ERA-LEARN 2020 newsletter number 6

The latest ERA-LEARN 2020 newsletter (December 2017) is available at https://www.era-learn.eu/publications/era-learn-2020-newsletters

ERA-LEARN 2020 is a support action (CSA) funded by Horizon 2020 and it is a support platform for the Public-Public-Partnerships (P2P) community.

Information after meetings with representatives of Regional Offices

Bulletin prepared by the staff of the Polish National Contact Point

The third edition of the Bulletin prepared by the team of the Polish National Contact Point for Research Programmes of the EU ia available at: http://en.kpk.gov.pl/bulletin/

In the latest Bulletin you can read among others about:

• Interview with Agata Janaszczyk a Research counsellor at the Permanent Representation of the Republic of Poland to the EU – “Everybody’s attention is fully focused on FP9”
• Polish industry: strategy for Horizon 2020
• TOP 10 Polish SMEs, large companies and scientific entities successfully funded in Horizon 2020
• Marie Curie Skłodowska COFUND Projects in Poland.

Prof. Piotr Sankowski from the University of Warsaw received his 3 ERC grant

Prof. Piotr Sankowski from the University of Warsaw has obtained, for the third time, a grant awarded by ERC. 

Prof. Piotr Sankowski, from the Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Mechanics, is the first person in Poland who received three European Research Council grants.

Prof. Sankowski was awarded with the ERC Consolidator grant dedicated to researchers who have recently created an independent, excellent research team and want to strengthen it. The project of scientist is entitled “Towards Unification of Algorithmic Tools”, in short, TUgbOAT.

For more information please visit: http://en.uw.edu.pl/prof-sankowski-and-his-3-erc-grants/

Source: University of Warsaw

ERC Consolidator Grants: €630 million from the EU to 329 top researchers

The European Research Council announced the awarding of the Consolidator Grants that go to 329 top researchers across Europe. The funding, which is part of Horizon 2020 programme, is worth in total €630 million.

For more information please visit: https://erc.europa.eu/news/erc-2017-consolidator-grants-results

Source: ERC

Recommendations of the independent High-Level Group of Innovators on the European Innovation Council (EIC)

“The independent High-Level Group of Innovators published recommendations on the European Innovation Council (EIC), indicating it should support breakthrough innovation for the benefit of all, meeting the needs of high potential innovators from across the EU from start-up to scale-up.

In their first set of recommendations, the Group (including successful innovators, entrepreneurs and venture capitalists from across the EU), also recommend bringing all relevant EU funding schemes into a single, fit-for-purpose ‘one-stop-shop’ for innovation financing, with major reforms to introduce excellence, flexibility and agility (for example to combine grant financing with venture capital investments).”

Source: European Commission

EC published a guide to ICT-related activities in Horizon 2020 WP 2018-20

The European Commission published a guide to ICT-related activities in Horizon 2020 Work Programme 2018-20.

Roughly EUR 6 billion out of the overall budget of EUR 30 billion will be spent on research and innovations in the ICT sector. ICT is present in many of the Horizon 2020 areas. This guide is designed to help potential proposers find ICT-related topics across the different parts of H2020 in work programme 2018-20.

ICT-related activities in Horizon 2020 Work Programme 2018-20: https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/news/guide-ict-related-activities-horizon-2020-work-programme-2018-20

Source: European Commission

HORIZON Prize Materials for clean air – € 3 Million

The Horizon Prize on materials for clean air will be awarded to the most affordable, sustainable and innovative design-driven material solution that can reduce the concentration of particulate matter in urban areas. The contest has been launched and will run until the end of 2018. Contestants are able to submit their entries until 23 January 2018. The rules of contest are available online: http://ec.europa.eu/research/horizonprize/index.cfm?prize=clean-air&pg=rules

HORIZON Prize Materials for clean air: http://ec.europa.eu/research/horizonprize/index.cfm?prize=clean-air

Clean air prize – flyer: http://ec.europa.eu/research/horizonprize/pdf/cleanair/cleanair_prize_flyer_2015.pdf#view=fit&pagemode=none

Clean air prize – infographic: http://ec.europa.eu/research/horizonprize/index.cfm?prize=clean-air&pg=infographic

Source: European Commission

The European Research Council has announced its 2018 Work Programme

The European Research Council (ERC) has announced its 2018 Work Programme and grant competitions with a total budget of €1.86 billion.

One of the programme’s new elements is the reintroduction of Synergy Grants, the funding scheme for groups of 2-4 scientists who can jointly address ambitious research problems.

The ERC Starting Grants and Synergy Grants calls were open on 3 August 2017.

Other grant competitions will be launched according to the indicative calendar which is availabe at the ERC website: https://erc.europa.eu/news/nearly-%E2%82%AC2-billion-investment-top-european-researchers-erc-plan-2018

Source: ERC website

High Level Group on maximising impact of EU Research and Innovation Programmes

The High Level Group on maximising impact of EU Research and Innovation Programmes Report: “LAB – FAB – APP – Investing in the European future we want” was published on 3rd July 2017, on the occasion of the ‘Research & Innovation – Shaping our Future‘ conference in Brussels.

Report is availabe at: http://ec.europa.eu/research/evaluations/pdf/archive/other_reports_studies_and_documents/hlg_2017_report.pdf