Peter Walters UK FP7 NCP ICT

The Basics

Describing the general case of European Commission ICT funding for

collaborative research

A slideset intended for newcomers – acknowledged by its originator: the UK ICT National Contact Point to

be

Probably the worst Powerpoint in the world

UK ICT NCP: peter.walters@tsb.gov.uk

RESEARCH & INNOVATION COLLABORATORS BENEFITS MAKING A PROPOSAL SUBMISSION SUCCESS NEGOTIATION

CONSORTIUM AGREEMENT PROJECT START REPORTING PROGRESS RETENTION SUPPORT DOCUMENTATION

THE NEXT 4 SLIDES WILL TELL YOU A FEW ESSENTIALS ABOUT

IN EUROPEAN FUNDED COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH

• RESEARCH & INNOVATION The European Commission supports collaborative Research and

Innovation projects by means of grants. • COLLABORATORS

The collaborators form a consortium which mostly must include three independent partners from different EU member or associated states.

• BENEFITS Important benefits to project participants include the development of knowledge underpinning new products and services, shared expertise, widened capabilities, enlarged networks an expanded world view,…….

• MAKING A PROPOSAL Participation follows successful submission of a written proposal in response to a call for proposals referring to a Workprogramme document which defines the technology areas to be addressed.

• SUBMISSION Proposals are submitted electronically using the participant portal before a fixed date and time by the coordinating partner, to whom evaluation results are communicated 5 months later.

• SUCCESS Not all proposals are successful, competition is strong, Submission rules are published in the specific ‘Guide for Proposers’ which details the submission process and sets rules which are rigorously applied.

• NEGOTIATION A negotiation process follows for successful proposing consortia, this necessitates validation of the identity and financial status of the proposers, and the formal description of the work to be undertaken, this may take several months to complete.

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• CONSORTIUM AGREEMENT The consortium partners undertake a Consortium Agreement which defines the way the consortium will operate

• PROJECT START Commencement of the project follows. Within 30 days of which a substantial pre-financing payment is made by The Commission

• REPORTING The coordinating partner interfaces with The Commission through a specific Project Officer. Progress reports and financial information and settlement of interrim cost claims are exchanged on a regular basis, with updates to the financing as necessary.

• PROGRESS Periodic project reviews involving independent experts are arranged by the Project officer. Reviews can, in a minority of cases terminate projects which fail to perform, with recovery of unspent/misspent finance.

• RETENTION Some 90% of the grant is payable before the project ends. The remainder or retention awaits completion of all documents.

• SUPPORT Newcomers are encouraged to discuss their interest with their National Contact Point mailto:peter.walters@tsb.gov.uk who will be able to provide guidance and advice on further steps

• DOCUMENTATION Documentation for particular calls for proposals can be downloaded from The Participant Portal: http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/page/cooperation - ict .

FP7UK The ICT domain in Horizon 2020 Peter Walters FP7UK National Contact Point Team

http://www.ictic.org/h/v/ni.pdf

First work programme and calls for proposals

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Remember the three pillars

Societal Challenges

Industrial leadership

Excellent Science

ICT ICT

ICT

ICT

ICT ICT

ICT

Industrial Leadership 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

Societal Challenges Health, demographic change and wellbeing Food security, sustainable agriculture and the bio-based economy Secure, clean and efficient energy Smart, green and integrated transport Climate action, resource efficiency and raw materials Inclusive, innovative and reflective societies Secure Societies

ICT

ICT

Europe 2020 priorities

ICT

Work programme structure

• General introduction (incl. Strategic Programme) • Excellent Science (not ERC) • Industrial Leadership • Societal Challenges • Science with and for Society • Widening Participation • Annexes

NB: Distinct WPs for: ERC & Euratom

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Efforts to enhance presentation of calls on web, for example: • Tagging for smart searching • glossary • FAQ etc

Societal Challenges

Industrial leadership

Excellent Science

ICT in Industrial Leadership

• A new generation of components and systems • Advanced Computing • Future Internet • Content technologies and information management • Robotics • Micro- and nano-electronic technologies, Photonics • ICT Cross-Cutting Activities

• IoT, Human Centricity, Cyber Security • Horizontal ICT Innovation actions

• Support: Finance, Entrepreneurship, Open Disruptive Innovation scheme • International Cooperation actions • Factory of the Future Call • EU-Brazil and EU-Japan Research R and Development Cooperation

http://www.ictic.org/h/doc%20index.html

Societal Challenges

Excellent Science

Industrial leadership

ICT Call Timetable

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Call Call ID Variants Open Close Notes 1 H2020-ICT-2014 11-Dec-13 23-Apr-14 703 M€

