FET Future Emerging Technologies

Work Programme 2016-2017

Torino, 8 June 2016

Isabella Tamagnini

Scientific Officer

Research Executive Agency

REA.A.5 – Fostering Novel Ideas: FET-Open

Content FET and H2020 FET-OPEN

• Research and Innovation-Actions (RIA) • Coordination and Support Actions (CSA) • Innovation Launchpad

Evaluation process in FET-OPEN

FET-PROACTIVE FET-FLAGSHIP

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A stronger, clearer focus

INDUSTRIAL

LEADERSHIP

€ 16,5 billion

SOCIETAL

CHALLANGES

€ 28,6 billion

EXCELLENT

SCIENCE

€ 24,2 billion

OTHER *

€ 6 billion

H2020 budget € 74,8 billion

*OTHER: • Spreading excellence & widening participation • Science with and for society • JRC • EIT

ERC 54%

FET 11%

MSCA 25%

Research infrastructures

10%

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- collaborative research

- extend Europe’s capacity for advanced and paradigm-changing innovation.

- foster scientific collaboration across disciplines on radically new, high-risk ideas

FET: Novel ideas for radically new technologies

€ 2.6 billion to initiate radically new lines of technologies

visionary thinking … but very concrete mission

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The power of FET complementary schemes

Individual research projects

FET-Open

Early Ideas

Critical mass making a case

FET Proactive

Exploration and

Incubation

Common research agenda

FET Flagships

Large-Scale

Partnering Initiatives

Exploring Developing Addressing

novel ideas topics & communities grand challenges

Roadmap based research Open, light and agile

FET: three complementary lines of action

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FET-Open 259,5M

FETOPEN-1-2016-2017 FET-Open RIA 84+84+84M

FETOPEN-2-2016 FET-Open CSA 3M

FETOPEN-3-2017 FET-Open CSA 1,5M

FETOPEN-4-2016-2017 FET Innovation Launchpad

3M

FET-Open calls in 2016-2017

Novel ideas for radically new technologies

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FET gatekeepers

Future and Emerging

Technologies

Interdisciplinary

Novelty

S&T breakthrough

Foundational

Long-term vision

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High-risk

FET-Open RIA: supporting early-stages of research to establish a new technological possibility.

Collaborative projects up to € 4 Mio funding (indicative)

Single step submission, '1+15' pages

Early stages of R&I on any new technological possibility

Scope defined by FET gatekeepers

Proposals evaluated and ranked in one single interdisciplinary

Panel

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FET-Open CSA topics: making Europe the best place in the word for collaborative R&I on FET

FET Exchange – networking in future and emerging R&I areas

FET Futures – looking for new topics and strategies

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FET-Open Innovation Launchpad: taking out from the lab a proof of concept originated from FET-funded projects.

Funding to verify and substantiate the innovation potential of ideas arising from FET funded projects

Coordination and Support Action

Single step submission, '1+7' pages, 2 deadlines

Activities that were not scheduled to be funded by the original FET project

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FET-Open evaluation process

Feedback in 5 months

Ethics screening/ assessment

Panel review Cross-reading

Quality check

Remote evaluations

Expert selection

Eligibility check

Applicant Research Executive Agency

Proposal submission

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Feedback in 5 months

Ethics screening/ assessment

Panel review Cross-reading

Quality check

Remote evaluations

Expert selection

Eligibility check

Applicant

Proposal submission

FET-Open: remote evaluation

• 4 remote evaluators per proposal

• Individual Evaluation Report (IER)

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Feedback in 5 months

Ethics screening/ assessment

Panel review Cross-reading

Quality check

Remote evaluations

Expert selection

Eligibility check

Applicant

Proposal submission

FET-Open: preparing the panel review

• Quality check of IER and iteration if necessary

• Collate IER, median score calculated

• Systematic cross reading of proposals

• Panel members briefed to carefully look at 'diverging' opinions

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Feedback in 5 months

Ethics screening/ assessment

Panel review Cross-reading

Quality check

Remote evaluations

Expert selection

Eligibility check

Applicant

Proposal submission

FET-Open: panel review, central meeting of cross-readers

• Detailed discussion of all 'highly scored' proposals (~1h per proposal)

