Horizon 2020 Robotics: Information and Consortia Building Event - Slides

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H2020 Robotics Event
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12 November 2019
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Facilities
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Welcome
Agenda
10:30 Welcome
10:35 UK Participation in H2020
10:45 H2020 Robotics 2020 Call Topics
11:15 Q&A
11:30 30 second flash delegate introduction
11:45 Tea / Coffee
12:15 Introduction to RODIN and the DIH Network
12:35 An introduction to Public Private Partnerships in Europe
12:55 30 second flash delegate introduction
13:10 Lunch

Welcome
Agenda
14:00 Collaboration Support Landscape
14:30 1-1 Meetings with IUK, KTN, EEN
15:30 Close

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Welcome
Things you should consider
• ISCF Future food production systems - Apply for a share of up to £20 million to
transform food production systems, improve productivity and sustainability, and
help the industry move towards net zero emissions by 2040
• ISCF TFP science and technology into practice: demonstration - Apply for between
£400,000 and £4 million to demonstrate solutions that can transform food
production and help the industry move towards net zero emissions by 2040
• ISCF transforming foundation industries: fast start projects - UK registered
organisations can apply for a share of £5 million for fast start projects to improve
the resource and energy efficiency of foundation industries

Welcome
• Agri-tech catalyst round 9: agriculture and food systems innovation, early stage -
UK organisations can apply for a share of up to £5 million to work on agri-tech and
food chain innovations in Africa
• Agri-tech catalyst round 9: agriculture and food systems innovation, mid stage -
• Agri-tech catalyst round 9: agriculture and food systems innovation, late stage -

Welcome
• UK-China: precision for enhancing agricultural productivity - UK businesses can
apply for a share of up to £5 million to work with Chinese partners to develop new
integrated precision farming technology and help achieve net-zero emissions
• Innovation loans: September 2019 open competition - Loans for game-changing
innovations with strong commercial potential that will significantly improve the UK
economy
• Innovate UK Smart Grants: October 2019 - Opportunity to apply for a share of up to
£25 million to deliver ambitious or disruptive R&D innovations that can make a
significant impact on the UK economy

Welcome
https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/innovate-uk

Introduction to Horizon 2020
Robotics and AI Funding Opportunities
Dr Stafford Lloyd
Horizon 2020 National Contact Point
ICT & Future and Emerging Technologies
ncp-ict-fet@innovateuk.ukri.org
@UKH2020_ICT
12th November 2019

Innovate UK drives productivity and
economic growth by supporting
businesses to develop new ideas.
We connect businesses to the people
that can help them, and fund businesses
and research collaborations in all
economic sectors, value chains and
UK regions to accelerate innovation.
Innovate UK

Who am I and what do I do?
- Network of National Contact Points (NCPs) is the main structure to provide guidance, practical
information and assistance on all aspects of participation in Horizon 2020.
20% 80% NCP-rules@innovateuk.ukri.org

What is Horizon 2020?
- EUR 80 billion available 2014-2020 – it’s large scale CR&D

Horizon 2020 participation and Brexit
- Whatever happens we can PARTICIPATE and GET FUNDING
- If developing a proposal:
- Make sure basic eligibility criteria are still met if the UK isn’t a member state/associated country
- Ensure you write a good proposal, from the perspective of the EC – deliver impact in Europe!

Withdrawal agreement
- UK-based individuals and organisations would remain eligible to bid for funding, participate
in and lead consortia including calls in 2019 and 2020 on the same basis as now
- If an agreement is reached, projects approved during this period will be able to continue
with an uninterrupted flow of EU funding
- But, what about no-deal?
‘Following withdrawal from the Union, the UK will continue to participate in the Union
programmes financed by the MFF 2014-2020 until their closure.’

If there’s a no-deal Brexit
- Free to participate as a non-EU country, a ‘third country’ across most of Horizon 2020
- Can continue to coordinate projects and distribute EU funds
- Not automatically eligible for EU funding
- Unless essential for action
- Or provision made in work programme/call
- Some obligations under the GA will no longer apply
- UK not eligible for some actions:
- Mono-beneficiary - ERC, MSCA
- Some Space and Security projects
- Some multi-beneficiary – FTI, SMEi
- For most ongoing projects and new projects, funding will be replaced by the Treasury underwrite
guarantee.

