Transcript Lisa - Council of Deans

EU research
funding - Horizon
2020
Lisa Bungeroth
Policy Officer - European Research
UK Higher Education International Unit
February 2014
Overview
• UK HE International Unit – who we are and what we do
• EU research funding – Horizon 2020 et al
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Basics
EU policy context
UK positions and IU/UUK engagement
Health in Horizon 2020
How to get involved
Universities UK (UUK) and the UK
HE International Unit (IU)
• IU represents the whole of the sector
• IU delivers international and European policy for UUK
• IU and UUK working closely together over the whole
course of the budget and programme negotiations
UK HE International Unit
• Policy
• Programmes:
• HEGlobal Phase 2: TNE information service
• Scholarship schemes: SwB Brazil, Dikti Indonesia
• Outward student mobility
• Improving existing schemes: Conacyt Mexico
• Government delegations: Kazakhstan, China, Colombia, Australia,
Indonesia
• IU delegations: Lybia, Myanmar, Chile and Argentina
• Country engagement: Syria, Turkey
UK Higher Education International Unit
Policy
• Supporting UK Government
– Priorities, strategy
• Representing the sector
– delegations
• Dialogue with other Governments
– UKIERI, UK China PIE,
– Malaysia, Turkey, Saudi Arabia
• Influence European Union decision-makers:
– Horizon 2020, Erasmus+, Bologna Process, EU
legislation affecting HE and research
– European University Association, UKRO, Science
Europe, …
EU Research Funding
• Horizon 2020 and non Horizon 2020 funding
• Multilateral research networks
– Joint Technology Initiatives
– Joint Programming Initiatives
– Article 185 Initiatives
– European Innovation Partnerships
• European Structural and Investment Funds
Horizon 2020 - Basics
• Horizon 2020 is the EU’s main funding programme for research and
innovation and will run from 2014 to 2020
• funding programme for all types of actors involved in research and
innovation – academia, research, industry and other stakeholder
organisations
• Horizon 2020 represents EU funding for research and innovation on a larger
scale  no funding for occasional travel for research meetings, or smaller
stand-alone conferences or workshops
• Increasingly competitive
Horizon 2020 - Basics
• Collaborative Project (CP) most common:
– minimum of three participants from three different EU Member States or
countries that are associated to Horizon 2020 (NOR, IL, IC, CH?)
– fund research activities including personnel costs, travel, consumables,
management costs and dissemination
• Co-ordination and Support Actions (CSAs):
– do not fund research as such but fund, for example, the co-ordination of
research policies across Member States in a particular field
• A small or medium-scale Collaborative Project would usually last 2-4 years,
and larger projects could run for 3-5 years
• Funding mainly based on the reimbursement of actual direct costs incurred
for a project plus flatrate for indirect costs
Horizon 2020 – Policy context
Horizon 2020
Horizon 2020 - Background
• Commission Proposals – November 2011
• Competitiveness Council Partial General Approaches on main legislative
texts (excluding Budget) - Autumn 2012
• EP ITRE Committee adopted its report - Autumn 2012
• Trialogue meetings between the Irish Presidency, the Council of the EU
and the EP from January – June 2013
 informal agreement in June
• Final adoption in EP plenary and Council: November/December 2013
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Development of work programmes: Autumn 2013
First calls for proposals: December 2013
Formal launch of Horizon 2020: 1 January 2014
UK launch: 31 January 2014
Main issues in negotiations
Budget
• Commission proposal: €80bn (in constant 2011 prices)
• Final figure in negotiations: €70.2bn (in constant 2011
prices)  €79bn adjusted for inflation
Programme
• Single funding rate vs full cost
• Horizon 2020 architecture
• SME support
IU and UUK engagement
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Extensive briefing of MPs and a letter to David Willetts prior to
the November 2012 Summit  first budget negotiation
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Joint letter with the German Rectors’ Conference (HRK) to
Prime Minister David Cameron and Chancellor Angela Merkel
prior to the February 2013 Summit  second budget
negotiation
IU and UUK engagement
• High-level delegation in May 2013
• Letter to MEPs about effective and sustainable investment in
research and FEC option in June 2013
• Ongoing
– Officer engagement in Brussels
– Feeding in to BIS
– Influencing work programmes
