H2020 and Societal Challenges

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H2020 and Societal Challenges

• A. Hamid El-Zoheiry, Heliopolis University
• Cairo, Egypt

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Objective

• Take stock of Societal Challenges in H2020 in
  terms of Priorities and Opportunities for MPCs

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H2020 What's new?

• A single programme bringing together three
  separate programmes/initiatives
• Coupling research to innovation from research
  to retail, all forms of innovation
• Focus on societal challenges facing EU society,
  e.g. health,clean energy and transport
• Simplified access, for all companies,
  universities, institutes inall EU countries and
  beyond

• The 7th Research Framework Programme (FP7),
  innovation aspects of Competitiveness and
  Innovation Framework Programme (CIP), EU
  contribution to the European Institute of
  Innovation and Technology (EIT)

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Three priorities

• Excellent science

• Industrial leadership

• Societal challenges

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Priority 1. Excellent science

• World class science is the foundation of
  tomorrows technologies, jobs and wellbeing

European Research Council Frontier research by the best individual teams
Future and Emerging Technologies Collaborative research to open new fields of innovation
Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions Opportunities for training and career development
Research infrastructures (including e-infrastructure) Ensuring access to world-class facilities
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Priority 2. Industrial leadership

• Strategic investments in key technologies (e.g.
  advanced manufacturing, micro-electronics)
  underpin innovation across existing and emerging
  sectors
• Need for more innovative SMEs to create growth
  and jobs

Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies (ICT, nanotechnologies, materials, biotechnology, manufacturing, space)
Access to risk finance Leveraging private finance and venture capital for research and innovation
Innovation in SMEs Fostering all forms of innovation in all types of SMEs
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Priority 3. Societal challenges

• Breakthrough solutions come from
  multi-disciplinary collaborations, including
  social sciences humanities

Health, demographic change and wellbeing
Food security, sustainable agriculture, marine and maritime research the bioeconomy
Secure, clean and efficient energy
Smart, green and integrated transport
Climate action, resource efficiency and raw materials
Inclusive, innovative and secure societies
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International Cooperation

• International cooperation is crucial to address
  many Horizon 2020 objectives
• Principle of general openness the programme will
  remain to be the most open funding programme in
  the world
• Horizon 2020 shall be open to the association of
  acceding countries, candidate countries and
  potential candidates and selected international
  partner countries that fulfil the relevant
  criteria (capacity, track record, close economic
  and geographical links to the Union, etc.)
• Targeted actions to be implemented taking a
  strategic approach to international cooperation
  (dedicated measures in the 'Inclusive,
  innovative and secure societies' challenge)

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INCO in H2020 vs FP7

• No ad-hoc INCO Work Programme
• No Specific Actions having the inclusion of MPCs
  as eligibility criteria but open topics
• Open topics
• Instruments research innovation actions or
  support actions (horizontal issues, policy,
  cooperation and dialogue)
• International cooperation hidden accross pillars
  and challenges

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Renewed Euro-Med Partnership

• A new response to a changing Neighbourhood
• ? Development of Common Knowledge and Innovation
  Space (CKIS)
• ? New approach to cooperation mutual benefit,
  mutual accountability and differentiation
• Mutual Interest shared Benefit based on the
  principles of co-ownership and co-management with
  co-funding of activities
• New impetus given by the Euro-Mediterranean
  Conference for Research and Innovation held in
  Barcelona (2-3/04/2012)
• ? Thematic areas addressed water, energy,
  health, transport and marine sciences.
• ? Key cross-cutting issues addressed Innovation,
  changing society, coordination of programmes,
  infrastructure, mobility

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• EU South Mediterranean RI cooperation

• Specific activities to promote the EU South
  Mediterranean cooperation
• Support to bilateral activities (Bilats)
• Support to regional platforms INCO-Nets
  (MIRA/MedSPRING)
• Building competence in research labs (ERA-WIDEs)
• ERANET MED
• Bridging the gap between research and innovation
  (R2I)

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• EU South Mediterranean RI cooperation

• Bilateral policy dialogues
• 5 ST agreements Algeria, Egypt, Jordan,
  Morocco, Tunisia
• 2 association agreements in FP7 Israel, Turkey
• Bi-regional policy dialogue
• The Monitoring Committee for Euro-Mediterranean
  Cooperation in RTD (MoCo) -17 meetings since 1995

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• EU South Mediterranean RI cooperation in FP7
  (2007-2013)

• 296 FP7 funded projects
• ? Success rate 13
• ? 704 million EUR EU contribution to the
  projects
• ? 62 million EUR EU contribution to the South
  Mediterranean partners
• ? 586 participations of public and private South
  Mediterranean institutions
• ? Main thematic areas of cooperation KBBE,
  Environment, ICT
• .

