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Horizon 2020: Opportunities for ICT Associations and some practical advice for
successful proposals
Grigoris ChatzikostasInnovation and Business Development Manager
BioSense Center
Novi Sad, 30 May 2014
Presentation Structure
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3 LEIT ICT 2015: Relevant Calls for ICT Associations
1 Practical advice on preparing proposals, consortia and budgets
2 FRACTALS: A case study of successful regional cooperation of ICT Associations
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Developing a proposal is a project in itself→ And it needs to be managed
Three vital first steps
Check your proposal aligns with call
Check your proposal aligns with call
Select prospective partners
Select prospective partners
Agree the concept and goals with key partnersAgree the concept and goals with key partners
• Write this down in one or two pages
• Keep it focused• Early agreement is vital
• Write this down in one or two pages
• Keep it focused• Early agreement is vital
• Maybe only 2 or 3 at first
• Know their skills and capabilities
• Ideally there is a strategic alignment
• Maybe only 2 or 3 at first
• Know their skills and capabilities
• Ideally there is a strategic alignment
• You can use the proposal checking service
• BEFORE you write the proposal
• You can use the proposal checking service
• BEFORE you write the proposal
Managing the process
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Study the Call
Relevance
Available Budget
Competition
What are you trying to do? Is it exactly what the call asks?
How many projects are going to be funded? Expected project budget?
Previous relevant projects? Key players?
Don’t even start preparing a proposal without satisfactory answers to the above questions! It
will be a waste of time and resources…
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Find the right people…
It is good to work with people you already know and trustBUT: Avoid inviting people just because they are your friends… They must fit and add value to the project
Sometimes it is necessary to include key players or “big” namesBUT: Keep in mind that those partners may try to take advantage of you and the rest of the consortium…
Make sure that your consortium captures the entire value chain as required by the call and has sufficient geographical coverageBUT: Don’t involve partners just because they come from high profile countries…
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Agree upon the vision, concept and objectives,…
What is the top-level goal that you are trying to achieve.Of course, this must be in line with the Call Objectives.• Goals are ‘high level’ and generally are not measurable• But they are a statement of what your project aims to achieve
If you are to achieve this goal, what are the main objectives you must meet? [These are the objectives of the proposal - which will be more specific that the Call Objectives]• How will you verify that each objective has been met?• What measures will be used?• How does each objective relate to the call?
… the work to be done,…
How will it be reported and verified?
What are the risks that something goes wrong?
Who is doing what and when?
What work will be done?
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Set up the proposal writing team
has comprehensive technical understanding
is very fluent and accurate in English
has ability to think through detail and spot problems
has great imagination and ability to see opportunities
How can the above 4 people contribute to writing?
Share the workload• According to area of expertise• One coordinator to keep control• Set targets• Allow for holidays, illness, other commitments 11
Preparing a budget…
Draw a list of all the categories of cost you will need for your proposed project
E.g.• Person-months• Capital equipment (relevant to this project)• Materials (usable only on this project)• Travel and subsistence• Events• Management time and cost of financial statements
Prepare a financial spread sheet for all partners to complete• Give partners plenty of notice• Figures must be consistent with the financial figures in Part A!
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Politically correct way to prepare a budget
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Each partner estimates their cost for each category (this will involve finance/business departments)
Gather the cost figures for all categories from each partner
There are 3 preparatory stages
Identify the cost categories
Key
stag
es
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Effective way to prepare a budget
Negotiate with each partner IN PRIVATE and don’t let partners know each other’s budget before submission.
Negotiate with each partner IN PRIVATE and don’t let partners know each other’s budget before submission.
Ask partners about their personnel cost and estimate their budget according to their real contribution in the project.
Ask partners about their personnel cost and estimate their budget according to their real contribution in the project.
Prepare an overall target budget according to the Call requirements and your strategy on it. Estimate allocation among partners.
Prepare an overall target budget according to the Call requirements and your strategy on it. Estimate allocation among partners.