Underwrite guarantee and guarantee extension
- The UK Government has committed to underwrite Horizon 2020 funding for all successful UK bids
submitted before exit, even if they are notified of their success after exit, for the lifetime of the
projects
- UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) will also manage the independent assessment of UK
applications to ERC, MSCA and SMEi grants that have been submitted before Brexit, if they are
not assessed by the European Commission.
- This will support UK participants to continue to take part in Horizon 2020 projects in no deal
scenario, subject to continued eligibility.
• Guarantees EU Funding for UK researchers beyond the date the UK leaves
the EU
• Through the extension to the guarantee, the government has committed to
fund UK participants’ funding in all Horizon 2020 calls open to third country
participants from the date of exit.
HMT Underwrite Guarantee

No deal scenario – ongoing projects
- Project delivery should continue as per the grant agreement
- Participation as a third country entity
- UK coordinators will remain eligible to coordinate and manage EU funds
- Funded by EU to end… ‘January’, UK underwrite thereafter
- If the project has the minimum number of participants and UK status means the project is
ineligible – it may be terminated
- Won’t happen automatically
- If viable as a standalone project, the underwrite will still apply
- If non-viable – funding will be available to cover the costs associated with project closure
- If the call is only open to EU and Associated countries – the grant may be terminated by the EU
- The underwrite will apply as above – viable/non-viable.

No deal scenario – new bids submitted before
exit
- Proposals will be assessed by EU if the action is open to third countries
- If successful, you will participate as a third country but with UK funding from the start of the
project
- Nature of the grant agreement will change.
- Calls not open to third countries:
- May not be evaluated
- You will be able to re-submit to UKRI for independent assessment
- If successful, you will receive Government ‘in-flight’ funding for the lifetime of the project
- The grant agreement will be with UKRI under standard UK T&Cs.

No deal scenario – applying after exit
- Most calls will be open to third country participation – but check
- The project will continue to have an EU grant agreement but with funding via UK extended
underwrite
- Application process largely the same – just enter ‘zero’ under ‘EC budget requested’ column!
- But, UK not eligible for some actions:
- Some monobeneficiary – in ERC, MSCA
- Some Space and Security projects
- Some multi-beneficiary – EIC Accelerator (formerly SMEi).

Delivery of UK funding (no deal)
- The Treasury guarantee will be delivered by UK Research and Innovation
- Grant holders who have registered on the UKRI portal will be contacted to set out the steps to
access guarantee funding
- UKRI will require evidence of your grant or grant offer, i.e.:
- Proof of grant
- Proof of grant amount
- Proof of any payments already received
- Any financial statements submitted since last payment
- Proof of project costs incurred since last payment
- Information on types of acceptable evidence is available on the UKRI website
- Do NOT submit documents until requested by UKRI.

Delivery of UK funding (no deal) – ‘onboarding’
- Once documents are submitted, your grant will be ‘onboarded’ to existing UKRI grant
management systems
- Je-S for academia, quarterly payments
- IFS for industry, payments on a claims basis, in arrears
- You will sign a contract with UKRI - in most cases this will be alongside your existing EU grant
agreement
- Guarantee payments will be in pounds Sterling (£)
- For ‘In-flight’ projects (those independently assessed by UKRI) – there will be a single grant
agreement with under UKRI T&Cs.

What happens on the EU side? (No deal)
- In theory, TBC…
- Amendment to project grant agreement
- Triggered by Commission
- Introduce article-9 (implementation of action tasks by beneficiaries not receiving EU funding)
- Amend maximum project grant amount
- Interim/break report (technical and financial) to ‘January’…
- Agree financial balance – payment or recovery from UK participant
- UK partner still a signatory to the GA and bound by most obligations
- Some projects that fail to maintain eligibility may be terminated

Underwrite portal and guidance
- The portal is designed to ensure that UKRI has the information about projects and participants in
order to underwrite guarantee payments if required
- The website is for UK participants who are in receipt of Horizon 2020 funding (including EDCTP2,
EMPIR, EIT-KICs). It is also for Euratom R&T and ongoing Framework Programme 7 projects
- Register your project on the portal at:
- https://apply-for-innovation-funding.service.gov.uk/eu-grant/overview
- Stay up to date:
- UK participation in Horizon 2020 after Brexit (October 9th)
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/uk-participation-in-horizon-2020-uk-
government-overview/uk-participation-in-horizon-2020-after-brexit
- UKRI & EU Exit - underwrite
- https://www.ukri.org/research/international/ukri-eu-exit/

