SOUTHEAST EUROPE ECONOMIC FORUMEU FUNDS FOR SEE - TRANSNATIONAL

COOPERATION IN THE NEW PROGRAMMING PERIOD

HORIZON 2020 - NEW OPPORTUNITIES

MRS. NINA HRISTOVICH-GALABOVA AND MR. NIKOLA HRISTOVICH, FINSYS

SOFIA, 19 JUNE 2015

ESSENCE OF HORIZON 2020

The programme for research and innovation HORIZON 2020 is the

biggest framework programme of the European Union with budget almost 80 billion euro.

H2020’s aim is to bring as much as possible achievements, discoveries and innovations which provides benefits for the society. It connects scientific research and innovations by transfer of great ideas from the laboratory to the market through different forms of stimulus for innovations. This is possible due to mutual complementarily between excellent science, industrial leadership and overcoming of societal challenges.

HORIZON 2020 AND THE VALLEY OF DEATH

In this way Horizon 2020 supports faster movement of innovations

from their initial phase, called “valley of death” and their reaching to the phases of commercialization and positive return from the market deployment.

Thus innovators wouldn’t be forced to follow the legendary Munchausen in order to pull themselves for the hair to escape the swamp of the “valley of death”.

HORIZON 2020 AND THE VALLEY OF DEATH

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HORIZON 2020 and SOUTHEAST EUROPE

HORIZON 2020 offers simplified access to finance for companies, universities, institutes, municipalities and other public institutions from all EU Member States and countries associated to H2020, including Iceland, Norway, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Turkey, Israel and Moldova. Switzerland is associated to H2020 only for activities related to scientific research, and not for innovations. In practice this means that HORIZON 2020 includes almost all countries from the Southeast Europe and could be seen as an important way of combining and mutually complementing processes of research and innovation in these countries.

Possibilities for financing supported under Horizon 2020 are

shown in the working programmes, published on the digital portal of the EU for financing of research and innovation http://ec.europa.eu/programmes/horizon2020/.

Regarding Horizon 2020, there are published exact end deadlines of the sessions of the separate grant schemes and topics under the Working programme for the sub-period 2014-2015. In process of clarification is the Working programme 2016-2017 of Horizon 2020.

SINGLE PORTAL OF HORIZON 2020

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

Basic rule of Horizon 2020 is that it is open to everybody. It

comprises set of very simplified rules and procedures (in compare to the 7th framework and other recent programmes), that need to be followed. This means that participants in H2020 could focus only on what is most important for them. It is considered that this approach should guarantee fast start of new projects and faster achievement of results. Rules are designed to guarantee justice, to protect participants and to ensure correct public spending. The burden of financial audits and control is decreased.

WHO CAN PARTICIPATE IN HORIZON 2020

Standard requirement of Horizon 2020 is participants, with projects

for research and innovative activities, economic groups (consortia) of at least three independent legal persons from at least three Member States of the EU or from associated to Horizon 2020 countries.

For some more specific schemes, such as the European Research Council, Instrument for SMEs, co-financing of invitations for participation or programmes of the national or public sector, coordination and support, educations and mobility, the minimal condition for participation is one legal person established in EU Member State or associated to Horizon 2020 country.

WHO CAN PARTICIPATE IN PROJECTS UNDER HORIZON 2020

TYPES OF SUPPORTED ACTIVITIES -1

1. R&D AND INNOVATIVE ACTIVITIES (RDIA). Provides up to 100% gratuitous financing of RDIA projects, dealing with clearly defined challenges that could lead to accumulation of new knowledge or to new technologies.

2. INNOVAITVE ACTIVITIES (IA).

Gratuitous co-financing of such activities up to 70% for business organizations and up to 100% for scientific organizations and non-profit associations. It is focused on activities closer to the market than the RDIA.

In RDIA and IA can participate consortia of scientific and business organizations. Leading partners in RDIA is proper to be scientific organizations, and in IA companies.

