European research Horizon 2020 the future research framework programme of the European Union

Sandro D'Elia European Commission

Directorate General CONNECT

Unit Software & Services, Cloud Computing

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Research is a

"shared competence"

of the European Union

The European Union (EU) is a

political and economic union of

27 Member States,

Member States delegate some of their

competences to the EU

("exclusive", "shared" or "supporting")

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A single research and innovation programme bringing together 3 separate initiatives (FP7, CIP, EIT)

Running from 2014 to 2020

€80 billion budget (~104 billion US$)

Focus on societal challenges (health, clean energy, transport…)

and innovation

Open to international cooperation (countries outside EU)

H2020 – what is it?

(Framework Programme 7, Competitiveness and Innovation Programme, European Institute of Technology)

a single "framework programme" implemented through "work programmes" of 1-2 years

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Two-stage evaluation (to be confirmed), 6-months time-to-grant

No paper documents, specific rules for non-profit organisations

New “financial instruments” (different ways of financing)

H2020 – new rules

SME instrument

Prizes PPPs

STREPs, IPs…

PCP

Coop. w/ EIT

Open Disruptive Innovation

Responsible I

FET Open

Networking instruments

Pilots A & B

JTIs

BUT goals have not changed: growth, jobs, competitiveness

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International participation (outside EU) approach confirmed

General principle of reciprocity

“Rich” countries can participate but get no funding, “developing” countries can participate and get funding from the EU

(…but the list of “rich” and “developing” countries is not yet defined)

Intellectual Property Rights: as general rule, IP generated from EU-funded projects should be first exploited in Europe

H2020 – international aspects

???

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Legal documents and guidelines ready: end 2013

First calls for proposals: first half 2014

Selection of proposals and contract negotiation (6-months)

First projects start: second half 2014

H2020 – timeline

The Workprogramme 2014-15 will define all the details

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H2020 – what is inside?

Excellent Science

Industrial leadership

Societal

challenges

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H2020 – what is inside? Industrial leadership

Components and systems

Next generation computing

Future Internet

Content technologies and information management

Advanced interfaces and robots

Key Enabling Technologies: Micro- nano-electronics and photonics

Research on services is here

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Research on services

In the 2013 workprogramme: (not yet Horizon 2020)

Innovative and self-adaptive Internet-based services using agile software technologies and tools for any phase of the service lifecycle and exploiting widely distributed computing architectures, large distributed data sets and smart sensors. This work should take into account the social, open and collaborative dimensions of software development and service provisioning Expected Impact: increasing Europe's ability to design and deliver innovative services with strong user engagement through better involvement of SMEs and individual researchers/developers.

What can we expect in 2014-15?

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Research on services – some trends

The Cloud is the platform of choice for Services

Linked/Open/Social data, Smart Objects are the data sources for services

Service quality (reliability, resilience, auditability, privacy, security, scalability…)

Service modeling, Service management and variability management

Open source a key enabling factor in software-based services

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Research on services – some examples In BETaaS a platform will be developed for the execution of machine-to-machine (M2M) applications built on top of services deployed in a “local cloud” of gateways. Scalability, security, dependability, context and resource awareness, and quality of service (QoS) will be embedded “by design” into the platform. Validation will be done through experiments targeting the Smart City and Home Automation use cases.

The goal of the Broker@Cloud project is to develop a framework that will equip cloud service intermediaries

with advanced methods and mechanisms for continuous quality assurance and optimization of software-based cloud services. The framework will allow enterprise cloud service brokers to monitor

the obligations of providers towards consumers, as well as to detect opportunities for optimising service consumption.

The MIDAS project aims to implement an integrated framework for the automation and intelligent management of Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) testing. The framework is available as a Platform as a Service (PaaS) solution on a cloud infrastructure and supports all the testing activities: generation, execution, result analysis, planning and scheduling

COMPOSE will create an ecosystem for unleashing the power lying within the vast amount of internet connected smart objects by enabling easy construction of services based on these objects.

COMPOSE technology will enable standardized access to such objects, the creation of base services, combine them into composite services, and finally building applications stemming from and operating on

smart objects.

