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MAIN PRIORITIES OF HORIZON 2020 Title of the presentation | Date | 3 MAIN PRIORITIES OF HORIZON 2020 Excellent science Industrial leadership Sociatal challenges

PRIORITY 1 EXCE LLEN T SCIE NCE € 24 441 mln. Title of the presentation | Date | 4 EXCE LLEN T SCIE NCE € 24 441 mln. European Research Council (ERC) - € 13 095 mln. Future and Emerging Technologies - € 2 696 mln. Marie Curie Actions - € 6 162 mln. Research Infrastructures - € 2 488 mln.

PRIORITY 1 WHY? World class science is the foundation of tomorrow’s technologies, jobs and wellbeing Europe needs to develop, attract and retain research talent Researchers need access to the best infrastructures

PRIORITY 1 OPPORTUNITIES: Frontier research by the best individual reasearceres - substantial grants to top-level individual researchers working in Europe Collaborative research to open new fields of innovation Opportunities for training and career development Ensuring access to world-class facilities

INDUS TRIAL LEAD ERSHI P PRIORITY 2 INDUS TRIAL LEAD ERSHI P € 24 441 mln. Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies (LEITs) - € 13 557 mln. Access to risk finance - € 2 842 mln Innovation in SMEs - € 616 mln.

PRIORITY 2 WHY? Strategic investments in key technologies underpin innovation across existing and emerging sectors Europe needs to attract more private investment in research and innovation Europe needs more innovative small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to create growth and jobs

PRIORITY 2 OPPORTUNITIES: Make Europe a more attractive location to invest in research and innovation Major investments in key industrial technologies such as (ICT, nanotechnologies, materials, biotechnology, manufacturing, space) Facilitate access to risk finance

PRIORITY 3 SOCIA L CHAL LENG ES € 29 678 mln. Title of the presentation | Date | 10 SOCIA L CHAL LENG ES € 29 678 mln. Health, demographic change and wellbeing - € 7 472 mln. Food security, sustainable agriculture, marine and maritime research & the Bio economy - € 3 851mln. Secure, clean and efficient energy - € 5 931 mln. Smart, green and integrated transport - € 6 339 mln Climate action, resource efficiency and raw materials - € 3 081 mln. Inclusive and reflective societies - € 1 309 mln. Secure societies - € 1 695 mln.

PRIORITY 3 WHY? Concerns of citizens and EU policy (society) objectives (climate, environment, energy, transport, etc) cannot be achieved without innovation Breakthrough solutions come from multi-disciplinary collaborations, including social sciences & humanities Promising solutions need to be tested, demonstrated and scaled up

PRIORITY 3 OPPORTUNITIES: The goal will be more than ever to bring excellent research results to market To deliver direct benefits to citizens, such as affordable health-care, protection against cyber-crime, and the transition to a resource-efficient, low-carbon economy

SIMPLIFIED RULS 1 a more transparent program architecture a single set of rules for participation, including on eligibility for funding, evaluation and IPR Replacing the four methods to calculate overhead or indirect costs with a single flat rate (25%) and only two funding rates - for research (100%) and for close to market activities respectively (70%) streamlined funding rules, for instance allowing the use of researchers' own accounting methods

SIMPLIFIED RULS 2 audit strategy focused on risk and fraud prevention no time-sheets for personnel working full time on a project, possibility of output-based grants further simplified provisions in the Grant Agreement and implementing procedures to facilitate access to Horizon 2020 (e.g. common IT platform) earlier project starts (100 days less from application to grant) Improved rules on intellectual

IN DETAILS... Structural simplification: a simpler program architecture centered on three strategic objectives, making it easier for participants to identify where funding opportunities exist a single set of participation rules, on issues such as eligibility, evaluation or Intellectual Property Rights, applying to all components of Horizon 2020, with deviations only possible when justified by specific needs

IN DETAILS... Simpler funding rules: simpler reimbursement of direct costs, with a broader acceptance of beneficiaries' usual accounting practices the possibility of using unit personnel costs (average personnel costs), including for SME owners without a salary simplification of time-recording by providing a clear and simple set of minimum conditions; in particular abolition of time-recording obligations for staff working exclusively on an EU project

IN DETAILS... Simpler funding rules: indirect costs will be covered by a single flat-rate applied to the direct costs as a general rule - removing a major source of financial errors and complexity two funding rates but only one predetermined rate applicable to all participants and activities in the same project: one project - one rate lump sums, prizes, output based funding for specific areas where this has proved appropriate

IN DETAILS... New control strategy - balance between trust and control: an ex-ante financial capacity checks required only for project private coordinators a reduction of the number of certificates on financial statements by requiring only one such certificate per beneficiary at the end of the project reduction of the limitation period for ex-post audits from five to four years 7% of Horizon 2020 beneficiaries being subject to audit over the whole programming period

BUDGET UNDER 7FP 4 kinds of indirect costs actual real 60% 20% 2 funding rates for RTD activities - 50% and 75% depending on the beneficiary Different funding rate for different budget heading - management, demo, RTD and others

Requested EU contribution (100%) BUDGET UNDER H2020 Participant short name Direct costs Indirect costs (25%) Total costs Requested EU contribution (100%) University A 862.500 215.625 1.078.125 Foundation B 828.230 207.057,5 1.035.287,5 University C 641.001 160.250,25 801.251,25 SME D 465.625 116.406,25 582.031,25 Enterprise E 486.486 121.621,5 608.107,5 SME F 562.722 140.680.5 703.402,5 Total 3.846.564 961.641 4.808.205

STRONG PARTICIPATION BY SMEs Integrated approach - around 20% of the total budget for societal challenges and LEITs goes to SME Instrument SME participation in collaborative R&D or innovation projects (all three priorities) Innovation in start-ups, spin-offs and young companies (Eurostars2) Access to risk finance (debt and equity facility) Exchange and mobility of researchers involving SMEs (Marie Curie actions)

FP7 Cooperation program Theme FP7 TRANSFERRED INTO H2020 FP7 Cooperation program Theme Horizon 2020 Pillar Horizon 2020 activity Health Societal challenges Health, demographic change and wellbeing challenge Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, and Biotechnology Food security, sustainable agriculture and the bio-economy challenge Industrial Leadership Biotechnology Information and communication Technologies Applications within relevant challenges Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies: Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)

FP7 TRANSFERRED INTO H2020 FP7 Cooperation program Theme Horizon 2020 Pillar Horizon 2020 activity Nano-science, nanotechnologies and new production technologies Societal challenges Applications within relevant challenges Industrial Leadership Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies: Support for enabling technologies Energy includes follow-up to CIP intelligent energy program Secure, clean and efficient energy challenge Environment (including climate change and CIP eco-innovation actions) Climate action, resource efficiency including raw materials challenge

FP7 Cooperation program Theme Transport (incl. Aeronautics) FP7 TRANSFERRED INTO H2020 FP7 Cooperation program Theme Horizon 2020 Pillar Horizon 2020 activity Transport (incl. Aeronautics) Societal challenges Smart, green and integrated transport challenge Socio-economic science and humanities Inclusive, innovative and secure societies challenge and applications within all other societal challenges Space Industrial Leadership Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies: Space Security Inclusive, innovative and secure societies challenge

NEXT STEPS... Formal political decisions on Horizon 2020 Autumn 2013 Formal political decision on Multi-annual financial framework (2014-2020) Adoption of work program and publication of first calls for proposals 11 December 2013 Horizon 2020 national launch events October to January 2014

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