1. Horizon 2020 ICT: Innovation-related
opportunities and practical aspects
Georgios I. Papadakis
H2020 National Contact Point – ICT & FET
‘H2020 ICT - Thematic Event on 5G R&I Opportunities’
Europe House, London - 12th July 2016
This slideset available from: www.ictic.org/ee.html

2. Post-referendum…

3. The ICT Opportunity 2016-2017

4. ICT in Industrial Leadership 2016-2017 M€
1. A new generation of components and systems
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- Cyber Physical Systems, TOLAE, Smart System Integration, Smart Anything Everywhere
2. Advanced Computing and Cloud Computing
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- Customised and low power computing systems, Cloud Computing
3. Future Internet
253.2- 5G PPP Topics: 5G Phase 2 and convergent technologies, Beyond 5G, Software
Technologies, Collective Awareness Platforms, Net Innovation Initiative, FIRE+
4. Content
351- Big-Data PPP Topics, Media and content, Tools and technology transfer for Creative
Industries, Learning and skills, User Interfaces, Gaming and gamification
5. Robotics and Autonomous Systems
157- Advanced Capabilities research and take-up, System abilities, Pilots, SME-based research
and benchmarks, Safety certification, Robots in smart cities, Competition
6. ICT Key Enabling Technologies
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- Micro/nano-electronics technologies, Photonics
Innovation and Entrepreneurship support
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- Startup Europe for Growth, Innovation Radar support, Innovation Procurement
Responsibility and Creativity
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- Linking SSH with ICT, Linking Technology & Creativity
International Cooperation Activities
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- China, Mexico, LAMICs
Call - EU-Japan Joint
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- 5G Networks, IoT/Cloud/Big Data platforms in social app contexts, Testbeds on ICN
Call - EU-Brazil Joint
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- Cloud Computing, IoT Pilots
Call - EU-South Korea Joint
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- 5G, IoT, Federated Cloud for mobile services

5. ICT Call Dates 2016-2017
Call Descriptor Open Close M€ Budget
ICT International 20-Oct-2015 19-Jan-2016 2.8
ICT Main 2016 20-Oct-2015 12-Apr-2016 460.7
ICT
Smart Anything
Everywhere Initiative,
5G, Media & Content
10-May-2016 08-Nov-2016 230.5
ICT Main 2017 08-Dec-2016 25-Apr-2017 374
Joint EUB Japan 20-Oct-2015 19-Jan-2016 7
Joint EUJ Brazil 08-Nov-2016 14-Mar-2017 7
Joint EUSK South Korea 20-Oct-2015 19-Jan-2016 6
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* ICT Work Programme 2016-17: http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/data/ref/h2020/wp/2016_2017/main/h2020-wp1617-leit-ict_en.pdf

6. Is that all for ICT?

7. ICT beyond LEIT-ICT…
Industrial Leadership
• Leadership in Enabling & Industrial Technologies (LEIT)
▫ ICT
▫ Nanotech., Materials, Manuf. & Processing
▫ Biotechnology
▫ Space
• Access to risk finance
• Innovation in SMEs (ODI under ICT)
Excellent Science
− Frontier research (ERC)
− Future and Emerging Technologies (FET)
− Skills and career development (Marie Skłodowska Curie)
− Research infrastructures (incl. e-infrastructures)
Societal Challenges
1. Health, demographic change and wellbeing
2. Food security, sustainable agriculture, bio-based economy
3. Secure, clean and efficient energy
4. Smart, green and integrated transport
5. Climate action, resource efficiency and raw materials
6. Inclusive, innovative and reflective societies
7. Secure Societies
ICT
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ICT
ICT
ICT
ICT
ICT
ICT
A guide to ICT-related activities in WP2016-17:
https://ec.europa.eu/programmes/horizon2020/sites/horizon2020/files/Guide%20to%20ICT-related%20activities%20in%20WP2016-17.pdf
Cross Cutting Activities (Focus Areas) 2016-17
- Industry 2020 in the Circular Economy
- Internet of Things
- Smart and Sustainable Cities
H2020 WP chapter 17
ICT
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Fast Track to Innovation Pilot 2015-16

8. Innovation-related Opportunities

9. FET Innovation Launchpad
[FETOPEN-04-2016-2017, CSA]
• Short and focused actions (18 months indicative, 100 k€ funding)
◦ Maximum 7 pages + 1 cover page
• Early innovation steps to improve market- and investor-readiness
• Based on results from an ongoing or recently finished FET project
◦ FET project funded under FP7 or H2020
◦ Recently finished: [call deadline – end date] ≤ 12 months
• No additional S&T research
• Actions not foreseen in the relevant FET project
• No direct link needed with original consortium
• Assurance of necessary IPRs & agreements to be stated in the proposal
• Single participant possible
* FET Work Programme 2016-17: http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/data/ref/h2020/wp/2016_2017/main/h2020-wp1617-fet_en.pdf

