Programes de desenvolupament i recerca impulsats per la UE: H2020 i iniciativ...ICGCat
Presentació realitzada per Marina Martínez (CDTI, Dirección de Programas Internacionales) i Massimo Craglia (Joint Research Centre, European Commission) a la Jornada "Espècies exòtiques invasores. Projecte IASTracker" (28/01/2016)
Presentatie die Andy Klom, hoofd van de Vertegenwoordiging van de Europese Commissie in Nederland, gaf op de publieksbijeenkomst over groei en kennis door ICT op 20 maart op Eindhoven.
EPA Horizon 2020 Societal Challenge 5: Climate Action, Environment, Resource Efficiency and Raw Materials Roadshow presentation by Bernie McGahon of Intertrade Ireland on Support for North South Collaboration in Horizon 2020
EPA Horizon 2020 Societal Challenge 5: Climate Action, Environment, Resource Efficiency and Raw Materials Roadshow presentation by Alice Wemaere (EPA) and Mark Sweeney (Enterprise Ireland) in Trinity College, Dublin
Programes de desenvolupament i recerca impulsats per la UE: H2020 i iniciativ...ICGCat
Presentació realitzada per Marina Martínez (CDTI, Dirección de Programas Internacionales) i Massimo Craglia (Joint Research Centre, European Commission) a la Jornada "Espècies exòtiques invasores. Projecte IASTracker" (28/01/2016)
Presentatie die Andy Klom, hoofd van de Vertegenwoordiging van de Europese Commissie in Nederland, gaf op de publieksbijeenkomst over groei en kennis door ICT op 20 maart op Eindhoven.
EPA Horizon 2020 Societal Challenge 5: Climate Action, Environment, Resource Efficiency and Raw Materials Roadshow presentation by Bernie McGahon of Intertrade Ireland on Support for North South Collaboration in Horizon 2020
EPA Horizon 2020 Societal Challenge 5: Climate Action, Environment, Resource Efficiency and Raw Materials Roadshow presentation by Alice Wemaere (EPA) and Mark Sweeney (Enterprise Ireland) in Trinity College, Dublin
EPA Horizon 2020 Societal Challenge 5: Climate Action, Environment, Resource Efficiency and Raw Materials Roadshow presentation by Alice Wemaere (EPA) and Mark Sweeney (Enterprise Ireland) in UCD Dublin
WP 2012 - Crearea de servicii excelente de promovare a inovatiei in cercetareNicolaie Constantinescu
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Presentation on Horizon 2020 Societal Challenge 5 "Climate action, Environment, Resource Efficiency and Raw Materials" 2017 calls given by Alison Imrie, EC DG Research and Innovation at Session 2 at EPA H2020 SC5 Info Day 7.10.16
Jornada informativa organizada el 28 de noviembre de 2017 sobre convocatorias NMBP de Horizonte 2020. El evento, celebrado en lel Instituto de Ciencias de los Materiales de Sevilla (ICMS), fue organizado por la Agencia Andaluza del Conocimiento en colaboración con CDTI, Red OTRI Andalucía, Airbus, FADA-CATEC e ICMS.
Presentation on The Water JPI Joint Programming Initiative Water Challenges for a Changing World - Maurice Héral, Water JPI Chair given at Session 3b at EPA H2020 SC5 Info Day 7.10.16
Policy Making and Innovation to support Sustainable Lifestyles & Entrepreneur...Patrick Niemann
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Horizon 2020 - Oportunidades entre UE y LAC. Octubre 2017Elan Network
Taller: Formación Programa Horizonte 2020.
Objetivos:
• Explicar los alcances y oportunidades de desarrollo de proyectos
conjuntos.
