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Planning Biodiversity Research

in

Horizon 2020

Arnoldas Milukas, Head of Unit I3

Management of Natural Resources

EPBRS Meeting,

hosted by the Irish Presidency

St Georges Hall, Dublin Castle,

Ireland 15-17 May 2013

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Outline:

•EU Research and Innovation Policy

•Horizon 2020

•Biodiversity research in FP7

•Horizon 2020 supporting EU 2020 Biodiversity Strategy

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• Legal basis: Research and innovation policies enshrined in

the Lisbon Treaty, introducing the European Research Area;

• Mission: to develop and implement the European research

and innovation policy with a view to achieving the goals of Europe 2020 and the Innovation Union

Make Europe a better place • Improve competitiveness, growth and job creation • Promote European Research Area • Tackle societal challenges

• Tools: the Framework Programme

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R&D investments and economic growth

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Horizon 2020: main features

• Research and innovation funding programme (2014-2020)

• Core part of Europe 2020, Innovation Union and ERA

− Responding to the economic crisis to invest in future jobs and growth

− Addressing people's concerns about their livelihoods, safety and environment

− Strengthening the EU's global position in research and innovation

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Horizon 2020: What's new?

• A single programme bringing together three separate programmes/initiatives (FP7, CIP, EIT)

• Coupling research and innovation – from research to retail, all forms of innovation

• Focus on societal challenges facing EU society: health, clean energy and transport, climate change etc.

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Horizon 2020: structure and priorities

• Three Priorities ('Pillars')

1. Excellent Science

2. Industrial Leadership

3. Societal Challenges

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Horizon 2020

proposal

Societal Challenges • Health, demographic change and wellbeing • Food security, sustainable agriculture, marine and maritime research and the bioeconomy • Secure, clean and efficient energy • Smart, green and integrated transport • Climate action, Resource Efficiency and Raw Materials • Inclusive, innovative and secure societies

Industrial Leadership • Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies (ICT, nano, materials, bio, manufacturing, space) • Access to risk finance • Innovation in SMEs

Excellent Science • European Research Council • Future and Emerging Technologies • Marie Curie actions on skills, training and career development • Research infrastructures

Shared objectives and principles Common rules, toolkit of funding

schemes

Europe 2020 priorities

Supporting the objectives:

European Institute for Innovation and Technology

Joint Research Centre

European Research Area International cooperation

Simplified access Dissemination & knowledge transfer

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Societal Challenges in Horizon2020*

Health, demographic change and well-being

Food security, sustainable agriculture, marine and maritime research and the bioeconomy

Secure, clean and efficient energy

Smart, green and integrated transport

Climate action, resource efficiency and raw materials

Inclusive, innovative and secure societies

• *Subject to the outcome of the inter-institutional negotiations

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Horizon 2020:Change in approach, break from the past

• Focus on high impact and EU added-value to foster growth and jobs

• Challenge-based approach, focused on main objectives/sub-challenges (not prescriptive topics)

• Identification of main building blocks (not unfocused 'shopping list')

• Coherent packages of activities/instruments

• Work on leverage effect of:

• Private Public Partnerships

• Public Public Partnerships

• Other EU programmes (Structural Funds, LIFE+…)

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Horizon 2020 and partnering

• Public - Private Partnerships:

• Joint Technology Initiatives or other formal structures (Art. 187)

• Contractual agreements

• Public - Public Partnerships:

• Coordination of Member States programmes (ERA-Nets) • Participation in joint programmes between Member States (Art.

185) • Supporting agendas of Joint Programming Initiatives

European Innovation Partnerships:

• Not funding instruments, but for coordination with broader policies and programmes

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Cross-cutting issues in Horizon 2020

• Market Uptake

• Social Sciences and Humanities

• Gender

• International cooperation

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International Cooperation in H2020

• Non-Eu countries

• International organisations

• Open to all non-EU participants

• Strategic cooperation sought with key international partners

• Criteria for scale and scope in international cooperation: • Research and innovation capacity • Access to existing, new or emerging markets • Contribution to the Union's external policies and international

commitments • Legal and administrative frameworks in place.

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Where are we now?

06/2011: Commission's Proposal for EU budget 2014-2020

11/2011: Commission's Proposal for Horizon 2020

5-12/2012: Council agreement (without budget) on Horizon 2020 Proposals

11/2012: EP's Opinion

02/2013: Council agreement on overall budget

On-going inter-institutional negotiations between Council and EP on EU budget and Horizon 2020

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Biodiversity research in FP7

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Biodiversity research in FP7

Has focused on:

• assessing and forecasting changes in biodiversity and understanding the dynamics of ecosystems

• relationships between the environment, the society and the economy are analysed

• Environmentally related risk assessments based on European research

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Biodiversity research in FP7

• ALARM

• ALTER-NET

• BIOSCORE

• BIODIVERSA

• COCONUT

• EDIT

• EUMON

• MACIS

• RUBICODE

• ...etc.

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• 61 projects completed

• 18 on-going projects

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Horizon 2020 supporting EU 2020 Biodiversity Strategy

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Policy drivers for Horizon 2020

• Europe 2020 strategy

• Innovation Union

• Resource-Efficient Europe and corresponding Roadmap

• EU Biodiversity Strategy 2020

• The Seventh Environmental Action Plan

• Birds and Habitat Directives

• Green Infrastructure (GI) (COM(2013) 249 final)

• Global Strategic Biodiversity Plan

• EU's Sustainable Development Strategy

• The Eco-Innovation Action Plan

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Societal Challenge: Climate action, resource efficiency

and raw materials*

• Objective: achieve a resource efficient and climate change resilient economy and a sustainable supply of raw materials, in order to meet the needs of a growing global population within the sustainable limits of the planet’s natural resources

• Activities: contributing to increasing European competitiveness and improving well-being, whilst assuring environmental integrity and sustainability, keeping average global warming below 2 °C and enabling ecosystems and society to adapt to climate change

*Subject to the outcome of the inter-institutional negotiations

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Climate action, resource efficiency

and raw materials

Broad lines of the activities*

• Fighting and adapting to climate change

• Sustainably managing natural resources 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

• *Subject to the outcome of the inter-institutional negotiations

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Sustainably managing natural resources and

ecosystems*

• Further our understanding of the functioning of ecosystems, their interactions with social systems and their role in sustaining the economy and human well-being

• Provide knowledge and tools for effective decision making and public engagement

*Subject to the outcome of the inter-institutional negotiations

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Horizon 2020 proposal: main environment-related novelties*

• Integrated, systemic and challenge-driven approach

• Focus on transformation towards a green economy and society

• More eco-innovation, including social innovation

• More socio-economic and forward-looking activities

• Inclusion of raw materials

• Environment and health now under "Health" Challenge

*Subject to the outcome of the inter-institutional negotiations

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Thank you for your attention!

Find out more:

www.ec.europa.eu/research/horizon2020