10. Fast Track To Innovation Pilot 2015-2016
Strong Industry involvement - Collaboration
Fast market take-up (≤ 3 years upon project start)
• Aims to:
– Reduce time from idea to market (‘last-push’)
– Increase industry participation, SMEs and first-time industrials
• Scope:
– Open to any thematic area(s) addressing Industrial Leadership and/or Societal Challenges
– Open to all types of participants: SMEs and first-time industry applicants particularly welcome
– Entry TRL ≥ 6 – activities can include piloting, test-beds, real-life systems validation, business
models validation, pre-normative research, standard-setting, ...
• Conditions for projects:
– Max. 5 legal entities and at least one of the following
• ≥ 60% of overall budget allocated industrials
• Min. no. of industrials: 2 out of 3/4 OR 3 out of 5
– Max. duration 36 months (expected 12-24)
– Max. EU contribution 3 M€ (expected 1-2 M€)
– Business plan is essential
FTIPilot-01-2016 (IA): http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/data/ref/h2020/wp/2016_2017/main/h2020-wp1617-fast-track_en.pdf

11. SME Instrument - ‘Open Disruptive Innovation’

12. UK National Contact Points for H2020
https://www.gov.uk/horizon-2020#additional-information
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13. ‘How to do it’?
for a single-stage collaborative proposal
under ICT

14. 2016 Generate a Consortium
2016 Agree a topic, an approach and a binding
2016 Register on Commission’s Portal
2016 Write and submit a proposal
2017 Get ready for results - Work on Consortium Agreement
2017 Start Project work, Receive Initial Payment
2018-2019 Complete deliverables, Be reviewed, …..
2020 Finish Project, Submit final report, get final payment
2021 Happy End
(for single-stage proposal of ~3 years)
How? …. ‘The Process’

15. Read the ‘Manual’ = Work Programme(s)

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Programmes
Read the ‘Manual’ = Work Programme(s)

17. Read the ‘Manual’ = Work Programme(s)

18. ‘The Process’
• Generate a Consortium
– At least 3 independent legal entities, each established in different MS/AC
– Additional conditions may be set out in the Work Programme
– Funding to:
o Legal entities established in MS or Associated Countries or Third Country
identified in the WP
 Entities created under Union law
 International European interest organisation
o Other entities may be funded if participation is
essential or foreseen in a bilateral agreement
• Think about
– Trust, compatibility, commitment
– Check them out!

19. • Leverage
e.g. UK Partner uses €400,000 resources gets 270,000 grant
Sees results of spend of >3,500,000
Leverage >25 times on own money
A Consortium
# Partner Country Profile EU Grant
1 IKERLAN SCL ES REC 1,030,000
2 UNIVERSITAET SIEGEN DE HES 548,000
3 OFFIS EV DE REC 750,000
4 CAF SIGNALLING S.L ES PRC 180,000
5 Fent Innovative Software Solutions SL ES PRC 262,000
6 SAAB AKTIEBOLAG SE PRC 180,000
7 KUNGLIGA TEKNISKA HOEGSKOLAN SE HES 396,000
8 IMPERAS SOFTWARE LIMITED UK PRC 270,000
3,616,000

20. How to find partners?

21. ICT Proposers’ Day 2016 - Prepare for Call(s) 2017
26-27 September 2016
Bratislava, Slovakia
ICT in LEIT and across H2020:
◦ Info & Networking sessions
◦ Meet the Commission
◦ Face2Face Brokerage
https://www.b2match.eu/ictproposersday2016
◦ Workshops
◦ …
#ICTpropday
@ICTproposerEU
Registration is open:
https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/ict-proposers-day-2016

22. LEIT-ICT WP: Public Private Partnerships (cPPPs)

23. http://www.ideal-ist.eu/
IDEAL-IST Project: NCP ICT Support Network

24. http://een.ec.europa.eu/
Find your local EEN:
http://een.ec.europa.eu/about/branches/united-kingdom
Enterprise Europe Network (EEN):
Partnering Opportunities Database

