2 Content H2020 key facts and figures H2020 basic rules for participation International cooperation and its principles Niche for Energy and Energy Efficiency Research in H2020 Statistics of EaP participation Unlocking the EaP potential for international cooperation in EN and EE: some findings from the IncoNet EaP project
3 «HORIZON 2020»: key fact and figures Framework Programmes the key EU financial instrument to support Science, Technology and Innovation projects of supranational level Implemented since 1984 according to (5)7y budget cycles Developed and coordinated by the DG Research and Innovation of the European Commission in cooperation with branch DGs DG Education and Culture, DG CONNECT, etc. Approved by the European Parliament and Council of Europe in accordance with the Commission s proposal Source of funding the EU budget Support if provided for research, developments and innovation activities implemented by consortia of international partners These consortia may include organizations from all over the world, including EaP H2020 started in January 2014, to be completed in 2020, while the projects will continue till 2024-2025 Budget ar 80 bln EUR
4 Basic rules for participation (1) Who? Any legal entity - research institutions, universities, companies, including SMEs, associations, NGOs, international organizations, etc. Physical persons individual researchers (MSCA) How? By setting up a consortium of 3 independent partners from 3 different EU MS/AC, developing an application and applying to a call for proposals: EU Member States (28): Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Republic of Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, UK, Croatia Associated countries (13): Iceland, Norway, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Turkey, Israel, Moldova, Switzerland (partially), Faroe Islands, Ukraine. Partners from AZ, AM, BY, GE and many other countries ( third countries) are additional to the minimum number of partners
5 Basic rules for participation (2) When? By the deadline of the appropriate call for proposals indicated in the bi-annual Work Programme What for to go internationally? To find the additional, non-budget sources for implementing RDI To disseminate and commercialize the results of own R&D To promote pan-european ideas which for this or that reason are not supported in the home country To take part in solving global challenges To increase number of international publications and their level To attract young researchers and prevent them from leaving science for other spheres of activities To raise a prestige of a research team or an individual and get promotion many other reasons
6 International cooperation and its principles International cooperation = cooperation of the EU MS with third countries EC Communication "Enhancing and focusing EU international cooperation in research and innovation: a strategic approach" (2012), aimed at Providing access to knowledge developed out of the EU Promoting Europe as the most attractive place for implementing R&D Solving of global challenges jointly with international partners Approaches towards cooperation with the neighboring countries: Developing a common knowledge and innovation space Joint benefit and responsibility H2020 is open for third countries, however a differentiated approach towards providing the financial support is foreseen: Non-funded third countries: USA, Canada, Japan, South Korea, Australia, N. Zealand, Brazil, Russia, India, China and Mexico Automatically funded third countries: all the others, including EaP More about international cooperation: http://ec.europa.eu/research/iscp/index.cfm.
7 International cooperation: recent tendencies and some effects for EaP Significant decrease of participation of third countries comparing to FP7 (2 times), except MSCA E.g. for Belarus: 25% decrease of the number of applications comparing to the similar period of the FP7, while the success rate and the budget received is higher Association to FPs of some EaP countries: Moldova (2011), Ukraine (2015) Expected association of Georgia and Armenia (2016)
8 «HORIZON 2020»: goals EXCELLENT SCIENCE / ПЕРЕДОВАЯ НАУКА INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP / ПРОМЫШЛЕННОЕ ЛИДЕРСТВО SOCIETAL CHALLENGES / РЕШЕНИЕ ОБЩЕСТВЕННО ЗНАЧИМЫХ ПРОБЛЕМ
9 Block 1: Excellent Science Areas European Research Council/ Европейский научный совет Frontier research by the best individual teams Future and Emerging Technologies/ Будущие и зарождающиеся технологии Collaborative research to open new fields of innovation Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions/ Программа Марии Склодовской-Кюри Opportunities for training and career development Budget mln 13 095 2 696 6 162 Research infrastructures (including e-infrastructure)/ Научная инфраструктура, в т.ч. электронная Ensuring access to world-class facilities 2 488
