your colleagues)
• EUSSET consortium to set the agenda for the sixth?
COSME – €2.5b is still worth looking at!
• Objectives to assist 39k firms each year
– Improve access (extra €3.5b leveraging €1.4b) to finance for SMEs in the form
of equity (VC for growth phase) and debt (loan facility). EUSSET can help projects
mitigate risk of social non-acceptance
– Improve access to markets inside the Union and globally: Enterprise Europe
Network within EU and SME business support outside the EU. Support for
international industrial cooperation, particularly to reduce differences in
regulatory and business environments between the EU and its main trading
partners (eg Gartner suggest a 2-year delay to cloud adoption in EU due to
regulatory confusion).
– Promote entrepreneurship: activities will include developing entrepreneurial skills
and attitudes, especially among new entrepreneurs, young people and women.
EUSSET can “embrace and extend” this – “socially responsible
entrepreneurship”
Summary and a possible strategy
• EUSSET has opportunities in all these areas, and shouldn’t limit itself
to one – but this means setting teams to monitor each area, and
feeding back into event-planning
• Our objectives are at the heart of the ethical requirement for both FP7
and H2020, but the nature of our contribution is embedded
• We need to have (non-academic) publications between now and mid2013 establishing thought leadership in sociotechnical ecology – with
“innovation sustainability” our key phrase.
• A strategy?
– We won’t make much headway if we are perceived as doing this for ourselves, or
as a lobby group/special interest group.
– We are the link between our students, colleagues, collaborators in industry, and the
conscience in their projects.
– We socially embed ourselves to make their projects socially-embedded?
But in the meantime FP7 continues
Call 10 (of 12, closes April 2012, €2m)
• http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/
• Eg Objective ICT-2011.10.3 : International partnership building
and support to dialogues
• 3.2012 WP Cooperation_update 2011 WP_ICT_en.pdf – see p.121
• Target outcome
• a) Support to dialogues and cooperation with strategic partner
countries and regions, to create cooperative research links between
European organisations and partners in third countries. The aim is to
support dialogues between the European Commission and strategic
partner countries and regions, and to increase cooperation with
strategic third countries and third country organisations in
collaborative ICT R&D both within FP7 and under third country
programmes.
This could include in particular:
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the identification and analysis of ICT research priorities in third
countries, and the provision of recommendations for future cooperation initiatives, including e.g. coordinated calls, and the
facilitation of access of European organisations to third country
programmes,
• the organisation of events synchronised with dialogue meetings,
providing input and follow-up for example on common R&D priorities,
opportunities and challenges,
• the strengthening of cooperative research links between European
organisations and relevant organisations in third countries, with the
aim of establishing strategic partnerships,
• Targeted countries/regions: ACP, Asia, Eastern Europe and Central
Asia, High Income Countries, Latin America, Mediterranean Partner
Countries and West Balkan Countries.
And ...
• b) Enable Partnership building in low and middle income
countries
• The aim is to leapfrog from traditional promotion support action
projects and launch a set of targeted research projects
(STREP/SICAs) addressing at the same time technology and
business model innovations. Specific technological targets could
include for example lowcost technologies, technologies promoting or
enabling use of ICT, intuitive user interfaces and local content
provisioning.
• Targeted countries: Low and middle income countries 53 including
Africa
Expected impact
• Reinforcement of strategic partnerships with selected countries and
regions in areas of mutual interest and added value in jointly
addressing important issues.
• • Reinforced international dimension of the EU ICT research
programme and higher level of international cooperation with low and
middle income countries in ICT R&D with a focus on areas where the
EU has a comparative advantage and where there are new leadership
opportunities for Europe.
• Activities under this objective should be covered in balanced
partnership with relevant third country organisations. Consortia are
strongly encouraged to include, as appropriate, leading research
centres/universities, relevant industry representation, third country
multipliers (e.g.national research authorities/agencies),
communication specialists and/or experienced market research
organisations.
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• https://cordis.europa.eu/emmfp7/index.cfm