1. Horizon 2020 opportunities and synergies with Cohesion Policy
Andreea Strachinescu
Head of Unit New energy technologies and innovation
DG Energy
Gergana Miladinova
Team Leader 'Sustainable Growth‘
DG Regional and Urban Policy
17 March, 2015

2. HORIZON 2020 and the EU energy policy

3. R&I strategy -2008: The SET Plan
Focus on technologies with market impact up to 2020
(set up of EIIs)
Wind
Solar
Electricity grids
CCS
Bioenergy
Nuclear
Smart Cities and Communities
Fuel cells and hydrogen
Focus on longer-term research actions beyond 2020 (set up of EERA)
Objective for 2020
- 20% reduction of CO2 emissions (base1990)
- 20% share of Renewable Energy
- 20% improvement in Energy Efficiency

4. R&I strategy - 2013: Communication on Energy Technologies and Innovation
Key Principles
New challenges post 2020
From sectors to system
Bridging R&I with energy policy
Making better use of existing financial resources
Keep options open
Join endogenous resources

5. Implementation: FP7 2007-2013 FP7: 50.5 bEur total funding (7 years)
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FP7: 50.5 bEur total funding (7 years)
Energy: 2.5 bEur (5%)

6. Implementation: FP7 – demo projects
GRID 4 EU ECOGRID EU
6 DSOs (cover more than 50% of the metered electricity customers in Europe)
27 partners (Utilities, Energy Suppliers, Manufacturers, Research Institutes)
Duration: 51 months (November January 2016
The demonstration on the Danish island Bornholm - more than 50 % electricity consumption from RES.
2000 residential consumers - flexible demand response to real-time price signals; participants will be equipped with residential demand response devices/appliances using gateways and "smart" controllers.

7. Implementation: FP7 – demo projects
TRANSFORM – Smart Cities project

9. What's new ? A single programme: FP7 + CIP + EIT
Focus on societal challenges

10. Budget = 70.2 bill Eur

11. Energy challenge – 2014 -2015 calls
Energy efficiency
Smart cities & communities
Competitive low-carbon energy
SME's and Fast Track to Innovation for Energy
Other actions

12. WP 2014-2015 Energy efficiency Buildings and consumers
(Prefabricated modules, building designs, construction skills, deep renovation, demand response, engagement of consumers and public authorities, ICT-based solutions, socio-economic research, etc.)
Heating and cooling
(district heating/cooling, market barriers)
Industry and products
(heat recovery, procurements, SME-targeted activities)
Finance for sustainable energy

13. WP 2014-2015 - Low-carbon energy
Renewable electricity and heating/cooling
(Demonstration and research on next generation of technologies (PV, CSP, wind energy, ocean energy, geothermal energy, hydro energy, solar/biomass heating/cooling); market uptake measures
Sustainable biofuels / alternative fuels
(Demonstration and research on next generation of fuels, market uptake measures)
European electricity grid / energy storage technologies
(Meshed off-shore grids, transmission and distribution grid, small scale and large scale storage, next generation storage technologies)

14. WP 2014-2015 - Low-carbon energy
Sustainable use of fossil fuels
(Decarbonising the fossil-fuel based power sector and energy intensive industry through CCS, understanding/preventing/ mitigating the environmental impacts of shale gas exploitation, highly flexible and efficient power plants)
European Research Area in energy research
(ERA-NETs, support to coordinating national R&D activities)
Socio-economic research
(Human factor in the energy system, modelling)
Cross-cutting issues
(SME-targeted activities, NCP network)

15. Lighthouse projects WP 2014-2015 - Smart Cities & communities
Low energy districts
Integrated infrastructures
Sustainable urban mobility
Enhancing the roll out
Standards
systems –interoperability
Networks of public procurers
joint procurements for SMEs

16. Implementation

17. Implementation: EU (II)
Integrated approach
All demonstration projects shall integrate
Innovative Technology development
Innovative Business models
Develop plans for market uptake
Check existing market barriers and work out proposals for solutions (policy, legislation, regulation, etc.)