Get more help
- No-deal guidance assumes no accommodations from EU
- We understand it’s difficult…
Stephen Alexander
National Contact Point for Legal and Financial
NCP-RULES@innovateuk.ukri.org
07771 722217

The “way in” – Funding and Tenders Portal
FIND
a call
FIND
partners
SUBMIT
proposal
DELIVER
project
Today’s event – competition
briefing

4 Priority Areas, 4 core technologies
- Priority application areas:
- Infrastructure inspection and maintenance
- Health
- Agri-food
- Agile production
- Core technologies:
- Cognitive mechatronics
- AI and cognition
- Human-robot interaction
- Model based design

EC’s strategy in a picture – 2018-2020

Robotics and AI actions in 2020
Available EC budget €155 million split between 3 calls:
- ICT-46-2020: Robotics in applications areas and coordination and support
- ICT-47-2020: Research and innovation boosting promising robotics applications
- DT-ICT-12-2020: AI for the smart hospital of the future
- Represents the large scale pilot in Health
- ICT-37-2020: Advancing Photonics Technologies
- All calls open 19th November 2019 and close 22nd April 2020
- The work programme is the sole authoritative text!
- The following is a summary, contact me for more information and support…

ICT-46-2020: Robotics in application areas and
coordination and support
- New robotics application areas come with new challenges (technical and non-technical) – this
topics aims to address these in an open and modular way, promoting uptake in PAAs
- Strong focus autonomous capability (as CTs imply)
- Must address: user needs, safety, ethical, gender, legal, societal and economic aspects
- May address where necessary: privacy and cybersecurity issues, including security by design
and data integrity
- 3 separate call areas:
- Research and innovation in core technologies
- Large scale pilots in agri-food and agile production
- Coordination action focused on knowledge transfer in the robotics community

ICT-46-2020
Research and innovation in core technologies: Increased autonomy
- Research and innovation actions (TRL3-5 – applied research, demo in a lab/simulated
environment)
- AI and Cognition
- Cognitive Mechatronics
- Socially cooperative human-robot interaction
- Model-based design and configuration tools
- Develop core modules/toolkits for application in prioritised application areas
- Link to Robotics DIHs networks funded in 2018 call
- Address 1 Core technology
- Min. 1 action in each core technology to be funded
- Budget: 6-7M€/action – TOTAL: 41.5M€ (6 projects)

ICT-46-2020
Research and innovation in core technologies, expected impacts:
- Improved technical capability in each of the core technologies over the current state of the art
- A greater range of applications in the prioritised application areas that can be demonstrated at
TRL 3 and above
- The lowering of technical barriers within the prioritised applications areas.
- Extra guidance:
- Need to make sure there is step change novelty not incremental advance
- TRL levels are accurately accounted and evidenced
- Awareness of the real world impact of the technical advance
- Scalability
- Focus on technology improvement over integration.

ICT-46-2020
Large scale pilots
- Agri-Food, from farming to processing and distribution, or
- Agile production (operate quickly and adaptively in dynamic manufacturing environments)
- Starting from suitable reference architectures, platform interfaces are defined, tested via piloting,
and supported via ecosystem building preparing their roll-out, and are being evolved over time
into standards
- Link to other sources of funding and infrastructure – sustainability
- Build ecosystems involving all relevant stakeholders
- Performance targets and evaluation
- Access to pilot – link to DIHs
- Address technical and non-technical issues (e.g. new business models)
- Budget: 6-7M€/action – TOTAL: 41.5M€ (6 projects, 3 per area)

ICT-46-2020
- Large scale pilots, expected impacts:
- Demonstration of the potential for robotics to impact at scale in the chosen application areas
prioritised in this call
- Reduction of technical and commercial risk in the deployment of services based on robotic
actors within the selected application area
- Greater understanding from application stakeholders of the potential for deploying robotics
- Demonstration of platforms operating over extended time periods in near realistic
environments and promotion of their use
- Develop the eco-system around the prioritised application areas to stimulate deployment
- Contribution to the development of open, industry-led or de facto standards.
- Extra info:
- Understanding of the industrial purpose of demonstrators and pilots
- Sufficient capacity in the consortium to both construct, deploy and disseminate the pilot
- Particularly to have a realistic chance of exploring actual use cases and developing novel
insights into business models and economic returns through the running of the pilot.

