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HORIZON 2020

ICT Research and InnovationeAGE 2014 Conference, Muscat, Oman

10-11 December 2014

Carlos OliveiraEuropean Commission - DG CONNECT

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Horizon 2020

• 80 billion EUR - the largest research and innovation programme

• Open to the world – engaging EU Member States but also partner countries around the world

• Doing science and research in a global and connected world – allowing people to work together regardless of their location

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Horizon 2020:more than research

• Support to Research and Innovation from lab to marketUse of 'research and innovation actions' and 'innovation actions' depending on the centre of gravity of the targeted activities

• A closer relationship between research and entrepreneurship

• More evaluators from the business world

• About half of the budget of ICT-related activities to support directly innovation

• More support to SMEs

• International cooperation as an essential feature

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Three priorities

•Excellent science

•Industrial leadership

•Societal challenges

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Industrial Leadership- Leadership in enabling and industrial

technologies-ICT-Nanotech., Materials, Manuf. and

Processing -Biotechnology-Space

- Access to risk finance - Innovation in SMEs

Excellent Science- Frontier research (ERC)- Future and Emerging Technologies (FET)- Skills and career development (Marie Sklodowska-Curie)- Research infrastructures (including e-infrastructures)

Shared objectives and principles

Common rules, toolkit of funding schemes

Europe 2020 priorities

European Research Area

Simplified access

International cooperation

Dissemination & knowledge tranfer

Societal Challenges- Health, demographic change &

wellbeing- Food security, sustainable agriculture and

the bio-based economy- Secure, clean and efficient energy- Smart, green and integrated transport- Climate action, environment, resource

efficiency and raw materials- Inclusive, innovative and reflective

societies- Secure Societies

EITJRC

Spreading excellence, widening participation

Science with and for society

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Excellent Science

Frontier Research (ERC)

Future and Emerging Technologies (FET)

Skills and career development (Marie Skłodowska-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

Industrial Leadership

Leadership in enabling

and industrial technologies

ICT

Nanotech., Materials, Manuf. & Processing

Biotechnology

Space

Access to risk finance

Innovation in SMEs

ICT ICT

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ICT in Excellent science

•Excellent science

•Industrial leadership

•Societal challenges

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• Future and Emerging Technologies (FET)• FET Open: fostering novel ideas• FET Proactive: nurturing emerging themes and communities• FET Flagships: pursuing grand interdisciplinary science and

technology challenges• Graphene• Human Brain Project

• Research infrastructures• Developing the European research infrastructure for 2020 and

beyond• Development, deployment and operation of ICT-based e-

infrastructures• ICT infrastructure resources and services for Research• Access to and management of scientific data• High Performance Computing

Excellent Science

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ICT in Industrial leadership

•Excellent science

•Industrial leadership

•Societal challenges

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• A new generation of components and systems:

• engineering of advanced embedded and resource efficient components and 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, data analytics / big-data, cultural and creative industries

• Advanced interfaces and robots:

• robotics and smart spaces

• Micro- and nanoelectronics and photonics:

• key enabling technologies

Industrial leadership in ICT

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• Internet of Things and platforms for Connected Smart Objects

• Cutting across several LEIT-ICT areas (smart systems integration, smart networks, big data)

• Bringing together different generic ICT technologies and their stakeholder constituencies

• Cyber-security, Trustworthy ICT

• Security-by-design for end to end security and cryptography• Complementary to Cyber-security in Societal Challenge 7

• Trans-national co-operation among National Contact Points• Effective cross border partnership searches, identifying, understanding and sharing

good practices among ICT NCPs

• Human-centric Digital Age

• Understanding technologies, networks and new digital and social media and how these are changing the way people behave, think, interact and socialise as persons, citizens, workers and consumers

ICT Cross-Cutting Activities / 2014-2015

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• Support for access to finance (15 M€)• Pilot action for business angels to co-invest in ICT

innovative companies • Implemented by EIF and closely coordinated

with "Access to risk finance" part of H2020

• Innovation and Entrepreneurship Support• ICT business idea contests in universities and high schools• ICT entrepreneurship summer academy• ICT entrepreneurship labs• Campaign on entrepreneurship culture in innovative ICT sectors• Support for definition and implementation of inducement prizes• European networks of procurers• Pre-commercial procurement (4 M€)

• Open Disruptive Innovation Scheme (88 M€)

• Support to a large set of early stage high risk innovative SMEs in ICT

• Implementation through the SME instrument-> Continuously open calls with several

(3) cut-off dates/year-> 5% of LEIT budget

ICT Innovation

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ICT in Societal challenges

•Excellent science

•Industrial leadership

•Societal challenges

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• Health, demographic change and wellbeing