ICT 37 phases 1 and 2 01-Mar-14 Various Batch

Dates ODI Scheme

ICT 14 a,b,c 15-Jul-14 25-Nov-13 5G 2 H2020-ICT-2015 15-Oct-14 21-Apr-15 583M€

Brazil H2020-EUB-2015 15-Oct-14 21-Apr-15 Japan H2020-EUJ-2014 07-Jan-14 10-Apr-14

Draft Workprogramme Objectives (1) Budget M€

2014 2015 A new generation of components and systems - -

ICT 1 – 2014: Smart Cyber-Physical Systems 56 ICT 2 – 2014: Smart System Integration 48

ICT 3 – 2014: Advanced Thin, Organic and Large Area Electronics (TOLAE) technologies 38

Advanced Computing ICT 4 – 2015: Customised and low power computing 57

Future Internet ICT 5 – 2014: Smart Networks and novel Internet Architectures 24 ICT 6 – 2014: Smart optical and wireless network technologies 30 ICT 7 – 2014: Advanced Cloud Infrastructures and Services 73

ICT 8 – 2015: Boosting public sector productivity and innovation through cloud computing services 22

ICT 9 – 2015: Tools and Methods for Software Development 25

ICT 10 – 2015: Collective Awareness Platforms for Sustainability and Social Innovation 37

ICT 11 – 2014: FIRE+ (Future Internet Research & Experimentation) 31.5 ICT 12 – 2015: Integrating experiments and facilities in FIRE+ 18 ICT 13 – 2014: Web Entrepreneurship 10

ICT 14 – 2014: Advanced 5G Network Infrastructure for the Future Internet 125

Draft Workprogramme Objectives (2) 2014 2015

Content technologies and information management ICT 15 – 2014: Big data and Open Data Innovation and take-up 50 ICT 16 – 2015: Big data - research 39 ICT 17 – 2014: Cracking the language barrier 15

ICT 18 – 2014: Support the growth of ICT innovative Creative Industries SMEs 15

ICT 19 – 2015: Technologies for creative industries, social media and convergence. 41

ICT 20 – 2015: Technologies for better human learning and teaching 52 ICT 21 – 2014: Advanced digital gaming/gamification technologies 17 ICT 22 – 2014: Multimodal and Natural computer interaction 31

Robotics ICT 23 – 2014: Robotics 74 ICT 24 – 2015: Robotics 83

Micro- and nano-electronic technologies, Photonics ICT 25 – 2015: Generic micro- and nano-electronic technologies 50 ICT 26 – 2014: Photonics KET 47 ICT 27 – 2015: Photonics KET 44 ICT 28 – 2015: Cross-cutting ICT KETs 56

ICT 29 – 2014 Development of novel materials and systems for OLED lighting 18

Draft Workprogramme Objectives (3) 2014 2015

ICT Cross-Cutting Activities

ICT 30 – 2015: Internet of Things and Platforms for Connected Smart Objects 51

ICT 31 – 2014: Human-centric Digital Age 7 ICT 32 – 2014: Cybersecurity, Trustworthy ICT 38

ICT 33 – 2014: Trans-national co-operation among National Contact Points 4

Horizontal ICT Innovation actions ICT 34 – 2015: Support for access to finance 15 ICT 35 – 2014: Innovation and Entrepreneurship Support 7

ICT 36 - 2015: Pre-commercial procurement open to all areas of public interest requiring new ICT solutions 4

ICT 37 - 2014-15 Open Disruptive Innovation Scheme (implemented through the SME instrument) 90

Fast Track Innovation Pilot International Cooperation actions

ICT 38 – 2015: International partnership building and support to dialogues with high income countries 3

ICT 39 – 2015: International partnership building in low and middle income countries 11

Draft Workprogramme Objectives (4) Budget M€

2014 2015 EU-Brazil Research and Development Cooperation in Advanced Cyber Infrastructure

EUB 1 – 2015: Cloud Computing, including security aspects 3.5 EUB 2 – 2015: High Performance Computing (HPC) 2 EUB 3 – 2015: Experimental Platforms 1.5

EU-Japan Research and Development Cooperation in Net Futures

EUJ 1 – 2014: Technologies combining big data, internet of things in the cloud 1.5

EUJ 2 – 2014: Optical communications 1.5 EUJ 3 – 2014: Access networks for densely located users 1.5

EUJ 4 – 2014: Experimentation and development on federated Japan – EU testbeds 1.5

Other Workprogramme Objectives Factory of the Future from NMP - B

Factory of the Future Calls FoF 1 - 2014: Process optimisation of manufacturing assets 34

FoF 2 - 2014: Manufacturing processes for complex structures and geometries with efficient use of material 82

FoF 3 - 2014: Global energy and other resources efficiency in manufacturing enterprises -

