““ICT & ROBOTICS: IL NUOVO PACCHETTO DI

LAVORO E LA CALL 2014”

What is Horizon 2020

Initial Commission proposal for a €80 billion research and innovation funding programme (2014-2020); now just over €70 billion

A core part of Europe 2020, Innovation Union & European Research Area:

− Responding to the economic crisis to invest in future jobs and growth

− Addressing people’s concerns about their livelihoods, safety and environment

− Strengthening the EU’s global position in research, innovation and technology

• A single programme (FP7 + CIP + EIT)

• Strong focus on societal challenges (game changing for ICT…)

• More innovation

• Reaching out to non-traditional actors

• More risk taking

• Strengthened support for high-tech SMEs

• More open, light & fast schemes

What is new?

Three priorities

Excellent science

Industrial leadership

Societal challenges

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

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 Skłodowska-Curie actions (MSCA)

Opportunities for training and career development

6 162

Research infrastructures (including e-infrastructure)

Ensuring access to world-class facilities

2 488

(ICT: 863)

Proposed funding (€ million, 2014-2020)*

All funding figures in this presentation are subject to the pending Multiannual Financial Framework Regulation by the EP and the Council

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

Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies (LEITs)

(ICT, nanotechnologies, materials, biotechnology, manufacturing, space)

13 557 (ICT:7 360)

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

Proposed funding (€ million, 2014-2020)

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

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Proposed funding (€ million, 2014-2020)

Health, demographic change and wellbeing

7 472 15%

Food security, sustainable agriculture, marine and maritime research & the Bioeconomy

3 851 0

Secure, clean and efficient energy 5 931 5%

Smart, green and integrated transport 6 339 6%

Climate action, resource efficiency and raw materials

3 081 3.5%

Innovative, inclusive and reflective societies

1 309 25%

Secure societies 1 695 25%

Science with and for society 462 0

Spreading excellence and widening participation

816 0

ICT

Proposed funding (€ million,

2014-2020)

European Institute of Innovation & Technology (EIT) Combining research, innovation & training in knowledge and Innovation Communities

2 711

Joint Research Centre (JRC)*

Providing a robust, evidence base for EU policies

1 903

Role of the EIT and JRC in Horizon 2020

Additional funding for the JRC for Euratom Treaty activities

Strong participation by SMEs

• Integrated approach - around 20% of the total budget for societal challenges and LEITs to go to SMEs

• Simplification of particular benefit to SMEs (e.g. single entry point)

• A new SME instrument will be used across all societal challenges as well as for the LEITs

• A dedicated activity for research-intensive SMEs in 'Innovation in SMEs'

• 'Access to risk finance' will have a strong SME focus (debt and equity facility)

Next steps

• December 10: WP adoption by Commission

• December 11: Publication of first calls

• Spring 2014: closing of first call

La partecipazione italiana in sintesi - ICT FP7* (1) La partecipazione italiana nel tema ICT ha subito una diminuzione tra il V e

VI Programma Quadro al VII Programma Quadro, infatti si è avuto un passaggio dai 12.3% circa al 10.2%.

La partecipazioni delle grandi imprese italiane si aggira intorno al 22%, mentre la partecipazione delle PMI è intorno al 12%. STMicroelectronics Srl, Engineering SPA, e Telecom Italia sono tra i maggiori beneficiari.

L’Italia si mostra fortemente rappresentata nell’ambito delle FET e nelle ICT for Health. Ha comunque una forte presenza in altri settori ICT quali Embedded Systems, Cognitive Systems and robotics, Trustworthy ICT and Software and Services. Questo mostra una buona diversificazione di basi R&D.

Il finanziamento CE è maggiormente diretto a due hubs di Milano e Roma. Altri due maggiori clusters si evidenziano nelle città industriali di Torino e Genova o nei centri universitari di Pisa, Trento o Bologna.

