Horizon 2020:What’s in it for MVLS?

Michael McGuigan, EU AdvisorEU and International Team

Research Support Office

15 January 2014

Today’s objectives

• to whet your appetite for H2020

• to encourage you to contact us for further information (contact details at end of slideshow)

• presentation emailed and referenced documents all hyperlinked

Introducing H2020

Brief overview of H2020

H2020 newsletter

Schemes most relevant to MVLS

‘... you can’t please all of the people all of the time’ (Abe Lincoln)

31.73% = €24.441b 22.09% = €17.016b 38.53% = €29.679b

Topics not covered today

• Pillar 1: Infrastructures & FET• All Pillar 2 Industrial Leadership• Pillar 3: 4 Societal challenges• SME instrument• Research-related actions– Innovation actions– Coordination and support actions– ERA-NET Cofund– Procurement Actions

H2020 - Societal Challenges

H2020 Research & Innovation Actions – these are Collaborative Research Projects Description: Action primarily consisting of activities aiming to establish new knowledge and/or to explore the feasibility of a new or improved technology, product, process, service or solution. For this purpose they may include basic and applied research, technology development and integration, testing and validation on a small-scale prototype in a laboratory or simulated environment.

H2020 calls compared with FP7

• Fewer calls and topics• Generally broader; range of approaches• Challenge-based approach – innovative

solutions• Multi-disciplinary and cross-sectoral

Societal Challenges - general

Eligibility: minimum 3 partners from 3 different member states or associated countries

Funding: 100% of direct costs + 25% contribution to indirect costs

Submission: electronic via participant portal(one or two stage)

Improved turnaround

SC1: Health, demographic change and wellbeing

• Overall budget: €7.47b• US participants eligible for funding (only SC1)• In 2014/15 work programme: – ‘PHC’ denotes collaborative research projects; – ‘HCO’ and ‘HOA’ denote other research related

activities– Focus: Personalising Health and Care

SC1 2014-15 Work Programme:Personalising Health and Care

1. Understanding health, ageing and disease2. Effective health promotion, disease prevention,

preparedness and screening3. Improving diagnosis4. Innovative treatments and technologies5. Advancing active and healthy ageing6. Integrated, sustainable, citizen-centred care7. Improving health information, data exploitation and

providing an evidence base for health policies and regulation

2014-15 SC1 call details

Indicative budget (research projects) 2014: €549.3m 2015: €537m

Submission deadlinesSingle stage: 15.04.2014Two stage: Stage 1: 11.03.2014 (max 7 pages)Stage 2: 19.08.2014

2014-15 SC1 call evaluationEvaluation

Criteria: Excellence Impact Implement-ation

Overall Threshold

Threshold – Stage 1 of 2 4 / 5 4 / 5 N/A 8

Threshold – Stage 2 of 2

and for Single Stage

4 / 5 4 / 5 3 / 5 12

Ex aequo priority order: Excellence; Impact; SME budget; Gender balance; Synergies

SC2: Food security, sustainable agriculture and forestry, marine and maritime and

inland water research and the bioeconomy

• Overall budget: €3.85b• Integrated with Pillar 2 and with other SCs• BRIC countries eligible for specific topics

China features prominently

SC2 2014-15 Work Programme: Three H2020 Special Focus Areas

1. Call for sustainable food security2. Call for blue growth3. Call for an innovative, sustainable and

inclusive bioeconomy

1. Call for sustainable food security

• Sustainable food production systems• Safe food and healthy diets and sustainable

consumption• Global drivers of food security

Indicative budget (all action types)2014 - €138m2015 - €110.5m

2. Call for blue growth: unlocking the potential of seas and oceans

• Sustainably exploiting the diversity of marine life• New offshore challenges• Ocean observation technologies/systems• Horizontal aspects, social-economic sciences,

innovation, engagement with society and ocean governance across the blue growth focus area

Indicative budget (all action types)2014 - €100m2015 - €45m

3. Call for an innovative, sustainable and inclusive bioeconomy

• Sustainable agriculture and forestry• Sustainable and competitive bio-based

industries• Cross-cutting actions covering all activities

Indicative budget (all action types)2014 - €44.5m2015 - €42m

2014-15 SC2 call details

2014 submission deadlinesSingle stage: 26.06.2014Two stage:

Stage 1: 12.03.2014 Stage 2: 26.06.2014

(2015 deadlines also provided in the WP)

2014-15 SC2 call evaluationEvaluation

Criteria: Excellence Impact Implement-ation

Overall Threshold

Threshold for full

proposal3 / 5 3 / 5 3 / 5 10/15

For Stage 1 of 2 4 / 5 4 / 5 N/A 8

Ex aequo priority order: Excellence; Impact; SME budget; Gender balance; Synergies

SC5: Climate action, environment, resource efficiency and raw materials

Based on current trends, the equivalent of more than two planet earths will be needed by 2050 to support the growing global population

SC5: Climate action, environment, resource efficiency and raw materials

• Overall budget - €3.08b• Integrated with Pillar 2 and with other SCs• BRIC countries eligible for specific topics

China features prominently• EC pilot on open research data • TRLs: Technology Readiness Levels defined in

General Annexes document

SC5 2014-15 Work Programme: Three H2020 Special Focus Areas

1. Waste: a resource to recycle, reuse and recover raw materials towards a near-zero waste society

2. Water innovation: boosting its value for Europe

3. Growing a low carbon, resource efficient economy with a sustainable supply of raw materials

1. Waste: a resource to recycle, reuse and recover raw materials towards a near-zero

waste society

• 10 topics; 4 calling for research projects:– A systems approach for the reduction, recycling

and reuse of food waste– Recycling of raw materials from products and

buildings– Promoting eco-innovative waste management and

prevention as part of sustainable urban development (b Eco-innovative strategies)

