H2020 Impact in scienceand technology

Dr Claudia Dell’Era, Grant Writer

Aalto UniversityResearch and Innovation Services

Bottom-up or top-down?Expected impacts are already given by EC• TOP-DOWN

– Quite specific impact in the WP and published Calls– Road maps– Technology platforms

• Example: FoF 2015 call - RIA

• BOTTOM-UP– Instrument specific impact– Expected impact in the work programme– EU level impact

• Case study FET-Open BREAKBEN (Prof. Risto Ilmoniemi)

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TOP-DOWN IMPACT

An example from the Call for Factories of the Future 2015

RIA impact section

2.1 Expected impacts– Describe how your project will contribute to the expected

impacts set out in the work programme, under the relevanttopic

– Other impacts– Describe any barriers/obstacles to reaching the impact

2.2 Measures to maximise impact– a) Dissemination and exploitation of results

• Business plan– b) Communication activities

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Path to impact

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Research • Output 1• Output 2

Targetaudience:

users

• Dissemination• Communication• Business Plan

Impact• Policy• Applications• Further

research

What does the Commission say?

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Call for Factories of the Future

• Read the call text to understand the purpose behind

• Topic: ICT-enabled modelling, simulation, analytics andforecasting technologies (FoF-08-2015)

ICT tools for additivemanufacturing e.g. 3D-printing

https://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/opportunities/h2020/topics/418-fof-08-2015.html

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Directly identified expected impact

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Purpose of the call FoF-08• Advanced computer aided technologies (CAx),

modelling, simulation and decision support toolboxestailored for novel manufacturing processes:

• e. g. laser-based and additive manufacturing– Improved simulation of manufacturing processes,– Forecast of the behaviour of manufacturing systems and

processes, and– Design products to an even larger extent through virtual mock-

ups and optimization methods

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Tips in the text• Exploit the potential of advances in ICT for making the

whole manufacturing chain more competitive• Projects should be driven by industrial use-cases and

should include proof-of-concept demonstrations forvalidation

• Projects are expected to stimulate pre-normative orstandardisation activities related to aspects such asinformation/knowledge exchange, data sharing,semantic technologies, tool integration, etc.

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Who should use your results?

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Users of the results: target audience

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From the call Users Dissemination channel• Industrial use-cases• Big enterprises as well as

SMEs• Use ICT for making the

manufacturing chainmore competitive

Big enterprises and SMEs:

• ICT service providers• Developers• Manufactures

• Fairs• Demos• Trade magazine

publications• Business plan

• Standardisation activities Standardization societies Private communications

• Pre-normative activities Policy makers Policy briefings

• Advanced computeraided technologies

Other researchers /developers

Articles and conferences

What’s behind the topic?Who suggested it?

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European Technology Platforms• Industry-led stakeholder fora recognised by the EC• Key actors in driving innovation, knowledge transfer and

European competitiveness• What do they do?

– develop industry-focused strategic research and innovationagendas

– act a channel of external advice for the programming andimplementation of H2020

– encouraging industry participation in H2020– fostering networking opportunities and identifying opportunities

for international cooperation

http://ec.europa.eu/research/innovation-union/index_en.cfm?pg=etp

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Individual ETPs

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http://www.manufuture.org/manufacturing/

• Manufuture vision

• Text of the call

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Connect all the pieces

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Users

oftheresults

Overarchingobjectives

Obj 1

Obj 2

Obj 3

WP1

WP3

WP2 IMPACTR

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Dissem

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From the callFrom related policy

From the callFrom related policy

BOTTOM-UP IMPACT

Case study FET-Open submitted to 31.3.2015 callBREAKBEN (PI Risto Ilmoniemi, Aalto University)

BREAKBENBreaking the Nonuniqueness Barrier in ElectromagneticNeuroimaging (3 years project FET-Open, under preparation)

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Organisations Country TypeAalto University Finland UniversityElekta Oy and Elekta Instruments AB Finland/S

wedenHuman care company

Helsingin ja Uudenmaan sairaanhoitopiirinkuntayhtymä

Finland Hospital

Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt Germany Research centreTechnische Universität Ilmenau Germany UniversityUniversità degli Studi Gabriele d’Annunziodi Chieti-Pescara

Italy University

Teknologian tutkimuskeskus VTT Oy Finland Research centre

The Scientific CoordinatorProf. Risto Ilmoniemi

• Academy of Finland Professor (2012–2016)• Tenured professor of Engineering Physics at Aalto

University• Head of BECS, former department of Biomedical

Engineering and Computational Science until 2011• Head of BioMag Laboratory of the Helsinki University

Central Hospital in 1994–2003• Chairman and CEO of Nexstim in 2000–2003 and 2003–

