Horizon 2020

Elisabetta Balzi

European Commission – DG RTD

Bioeconomy Directorate

Societal Challenge 2 Food security, sustainable agriculture

and forestry, marine, maritime and

inland water research and the

bioeconomy

Giornata Nazionale di Lancio dei Bandi 2018-20 in Horizon 2020 – SC2

Roma, 31/10/ 2017

Content

• Horizon 2020 Work Programme 2018-20

• Features and novelties

• Focus Areas

• Societal Challenge 2

• Policy context, rationale, features

• Calls 2018-2020

Sustainable Food Security

Blue Growth

Rural Renaissance

• Evaluation, tips and resources for applicants

This presentation does not engage the Commission, please refer to the official documents.

Horizon 2020

€ 30bninvestment

Horizon 2020After nearly 4 years of implementation

Interim Evaluation

An attractive, simplified and well-performing € 77 billion programme, but underfunded (12% success rate)

On track to deliver value for money and to meet its knowledge-creating objectives

Strong EU Added Value through unique opportunities, competition & access to new knowledge.

Participation (Oct. 2017)

15,000 grant agreements

with € 27 billion EU contribution

65,000 participations

Horizon 2020: Next 3 years of implementationWork Programme 2018-2020

Objectivesof Strategic

Programming

Provide for a coherent implementation of the Horizon 2020 objectives and the multiannual approach, taking account of the Interim Evaluation and first two work programmes (for 2014-15 and 2016-17)

Enhance relevance and impact by delivering against the EU policy priorities and the priorities 'Open Science - Open Innovation - Open to the World'

Prepare for a bridge in the last years of the programme to enable a smooth transition to the successor to Horizon 2020

Strategic Programming - Timeline

01-06/2016

• Foresight and stakeholder consultation (Advisory Groups)*

04-10/2016

• Consultation Member States

End 2016

• Strategic priorities(overarching document & 17 thematic scoping papers*)

12/2016-summer

2017

• Elaboration work programme & consultation Programme Committee

10/2017 • Adoption

*https://ec.europa.eu/programmes/horizon2020/en/what-work-programme

Work Programme 2018-2020

R & I investment of € 30 billion for 3 years

Addressing main concerns of citizenssuch as security, migration and economicsituation…

Focus on impact (fewer & broadertopics with sharpened impactstatements, better dissemination ofresults, open access to data…)

Piloting new initiatives and flexibilityfor 2020, with 'minimum' content ofcalls and other actions at this stage

Structure of € 30 billion R&I investment (2018-2020)

Main Horizon 2020

Work Programme(2018-2020)

European ResearchCouncil (2018-2020)

Euratom, including

Fusion (2018)

€ 6 billion

€ 260 million

€ 23.6 billion

Societal Challenge 2Food security, sustainableagriculture and forestry, marine, maritime and inlandwater research and the

bioeconomy – 1.3 bn

Focus Areas and other cross-cutting priorities

Further cross-cutting priorities

• Migration (€ 200M)

• Batteries (€ 100M + € 100M to come)

• Blue Growth, Cities ……

€ 7 billion for 4 mutually reinforcing focus areas

• aligned to political priorities

• expected to have exceptional impact

• implemented through 'virtual calls cutting across the programme (description in 'General Introduction', common call identifier of contributing calls and topics)

CircularEconomyCOP 21CircularEconomy

Digitisation Security

Focus Area 'Building a low-carbon, climate resilient future' (LC)

Contributing to implement the ParisAgreement:

• Accelerate transformation towards carbonneutrality through clean technologies

• Enhance climate resilience in Europe andbeyond

• Contribute to long-term mitigation andadaptation policy planning

Contributions from work programme parts Industrial Technologies; Space; Food security and Bioeconomy; Energy; Transport; Climate

€ 3.3 bn

Focus Area 'Connecting economic and environmental gains – the Circular Economy' (CE)

€ 940 m

Supporting the circular economy policy:

• Ensure that growth no longer requiresincreasing consumption of resources,energy, water and primary raw materials

• Reduce waste, including from plastics

• Create new business opportunities andsafeguard competitive advantages

Contributions from work programme parts Industrial Technologies; Food security and Bioeconomy; Energy; Climate

Focus Area 'Digitising and transforming European industry and services' (DT)

€ 1.7 bn

Enhancing the benefits from the Digital Single Market Strategy:

