1. HORIZON 2020
Information and Communication Technologies in the EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation

2. What is Horizon 2020
EU research and innovation funding programme ( ); billion € budget
A core part of Europe 2020 strategy: 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
Coupling research to innovation – from research to market
Issuing Calls organised in Work Programmes (now )
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3. Towards a Work Programme definition
Inputs from 3 main sources:
H2020 Advisory groups: „Connect Advisory Forum for ICT Research and Innovation“ (CAF)
Contractual Public Private Partnerships (Photonics, Robotics, 5G, HPC and FoF, Big Data)
Relevant initiatives related to the EU Commission
STARTUP EUROPE, FIWARE; STARTS
AIOTI (Alliance of Internet of Things Innovation)
JTI ECSEL (Joint Technology Initiative Electronic Components and Systems for European Leadership), AAL (Ambient Assisted Living), EIT ICT LABS (EU Institute of Innovation and Technology)
+ Additional (public) consultation (web, meetings, etc.)
Benefit of partnerships!
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4. Coverage of the full innovation chain
Societal challenges
Industrial leadership
Basic
Research
Technology
R&D
Demonstration
Market
uptake
Large scale
validation
Prototyping
Pilots
Excellent science
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5. ~25% ~20% ~55% Horizon 2020 structure Excellent Science
Frontier Research (ERC)
Future and Emerging Technologies (FET)
Skills and career development (Marie Skłodowska-Curie)
Research Infrastructures
~25%
ICT
ICT
~20%
Industrial Leadership
Leadership in enabling
and industrial technologies
ICT
Nanotech., Materials, Manuf. & Processing
Biotechnology
Space
Access to risk finance
Innovation in SMEs
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
ICT
ICT
ICT
~55%
ICT
ICT
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6. Coupling research to innovation
Support to Research and Innovation from lab to market
Use of collaborative projects 'research and innovation actions' and 'innovation actions' depending on the centre of gravity of the targeted activities
Promotion of a closer relationship between research and entrepreneurship
More support to SMEs
More independent evaluators from the business world involved in the selection process
About half of the budget of ICT-related activities allocated to instruments directly aiming at supporting innovation
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7. ~25% ~20% ~55% Horizon 2020 structure Excellent Science
Frontier Research (ERC)
Future and Emerging Technologies (FET)
Skills and career development (Marie Skłodowska-Curie)
Research Infrastructures
~25%
ICT
ICT
~20%
Industrial Leadership
Leadership in enabling
and industrial technologies
ICT
Nanotech., Materials, Manuf. & Processing
Biotechnology
Space
Access to risk finance
Innovation in SMEs
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
ICT
ICT
ICT
~55%
ICT
ICT
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8. Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) / 2016-2017
FET Open (202 M€)
Fostering radically novel ideas in all technologies
Stimulating entrepreneurship
 FET Innovation Launchpad
FET Proactive (180 M€)
Boosting emerging themes
High Performance Computing
FET Flagships (185 M€)
Pursuing grand interdisciplinary science and technology challenges with flagship projects:
 Graphene
 Human Brain
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9. Research Infrastructures 2016-2017
eInfrastructures (122 M€)
Support of the European policies on open research data, data and computing-intensive science, research and education networking, high-performance computing and big data innovation
Integration and consolidation of e-infrastructure platforms
Support to the next implementation phase of Pan-European High Performance Computing infrastructure and services (PRACE) (15M€)
Data and Distributed Computing e-infrastructures for Open Science (40 M€)
Prototyping innovative e-infrastructure platforms and services for research and education communities, industry and the citizens at large
Platform-driven e-infrastructure innovation (46 M€)
User-driven e-infrastructure innovation (21 M€)
Support to policies and internal cooperation for e-infrastructures (7.5 M€)
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10. ~25% ~20% ~55% Horizon 2020 structure Excellent Science
Frontier Research (ERC)
Future and Emerging Technologies (FET)
Skills and career development (Marie Skłodowska-Curie)
Research Infrastructures
~25%
ICT
ICT
~20%
Industrial Leadership
Leadership in enabling
and industrial technologies
ICT
Nanotech., Materials, Manuf. & Processing
Biotechnology
Space
Access to risk finance
Innovation in SMEs
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
ICT
ICT
ICT
~55%
ICT
ICT
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11. Industrial Leadership - ICT
A new generation of components and systems
engineering of advanced embedded and resource efficient components and systems – cyber-physical systems
Next generation computing
advanced and secure computing systems and technologies, including cloud computing
Future Internet
software, hardware, infrastructures, technologies and services
Content technologies and information management
ICT for digital content, cultural and creative industries
Advanced interfaces and robots - robotics and smart spaces
Micro- and nanoelectronics and photonics - Key Enabling Technologies
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12. Components and systems 2016-2017
Covers systemic integration from smart integrated components to cyber-physical systems
Organised in three related topics
Smart cyber-physical systems (20 M€)