2005, respectively (http://www.nexstim.com/)

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EVALUATION of the PROPOSAL• FET-Open 2015 (cut 31.3.2015)• Proposals submitted to this call: 691 (RIA 670, CSA 21)• Number of above-threshold proposals: 326• Number of funded proposal: 11 in RIA (1,6%)

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Total Score: 5/5Excellence 5/5 (weight 60%)

Implementation 5/5 (weight 20%)

Impact 5/5 (weight 20%)

FET Open: Instrument expectationsFET Open supports early-stage research on any idea for anew technology• ambitious scientific and technological breakthrough goal• foundational character• high degree of novelty• high-risk• long-term vision• deep synergistic interdisciplinary approach

Expected Impact in FET proposalsProposals must aim at one of the following two impacts:• Initiating a radically new line of technology by establishing

Proof-of-Principle of a new technological possibility andits new scientific underpinning

• Kick-starting an emerging innovation eco-system of high-potential actors around a solid baseline of feasibility andpotential for a new technological option, ready for earlytake-up

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The main output of BREAKBENA multimodal brain imaging system: one instrumentcombining multiple imaging and stimulation modalities

Combine accurate magneticmeasurements of neural activity (MEG)and current-density imaging (CDI)with near simultaneous high definitionmeasurements of cerebral structure (ULF MRI)

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Multimodal brain imaging

CDI

MEGULF-MRI

MEG = electroencephalographyULF MRI = ultra-low-field MRIMRI = magnetic resonance imaging

The BREAKTHROUGH• Intended breakthrough

– bring electromagnetic neuroimaging to a qualitatively newlevel that will provide reliable and accurate informationabout the workings of the human brain in health anddisease

– breakthrough the MEG/ ULF-MRI investigations• long-term vision

– combine multiple imaging and stimulation modalities in oneinstrument so that the dynamics of brain states can beaccurately modulated and probed by a combination ofstimulation and measurement at unprecedented resolutionand reliability

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IMPACT in the PROPOSALExcellence section

1. Long term vision - impact oriented - already at the beginning2. Benefit described in details for each objective3. Impact described in connection with novelty

Impact section1. Description and size of the societal problem

ü The annual cost to society of brain disorders in Europe is estimated at 800 bn €ü The costs of brain disorders are high and rising, partially due to inadequate

diagnostics

2. Contextualization of the scientific challengeü NEED to measure neuronal electrical activity in real time in diagnosticsü CHALLENGES and limitations in current technologies

3. Impact of the BREAKBEN solution:ü Breakthrough: the MEG/ ULF-MRI investigationsü Long term vision: the multimodal brain imaging system

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EVALUATION of the IMPACT• Impact 5/5 (weight 20%)

– Importance of the new technological outcome with regards to itstransformational impact on technology and/or society.

– Quality of measures for achieving impact on science, technology and/orsociety.

– Impact from empowerment of new and high potential actors towards futuretechnological leadership

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The evaluation of impact was strongly influenced

by the Excellence section

– Short proposal (15 pages sections 1-3)

CLINICAL IMPACT• The proposed tool can significantly improve the quality

of source localization in the brain– potentially improving diagnosis of epilepsy, neurodegenerative

pathologies, or connectivity dysfunction.

• BREAKBEN can convincingly support many differentclinical applications– diagnosis and care of brain pathologies (e.g. in brain oncology)

• The approach can enlarge the user basin for MRI– e.g. obese and claustrophobic people

• BREAKBEN has a long term technological vision ofcombining brain imaging and brain stimulation together,that can inspire further clinical applications

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IMPACT ON SCIENCE• The promised multimodal brain imaging system can

push ahead studies on brain connectivity, which areincreasingly relevant in the neuroscience literature

• Brain science and especially the field of connectomicscan benefit greatly from the new hybrid modality systemwhich can potentially produce the required temporal andspatial resolution to transform our understanding of awide range of disorders of the central nervous system

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WHY SUCCESSFUL?The opinion of the scientific coordinator

• “To be successful, you must have the required knowledge, understandingand skills. However, if you wait until you feel you are ready, you are late.– You have to start early, even if you still have only a vague feeling that maybe this is the right

thing to do”

• “You need a great vision and an ambitious goal for the project. You mustpresent them in a way that is absolutely crystal clear to a tired reader.– You must believe in your vision and plan”

• “If you are skeptical about your plan, you must rethink and adjust the planuntil you believe everything is right:– the plan must be such that you are ready to put your academic/intellectual life at stake”

• “Your plan must include a great promise: if the project is successful, thesociety must get back the investment at least 10-fold, preferably 100-fold”

• “You must explain every essential thing in detail, but succinctly”

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