10 Block 2: Industrial Leadership Areas Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies/ Лидерство в промышленных технологиях ICT, nanotechnologies, materials, biotechnology, manufacturing, space Access to risk finance/ Привлечение средств частного бизнеса и венчурного капитала к финансированию науки и инноваций Leveraging private finance and venture capital for research and innovation Innovation in SMEs/ Инновации на малых и средних предприятиях Fostering all forms of innovation in all types of SMEs Budget mln. 13 557 2 842 616
11 Block 3: Societal Challenges Areas Health, demographic change and wellbeing/ Здоровье, демография и благополучие населения Food security, sustainable agriculture, marine and maritime research & the bioeconomy/ Безопасное питание, устойчивое сельское хозяйство, морские и приморские исследования, биоэкономика Secure, clean and efficient energy/ Безопасная, экологичная и эффективная энергетика Smart, green and integrated transport/ Умный, экологичный и интегрированный транспорт Climate action, resource efficiency and raw materials/ Климат, эффективное использование природных ресурсов Inclusive, innovative and reflective societies/ Инновационное общество Budget mln. 7 472 3 851 5 931 6 339 3 081 1 310 Secure societies / Безопасное общество 1 695 Т Е М А Т И К А З А Д А Н А
12 Niche for Energy and Energy Efficiency Research in H2020 Excellent Science European Research Council Industrial Leadership Leadership in industrial technologies Societal Challenges Health Future and Emerging Technologies Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions Research infrastructures Access to risk finance Innovation in SMEs Food security Energy Transport Climate, resource efficiency, raw materials Inclusive, innovative and reflective societies Secure societies
13 Types of projects and budget Types of projects Research and Innovation action/научно инновационный проект Innovation action/инновационный проект Coordination and Support action/проект по координации и поддержке Budget per project, mln. Energy Climate action Health ICT 1,5-5 2 15 2-20 Small contribution: 3-40 2-10 2 3 2-4 1-2 1-3 1-3 Large contribution: 5-8
14 Key information sources Participants Portal http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/ portal/desktop/en/home.html Partner Search on CORDIS, https://cordis.europa.eu/partners/web/gue st/home Programmes and Projects Data Base on CORDIS, http://cordis.europa.eu/projects/home_en. html EURAXESS, http://ec.europa.eu/euraxess/ National web-resources in EaP, e,g. National Information Office for EU Research and Innovation Programmes in Belarus, http://fp7-nip.org.by
15 H2020: EaP participation upon the results of 112 calls completed by February 2015) Applicants in Eligible Proposals Applicants in Retained Proposals Success rate EU Financial Contribution in Retained Proposals in thous EURO Avg EU Financial Contribution in Retained Proposals by applicant in thous EURO AM 33 8 24,24% 617,0 77,1 AZ 7 2 28,57% 21,1 10,6 BY 37 11 29,73% 1 326,9 120,6 GE 38 8 21,05% 291,6 36,4 MD 63 10 15,87% 467,4 46,7 UA 187 28 14,97% 2 818,8 100,7 Total/Avr EaP 365 67 18,36% 5 542,7 82,7 Total H2020 141 117 21 044 14,91% 9 024 335,8 428,8 Total EaP/Total H2020 0,26% 0,32% 0,06% Total H2020 non-eu 12 069 1 956 16,21% 567003,5 289,9 Total EaP/Total H2020 non-eu 3,02% 3,43% 0,98%
16 EaP in FP7: Energy Specific Programme SP1 - Cooperation Participations Number of projects 217 126 SP3 - People 135 115 SP4 - Capacities 151 58 SP5 - Euratom 13 10 Total 516 309
FP7: EU MS/AC/EaP partners and coordinators in the projects with participation of at least 1 EaP partner 17
18 Get support National Contact Points in EaP, http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/des ktop/en/support/national_contact_points.html Support and Coordination Actions funded by FP7/H2020 targeting EaP countries: IncoNet EaP, STI International Cooperation Network for Eastern Partnership Countries, http://www.inco-eap.net/, http://increast.eu R2I family of projects related to Energy and EE INNOVER-EAT, Ener2i and NoGap ICT cluster projects EECA-to-HORISON and EAST-HORIZON, http://eeca-ict.eu/ Idealist partner search system for ICT-connected projects and research e-infrastructure Enterprise Europe Network, http://een.ec.europa.eu/
