HORIZON 2020 T he new EU framework programme for research and innovation 2014 - 2020

1. HORIZON 2020 The new EU framework programme for research and innovation 2014 - 2020 SMART AND INCLUSIVE GROWTH

2. PROGRAMME STRUCTURE • Three priorities • Excellent science • Industrial leadership • Societal challenges

3. PROGRAMME STRUCTURE Europe 2020 priorities European Research Area International cooperation Shared objectives and principles Tackling Societal Challenges • Health, demographic change and wellbeing • Food security and the bio-based economy • Secure, clean and efficient energy • Smart, green and integrated transport • Supply of raw materials • Resource efficiency and climate action • Inclusive, innovative and secure societies Creating Industrial Leadership and Competitive Frameworks • Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies • ICT • Nanotech., Materials, Manuf. and Processing • Biotechnology • Space • Access to risk finance • Innovation in SMEs Excellence in the Science Base • Frontier research (ERC) • Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) • Skills and career development (Marie Curie) • Research infrastructures Simplified access Dissemination & knowledge transfer Common rules, toolkit of funding schemes

4. PROGRAMME STRUCTURE • Key novelties in Horizon 2020 • A single program bringing together three separate programs / initiatives : • The Research Framework Program • Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Program • EU contribution to the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) • Coupling research to innovation - from research to retail, all forms of innovation • Focus on societal challenges facing EU society, e.g. health, clean energy and transport • Simplified access for all companies, universities, institutes in all EU countries and beyond.

5. ACTIVITIES Priority 1 – Scientific Excellence • 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

6. ACTIVITIES Priority 2 – Industrial leadership • Europe needs more innovative SMEs to create growth and jobs • 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

7. ACTIVITIES Priority 3 – Societal challenges • Europe needs more innovative SMEs to create growth and jobs • 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

8. PARTICIPATION ELIGIBILE COUNTRIES • Horizon 2020 will be to the EU countries, to acceding countries, candidate countries and potential candidates, in accordance with the general principles and general terms and conditions for the participation of those countries in Union programmes established in the respective framework agreements and decisions of association councils or similar agreements; TARGET GROUPS • Excellent Science -Independent researchers of any age, including starting researchers making the transition to being independent research leaders in their own right, from any country in the world will be supported. • Industrial Leadership -horizontally SMEs are the main target group Under "Industrial Leadership" component • Access to Risk Finance is targeting SMEs and the component "Innovation in SMEs" is dedicated to SMEs. COSME and Horizon 2020 will be complementing each other . R&D performing SMEs will be supported under a specific scheme in "Innovation in SMEs"

9. PARTICIPATION • INDUSTRIAL COUNTRIES AND EMERGING ECONOMIES • • Focus on competitiveness • • Tackling global challenges and developing enabling technologies • • Open markets through cooperation on standards, Intellectual Property Rights - IPR, procurement,... • Enlargement and neighborhood countries, • • Support enlargement and neighborhood policies • • Focus on regional societal challenges • • Focus on alignment with European Research Area -ERA • Developing countries • • Support development policy and help build scientific competences • • Focus on specific economic and societal challenges, e.g. poverty-related • diseases, energy and food security, biodiversity

10. 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 direct costs (except for actions close to market, where a 70% maximum will apply) • Indirect eligible costs: a flat rate of 20% of direct eligible costs 3. SIMPLE EVALUATION CRITERIA • Excellence – Impact - Implementation (Excellence only, for the European Research Council - ERC) 4. NEW FORMS OF FUNDING • Aimed at innovation: pre-commercial procurement, inducement prizes, dedicated loan and equity instruments.

11. PARTICIPATION 5. INTERNATIONAL PARTICIPATION • Facilitated for international partners – broad access to Horizon 2020 (“mainstreaming”), strategic initiatives where there is mutual benefit 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 • Tailor-made Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) provisions for new forms of funding; • A new emphasis on open access to research publications

12. PARTICIPATION APPLICATION PROCEDURE • Through call for proposals • The whole set of practical arrangements for proposal and project implementation is streamlined. This includes the detailed provisions on the content and shape of proposals, the processes for turning proposals into projects, the requirements for reporting and monitoring, as well as the related guidance documents and support services. A major contribution to reduced administrative costs for participation will come from a single user-friendly IT platform for all interactions with participants, based on the FP7 Participant Portal. • Centrally structures- DGs, European Research Council (ERC), Research Executive Agency (REA), European Investment Bank (EIB), European Investment Fund (EIF) • Evaluation criteria: Excellence, Implementation , Impact

13. PARTICIPATION Where to find information at EU-level • http://ec.europa.eu/research/horizon2020/index_en.cfm • http://erc.europa.eu/ • http://www.eib.org/ • http://cordis.europa.eu/fp6/projects.htm • http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/projects_en.html • http://ec.europa.eu/research/era/index_en.htm