Federal Department of Economic Affairs, Education and Research EAER State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation SERI EU Framework Programmes Situation of Switzerland in Horizon 2020 Horizon 2020: We can do it! 16.6.2015 Philipp Langer, SERI 1
Cross-thematic R&I Funding in CH Basic Res. Applied Res. Demo, Dev. Product. Market. 2
Cross-thematic R&I Funding in CH Basic Res. Applied Res. Demo, Dev. Product. Market. SNSF CTI 3
Cross-thematic R&I Funding in CH Basic Res. Applied Res. Demo, Dev. Product. Market. SNSF CTI COST EUREKA Bilat. Progr. 4
Cross-thematic R&I Funding in CH Basic Res. Applied Res. Demo, Dev. Product. Market. SNSF CTI COST EUREKA Bilat. Progr. Int. Org. (CERN, ESO ) IO (ESA) 5
Cross-thematic R&I Funding in CH Basic Res. Applied Res. Demo, Dev. Product. Market. SNSF CTI COST EUREKA Bilat. Progr. Int. Org. (CERN, ESO ) IO (ESA) EU Framework Programmes 6
CH: Third-Party Funding by the Confederation for R&D 7
CH: Federal Funds for international ERI (856 mio CHF; R&I = 95%) 8
EU Research and Innovation Programmes («Horizon 2020-Package» or «FPs») Horizon 2020 ( FP ) Euratom-Programme (Agreement since 1978) ITER-Project (Agreement since 1978) 9
Status of Switzerland in FPs FP1 FP5 1984-2002 FP6 2003-2006 FP7 2007-2013 H2020 2014-2016 H2020 2017-2020 10
Associated State: Funding via EU contributes to FP budget CH CH EU 11
3rd Country State: Direct Funding from CH CH CH EU 12
State of Play Horizon 2020 Partial Association to Horizon 2020- Package (as of 15 sept 2014) Signed Agreement (5 dec 2014) 9 Feb 2017: Toggle Date for 2017-2020 13
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State of Play (I) Single Grant Instruments: Evaluation Funding EC Risk Financing SME 16
State of Play (II) Cooperation Projects: Evaluation Funding EC 17
Direct Funding CH: How to proceed (I) Submit Horizon 2020 Cooperation Projects normally (Support Euresearch!) Wait for positive evaluation and funding decision by EC Prepare and sign Grant Agreement (GA) with EU partners 18
Direct Funding CH: How to proceed (II) Register at SERI-Website www.h2020.ch Fill in and submit the webform Confirm content after pre-check by Euresearch Sign the SERI Funding Contract 19
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Current CH Participation Associated Status: Pre-15.9.2014: Funding of 100 participations with approx. 101 mio. CHF by SERI/SNF (TBS, FET, MSCA, ) Post-15.9.2014: Funding of 43 participations with 54.3 mio. EUR by EC (e.g. 20 ERC AdG with 48.3 mio. EUR = 10.8% of EC budget) 3rd Country Status: Funding of 160 participations with 103 mio. CHF by SERI Overall: 358 Swiss participations with 157.8 mio. EUR (5.5% of total EU funding of 2718.5 MEUR) 23
CH Participation in the Past 24
Solved Problems Discriminiation of CH-Partners Legal Basis (Ordinance) Build-up of administrative processes (Database as of 1993, Funding guidelines ) Agreement for Horizon 2020 package (compare with Erasmus+) Insecurity of Researchers up to you! 25
Federal Department of Economic Affairs, Education and Research EAER State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation SERI EU Framework Programmes Thank you! Dr. Philipp Langer Head EU Framework Programmes State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation SERI Phone +41 58 462 96 93, Philipp.Langer@sbfi.admin.ch 26
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Bilateral Promotion Programmes European Countries Western Europe: e.g. D-A-CH Central and Eastern Europe: Sciex, SCOPES, Bilateral Progr. (Poland, Lithuania, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria), Institutes of Advanced Study (Bucarest and Sofia), Swiss Government Scholarships fellowships Non-European Countries (Joint Research Projects JRPs) China Japan India South Korea Russia Brazil South Africa (incl. Côte d'ivoire, Tanzania) 28
CH in International Organisations ESA: European Space Agency CERN: European Organization for Nuclear Research ESRF: European Synchrotron Radiation Facility ILL: Institute Max von Laue - Paul Langevin ITER / EURATOM: European Atomic Energy Community ESO: European Southern Observatory X-FEL: European XFEL ESS: European Spallation Source EMBO/EMBL: European Mol. Biology Conference/Laborat. HFSPO: Human Frontier Science Program Organization CIESM: Commission intern. pour l'exploration scientifique de la mer Méditerranée 29