The goal of CloudScale is to aid service providers in analysing, predicting and resolving scalability issues, i.e. support scalable service engineering. The project extends existing and develops new solutions that support the handling of scalability problems of software-based services.

http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/ssai/projects_en.html

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Further Information

Horizon 2020

http://ec.europa.eu/research/horizon2020/index_en.cfm

Digital Agenda for Europe https://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/

Software & Service Architectures and Infrastructures http://cordis.europa.eu/software-services

Innovation Union

http://ec.europa.eu/research/innovation-union/index_en.cfm

sandro.delia@ec.europa.eu

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Questions?

sandro.delia@ec.europa.eu

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H2020 – what is inside? Excellent Science

European Research Council

Frontier research by the best individual teams

Future and Emerging Technologies

Collaborative research to open new fields of innovation

Marie Curie actions

Opportunities for training and career development

Research infrastructures (including e-infrastructure)

Ensuring access to world-class facilities

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H2020 – what is inside? Societal

challenges Health, demographic change and wellbeing

Food security, sustainable agriculture, marine and maritime research & the bioeconomy

Secure, clean and efficient energy

Smart, green and integrated transport

Climate action, resource efficiency and raw materials

Inclusive, innovative and secure societies

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Creating Industrial Leadership and Competitive Frameworks

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

Shared objectives and principles

Common rules, toolkit of funding schemes

Europe 2020 priorities

European Research Area

Simplified access

International cooperation

Dissemination & knowledge tranfer

Tackling 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

EIT JRC

ICT

ICT ICT ICT ICT

ICT

ICT ICT

ICT

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General picture of ICT in Horizon2020

ICT in Societal Challenges (I)

– Health, demographic change & wellbeing;

• e-health, self management of health, improved diagnostics, improved surveillance, health data collection, active ageing, assisted living;

– Secure, clean and efficient energy;

• Smart cities; Energy efficient buildings; smart electricity grids; smart metering;

– Smart, green and integrated transport;

• Smart transport equipment, infrastructures and services; innovative transport management systems; safety aspects

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– Food security, sustainable agriculture, marine and maritime research & the bioeconomy

– Climate action, resource efficiency and raw materials

• ICT for increased resource efficiency; earth observation and monitoring

– Inclusive, innovative and reflective societies

• Digital inclusion; social innovation platforms; e-government services; e-skills and e-learning; e-culture

– Secure societies

• Cyber security; ensuring privacy and protection of human rights on-line

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ICT in Societal Challenges (II)

Adapted for the whole research and innovation cycle

Covering all research programmes and funding bodies

Aligned to the Financial Regulation, coherent with other new EU Programmes.

Rules for Participation: what’s new? (1) 1. A SINGLE SET OF RULES

3. SIMPLE EVALUATION CRITERIA

•Excellence – Impact - Implementation (Excellence only, for the ERC)

4. NEW FORMS OF FUNDING aimed at innovation: pre-commercial procurement, inducement prizes, dedicated loan and equity instruments.

5. INTERNATIONAL PARTICIPATION: facilitated but better protecting EU interests.

2. ONE PROJECT - ONE FUNDING RATE. Maximum of 100% of direct costs (except for actions close to market,

where a 70% maximum will apply) Indirect eligible costs: a flat rate of 20% of direct eligible costs

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Rules for Participation: what’s new? (2)

Lowest possible level of requirements for submission of audit certificates without undermining sound financial management;

Audit strategy focused on risk and fraud prevention.

7. FEWER, BETTER TARGETED CONTROLS AND AUDITS

Beyond the Rules: further simplified provisions in the Grant Agreement and implementing procedures to facilitate access to Horizon 2020 (eg. common IT platform).

8. IMPROVED RULES ON INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

Balance between legal security and flexibility;

Tailor-made IPR provisions for new forms of funding;

A new emphasis on open access to research publications.

6. SIMPLER RULES FOR GRANTS: broader acceptance of participants accounting practices for

direct costs, flat rate for indirect costs, no time-sheets for personnel working full time on a project, possibility of output-based grants.

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Instruments (old and new)

FP7 instruments:

• Integrated projects (IP) – Grant for objective driven research

• Focused projects (STREP) – Grant for specific focused research

• Networks of Excellence (NoE) – Networking and integration

• Coordination actions (CA) – Coordination of R&I

• Support actions (SA) – Support to the implementation of the programme

• Pre-Commercial Procurement (PCP) – Steer development to public sector needs

• Public Procurement of Innovative Solutions (PPI) – First byer for innovative solutions

CIP instruments:

• Pilots Type A – Focus on interoperability and building on MS solutions

• Pilots Type B – Stimulating innovative use of ICT in public/private sectors

• Thematic Networks – Mobilisation/exchanges between stakeholders

New instruments:

• Prizes – Support for two key categories of prizes (recognition and inducement)

• SME instrument – Instrument to support specific SME activities in three phases

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