1. FP7UK EU Funded Collaborative Research In the ICT domain Peter Walters
FP7UK
EU Funded Collaborative Research
In the ICT domain
Peter Walters
FP7UK National Contact Point Team
The presentation is about Collaborative research in the ICT Domain
enabled and funded by The European Commission
Collaborative research can give organisations considerable benefits –

2. The future
FP7 comes to an end this year. The Commission want to carry on funding Research and Innovation
The replacement scheme <click> is called Horizon 2020 – it is still under development
and not all the details are yet public.
What follows is what we know today, and are reasonably sure that it represents the future.
is now!

3. Growth, Jobs & Competitiveness
What is new?
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
Budget 79 B € (at current prices)
Growth, Jobs & Competitiveness
Better articulation of research and innovation
Seamless funding from idea to market
Horizon 2020 must address current challenges and opportunities.
It will be a break from the past. The main requirements stand out:
A less complicated swifter scheme
and better coupling between research and the marketplace.
The first step is to amalgamate the three predecessors programmes into a single entity
With a single set of rules, less paperwork, and faster response.
attracting the best researchers and innovators regardless of where they are located
All forms of innovation will be included, including innovation in services and social innovation.
Support will also be given to develop the market and legal frameworks for innovations to be deployed,
such as on public procurement, standard setting and regulations.
seamless funding then of research through innovation and beyond to
the threshold of commercial exploitation.
Previously separate activities will be brought together to focus on the societal challenges
such as health, clean energy and transport.
But the overall aims remain: <click> Growth Jobs Competitiveness and Horizon 2020 sets
out to make that easier

4. Main elements of H2020 INNOVATION And Simplification
A simple funding model:
100% Direct Costs + 25%
Faster time to grant, Less audits
Time-to-grant of 8 months ("5 + 3 months”)
Dedication of budgets to key topics
SME Research & Innovation, Energy and FET
Fast Track to Innovation Pilot:
A Fast Track to Innovation pilot is to be launched in :
Derogations from the Rules of Participation for JTIs
Revenues and repayments of the financial instruments
The main elements of the compromise are that
the funding will be simpler than it has been in the past,
The money is simpler: For research, The Commission will pay for all of the
eligible direct costs that are incurred a the project, plus 25% as a contribution
to the indirect costs of the participants.
If the project is about innovation, which means that it is closer to market than
research then the 100% becomes 70%.
The time to Grant is to be 8 months from the call deadline. <Breath><change gear>
The 25% may make difficulties in large Infrastructure projects so there is a ‘get out of jail free card for them
A number of adjustments have been made to the Specific Programme
And there has been some earmarking of budgets in favour of SMEs,
open calls in the Future and Emerging Technologies area and in the Energy domain
INNOVATION And Simplification

5. H2020: What’s Important? Societal Challenges Excellent Science
Industrial
leadership
Excellent Science is a fundamental
But its application is important <click>
This gives rise to the Three Pillars upon which H2020 is based
Excellent Science
Industrial Leadership
Societal challenges
So how is this being arranged?

6. Industrial Leadership Excellence in the Science Base
The Workprogramme
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
This is a picture of the whole workprogramme. and the way in which it will be subdivided
Let’s look for the ICT
Top right we can see the Industrial Leadership pillar an Item ICT,
It has a subdivision called LEIT: Leadership in Enabling Industrial Technologies
This is where the main ICT element lives.
This workprogramme element <click> will define the core ICT activity
I guess the budget here will be about €6 or €7 Billion Euros.
But the ICT also appears in other places, <click> its all over the Societal challenges,
so there will be ICT elements in the Work Programme sections for
secure, clean and efficient energy, as there will be in climate action etc.
There will also be ICT in the Excellence in the Science Base pillar,
principally in the research infrastructure space where there is interest in very high power computing
and in the Future and Emerging Technologies area.
So there will be many Work Programme sections which an ICT organisation
might want to read and pay attention to.