ICT-46-2020
Coordination and support action:
- Awareness and knowledge transfer
- High-level stakeholder forum with communication strategy
- Legal and societal issues
- Share best practice
- Advice on: socio-economic, cyber-security, data protection, ethical and privacy issues public
understanding /awareness activities
- Budget: 3M€ (1 project), expected impacts:
- Effective dissemination of knowledge surrounding non-technical aspects of robot
deployment
- Greater awareness of robotics among key stakeholders and policy makers
- Improved understanding of legal, socio-economic and ethical issues and their impact on
robotics deployment.

ICT-47-2020: Research boosting promising
robotics applications
- Challenge is focused on Physical Intelligence (delivering impact from AI through robotics), e.g.
object manipulation
- Applications with high socio-economic impact and low environmental footprint – open to
any application area
- Demonstrate the potential for take-up in the selected application(s).
- Expected impact:
- Strengthening European excellence in Robotics S&T
- Boosting the use of robotics in promising application areas
- Opening up new markets for robotics
- Lowering barriers in the deployment of robotics-based solutions.
- 2-3M€ per project (6-7 projects likely to be funded)

ICT-47-2020
Proposals are expected to:
- Deliver integrated TRL 4 demonstrations (validated in a lab) that show step change
performance improvement over the current state of the art:
- Micro- or millimetre scale robots
- Novel materials for service robotics
- Beyond human manipulation of objects
- Non-visual sensing novel for service robotics
- Intrinsically safe physical powerful robotic systems
- Variable/shared autonomy systems.
- Enable substantially improved solutions to challenging technical issues, with a view of take-up in
applications with high socio-economic impact and low environmental footprint
- Draw from, and demonstrate the capability to address, real end user needs, respecting ethical,
legal and social aspects
- Plan efforts to connect and cooperate with the DIHs, Platforms and other relevant activities of
this work programme.

ICT-47-2020
Extra guidance:
- Unique solutions that may cross technology discipline boundaries
- Balance of technology capability and application awareness
- Clear plan to construct application relevant demonstrators
- Plan for engagement with DIHs and other platforms
- Involvement of relevant technical competences.
- Don’t want:
- Focus on integration rather than technology improvements
- Proposals that only address incremental improvements in existing technologies
- Developments that only address the niche needs of just one small or narrow market
- Proposals that fail to identify the potential for application impact.

DT-ICT-12-2020: AI for the smart hospital of the
future
- Large scale pilot for health application area (innovation action)
- Innovative AI based systems (robotics, big data, machine learning, autonomous systems,
conversational agents, etc.)
- Demonstrated through in facility pilots.
- Expected impact:
- European-led AI based pilots for the smart hospital of the future, enabled by open system
platforms
- Effectiveness of AI based technologies, such as smart robots, in a range of healthcare tasks,
developing deployable applications
- Engagement of healthcare policy makers, investors, stakeholders
- Reaching a high leveraging effect on other sources of funding, in particular regional and
national funding
- Trust and acceptance building in the AI technology among all stakeholders (including
patients, their formal and informal caregivers, decision makers, etc.)
- 7-10M€ per project (4 projects likely to be funded)

DT-ICT-12-2020 – Scope
- Address any aspect of health facility operations across their range of functions, such as
diagnostics, treatments, logistics
- Enable or support clinical, diagnosis and treatment, etc. carried out with clinical outcomes
comparable to human delivered procedures and with comparable results
- Proposals should contain an outline business case and industrial exploitation strategy; need to
define clear business models and justify how the results support those business models
- Demonstrate both digital (data analytics) and physical based innovation and their integration
- Integrate health and care partners, with access to the relevant operational environment
- Link to DIH in robotics healthcare – may also consider the use of cascade funding
- Demonstrate likely “at scale” benefits in efficiency or cost reduction
- Identify opportunities for the development of European standards that enable wide spread
adoption and new market creation
- Address cybersecurity and ethical issues.