•“ICT Statistical Report for annual monitoring 2011 (ICT StReam 2011)” 29 Febbraio 2012 (progetti finanziati dal 2007 al 2011 ):

La partecipazione italiana in sintesi - ICT FP7* (2)

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INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP

2° PILLAR

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Joint Research Center (JRC)

Health, demographic change and wellbeing

Food security, sustainable agriculture, marine and maritime research & the bioeconomy

Secure, clean and efficient energy

Smart, green and integrated transport

Climate action, resource efficiency and raw materials

Inclusive, innovative and reflective societies

Security society

European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT)

Spreading Excellence and Widening Participation

Science with and for society

Struttura del programma

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ICT in Industrial Leadership/ 1 WP LEIT ICT 2014-15 – indicative budget: 1465.5 Meuro

1. Components and systems

2. Advanced Computing

3. Future Internet

4. Content technologies and information management

5. Robotics

6. Key Enabling Technologies: Micro- nano-electronics and photonics

+ Factory of the Future cPPP

+ International Cooperation actions (EU-Brazil, EU-Japan)

ICT Cross cutting activities:

• Internet of Things

• Human-centric Digital Age

• Cybersecurity

• Support to NCPs

ICT Innovation actions

• Access to finance

• Innovation policy support

• Open disruptive innovation scheme (SME instrument)

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ICT in Industrial Leadership/ 2 WP LEIT ICT 2014-15 – Budget Overview

• Roadmap-based research driven by application needs

• Effort to close the innovation gap to allow large scale deployment of robots and foster market take-up: use-cases, pre-commercial procurement, industry-academia cross-fertilisation

• Includes two pre-commercial procurement actions (health-care sector, public safety and environmental monitoring)

• Additional activities: shared resources, performance evaluation & benchmarking, community building and robotic competitions

• Organised in two annual calls

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ICT in Industrial Leadership/ 23 WP LEIT ICT 2014-15 – 5. Robotics

ICT 23- 2014: Robotics

ICT in Industrial Leadership/ 23 WP LEIT ICT 2014-15 – 5. Robotics

Advance robotics abilities + key technologies and their combination

Market domains: manufacturing, commercial, civil, agriculture

Demonstrate increased TRL (Technology Readiness Level) relevant for the market domains

Research results will have to be validated in real-world setting, demonstrating progress in abilities/technologies RELEVANT to these market domains 100% funding -> Focus on RTD, not innovation From basic research to more applied research (depending on TRL) REFER TO Strategic Research Agenda and Multi-Annual Roadmap

ICT in Industrial Leadership/ 23 ICT 23.a Research and Innovation Action: R&D

System development processes, techniques and technologies applicable across markets Shared resources and assessment Mechanisms for sharing (incl. sharing of HW and engineering support for developing demonstrators) Harmonisation of system design practice Definition of standards High quality validation, maintenance and documentation (Optimise re-use) Performance evaluation and benchmarking Optimise quality, efficiency, sharing and re-use of results Demonstrate and support continuous progress

ICT in Industrial Leadership/ 23 ICT 23.a Research and Innovation Actions- horizontal support activities

Introducing, testing and validating promising and innovative robotics solutions in real-world conditions

Robust operational deployment of robotic solutions, based on performance objectives, metrics, and user needs

Proposals focusing on transferring latest research results from the lab to the industry/users

The expertise covering the complete lifecycle must be present in proposal (from research to integration to users). Concrete plan to reach impact carefully explained

Business case made User driven proposals and not technology push

ICT in Industrial Leadership/ 23 ICT 23.c Innovation Actions- Technology transfer – Robotics use cases

Application areas: Public safety, environment and infrastructure monitoring Gathering public procurers with common needs One large project (up to 5m€) including 2 major components

- Refining requirements; organizing the selection of suppliers and evaluation of progress - RTD work to be procured

Frequently Asked Questions on PCP: http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/pcp/faq_en.html

ICT in Industrial Leadership/ 23 ICT 23.c Innovation Actions – Pre-Commercial procurement in Robotics

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H2020-ICT-2014 Publication date: 11 December 2013 Opening: 11 December 2013 except topic ICT37 that opens on 01/03/201442 for phase 1 and phase and topic ICT14 that opens on 15 July 2014. Deadline(s): 24 April 2014 (All Topics except ICT14.a, ICT14.b, ICT14.c, ICT35) 25 November 2014 (ICT14a, ICT14.b, ICT14.c) Overall indicative budget: EUR 703.5 million Deadline(s): at 17.00.00 Brussels time on the following dates

ICT in Industrial Leadership/ 23 WP LEIT ICT 2014-15 – Call 2014 Deadlines

ICT 24- 2015: Robotics

ICT in Industrial Leadership/ 23 WP LEIT ICT 2014-15 – 5. Robotics

ICT 24.c Innovation Actions: Technology transfer – Robotics use cases Idem 23.b

ICT 24.d Pre-Commercial procurement in robotics Application Area: Healthcare

ICT 24.e Coordination Actions: Community building and Robotic competitions Supporting the European robotics community:

