HAS LITHUANIA BEEN USING HORIZON 2020 OPPORTUNITIES TO THEIR FULL POTENTIAL? Dr. Albertas Žalys Director of the Department of Higher Education, Science and Technologies
Where are we? LT participation in Horizon2020 H2020 budget - 80 billion EUR LT contribution ~ 230 million EUR Participants from LT received 44 million EUR A projection by the EC - to reach 90 million EUR by the end of H2020, whith the increase standing at 72.2% comparing to 52 million EUR received in FP7
Participation of all countries in H2020: Participation in H2020 (586 calls) LT participation in H2020: Total eligible H2020 applications: 170,606 with 611,949 participants EC funding requested by all projects: 270.538 billion EUR Currently funded: 20,167 projects with 95,315 participants EC grant for funded projects - 35.56 billion EUR EU average: Success rate by participation - 14.73% Success rate by EC funding- 13.96% 2,483 LT participants participated in 1,976 H2020 applications. LT institutions are involved in 255 projects. Number of LT participants in projects 313, of which 52 are project coordinators. LT participants budget in H2020 projects 52.349 million EUR, of which EC funds 44.081 million EUR LT average: Success rate by participation 12.32% Success rate by EC funding 8.18% Data source: LMT, e-corda (29-09-2018)
Interim evaluation of H2020 EU-15 & EU-13 Data source: Interim evaluation of H2020, 2017
Legal Name LT participation in H2020 projects: TOP-20 H2020 Participations H2020 EU Contribution KAUNO TECHNOLOGIJOS UNIVERSITETAS 26 6 727 308 VILNIAUS UNIVERSITETAS 24 6 617 899 LIETUVOS ENERGETIKOS INSTITUTAS 16 1 901 339 VSI STARTUP DIVISION 5 1 887 500 BALTIC ORTHOSERVICE UAB 3 1 732 914 UAB SOLI TEK R&D 4 1 617 800 UAB MODERNIOS E-TECHNOLOGIJOS 5 1 522 752 VALSTYBINIS MOKSLINIU TYRIMU INSTITUTAS FIZINIU IR TECHNOLOGIJOS MOKSLU CENTRAS 9 1 248 698 RUPTELA UAB 2 1 244 624 UAB NANOAVIONIKA 2 1 225 655 VILNIAUS GEDIMINO TECHNIKOS UNIVERSITETAS 14 981 646 KLAIPEDOS MIESTO SAVIVALDYBES ADMINISTRACIJA 1 870 140 EKSPLA UAB 3 858 412 BIOTECHPHARMA 1 845 250 LIETUVOS MOKSLO TARYBA 13 815 039 VALSTYBES IMONE ORO NAVIGACIJA 18 790 832 KLAIPEDOS UNIVERSITETAS 4 787 498 UAB METIS BALTIC 5 626 094 VIESOJI ISTAIGA VIESOSIOS POLITIKOSIR VADYBOS INSTITUTAS 2 563 750 VYTAUTO DIDZIOJO UNIVERSITETAS 5 562 066 Data source: https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/da shboard (19-10-2018)
LT participation in H2020 projects: SME-1 Legal Name Project Participations EU Contribution (EUR) UAB SAULES VEJO ARUODAI 2 100000 ARS LAB UAB 1 50000 BALTIC ORTHOSERVICE UAB 1 50000 ELINTA 1 50000 FERENTIS 1 50000 GEOMATRIX UAB 1 50000 MB SESI PARTNERIAI 1 50000 RUPTELA UAB 1 50000 UAB BIOAPPLICATIONS 1 50000 UAB BLUE OCEAN ROBOTICS 1 50000 UAB ENERGENAS 1 50000 UAB FACTOBOTICS 1 50000 UAB FEMTIKA 1 50000 UAB GUMOS TECHNOLOGIJOS 1 50000 UAB INTENOVA 1 50000 UAB MEDIUM GROUP 1 50000 UAB METIS BALTIC 1 50000 UAB MY RESEARCH 1 50000 UAB NANOAVIONIKA 1 50000 UAB NOVA FABRICA 1 50000 UAB RUBEDO SISTEMOS 1 50000 UAB SOLET TECHNICS 1 50000 ZEMDIRBIU KONSULTACIJOS 1 50000 Data source: https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/da shboard (19-10-2018)
H2020 Signed Grants Signature Year H2020 Signed Grants (LT) Data source: https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/da shboard (19-10-2018)
Requested EU Contribution by Type of Organisation (mil EUR) Data source: https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/ dashboard (19-10-2018)
EU Contribution by Type of Organisation (mil EUR) Data source: https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/da shboard (19-10-2018)