7. Forms of funding Grants
Direct financial contribution by way of donation in order to finance an action
Prizes
Financial contribution given as reward following a contest
Procurement
Supply of assets, execution of works or provision of services against payment
Financial instruments
Equity or quasi-equity investments; loans; guarantees; other risk-sharing instruments

8. Research and innovation actions
To establish new knowledge and/or to explore the feasibility of a new or improved technology, product, process, service or solution.
May include
basic and applied research,
technology development and integration,
testing and validation on a small-scale prototype in a laboratory or simulated environment.

9. Innovation actions
Producing plans and arrangements or designs for new, altered or improved products, processes or services.
May include
prototyping,
testing,
demonstrating,
piloting,
large-scale product validation and market replication.

10. Types of actions supported by grants
Specific Targeted Research Projects (STReP)
Networks of Excellence
Integrated Projects
Research and innovation actions
Innovation actions
PPPs
JTIs
Pre-commercial procurement & Public procurement of innovative solutions Co-fund
Coordination and support actions
SME instrument
Photonics, HPC, 5G, FoF, Green veh, etc
ENIAC + ARTEMIS = ECSEL
Think SBRI

11. Coordination and support actions
Actions consisting primarily of accompanying measures such as
standardisation,
dissemination,
awareness-raising and communication,
networking,
coordination or support services,
policy dialogues
mutual learning exercises and studies, including design studies for new infrastructure
may also include complementary activities of networking and coordination between programmes in different countries.
Single Participant Possible

12. SME instrument in Horizon 2020
So how will Horizon 2020 work for SMEs? 12

13. SME support: integrated approach
Eurostars II Enhancing Innovation Capacity Market-driven Innovation
Access to Risk Finance
SME instrument
Collaborative projects
'Innovation in SMEs'
In a number of ways
Firstly the highly successful SME specific Eurostars programme will continue.
This si a bottom up process involving National agencies as the pay masters
SMEs will be welcome in all of the Collaborative projects where they are suited and in some cases their presence may be mandatory.
The novel access to Risk Finance and similar activities in the Industrial Leadership
pillar which we will hear about later will be there to support them.
BUT most importantly There is to be this new bottom up Instrument specifically targeted at SMEs
The first thing to note is this it is NOT The SAME as the old “Research for the benefit
of SME’s” instrument
This has, under various names been a feature of EU Research for at least three Frameworks
20 % budgetary
target in Industrial & Social

14. ? SME instrument IDEA business coaching throughout the project MARKET
Concept & Feasibility Assessment
Demonstration
Market Replication
Research
Development
Commercialisation
SME window EU financial facilities
Procurement
It will work like this from Idea to Market
An SME starts out with new idea. and can then get small grant to pursue the idea.
If that comes good there’s a second grant available to do the next step
And Thirdlly there are supporting schemes to help with the commercialisation.
10 Page proposal
50 k€ Grant
10% success rate
Delivers Business plan etc = First Commercialisation Plan
Based upon First
Commercialisation Plan
1 – 5 M€ Grant
50% success rate
No Direct Financial support
Mentoring etc
by Support Projects
Gotchas:
Money to SMEs Only
Strict limit on no of applications by given company

15. The SME Instrument is to be used in the ICT space to enable Open and Disruptive Innovation action
Info day
24 January Brussels see
First batch: 18 June 2014
90 M € Budget

16. Participation in Projects
Minimum conditions
For SME Instrument, programme co-fund, CSA
1 legal entity established in a MS/AC
For standard collaborative actions
At least, 3 independent legal entities, each established in different MS/AC
Additional conditions may be set out in the Work Programme
Funding to:
Entities established in MS or associated countries or third country identified in the WP
Entities created under Union law
International European interest organisation
Other entities may be funded if participation is essential or foreseen in bilateral arrangement between the Union and third country/international organisation