Make a realistic estimate of cost based on the tasks Make a realistic estimate of cost based on the tasks
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2 FRACTALS: A case study of successful regional cooperation of ICT Associations
FRACTALS:Future Internet Enabled Agricultural Applications
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Background
Future Internet Public-Private Partnership is a major EU investment, accounting for 500 M€
The two previous phases of FI-PPP developed the infrastructure (Generic and Specific Enablers)
Agriculture is a sector that demonstrates relatively low uptake of advanced Internet services
In the Balkan region agriculture plays a predominant role, as compared to the majority of more developed European countries and EU on average
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Strategy
80 m EUR available for projects all over Europe
Link with ICT SMEs community
Link with the FI-PPP community
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Competitive Advantages
….because it addresses a sector (Agriculture) where digital services based on Internet are not yet provided at a satisfactory level
FRACTALS was one of the 16 proposals selected out of 90 applications coming from all over Europe
....because it covers a region (Balkans) which has so far been considered as a “White Spot” with respect to benefiting from Future Internet PPP
….because its approach recognizes the importance of producing solutions according to users’ needs, thus all financed applications will go through User Validation from PA4ALL, the Precision Agriculture Living Lab of BioSense/UNS
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FRACTALS at a glance
SMEs and Web Entrepreneurs Farmers
FROM TO
Generic Enablers InfrastructureSpecific Enablers
Innovative Apps for Agriculture
Enhancing productivity on
the farm
Accessing markets and value chains
Improving public service provision
Phase 1 & Phase 2
Employing Open Innovation to bridge the gap between “geeks” and farmers
Testing and Validation of Apps through an existing
Living Lab
Providing grants to 50-60 SMEs from all over Europe, to develop innovative Apps
- Fast, transparent and flexible procedures for Open Call, - Innovative evaluation scheme,- Capacity Building on FI-PPP,- Clustering and networking, - Validation of apps by end-users community
- Optimization and savings, - Compliance with safety and environmental regulations, - New markets and alternative business models, Improved Income, Better and more accessible public sector services
THROUGH AN INTEGRATED SUPPORT FRAMEWORK
FRACTALS envisions to support the community of innovative ICT SMEs and Web Entrepreneurs (with a focus on Balkan countries) to harvest the benefits of FI infrastructure, by developing applications with high market potential, addressing the needs of the agricultural sector.
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FRACTALS in numbers
Launch 30/11/2014, Deadline 28/2/2015
Call datesCall dates
Start dateStart date
Duration of SMEs sub-projectsDuration of SMEs sub-projects
Grant per SMEGrant per SME
Nr of Grants to be allocated to SMEsNr of Grants to be allocated to SMEs
Nr of Open CallsNr of Open Calls
Budget allocated to Grants for SMEsBudget allocated to Grants for SMEs
Requested EC ContributionRequested EC Contribution
PartnersPartners
DurationDuration 24 months
9 partners (6 countries)
6.9M €
5.52M €
1
50-60
50-150k €
6-9 months
01/9/2014
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Critical Success Factors
To run the Open Call in the most transparent and effective way
To mobilize the local ICT SMEs to apply with high quality proposals (competition is pan-European)
To promote networking and clustering with ICT SMEs from other countries
Project Types in Horizon 2020
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Research & Innovation Actions Typical Research Projects (known as STREPs or IPs in FP7) 100% funding Innovation Actions Close-to-market projects (known as CIP in FP7) 70% funding (100% for not-for-profit partners) Coordination and Support Actions (CSA) Not actual research but “soft” actions related to research 100% funding Pre-commercial procurement Actions (PCP) Development of solutions towards concrete public sector needs 70% funding Public Procurement of innovative solutions Actions
(PPI) First buyers of innovative commercial end-solutions 20% funding
H2020-ICT-2015
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Advanced computing
to reinforce and expand Europe's industrial and technology
strengths in low-power ICT.
Cross-sectorial platform-building, for clustering of related research
projects, for structuring the European academic and industrial
research communities, for dissemination of programme
achievements and impact analysis, and for constituency building and road-mapping for future research
and innovation agendas.
Specific challengeSpecific challenge
ScopeScope
ICT 4 – 2015: Customized and low power computing
ICT 4 – 2015: Customized and low power computing
to harness the collaborative power of ICT networks (networks of
people, of knowledge, of sensors) to create collective and individual
awareness about the multiple sustainability threats
Coordinating pilots and research activities in CAPs
Specific challengeSpecific challenge
ScopeScope
ICT 10 – 2015: Collective Awareness Platforms for Sustainability and Social Innovation
ICT 10 – 2015: Collective Awareness Platforms for Sustainability and Social Innovation
Future Internet3m €
1m €
H2020-ICT-2015
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Content technologies and information management
contribution to the Big Data challenge by addressing the
fundamental research problems related to the scalability and responsiveness of analytics
capabilities, with special focus on industry-validated, user-defined challenges like predictions, and
rigorous processes for monitoring and measurement.
to define challenges and prize schemes for verifiable performance in tasks requiring extremely large
scale prediction and deep analysis.
Specific challengeSpecific challenge
ScopeScope
ICT 16 – 2015: Big data – researchICT 16 – 2015: Big data – research
developments related to content creation, access, retrieval and interaction offer a number of
opportunities and challenges, also for the creative and media
industries. Coordination and Support Actions on Convergence and Social Media:• Facilitate research and policy
exchange in Convergence and Social Media
• Support R&D programmes/ activities, dissemination of results and organization of scientific and/ or policy events in Convergence and Social Media
Specific challengeSpecific challenge
ScopeScope
ICT 19 – 2015: Technologies for creative industries, social media and convergenceICT 19 – 2015: Technologies for creative
industries, social media and convergence
1m €
2m €
H2020-ICT-2015
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Robotics
The priorities in this specific challenge are based on input from the PPP in Robotics, also building on the results of previous calls.
