PHYSICS TOWARDS HORIZON2020

Ana ProykovaESFRI & FET advisory group

H2020

Layout with abbreviations

• ESFRI• FET• H2020• Physicists in H2020

European strategy forum on research infrastructuresESFRI (formed in 2002)

The mission of ESFRI is to support a coherent and strategy-led approach to policy-making on research infrastructures in Europe, and to facilitate multilateral initiatives leading to the better use and development of research infrastructures, at EU and international level.

Ms and AS have two delegates to ESFRI

One - working at the respective ministry of science or/and technology

One scientist from academia (university or research institute)

ESFRI Roadmap

FET = future and emerging technology

Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) go beyond what is known! Visionary thinking can open up promising avenues towards powerful new technologies.

The visionary aspects and exploratory characteristics of FET might make it sound like a kind of magic, but the mission of FET is actually very concrete: to turn Europe's excellent science base into a competitive advantage.

What are advisory groups for?

Advisory group (AG) experts provide high quality and timely advice to the Commission services during the preparation of the Horizon 2020 work programme.

15 (thematic) +4 (horizontal) AGs

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

Thematic advisory groups

Excellence science

1) 'Future and Emerging Technologies (FET)';

2) Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions on skills, training and career development';

3) 'Research infrastructures (including e-Infrastructures)';

'Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies’:

4) 'Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)’

5)'Nanotechnologies'; 'Advanced materials'; 'Biotechnology'; Advanced manufacturing

and processing'; 6) 'Space';…… up to 15

Cross cutting AGs

International Cooperation

Science with and for society (SWAFS)

Gender

Societal challenges

Three pillars

The Horizon 2020 programme consists of three core themes or 'pillars':

Excellent science

Industrial leadership

Societal challenges

Excellent Science (Physics)

- FET = future and emerging technology- Focus should be put in applying for Marie

Skłodowska Curie Actions (MSCA) and European Research Council (ERC) fellowships. These account for 25% of Horizon2020 funding (17,55 B euros).

- Research Infrastructures grants should also be a great focus of the community (3,23% of the Horizon2020 budget, i.e. 2,27 B euros).

However

The Physics community should NOT ignore opportunities that can be presented in the other two pillars (Industrial leadership, Societal challenges), since Pillar 1 is less than a third of Horizon2020

Applying for calls in the other two Pillars will require enhanced efforts in networking with industry (in the case of Pillar 2) and with scientists from other disciplines (in the case of Pillar 3).

Future and Emerging Technologies (FET, Pillar 1)

Specific challenge: Supporting a large set of early stage, high risk visionary science and technology collaborative research projects is necessary for the successful exploration of new foundations for radically new future technologies. Nurturing fragile ideas requires an agile, risk-friendly and highly interdisciplinary research approach, expanding well beyond the strictly technological disciplines. Recognising and stimulating the driving role of new high-potential actors in research and innovation, such as women, young researchers and high-tech SMEs, is also important for nurturing the scientific and industrial leaders of the future.

Scope: Proposals are sought for collaborative research

Leadership in Enabling and Industrial Technologies (LEIT, Pillar 2)

ICT callsSensor networks in hostile environmentsLow radioactivity tracingPhotonics: Photodetectors (large area, small

pixels) // Extreme photonics (lasers/mirrors)Cryogenic detectors (MKIDs, TES)Materials of extreme radiopurity Space

Work Programmes

2014-2015 (almost no changes)2016-2017 (under strategic discussions)2018-2019 2020

Hadron Physics: 3 categories ofactivities:

•  networking•  transnational access and/or service•  joint research

Networking activities - Physics

1.  MAN: Management of theConsortium

2.  THURIC: Theory of UltraRelativistic Heavy IonCollisions

3.  ENCstudy: Feasibilitystudy foranelectron-nucleon colliderin Europe

4.  EPOS:Exciting Physics OfStrong Interactions

5.  MesonNet: Meson Physicsin Low-Energy QCD

6.  SPHERE: Strange ParOclesin HadronicEnvironmentResearch in Europe

7.  FAIRnet: A worldwideresearch networkingactivity forexperimentson QCD at FAIR

8.  SaporeGravis: Heavyflavouredprobes ofdeconfined QCD matter

9.  LEANNIS: Low-energyantikaon-nucleon and-nucleiinteraction studies

10.  Lattice QCD: LatticeQuantum Chromodynamics

Flagships internal calls

Graphene The Graphene Flagship brings together an

academic-industrial consortium aiming at a breakthrough for technological innovation.

Human Brain Project The HBP will develop six ICT platforms, dedicated

respectively to Neuroinformatics, Brain Simulation, High Performance Computing, Medical Informatics, Neuromorphic Computing and Neurorobotics. In all cases, the platforms will build on existing capabilities, some but not all developed by the HBP partners.

Thank you!

anap@phys.uni-sofia.bg