TYPES OF SUPPORTED ACTIVITIES - 2

1. INSTRUMENT FOR SMALL AND MEDIUM SIZED ENTERPRISES

2. FAST TRACK TO INNOVATIONS 3. ECSEL JTI

4. FACTORIES OF THE FUTURE

5. COORDINATION AND SUPPORT6. SUBSIDIES FOR REASEARCH ON THE LIMIT OF SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE THROUGH THE EUROPEAN RESEARCH COUNCIL (ERC).

7. SUPPORT FOR EDUCATION AND CARRIER DEVELOPMENT – ACTIVITIES UNDER THE INITIATIVE “MARIA SKLODOVSKA-CURIE”

8. GOVERNMENT PROCUREMENT

9. AWARDS FOR STIMULATION OF INNOVATIONS, INCL. UNDER “FAST TRACK TO INNOVATIONS”, HEALTHCARE AND OTHERS.

Pillar 1: HIGH ACHIEVEMENTS IN SCIENTIFIC AREA: Grantuitous support from the European council for scientific research for leading scientists and for scholarships for young researchers “Maria Sklodovska Currie”

Pillar 2: LEADING POSITIONS IN INDUSTRY: Support for the leading positions of the European industries in sectors like ICT, nanotechnologies, improved manufacturing technologies, robotics, biotechnologies, cosmic research and other.

Pillar 3. SOCIAL CHALLENGES: Support of innovative projects in response to the main social challenges.

THREE MAIN PILLARS OF H2020

Invitations for project proposals are made on certain topics and

have one of the following statuses:

➢ Forthcoming calls;

➢ Open calls;

➢ Closed calls;

Currently open and forthcoming calls under Horizon 2020 could be easily tracked on H2020 website and on the Participant’s portal: http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/opportunities/h2020.

INVITATIONS FOR PROPOSALS IN H2020

INSTRUMENT FOR SMEs

This instrument is oriented to innovative SMEs (from the EU and

other countries associated to H2020) showing strong ambition to improve, grow and internationalize themselves. Under the Instrument for SMEs could participate only SMEs with commercial objectives or consortia of SMEs with commercial objectives. Other partners such as research institutes or big companies could participate as third parties or sub-contractors. The SMEs INSTRUMENT comprises of three different phases, including training and couching for the beneficiaries. Participants could apply for financing under phase 1 with intention to apply under phase 2 or could apply directly to phase 2.

PHASES OF THE INSTRUMENT FOR SMEs

Phase 1 is for pre-project research and relates to verification of the technological, practical, economical feasibility and applicability of the innovative idea/conceptions. One project under Phase 1 is up to 6 months and is financed up to 50 thousand euro for 6 months.

Phase 2 is for execution of number of innovative activities, including demonstrations, tests, creation of prototypes, purchase of equipment and other, aiming at to set the innovative idea for industrial maturity and to prepare it for market deployment. Gratuitous financing of project under Phase 2 is from 0.5 to 2.5 million euro and is 70% of the recognized expenditure. The term for the project implementation is from 12 to 24 months.

Phase 3 is aimed at support for the commercialization of the innovation, including access to risk finance.

The pilot grant scheme Fast Track to Innovations supports

projects, with 3 million euro and intensity of 70%, aimed at relevantly mature new technologies, conceptions and processes which need one last step to reach to the market and wider commercialization. Important feature of this scheme is that there is no requirement for the project proposal to respond to an open topic, it could be proposed by the candidate. Under FTI could participate consortia with three to five independent organizations from at least three countries, with overwhelming part of the business.

FAST TRACK TO INNOVATIONS

MANUAL FOR SYNERGY

It is extremely important to point out that stimulating innovations

from different sources should not be done on competitive base, but to be mutually complimenting and to lead to synergy.

According to the developed by the EU MANUAL FOR SYNERGY between the Structural funds (incl. OPIC and other euro programmes in Bulgaria), Horizon 2020 and other research programmes, and programmes related to innovations and competitiveness, the approach for synergy has to change from “it is good have” to “it is necessary to have” such synergy.

FOR MORE INFORMATION

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

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION. WE AWAIT FOR YOUR QUESTIONS AND COMMENTS.

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