1. Horizon 2020 – Future Emerging Technologies Department of Physics
8th May 2014
Presenter: Renata Schaeffer
Ext: 61648
Research Operations

2. The Budget Excellent Science 24,4bn€ Societal Challenges 29,6bn€
Budget increase from €53bn in FP7 to €77bn in Horizon 2020 (at current prices)
Excellent Science 24,4bn€
Societal Challenges 29,6bn€
Industrial Leadership 17bn€
Programme is supposed to create a seamless connections between the 3 pillars
Excellence in the Science base
Creating Industrial Leadership and Competitive frameworks
Tackling societal challenges
OTHERS: 5,8B€ (Spreading excellence & widening participation, Science & Society, JRC, EIT)

3. Pillar structure Excellent Science (1) Industrial Leadership (2)
H2020 will focus resources on 3 key priorities:
Excellent Science (1)
ERC (13B€)
FET (Future and Emerging Technologies) (2.7B€)
Marie Curie Actions (6.1B€)
European Research Infrastructures (2.4B€)
Industrial Leadership (2)
Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies
Innovation in SMEs and Access to risk finance
Societal Challenges (3)
Health, demographic change and wellbeing
European Bioeconomy Challenges
Secure, clean and efficient energy
Smart, green and integrated transport
Climate action, resource efficiency and raw materials
Europe in a changing world
Secure societies
SSh
Programme is supposed to create a seamless connections between the 3 pillars
Excellence in the Science base
Creating Industrial Leadership and Competitive frameworks
Tackling societal challenges
Widening Participation, Science with and for Society
EIT)
EURATOM
Joint Research Centre (JRC)

4. Overview of FET schemes
Future and emerging technologies shall support collaborative research in order to extend Europe’s capacity for advanced and paradigm-changing innovation. It shall foster scientific collaboration across disciplines on radically new, high-risk ideas and accelerate development of the most promising emerging areas of science and technology as well as the Union wide structuring of the corresponding scientific communities."
FET-Open
FET Coordination and Support Actions
FET-Proactive initiatives
Global Systems Science (GSS)
Knowing, doing and being: cognition beyond problem solving
Quantum Simulation
Towards exascale high performance computing (HPC)
FET Flagships
The Graphene
Human Brain Project
SSh
Programme is supposed to create a seamless connections between the 3 pillars
Excellence in the Science base
Creating Industrial Leadership and Competitive frameworks
Tackling societal challenges

5. Future and Emerging Technologies (FET)
Expanded from ICT and Energy to be used as cross-cutting funding scheme
Supports frontier research: alternative ideas, concepts or paradigms of risky or non- conventional nature (similar to ERC)
Open, light and agile
Roadmap based research
FET Open
Exploring novel ideas
Individual research
Early ideas
Coordination and support action
FET Proactive
Developing topics and communities – cluster of research projects
Global System Sciences
Knowing, doing being- cognition beyond problem solving
Quantum simulation
Towards exascale high performance computing
FET Flagship
Tackling grand interdisciplinary science and technology challenges
Graphene
Human Brain (HBP)
Support for Flagships
Open – to support early stage joint science and technology research for radically new technologies – non-prescriptive, very bottom up

6. FET Open: FET FET OPEN – Novel ideas for radically new technologies
Long –term vision
High Risk
Novelty
Foundational
Interdisciplinary
S&T targeted
FET OPEN – Novel ideas for radically new technologies
Open is open – All technologies, no thematic restriction
Cut off dates: 30/09/2014, 31/03/2015 and 29/09/2015
Total budget: 160M€ in 2014 – 2015
Instrument:
Research and Innovation Action – 154M€
Coordination and Support Actions (CSA) – 6M€
Look at the LEIT calls as well