- Networking, education, outreach, public awareness, technology watch, standardisation, and industry-academia collaboration, links to national programmes and initiatives. - Ethical, legal, societal and economical aspects

International cooperation Coordinating on the next generation of cognitive systems and robotics Robotic Competitions: towards smarter robots

ICT in Industrial Leadership/ 23 WP LEIT ICT 2014-15 – 5. Robotics

ICT 23.a/ICT 24.a: While the robotics technologies and abilities that still are to be advanced are not very different from the previous research efforts, they now have to be advanced in the context of some market domains prioritized in the call and progress have to be demonstrated in real-life setup relevant for these market domains ICT 23.b/ICT 24.c: • use-cases – similar to FP7 ICT Call 10 Challenge 2 • relatively recent – proposers must understand the focus on technology transfer as opposed to R&D

ICT in Industrial Leadership/ 23 How is it new/different from previous calls? 1/2

ICT 23.c: PcP in Monitoring and safety / ICT 24.d: PcP in Healthcare • first time called in robotics • concept of PcP (PcP Pilot) exists in ECHORD++ • relevant projects: SMART@FIRE http://www.smartatfire.eu/ , SILVER

http://www.silverpcp.eu/

ICT CT 24.b: Technology transfer - Industry-academia cross-fertilisation • similar to ECHORD http://www.echord.info/ and ECHORD ++,

however, with a different administrative mechanism – possibility to include third parties as opposed to add partners

ICT in Industrial Leadership/ 23 How is it new/different from previous calls? 2/2

• Industry has a far greater role to play in Robotics R&I than before. Involvement from industry as manufacturers, system suppliers, integrators or users is welcome, as appropriate, depending on the needs of the project and on the technology readiness level addressed. • The involvement of end users in R&I projects is welcome. In Robotics Use cases, which target industrial and service sectors, and Precommercial Procurement it is a "must".

ICT in Industrial Leadership/ 23 Role of industries and end users

Current project portfolio: http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/robotics

Background document with Q&A under construction

Dedicated Information day will take place in Luxembourg on 13-14 January 2014

ICT in Industrial Leadership/ 23 More Information…

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PPP ROBOTICS

Industrial Leadership

"…a government service or private business venture which is funded and operated through a partnership of government and one or more private sector organisations.«

PPP stands for Public-Private Partnership Public side = European Commission Private side = Companies, universities (which can be public bodies), research organisations, NGOs Goal: To strengthen the competitive position of Europe in a particular business sector Mutual development of research strategy & commitment to invest in a sector

Not limited to research, also looking at other areas such as regulation, policy,

trade, non-technical barriers, etc.

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Robotics in H2020: PPP What is a PPP?

Vision: A higher quality of life for everyone through robotics

• The European robotics community will lead the world in robotics by creating, designing, developing, innovating, manufacturing and distributing robotic product and services: thereby meeting many societal needs of EU citizens.

Mission: Creating and deploying robotic products and services for high quality work and personal life

• society shall benefit • better living inside and outside factories • improve quality of life directly and indirectly • strategic coordination of pre-competitive R&D&I activities

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Robotics in H2020: PPP Vision and mission of the PPP in Robotics

• Develop strategic goals of European robotics and foster their implementation • Improve industrial competitiveness of EU through innovative robotic technologies • Position robotics as a key enabler for solving Europe‘s societal challenges • Strengthen networking activities of the European robotics community • Promote European robotics • Reach out to new users and markets • Contribute to policy development and addressing ethical, legal and societal issues

Robotics in H2020: PPP Specific goals of the PPP in Robotics

Memorandum of Understanding signed between the EC (VP Neelie Kroes) and eurobotics aisbl on 18 September 2012

The European Commission (=public side) and eurobotics aisbl (=private side) will sign a contractual agreement: • the objectives of the partnership • the commitments of the partners • key performance indicators • outputs to be delivered • the governance structure • appropriate actions in case of breach of the agreement

Robotics in H2020: PPP PPP Contractual Agreement

Be part of it & play an active role to:

Define the Strategic Research Agenda for Robotics R&I (SRA)

Establish the Multi-Annual Roadmap (MAR) -> Priorities in R&D&I Workprogramme

But: Proposers do not have to be PPP members!

The SRA is publicly available on the euRobotics AISBL website: http://www.eu-robotics.net/ppp/downloads/

Robotics in H2020: PPP PPP and YOU

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