DT-ICT-12-2020 – Platforms and Pilots preamble
Proposals need to address all of the following four activities (applying to all ‘Platforms and Pilot
projects’):
- Platform building:
- Proposals need to develop next-generation digital platforms, which build on the state-of-the-
art, reuse what is available, and integrate different technologies, such as IoT, AI, robotics,
cloud and Big Data
- Large-scale piloting:
- Pilots are set up that make use of the digital platforms, develop prototype applications on
top of the platforms, and validate the platforms in both reduced, controlled environments
and in real-life use cases
- Ecosystem building:
- Including involving new stakeholders
- Standardisation:
- Contributions should be made to suitable standardisation bodies or pre-normative activities.

DT-ICT-12-2020 – don’t want
- Don’t rebuild the wheel! Pilots may adapt platforms to specific application needs and validate
their relevance for such needs, in order to foster take-up and large scale deployment
- Focus on one area of medicine with narrow impact
- Solutions that do not scale or are fundamentally incompatible with existing healthcare
infrastructures
- Purely technology based proposals that do not consider the real deployment of systems in the
context of a working healthcare environment
- Purely academic consortium, disconnected from industrial needs
- Proposals not describing with clarity and substantiation what should be deployed, scaled-up or
demonstrated, how (methodology and work plan), by whom (Consortium), etc.
- Closed proprietary systems or those that fail to properly address wider issues (privacy, security,
ethics.

DT-ICT-12-2020 – extra guidance
- Credibility of the approach to maximize the impact (clear objectives with KPIs, convincing
approach)
- Maximise deployment of AI-based solutions and visibility of benefit AI can bring
- Good balance between technical and medical aspects
- Good understanding of the unique challenges that healthcare innovation presents
- Address multiple aspects of healthcare within the pilot
- Have clear outreach activities to both citizens and clinicians.
- Some ongoing projects:
- https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/content/benefiting-personalised-care
- Policy documents:
- https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/european-policy-ehealth
- Connect with the hubs!

Call is split in to 4 distinct areas:
- Research and innovation actions (TRL 3-5), €3 to 5M, 6+ projects likely to be funded (€29M
budget):
i. Flexible farm-to-fork sensing
ii. Novel Photonics Integrated Circuit (PIC) Technology building blocks
- Innovation actions (TRL 5-7), €4 to 7M, 2-3 projects likely to be funded (€15M budget):
iii. Smart photonic sensing for environmental pollution detection
- Coordination and support action, one project to be funded (€4M)
iv. An industrial strategy for photonics in Europe
ICT-37-2020: Advancing photonics
technologies

ICT-37-2020 i: Flexible farm-to-fork sensing
- Innovative photonic sensing solutions can contribute to reducing food production losses and food
wastes and to increasing food safety for the end consumer along the food production chain
- Develop a smart photonic sensor solution, utilizing an appropriate bandwidth between the
ultraviolet (UV) and the far infrared spectral range, for monitoring food quality with respect to
microbiological and chemical contamination along the farm-to-fork food production chain.
- Solution should combine photonic sensing technology with advanced data analysis techniques
and be portable, easy-to-use, flexible, and broadly adaptable for usage on farms, in food
processing, wholesale and retail
- Actions should focus on the following areas: (1) Food production by small/medium sized farms;
(2) novel types of food production, such as aquaponics; (3) on-site food processing and vending
- Actions should be demonstrated in real settings involving relevant stakeholders
- Expected impacts:
- Increase food yield, quality and safety, and reduce food waste
- Strengthen small/medium-scale farming and local or novel ways of food production and
processing.

Robotics Digital Innovation Hubs (DIH)
Twente Wageningen CEA
(France)
VTT
(Finland)
Tampere
(Finland)
Thales
(France)

More robotics!
- Opportunities in space, manufacturing, health, more…
- https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/topic-
search;freeTextSearchKeyword=robotics

Cascade funding
- Basically calls within projects
- Much lighter touch (~10 page application)
- Quick turnaround (couple of weeks)
- Calls can be found through the funding and tenders portal:
- https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-
tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/competitive-calls
- Will be covered by underwrite if application is submitted before ‘January’ – potentially more
complicated afterwards.
RIMA 1st Open call
Up to €300k
19 December 2019 deadline
https://rimanetwork.eu/open-call-2