7. FET Open: FET Gatekeepers
Long-term vision: a new, original or radical long-term vision of technology-enabled possibilities going far beyond the state of the art
•Breakthrough S&T target: scientifically ambitious and technologically concrete breakthroughs plausibly attainable within the life-time of the project.
•Foundational: the breakthroughs must be foundational in the sense that they can establish a basis for a new line of technology not currently anticipated.
•Novelty: new ideas and concepts, rather than the application or incremental refinement of existing ones.
•High-risk: the potential of a new technological direction depends on a whole range of factors that cannot be apprehended from a single disciplinary viewpoint.
•Interdisciplinary: the proposed collaborations must go beyond current mainstream collaboration configurations in joint S&T research, and must aim to advance different scientific and technological disciplines together and in synergy towards a breakthrough.
Look at the LEIT calls as well

8. FETOPEN 1: FET – Open research projects
Specific challenge: Supporting a large set of early stage, high risk visionary science and technology collaborative research projects is necessary for the successful exploration of new foundations for radically new future technologies. Nurturing fragile ideas requires an agile, risk-friendly and highly interdisciplinary research approach, expanding well beyond the strictly technological disciplines. Recognising and stimulating the driving role of new high-potential actors in research and innovation, such as women, young researchers and high-tech SMEs, is also important for nurturing the scientific and industrial leaders of the future.
Project size: 2 to 4M€
1 step submission and evaluation of a 16 pages proposal
Proposals are not anonymous
Look at the LEIT calls as well
Deadlines
30/09/2014
31/03/2015
29/09/2015
Budget
77M€
38.5M€

9. FETOPEN 2: FET – Coordination and Support Activities 2014
Specific challenge: The challenge is to make Europe the best place in the world for collaborative research on future and emerging technologies that will renew the basis for future European competitiveness and growth, and that will make a difference for society in the decades to come.
Scope: Proposals shall address one of the following topics:
•FET Observatory: identifying new opportunities and directions for FET research
•FET Communication: communicating on FET projects and activities
•FET Exchange: structuring an emerging FET-relevant topic and communities
•FET Conference: supporting the organisation of the third FET Conference
•FET Prizes: identifying suitable areas for prizes and competitions in FET
•FET Impact: Assessing the impacts of the FET programme
Look at the LEIT calls as well
Project size: 0.3 to 0.5M€ per topic, up to 1M€ for FET Conference
Deadlines
30/09/2014
Budget
3.0M€

10. FETOPEN 3: FET – Coordination and Support Activities 2015
Specific challenge: The challenge is to make Europe the best place in the world for collaborative research on future and emerging technologies that will renew the basis for future European competitiveness and growth, and that will make a difference for society in the decades to come.
Scope: Proposals shall address one of the following topics:
FET Exchange: structuring an emerging FET-relevant topic and communities
FET Take-Up: actions for stimulating take-up of FET research results towards impact and innovation
Project size: 0.3 to 0.5M€ per topic
Look at the LEIT calls as well
Deadlines
31/03/2015
29/09/2015
Budget
1.5M€

11. FETPROACT 1-3: 2014 FETPROACT 1: Global Systems Science (GSS) – 2014
FETPROACT 2: Knowing, doing, being: cognition beyond problem solving (GSS) – 2014
FETPROACT 3: Quantum simulation – 2014
Project sizes: 2 to 4M€ (GSS 2-3M€)
-> Deadline: 1/04/2014
Total Budget: 35M€ in WP 2014 – 2015
Results expected by 1 September!
184 proposals submitted
Updated WP to be published at the end of June

12. FET - High Performance Computing
HPC is an important asset for the EU's innovation capacity of strategic importance to the EU's industrial and scientific capabilities as well as its citizens:
developing innovative industrial products and services,
increasing competitiveness,
addressing societal and scientific grand challenges more effectively.
Europe has the technology, knowledge and human skills to develop capabilities covering the whole technological spectrum of the next HPC generation (exascale computing)
Importance of developing state-of-the-art HPC technologies, systems, software, applications and services in Europe
All relevant actors, public and private, need to work in partnership
Invites the EC to elaborate its plans for HPC to support academic and industrial research and innovation under H2020

