Horizon 2020 general principles, euresearch, susanne daniel, march 2019

Horizon 2020
How it works – structure and principles
How Euresearch can support
March 14, 2019
Susanne Daniel
Company Advisor
Euresearch Office Basel
Basel – Switzerland
susanne.daniel@euresearch.ch

How Euresearch can
support
www.euresearch.ch
Dr. Susanne Daniel ▪ Euresearch Basel ▪ www.euresearch.ch

Anita Soltermann
Head of Office
Swiss National
Science Foundation,
General Research
Policy
Eve Silfverberg
Research Advisor,
Deputy Head
ERC, SNSF Eccellenza,
Health, Food/
Agriculture, FET
Caroline Peneff
Research Advisor
MSCA, SNSF
Ambizione / PRIMA,
SSH, FET, Energy /
Climate
Team Grants Office Uni Basel
Susanne Daniel
Company Advisor,
Research Advisor
NMBP, ICT + Security,
IMI, FET, Innosuisse
Luca Wacker
Grants Manager,
Research
Advisor
US Projects,
Grants
Management

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Finance your innovation –
Event April 4, 2019 in Basel
Non-dilutive funding opportunities for Startups and SMEs
Presentations on: Horizon 2020, Eurostars, Technology Fund,
Innosuisse
Project winners and consultants will complete the picture
April 4, 2019, 15.30 – ca. 19.30
Messturm, Messeplatz 12 in Basel
Register here

General Principles
in Horizon 2020

Strengthen the European Union’s economy and faces
societal challenges
A boost for new jobs, growth and investment
Horizon 2020 – 8th EU Research
and Innovation Programme

Duration: 2014 – 2020
Budget ca. 80 billion Euro (7 years)
Ca. 20% of the budget is foreseen for SMEs
Switzerland is fully associated

2018-2020
ca. 30 bn still available

Two call principles:
Top-down programmes: EC has identified the
challenges - Collaborative projects
Bottom-up programmes: Free choice of topics -
Individual funding, SME-Instrument etc.

Societal Challenges (SC)
29,7 bn
Climate/Environment (SC5)
Inclusive Societies (SC6)
Energy (SC3)
Transport (SC4)
Health (SC1)
Food (SC2)
Security (SC7)
Excellent Science
24,4 bn
Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Actions (MSCA)
Research Infrastructures
Future and Emerging
Technologies (FET)
European Research Council (ERC)
Industrial Leadership
17 bn
Leadership in Enabling and
Industrial Technologies:
• NMBP:
Nanotechnology
Advanced Materials
Biotechnology
Manufacturing & Processing
• ICT
• Space
Access to risk Finance
Innovation in SME
3 Pillars in Horizon 2020
top-down and bottom-up

Participant Portal and
Work Programmes

The Participant Portal
 Participant Portal of
Horizon 2020
 https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-
tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/ho
w-to-participate/how-to-participate
 One Work Programme for
each of the societal
challenge (Health, ICT,
Energy etc.), MSCA, ERC
etc.

The Work Programme (WP)
 Formal document of the European Commission that sets out
research objectives and topics of a specific theme.
Topic description with “Specific challenge, Scope, Expected
Impact”, to which applications can be submitted.
 Topic conditions and documents:
time frame for submission of proposals (deadlines)
Funding scheme (type of action)
indicative budget and funding limits
evaluation procedure
special requirements for consortia

https://ec.europa.eu/info/fundin
g-
tenders/opportunities/portal/scr
een/how-to-
participate/reference-documents
Find Work Programmes in Participant
Portal or ask Euresearch

Call: Digital Transformation in Health and Care
Topic example: Big data and Artificial Intelligence for monitoring health
status and quality of life after the cancer treatment
Call: Information and communication technologies
Topic example: Supporting the emergence of data markets and the data
economy
…….and many others
Examples for calls and open topics

Topic description
Specific Challenge – this sets the context, the problem to be addressed, and why
intervention is necessary.
Scope – this delineates the problem, specifies the focus and the boundaries of the
potential action but without overly describing specific approaches.
Expected Impact – this describes the key elements of what is expected to be
achieved in relation to the specific challenge.
Type of action - sets out the funding schemes (e.g. Research and Innovation action,
Innovation actions etc.).
Indicative Budget for the topic

Research & Innovation Action (100% funding)
collaborative research projects with defined scientific and technological objectives
mainly in basic research
Innovation Action (70% funding for SMEs, 100% for academia)
collaborative research projects for activities closer to the market (prototyping,
testing, demonstrating, piloting)
Coordination and Support action (100% funding)
For dissemination, communication, networking, coordinating activities, online
community (no research)
SME-Instrument, FTI, Prizes
Common funding schemes (types of
action)

Application procedure
Start a project

 Find a relevant work programme and open call and a topic
 For a Collaborative Project:
 Find partners: Minimum of three partners from three different
countries - one is the coordinator
 Build a consortium: you provide an international consortium of
experts the best solution to the identified problem
Application procedure