• Food security, sustainable agriculture, and forestry, marine, maritime and inland water research, and the bioeconomy

• Secure, clean and efficient energy

• Smart, green and integrated transport

• Climate action, environment, resource efficiency and raw materials

• Europe in a changing world – inclusive, innovative and reflective societies

• Secure societies – protecting freedom and security of Europe and its citizens

ICT and Societal Challenges

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• Advancing active and healthy ageing with ICT

• Service robotics within assisted living environments• ICT solutions for independent living with cognitive impairments• ICT solutions enabling early risk detection and intervention

• Integrated, sustainable, citizen-centred care

• ICT-based approaches for integrated care (beyond current state-of-art in tele-health and tele-care)

• Self-management of health and disease• Public-procurement of innovative eHealth services

• Improving health information and data exploitation

• Digital representation of health data to improve diagnosis and treatment

• eHealth interoperability

Health, demographic change and wellbeing

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• Energy efficiency / buildings and consumers• Public procurement of green data centres• New ICT-based solutions for energy efficiency

through citizens' behavioural change

• Competitive low-carbon energy / modernising the single European electricity grid

• Distribution grid and retail market• Next generation ICT infrastructure for

smart metering and smart grids

• Smart cities and communities• Integration of energy, transport and ICT through lighthouse projects

(large scale demonstration)

Secure, clean and efficient energy

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• Road• Cooperative Intelligent Transport Systems

• Connecting people, vehicles, infrastructures and businesses• Safe and connected automation in road transport

• Green vehicles• Electric vehicles' enhanced performance and integration

into the transport system and the electricity grid

• Smart cities and communities• Integration of energy, transport and ICT

through lighthouse projects (large scale demonstration)

Smart, green and integrated transport

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• Waste management• ICT solutions for waste traceability,

waste material flow management

• Water management• Development and deployment of advanced ICT solutions for

water resources management in agriculture and urban areas

Climate action, environment, resource efficiency and raw materials

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Inclusive, innovative and reflective societies

• Cultural Heritage

•Innovation in the public sector

• Open government• Personalised public services• M-government• Open participation• Transparency

• ICT for learning and inclusion

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A remarkable growth of the knowledge base• Over the last decade: 56% more S&E graduates;

77% increase in R&D expenditure; 57% more patent applications

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Horizon 2020:global cooperation

Broader geographic distribution of knowledge creation• 2000 2008: world share of high-impact publications from outside the

EU-US-Japan triad increased: 20% 32%• 2000 2010: world share of patent applications from the EU fell: 36%

29%

Increase in contribution of external demand to growth • 90% of global economic growth in next 10-15 years expected to be

generated outside the EU

Global challenges increasing in scale and scope

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The benefitsof cooperation with EU in S&T

• A connected and interdependent world • An opportunity to connect your country's scientists,

researchers with those in the most advanced economies in the world

• Access to knowledge is essential for your country's development, jobs, peace and stability• partnerships => access know-how, co-develop solutions, build

capacity and share it with your neighbours• fast learning curve => use to your benefit the development of

brand new infrastructures• Cooperation based on mutual interests and reciprocity

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Horizon 2020 – Open to the World General opening

Horizon 2020 is fully open to participation of entities from across the world

Global awareness of EU's strengths and its role in international cooperation in research and innovation

Targeted activities In a number of topics inclusion of international partners may be

Encouraged Required

Coordinated calls Used for specific actions, e.g. identified through Joint S&T

Coordination Committees Paired calls, linked evaluations, two contracts

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International cooperation tools

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Next steps• Which areas are of greater potential interest for both

parties?• A few thematic workshops (EU representatives – EC, research organisations,

universities and companies, rrepresentatives of Arab countries and their organisations)

• Mobilize organizations in Arab world to join EU-funded ICT research• Contact points and champions: Catalysts and multipliers for

cooperation

• What kind of joint activities can be promoted?• participation of your scientists / organisations in EU funded projects / EU

individual research grants (Marie Curie), support actions

• Work on a concrete action plan to strengthen cooperation in ICT research and innovation between EU and Arab countries

• Possible demonstration projects in selected domains

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More information?

• Horizon 2020 Participant PortalResearch and Innovation European Commissionhttp://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/home.html

• DG Research and InnovationEuropean Commission http://ec.europa.eu/research/index.cfm

• DG CONNECT – Communications Networks, Content and TechnologyEuropean Commission http://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en

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HORIZON 2020

Thank you for your attention!

Find out more:

http://ec.europa.eu/programmes/horizon2020