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Horizon 2020 and UK position
• Overall, Horizon 2020 is well-aligned with the UK position:
– Excellence is main funding criterion
– Support across the innovation spectrum
– Focus on societal challenges (ageing population, food security,
climate action etc)
– Enhanced support for European Research Council
– Focus on cross-cutting technologies (ICT, nano, bio)
– Mainstreaming of social sciences and humanities
– Radical simplification (less paperwork, audit burden reduced,
shorter ‘time to grant’ etc)
Policy context: EU research
funding in the UK
• In FP7 so far, the UK has received €6.1bn - 15.4% of the total FP7 funding
 only Germany has received more funding
• UK most successful MS in European Research Council and the Marie Curie
Actions
• The UK is involved in more successful projects than either France or
Germany
• Access to large, transnational, multi-disciplinary projects as well as to
established collaborative networks  increase research impact
• Pooling resources for large infrastructures
Policy context: EU research
funding in the UK
Horizon 2020 structure
EU Research Funding - Health
• H2020
– Societal Challenge 1: Health, demographic change and wellbeing
– Societal Challenge 2: areas relating to health and food;
– Societal Challenge 6: health-related topics within the social sciences
and humanities;
– Societal Challenge 7: health aspects related to crises management and
disaster resilience
– Pillar 2: Leadership in Industrial and Enabling Technologies (LEIT) in
the field of advanced materials and nanotechnology related to health
Health topics across H2020
The Leadership in
Industrial and Enabling
Technologies
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Societal Challenge - 2
Scale-up of
1.
nanomedicine
production
Networking of SMEs
in the nano-biomedical
sector
2.
Biomaterials for the
treatment of diabetes
mellitus
Nanomedicine therapy
for cancer
Biomaterials for
treatment and
3.
prevention of
Alzheimer’s diseases
Assessing the health
risks of combined
human exposure to
multiple food-related
toxic substances
Improving the control
of infectious
epidemics and
foodborne outbreaks
through rapid
identification of
pathogens
Tackling malnutrition
in the elderly
Societal Challenge - 6
1. Always more
inequalities? New
views on equality,
solidarity and
democracy
2. Early job insecurity
and labour market
exclusion
3. Youth mobility:
opportunities, impacts,
policies
4. Inclusive and
sustainable urban
planning for a modern
society
Societal Challenge - 7
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2.
Feasibility study for
strengthening
capacity-building and
security protection in
case of large-scale
pandemics
Crises and disaster
resilience –
operationalizing
resilience concepts
EU Research Funding - Health
• Non-H2020
– EU Health for Growth Programme (DG SANCO)  nursing, midwifery
and the allied health professions more directly included here
 WP expected for March
• Multilateral research networks
– Ambient Assisted Living joint programme
– Joint Programming Initiative ‘More Years, Better Lives’
– JPI on Neurodegenerative Diseases
– JPI on Antimicrobial Resistance
– JTI: Innovative Medicines Initiative 2 (IMI)
– Article 185: European and Developing Country Clinical Trials Partnership
(EDCTP)
– Active and Healthy Aging European Innovation Partnership
Main differences
– FP7 to H2020
• Simplification – single reimbursement rate, shorter time to
grant etc.
• H2020 is a research and innovation programme, and not just
research as in FP7 (integration of FP, EIT, CIP under one
programme)
• New instruments such as Fast Track to Innovation
• Call topics more open/ less prescriptive
• ‘Challenge-based’ Pillar 3
How to get involved
• Publication of work programmes and calls for proposals:
– Work programmes explain what is funded and what is expected from
project in terms of policy impact
– Calls for proposals give details on the eligibility criteria and the timeline
(deadline, evaluation, results)
• Horizon 2020 Participant Portal
http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/home.html
How to get involved
• Expert Advisory Groups
– Call for expressions of interest is still ongoing (first groups have been
selected) 
http://ec.europa.eu/research/horizon2020/index_en.cfm?pg=h2020experts
– 15 groups, consisting of 20-30 experts
• EU evaluators database
(http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/page/experts)
• Start thinking
– Horizon 2020 proposals - do they cover your research area?
– Networking and building links with potential partners now
Thank you.
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