Implementation of health research funding under H2020 SC 1- “Health, demographic change and wellbeing “

Elmar Nimmesgern PhDDG Research and Innovation European Commission

Infoday IMI2Ljubljana, 13 January 2014

What is Horizon 2020?

http://ec.europa.eu/research/horizon2020

The EU’s 2014-20 programmefor research & innovationA core part of Europe 2020, Innovation Union &European Research Area

Funding(million EUR, 2014-2020)

Health, demographic change and wellbeing 7 472Food security, sustainable agriculture and forestry, marine and maritime and inland water research and the Bioeconomy

3 851

Secure, clean and efficient energy * 5 931Smart, green and integrated transport 6 339Climate action, environment, resource efficiency and raw materials

3 081

Inclusive, innovative and reflective societies 1 310Secure societies 1 695Science with and for society 462Spreading excellence and widening participation 816

• Translating science to benefit citizens

• Improve health outcomes • Support a competitive health &

care sector• Test and demonstrate new health

& care models, approaches and tools

• Promote healthy and active ageing

Horizon 2020 - Societal Challenge 1

Also look elsewhere! EU support of health related research & innovation is not limited to Societal Challenge 1

Less prescriptive topic texts

Two-year work programme

Stronger focus on end users

Broad topics

Challenge-driven

New Approach

More Opportunities for SMEs

• 20% of the total budget for societal challenges/LEITs to go to SMEs

• Simplification – a great benefit to SMEs• A new SME instrument• 'Innovation in SMEs' - a dedicated

activity for research-intensive SMEs• 'Access to risk finance' with strong SME

focus (debt and equity facility)

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Wanted: international cooperation

• A priority • Key goal: more and better

international cooperation• Horizon 2020 is open to

participation from across the world • Targeted actions across the entire

programme• Horizon 2020 Regulation and

Rules for Participation apply• Participants from USA can be

funded in SC1 (but not other SCs)

Getting you started faster

• A single set of simpler andmore coherent participation rules

• New trust/control balance • Just 2 funding rates for different

beneficiaries and activities (70 and 100%)

• Single flat rate for overhead or 'indirect costs' (25%)

• Simpler financial regulationto come

• 8 months' time-to-grant(exceptions for the ERC and in duly justified cases)

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Horizon 2020'Health, demographic change and wellbeing'

Strategic initiatives linked to SC1

Innovative Medicines Initiative 2 www.imi.europa.eu

European & Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP2)

www.edctp.org

Active and Assisted Living 2www.aal-europe.eu

European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageinghttps://webgate.ec.europa.eu/eipaha

The SC1 work programme 2014/15 in brief

Call for 'co-ordination activities'16 topics (10 in 2014, 6 in 2015)

Call 'personalising health and care'34 topics (15 in 2014, 17 in 2015, 2 open in both years)

€ 1,21billion

Understanding the call topics: example

'PHC 2 – 2015'

'Specific challenge'

'Scope', includes estimated budget (not binding)

'Expected impact'

'Type of action'

Personalisinghealth and care

• Understanding health, ageing & disease• Effective health promotion, disease prevention,

preparedness and screening• Improving diagnosis• Innovative treatments and technologies• Advancing active and healthy ageing• Integrated, sustainable, citizen-centred care• Improving health information, data exploitation and

providing an evidence base for health policies and regulation

Call 'personalising health and care'Seven focus areas

• Inter-sector cooperation for environment- and health-based interventions (2015; € 4-6 m, € 18 m total)

• Translating -omics into prevention and health promotion (2014; € 4-6 m, € 24 m total)

• Evaluating existing screening and prevention programmes (2014 ; € 2-3 m), € 15 m total)

• Control of infectious epidemics through rapid pathogen identification (2014; € 15-20 m, € 15+5 m total)

• Vaccine platforms for TB (2014) and HIV (2015) (€15-25 m for both topics, indicated € 25 m for 2014, € 21 m for 2015)

From "omics" … to prevention

Effective health promotion, disease prevention, preparedness and screening

Co-ordination activities

Applying for funding – process in brief

Publication of the calls

Submission of proposals

Signature grant agreement

Information on the outcome of the evaluator

Time to prepare the proposal

Preparationof the grant

Evaluation

Applying for funding – your one-stop shop

http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal

elmar.nimmesgern@ec.europa.eu

Thank you very much!