Horizon 2020. Presentation - Raising Finance

Horizon 2020
Vanessa Davies, Horizon 2020 Unit
Welsh European Funding Office

Ewrop & Chymru: Buddsoddi yn eich
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Europe and Wales: Investing in your future
Ewrop & Chymru: Buddsoddi yn eich dyfodol
Europe & Wales: Investing in your future
What is Horizon 2020?
• EU Research & Innovation
programme worth nearly €80 billion
• 7 year programme (2014-2020)
• A core part of Europe 2020,
Innovation Union & European
Research Area

Structure of Horizon 2020
Excellent Science
Health, demographic change
and well-being
Food security, sustainable
agriculture, forestry, marine,
maritime, inland water and
bio-economy
Secure, clean and
efficient energy
Smart, green and
integrated transport
Climate action, environment,
Resource efficiency,
Raw materials
Inclusive, innovative
and reflective societies
ERC
Marie
Sklodowska- Curie
Infrastructures
Industrial Leadership
Leadership in enabling and
industrial technologies
Access to Risk Finance
Financial
instruments EIB,
EIF
Innovation in SMEs
FET
Secure Societies:
Protecting the Freedom and
Security of Europe and its citizens
Joint Research Centre
Societal Challenges
Spreading Excellence and Widening Participation
Science with and for Society
European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT)

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Excellent Science - €22 billion
• European Research Council
– Frontier Research by the best individual teams
• Future and Emerging Technologies
– Collaborative Research to open new fields of innovation
• Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (including COFUND)
– Opportunities for training and career development
• Research Infrastructures (including e-infrastructures)
– Ensuring access to world-class facilities

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Industrial Leadership - €15 billion
• Leadership in Industrial and Enabling Technologies
– ICT, nanotechnologies, biotechnology, photonics,
manufacturing, space
• Access to risk finance
– Leveraging private finance and venture capital for
research
• Innovation in SMEs
– Fostering all forms of innovation in all types of SMEs

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Societal Challenges - €26 billion
1. Health, demographic change and wellbeing
2. Food, agriculture, marine research and the
bioeconomy
3. Secure, clean and efficient energy
4. Smart, green and integrated transport
5. Climate action, resource efficiency and raw
materials
6. Inclusive, innovative and reflective societies
7. Protecting freedom and security in Europe

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Implementation
• Run by the European Commission
• 3 year strategic programme
• 2 year work programmes
• Competitive calls (historic 20% success rate)
• 3 partners in 3 countries (in most cases)
• 8 month time to grant (Commission ambition)
• Criteria: excellence, impact, implementation
• Reimbursement: 100% direct costs (70% close to
market) + 25% indirect costs

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Something to build on?
(FP7 – Nov 2013)
• 393 participations (2.5% of UK)
• €125.6m approved (2.0% of UK)
• Relative success in Health and Food,
Agriculture, Fisheries and Biotech
• Sectors (approx):70% HE, 24%
Industry

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Existing funded activity supporting
the ‘stairway to excellence’
• Existing ‘centres of excellence’
• A4B: technology transfer collaborations
• Innovation Vouchers/SMART Cymru grants
• IP advice (PATLIB)
• Knowledge Economy Skills Scholarships (KESS)
• Business support

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Horizon 2020: new opportunities?
• More innovation – more opportunities for
applied science and industrial strengths?
• Focus on societal challenges – does Wales
have multi-disciplinary strengths?
• Widening participation – can we open the
‘closed shops’?
• Greater SME involvement – greater opportunity
for synergies with Structural Funds?

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Example of an open call
Dedicated SME Instrument:
(Used to fund projects by high-growth companies under the
industrial leadership and societal challenges pillars. Approx.
€9.3bn will be spent over the seven-year period; in 2014 and
2015 largest pockets of money can be found in health, energy
and transport. There is an open call system with cut off dates for
evaluation throughout the year. More information is available via
the Commission’s website.
Open now within Health:
•PHC-12-2014-1: Clinical research for the validation of
biomarkers and/or diagnostic medical devices
•Deadline date: 17 December 2014

