Horizon 2020

About the Horizon 2020 Programme:

Horizon 2020 is the biggest EU Research and Innovation programme ever with nearly €80 billion of funding available over 7 years (2014 to 2020) – in addition to the private investment that this money will attract. It promises more breakthroughs, discoveries and world-firsts by taking great ideas from the lab to the market.

Horizon 2020 is the financial instrument implementing theInnovation Union, a Europe 2020 flagship initiative aimed at securing Europe's global competitiveness.

Seen as a means to drive economic growth and create jobs, Horizon 2020 has the political backing of Europe’s leaders and the Members of the European Parliament. They agreed that research is an investment in our future and so put it at the heart of the EU’s blueprint for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth and jobs.

By coupling research and innovation, Horizon 2020 is helping to achieve this with its emphasis on excellent science, industrial leadership and tackling societal challenges. The goal is to ensure Europe produces world-class science, removes barriers to innovation and makes it easier for the public and private sectors to work together in delivering innovation.

Horizon 2020 is open to everyone, with a simple structure that reduces red tape and time so participants can focus on what is really important. This approach makes sure new projects get off the ground quickly – and achieve results faster.

The EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation will be complemented by further measures to complete and further develop the European Research Area. These measures will aim at breaking down barriers to create a genuine single market for knowledge, research and innovation.

Priorities:

Priority 1. Excellent science
Why:
• World class science is the foundation of tomorrow’s technologies, jobs and wellbeing
• Europe needs to develop, attract and retain research talent
• Researchers need access to the best infrastructures
 
Proposed funding (Million EUR):

European Research Council (ERC): Frontier research by the best individual teams

13.095

Future and Emerging Technologies: Collaborative research to open new fields of innovation

2.696
Marie Sk?odowska-Curie actions (MSCA): Opportunities for training and career development
6.162
Research infrastructures (including e-infrastructure): Ensuring access to world-class facilities
2.488
 
Priority 2.Industrial leadership
Why:
• Strategic investments in key technologies (e.g. advanced manufacturing, micro-electronics) underpin innovation across existing and emerging sectors
• Europe needs to attract more private investment in research and innovation
• Europe needs more innovative small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to create growth and jobs
 
Proposed funding (Million EUR):
Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies (LEITs) (ICT, nanotechnologies, materials, biotechnology, manufacturing, space)
13.557
Access to risk finance Leveraging private finance and venture capital for research and innovation
2.842
Innovation in SMEs Fostering all forms of innovation in all types of SMEs
616 + complemented by expected 20% of budget of societal challenges + LEITs and 'Access to risk finance' with strong SME focus

 

Priority 3. Societal challenges
Why:
• Concerns of citizens and society/EU policy objectives (climate, environment, energy, transport, etc) cannot be achieved without innovation
• Breakthrough solutions come from multi-disciplinary collaborations, including social sciences & humanities
• Promising solutions need to be tested, demonstrated and scaled up
 
Proposed funding (Million EUR):
Health, demographic change and wellbeing
7.472
Food security, sustainable agriculture, marine and maritime research & the Bioeconomy
3.851
Secure, clean and efficient energy *
5.931
Smart, green and integrated transport
6.339
Climate action, resource efficiency and raw materials
3.081
Inclusive and reflective societies
1.309
Secure societies
1.695
Science with and for society 
462
Spreading excellence and widening participation
816
? Additional funding for nuclear safety and security from the Euratom Treaty activities (2014-2018)
 
Rules for Participation:
 
1. A single set of rules:
  • Adapted for the whole research and innovation cycle
  • Covering all research programmes and funding bodies
  • Aligned to the Financial Regulation, coherent with other new EU Programmes
 
2. One project - one funding rate
  • Maximum of 100% of the total eligible costs (except for innovation actions, where a 70% maximum will apply for profit making entities)
  • Indirect eligible costs: a flat rate of 25% of direct eligible costs
 
3. Simple evaluation criteria
  • Excellence - Impact - Implementation (Excellence only, for the ERC)
 
4. New forms of funding aimed at innovation
  • pre-commercial procurement, inducement prizes, dedicated loan and equity instruments
 
5. International participation
  • facilitated but better protecting EU interests
 
6. Simpler rules for grants
  • broader acceptance of participants accounting practices for direct costs, flat rate for indirect costs, no time-sheets for personnel working full time on a project, possibility of output-based grants
 
7. Fewer, better targeted controls and audits
  • Lowest possible level of requirements for submission of audit certificates without undermining sound financial management
  • Audit strategy focused on risk and fraud prevention
 
8. Improved rules on intellectual property
  • Balance between legal security and flexibility
  • Tailor-made IPR provicions for new forms of funding
  • A new emphasis on open access to research publications

Find out more: http://www.ec.europa.eu/research/horizon2020

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