25. • Agree a topic an approach and a binding
- Identify the objective in The Workprogramme
- Agree an approach, an excellence and a goal
- Formalise mutual responsibility
- Begin to set up a Consortium Agreement
- Decide on IPR management
Annotated Model Grant Agreement [current version 2.1.1 of 1st July 2016]
http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/data/ref/h2020/grants_manual/amga/h2020-amga_en.pdf
European IPR Helpdesk - https://www.iprhelpdesk.eu
Consortium Agreement Templates, IP Training Support, …
Legal & Financial H2020 National Contact Point:
Stephen Alexander NCP-Rules@innovateuk.gov.uk
‘The Process’

26. Register on Commission’s Participant Portal
They will ask for financial details which may take you a few days to find!
How to register: http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/data/support/manual/urf.pdf
‘The Process’
• IF New to Portal THEN ‘Register’ for New User (ECAS) Account
• IF Account exists THEN ‘Login’ and complete the Beneficiary’s Registration Process
• On completion you will receive a 9-digit Participant Identification Code (PIC)

27. ‘The Process’
Set up, write, and submit a proposal
How to create and submit a proposal (NB: requires ECAS account on the Portal): https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/fpfis/wikis/display/ECResearchGMS/Introduction

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34. • Eligibility-Admissibility check
• Formal evaluation: Carried out by independent experts
Against three criteria - each scored out of 5 marks
(1) Excellence
(2) Impact
(3) Quality and efficiency of the Implementation
- Scored out of 5 for each criterion - Overall threshold 10
- Details, weightings and thresholds and tie-breaking laid down in WP
- Leading to a ranked list
See General Annexes: http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/data/ref/h2020/other/wp/2016-2017/annexes/h2020-wp1617-annex-ga_en.pdf
Grants Manual - Section on Submission and Evaluation of proposals:
http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/data/ref/h2020/grants_manual/pse/h2020-guide-pse_en.pdf
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Evaluation of proposals

35. • Clarity and pertinence of the objectives;
• Soundness of the concept, and credibility of the proposed
methodology;
• … beyond the state of the art,
• …. demonstrates innovation potential
ground-breaking objectives, novel concepts and approaches, new
products, services or business and organisational models
• Appropriate consideration of interdisciplinary approaches and,
where relevant, use of stakeholder knowledge
Evaluation of proposals Criterion 1: Excellence

36. • … project would contribute to each of the expected impacts in
the work programme under the relevant topic;
• Any substantial impacts not mentioned in the work programme,
- enhance innovation capacity, create new market opportunities, strengthen
competitiveness and growth of companies, address issues related to climate
change or the environment, or bring other important benefits for society;
• Quality of the proposed measures to:
- Exploit and disseminate the project results (including management of
IPR), and to manage research data where relevant
- Communicate the project activities to different target audiences
For Innovation Actions: Impact score x1.5 to get ranked list
Evaluation of proposals Criterion 2: Impact

37. • Quality and effectiveness of the work plan,
- including extent to which the resources assigned to work packages are in line with
their objectives and deliverables;
• Appropriateness of the management structures and procedures,
including risk and innovation management;
• Complementarity of the participants
- extent to which the consortium as whole brings together the necessary expertise;
• Appropriateness of the allocation of tasks,
- ensuring that all participants have a valid role and adequate resources in the
project to fulfil that role
Evaluation of proposals Criterion 3:
Quality and efficiency of the implementation

38. H2020 ICT Call 1 & 2 ‘results’
Apx. one in eight retained

39. ICT Calls 2014-2015 ‘results’
1646 submissions
1460 UK participations
1301 submissions
1306 UK participations

40. ICT Calls 2014-2015 ‘results’
1646 submissions
1460 UK participations
1301 submissions
1306 UK participations

41. Start early
Understand the Workprogramme
– Mind the existing H2020 projects portfolio relevant to the Topic(s) of interest
Understand the proposal environment
Listen to The Commission, talk to your Management, talk to your NCP
Meet your partners, communicate with them, share responsibility(ies)
Understand mutual benefits
Cope with the high workload
Don’t wait until the last minute to submit = Start early
Plan ‘b’??
Success

42. Quick way in for ICT and FET: The Driller

43. Sign-up to the ICT & FET news channel
http://tinyurl.com/Register-h2020uk

44. ICT & FET National Contact Point
Functional mailbox: NCP-ICT-FET@innovateuk.gov.uk
UK GOV H2020 Web-presence: http://tinyurl.com/H2020-InnovateUK
Georgios Papadakis
georgios.papadakis@innovateuk.gov.uk
Information Centre
www.ictic.org
This slideset available from: www.ictic.org/ee.html