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Synergy with the European Neighbourhood
Partnership Instrument (ENPI)

• The ENPI supports research capacity building
  through the implementation of Research
  Development and Innovation Programme (RDI)
• Egypt (11 M 20 M),
• Algeria (21 M),
• Jordan (55 M),
• Morocco (1.35 M),
• Tunisia (12 M)

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MPCs Participation in FP7
364 participants in 193 projects
Specific Programme Participations Number of projects
SP1 - Cooperation 238 120
SP2 - Ideas 1 1
SP3 - People 11 11
SP4 - Capacities 114 61
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Thematic distribution
  ENERGY ENV HEALTH ICT KBBE NMP SEC SPA SSH TPT Grand Total
Projects 8 28 16 12 33 6 2 6 6 3 120
Particip. 19 54 34 27 72 8 2 7 10 5 238
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MPC Priority Setting Excercises

• MIRA Thematic workshops (2009-2011)
• Euro-Mediterranean Conference on Research and
  Innovation, Barcelona (April, 2012)
• Common Research Innovation Agenda CRIA, 2012
  (Food, Water, Energy)
• MED-SPRING EMEG

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Calls topics addressed to Mediterranean
A total number of 47 different call topics (KBBE,
ENERGY and ENV) for the period 2007-2013.
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Correspondance MIRA - FP7 calls

• KBBE (Food/ Agriculture) water scarcity
  management in agriculture, post harvest losses,
  agro-food products and global market.
• ENERGY Concentrating Solar Power
• ENV Coastal zone, Freshwater ecosystems and
  Natural Hazards
• Others Health, Nanotechnologies

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• MedSpring Project and Horizon 2020

High Quality Affordable Food
FOOD SECURITY, SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE, MARINE
AND MARITIME RESEARCH AND THE BIO-ECONOMY
Energy
SECURE, CLEAN AND EFFICIENT ENERGY
Resource efficiency
CLIMATE ACTION, RESOURCE EFFICIENCY AND RAW
MATERIALS
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H2020- 1st WP 2014-2015Analysis of relevant
topics to MPCs
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Methodology

• Analysis of WPs 2014-2015 of H2020 identifying
  topics having geographic focus or being of
  potential thematic interest for the Mediterranean
  Partner Countries
• Grouping topics into four cathegories
• 1) Direct geographic relevance (Mediterranean)
• 2) Indirect geographic relevance (ENP, Africa,
  ST agreemets)
• 3) International cooperation connotation (no
  geographic focus)
• 4)Thematic relevance (potential thematic
  interest for MPCs)

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Focus on Societal Challenges

• The majority (82 out of 127) of the topics
  identified in the four categories belong to
  Pillar III Societal Challenges.
• Food appears to be the most recurring in the four
  categories.
• Considering direct or indirect geographic
  relevance, the most recurring SC are Climate and
  Societies, followed by Food and Transport.

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Mediterranean dimension of H2020 (1/3)

• The 3 topics with direct geographic relevance
  are all included in Pillar III, and related to SC
  Food (1 topic) and SC Societies (2 topics)
• The 11 topics with indirect geographic relevance
  are included in Pillar I (2 topics) and Pillar
  III (9 topics). The SC addressed by these topics
  are Food, Transport, Climate and Societies.

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Mediterranean dimension of H2020 (2/3) List of
Topics with direct geographic relevance
1) Unlocking the growth potential of rural areas
through enhanced governance and social innovation
(ISIB 3 2015) 2) Re-invigorating the
partnership between the two shores of the
Mediterranean (INT 6 2015) 3) Towards a new
geopolitical order in the South and East
Mediterranean (INT 7 -2015)
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Conclusions

• All H2020 SCs represent potential priority areas
  for the MPCs. However, opportunities/capacities
  of partnership with the EU have to be further
  explored and determined.
• H2020s 1st WP has limited focus on the
  Mediterranean (3 topics, all in SC Pillar).
• H2020 is not the ultimate or only programme for
  Euro-Med cooperation and is still not appropriate
  for several actions (CB or infrastructure..)
• Food Environment (incl. Water) seem to be the
  two areas with strongest participation of MPCs in
  FP7

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