18. Cohesion Policy Support for Innovation in Energy & Synergies

19. Translated into Fund-specific investment priorities
11 Thematic Objectives
Research & innovation
Information and communication technologies (ICT)
Competitiveness of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises
Smart Growth
Shift towards a low-carbon economy
Climate change adaptation & risk management and prevention
Environmental protection & resource efficiency
Sustainable transport & removing bottlenecks in key network infrastructures
Sustainable Growth
Employment & support for labour mobility
Social inclusion & combating poverty
Education, skills & lifelong learning
Institutional capacity building & efficient public administration
Inclusive Growth
Translated into Fund-specific investment priorities

20. Smart specialisation and energy
RIS3: (national/regional) research and innovation smart specialisation strategies
- Bottom-up agenda for place-based economic transformation based on innovation
- Continuous, participatory process
- Ex-ante conditionality for TO1
Good news: energy features in many of the national/regional RIS3
It is very welcoming that many regions have opted for energy R&I in their RIS3 (68 out of 151 registered at the S3 platform).
Transition to the next slides!
S3Platform:

21. Synergies ESIF and Horizon 2020
New possibilities:
Synergies/ commutation of funds
Alignment of cost models
Spending outside Operational Programme area (15%)
ESIF and Horizon 2020 synergies:
Mean: more impacts and amplifying results, carrying further projects and ideas
But are not: substitution of private/public funds, funding of the same cost items twice
Different ways to realise synergies:
In one project, successive projects, parallel projects
Cohesion Policy

22. ~€100 billion for innovation in wide sense
Overall concept
for complementarily
Horizon 2020
ESIF
ESIF
~€100 billion for innovation in wide sense
€ billion
"Stairway to Excellence"
Hopefully also excellence, but "Innovation Excellence"
"Research
Excellence"
National/RegionalR&I systems
Capacity Building
Research & Development
Innovation
Market
"Up-stream"
"Down-stream"

23. Synergies: not easy but possible
Key differences between the programmes:
Research excellence vs. socio-economic development
Multi-country approach (consortia) vs. place-based (single beneficiaries)
Competition for funds vs. geographical pre-allocation
Annually adjusted work programmes vs. 7-year-OP
Centralised management vs. implementation by MS/regions
>> For possible solutions: See the ”Guide on Synergies’’

24. Conclusions
Reinforced opportunities for support of innovation, including on energy
Combination of Cohesion policy funds and H2020 possible but challanges exist
Good planing, cooperation and proactive approach needed
The new initative ‘Smart Specilisation Platform on Energy’ will offer further support

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26. Synergies :HOW? ESIF side
Strategy development comes first:
Include Horizon2020 actors and international contacts in the entrepreneurial discovery process to design RIS3. Get involved in structured cooperation. Full innovation cycle in policy-mix, not only capacity-building!
Programme development:
Open OPs for transnational activities, foresee H2020 compatible / complementary support forms that could help attaining the economic transformation objectives of your RIS3. Team up with other MS/regions around RIS3 fields instead of waiting for H2020 calls.
Implementation
Design management system and project selection methods to be able to synchronise with award decisions with H2020 calls & evaluations. Align to H2020 cost models. Invite the NCPs in monitoring committees. Foresee support to applicants for finding international partners, etc.

27. Synergies: HOW? H2020 side Strategic level:
Open strategic platforms and structured cooperation between R&I programmes and actors for regional level policy actors. Facilitate access to ESFRI infrastructures for industrial users and integrate ESFRIs in industrial clusters.
Programme implementation level:
Design work programmes, implementation documentation and tools (participant portal) in an synergies friendly way
Train staff, evaluators, auditors etc. on ESIF basic rules and synergies
NCPs get familiar with ESIF rules, RIS3 and MA
Explain Horizon2020, COSME, Erasmus+, CEF etc. to MA and public procurers (cost models, project formats …)
Inform Managing Authorities on H2020 participants
Communicate on synergies & Provide guidance to beneficiaries ….
Horizon2020:
Interpretation of rules for H2020 participation: emphasize synergies issues in guidance to participants & evaluators
Adapt implementation documentation, e.g. budget break-down in applications, standard contracts & letters
Align work programmes and EIP agendas to RIS3 fields of specialisation to maximise lever on ESIF
Strengthen the collaboration of the NCPs with MA and regional structures of support
Training for RTD, CNECT, ENTR, etc staff, external evaluators and auditors on synergies with ESIF
Facilitate transfer of technology and research results from H2 (and FPs)
Flexibility regarding JTI / P2P proposals …
Tracking system for synergies in applications or reporting
AND BOTH should ensure:
more exchange of information between the different programme managers and implementing bodies (NCPs, MAs, etc.)
Mutual learning
Tracking of synergies for providing good practice examples