Next generation embedded and connected systems
Smart system integration (18.5 M€)
Integration of heterogeneous micro- and nanotechnologies into smart systems
Advanced Thin, Organic and Large Area Electronics (25.5 M€)
Integration of heretogeneouos micro- and nonotechnologies into smart systems
Smart everything everywhere (25.% M€)
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13. Advanced and Cloud Computing 2016-2017
Reinforce and expand Europe's industrial and technology strengths in low-power ICT
Foster the evolution of Cloud technology to increase its uptake
Complementary to the work in the Excellent Science pillar under Research Infrastructures and FET (HPC)
Organised in two topics:
Customised and low power computing (26 M€)
Cloud computing (45 M€)
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14. Future Internet
253 M€
Integrated response to technology challenges and innovation needs of the Future Internet
Organised in 7 topics:
5G PPP Research and validation of critical technologies and systems (103 M€)
5G PPP convergent Technologies (45 M€)
Networking research beyond 5G (18M€)
Software Technologies (31 M€)
Future Internet Experimentation – Building a European experimental Infrastructure (26M€)
Collective Awareness Platforms for sustainability and social innovation (10 M€)
Net Innovation Initiative (20M€)
5G PPP
(148 M€)
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15. Content technologies and information management / 2016-2017
Big Data (153M€)
Cross sectorial and cross lingual data integration and experimentation (54M€)
Large scale pilots in sectors best benefitting form data driven innovation (50M€)
Research addressing main technology challenge of the data economy (31M€)
Support, industrial skills, benchmarking and evaluation (7M€)
Privacy-preserving big data technologies (9M€)
Big Data inducement prize (2M€)
Media and content convergence (39M€)
Tools for smart digital content in the creative industries (17M€)
Support technology transfer to the creative industries (14M€)
Technologies for Learning and Skills (31M€)
Interfaces for accessibility (12M€)
Gaming and gamification (12M€)
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16. ~25% ~20% ~55% Horizon 2020 structure Excellent Science
Frontier Research (ERC)
Future and Emerging Technologies (FET)
Skills and career development (Marie Skłodowska-Curie)
Research Infrastructures
~25%
ICT
ICT
~20%
Industrial Leadership
Leadership in enabling
and industrial technologies
ICT
Nanotech., Materials, Manuf. & Processing
Biotechnology
Space
Access to risk finance
Innovation in SMEs
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
ICT
ICT
ICT
~55%
ICT
ICT
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17. Preparation of market deployment
Big Data
SC1: Big Data supporting Public Health policies
SC4: Innovative ICT solutions for future logistics operations
SC6: Policy-making in the age of Big Data
SC6: European cultural heritage, access and analysis for a richer interpretation of the past
Robotics
SC1: Robotics-based solutions for active and healthy ageing
SC2: Robot-based precision farming
Internet of Things
Smart living environments for ageing well
Smart farming and food security
Autonomous vehicles in a connected environment
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18. Smart, green and integrated transport 2016-2017
Contribution of ICT
Direct involvement in 6 topics
+ potential contribution of ICT in about 8-9 other topics (out of 55)
Three calls in SC4
Mobility for growth (436 M€ overall)
Innovative ICT solutions for future logistics operations
Intelligent Transport systems (3 topics)
Increasing the take up and scale-up of innovative solutions to achieve sustainable mobility in urban areas
Automated road transport (114 M€ overall)
ICT infrastructure to enable the transition towards road transport automation
European green vehicle initiative (206 M€ overall)
Demonstration (pilots) for integration of electrified L-category vehicles in the urban transport system
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19. Topics for international cooperation
Horizon 2020 is open to the world, allowing European researchers, to cooperate with their counterparts around the world in H2020 projects on any topic. In addition, in some parts of Horizon 2020, topics have been flagged as being particularly suitable for international cooperation and consortia are encouraged to include non-EU partners:
For example
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20. Find out more On the Horizon2020 web site
On the EU participants portal
elpdesk
H2020 Helpdesk, including FAQ
Contact your National Contact Points
onal_contact_points.html
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21. A word of caution
Success rates are low – usually 10 – 15 % of the proposals are funded
High effort to prepare a proposal (several person months full time)
Key role of the coordinator
Our experience: Coordinator must have been involved in previous projects
Do not try to stretch the call but respond to it carefully
Read the fine print before you start to work, usually helps to contact the Commission officers
If your idea does not fit the call, do not write a proposal
Addressing the call is not enough: there should be at least one novel creative idea – unique selling proposition
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22. Partner Search via Ideal-Ist
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23. EURAXESS - Researchers in Motion
A unique pan-European initiative providing access to a complete range of information and support services to researchers wishing to pursue their research careers in Europe or stay connected to it.
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