1. H2020 Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) FET-Open
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Viorel Peca, HoU
FET unit, European Commission

2. A stronger, clearer focus
FET in Horizon 2020
A stronger, clearer focus
H2020 budget
€ 74,8 billion
*OTHER:
Spreading excellence & widening participation
Science with and for society
JRC
EIT

3. The power of FET – 3 complementary schemes
Open, light and agile
Roadmap based research
Individual
research projects
FET-Open
Early Ideas
Critical mass making a case
FET Proactive
Exploration and Incubation
Common research agenda
FET Flagships
Large-Scale Partnering Initiatives
40%
Exploring Developing Addressing novel ideas topics & communities grand challenges
Small projects
up to 3M€
Medium size projects
4 to 10M€
Large initiatives

4. After the FET Advisory Group

5. FET mission Dream New technologies and their applications
Establish possibility
Dream
New knowledge
New technologies and their applications

6. Establish possibility
A typical FET-Open project
Dream
New technologies and their applications
New knowledge
Establish possibility
S&T Breakthrough as Proof-of-Concept

7. And innovation?
Dream
Innovation
Reality

8. Establish possibility
Keeping focus don't try to do too much on scientific risk in a single project!
Dream
New technologies and their applications
New knowledge
Establish possibility
Innovation
S&T Breakthrough as Proof-of-Concept
Reality

9. Future and Emerging Technologies
FET Gatekeepers
Long-term vision: the research proposed must address a new and radical long-term vision of a science- and technology-enabled future that is far beyond the state of the art and not currently foreseen by technology roadmaps.
Breakthrough scientific and technological target: research must target a scientifically ambitious and technologically concrete breakthrough, argued to be a crucial step towards achieving the long-term vision. The plausibility of the proposed breakthrough(s) to be attained within the life-time of the project must be argued in the proposal.
Novelty: the research proposed for achieving the breakthrough must be based on cutting-edge knowledge, new ideas and concepts, rather than in the mere application or incremental refinement of existing ones.
Foundational: the breakthroughs that are envisaged must be foundational in the sense that, if achieved, they would establish an essential basis for a new kind of technology and its future uses, not currently anticipated.
High-risk: the inherently high risk of the research proposed will be reflected in a flexible but effective methodology for exploring alternative directions and options, supported by open and agile research and innovation practices.
Interdisciplinary: the proposed collaborations are expected to go beyond 'waterfall' configurations in multi-disciplinary science- and technology research. Instead they should seek new solutions through genuine exchanges, mutual learning, cross-fertilisation and synergistic advances among distant disciplines in order to open unexplored areas of investigation and new directions for joint research.
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Future and Emerging Technologies
Interdisciplinary
Novelty
S&T targeted
Foundational
High-Risk
Long-term vision

10. FET-Open is extremely competitive
Don't waste time on a proposal that has no chance to make it through the FET-Open evaluation.
Is FET-Open really the right scheme for you?
Check out LEIT and Societal Challenges work progammes.
FET is not ERC: collaboration, science and technology are all essential ingredients.
It is not because something has not been done before that it is sufficiently novel for FET.
FET is not the long-term end of an established industry's road-map
A long-term vision is essential, but also a plausible idea on how to get there.
Writing a good proposal is probably as hard as writing a good scientific publication (and more intellectually rewarding).

11. Tips to write a good FET-Open proposal
Be ambitious, follow your 'dream'
Novelty is essential
Incremental refinements rarely make it – high-risk does
Boil down the vision to a concrete and ambitious proof-of-concept
Consortium for pathfinding
There are no hidden expectations from our side (beyond the rules for participation), i.e. no cosmetic roles – keep it simple
Look for renewal here too - novelty probably starts here
Narrow inter-disciplinarity will not be good enough to win (look beyond your comfort zone – this is not ERC-like career building)
Commitment: will the project transform the partner(ship)? (mission vs. role)

12. Collaborate, collaborate, collaborate…
Take inter-disciplinarity seriously - write your proposal together
Collaboration throughout the project, driven by joint questions, goals and mutual learning, not just passing on results between silos
Explore new ways of working/learning/changing together
Communicate and engage
Scientific publications
Social networks & media
Public engagement
Keep it simple
Focus on the high-risk parts with crisp targets
Don't write for 'us', but for people like you
Check your deliverables list

13. Thank you for your interest in FET
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