Foster uptake of digital technologies andinnovations & synergies with other keyenabling technologies through

• Cross-sectorial digital platforms andlarge scale pilots for co-creation with users(e.g. personalised health, ICT solutions foragriculture, automated driving, inclusivepublic services)

• Innovation hubs

Contributions from work programme parts ICT; Space; Industrial Technologies; Health; Food security and Bioeconomy; Energy; Transport; Societies

Focus Area 'Boosting the effectiveness of the Security Union' (SU)

€ 1 bn

Assisting to implement the Security Union:

• Provide innovative security solutions withinvolvement of security practitioners

• Build a secure digital economy andinfrastructures

• Understand phenomena such as violentradicalisation and develop effective policies

• React to and recover from natural and man-made disasters

Contributions from work programme parts ICT; Space; Health; Energy; Societies; Security

Excellent science

Over 3000 grants from the

European Research Council

(2018-2020: €6 billion)

Over 30 000 Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellows

(2018-2020: €2.9 billion)

Open to the World

Over €1 billion investment for 30 international flagship initiatives: with Canada on personalised medicine; with African countries on food security and renewable energies; with the US, Japan, South Korea, Singapore and Australia on road transport automation; with India on water challenges ....

Strong international component in the European Research Council (ERC) and Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions, e.g. ERC expected to fund 240 more non-EU/AC nationals as Principal Investigators

Open Innovation

EIC pilot (€2.7 billion)

Open innovation test beds (€ 200 million)

Ca. 30 topics of € 300 million budget in the Societal challenges pillar

Open Science

Over € 2 billion to support for Open Science

European Open Science Cloud and European Data Infrastructure (€ 600 million)

New: Open Research Europe platform for Horizon 2020 and successor framework publications

European Innovation Council (EIC) Pilot (1)

Objective: Strengthen breakthrough innovations and boost the number of high-growth companies

Focus on people and companies with ideas for :

• Radically new, breakthrough products, services, processes or business models

• That open up new markets with the potential for rapid European and global-scale growth (high risk, need for significant investment)

• Take shape at the intersection between different technologies, industry sectors and scientific disciplines

© European Union, 2017.

European Innovation Council (EIC) Pilot (2)

Brings together, adapts and aligns innovation schemes addressing different communities in a bottom-up approach:

• SME Instrument: close-to-market projects of single SME or a consortium of SMEs (new: non-thematic, focus on cross-disciplinarity, revised evaluation criteria; face-to-face interviews in Phase 2)

• Fast Track to Innovation (FTI): close-to-market projects of consortia with industry participation (new: revised evaluation criteria)

• FET Open: early stage research by consortia exploring novel ideas for radically new future technologies

• Six EIC Horizon Prizes for breakthrough innovations bringing major benefits to society

• Cross-cutting: coaching, mentoring (for SME beneficiaries), monitoring progress with innovation radar

Total Budget: € 2.7 billion

Horizon 2020

Societal Challenge 2

Three Calls

The policy context

• Global commitments • European policies

CAP & EIP-AGRI

Integrated Maritime and Common Fisheries

Policies

Climate & energy

Bioeconomy strategy Circular economy

Digital singlemarket

SC2 Work programme 2018-2020

• Challenges

• Climate adaptation and mitigation

• Food and nutrition security

• Safeguard the natural resource base

• Promote alternatives to fossil-based economies

• Sustainable use marine resources

SC2 focus:Sustainable management of land and waters to secure:

Healthy foodPublic goods delivery

Innovative food, marine and bioeconomy industriesDynamic rural areas

SC2 WP 2018-2020 What do we aim to achieve: three missions

Manage ourresources wiselyto nourish people

sustainably

Understand, preserve and

valorise oceans

Develop smarter, younger, greener,

circular rural economies

Three SC2 Calls

Sustainable food security

Blue GrowthRural

Renaissance

© Photographies Fotolia.com

CircularBioeconomyinvestmentplatform

Key impacts

•Dynamic & innovative food and farming sectors

•Resource & climate-smart eco-healthy food production and consumption

Sustainable Food Security

•Productive, healthy, resilient seas and oceans.