• Presentar las mejores prácticas para la participación en el Programa
Horizonte 2020
• Casos de éxito
EPA Horizon 2020 Societal Challenge 5: Climate Action, Environment, Resource Efficiency and Raw Materials Roadshow presentation by Alice Wemaere (EPA) and Mark Sweeney (Enterprise Ireland) in UCD Dublin
WP 2012 - Crearea de servicii excelente de promovare a inovatiei in cercetareNicolaie Constantinescu
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Presentation on Horizon 2020 Societal Challenge 5 "Climate action, Environment, Resource Efficiency and Raw Materials" 2017 calls given by Alison Imrie, EC DG Research and Innovation at Session 2 at EPA H2020 SC5 Info Day 7.10.16
Jornada informativa organizada el 28 de noviembre de 2017 sobre convocatorias NMBP de Horizonte 2020. El evento, celebrado en lel Instituto de Ciencias de los Materiales de Sevilla (ICMS), fue organizado por la Agencia Andaluza del Conocimiento en colaboración con CDTI, Red OTRI Andalucía, Airbus, FADA-CATEC e ICMS.
Presentation on The Water JPI Joint Programming Initiative Water Challenges for a Changing World - Maurice Héral, Water JPI Chair given at Session 3b at EPA H2020 SC5 Info Day 7.10.16
Policy Making and Innovation to support Sustainable Lifestyles & Entrepreneur...Patrick Niemann
Policy Making and Innovation to support Sustainable Lifestyles & Entrepreneurship by Kristian Road Nielsen, Christiane Mera, Rosina Watson, Hugh Wilson
Horizon 2020 - Oportunidades entre UE y LAC. Octubre 2017Elan Network
Taller: Formación Programa Horizonte 2020.
Objetivos:
• Explicar los alcances y oportunidades de desarrollo de proyectos
conjuntos.
• Presentar las mejores prácticas para la participación en el Programa
Horizonte 2020
• Casos de éxito
Euro-Med cooperation in the Horizon
* Regional focus – while acknowledging diversity within the region
* Focus on common challenges – what are the problems that R&I can help addressing, and how?
* Instruments – to support collaborative research, to support R&I policy dialogue, to coordinate initatives by EU, its Member States and MPCs, to integrate programmes/Art 185, to foster innovation !
* Building on ongoing projects –e.g. MEDSPRING, ERANET MED
Presentación de Marta Conde (CDTI) sobre Horizonte Europa.
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Juli Mylona - Bioconomy - plant science and agriculture. Future funding under...epsoeurope
Presentation from Juli Mylona, Directorate FAFB, DG Research and Innovation, European Commission, at the 7th EPSO Conference, 2 Sept 2013.
"Bioconomy - plant science and agriculture. Future funding under Horizon 2020"
The SME Innovation Instrument, Horizon2020 and Talent Europe. A discussion by...Alberto Minin
I provide a quick introduction to the Meridian Fellowship on Social Innovation and to my project, Talent Europe,
I will then present some of the latest numbers regarding the implementation of the SME Innovation instrument, one of the most innovative parts of the 8th presentation Framework program called Horizon 2020
I will briefly share with you three concepts that I think might be interesting to explore as a basis of a useful comparison between Europe and US science and technology Policy.
What I am seeking to do as a Meridian Fellow is to expand my expertise on science and technology policy and to contribute to the debate around this topic that is developing in Europe. I think that there are better ways to engage and to empower EU talent, and to make it become key player of EU Economic Recovery and competitiveness
The US had been a continuous source of inspiration for the EU debate on science and technology, and more in general on innovation policy.
Later on I will discuss about the SME innovation instrument that had been inspired in part by the SBIR program here in the US.
Not only policy makers and scholars have been guiding this exchange of ideas and experiences, but also US Embassies in Europe have been very important in sharing with Europe some news. I am very familiar with the case of the US Embassies in Italy. The past three Ambassadors have been evangelists of messages and priorities. Ronald Spogli emphasized the role of high tech entrepreneurs in society, David Thorne has focused on the role the digital economy can have a driver of growth, more recently the sitting ambassador, John Phillips is very vocal about the benefits that Italy could derive by a more efficient judiciary system
My experience as scholar, and teacher is telling me that the debate on innovation in Europe is desperately in need of some fresh air and new ideas.
I believe that there are four areas where we can look.
The first one has to do with new original ways to communicate the relevance of sicence and technology for society.
The second has to do with the way we mentor and assist scientists and engineers that seek to become entrepreneurs. What is the role of universities, government and private sector to achieve this task.
Third area is corporate entrepreneurship, industrial venturing and the attitude EU large corporations have towards change.