EU Contribution by Type of Action Data source: https://webgate.ec.europ a.eu/dashboard (19-10- 2018)
H2020 EU Contribution EU Contribution by Pillar/Thematic Priority Data source: https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/dashboard (19-10-2018)
Personnel costs data of 7BP, H2020, Eurostat Data source: Horizon Europe rules for participation and dissemination: Personnel costs. Commission s non-paper1. September 2018
Success Rates by participation in H2020 (%) 25 20 15 10 17,07 17,83 14,09 12,46 10,85 16,38 14,8 12,98 13,34 13,97 13,83 17,18 12,11 11,11 14,99 12,35 12,32 16,38 12,81 13,37 16,5 12,5 12,98 12,33 15,32 12,86 10,97 14,83 14,73 5 0 AT BE BG CY CZ DE DK EE EL ES FI FR HR HU IE IT LT LU LV MT NL PL PT RO SE SI SK UK ES vid. Data source: LMT, ecorda (2018-09-29)
AT BE BG CY CZ DE DK EE EL ES FI FR HR HU IE IT LT LU LV MT NL PL PT RO SE SI SK UK EU-28: Number of participants in H2020 projects per country 12000 11437 11049 10000 9724 9140 8923 8000 6000 4000 2000 0 2605 4179 450 453 939 2131 426 2609 1832 1534 409 804 313 284 280 133 5898 2041 1480 806 2873 764 384 Data source: LMT, ecorda (29-09-2018)
Coordinators of H2020 projects 250 200 197 EU-15 150 136 100 87 101 104 108 50 40 30 52 36 23 51 44 0 BG CY CZ EE HR HU LT LV MT PL RO SI SK EU-13 Data source: LMT, ecorda (29-09-2018)
Most common partnerships TOP-5 LT partnerships in Horizon 2020 projects 1. Germany 533 2. Italy 506 3. France 503 4. Spain 431 5. UK 356 Data source: e-corda, (29-09-2018)
LT experts as evaluators for H2020 applications 186 experts (44% - female and 56% - male) from Lithuania have been contracted as evaluators for H2020 project proposals. On average, they have evaluated 37 project applications per expert, which is above the EU average of 40 project applications per expert. Data source: EC (30-10-2018)
Measures to promote participation in the Horizon 2020 projects For applications: Suport to HE&R institutions that have prepared applications of the H2020 projects: 3,000 10,000 Eur (RCL, MoESS); Acquisition of consultancy services (for HE&R institutions): up to 20,000 euros (MITA, MoESS); Assistance to SMEs to prepare applications (INOSPURTAS) (MITA, MoEI); Support for SMEs preparing H2020 applications: up to 15,000 Eur (MITA, MoEI) National Funding for Individual R&D H2020 Marie Skłodowska Curie and European Research Council projects (for 1 MSCA project approx. 130-190 thous. EUR) (RCL, MoESS) For skills: Support for outgoing and incoming researchers (for HE&R institutions): exchange of ideas, visits, internships (RLC, MoESS) TYKU2 project (for HE&R institutions). Key activities: training (for preparing H2020 applications), international events (information days, partner search) (MITA, MoESS) Participation costs for a company, 600-1,000 EUR per participant (one trip) (MITA, MoEI) For communication: Liaison Office in Brussels (LINO) (RCL, MoESS); Baltic Bonus scheme - to promote cooperation between the three Baltic states (LT, LV, EE) for HE&R institutions (MITA, MoESS);
Addressing the remuneration issue (low salaries of researchers at the national level) LT challenges in Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe Higher ring-fenced budget for widening measures is needed Facilitating collaborative links in European research and innovation and contributing to full engagement of Europe s talent pool Fostering participation of young researchers Synergy with the cohesion policy (state aid rules as the negative effect)
Thank you for attention!