•Sustainable aquatic resources for food and bio-based value chains

•Strong blue economy

Blue Growth

•Sustainable growth based on circularity and connectedness

•Enhanced innovation systems

•Strong & attractive rural areas

Rural renaissance

•De-risking investments in innovative technologies fostering industrial, rural and coastal development

Circular bioeconomy investment platform

Topic distribution & budget distribution between calls

40

12

17

5

Topics - 2018-2020(SC2 calls and other activities)

SFS

BG

RUR

Other SC2activities

753

239

263

52

Budget - 2018-2020 (M€) - Total €1,3 Bn(SC2 calls and other activities)

SFS

BG

RUR

Other SC2activities

SFS

BG

RUR

Instruments: balancing close to market actions with investment in new knowledge

29

44

15

4 1

Number of actions by type of action

IA

RIA

CSA

ERANET

EJP

522

560

943440

Budget by type of action (M€)

IA

RIA

CSA

ERANET

EJP

INNOVATION ACTIONS

RESEARCH & INNOVATION ACTIONS

CO-ORDINATION & SUPPORT ACTIONS

INNOVATION ACTIONS

RESEARCH & INNOVATION ACTIONS

Societal Challenge 2 contributions to virtual focus areas

Building a low-carbon, climate resilient future

213 M€

Plants, proteins, climate-smart

farming, soils, foodsystems, marine resources, wood

value chains

Digitising and transforming

European industry and services

82 M€

Personalisednutrition, Blue and

food clouds, Aquaculture 4.0, Digital innovation

hubs

Connecting economic and

environmental gains – the Circular

Economy

123 M€

Urban foodsystems, biowastevalorisation, bio-

based plastics and fertilisers, bio-

based models for rural communities

Open innovation, open science, open to the world

• Open innovation

• €500 mio for multi-actor projects (interactive innovation linked to EIP-AGRI)

• Open science

• Research data sharing by default

• Open science clouds: Food cloud demonstrators (10M€) & Blue cloud services (6M€)

• Open to the world

• 89M€ on EU-AFRICA partnership on Food and Nutrition Security and Sustainable Agriculture (11 projects): food systems, sustainableintensification and income diversification

• 23M€ on EU-CHINA (5 projects): food safety, soil management and bio-based fertilisers

• 64M€ on "All Atlantic Ocean Research Alliance" (8 projects):coordination, marine ecosystems and new value chains

• PRIMA

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Cross-cutting approaches

• Blue Growth

• co-ordinated approach across all part of Horizon 2020 (BG call and topics flagging)

• A strong commitment to Responsible research and innovation

• 31 topics under multi-actor approach (500M€ - over 80 grants)

• 27 topics with strong public engagement requirement

• 2 topics with a gender dimension

• A wide space for Social sciences and humanities integration

• 55 topics flagged for SSH (75%)

• Key contributions to global goals (Rio-markers)

• Climate

• Sustainable development

• Biodiversity

The multi-actor approach under WP2018-2020Key points

• Adequate choice of actors with complementary knowledge

• Genuine & sufficient involvement of actors all along the project

• Produce practical knowledge easy accessible, understandable and applicable

• Dissemination at minimum through Agri EIP with practice abstract

Horizon 2020

Sustainable Food Security

1. Sustainable Food Security:

€ 753 million to use our resources more wisely and nourish people more sustainably

Produce more diverse and healthier food from well-managed functional ecosystems

Increase resource efficiency and environmental performance of food systems

Understand the impact of climate change and design adaptation strategies

Going global: 112 M€ for joint actions with Africa and China

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SFS structure736 M€

SustainableFood

Security

Fromfunctional

ecosystems to healthy food

Environment and climatesmart food production

and consumption

Targetedinternational cooperation

Building capacities

13 Topics – 235 M€

5 Topics – 107 M€ 6 Topics – 91 M€

7 Topics – 82 M€

Type of actions : RIA, IA, CSA, EJP, ERANET

Sustainable food security – 515M€ (2018-2019)

• Monitoring R&I investments

• GenRes & pre-breeding

• Plant-varietytesting

• Agri-Aqua labs

• Climate-smart farming

• Valorising urbanbiowaste

• Biodiversity in action

• Microbiome

• IPM

• Healthy beekeeping

• Animal welfare

• Anti-microbials and animal production

• Personnalisednutrition

• Plant breeding

• Healthy sust. food

Sustainable food security topics (2018)