• Special attention to 'diverging' opinions • Final score decision by consensus or vote if

necessary • Ranking list • Sorting out proposals with tie scores

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Feedback in 5 months

Ethics screening/ assessment

Panel review Cross-reading

Quality check

Remote evaluations

Expert selection

Eligibility check

Applicant

Proposal submission

FET-Open: Feedback to proposers

• Evaluation Summary Report (ESR): collation of all (4) evaluators' comments, per sub-criterion, which may be mutually contradicting - full transparency

• Panel can add comments

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H2020 FET-Open: evaluation outcome 2014-2015

(*) Three proposals on the reserve list

Call Topic Proposals

eligible

Above threshold

proposals

Grant requested

by above

threshold

proposals

Retained

proposals

Grant

requested by

retained

proposals

Success rate

RIA 2104 926 3 087 M€ 46 (*) 156,9 M€ 2,2%

CSA 59 36 19,4 M€ 9 5,2 M€ 15,2%

Total 2134 962 3106 M€ 55 (*) 162,1M€ 2,6%

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Evaluation outcome of Research & Innovation Actions (RIA)

1st cut-off 2nd cut-off 3d cut-off

RIA deadline

30/9/2014

deadline

31/3/2015

deadline

30/9/20151st ->2nd 2nd ->3rd 1st->3rd

Proposals submitted 643 669 804 2,4% 16,5% 19,3%

Proposals eligible 639 665 800 1,9% 17,0% 19,6%

Indicative budget 77 38,5 38,5 -50,0% 0,0% -50,0%

Budget of above threshold

proposals (M€)805 1079 1203 32,9% 11,0% 47,4%

Proposals above threshold 254 326 346 33,6% 6,1% 41,8%

Proposals retained 24 11 11 -54,2% 0,0% -54,2%

Success rate 3,8% 1,70% 1,40% -54,0% -17,7% -62,2%

Time-to-Inform (days) 150 131 149 -12,7% 13,7% -0,7%

Trend %

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Main disciplines of submitted proposals

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100

150

200

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300

350

1st cut-off 2nd cut-off 3rd cut-off

#PR

OP

OSA

LS

Chemistry (CHE)

Economic Sciences (ECO)

Information Science andEngineering (ENG)

Life Sciences (LIF)

Mathematics (MAT)

Physics (PHY)

Social Sciences andHumanities (SOC)

Environmental andGeosciences (ENV)

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Scientific disciplines of retained proposals

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FET-Open calls 2016-2017

Topic Budget 2016

(€ Million)

Budget 2017

(€ Million)

Deadlines Opening

FETOPEN-01-2016-2017 (RIA)

84.00 84.00 84.00

11 May 2016 17 Jan 2017 27 Sep 2017

8 Dec 2015

FETOPEN-02-2016 (CSA)

3.00 11 May 2016 8 Dec 2015

FETOPEN-03-2017 (CSA)

1.50 17 Jan 2017 20 Sep 2016

FETOPEN-04-2016-2017 (CSA – Innovation Launchpad)

1.20 1.80

29 Sep 2016 27 Sep 2017

1 Mar 2016

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Is FET-Open really the right scheme for you?

•FET is not ERC: collaboration, science and technology are all essential ingredients.

•It is not because something has not been done before that it is sufficiently novel for FET

•FET is not the long-term end of an established industry's road-map (radical novelty, interdisciplinarity,…)

•An exciting long-term vision is essential, but also a new and plausible idea on how to get there

•Writing a good FET-Open proposal is probably as hard as writing a good scientific publication.