13. FET – HPC: Critical Technologies, addressing Societal Challenges
Health, demographic change and well-being
(Personalised medicine, pharma/bio-medical simulations, Virtual Physiological Human, Human Brain Project)
Smart, green and integrated transport engineering
(performance, sustainability, energy efficiency)
Inclusive, innovative societies
(Smart Cities, multivariable decision/analytics support)
Climate action
(Simulators for Climate & Earth Sciences, Gas&Oil)
Secure, clean and efficient energy
(Fusion, nuclear plant simulations)
Food security, sustainable agriculture, marine research and the bio-economy
(simulation of sustainability factors (e.g. weather forecast, stock plagues and diseases control, etc))
Look at the LEIT calls as well

14. FETHPC 1: HPC core Technologies, Programming Environments and Algorithms for Extreme Parallelism and Extreme Data Applications
Specific challenge: Addressing the exascale challenges to achieve, by 2020, the full range of technological capabilities for exascale-class HPC systems which are balanced at all levels and validated with significant application drivers
Scope:
a. Core technologies and architectures (e.g. processors, memory, interconnect and storage) and their optimal integration into HPC systems, platforms and prototypes
b. Programming methodologies, environments languages and tools: new programming models for extreme parallelism and extreme data applications
c. APIs and system software for future extreme scale systems
d. New mathematical and algorithmic approaches (e.g. ultra-scalable algorithms for extreme scale systems with quantifiable performance for existing or visionary applications)
Look at the LEIT calls as well
Project size: 2 to 4 M€, up to 8M€ per topic a)
Budget: 93.4M€ -> Deadline 25/11/2014, with a minimum of 60% to be allocated to research under part a) of the scope

15. FETHPC 2: HPC Ecosystem Development – 2014
Specific challenge: To develop a sustainable European HPC Ecosystem
Scope:
•Coordination of the HPC strategy : coordination of the activities of stakeholders such as ETP4HPC, PRACE, application owners and users (including emerging HPC applications), the European exascale computing research community, the open source HPC community, etc.
•Excellence in High Performance Computing Systems : boost European research excellence on the key challenges towards the next generations of high-performance computing systems; cutting across all levels – hardware, architectures, programming, applications; ensure a durable integration of the relevant European research teams; self-sustainability of the research integration on the longer-term
Look at the LEIT calls as well
Project size: 2 to 4 M€
Budget: 4M€ -> Deadline 25/11/2014

16. Conditions for participation
Minimum conditions: FET, LEIT and Societal Challenges (apart from JTIs)
For standard collaborative actions (RIA and IA)
3 legal entities, each established in different MS/AC
For CSA : 1 legal entity
For SME Instrument and programme co-fund
1 legal entity established in a MS/AC
Industry participation is highly advisable even if not a requirement!

17. Funding Model (as per Horizon 2020)
Simplified funding:
Direct Costs:
100% for Research and Innovation actions (+CSA)
70% for Innovation (non-profit entities up to 100%)
WP to specify the reimbursement rate (RIA or IA)
Indirect Costs:
Flat rate of 25% of total direct costs, excluding subcontracting, costs of third parties and financial support to third parties
*Funding of the action not exceed total eligible costs minus receipts

18. Submission Process FET- Open Continuously open
Cut-off date every 6 months March & Sept, starting as of Sept 2014
FET- Proactive
Fixed deadline call: 1st April 2014
Submission & Evaluation
'Short' proposals , 1 step submission using FET specific template
1 stage evaluation based on FET specific evaluation criteria
4 experts per proposals to best address multi-disciplinary nature of FET research
Grant
Grant based on proposal 'as-is' -> No negotiation
All information needed has to be in the proposal! (remember IPR, management structure, access right, business plan)
Time to contract of max. 8 months from call deadline/cut-off date
All above threshold proposals in each topic are
listed in descending order of overall score
We select proposals starting from
the top of the list,
until the available budget is exhausted