Finally demands side innovation policy: public procurement and the setting of challenges and ambitious goals, where sometimes the role of the government should not be to provide the means to achieve these goals, but to promise to act as first buyer for the best solutions for a specific challenge.
Overview of the AU-EU Innovation Agenda & Results of the Public ConsultationFrancois Stepman
23 - 24 November 2022. Nairobi, Kenya and online. AU-EU Innovation Agenda Stakeholder Event
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Priorités thématiques et dimension internationale du projet H2020Pasteur_Tunis
Présentation du programme cadre H2020, par Aurélie Pancera, Expert PASRI, durant la journée de présentation du H2020, lors de la journée sur le programme H2020 organisée à l'Institut Pasteur de Tunis, le 20 septembre 2013
Nikiforas Sivenas - Agricultural Research and Innovation under HORIZON 2020 a...epsoeurope
Presentation from Nikiforas Sivenas, Principal Advisor to the Director General, DG Agriculture and Rural Development, European Commission, at the 7th EPSO Conference, 2 Sept 2013.
"Agricultural Research and Innovation under HORIZON 2020 and EIP"
Horizon 2020 - Nicolas Sabatier and Jean-David Malo - Israel, May 16th 2012ISERD Israel
מצגת בנושא:
Articulation of Social Challenges and Key Enabling Technologies in Horizon 2020
הועברה ע"י:
Nicolas Sabatier, Adviser New Strategic Initiatives – DG Research and Innovation, European Commission
ביום מידע "מנגנוני הורייזן 2020" לקראת תוכנית המסגרת הבאה למו"פ של האיחוד האירופי שהתקיים במשרדי ISERD 16.5.2012
EiTESAL eHealth Conference 14&15 May 2017 EITESANGO
EiTESAL eHealth Conference 14&15 May 2017
Challenges of the private sector services as integral part of healthcare in egypt. Presentation
By : Dr. Alaa Abdel Maguid
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
Why You Should Replace Windows 11 with Nitrux Linux 3.5.0 for enhanced perfor...SOFTTECHHUB
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One such alternative that has garnered significant attention and acclaim is Nitrux Linux 3.5.0, a sleek, powerful, and user-friendly Linux distribution that promises to redefine the way we interact with our devices. With its focus on performance, security, and customization, Nitrux Linux presents a compelling case for those seeking to break free from the constraints of proprietary software and embrace the freedom and flexibility of open-source computing.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
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The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
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Gopinath Rebala
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Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
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- Improved developer experience and productivity through actionable findings and reduction of false positives
- Maintenance of superior security standards and inherent policy enforcement with Authorization to Operate (ATO)
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- How to build efficient development pipeline roles and component templates
- How to deliver security artifacts that matter for ATO’s (SBOMs, vulnerability reports, and policy evidence)
- How to streamline operations with automated policy checks on container images
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During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
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- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
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2. EU – Egypt Research and Innovation Cooperation
RDI Programme: RDI I with a budget of €11 million, RDI II with a budget of
€20 million.
•Linking Industry to Research
•Integrating EGYPT into ERA
FP7: Main financial tool through which the EU supports research and
development activities covering almost all scientific disciplines (2007-2013)
•Partnership in 99 projects: Budget of these projects reached ≈ 490,000,000
EUR and the share of Egyptian participants reached ≈ 16,000,000.
•Covered various areas including ICT, heath, agriculture, environment,
nanosciences, transport and social sciences.
Higher Education – Tempus and Erasmus Mundus moving to Erasmus+
3. What is Horizon 2020?
A €80 billion research and
innovation funding
program (2014 -2020)
A response to economic
crisis by investing in future
jobs and growth
It addresses people's
concerns about their
livelihoods, safety and
environment
Open to the world
4. Horizon 2020
A single programme
Coupling research with innovation: 'from lab to market'
Focus on societal challenges: health, clean energy,
environment, etc.
