Dr Inmaculada Higueras – SSH Horizon 2020 Contact Point 5 th November 2013

NI Horizon 2020 Action Plan Plan detailed activities for 2013 A new plan will be developed during this period for 2014 onwards

NI Horizon 2020 Action Plan Creation of an NI Horizon 2020 Contact Point (NICP) network Development of a Horizon 2020 communications strategy Development of an NI Horizon 2020 website Development of an NI specific guide to Horizon 2020

NI Horizon 2020 Action Plan Appointment of an NICP with specific responsibility for SMEs Organise at least 10 Horizon 2020 workshops Increase the number of Horizon 2020 evaluators from NI

NI Horizon 2020 Action Plan Increase NI representation on EU groups/committees Development of strategies to increase European Research Council (ERC) and Marie Curie funding Production of a report on FP7 performance to date

Role of new NI Contact Points (NICPs) NICPs housed in both universities Supporting - health (x2), ICT (x2), engineering, SSH and energy Invest NI have the role of NICP for SMEs DARD are funding an NICP role in AFBI Close links with UK and Irish NCPs

Role of new NI Contact Points (NICPs) Formation of a new network including Invest NI and InterTradeIreland All ‘on-the-ground’ support to be included Include Brussels based NI staff Pin-point specific calls and themes for potential funding

Ciaran Prunty – Engineering - Manuel Morillas Diaz – Health - Dominic McLarnon – Energy - Shirley Davey – Connected Health - Inmaculada Higueras - SSH - Dajana Dzanovic – ICT - David McCleery – FAFB – Joanne Coyle, Robert Bunn and Lisa O’Reilly – SMEs – and

H2020 NI strengths/potential for proposals development in SSH –Insitute for the collaborative research in the Humanities (stressing the collaborative work in the field, multidisciplinary approach) –Institute for the Study of Conflict Transformation and Social Justice (Interdisciplinary groups. Borders; Conflict transformation and policing extremism. Social Justice in the divided city. Art, performance and media in post-conflict societies) –Improving children’s lives –UU Institute for research in Social Sciences

H2020 NI strengths/potential for proposals development Call on: Overcoming the crisis: new ideas, strategies and governance structures for Europe –Euro :Political challenges for Europe Call for Reflective Societies: Cultural Heritage and European Identities –Reflective : Era Net on Uses of the past –Reflective The cultural heritage of war in contemporary Europe Call for Europe as a Global Actor –INT 3 – 2015: Europe’s contribution to a value-based global order and its contestants –INT 4 – 2015: The European Union’s contribution to global development: in search of greater policy coherence –INT 5 – 2015: Rethinking the European Union crisis response mechanism in light of recent conflicts

Many thanks…