Finding partners - https://www.ideal-ist.eu/
Enterprise Europe Network
Stakeholder groups:
- EU Robotics
- Digital Innovation Hubs
Events:
https://ec.europa.eu/digital-
single-market/en/newsroom-
agenda/event
F&T Portal

Events
- https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/events/cf/digital-excellence-forum-ict-proposers-day-
2019/item-display.cfm?id=23608
- Brussels brokerage event, 26th November: https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-
market/en/news/h2020-upcoming-calls-robotics-and-ai-information-and-brokerage-day

Thank you
ncp-ict-fet@innovateuk.ukri.org
@UKH2020_ICT

Introduction to RODIN and the Robotics Digital
Innovation Hub Networks
Geoff Pegman
Managing Director R U Robots Limited
12th November 2019, London

Overview
• Why am I here
• Gratuitous definitions on robotics and AI
• Definitions
• FSTP (Cascaded funding)
• The Robotics Digital Innovation Hub Networks
• Opportunities

Why Am I Here?
• Active in Robotics in EC
– Board member (and Treasurer) of euRobotics
– Recent member of CONNECT Advisory Forum
– Frequent participant in EC robotic projects reviews
• Core partner in ECHORD & ECHORD++
– Piloted many DIH concepts including cascading funding
• Core partner in RODIN
– Primary role is coordinating the 5 Robotics Digital Innovation Hub
Networks
– Should be almost invisible to the outside world
– Except as an information portal
• Core partner in ESMERA
– FSTP project

Robotics and AI
My View
AI Robotics

Robotics and AI
The EC View
AI
Robotics

Definitions
• Competence Centre: Physical centre with technical
expertise in specific technical area
• Digital Innovation Hub: Centre with technical expertise
and additional financial and business expertise
• Digital Innovation Hub Network: A network of Digital
Innovation Hubs formed around a core application area
and aimed at extending the expertise available to the
individual geographic regions

Financial Support for Third
Parties (FSTP)
• Contracts awarded by H2020 projects to third parties
• SMEs are usually the key target (But see next slide)
• Application process is simpler and shorter
• No need for 3 country participation
– Core partners fulfil need
– Can work with local partners
• Typically short term projects
– 6 – 24 months
• Funding typically €100k - €300k

DIH Networks FSTP
• “SME or slightly bigger”

Robotics Digital Innovation Hub Networks

Robotics Digital Innovation Hub Networks
Each Network has €8m for infrastructure building
Each DIH Network has €8m to apply in FSTP funding in
support of SMEs (or slightly bigger)
€40m over 4 years
Cannot apply for the same project twice

DIH Network Current Opportunities
• Technology Demonstrators
– RIMA: 19th December 2019 (€100k – 6 months)
– DIH-HERO 31st December 2019 (€100k – up to 9 months)
• Technology Transfer Experiments
– RIMA: 19th December 2019 (€300k – 14 months)
– DIH-HERO 31st December 2019 (200k – up to 15 months)
– Trinity: End Feb 2020? (€300k)
• Mini-Grants / Grants
– DIH2: 1st Stage Applications 31st October 2019
(Consortia event)
– DIH2: 2nd Stage Applications 27th February 2020 (€3.5k)
- 26 selected for €248k
• Travel Grants
– DIH Hero: 15th December 2019 (€2,000)

ESMERA Opportunities
• End user sponsored challenges
• 2nd call open
• Pre-proposal screening now closed
• Max €200k funding in 2 phases
• 8 Challenge areas:
– Energy; Agriculture; Food processing; Construction; Retail;
Emergency response; Healthcare; Manufacturing
• Bring your own challenge
• Submission deadline: 2nd December 2019

Horizon 2020 Robotics
Information and Brokerage Event
David Bisset
iTechnic Ltd
Date 12th Nov 2019

SPARC – the Public-Private
Partnership
2
• SPARC: The largest civilian robotics
R&D&I program
• €0.7bn funding from the EU 2014–2020
• €2.1bn from the private/industrial side
SRA = Strategic Research Agenda
ENDS 2020Work
Programme

New Framework….
Date Name - Event Page 3
R&D&I Programme
(DG-RTD)
Digitisation Support
(DG-CNECT)

