Newsletter HORIZON2020 Special Issue December 31, 2013

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Horizon 2020 Special Issue

Inside This Issue
• H2020 At a Glance
• Three Pillars of H2020

• Excellence in Science

• Societal Challenges

• Industrial Leadership
• Glossary of H2020
• Marie Sklodowska Curie Actions in Horizon2020
• Calls for Experts Evaluating Proposals Under H2020
• What Has Changed From FP7?
• Timeline of Events in H2020
• First Calls for H2020

December 31, 2013

The Three Pillars of H2020
Excellence in science

This Pillar contains bottom-up instruments funding excellence driven
projects, basic research and actions for research careers and mobility.
The aim of Excellence in Science Pillar is to:
• Support the most talented and creative individuals and their teams
to carry out frontier research of the highest quality by building on the
success of the European Research Council (ERC);
• Fund collaborative research to open up new and promising fields
of research and innovation through support for Future and Emerging
Technologies (FET);
• Provide researchers with excellent training and career development
opportunities through the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions;
• Ensure Europe has world-class research infrastructures (including
e-infrastructures) accessible to all researchers in Europe and beyond.
EXCELLENT
SCIENCE

H2020 at a Glance

H2020 is planned to bring significant simplifications through
a unified set of rules. It will combine all of the research and
innovation funding currently provided through the Framework
Programs for Research and Technical Development (FP7),
the innovation related activities of the Competitiveness and
Innovation Framework Program (CIP) and the European Institute
of Innovation and Technology (EIT).
The proposed support for research and innovation under Horizon
2020 aims to:
• Strengthen the EU’s position in science. This will provide a
boost to top-level research in Europe, including a significant
increase in funding for the very successful European Research
Council.
• Strengthen industrial leadership in innovation. This includes
major investment in key technologies, greater access to capital
and support for SMEs.
• Provide significant funding to help address major societal
concerns shared by all Europeans; such as climate change,
developing sustainable transport and mobility, making renewable
energy more affordable, ensuring food safety and security, or
coping with the challenge of an ageing population.

INDUSTRIAL
LIDERSHIP

SOCIATEL
CHALLENGES

-European
Research
Council (ERC)
- Future & Emerging
Technologies
(FET)
- Marie & Curie
Actions
- Research
Infrastructures

-Lidership in
Enabling & Industrial
Technologies
(LEIT), ICT;
KET’s, Space
- Access to Risk
Finance
- Innovation in SMEs

-Health & Wellbeing
- Food Security
- Transport
- Energy
- Climate Action
- Societies
-Security

Social Sciences & Humanities International Cooperation ICT
European Institute of
Technology (EIT)

EURATOM

Joint Research
Centers (JRC)

Societal challenges

This Pillar is a more be a top-down pillar supporting call-based, large,
cooperative projects.
Funding will be focused on the following thematic areas:
• Health, demographic change and well-being;
• Food security, sustainable agriculture and forestry, marine and
maritime and inland water research, and bioeconomy;
• Secure, clean and efficient energy;
• Smart, green and integrated transport;
• Climate action, environment, resource efficiency and raw materials;
• Europe in a changing world - inclusive, innovative and reflective
societies;
• Secure societies - protecting freedom and security of Europe and its
citizens.