Session 2:

Horizon 2020 – preparations on national and regional level:lessons learned from FP7, methods to maximize funding levels, cooperation potential among countries of the region, scientific fields of special interest

Preparation to H2020,and related joint interests

László SZARKAHead of Department of Research Institutes,

Hungarian Academy of Sciences

Mátraháza, 26 October, 2012

Contents

1. EU R&D programmes: FP6 and FP7 results and H2020 expectations

2. Publication prices and Open Access

3. Co-operation potential

1.EU R&D programmes: FP6 and FP7 results; H2020 expectations

Historical background of „West” and „East” Europe in brief

„West” „East”

After WW2 Economic growth (Marshall plan, etc.)

Pseudo-growth (Soviet era)

1990’s Reunification of West+East Germany (costed 2000 Mrd euros)

2000’s „West”: expected markets from „East”

„East” expected recovery and closing up to „West”

2004 A very cheap reception of the „EU-12”

Illusion-driven and rough-and-ready contracts were made

with EU

2004- Increasing differences even in science due to the different initial conditions and our mistakes we

have done since 2004.

Due to the different initial and boundary conditions, the list is not at all surprizing.

Innovation order in Europe

V4 countries

Rank order of countries involved in FP6 (sums calculated per capita inhabitants)

V4

Rank order of 33 countries involved in FP7 according to FP7 support commitmentssigned until March 2011 (sums calculated in € per capita inhabitants)

V4

(increased to 19,52€ by October 2012)

Sharing of EU FP6 sources between „West” and „East” (shown as present EU-12 countries)in million euros

2004-2006: EU10+2)

 

Share fromFP7

sources

Supportper

capitainhabitan

t (€)

Share fromFP6

sources

Differencebetween FP7 and

FP6

EU27 89,21% 49,74 91,8% -2,59%EU10+EU2

4,42% 12,04 5% -0,58%

V4 2,66% 11,65 no data no dataEU15 84,79% 59,46 86,8% -2,01%Associated, Candidate

8,70% no data 6,5% +2,2%

           

An updated statistics made by the National Innovation Office (October, 2012)

Conclusion: a systematic constancy with very little error bar

EU FP7 facts from Hungary

Success rate (number of

applications )

Success rate (requested

support)EU-27 mean value 22,18% 20,72%Hungary 20,81% 15, 03%MTA 27,32% 17,08%

The success rate of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA) is the highest in Hungary, but the number of projects and the obtained support is moderate.

The success rate in terms of winning proposals and obtained support is similar in all V4 countries

Horizon 2020: opportunities and threats at the same time

-Lobbying for better success rates than we experienced in FP6 and FP7-Lobbying for more equal conditions-Lobbying for keeping the research potential in Central Europe

Recent H2020 developments (10 October, 2012, Competitiveness Council)

-25 % overhead-8 thousand €/year/researcher bonus-New „Marie Sklodowska-Curie” (MC) correction factors-Fine tuning of thematic priorities are under discussion (end of October, 2012)

V4

The new Marie Sklodowska-Curie correction factors

2. Publication prices and Open Access

The database of electronic journals in Hungay has been operated since 2012 by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences: better coordination among the Hungarian partners Renewal of contracts with big publishers: separation of electronic and print journal subscriptions

New business models are expected in the era of transition to Open Acces Chances of a joint V4 coping with Elsevier?

Open Access Mandate of the Hungarian Academy of SciencesThe President of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences issued an Open Access Mandate on 24 September 2012

The researchers and employees of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences - including researchers of the subsidized research units and Momentum research groups - should make their scientific publications Open Access. i.) self-archiving in institutional or discipline-based repositories, ii.) publishing them in Open Access journals or in hybrid journals offering paid Open Access.

The Mandate is obligatory for all scientific publications submitted for publication after January 1st, 2013. Open Access for scientific publications submitted before 2013, or published already, is recommended (through repositories).

URLs of the Open Access versions of the publications should be entered to the Hungarian National Scientific Bibliography (MTMT) database.

Embargo periods - if required by the publisher - could be accepted if no longer than one year (for articles). Corrected manuscripts (final versions accepted by the journals after peer review) could be archived. If the publisher does not accept any form of Open Access, publications should be archived in REAL, choosing a closed access option. For articles the option visible for "registered users only" should be applied, books should be visible for the "repository staff only", if the publisher does not allow Open Access deposit. Aspects of patentability could be taken into account.

Details: http://real.mtak.hu/eprints/mandate.html

Received on 24 October, 2012. It is too expensive…What about a common strategy in transition to OA?

3. Co-operation potential

- A closer contact among administrative heads of research networks in V4 countries would be welcome

-Common regional interests

-Scientific co-operations

Research centres and research institutes

of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences from 2012

Red: research staff; green: main office

New research centres

ECOLOGYTihany

91

ENERGY SCIENCEBudapest

92

HUMANITIES AND ARTSBudapest

312

AGRICULTUREBudapest

202

NATURAL SCIENCESBudapest

411

SOCIAL SCIENCESBudapest

156

ASTRONOMY AND EARTH SCI.

Sopron123

„WIGNER” PHYSICSBudapest

250

ECONOMY AND REG. SCI.Budapest

144

MEDICAL SCIENCEBudapest

81

BIOLOGYSzeged

225

MATHEMATICSBudapest

81

NUCLEAR RESEARCHDebrecen

105

LINGUISTICSBudapest

94

INFORMATICSBudapest

140

Unchanged research institutions

Declaration of the Budapest World Science Forum 2011 on a New Era of Global Science

http://www.sciforum.hu/declaration/index.html

Text adopted by the 5th Budapest World Science Forumon 19 November 2011

Contents:1. Responsible and ethical conduct of research and innovation2. Improved dialogue with society on scientific issues3. International collaboration in science 4. Collaborative policies to overcome knowledge-divides in the World5. Capacity building for science

What about a regional version of the WSF 2011 declaration?