THE EU FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME FOR RESEARCH AND INNOVATION

1. THE EU FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME FOR RESEARCH AND INNOVATION

2. WHAT IS HORIZON 2020? • Multiannual Financial Framework 2014-2020 • Key challenge: stabilise the financial and economic system while taking measures to create economic opportunities • Designed to help bring more ideas to the market • 79 billion €

3. HORIZON 2020: STRUCTURE

4. HORIZON 2020: SUMMARY Excellent Science Societal Challenges Industrial Leadership European Research Council (ERC) Health, demographic change and wellbeing LEITs: ICT NMBP Space Food security, sustainable agriculture and forestry, marine and maritime and inland water research and the bioeconomy Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) Access to risk finance Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions on skills, training and career development Secure, clean and efficient energy Innovation in SMEs Smart, green and integrated transport Climate action, environment, resource efficiency and raw materials EU Research Infrastructures Inclusive, innovative and reflective societies Secure societies

5. HORIZON 2020: How to apply? • Themed Biannual Work Programmes 2014-2015 • Opening and deadlines of calls per batches • Specific rules of participation for each call • 2-Stage applications will be increased • Electronic submission and follow-up

6. Title Tip: Include all keywords in your project’s title Specific Aim Tip: Include all of the stated specific objectives. Build a consortium with experts of every objective. Tip: Mention them at the proposal. Expected Impact HORIZON 2020: CALLS

7. Priority 1: EXCELLENCE IN THE SCIENCE BASE FET actions

8. FETnovel ideas for radically new technologies • DEFINITION • The mission of Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) is to turn Europe's excellent science base into a competitive advantage by uncovering radically new technological possibilities. It will help Europe to grasp leadership early on in new and emerging technology areas that promise to renew the basis for European competitiveness and growth and that will make a difference for society in the decades to come.

9. FET: 3 modalities

10. FET: 3 modalities • The FET programme has three complementary lines of action to address different methodologies and scales, from new ideas to long-term challenges: • FET Open funds projects on new ideas for radically new future technologies, at an early stage when there are few researchers working on a project topic. This can involve a wide range of new technological possibilities, inspired by cutting-edge science, unconventional collaborations or new research and innovation practices. • FET Proactivenurtures emerging themes, seeking to establish a critical mass of European researchers in a number of promising exploratory research topics. This supports areas that are not yet ready for inclusion in industry research roadmaps, with the aim of building up and structuring new interdisciplinary research communities. • FET Flagshipsare 1-billion, 10-years initiatives where hundreds of excellent European researchers unite forces to focus on solving an ambitious scientific and technological challenge, like understanding the Human Brain or developing the new materials of the future, such as Graphene.

11. FET OPEN OPEN is OPEN no thematic restriction, BUT the project must be technology based and must accomplish the requirements and characteristics of FET: FET gatekeepers

12. FET OPEN: gatekeepers Long-term vision: a new, original or radical long-term vision of technology- enabled possibilities going far beyond the state of the art. 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. Breakthrough S&T target: scientifically ambitious and technologically concrete breakthroughs plausibly attainable within the life-time of the project. 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. Novelty: new ideas and concepts, rather than the application or incremental refinement of existing ones. Foundational: the breakthroughs must be foundational in the sense that they can establish a basis for a new line of technology not currently anticipated.

13. FET OPEN WorkProgramme 2014-2015 Specific challenge • Supporting a large set of early stage, high risk visionary science and technology collaborative research projects is necessary for the successful 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. • FET-Open represents 40% of the overall FET budget in Horizon 2020.

14. FET OPEN WorkProgramme 2014-2015 Expected Impact: Proposals 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 and its new scientific underpinning, or •Kick-starting an emerging innovation eco-system of high-potential actors around a solid baseline of feasibility and potential for a new technological option, ready for early take-up. The active involvement of new and high-potential research and innovation players, which may become the European scientific and technological leaders of the future, is encouraged.

15. FET OPEN WorkProgramme 2014-2015 • Budget 2014-2015: 154 M€ • Proposals evaluated in 1 stage. • Proposal page limits: 16 pages A4 for sections 1-3. • Cover page: acronym, title and abstract. • 15 pages for sections 1 (Excellence), 2 (Impact) y 3 (Implementation). • Section 4 (Consortium members) and 5 (Ethics) no limitation. • Consortium formed by minimum 3 partners from 3 different countries. • The Commission considers that proposals requesting a contribution from the EU of between EUR 2 and 4 million would allow this specific challenge to be addressed appropriately.

16. FET OPEN: Evaluation

17. FET OPEN: Recommendations • Take care of the quality… • • clear and precise language. • Contents well organized. • There are no inconsistencies, no missing pages, no figures are given unjustified ... …and the format of work (look & feeling) • useful and understandable diagrams (beware of colors). • Attractive design. • White spaces, adequate spacing ...

18. FET OPEN: Recommendations • • Follow the recommendations of the Commission. • • To assist the evaluator to score well our proposal: The evaluator assesses the reading → not presume information. Useful Links http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/programme/fet_en.html http://ec.europa.eu/programmes/horizon2020/en/h2020-section/fet-open

19. FET: 28 selected projects 2D-INK is targeted at developing inks of novel 2D semiconducting materials for low-cost large-area fabrication processes on insulating substrates through a new methodology, which will exceed the properties of state-of-the-art graphene- and graphene oxide based inks. Achieving this would represent an important step forward in the processing of 2D semiconducting materials and will provide the key parameters for fabricating the next generation of ultrathin electronic appliances.

20. FET: 28 selected projects MAGicSky will create the first proof-of-concept room temperature spintronic devices based on magnetic skyrmions.  Skyrmions are magnetic solitons that carry information, and are remarkably robust against defects that can trap or destroy them due to the topology of their magnetic texture. They can be used in nanoscale devices compatible with conventional integrated circuit technology..

21. FET: 28 selected projects http://ec.europa.eu/programmes/horizon2020/en/news/fet-open-projects-grant-agreement-preparation-phase

22. RESEARCH PROJECTS OFFICE will help you with: • Administrative Forms • Proposal Submission • Budget Breakdown • Negotiations • GA and CA signatures • Financial Reporting • Technical Reporting (control and reminders) • Daily Communications (partners, coordinator, EC)

23. THANK YOU! Marta Balza Research Projects Office mbalza@ifae.es +34 93 150 31 55