Specific SME initiatives
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SME Instrument: three phases
1.Feasibility study (upto €50,000). To fund a 6-month feasibility
study. Application is short (10 pages) but requires firms to set out
a clear business plan, and to have a new product development as
part of that agenda.
2.Innovation activities, e.g. testing, scaling-up, market replication
(70/100% funding). Successful companies will be granted
between €500,000 and €2.5 million for demonstration and piloting
the product. Whilst the money will be available solely for SMEs,
research and technology organisations may also be able to benefit
from contracts under the projects.
3.Facilitating access to risk capital – mentoring (no direct funds)
Mentoring and coaching in all 3 stages

Access to Risk Finance
Under the 'Industrial Leadership' pillar, this section will help
companies and other types of organisation engaged in
research and innovation (R&I) to gain easier access, via
financial instruments, to loans, guarantees, counter-
guarantees and equity finance.
In brief:
•Debt facility – focus on R&I SMEs
•Equity facility – focus on early-stage SMEs
•Administered through the European Investment
Bank (EIB) /European Investment Fund (EIF) and
Financial Intermediaries
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Horizon 2020 Unit

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WEFO’s Horizon 2020 Unit
• Established in January 2013
• A central contact point (one-stop-shop) for
integrated, consistent and targeted advice
and support for Welsh organisations on
accessing the most appropriate research
and innovation funding from the EU
• Teams in North and South Wales

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Role of Unit
• Proactively engaging and targeting existing
Welsh, UK and EU resources and expertise
for the benefit of Welsh organisations
• Working with stakeholders to identify gaps in
advice/support and how best to address them
• Where appropriate enhancing the support
available through additional investment, with
Structural Funds likely to play a role

Bid
writing
Technical
advice
Capacity
building
Financial
support
Specific
networks
National
Contact
Points
Horizon
2020
Unit
Others
Chief
Scientific
Advisor
ES&T
Sector
Teams
Welsh
Higher
Education
UKRO
Enterprises
European
CommissionUK
Depts
Technology
Strategy
Board
Welsh
Government
Depts.
HEFCW
Welsh
Higher Education
Brussels
Welsh
Government
Office
Brussels
Enterprise Europe
Network Wales
(EEN)
Sector
forums
Overview of WEFO’s added value approach to
delivering Horizon 2020 support

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Examples of Unit’s activity
• Targeted awareness raising
• Working with stakeholders to build new links
between existing support structures
• Working with stakeholders to identify and target
‘competitive funding ready’ researchers and
businesses
• Focussing investments on building capacity or
addressing barriers that will ensure improved
access to competitive research funding

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SCoRE Cymru
• Supporting Collaborative Research and
innovation in Europe
• Grants to support Welsh-based
organisations with the costs of accessing
EU programmes such as Horizon 2020

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SCoRE Cymru: Currently
supports…
• The travel and accommodation costs involved in:
– identifying and building consortia,
– negotiation of contracts
• The cost of subcontracted expertise for:
– writing funding proposals,
– negotiation and conclusion of consortium
agreements and/or contracts

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SCoRE Cymru: Grant available
Travel – up to £1,000
– Up to 100% of the costs for SMEs
– Up to 75% of the costs for HE
– Up to 50% of the costs for other organisations
travelling with a Welsh SME/HE partner
Expertise - up to £10,000
– Up to 100% of the costs for all organisations

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SCoRE Cymru: Features
• Quick turnover time for travel applications
• Supports early consortium building
• Travel outside the EU and to UK
destinations allowed under certain
circumstances
• Assessment criteria focus on quality of
proposal and added value

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Useful contacts
• WEFO Horizon 2020 Unit email: Horizon2020@wales.gsi.gov.uk
– WEFO Helpline 0845 010 3355
– WEFO website http://wefo.wales.gov.uk/programmes/horizon2020/?lang=en
• UK Horizon 2020 website https://www.h2020uk.org/
• European Commission Horizon 2020 site
http://ec.europa.eu/programmes/horizon2020/en
• Participant Portal
http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/home.html
• Fit for Health: http://www.fitforhealth.eu/
Developed by the Fit for Health network in close cooperation with the Health-NCPs. The quality checked
database contains expertise profiles of researchers and SMEs acting in the Health / Life sciences
sector. The service includes partner search activities advice on all aspects related to a research project.
• EEN http://www.enterpriseeuropewales.org.uk

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