Horizon Europe: Preliminary structure
Widening Participation and Strengthening the European Research Area
Reforming and Enhancing the European R&I systemWidening participation and spreading excellence
Pillar 1
Excellent Science
European Research Council
Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Actions
Research Infrastructures
Pillar 3
Innovative Europe
European Innovation Council
European innovation
ecosystems
European Institute of
Innovation
and Technology
Pillar 2
Global Challenges and
European Industrial
Competitiveness
• Health
• Culture, Creativity and
Inclusive Society
• Civil Security for Society
• Digital, Industry and Space
• Climate, Energy and Mobility
• Food, Bioeconomy, Natural
Resources, Agriculture and
Environment
Joint Research Centre
Clusters

Date Name - Event Page 5May 2019 │ Version 25
Pillar 2 - Clusters
Global Challenges & European Industrial
Competitiveness: boosting key technologies and
solutions underpinning EU policies & Sustainable
Development Goals
Commission proposal for budget: € 52.7 billion
Digital,
Industry &
Space
Culture,
Creativity
and
Inclusive
Societies
Civil
Security
for Society
Health
Food,
Bioeconomy,
Natural
Resources,
Agriculture
&
Environment
Climate,
Energy
and
Mobility

Partnerships and Missions (HE)
• Partnerships
• combine and coordinate a broad range of research and
innovation activities
• to address common priorities jointly with
• Member States,
• the private sector,
• foundations and
• other stakeholders.
• Missions will spark and steer research and innovation
activities to achieve targeted, ambitious and measurable
goals which speak to citizens,
• engaging with and leveraging policies and actors well
beyond research and innovation.

AI
Robotics
AI (Macro) Definition
Motion with
Intelligence
8
IoT
Big
Data
A Political and strategic perspective:
“AI” encompasses all Smart Technology
“AI” is more than the toolbox of methods
It is about the impact on productivity and
society.
There is a European vision for AI
Robotics is a big part of that vision.

Partnerships…
New approach to European Partnerships
Co-programmed
Based on Memoranda
of Understanding /
contractual
arrangements;
implemented
independently by the
partners and by
Horizon Europe
Co-funded
Based on a joint
programme agreed
and implemented by
partners; commitment
of partners for financial
and in-kind
contributions
Institutionalised
Based on long-term
dimension and need
for high integration;
partnerships based on
Articles 185 / 187 of
TFEU and the EIT-
Regulation supported
by Horizon Europe
New generation of objective-driven and more ambitious partnerships in
support of agreed EU policy objectives
Key features
Simple architecture and toolbox
Coherent life-cycle approach
Strategic orientation

euRobotics + BDVA
Data, Robotics
and AI
Partnership
proposal

Adoption challenges:
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Standards Testing
Research Landscape
EU public-private investment
environment
Complexity of AI in Industry
and Public domain
Complex
Technological Barriers
Access to AI / Data
Infrastructure
Digital Single Market
Societal Trust in AI
AI Policy and Regulation
Skills and Know-How
AI Research
communities and
initiatives
Horizonal cooperation with
other technical PPPs

AI PPP
WA2:
Skills &
Acceptance
Build a strong AI Skill Pipeline
Understand requirement
Promote career path
Engage with Citizens
Promote Diversity
WA3:
Innovation &
Market
Enablers
Stimulate industrial investments
Aligning with end users Monitor
Innovation
Promote experimentation
Connect to infrastructure
Connect to finance
WA4:
Guiding
Standards &
Regulation
Build trust in AI and create a level
market
Promote standards
Engage with regulators
Promote sandboxes
Promote guidelines
Communicate with policymakers
WA5:
Promoting
Research
Excellence
Boost Academia-Industry
collaborations
Jointly Implement the SRIDA
Promote Collaboration
Promote Excellence
Align Industry & Research
WA1:
Mobilising
the
European
Ecosystem
Join Forces
Research Communities
Horizontal Partnerships
Vertical Partnerships
European Initiatives

SRIDA
https://www.eu-robotics.net/
January / February
New Version…
And Road-mapping
Drives orientation for the
Horizon Europe Work Programme

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Helping ambitious SMEs
innovate and grow internationally

A broad range of services for growth-oriented SMEs

The Network's business database contains thousands of company profiles to find the
perfect match:
How it works: international partnerships

In addition: international partnerships

How it works: advisory support

How it works: innovation support

How it works: access to funding

EEN achievements 2015-2018
(England, Northern Ireland & Wales)

Giulia Simonelli
Giulia.simonelli@newable.co.uk
enterprise-europe.co.uk
THANK YOU!