Community building and Robotic competitions:
- Supporting the European robotics community (networking, education)- Support International cooperation- Coordinating work on the next generation of cognitive systems and robotics to reinforce future multi- and inter-disciplinary cooperation- organizing robotic competitions
Specific challengeSpecific challenge
ScopeScope
ICT 24 – 2015: RoboticsICT 24 – 2015: Robotics
The objective is to keep Europe's position at the forefront of advanced micro- and nano-
electronic technologies developments.
- International cooperation with USA and Asia in the areas of standardization - Development of common roadmaps- Awareness actions targeted at young students.
Specific challengeSpecific challenge
ScopeScope
ICT 25 – 2015: Generic micro- and nano-electronic technologies
ICT 25 – 2015: Generic micro- and nano-electronic technologies
Micro- and nano-electronic technologies, Photonics
4m € 3m
€
H2020-ICT-2015
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Micro- and nano-electronic technologies, Photonics
Further major S&T progress and R&I investments are required for
sustaining Europe's industrial competitiveness and leadership in
photonic market sectors where Europe is strong.
To link with on-going support actions providing access to advanced R&I services and
capabilities with the aim to make them also accessible to researchers
or to establish a network of innovation multipliers
Specific challengeSpecific challenge
ScopeScope
ICT 27 – 2015: Photonics KETICT 27 – 2015: Photonics KET
By investing more on innovation and in particular on KET deployment
projects and integration platforms as well as in micro-nano-electronics,
photonics and manufacturing, there will be a direct impact on Europe's
global competitiveness as well as on Europe's capability to offer new solutions for some of the major
societal challenges it faces.Cooperation of scientists,
technology developers and providers, and end-users for
accelerating the deployment of bio-photonics and micro-nano-bio solutions in the health sector.
Specific challengeSpecific challenge
ScopeScope
ICT 28 – 2015: Cross-cutting ICT KETsICT 28 – 2015: Cross-cutting ICT KETs
3m €
1m €
H2020-ICT-2015
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ICT Cross-Cutting Activities
to overcome the fragmentation of vertically-oriented closed
systems, architectures and application areas and move towards open systems and
platforms that support multiple applications.
Measures for development of ecosystems driven by European
players around the platforms (e.g. communities of open API developers for low cost
applications) and activities to increase societal acceptance and
foster specific education.
Specific challengeSpecific challenge
ScopeScope
ICT 30 – 2015: IoTs and Platforms for Connected Smart Objects
ICT 30 – 2015: IoTs and Platforms for Connected Smart Objects
1m €
H2020-ICT-2015
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International Cooperation actions
The challenge is to provide for discussions with third countries on areas of common interest and to provide support to collaboration
within the ICT research and innovation domains.
The twofold target is:
- to support dialogues between the European Commission/the EU and strategic high income partner countries and regions,
- to foster cooperation with strategic high income third country organizations in collaborative ICT R&D both within the EU's Framework Programmes
(Horizon 2020) and under relevant third country programmes.
Specific challengeSpecific challenge
ScopeScope
ICT 38 – 2015: International partnership building and support to dialogues with high income countries
ICT 38 – 2015: International partnership building and support to dialogues with high income countries
3m €
H2020-ICT-2015
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International Cooperation actions
ICT 38 – 2015: International partnership building and support to dialogues with high income countries
ICT 38 – 2015: International partnership building and support to dialogues with high income countries
Proposals must cover these two aspects which could include in particular: • the organization of events synchronized with dialogue meetings, • enhance cooperation on ICT policy and regulation through monitoring of the
targeted region/country, workshops or any other relevant activity, • strengthening of cooperative research links through the set-up of sustainable
cooperative mechanisms or platforms between European organizations and relevant leading third country organizations,
• reinforcement of industrial cooperation on ICT research and development, • increased co-ordination at EU level with horizontal Framework Programme
instruments to promote international cooperation (such as BILAT, INCO-NET and ERA-NET Cofund)
H2020-ICT-2015
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International Cooperation actions
ICT 38 – 2015: International partnership building and support to dialogues with high income countries
ICT 38 – 2015: International partnership building and support to dialogues with high income countries
Targeted high-impact countries/regions:1) Subgroup 1: North America (Canada, USA)2) Subgroup 2: East Asia/Oceania (Australia, Japan, Korea, New Zealand,
Singapore, Taiwan)
Expected impact:• Reinforcement of strategic partnerships with key third countries and
regions in areas of mutual interest• Increased visibility for EU ICT R&D activities and research excellence• Increase visibility for EU ICT policy and regulations• Support provided for European organizations/individuals in accessing
third country programmes.
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Thank you for your attention!
Questions and comments?
Grigoris Chatzikostas
BioSense Centerchatzikostas@biosense.rs
http://www.biosensecenter.com/