From functionalecosystems to healthy food

Environment/ Climate-smart

Food production and consumption

Building capacities

• Microbiome coordination and IBF

• EU-Africa

Support FNSSA implementation

• EU-China

Soilsmanagement

Targeted international cooperation

10 topics – 143 M€ 2 topics – 27 M€ 4 topics – 36 M€ 3 topics – 13 M€

• Biodiversity in action: across farmland and value chain (RIA–30M€)

• Microbiome applications for sustainable food systems (IA–42M€)

• Integrated health approaches and alternatives to pesticide use (RIA-15M€)

• New and emerging risks in plant health (RIA-14M€)

• Stepping-up integrated pest management (RIA-5M€)

• Making european beekeeping healthy and sustainable (RIA-8M€)

• Improving animal welfare (RIA+IA –10+6M€)

• Antimicrobials in animal production (RIA–18M€)

• A vaccine against Africa swine fever (IA–10M€)

• Personnalised nutrition (IA–28M€)

• Future proofing our plants (CSA-3M€)

• Towards healthier and sustainable food (RIA-14M€)

• Alternative proteins for food and feed (IA-32M€)

From functional ecosystems to healthy food

13 topics – 281M€ (2018-2019)

• Climate-smart and resilient farming

• EJP on agricultural soil management

• Integrated water management in smallagricultural catchments

• Innovative and citizen-driven food system approaches in cities

• Integrated system innovation in valorising urbanbiowaste

Environment/ Climate-smart Food production and consumption

5 topics – 59 M€ (2018-2019)C: Fotolia # 63679374

• Food cloud demonstrators

• Monitoring food R&I investments and impacts

• Genetic resources and pre-breeding communities

• Innovations in plant variety testing

• Agri-aqua Labs

• ERANETs in agri-food

Building capacities

6 topics – 76 M€ (2018-2019)

• Supporting microbiome coordination and the International Bioeconomy Forum

• EU-Africa Partnership on FNSSA

• Support to implementation (CSA)

• Food systems Africa

• Sustainable intensification in Africa

• EU-China FAB Flagship initiative

• Integrated approaches to food safety controls across the foodchain

• Highly efficient management of soil quality and land resources

• High-quality organic fertilisers from biogas digestate

Targeted international cooperation

7 topics – 67 M€ (2018-2019)

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Horizon 2020

Blue Growh

Blue Growth

€ 239 million to sustainably harvest the potential of aquatic and marine

resources, while protecting biodiversity and enhancing climate resilience

Improve knowledge on impact of climate change on marine ecosystems and biological resources to effectively manage their

response, mitigation and resilience capacities

Preserve and sustainably exploit marine and coastal ecosystemsand biological resources to deliver improved nutrition and health

De-risk investments and boost blue innovations to develop new bio-

based marine value chains and open up new markets

Develop smart and connected territories between land and sea

Strengthen international cooperation, to promote a globally sustainable blue economy

• Multi-use of the marine space, offshore and near-shore: pilot demonstrators

• Sustainable European aquaculture 4.0: nutrition and breeding

• Sustainable harvesting of marine biological resources

• Coordination of marine and maritime research and innovation in the Black Sea

Blue Growth topics (2018-2019)

Climate-Ocean

Food and nutrition

De-risking Investments

• Sustainable solutions for bio-based plastics on land and sea

Land-Sea Connection

International cooperation

• All Atlantic Ocean Research Alliance Flagship

• The Future of Seas and Oceans

• Towards a Baltic and North Sea research and innovation programme

9 topics, 166.5 M€

• Blue Bioeconomy PPP

• Sustainable harvesting of marine biological resources (LC-BG-03-2018)

RIA, 12 m€ (2 x 6)

• Towards a Baltic and North Sea R&I programme (LC-BG-09-2019)

CSA, 2 M€

• Sustainable European aquaculture 4.0: breeding and feeding (DT-BG-04-2018-19)

IA, 24 m€ (4 x 6)

Food & nutrition

C: Fotolia # 63679374

Climate – Oceans

• Multi-use of the marine space, off shore and near shore : pilot demonstrators(BG-05-2019)

IA, 18 m€ (2 x 9)

• Sustainable solutions for bio-basedplastics on land and sea (CE-BG-06-2019)

IA, 18 m€ (2 x 9)

De-risking investments

Land and sea connection

• All Atlantic Ocean Research Alliance Flagship (BG-08-2018-19)

64 M€ in 2018-19

Co-ordinating Atlantic R&I CSA - 4 M€

Ecosystems assessment RIA - 9 m€ (x 3-4)