19. Eligibility Standard criteria / FET specific criteria
The part B (cover page and sections 1, 2 and 3) is strictly limited to 16 A4 pages and shall consist of:
A single A4 title page with acronym, title and abstract of the proposal.
Maximum 15 A4 pages consisting of an S&T section (section 1), an
Impact section (section 2) and an Implementation section (section 3).
A proposal that do not comply with these page limits will be declared ineligible.
All above threshold proposals in each topic are
listed in descending order of overall score
We select proposals starting from
the top of the list,
until the available budget is exhausted

20. Eligibility – cont… Part A: Administrative part of the proposal
Part B: Scientific part of the proposal
16 pages – core proposal
Cover page
Section 1: S&T Excellence
Section 2: Impact
Section 3: Implementation
Additional information
Section 4: Members of the consortium
I.E: . legal entity, CV, subcontract, third party
Section 5: Ethics and Security
Ethics self-assessment & supporting documents
Security checklist
Cover page limited to 1 page
Section 1,2 &3 are limited to 15 pages
Section 4 & 5 are not included in the page limit
All above threshold proposals in each topic are
listed in descending order of overall score
We select proposals starting from
the top of the list,
until the available budget is exhausted
FET annotated proposal template available

21. Evaluation Criteria: Research project
Excellence
Impact
Implementation
Clarity of targeted breakthrough and its specific science and technology contributions
Importance of the new technological outcome with regards to its transformational impact on technology and/or society.
Quality of the work plan and clarity of intermediate targets.
Novelty, level of ambition and foundational character
Quality of measures for achieving impact on science, technology and/or society.
Relevant expertise in the consortium.
Range and added value from interdisciplinary
Impact from empowerment of new and high potential actors towards future technological leadership.
Appropriate allocation and justification of resources (person-months, equipment, budget).
Appropriateness of the research methods
Threshold:4/5
Weight:60%
Threshold:3.5/5
Weight:20%
Threshold:3/5
All above threshold proposals in each topic are
listed in descending order of overall score
We select proposals starting from
the top of the list,
until the available budget is exhausted

22. Evaluation Criteria: CSA
Excellence
Impact
Implementation
Clarity of objectives
Transformational impact on the communities and/or practices for high-risk and high-impact research
Quality of the work plan and management structure
Contribution to the coordination and/or support of high-risk and high-impact research for new or emerging areas or horizontally
Appropriateness of measures for spreading excellence, use of results, and dissemination of knowledge, including engagement with stakeholders
Relevant expertise in the consortium.
Appropriateness of the coordination and/or support activities
Appropriate allocation and justification of resources (person-months, equipment, budget).
Threshold:3/5
Weight:40%
Weight:20%
All above threshold proposals in each topic are
listed in descending order of overall score
We select proposals starting from
the top of the list,
until the available budget is exhausted

23. Evaluation Summary Report
S&T Excellence
Impact
Implementation
Panel comments
Expert 1 comments
Expert 2 comments
Score /5
Expert 3 comments
Expert 4 comments
Total weighted score /5
All above threshold proposals in each topic are
listed in descending order of overall score
We select proposals starting from
the top of the list,
until the available budget is exhausted

24. Evaluation Process
Eligibility Check
Individual Reading (Remote/on Site)
Consensus
Panel Review
Balanced selection of experts (scientific expertise, geography, gender)
YES?
Evaluators invited on a call-by-call basis
Process monitored by independent experts

25. Events and Consultations
Which network & Internet of Things technologies in Horizon 2020 EU Programme? Deadline 27/06/2014
Have your say on Future and Emerging Technologies! Deadline 15/06/2014
Ideas collected are to contribute to the FET WP , especially FET Proactive Initiatives
Future and Emerging Technologies homepage

26. Research Office EU Team
Renata Schaeffer
Questions on: General queries, funding opportunities and EU policy
Catherine Hill
Questions on: Coordinator grants
Sarah Saemian
Questions on: General queries, Participant Portal and EPSS
Bethan Jones
ERC Officer