Horizon 2020

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Horizon 2020

• An opportunity to improve environmental
  cooperation?

Head of Unit, DG Environment European
Commission Claude Rouam
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The true measure of success for the UN is not
how much we promise but how much we deliver for
those who need us most Ban Ki-moon
The same should apply to Horizon 2020.
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Why Horizon 2020?

• Follow-up to the Barcelona Summit conclusions and
  Five-year plan
• Need for a vision and a coherent framework
• Objectives
• Timing
• Commitment

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Which pillars for Horizon 2020?

• The analysis municipal waste
• urban waste water industrial
  emissions

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• The action pipeline of projects
• capacity building
• research
• monitoring

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The pipeline of projects

• The reduction of hotspots in the Baltic
• The example of Dablas
• The EIB/WB readiness to work on MAP hotspots

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The capacity building effort

• The example of Regional Environment Centres
  (RECs) in other regions
• MAP support for implementation of the Barcelona
  Convention
• The use of TAIEX in other regions
• The role of NGOs to identify needs
• Could NGOs launch a mapping of needs and
  transpose it in a work plan?

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Research

• Participation in EU Research Framework Programme
  7 (FP7) 2007-2013
• Dissemination of existing research results
• Why not a seminar in 2007 on RD results related
  to waste policy?

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Monitoring

• The existing work under the Barcelona Convention
• The commitment of the EEA
• The role of NGOs in the process

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A Steering Committee for Horizon 2020

• Lessons form the previous SMAP correspondents
  network
• Proposals of the SMAP task force
• Timing

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Can NGOs contribute in addition to participation
in the SC?

• What we expect from NGOs
• Legitimacy
• Diversity
• Expertise
• Should be contributors more than commentators
• NGOs cannot substitute governments!

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Horizon 2020

• A common challenge
• A common commitment

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• Thank you very much for your attention.