Aquaculture value chains RIA - 8 m€ (x 3-4)

• The Future of Seas and Oceans (BG-07-2019-20)

18 M€ in 2019

Blue Cloud IA, 6 M €

Observations and forecasting IA, 12 M €

Technologies (tbc 2020)

International co-operation

• Co-ordination of marine and maritime R&I in the Black Sea(BG-01-2018) CSA 2.5 M€

• Towards a Baltic and North Sea R&I programme(LC-BG-09-2019) CSA, 2 M€

• Co-ordination of marine and maritime R&I activities in the Atlantic Ocean (BG-08-2018 [A] CSA, 4 M€

• Blue Bioeconomy Public-Public-Partnership

(BG-02-2018) ERA-NET-Cofund, 8 m€

CSAs , ERA-NET

Blue Growth across Horizon 2020

A strategic coordinated approach for marine and maritime research

across all Horizon 2020 parts

Blue Growth

and otherSC2 calls

EXCELLENT

SCIENCE

INDUSTRIAL

LEADERSHIP

SOCIETAL

CHALLENGES

SC 3ENERGY

SC 5CLIMATE

…

SC 4TRANSPORT

Blue Growth related topics beyond SC2

INFRASTR

LEIT

SC5

SC4

SC3

SC2

BG

SC3Energy

SC4Transport

SC5Climate

• wave energy• offshore wind• renewable energy

technologies

• ships emissions• Unmanned & autonomous

activities • maritime transport safety

• recovery of sea resources• sea level changes• ice-core drilling

EXAMPLES

LEIT

Infrastructures

• SPACE – Copernicus Marine Services, ocean models

• NMBP: off-shore energy materials

• Research Vessels

Horizon 2020

Rural Renaissance

Rural renaissance: our territories€ 263 million for rural territories to become smarter, younger, greener more circular and better connected

Invest in businesses:

125 M€ for developing small scale refineries, boosting regional bioeconomy and innovative supply chains

Invest in people:

41 M€ to boost innovation, co-creation and exploitation of knowledge by improving skills and innovation systems

Invest in policies fit for the future:

60 M€ to modernize policies to favour generation renewal and greater resilience and public goods delivery

Go digital:

37 M€ to take make the promises of the digital revolution come true for farmers and rural people

Rural renaissance – 181M€ (2018-2019)

Rural renaissance

From farm to society:

understandingdynamics and modernising

policies

Organising sustainable foodand non food value chains

under changing conditions

Boostinginnovation

and enhancinghuman and

social capital

Takingadvantage of the digital revolution

4 Topics €60 mio

4 Topics - €57 mio 3 Topics - €37 moi(+ 1 topics under ICT call)

2 Topics - €27 mio

Type of actions : RIA, IA, CSA

• Digital innovation hubs for agriculture

• Preparing advisorsfor the digital age

• Digital solutions and e-tools to modernise the CAP

• Closing nutrient cycles:

Properties and impacts of biofertilisers

• Regional and local bio-based economies

• Modern policies from long-term visions & societal engagement: Science-policy-society

hub Generation renewal Mountain value chains

and climate change• Socio-economic impacts

of digitisation• Contracts for effective

agro-environmentdelivery inc:

Land tenureResult-based policiesCollective delivery

• Analytical tools and models New models for policy Modelling trade

Rural renaissance topics (2018)

Dynamics & policies

Food & non-food Value

chains

Taking advantage of

the digital revolution

4 topics – 60 M€ 2 topics – 9 M€ 3 topics – 37 M€

• Thematicnetworks compilingknowledge readyfor practice

• Fuelling the potential of advisors for innovation

Innovation and human

capital

2 topics – 12 M€

• Building modern rural policies on long-term visions and societal engagement (CSA+RIA – 17M€)

• Socio-economic impacts of digitisation of agriculture and rural areas (RIA – 5M€)

• Contracts for effective and lasting delivery of agri-environmental public goods (RIA – 15M€)

• Analytical tools and models to support policiesrelated to agriculture and food (RIA – 12M€)

From farm to society: understanding dynamics and modernising policies

4 topics – 60 M€ (2018-2019)

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• Closing nutrient cycles (RIA+IA–14M€)

• Realising the potential of regional and local bio-based economies (CSA–3M€)

• Circular bio-based business models for rural communities (IA-20M€)