Collaboration Support
Landscape
Viola Hay
Knowledge Transfer Manager – European Programmes

Knowledge Transfer Network
Who we are
- Not-for-profit SME, Innovate UK’s networking partner
- We help businesses get the best out of creativity, ideas and the
latest discoveries, to strengthen the UK economy and improve
people’s lives
- From agri-food to autonomous systems and from energy to design,
KTN combines in-depth knowledge in all sectors with the ability to
cross boundaries – 120+ sector experts

Events
SpecialInterest
Groups
Organisations
Individuals
KTN NETWORK
KTN OUTPUT
New
CollaborationsB2B&B2R
Introductions
SectorExperts
KTN STAFF
Chemistry & IB
Materials
Agri-Food
Health
Emerging Tech
Enabling Tech
Creative & Digital
Infrastructure
Transport
Complex Systems
SECTORS PROGRAMMES
Projects
e.g. Global Expert Missions, EUREKA, SBRI, Newton Fund, i3P, EU Projects, Industrial
Strategy Challenge Fund Deep Dives, Research Clubs, Landscape Mapping, KTN Africa,
Global Challenge Research Fund Demonstrate Impact
Manufacturing
European Programmes
International
Diversity
Design & Innovation
Access to Funding & Finance
Knowledge Transfer Partnerships
Special Interest Groups
KTN for Economic Growth
KTN’s Innovation Network connects:
• Businesses, Research, Entrepreneurs, Investors & Policy
• Technologies, Inventions and Creativity

Connecting people
to drive innovation
— Find expertise
— Find markets
— Find finance

Support for European Programmes
by
•Working with NCPs and the EEN within the UK to optimise support to UK
companies
•Building on links with the European Commission, European Technology
Platforms (e.g. SusChem) and PPPs (e.g. BBI, SPIRE)
•Participate in projects where they support the KTN purpose and strategy
(eg Co-ordination & Support Actions)
•Identifying opportunities for collaborations across sectors and along value chains
Support UK based businesses in engaging with Europe and H2020
Influence the funding priorities within H2020

Support for European Programmes
For UK companies, we complement the National Contact Points and the EEN by
providing support in:
‒ Consortium building in selected topics
‒ Providing sector specific advice –good understanding of business needs across all
sectors;
‒ Advice on market opportunities and project impact
‒ Advice on the implications of being part of a Horizon 2020 project – we do it!

Travel support to attend European Brokerage Events
Background:
Innovate UK and the Knowledge Transfer Network are offering UK-based R&D
performing SMEs the opportunity to receive a contribution of up to £500 towards travel and
accommodation costs to attend one of the following international brokerage events.
H2020 upcoming calls on Robotics and AI: Information and Brokerage day, 26th November
2019, Brussels, Belgium. Register here. DEADLINE FOR REGISTRATIONS: 15 November 2019

Horizon 2020 Proposal Writing Workshops – Jan / Feb 2020
Aim of Workshop:
To give participants 'Hints and Tips’ for collaborative proposals to help those involved in
writing proposals (or sections of proposals) gain valuable extra marks. The course will be
delivered by experienced participants / evaluators in Horizon 2020.
Who should attend?
The workshop is aimed at improving proposals which are already under development, as
such, participants should have basic understanding of the requirements of a H2020 proposal.
The workshop is open to
i) UK companies
ii) RTOs and universities working in partnership with UK companies in a proposal.

KTN as a Partner
The KTN aims to participate in European projects that increase business collaboration,
facilitate exploitation, and increase business led R&D.
Anticipated roles within projects are:
• Finding partners and advance networking across sectors and value chains
• Mapping of capabilities
• Identification of mechanisms to exploit developed IP and developing the capabilities of
businesses to innovate.
• Dissemination & communication activities using our 60,000+ contacts
• Link to KTN organised events
• Two-way transfer of expertise between EU programmes and UK strategy and align to
business R&D to enhance exploitation opportunities

twitter:
email:
phone:
Viola Hay
KTM - European Programmes
viola.hay@ktn-uk.org
07964-565115
@KTNUK_EU; @viola_hay

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