FoF 4 - 2014: Developing smart factories that are attractive to workers - FoF 5 - 2014: Innovative product-service design using manufacturing intelligence -

FoF 6 - 2014: Symbiotic human-robot collaborations for safe and dynamic multimodal manufacturing systems -

FoF 7 - 2014: Support for the enhancement of the impact of FoF PPP projects -

FoF 8 - 2015: ICT-enabled modelling, simulation, analytics and forecasting technologies 32

FoF 9 - 2015: ICT Innovation for Manufacturing SMEs (I4MS) 36 FoF 10 2015: Manufacturing of custom made parts for personalised products 77

FoF 11 2015: Flexible production systems based on integrated tools for rapid reconfiguration of machinery and robots -

FoF 12 2015: Industrial technologies for advanced joining and assembly processes of multi-materials -

FoF 13 2105: Re-use and re-manufacturing technologies and equipment for sustainable product lifecycle management -

FoF 14 2015: Integrated design and management of production machinery and processes -

ICT in Excellent Science

High-Performance Computing (HPC)

Strategy

E-Infra- structures

Digital Science

FET Open

Individual research projects

Early Ideas

FET Proactive

Open research clusters

Incubation

FET Flagships

Common research agendas

Large-Scale Initiatives

Future and Emerging Technologies

Societal Challenges

Industrial leadership

Excellent Science

Draft Workprogramme Objectives Future and Emerging Technologies Calls FET Open

FET OPEN 1 2014/2015: FET - Open Research projects r 77 77 FET OPEN 2 2014: Cordination & Support Activities 2014 c 3 FET OPEN 3 2015: Cordination & Support Activities 2015 c 3

FET Proactive FETPROACT 1 2014: Global Systems Science (GSS) r 10

FETPROACT 2 2014: Knowing, doing, being: cognition beyond problem solving r 15

FETPROACT 3 2014: Quantum simulation r 8 2 Call FET Proactive towards exascale high performance computing

FETHPC-1 2014: HPC Core Technologies, Programming Environments and Algorithms for Extreme Parallelism and Extreme Data Applications

r 93.4

FETHPC-2 2014 HPC Ecosystem Development r 4 Call FET -Flagships-tackling grand interdisciplinary science and technology challenges

FETFLAG 1 2014: Framework Partnership Agreement no budget

no budget

FETFLAG 2 2015: Graphene FET Flagship Core Project r 89 FETFLAG 3 2015: Human Brain Project FET Flagship Core Project r 89 FETFLAG 4 2014/2015: Policy environment for FET Flagships c 1.6

Call ID Title Close Budget (M€)

EINFRA-1-2014 Managing, preserving and computing with big research data 02-Sep-14 55

EINFRA-2-2014 e-Infrastructure for Open Access .. 15-Apr-14 13

EINFRA-3-2014 Towards global data e-infrastructures – Research Data Alliance .. 02-Sep-14 4

EINFRA-4-2014 Pan-European High Performance Computing infrastructure and services 02-Sep-14 15

EINFRA-5-2015 Centres of Excellence for computing applications 14-Jan-15 40 EINFRA-6-2014 Network of HPC Competence Centres for SMEs 02-Sep-14 2 EINFRA-7-2014 Provision of core services across e-infrastructures 02-Sep-14 6 EINFRA-8-2014 Research and Education Networking – GÉANT 02-Sep-14 0

EINFRA-9-2015 e-Infrastructures for virtual research environments (VRE) . 14-Jan-15 42

Draft Workprogramme Objectives eInfrastructures part of Excellence Pillar

H2020 Societal Challenges DG Connect: Organisational Configuration

RTD F(SANCO)

SC1Health

CNECT H1, H2

RTD EAGRI

SC2Food

CNECT G3

RTD KENER C

SC3Energy

CNECT H5

RTD HMOVE C

SC4Transport

CNECT H5

RTD ICLIM/ENV

ENTR F

SC5Climate

CNECT H5

RTD B, C

SC6Inclusive,

Innovative

CNECT G2, G4H2, H3

ENTR G

SC7Security

CNECT H4

Industrial leadership

Excellent Science

Societal Challenges

DG Connect

http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/connect/sites/cnect-site/files/organi_en.pdf

Some really useful stuff

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www.ictic.org

An unofficial resource

www.tinyurl.com/h2020index

National Launch Events

28 Iceland 22/11, Norway 6/12, Switzerland 14/1

ICT National Contact Point Technology Strategy Board: Business Support Group 0300 321 4357 FP7UK ICT Web Presence https://ktn.innovateuk.org/web/fp7-ict Twitter @eurobits

Peter Walters pwalters@tuvnel.com

012 434 303 70

Useful Files: www.tinyurl.com/h2020index

http://www.ictic.org/h/v/bf.pdf