Open to participation: companies, universities, institutes in
EU and beyond
6. Excellent science
European Research Council
Supporting top researchers from anywhere in the world to work in
Europe
Future and Emerging Technologies
Supporting visionary thinking through collaborations between
science and engineering
Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Providing opportunities for training and career development of
individual researchers
Research infrastructures- including e-infrastructure
Ensuring access to world-class facilities
7. Industrial leadership
Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies
Emphasising key technologies in areas such as advanced
manufacturing, microelectronics, nanotechnology,
biotechnology, ICT and space
8. Societal challenges
Health, demographic change and wellbeing
Food security, sustainable agriculture and forestry, marine and
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
Inclusive, innovative and reflective societies
Secure societies
9. Horizon 2020: Open to the world
General opening
Horizon 2020 is open to participation of
researchers and innovators from anywhere in
the world, to:
Extend the frontiers of scientific knowledge
Tackle challenges that affect us all
Make industries more competitive
Targeted opening
In certain topics in calls for proposals,
inclusion of international partners may be:
a) encouraged
or
b) required
10. How does it work?
10
Find a
relevant
call
Find
partner(s)
Submit a
proposal
Get
involved!
12. Where to find more information
and where to apply?
• Horizon 2020 Participant Portal
Research and Innovation
European Commission
http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/
desktop/en/home.html
• Horizon 2020
European Commission
http://ec.europa.eu/programmes/horizon2020/
• Incontact (NCP's network)
http://www.ncp-
incontact.eu/nkswiki/index.php?title=Main_Page
12
15. NCPs – Structure Under H2020
1. Legal and Financial aspects
2. SMEs
3. European Research Council
4. Future and Emerging Technologies
5.
6. Marie Sklodowska Curie
7. European research infrastructures
8. ICT
9. Nanotechnologies, advanced materials
10.and advanced manufacturing and
processing'
11.Space
12.Security
13.Euratom
14.Joint Research Centre
15
Health, demographic change and
wellbeing
Food security, sustainable agriculture,
marine and maritime research and the
bio-economy'; & 'Biotechnology
Secure, clean and efficient energy
Smart, green and integrated
transport;
Climate action, resource efficiency
and raw materials
Inclusive, innovative and reflective
societies; science in and for society;
widening participation
National NCP Coordinator
16.
17. Where to find more info and apply?
Horizon 2020 Participant Portal
Research and Innovation
European Commission
http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/por
tal/desktop/en/home.html
Horizon 2020 European
Commission
http://ec.europa.eu/programmes/horizon2020
/
Incontact
NCP's network
http://www.ncp-
incontact.eu/nkswiki/index.php?title=Main_Pa
ge
18. PolicyResearch and
Innovation
ICT in H2020
• ICT in Horizon 2020 will support the development of ICT in
Science, ICT in industrial leadership and ICT in societal
challenges.
• Because of the pervasiveness and radicality of the changes
induced by ICT in our lives, the cross-cutting issues of responsible
research and innovation (RRI) , on the one hand, and of social
sciences and humanities (SSH), on the other hand, are also
addressed with great care.
20. Who applies?
Academy of scientific research and technology ASRT
Alexandria university
Cairo university
Arab Academy for Science, Technology and
Maritime Transport
BIBALEX
Centre for environment and development for the
Arab region and Europe
Desert Research Center
Helwan University
Manosura University
21. • ITIDA
• EEAA
• MHESR
• ARC
• NRC
• NARSS
• NIOF
• AUC
• BUE
• HU
• Zagazig University
• MSA
• Zewail City
• NU
22. USEFUL LINKS AND PUBLICATIONS
• http://ec.europa.eu/research/iscp/pdf/neighbourhood_policy.pdf
23. HORIZON 2020
Find out more:
www.ec.europa.eu/horizon2020
HORIZON 2020
Open to the world!
Thank You!
Editor's Notes
Research and innovation have been placed at the centre of the EU budget for the programming period between 2014-20. EU leaders believe strongly that research and innovation will create the economic opportunities of tomorrow.
Horizon 2020, the new programme for research and innovation has been allocated a budget of almost 80 billion euros over the next seven years.
Europe, like much of the world, faces major challenges such as ageing populations and the depletion of natural resources. This affects all of our lives directly, for example through high health care costs, rising energy prices, congested roads, and threats to security.
Horizon 2020 is designed to address these societal challenges through funding excellent science, technology and innovation.
[It is central to the Europe 2020 strategy for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth, the Innovation Union flagship to create a knowledge society, and the goal to complete the European Research Area as a single market for knowledge.]