19 IncoNet EaP: Data Base of programmes and projects implemented in EaP Goals: To identify potential actors To initiate communication and provide information To promote their results To use DBs as a tool for mapping exercise Criteria for selection of projects: 1) international, bi-lateral (EU-EaP only) or national projects funded by international donors or national governments in EaP countries within national STI programmes 2) on-going or completed not earlier than 2010 3) related to Energy, Climate and Health 4) in some cases (Belarus) additional criterion for selecting national Health and Energy projects was introduced: budget >100 thous. EUR. DB: http://increast.eu/en/2013.php
IncoNet EaP: Support for Energy RTI via International programmes 20
21 IncoNet EaP: main international donors in Energy RTI for EaP INOGATE, FP7 and ENPI are the major donors of the EaP countries
22 IncoNet EaP: support for Energy RTI within bilateral EU MS EaP programmes Out of 75 projects related to EU MS -EaP STI cooperation of the period 2010 onwards 15% (11 projects) refer to Energy
23 IncoNet EaP: national funding of Energy RTI in EaP Out of 565 identified projects funded by National funds, in the period 2010 onwards 13% relate to Energy: Table 7: National funding for EaP Countries by SC Country Health Climate Change Energy Armenia 35 0 1 Azerbaijan 1 0 0 Belarus 371 7 61 Georgia 31 24 5 Moldova 11 5 4 Ukraine 0 9 0 Total 449 45 71
24 IncoNet EaP: Bibliometic Analysis of EU-EaP joint publications Goals: Provide a picture and an analysis of the state-ofthe-art and recent trends in EU/AC-EaP research collaboration Provide input, via the IncoNet EaP project, to the political dialogue, joint agenda setting and Horizon 2020 related activities Focus specifically on a number of topics considered relevant for both EaP and Europe: Climate Change, Energy and Health. What collaboration is going on in this fields? Make the ongoing collaboration visible
25 IncoNet EaP: Bibliometic Analysis of EU-EaP joint publications (cont) Sources: data retrieved from Elsevier s Scopus database and Thomson-Reuters Web of Science (WoS) database in May 2014: Data from 2003 to 2013 with at least one author affiliated with an institution in a EaP country Full counting: Each publication involving country x and country y is counted as exactly one co-publication between these countries (neither more not less), regardless of the number of authors involved (in case there are 3 authors in country x and 2 in country y, the record is still only counted as 1 co-publication between these countries).
26 IncoNet EaP: Bibliometic Analysis of EU-EaP joint publications (cont) EaP publications from 2003 2013 (indexed journal publications including journal papers, proceedings, book series, etc.): 139,279 AM: 9,330 AZ: 7,597 BY: 20,161 GE: 8,257 MD: 4,154 UA: 92,763 (sum is 142,262; i.e. in some Publications EaP Cs were multiple represented) All EaP publications listed in Scopus 2003-2013: 119,601 All EaP publications listed in WoS 2003-2013: 95,027
27 IncoNet EaP: Bibliometic Analysis of EU-EaP joint publications (cont) Share of international co-authored papers from EaP (2012) AM: 55% AZ: 38% BY: 51% GE: 55% MD: 54% UA: 34% For means of comparison, the international co-authorship shares in 2012 in other countries: France: 49% UK: 47% Germany: 46% US: 31% Russia: 30% South Korea: 27% India: 16% China: 15%
IncoNet EaP: Bibliometic Analysis of EU-EaP joint publications (cont) 28
IncoNet EaP: No. of (co)-publication in Energy over time 29
30 Conclusions Energy is supported at the national level in most EaP countries via the national STI programs or bi-lateral programmes with EU MS. However, the role Energy plays in the activities funded by international donors is much higher than the EaP national authorities provide for it. Though FP7 jointly with INOGATE and ENPI are the major donors of the EaP countries in Energy STI, the participation in FP7/H2020 is not as it could be. Publication output is in all EaP countries stable or slightly increasing. Smaller the country is, higher share of co-publications in the total number of publications it has. Percentage of co-publications of AM, AZ, BY and GE is increasing, while it is declining in UA and MD. In Energy, the total number of publications is decreasing. At the same time, the number of co-publications is growing. Co-publications with the EU/AC countries have a high growth that proves the importance and potential for increasing the EU-EaP collaboration.
31 IncoNet EaP: support & coordination activities to promote EU-EaP cooperation in Energy Grants to cover participation of EaP researchers in brokerages and big conferences in EU 47 grants, including 12 in Energy Stakeholders conference 0n EU-EaP STI cooperation in addressing Energy, 12-13.10.2015, Minsk, Belarus 12 information days on H2020 in EaP countries within 2013-2015 Twinning grants to support H2020 proposals developers 8 grants (2015) 5 grants (2016) in particular, 6 grants for the applications which include BY teams
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