17. Evaluation of proposals
Award criteria
Excellence
Impact
Higher weighting for innovation actions
Quality and efficiency in the Implementation
Details, weightings and thresholds be laid down in WP
Evaluation carried out by independent experts
Some calls may use a 2 stage submission procedure

18. Grant = rate ( Direct + Indirect ) Grant = rate x Direct (1 + 0.25)
The Money !!
Grant = rate ( Direct + Indirect ) Grant = rate x Direct ( )
Research & Innovation
Grant = 1 x 1.25 Direct
Innovation
Grant = 0.7 x 1.25 Direct
Innovation (not for profit)
Grant = 1.0 x 1.25 Direct

19. Reimbursement Rates !!
1 Direct Cost reimbursement rate by action (same rate for all beneficiaries and all activities):
Up to 100% for Research and Innovation actions
Up to 70% for innovation (non-profit entities up to 100%)
Up to 70% for PCP co-fund, 33% for ERANET co-fund, 20% for PPI co-fund
1 method for calculation of indirect costs:
Flat rate of 25% of total direct costs, excluding subcontracting, costs of third parties and financial support to third parties
If provided in WP, lump sum or unit costs
Funding of the action not exceed total eligible costs minus receipts
see also

20. Intellectual Property Rights - Results
Ownership
Beneficiary generating the results
Joint-ownership in specific circumstances
Protection
If results capable of commercial/industrial exploitation
If not protected, EU may assume ownership
Exploitation
Best efforts obligation; WP may foresee additional obligations
Transfer and exclusive licences to a third country
EC may object (competitiveness, ethical principles, security)
Dissemination
Open access to scientific publications and under certain conditions to research data

21. First work programme and calls for proposals
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
ICT
This is a picture of the whole workprogramme. and the way in which it will be subdivided
Let’s look for the ICT
Top right we can see the Industrial Leadership pillar an Item ICT,
It has a subdivision called LEIT: Leadership in Enabling Industrial Technologies
This is where the main ICT element lives.
This workprogramme element <click> will define the core ICT activity
I guess the budget here will be about €6 or €7 Billion Euros.
But the ICT also appears in other places, <click> its all over the Societal challenges,
so there will be ICT elements in the Work Programme sections for
secure, clean and efficient energy, as there will be in climate action etc.
There will also be ICT in the Excellence in the Science Base pillar,
principally in the research infrastructure space where there is interest in very high power computing
and in the Future and Emerging Technologies area.
So there will be many Work Programme sections which an ICT organisation
might want to read and pay attention to.
ICT

22. ICT in Industrial Leadership
Societal Challenges
Excellent Science
Industrial
leadership
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 D Cooperation
These are actually the top level headings from the draft workprogramme which
Lee is currently working on
Components and systems,
Next generation computing,
Future internet,
Content technologies and information management.
Robotics
And the KEY ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES of micro & nano electronics and photonics,
both of which are increasingly important to UK.
A variety of cross cutting activities Internet of Things, Security,
and activities in Support of Innovation
and finally International outreach.

23. ICT Call Timetable 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-14 5G 2
H2020-ICT-2015
15-Oct-14
21-Apr-15
583M€
Brazil
H2020-EUB-2015
Japan
H2020-EUJ-2014
07-Jan-14
10-Apr-14
The overall timetable looks like this
Discussions with the member States - going on now
Formal acceptance of the three key documents
The member states vote has to come before the Workprogramme can be adopted in December.
Training us: the NCPs to spread the word,
Finally Publication of the First ‘draft’ calls
Then there will be Launch Events(s)

24. Some really useful stuff The Portal: https://ec. europa 26

25. Your way in:

26. An unofficial resource

27. ICT / FET National Contact Point
ICT / FET National Contact Point
Technology Strategy Board: Business Support Group
TSB H2020 Web Presence
Twitter @eurobits
But if you are into ICT It’s me you want to talk to – and here are my contact details
Peter Walters
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