Horizon 2020 allows seamless funding of research and innovation, so that innovative projects can be supported from the laboratory to commercial exploitation.
All forms of innovation are included, including innovation in services and social innovation.
Horizon 2020 aims to include the best researchers and innovators regardless of where they are located. It is open to participation by researchers from anywhere in the world.
The work programmes, identifying the research are to be funded, are published every two years.
All proposals are reviewed by international , independent experts.
This first pillar includes several activities aimed at individual researchers of any nationality – offering very interesting opportunities to spend part of their research career in Europe.
The European Research Council offers extremely generous and flexible grants for researchers , from anywhere in the world, to establish research groups in Europe. The grants support investigator driven, 'frontier' research in any scientific discipline and there is only one criterion; excellence.
The Marie Sklodowska Curie actions support the career development and training of researchers –in all scientific disciplines, through transnational, intersectional and interdisciplinary mobility. Grants for all stages of researchers' careers are available. The MSCA will be the main EU programme for doctoral training, funding 25 000 PhDs.
Funding in millions: European Research Council €13 095; Future and emerging technologies €2 696; Marie Sklodowska- Curie Actions € 6 162; Research Infrastructures €2 488
Key enabling technologies - such as advanced manufacturing, microelectronics, nanotechnology and biotechnology - underpin innovation across many industries and sectors. Innovative companies are at the heart of job creation and growth:
Strategic investments in key technologies (e.g. advanced manufacturing, micro-electronics) underpin innovation across existing and emerging sectors
Like every other world region, Europe wants to attract more private investment in research and innovation
Like every other world region, Europe wants more innovative small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to create growth and jobs.
€13 557 million will be available for research in Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies.
Collaborative research proposals are invited from consortia of research organisations which may also include international partners.
This, the part of Horizon 2020 in financial terms, aims to address, major challenges concerns of citizens and society through collaborative research and innovation.
For example, reducing CO2 emissions depends on new technologies and solutions for energy, transport, agriculture and the management of resources.
Such challenges are shared by all countries across the globe.
The challenges require a broad, multi-disciplinary approach that brings together researchers, industry, public bodies and users to create innovative solutions that will meet peoples' needs.
Horizon 2020 will support not only research into new technologies and solutions, but also their piloting, demonstration and market uptake. In this way the full impact of EU funding will be achieved.
Collaborative research proposals are invited from consortia of research organisations which may also include international partners.
Funding: Health, demographic change and wellbeing (€ 7 472); Food security, sustainable agriculture, marine and maritime and inland waterway research and the Bioeconomy (€ 3 851); Secure, clean and efficient energy (€ 5 931); Smart, green and integrated transport (€ 6 339); Climate action, environment, resource efficiency and raw materials (€ 3 081); Inclusive, innovative and reflective societies (€ 1 310); Secure societies (€1 695)
A New International Strategy
The European Commission's approach to international cooperation has been set out in a Communication in 2012 entitled "Enhancing and focusing EU international cooperation in research and innovation: a strategic approach".
The general openness of Horizon 2020 to the participation of researchers from public and private organisations from across the world is part of this approach.
International Cooperation is therefore mainstreamed across Horizon 2020 to tackle global challenges, promote mobility of researchers and boost the competitiveness of industries
If you are an individual researcher interested in a mobility opportunity: Apply for a Marie Sklodowska Curie or a European Research Council Grant.
If you are interested in collaborative research with European partners, there are two possibilities:
- Passively wait to be invited to join a consortium
- Actively contact your European colleagues to discuss with them the possibility of preparing a proposal together. The Participant Portal has a service that will help you to find possible partners.
Once the proposal is submitted, it will be evaluated by independentt experts considering three standard award criteria, which are:
Excellence; Impact; Quality and efficiency of the action
If the proposal is selected, a grant agreement will be drawn up. The time to grant will be a maximum of 8 months. This will consist of:
5 months for informing all applicants about the scientific evaluation,
3 months for the signature of the grant agreement
All relevant information on Horizon 2020 can be found online. The Participant Portal contains all the necessary documents and online manuals to help you understand Horizon 2020 and how to apply.
You can always direct your questions to the National Contact Points, our NCP Network present around the world.