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FET Proactive – calls in 2016-2017

FET-Proactive – boosting emerging technologies

95M

FETPROACT-01-2016 Emerging themes and communities 80M

FETPROACT-02-2017 FET ERANET Cofund 5M

FETPROACT-03-2016 FET ERANET Cofund on quantum technologies

10M

Boosting emerging technologies

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FET-Proactive: addressing promising directions on FET towards a European critical mass of knowledge and excellence.

Emerging themes and communities • Projects up to 4-10MEuro, up to 5 years addressing a single theme

• Single step submission

• 4 main themes divided into 10 sub-topics identified from on-line public consultation and other sources

• Optional use of cascade funding (e.g., for prize)

• design in WP2016-17 - more 'bottom-up' while still strategic

FET ERANET Cofund

FET ERANET Cofund on quantum technologies

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Future technologies for societal challenges

• Being human in a technological world

• New science for a globalised world

Biotech for better life

• Intra- and inter-cell bio-technologies

• Bio-electronic medicines and therapies

• Cognitive neuro-technologies

Disruptive information technologies

• New computing paradigms and their technologies

• Quantum engineering

• Hybrid opto-electro-mechanical devices at the nano-scale

New technologies for energy and functional materials

• Ecosystem engineering

• Complex bottom-up construction

20M max

20M max

30M max

30M max

Up to 80M max

FET-Proactive –emerging themes and communities: subtopics

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FET - Proactive calls 2016-2017

Topic Budget 2016

(€ Million)

Budget 2017

(€ Million)

Deadlines Opening

FETPROACT-01-2016 (RIA) 80.00

12 Apr 2016 8 Dec 2015

FETPROACT-02-2017 (ERA-NET-Cofund)

5.00 24 Jan 2017 20 Sep 2016

FETPROACT-03-2016 (ERA-NET-Cofund)

10.00 12 Apr 2016 8 Dec 2015

Total: 90.00 5.00

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FET Flagships address ambitious S&T challenges that require:

• Setting up large-scale partnerships that bring together the leading researchers from a large number of research organisations (academia and industry);

• Commitment to a strong science investment over a long time period that cannot be carried out alone by the Commission or any single Member State

FET Flagships

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Call - FET FLAGSHIPS – Tackling grand interdisciplinary science and technology challenges

FET Flagships are science-driven, large-scale, multidisciplinary research initiatives oriented towards a unifying goal, aiming at transformational impacts with substantial benefits for European competitiveness and for society.

• FETFLAG-01-2016: Partnering environment for FET flagships

• Pro-memori: FET Flagship Core Projects (within FPAs) funded under 'Other Actions'

FET-Flagships 185M

FETFLAG-01-2016 Partnering environment for FET Flagships

ERA-NET Cofund action (deadline 1 March 2016) 8M

Coordination and Support Action (deadline 1 March 2016) 1M

[2017] Pro memori: Core project funding (through 'Other Actions')

88+88M

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FET Flagship Partnering Projects

• The implementation model of the Flagships aims to link together and ensure coordination and synergy of all those research activities relevant for the Flagship that are funded by the Commission and the Member States.*

• Partnering Projects are projects supported by national/regional funding agencies and/or by private funding. They are addressing areas relevant for the Flagships and contribute to their objectives.**

*See http://ec.europa.eu/programmes/horizon2020/en/news/ fet-flagship-model-implementation-and-governance-model-horizon-2020-short-overview-presentation **See Staff Working Document: SWD(2014) 283 final of 16.09.2014

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What it takes to be successful

Understand the FET rules and respect them (read carefully the documentation https://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/opportunities/h2020/topics/2229-fetopen-01-2016-2017.html)

Keep in mind your audience and read carefully the evaluation criteria

Start working early

Consult the National Contact Point for advice

EXCELLENCE all around, be it content, form, or presentation

Thanks for your attention!

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Thanks for your attention! H2020 website:

http://ec.europa.eu/programmes/horizon2020/ Participant portal:

http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/opportunities/h2020/index.html

FET Work Programme 2016-2017 call text :

http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/data/ref/h2020/wp/2016_2017/main/h2020-wp1617-fet_en.pdf

Twitter: @FET_EU

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