Application procedure cont.
 Be aware of the application deadline
 Discuss IP rights, patents, access rights etc.
 Agree on work packages and tasks
 Define budget / partner
 SMEs are especially welcome to participate
 Every proposal will be evaluated by at least three evaluators
 Evaluation report will be sent to consortium after 5 months

Project start after a
positive evaluation
 Ca. 3 more months to signatures of contracts:
 Grant Agreement: legal binding document between the participants
(beneficiaries) and the European Commission
 Consortium agreement: private agreement between the beneficiaries
to set out the rights and obligations amongst themselves. EC is not a
partner.
 Start the project (management by coordinator)
 Receive first payment (via coordinator)
 Make sure you have professional project management

- Usually ca. 7-15 Partners from different
countries
- Ca. € 3-5 Million budget
- 30-48 months duration
Funding rates: 70% or 100% plus 25% overhead
How does a typical collaborative
project look like?

Frame work conditions
 Reporting: Annual work progress and financial reports have to be
delivered (through the coordinator)
 Open Access to data is a general rule; there are «opt-out» options
 All projects, partners and budgets are published on
www.cordis.europa.eu
 EU has a network of ca. 5000 evaluators
 Success rates: 5 – 25 % depending on topic and instrument

Award criteria
1. Excellence (min 4 points/max 5 points)
 Ground-breaking nature (e.g. level of ambition, beyond the state-of-the-art, novel approach, addresses challenge,
… )
 Conceptually robust; trans-disciplinarily considered
2. Impact (min 4/max 5)
 Addressing the expected impacts listed in the WP under the relevant topic
 Enhancing innovation capacity and integration of new knowledge
 Effectiveness of the proposed measures to communicate the project, disseminate and/or exploit the project results,
and appropriate management of IPR
3. Quality and efficiency of implementation (min 3/max 5)
 Coherence and effectiveness of the work plan, including appropriateness of the allocation of tasks and resources
 Competences, experience and complementarity of the individual participants, as well as of the consortium as a
whole
 Appropriateness of the management structures and procedures, including risk management

Tipps to write an application
 Start as early as possible
 Take time to read call texts and docs on the Participant Portal
 Focus on the objectives
 Make the abstract as attractive as possible
 Take care of the budget and the related role of partners
 IP management is central to the evaluation of the impact of the proposed
project
 Put yourself in the role of an evaluator
 A strong proposal contains a solid project plan, of which progress can be
successfully monitored by a clear set of deliverables and milestones.

Joint Technology
Initiatives

JTIs are public-private partnerships involving industry, research
community and public authorities to pursue common ambitious
research objectives.
Clean Sky, www.cleansky.eu
Bio-based Industries, www.bbi-europe.eu
Fuel Cells and Hydrogen JU, www.fch.europa.eu
….. and others
https://www.euresearch.ch/en/european-programmes/further-programmes/jti/
Joint Technology Initiatives (JTI)

Dr. Susanne Daniel, Company Advisor Northwestern Switzerland
Public-Private Partnership between EU and EFPIA (European
Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations).
Goal: to develop next generation vaccines, medicines and treatments,
incl. new antibiotics.
Budget IMI2 (2014-2024): 3,3 Bill. Euro
www.imi.europa.eu
= +
JTI – IMI: Innovative Medicines
Initiative

How to find partners?
How to be found by
others?

Enterprize Europe
Network, www.swisseen.chEEN: on-line database contains over 2,500
technology profiles from companies and R&D
organisations from over 60 countries in Europe and
beyond. New profiles are added daily.
Find partners exploiting your technology
(Technology Database)
Find partners providing a technological solution to
your need (Technology Offers, Technology
Requests)
Offer your expertise and find partners for
technology and Research Cooperation (EU funding)

 Cordis, a Database to find running and closed
EU-funded projects incl. partners in the consortia
https://cordis.europa.eu/projects/en
 Tender&Funding Portal - How to participate, Partner search
https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/how-to-
participate/partner-search
 Enterprise Europe Network
http://www.enterprise-europe network.ch
General databases

Topic specific databases for
partner search
ICT: Ideal-IST, http://www.ideal-ist.eu/
Societal Challenges: Net4Society, http://www.net4society.eu/
Nanotechnology, Advanced materials, Biotechnology: NMBP TeAm
https://www.nmp-partnersearch.eu/
Transport: ETNA Plus, http://transport-ncps.net/
Climate, Environment, Resource Efficiency, Raw Materials: CaRE
http://partnersearch.ncps-care.eu/
Security: https://www.security-research-map.eu/
Innovative Medicines Initiative Partner Search Tool
https://cloud.imi.europa.eu/web/eimi-pst

Many thanks for your
attention
www.euresearch.ch
susanne.daniel@euresearch.ch

Horizon 2020 general principles, euresearch, susanne daniel, march 2019

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