Horizon 2020 - IntroductionAlex Harris

Medical Research Council

Agenda

• MRC and Horizon 2020

• UK Success Rate (FP7 Health)

• What is Horizon 2020?

• The Horizon 2020 Health Challenge

• NCP support

MRC and Horizon 2020

The three main roles the MRC plays in Horizon 2020:

1. Participant

2. NCP for the Health, Demographic Change and wellbeing Challenge (Alex Harris)

3. MRC leads the UK Programme Committee delegation

(Mark Palmer)

UK Success Rate (FP7 Health)

UK organisations have secured €947 million of EU funding for Health

research…so far!

€947m€874m

€604m€565m

€368m€284m €262m

UK GER FRA NED ITA SWE SPA

EC Contribution

What is Horizon 2020?

• The new European Union programme for research and innovation for 2014-2020

• A core part of key European policy initiatives

• €80bn budget

• An integrated approach coupling research to innovation

• Major simplification

Three priorities

•Excellent science

•Industrial leadership

•Societal challenges

What is Horizon 2020?

Health, demographic change and wellbeing challenge (SC1)

Budget = €7.47bn

• Challenge based approach

• What to do, but not how to do it (less prescription)

• Collaborative

• Multidisciplinary approach - fostering cooperation between sectors

• Strengthening competitiveness of EU industries -development of new market opportunities

The Health Challenge

Work Programme

• Work programme with a 2 year-duration.

• WP 2014/2015, 2 calls:

• ‘Personalising health and care’ call

• 34 topics - 15 in 2014, 17 in 2015, 2 open in both years

• ‘Co-ordination activities’ call

• 16 topics - 11 in 2014, 5 in 2015 (7 ERA-NET)

• €1.2billion

The Health Challenge

• Determinants, risk factors and pathways of diseases (2014)

• Determinants and pathways of healthy and active ageing (2014)

• Systems medicine approaches (2015)

• Common mechanisms of diseases and potential co-morbidities (2015)

Unravelling health and disease

• Inter-sector cooperation for environment- and health-based interventions (2015)

• Translating -omics into prevention and health promotion (2014)

• Evaluating existing screening and prevention programmes (2014)

• Control of infectious epidemics through rapid pathogen identification (2014)

• Vaccine platforms for TB (2014) and HIV (2015)

From "omics" … to prevention

• In vitro devices, assays and platforms (2014)

• In vivo medical imaging technologies (2015)

• Clinical validation of biomarkers (2014, 2015)

• SME focus

In biomarkers we trust …and in novel diagnostic tools

• Therapies for non-communicable diseases (2014) and rare diseases (2015)

• Tools and technologies for advanced therapies (2015)

• Clinical research on regenerative medicine (2014)

• Comparing and establishing effectiveness of health interventions in the elderly (2014) and children (2015)

Finding the cure …and evaluating existing treatments

• Service robotics within assisted living environments (2014)

• Pilot projects on independent living with cognitive impairments (2014)

• Early risk detection and intervention (2015)

• Promoting mental wellbeing in the ageing population (2015)

Adding more life to our years

• New models for prevention oriented health and care systems (2014)

• Piloting personalised medicine in health and care systems (2015)

• Self-management of health and disease:

• citizen engagement and mHealth for disease management (2014),

• patient empowerment supported by ICT (2015)

• based on predictive computer modelling (2015)

The citizen in the centre

• Public procurement of innovative eHealth services (2015)

• ICT systems for integrated care (2015)

• eHealth sectorial inducement prize (2015)

The citizen in the centre (2)

• Digital representation of health data to improve diagnosis and treatment (2015)

• Foresight for health policy development and regulation (2014)

• Advancing bioinformatics for clinical needs (2014)

• Improve predictive human safety testing (2015)

• eHealth interoperability (2014)

Big Data for research

• European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing

• Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases (GACD) – Diabetes (2014)

• Joint Programming Initiative 'More Years, Better Life's (2014)

• Joint Programming Initiative on neurodegenerative diseases (JPND, 2014)

• Global Research Collaboration for Infectious Disease Preparedness (2014)

• European Reference Networks (2015)

Support for European andInternational Initiatives

Strategic Research Initiatives:

The Health Challenge

Innovative Medicines Initiative 2

• EU contribution €1.638 billion

• For breakthrough vaccines, medicines and treatments

• For top quality research and innovation with great public health benefits and commercial possibilities

• compared to IMI: more budget, broader scope and objectives, open to other industry partners

EDCTP 2

• Bigger EU contribution:€683 million

• Broader scope:including neglected infectious diseases, all clinical phases, diagnostics and delivery optimisation

• Longer duration:10 years

Active and Assisted Living (AAL 2)

• EU contribution: €175 million

• To increase efficiency of care and give older adults access to more and better ICT based products and services for ageing well

• Compared to AAL: Use of new instruments eg Innovation Grants, prizes; Alignment with EIP-Active Healthy Ageing

All advice is confidential, impartial and free

A UK-wide network provided to help you engage with H2020

• Dissemination and Awareness Raising (Infodays, seminars,…)

• General advice on H2020 participation – help you to make an informed decision (signposting)

• Helpline - scientific priorities, calls, participation rules, financial rules, partnering…

• Follow-on advice – negotiation stage, reports, cost claims, IPR, project management…

NCP support

Alex Harris

Alex.Harris@headoffice.mrc.ac.uk

020 7395 2214

Octavio Pernas

https://connect.innovateuk.org/web/fp7-uk-health

E mail: octavio.pernas@tsb.gov.uk

Phone: 01302 322633

Horizon 2020 Health National Contact Points:

NCP support

• Participant portal:

http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/page/home

• European Commission – Horizon 2020

http://ec.europa.eu/programmes/horizon2020/

• Official UK Horizon 2020 website:

https://www.h2020uk.org/

• Fit for Health:

http://www.fitforhealth.eu/

• IMI2

http://www.imi.europa.eu/

• EDCTP2

http://www.edctp.org/

• AAL2

http://www.aal-europe.eu/

Further information