– Ensuring sustainable use of agricultural waste, co-products and by-products

1. Waste: a resource to recycle, reuse and recover raw materials towards a near-zero

waste society

Indicative budget (all action types)2014 - €73m2015 - €58m

2. Water innovation: boosting its value for Europe

• 10 topics; 2 calling for research projects:– Integrated approaches to water and climate

change (€6 to €8m per project; 2014 - €13m; 2015 – €15m)

– Strengthening international R & I cooperation in the field of water: development of water supply and sanitation technology, systems and tools, methodologies (€2m to €3m per project; 2015- €15m)

2. Water innovation: boosting its value for Europe

Indicative budget (all action types)

2014 - €67m2015 - €96m

3. Growing a low carbon, resource efficient economy with a sustainable

supply of raw materials• Fighting and adapting to climate change• Protecting the environment, sustainably managing

natural resources, water, biodiversity and ecosystems• Ensuring the sustainable supply of non-energy and

non-agricultural raw materials• Enabling the transition towards a green economy and

society through eco-innovation• Developing comprehensive and sustained global

environmental observation and information systems

3. Growing a low carbon, resource efficient economy with a sustainable

supply of raw materials

Indicative budget (all action types)

2014 - €166m2015 - €189m

2014-15 SC5 call details

2014 submission deadlinesSingle stage: 08.04.2014Two stage:

Stage 1: 08.04.2014 Stage 2: 16.09.2014

(2015 deadlines also provided in the WP)

2014-15 SC5 call evaluationEvaluation

Criteria: Excellence Impact Implement-ation

Overall Threshold

Threshold for full

proposal3 / 5 3 / 5 3 / 5 10/15

For Stage 1 of 2 4 / 5 4 / 5 N/A 8

Ex aequo priority order: Excellence; Impact; SME budget; Gender balance; Synergies

ERC Grants

ERC Basic Eligibility

ERC: Time Commitment & Eligible Costs

• Advanced – minimum 30% of time on grant• Starters & Consolidators – min. 50% on grant• Eligible Costs– Personnel– Equipment & Consumables– Travel & Subsistence– Publication Costs

ERC 2014 & 2015 Calls

Single stage submission: 2 step review

Initial peer review• 2 Page CV and Funding ID• 2 Page Early Achievements Track Record• 5 page Extended Synopsis Second step, full peer review• Above docs + 15 page Scientific Proposal• Starters/ Consolidators + 30 minute interview

by peer review panel in Brussels, includes presentation requirement

ERC: Evaluating the PI

ERC: Evaluating the Research Project

ERC: Evaluating the Research Project

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

• fund mobility, training and career development in academia, industry and other non-academic sectors through individual mobility grants and collaborative research and training, and staff exchange projects. Research in any subject area.

• Innovative Training Networks (ITNs)• Individual Fellowships (IFs)

MCSA: Innovative Training Networks

• Aim: to train a new generation of creative, entrepreneurial and innovative early-stage researchers

• Scope: competitively selected joint research training and/or doctoral programmes, implemented by partnerships of universities, research institutions, businesses, and others

• Partnerships: collaborative European Training Networks (ETN), European Industrial Doctorates (EID) or European Joint Doctorates (EJD)

MCSA ITNs: Eligibility

• at least three beneficiaries (or at least two for EID) located in three different EU Member States or Associated Countries.

• EID: at least one beneficiary must be entitled to award doctoral degrees and at least one from industry.

• EJD: at least three beneficiaries must be entitled to award doctoral degrees.

MCSA: Individual Fellowships• Aim: enhance the creative and innovative potential of

experienced researchers wishing to diversify their individual competence in terms of skill acquisition through advanced training, international / intersectoral mobility

• Scope:European Fellowships – coming to or moving within EuropeGlobal Fellowships - based on a secondment to a third country and a mandatory 12 month return period to a European host

MSCA 2014 Call DetailsMSA

ActionPublication

DateSubmission

DeadlineBudget

ITN 2014 11/12/2013 09/04/2014 €405.18m

ITN 2015 02/09/2014 13/01/2015 €370m

IF 2014 12/03/2014 11/09/2014 €240.50m

IF 2015 12/03/2015 10/09/2015 €213m

Expected Impact detailed in each call

ITN & IF Evaluation and Funding Criteria (scored out of 5) Excellence Impact Implementation

Weighting (overall threshold 70%) 50% 30% 20%

Ex aequo priority 1 2 3

Researcher Unit Cost per person month

Institutional Unit Costper person month

* For Uk multiply by 120%

Living Allowance

Mobility Allowance

Family Allowance

Research, training and networking costs

Management and Indirect costs

ITN €3110* €600 €500 €1800 €1200IF €4650* €600 €500 €800 €650

What’s in H2020 for MVLS: > €22bSC1 Health SC2 Food/Biotech SC5 Climate Action€7.47 €3.85 €3.08

ERC MSCA Other parts H2020€13.095*39%€6.162*39%€5.1 €2.4 ?

• By 2017 the ERC’s annual call budget will exceed €2000m:• Life Sciences component will exceed €800m

Useful links

• H2020 Participant Portal• UKRO website• Registering as H2020 Advisor• Find an H2020 Call • ERC website• ERC 2014 Work Programme• ERC Presentations• Marie Sklodowska Curie 2014 Work Programme

Contact us:

Michael McGuigan Ex 4877Email: michael.mcguigan.2@glasgow.ac.uk

Jonathan ScottEx 7684Email: jonathan.scott@glasgow.ac.uk