• Sustainable wood value chains (IA-20M€)

Organising sustainable food and non food value chains under changing conditions

4 topics – 57 M€ (2018-2019)

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• ICT innovation for agriculture – Digital innovation hubs for agriculture (IA-20M€)*

• Enabling the farm advisor community to preparefarmers for the digital age (CSA-7M€)*

• Digital e-tools to modernise the CAP (IA-10M€)*

Taking advantage of the digital revolution

3 topics – 37 M€ (*2018-2019)

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And in the ICT call:

DT-ICT-08- Agricultural digital cross-cutting integration platforms (IA-15M€-2019)

• Thematic networks compiling knowledge ready for practice (CSA – 22 M€)*

• Fuelling the potential of advisors for innovation (CSA -5M€)

Boosting innovation and enhancing human and social capital

2 topics – 27 M€ (*2018-2019)

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Horizon 2020

Deadlines and Evaluation: timeline & how does it work?

SC2 Call deadlines

2018 2019 Type of action

Single stage 13 Feb. 2018 23 Jan. 2019 CSA, IA, EJP, ERANET…

First stage 13 Feb. 2018 23 Jan. 2019 RIA

Second stage 11 Sept. 2018 4 Sept. 2019 RIA

Evaluation process for each call

Receipt of proposals

Individualevaluation

Consensusgroup

Panel Review Finalisation

Evaluators

IndividualEvaluation

Reports

(Usually done

remotely)

ConsensusReport

(May be done remotely)

Panel report

Evaluation Summary Report

Panel ranked list

Eligibility/admissibility

check

Allocation of proposals to evaluators

Final ranked list composed and

information sent to applicants

Max. 5 months

Evaluation process for each call

Individual Evaluation

Report

IndividualEvaluation

Report Individual Evaluation

Report

Consensus group

Consensus Report

Individual Evaluation

Report

Individual Evaluation

Report

Expert Expert Expert ExpertExpert Minimum 3 experts … but can be more

Individual evaluation

Consensus

Eligible proposal

Rapporteur

Evaluation Summary Report

Panel meeting

Evaluation criteria and scores

• Excellence

• Impact

• Quality and efficiency of the implementation

The proposal fails to address the criterion or cannot be assessed due to missing or incomplete information.

Poor. The criterion is inadequately addressed, or there are serious inherent weaknesses.

Fair. The proposal broadly addresses the criterion, but there are significant weaknesses.

Good. The proposal addresses the criterion well, but a number of shortcomings are present.

Very Good. The proposal addresses the criterion very well, but a small number of shortcomings are present.

Excellent. The proposal successfully addresses all relevant aspects of the criterion. Any shortcomings are minor.

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Useful tips & resources

Some tips on how to succeed

• Start in time

• Choose your partners well

• Avoid “recycling” of former projects or project partners which do not have a specific contribution to the topic

• Check for eligibility

• Read the evaluation criteria – imagine what the evaluator will think

• Excellent science is not enough: consider all the criteria

• Impact matters as much as excellence! Check the expected

impacts and scope of the topic in detail

• Consider sub-criteria

Some tips on how to succeed

• Write clearly and concisely - ask someone impartial to proof-read your proposal

• Respect the page limits

• Be coherent! Make sure that the chosen objectives are coherent with the foreseen project activities, the competence of the partners and the planned budget per activity.

• Is your project good value for money? Make sure the cost/benefit ratio is sound. Keep in mind that all costs should be reasonable in the light of the foreseen outcomes.

Some tips on communication & dissemination

• Communication and dissemination activities each have a specific scope.

• Together they ensure that project results are widely known and used by those interested, including policy makers.

• They also ensure that project results are aligned with the needs of users.

• Ensuring uptake of project results enhances the added value of research and innovation funding and means that the newly generated knowledge does not just stay on a dusty shelf.

• The dissemination & exploitation plan is mandatory for your project and will help evaluators assess the potential impact of the project.

• Communication and dissemination about the project and its results should start as soon as possible and be adapted throughout the project’s lifetime.

• Consider including the right skills for communication and dissemination in the project consortium from the start.

Resources, guidance and tools

• Useful pages and documents

• Horizon 2020 online manual

• Reference documents : work programmes, legal and guidance documents

• Frequently asked questions (FAQ) on participant portal

• IT Helpdesk for questions about the Participant Portal tools and processes.

• You have a specific question?

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