1. EU Horizon 2020 What’s New? Stephen Alexander Legal & Financial NCP
H2020UK National Contact Points
National Contact Points are a Technology Strategy
Board Resource to assist UK Business in engaging
with EU RTD & Innovation Funding opportunities

2. FP7 2007-2013 ~ €52b Cooperation 32,413 M€ Capacities 4,097 M€
Ideas 7,510
People 4,750 M€
Capacities 4,097 M€

3. Co-operation programme: budget breakdown

4. Europe 2020 priorities Horizon 2020 – objectives & structure
International cooperation
European Research Area
Shared objectives and principles
Tackling Societal Challenges
Health, demographic change and wellbeing
Food security and the bio-based economy
Secure, clean and efficient energy
Smart, green and integrated transport
Climate action, resource efficiency, including raw materials
Inclusive, innovative and reflective societies
Secure societies
Creating Industrial Leadership and Competitive Framework
Information and Communication
Technologies (ICT)
Nanotech. Materials, Manf. & 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
Simplified access
Coherent with other EU and MS actions
Common rules, toolkit of funding schemes

5. Budget distribution

6. H2020 Changes 1. A new structure and focus Only one Specific Programme
3 main pillars
More focus on societal challenges rather than specific
Technologies
More focus on innovation, closer-to-market activities
More cross-cutting activities
2. New programming cycle
Three year strategic programming, cutting across all pillars
This drives 12 focus areas food security, health care, green energy, security....)
Encapsulated in two-year work programmes and related funding opportunities

7. Funding opportunities in Horizon 2020
Some are broadly similar to FP7 and recognisable
ERC, MSC, FET, infrastructures
Technology ‘Themes’ in LEIT – ICT, NMP, Space, Biotechnology
But:
Big focus (& budget) in societal challenges
Shift in TRLs in LEIT (as well as societal challenges)

8. Rules for Participation: what’s new?
PARTICIPATION PROCESSES SIMILAR TO FP7
Workprogrammes, calls, proposals, evaluation, grant – BUT...
SIMPLE & UNIFORM EVALUATION CRITERIA
Excellence – Impact – Implementation
Proposals evaluated ‘as-is’ – no more ‘negotiations’
Compressed grant preparation period could impact Consortium agreement timescales?
MARIE CURIE REFERENCE RATES REDUCED: also impacts scale of unit costs for SME owners without a salary (i.e. only two Marie Curie reference rates, 1720 productive hours, 25% indirect costs – reimbursement lower than FP7)

9. Rules for Participation: what’s new?
AUDIT CERTIFICATE(CFS)
Only at final cost claim and Reimbursement >€325k
Can be claimed as ‘other’ direct cost (not subcontract)
LARGE RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE COSTS
Overhead costs for large research infrastructures claimed as ‘direct’
Methodology and inspection required
TRAC costings could be basis for this?
LESS INPUT ON PROPOSAL IDEAS FROM COMMISSION OFFICERS
No formal ‘pre-proposal’ check as in ICT

10. Potential traps for academia!
THE INNOVATION FOCUS, TRL SHIFT, INDUSTRY INVOLVEMENT
Potentially different style of proposal
‘Impact’ is increasingly important
Industrial and SME involvement, but...
Potential conflict between academic and industry interests?
MULTIDISCIPLINARY
Wider agenda for projects
Will come into evaluation
SMEs AND GENDER ISSUES INCREASINGLY IMPORTANT
May be used where required in tie-breaking for projects on same score

11. UK National Contact Point (NCP) structure

12. UK wider support H2020 NCPs More resource
Taken in-house by Technology Strategy Board
Greater integration with Lead Technologists, KTNs, EENs
Knowledge Transfer Networks (KTNs)
Reformed as single ‘KTN Ltd’
The industry outreach mechanism for TSB
Some offices already established, cross-cutting function
Enterprise Europe Network (EENs)
TSB bidding for EENs in English regions
UKRO?

13. FP7UK National Contact Points
Advice and Assistance:
FP7UK National Contact Points
Stephen Alexander
Legal & Financial NCP
Phone:
UK Website:
EU Website: