High-level Summary of Work Programmes

Official Draft Work Programmes of the European Commission’s forthcoming funding calls: http

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Pillar I: Excellent Science

• European Research Council (ERC) Funding: Frontier research by the best individual teams

• Future and Emerging Technologies: Collaborative research to open new fields of innovation

• Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions (MSCA): Opportunities for training and career development

• Research infrastructures (including e-infrastructure): Ensuring access to world-class facilities

Pillar II: Industrial Leadership

• Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies (LEITs): ICT, nanotechnologies, materials, biotechnology, manufacturing, space

• Access to risk finance: Leveraging private finance and venture capital for research and innovation

• Innovation in SMEs: Fostering all forms of innovation in all types of SMEs

Pillar III: Societal Challenges

• Health, demographic change and wellbeing

• Food quality and marine research

• Energy • Transport • Climate action, resources

and raw materials • Inclusive societies• Science with and for

society • Spreading excellence and

widening participation- no further information available

How to read Work Programmes?

• Broad theme/focus areas• Sub themes/ focus areas• Topic – 2014/15 or 2015

e.g. MG.1.2-2015: XXXSEAC.1.2014.2015: XXX ICT 1 – 2014: XXX

e.g. CALL – ENERGY EFFICIENCYA – Buildings and consumers EE 1 – 2014: Manufacturing of prefabricated modules for renovation of building

Pillar I: Excellent Science

• European Research Council (ERC) Funding: Frontier research by the best individual teams

• Future and Emerging Technologies: Collaborative research to open new fields of innovation

• Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions (MSCA): Opportunities for training and career development

• Research infrastructures (including e-infrastructure): Ensuring access to world-class facilities

Pillar I: ERC Grants• Ground-breaking, high-gain/ high-risk research, frontier research across Europe. • Scientific excellence is the sole criterion on the basis of which ERC frontier research grants are

awarded. • A 'bottom-up' basis without predetermined priorities approach• The ERC puts particular emphasis on the frontiers of science, scholarship and engineering, It

encourages proposals of an interdisciplinary nature which cross the boundaries between different fields of research, pioneering proposals addressing new and emerging fields of research or proposals introducing unconventional, innovative approaches and scientific inventions.

• PI- hosted by an EU organisation• Team members: any legal entity (SA participants can’t be PI only team members)• It is expected that the research project will be implemented within the territory of the EU but this

does not exclude field work or other research activities in cases where these must necessarily be conducted outside the EU or the Associated Countries in order to achieve the scientific objectives of the project/activity.

• It is also expected that the host institution will be the only participating legal entity. However, where they bring scientific added value to the project, additional team members may be hosted by additional legal entities which will be eligible for funding, and which may be legal entities established anywhere, including outside the EU, or international organisations. Legal entities established outside the EU shall be eligible for funding provided that their participation is deemed essential for carrying out the action.

ERC frontier grant typesStarting Grants: • PIs at the career stage at which they are starting their own independent research team or programme. The PI shall have been

awarded their first PhD at least 2 and up to 7 years prior to the publication date of the call for proposals of the ERC Starting Grant.

• PI should also be able to demonstrate a promising track record of early achievements appropriate to their research field and career stage.

• Starting Grants may be awarded up to a maximum of EUR 1 500 000 for a period of 5 years

Consolidator Grants: • PIs at the career stage at which they may still be consolidating their own independent research team or programme. The PI

shall have been awarded their first PhD over 7 and up to 12 years prior to the publication date of the call for proposals of the ERC Consolidator Grant.

• PI will have produced several important publications without the participation of their PhD supervisor. AND be able to demonstrate a promising track record of early achievements appropriate to their research field and career stage.

• Consolidator Grants may be awarded up to a maximum of EUR 2 000 000 for a period of 5 years

Advanced Grants: PIs at the career stage at which they are already established research leaders with a recognised track record of research achievements. • Principal Investigators for the prestigious ERC Advanced Grant are expected to be active researchers and to have a track

record of significant research achievements in the last 10 years • Advanced Grants may be awarded up to a maximum of EUR 2 500 000 for a period of 5 years

Proof of Concept Grants: ERC Proof of Concept Grants may be used for conducting further work (i.e. activities which were not scheduled to be funded by the original ERC frontier research grant) to verify the innovation potential of an idea arising from an ERC funded project. Proof of Concept Grants are therefore on offer only to PIs whose proposals draw substantially on their ERC funded research.

Future and Emerging Technologies: Collaborative research to open new fields of innovation

FET Open supports early-stage joint science and technology research around new ideas for radically new future technologies. • Non-prescriptive, New technological possibilities, inspired by cutting-

edge science, unconventional collaborations or new research and innovation practices. Early detection of promising new areas, developments and trends, along with attracting new bold-visioned and high-potential research and innovation players will be key.

• 40% of the overall FET budget in Horizon 2020

FET Proactive nurtures emerging themes and communities by addressing a number of promising exploratory research themes with the potential to generate a critical mass of inter-related projects that, together, make up a broad and multifaceted exploration of the themes and build a European pool of knowledge and excellence.

FET Proactive- 4 themes• Global Systems Science (GSS) aims to radically improve the way in which scientific knowledge can

stimulate, guide, and help evaluate policy and societal responses to global challenges like climate change, global financial crisis, global pandemics, and growth of cities – urbanisation and migration. This is a highly interdisciplinary theme with strong impacts across different sectors of policy and society.

• 'Knowing, doing and being: cognition beyond problem solving' aims at renewing ties between the different disciplines studying knowledge, cognition and related issues (e.g., embodiment, , development, insight, identity, responsibility, culture…) from various perspectives (e.g., neural, physical, social, ecological), to artificial cognitive systems beyond the level of dull task execution or repetitive problem solving. This topic has been selected to stimulate new interdisciplinary configurations and for its potential to boost future innovation potential in robotics, materials and cyber-physical systems.

• 'Quantum Simulation' challenges the research community to develop solutions using quantum technologies that will ultimately address real world problems, with a potential for disruptive change. It focuses on quantum simulation to address problems that are fundamentally beyond the reach of classical computing, e.g. in quantum materials science or the life sciences.

• 'Towards exascale high-performance computing' is the science and technology building block of Europe's trailblazing and timely initiative to achieve world-class extreme scale computing capabilities in terms of platforms, technologies and applications. The increasing demand for computing power from all areas of modern science and industrial engineering cannot be met without radically new architectures, new algorithmic approaches and the interdisciplinary co-design of software and applications.

FET Flagships

Support ambitious large-scale, science-driven research aimed at grand interdisciplinary S&T challenges. • The Graphene flagship pushes the science and

technologies for a new class of material beyond the era of silicon, bringing graphene and related 2D-materials, from academic labs to industry, manufacturing and society.

• Human Brain Project (HBP) aims to simulate and better understand the Human Brain in order to develop new diagnostic tools and treatments for brain diseases, as well as new classes of low-energy technologies with brain-like intelligence, such as neuromorphic computing.

Example: FETPROACT 1 - 2014: Global Systems Science (GSS) Specific challenge: The ambition is to improve the way scientific knowledge can help inform and evaluate policy and societal responses to global challenges like climate change, global financial crises, global pandemics, and growth of cities – urbanisation and migration patterns. These challenges entangle actions across different sectors of policy and society and must be addressed by radically novel ideas and thinking for producing, delivering, and embedding scientific evidence into the policy and societal processes. GSS will put to full use the abundance of data on social, economic, financial, technological, and ecological systems available today. GSS emphasises systems thinking and the need to integrate/link data, models, and policies across all policy sectors with all societal actors. GSS will build on results from, among others, Complex Systems Science, Network Science, Mathematics of Big Data, the life sciences, social sciences and humanities, behavioural sciences, statistics, econophysics, etc. Scope: Proposals must address all of the below elements, necessary to successfully embed scientific evidence in the policy processes for tackling global challenges: • Research grounded in theoretical foundations of, among others, systemic risk, decision making under uncertainty or conflicting evidence, mathematics and computer science for Big Data (including their characteristics), algorithmic game theory, cascading/escalating effects in networks, integration and visualisation of Big Data… • Contributions to solving real world problems in one selected problem area - for instance tackling systemic risk in finance/economics, managing growth of cities and migration, or global pandemics – and in particular to tackle cross-cutting policy dependencies and interactions affecting the area of choice. • Novel ideas and technologies to generate and better communicate the scientific evidence-base: advanced simulation of highly interconnected systems; mathematical and tools for analysing (often unstructured) Big Data; integration of the whole spectrum of structure and unstructured data; methods to deal with conflicting data and modeling results; novel data visualisation tools. • Society/human-centred technologies, for instance, new approaches to allow citizens to actively participate in the policy process, to collectively gather and integrate data, analyse evidence, and novel methods to better judge and use scientific evidence: methods, e.g. games, gamification, and narratives to clearly and consistently convey data and modeling results and thereby to stimulate societal responses. The Commission considers that proposals requesting a contribution from the EU of between EUR 2 and 3 million would allow this specific challenge to be addressed appropriately. Nonetheless, this does not preclude submission and selection of proposals requesting other amounts. Expected impact: • Level to which research proposed is rooted in policy needs, promotes system thinking, and is delivering consistent messages from conflicting data and model results. • Level of use/uptake of GSS tools and methods in the policy and societal processes, including in EC policies. • Capacity of GSS to help integrate societal responses across policy domains and cross-cutting authorities by development of a system-wide integrated evidence base of data and models. Type of action: Research and Innovation Actions (100% funding) The conditions related to this topic are provided at the end of this call and in the General Annexes.

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions• The Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions ensure excellent and innovative

research training as well as attractive career and knowledge-exchange opportunities through cross-border and cross-sector mobility of researchers to best prepare them to face current and future societal challenges.

• The Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions are open to all domains of research and innovation, from basic research up to market take-up and innovation services. Research and innovation fields as well as sectors are chosen freely by the applicants in a fully bottom-up manner.

• Mobility is a key requirement in the Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions. Researchers receive funding on the condition that they move from one country to another to broaden or deepen their competences.

Innovative Training Networks (ITN)Objective:• The Innovative Training Networks (ITN) aim to train a new generation of creative, entrepreneurial and innovative

early-stage researchers, able to face current and future challenges and to convert knowledge and ideas into products and services for economic and social benefit.

• Partnerships take the form of collaborative European Training Networks (ETN), European Industrial Doctorates (EID) or European Joint Doctorates (EJD).

• At least three beneficiaries (or at least two for EID) located in three different EU Member States and/or Associated Countries. Above this minimum, the participation of institutions from any country or organisation is possible under the conditions provided by the Horizon 2020 Rules for Participation.

Individual Fellowships (IF)Objective:• The goal of Individual Fellowships is to enhance the creative and innovative potential of experienced researchers

wishing to diversify their individual competence in terms of skill acquisition at multi- or interdisciplinary level through advanced training, international and intersectoral mobility.

• Individual Fellowships provide opportunities to acquire new knowledge and to work on research in a European context (EU Member States and Associated Countries) or outside Europe. The scheme particularly supports the return and reintegration of researchers from outside Europe who have previously worked here. It also develops or helps to restart the careers of individual researchers that show great potential, considering their experience.

• Fellowships are either European Fellowships or Global Fellowships. European Fellowships are held in EU Member States or Associated Countries and are open to researchers currently within and outside Europe. The country where the European Fellowship is held is subject to the rules of mobility. Global Fellowships are based on a secondment to a third country and a mandatory 12 month return period to a European host. The country where the Global Fellowship secondment takes place is subject to the rules of mobility, whereas the return phase is not.

• In Individual Fellowships (IF), the beneficiary shall be a participant established in an EU Member State or Associated Country and employing the researcher during the project.

Research and Innovation Staff Exchange (RISE)• The RISE scheme will promote international and inter-sector collaboration through research and innovation staff

exchanges, and sharing of knowledge and ideas from research to market (and vice-versa) for the advancement of science and development of innovation. The scheme fosters a shared culture of research and innovation that welcomes and rewards creativity and entrepreneurship and helps to turn creative ideas into innovative products, services or processes.

• Exchanges can be for both early-stage and experienced researchers' levels and can also include administrative, managerial and technical staff supporting the research and innovation activities of the proposal.

• Participants in the Research and Innovation Staff Exchange (RISE) shall be established in at least three different countries of which at least two must be EU Member States and/or Associated Countries. If all participants are from the same sector (either only academic or only non-academic), at least one participant must be from a third country. Above this minimum, the participation of institutions from any country or organisation is possible under the conditions provided by the Horizon 2020 Rules for Participation.

Co-funding of regional, national and international programmes (COFUND)• The COFUND scheme aims at stimulating regional, national or international programmes to foster excellence in

researchers' training, mobility and career development, spreading the best practices of Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions.

• This will be achieved by co-funding new or existing regional, national, and international programmes to open up to, and provide for, international, intersectoral and interdicisplinary research training, as well as transnational and cross-sector mobility of researchers at all stages of their career.

• Participants submit multi-annual proposals for new or existing doctoral programmes or fellowship programmes that may be run at regional, national or international level. The evaluation is organised in two different panels: A) Doctoral programmes and B) Fellowship programmes. Support cannot be awarded to researchers who are already permanently employed at the host organisation.

• Participants in the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Co-funding of regional, national and international programmes (COFUND) shall be legal entities established in an EU Member State or Associated Country that fund or manage doctoral programmes or fellowship programmes for researchers. International European interest organisations that fund or manage doctoral programmes or fellowship programmes for researchers can also participate in this action.

European Researchers' Night (NIGHT)The European Researchers' Night aims to bring researchers closer to the general public and to increase awareness of research and innovation activities, with a view to supporting the public recognition of researchers, creating an understanding of the impact of researchers' work on citizen’s daily life, and encouraging young people to embark on scientific careers.

Call for Marie Skłodowska-Curie Co-funding of regional, national and international programmes (COFUND)

• Objective: The COFUND scheme aims at stimulating regional, national or international programmes to foster excellence in researchers' training, mobility and career development, spreading the best practices of Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions. This will be achieved by co-funding new or existing regional, national, and international programmes to open up to, and provide for, international, intersectoral and interdisciplinary research training, as well as transnational and cross-sectoral mobility of researchers at all stages of their career.

• Scope: Each proposal funded under the COFUND scheme shall have a sole participant that will be responsible for the availability of the necessary matching funds to execute the proposal. Participants submit multi-annual proposals for new or existing doctoral programmes or fellowship programmes that may be run at regional, national or international level . The evaluation is organised in two different panels: A) Doctoral programmes and B) Fellowship programmes. Support cannot be awarded to researchers who are already permanently employed at the host organisation. Doctoral programmes address the development and broadening of the research competencies of early-stage researchers. The training follows the EU Principles on Innovative Doctoral Training. Collaboration with a wider set of partners, including from the non-academic sector, which may provide hosting or secondment opportunities or training in research or transferable skills, as well as innovative elements of the proposed programme, will be positively taken into account during the evaluations. Each researcher must be enrolled in a doctoral programme. Attention is paid to the quality of supervision and mentoring arrangements as well as career guidance. Fellowship programmes fund individual research training and career development fellowships for experienced researchers. The programmes supported should have regular selection rounds following fixed deadlines or regular cut-off dates, allowing fair competition between the researchers applying. The selections should be based on open, widely advertised competition, with transparent international peer review and the selection of candidates on merit. Mobility types supported by fellowship programmes may be similar to the ones supported under Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships. On top of transnational mobility, applicants are encouraged to include elements of cross-sectoral mobility into their programmes. Fellowship programmes should be based on individual-driven mobility, i.e., researchers should be able to freely choose a research topic and the appropriate host organisation fitting their individual needs. Limitations regarding the researchers' origin and destination should be avoided. Given that the aim of the co-funded fellowship programmes is the support of individual fellows, research teams will not be funded. Proposed fellowship programmes are encouraged to cover all research disciplines ("bottomup"), but can also focus on specific disciplines. In this case the range of covered disciplines should allow reasonable flexibility for the researchers. Programmes that prioritise specific research disciplines based on national or regional Research and Innovation Strategies for Smart Specialisation (RIS3 strategies) will also be supported. Researchers supported under this scheme should comply with the mobility rules of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions. Existing programmes can deviate from this rule if duly justified in the proposal by the applicant.

Expected impact:The COFUND scheme will on a voluntary basis exploit synergies between European Union actions and those at regional and national level, as well as with other actions at international level. The scheme will have a leverage effect on regional, national or international funding programmes for early-stage researchers and experienced researchers. This impact is expected to extend to:1. enabling the relevant regional, national and international actors to contribute significantly to the development within their own setting of high quality human resources, by introducing and/or further developing the trans-national dimension of their offers; 2. increasing the numerical and/or qualitative impact, in terms of supported researchers or working/employment conditions;3. combating fragmentation in terms of objectives, evaluation methods and working conditions of regional, national or international offers in this area.

Type of action: Marie Skłodowska-Curie COFUND (Programme Co-fund Action).

CONDITIONS FOR THIS CALL• Publication date: 10 April 201412• Deadline(s): 02 October 2014 at 17.00.00 Brussels time• Indicative budget: EUR 80.00 million from the 2014 budget. Of this amount, EUR 30 million is allocated to Doctoral Programmes. The

European Union contribution has maximum overall of EUR 10 million to a single applicant legal entity for one call. • Duration: Selected programmes will have a duration of 36 to 60 months from the starting date specified in the Agreement. This duration

includes also the time that is needed to select or recruit the researchers.• Eligibility and admissibility conditions: The eligibility conditions for Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions apply. Please read the dedicated

section in this part of the work programme. The admissibility conditions are described in part B of the General Annexes to the work programme, with the following exception:

• The following supporting documents will be required to determine the operational capacity: • A description of the profile of the persons who will be responsible for carrying out the proposed work; • A description of administrative resources to implement the programme; • A description of partner organisations who will be contributing towards the work by hosting researchers.

• Evaluation criteria: The selection and award criteria for Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions apply. Please read the dedicated section in this part of the work programme.

• Evaluation procedure: The evaluation procedure for Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions apply. Please read the dedicated section in this part of the work programme.

• Proposal page limits and layout: A maximum length of the proposal is of 30 pages. Experts will be instructed to disregard any excess pages. The minimum font size allowed is 11 points. The page size is A4, and all margins (top, bottom, left, right) should be at least 15 mm (not including any footers or headers). Ensure that the font type chosen is clearly readable (e.g. Arial or Times New Roman).

• Indicative timetable for evaluation and grant agreement: Information on the outcome of the evaluation (one stage): Maximum 5 months from the final date for submission. Indicative date for the signing of grant agreements: Maximum 3 months from the date of informing applicants. Consortium agreement: Not applicable - this is a mono-beneficiary action.

Research infrastructures (including e-infrastructure)Ensuring access to world-class facilities

• Research infrastructures are facilities, resources and services that are used by the research communities to conduct research and foster innovation in their fields. Where relevant, they may be used beyond research, e.g. for education or public services.

• They include: major scientific equipment (or sets of instruments); knowledge-based resources such as collections, archives or scientific data; e-infrastructures, such as data and computing systems and communication networks; and any other infrastructure of a unique nature essential to achieve excellence in research and innovation.

• Such infrastructures may be 'single-sited', ‘virtual’ or 'distributed'.Broad areas:• Developing new world-class research infrastructures • Integrating and opening research infrastructures of pan-European interest • e-Infrastructures • Support to Innovation, Human resources, Policy and International cooperation

Pillar II: Industrial Leadership

•Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies (LEITs): ICT, nanotechnologies, materials, biotechnology, manufacturing, space•Access to risk finance: Leveraging private finance and venture capital for research and innovation•Innovation in SMEs: Fostering all forms of innovation in all types of SMEs

FOCUS AREA: INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES CALLS • Sub-focus area: A new generation of components

and systems • Sub-focus area: Advanced Computing • Sub-focus area: Future Internet • Sub-focus area: Content technologies and

information management• Sub-focus area: Robotics • Sub-focus area: Micro- and nano-electronic

technologies, Photonics • Sub-focus area: ICT Cross-Cutting Activities

FOCUS AREA: NANOTECHNOLOGIES, ADVANCED MATERIALS, BIOTECHNOLOGY AND ADVANCED MANUFACTURING AND PROCESSINGSub-focus area: Bridging the gap between nanotechnology research and markets Sub-focus area: Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials for more effective Healthcare Sub-focus area: Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials for low-carbon energy technologies and Energy Efficiency Sub-focus area: Exploiting the cross-sector potential of Nanotechnologies and Advanced materials to drive competitiveness and sustainability Sub-focus area: Safety of nanotechnology-based applications and support for the development of regulation Sub-focus area: Addressing generic needs in support of governance, standards, models and structuring in nanotechnology, advanced materials and advanced manufacturing and processing CALL FOR BIOTECHNOLOGIES Sub-focus area: Cutting-edge biotechnologies as future innovation drivers Sub-focus area: Biotechnology-based industrial processes driving competitiveness and sustainability Sub-focus area: Innovative and competitive platform technologies

CALL FOR FACTORIES OF THE FUTURE CALL FOR ENERGY-EFFICIENT BUILDINGS

CALL FOR SUSTAINABLE PROCESS INDUSTRIES

Pillar III: Societal Challenges

•Health, demographic change and wellbeing•Food quality and marine research •Energy •Transport •Climate action, resources and raw materials •Inclusive societies•Science with and for society •Spreading excellence and widening participation- no further information available

Pillar III: Societal ChallengesHEALTH, DEMOGRAPHIC CHANGE AND WELLBEING – Focus area: personalising health and care • Topics in the call are divided into 7 areas which reflect the need for a

translational and integrated approach to the challenge, providing support both to longer and mid-term research as well as to shorter term innovation activities.

1. Understanding health, ageing and disease 2. Effective health promotion, disease prevention, preparedness and screening 3. Improving diagnosis 4. Innovative treatments and technologies 5. Advancing active and healthy ageing 6. Integrated, sustainable, citizen-centred care7. Improving health information, data exploitation and providing an evidence

base for health policies and regulation

ExampleUnderstanding health, ageing and disease PHC 1 – 2014: Understanding health, ageing and disease: determinants, risk factors and pathways Specific challenge: The development and preservation of good health, and the occurrence and evolution of common diseases and disabilities result from varying degrees of interaction between the genetic make-up of individual human beings and behavioural, environmental, occupational, nutritional and other modifiable lifestyle factors. This applies from the earliest stages of development throughout life. Understanding these factors, their interactions and the extent to which they contribute to disease development is important for the development of preventive and therapeutic measures supporting good health, prolonged active independence and a productive working life, not least in the context of changing demographic patterns and the ageing of the European population. In particular, proposals should contribute to improving risk identification and validation, and will allow better diagnosis, risk-based prevention strategies and policies. Scope: EITHER: i. The identification of health trends and determinants, their validation, and the validation of risk factors for disease and disability, through the generation, integration and validation of data derived from relevant disciplines (e.g. molecular, behavioural, nutritional, clinical, environmental epidemiology; exposure sciences; genetics, epigenetics, etc.). This should involve the exploitation of existing cohorts and longitudinal studies and the assessment of the necessity to establish new ones, as well as where relevant, the valorisation of knowledge gained from population-based bio-banks. OR: ii. The identification of determinants and pathways characteristic of healthy and active ageing (from early stages of development onwards) and of health deterioration caused by time, disease accumulation and the abovementioned risk factors and their interactions. In both cases, sex and gender differences should be taken into account.

The Commission considers that proposals requesting a contribution from the EU of between EUR 4 and 6 million would allow this specific challenge to be addressed appropriately. Nonetheless, this does not preclude submission and selection of proposals requesting other amounts.

Expected impact: In both cases, proposals should provide a better understanding of the combined effects of factors causing health and disease, with the knowledge generated underpinning the future development of evidence based prevention, diagnostic, therapeutic and other strategies. For option: i. This should provide evidence for risk identification, underpinning future preventive, diagnostic and therapeutic strategies and policies For option: ii. This should provide a better understanding of pathways of healthy ageing, underpinning future strategies for the promotion of healthy ageing, targeted disease prevention and clinical interventions

Type of action: Research and innovation actions

The conditions related to this topic are provided at the end of this call and in the General Annexes

FOOD SECURITY, SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY, MARINE AND MARITIME AND INLAND WATER RESEARCH AND THE BIOECONOMY

Call for Sustainable Food Security• Sustainable food production systems • Safe food and healthy diets and sustainable consumption • Global drivers of food security Call for Blue Growth: Unlocking the potential of Seas and Oceans • Sustainably exploiting the diversity of marine life • New offshore challenges • Ocean observation technologies/systems

Horizontal aspects, socio-economic sciences, innovation, engagement with society and ocean governance across the blue growth focus area

SECURE, CLEAN AND EFFICIENT ENERGY

CALL – ENERGY EFFICIENCY• Buildings and consumers • Heating and cooling • Industry and products • Finance for sustainable energy

CALL – COMPETITIVE LOW-CARBON ENERGY • Renewable electricity and heating/cooling• Modernising the European electricity grid• Providing the energy system with flexibility through enhanced energy storage technologies • Sustainable biofuels and alternative fuels for the European transport fuel mix• Enabling the decarbonisation of the use of fossil fuels during the transition to a low carbon

economy• Social, environmental and economic aspects of the energy system

CALL – SMART CITIES AND COMMUNITIES• Enhancing the roll-out of Smart Cities and Communities solutions by stimulating the market

demand

CALL – SMEs AND FAST TRACK TO INNOVATION FOR ENERGY

TRANSPORT

CALL ‘MOBILITY FOR GROWTH’

Areas addressing mode-specific challenges (technical and socio-economic)1. Aviation2. Rail3. Road4. Waterborne

Areas addressing transport integration specific challenges (technical and socio-economic)5. Urban6. Logistics7. Intelligent Transport Systems8. Infrastructure

Areas addressing cross-cutting issues9. Socio-economic and behavioural research and forward looking activities for policy making

CALL ‘GREEN VEHICLES’CALL ‘SMALL BUSINESS AND FAST TRACK INNOVATION FOR TRANSPORT’

Example: MG.1.1-2014. Competitiveness of European aviation through cost efficiency and innovationSpecific challenge: The aviation sector contributes 2% to the EU GDP. It is also an important source of jobs creating directly 1.7 million jobs (among which 480 000 skilled jobs in aeronautics) and supporting another 2 million indirect jobs. The aeronautics sector alone generates a turnover of EUR 70 billion and exports 60% of its production. With 12% of its turnover invested in research and innovation, aeronautics is one of the most research intensive sectors and is one of the world leaders in terms of production, employment and exports. The long life cycle of aircraft requires long term investments with high risks. In order to preserve its leadership and jobs, the European aviation industry must have the capacity to deliver the best products and services in a time and cost efficient manner and to offer new and innovative products, vehicles and services, with improved environmental performance.Scope: Regarding aircraft, research and innovation actions could target the development of technologies and methodologies which have the potential to save costs and time across the whole life cycle of the aircraft (design, production, maintenance, overhaul, repair and retrofit), including for certification aspects. Research and innovation actions could also target the integration of additional functions (e.g. sensing, actuating) or materials in structural components of the aircraft, the increased use of automation and artificial intelligence in control systems allowing versatility and new capabilities or to provide passenger with additional services on-board of the aircraft or at the airport. Regarding air transport operations, research and innovation actions could target cost efficiency of ground operations, as well as innovative approaches which can reduce the needs or accelerate the pace of the training of personnel.

The Commission considers that proposals requesting a contribution from the EU of between EUR 5 to 8 million each would allow this specific challenge to be addressed appropriately. Nonetheless, this does not preclude submission and selection of proposals requesting smaller or larger amounts.Expected impact: Actions will demonstrate in a quantified manner their potential to mature the Technology Readiness Level (TRL; please see part G of the General Annexes), in the range 1-6, of technologies and concepts that can make a significant contribution towards the following high level goals by 2050 with reference year 2000: • The whole Europe aviation industry is strongly competitive and retains leading edge design, manufacturing and system integration capabilities and associated jobs thanks to significantly decreased development costs (including a reduction of costs of certification by 50%).

Actions will also provide ad-hoc indicators to measure the expected progress in terms of, for example, reduction of production or certification times and costs, when comparing the situation before the start of the action and after the implementation of its results. In the case of novel products and services, the potential markets will be identified together with the potential corresponding volumes / value.Type of action: Research and Innovation ActionsThe conditions related to this topic are provided at the end of this call and in the General Annexes.

CLIMATE ACTION, RESOURCES AND RAW MATERIALS

Call for Waste: a resource to recycle, reuse and recover raw materialsCall for Water innovation: boosting its value for Europe Call for Growing a low carbon, resource efficient economy with a sustainable supply of raw materials

– Fighting and adapting to climate change – Protecting the environment, sustainably managing natural resources, water, biodiversity

and ecosystems ensuring the sustainable supply of non-energy and non-agricultural raw materials

– Enabling the transition towards a green economy through eco-innovation– Developing comprehensive and sustained global environmental observation and

information systems

INCLUSIVE SOCIETIES

• Call for overcoming the crisis: new ideas, strategies and governance structures for Europe

• Call for the young generation in an innovative, inclusive and sustainable Europe

• Call for reflective societies: cultural heritage and european identities

• Europe as a global actor• New forms of innovation

SCIENCE WITH AND FOR SOCIETY

• Call for making science education and careers attractive for young people

• Call for promoting gender equality in research and innovation

• Call for integrating society in science and innovation• Call for developing governance for the advancement

of responsible research and innovation

Spreading excellence and widening participation- no further information available