Horizon 2020 - Successes & opportunities in engineering, Ciarán Prunty.

1. Horizon 2020:
Successes and Opportunities in
Engineering
Ciarán Prunty – NI Horizon 2020 Contact Point
30 Nov 2016

2. Security
Transport
Climate
Inclusive societies
ERC – European Research
Council
MSCA
Marie Sklowdowska-Curie
Actions
RI – Research
Infrastructures
FET – Future and
Emerging Technologies
ICT – Including Robotics
NMPB - Nanotechnologies,
Advanced Materials, Biotechnology
and Advanced Manufacturing and
Processing
Factories of the future (FOF)
Energy efficient buildings (EEB)
Sustainable processing Industries
(SPIRE)
SME Instrument
FTI – Fast Track to Innovation
SPACE – including satellite applications
Pillar 1: Excellent Science Pillar 2: Industrial Leadership Pillar 3: Societal Challenges
Health
Food-Agri
Energy

3. Transport
NMPB - Nanotechnologies,
Advanced Materials, Biotechnology
and Advanced Manufacturing and
Processing
Factories of the future (FOF)
Energy efficient buildings (EEB)
Sustainable processing Industries
(SPIRE)
Pillar 1: Excellent Science Pillar 2: Industrial Leadership Pillar 3: Societal Challenges

4. *High level expert group
on Key Enabling
Technologies

5. *High level expert group
on Key Enabling
Technologies

6. *High level expert group on Key
Enabling Technologies

7. *High level expert group on Key
Enabling Technologies

11. REuse and REcycling of CDW
materials and structures in
energy efficient pREfabricated
elements for building
REfurbishment and construction
EUR 5M Total
EUR 1.2M to NI
Progression from Knowledge
Transfer Project (KTP) and long
term industry-academia
collaboration

12. ICONIC – Innovative Training Network
Improving the crashworthiness of composite
transportation structures
– Queen’s University
– Short Brothers PLC (Bombardier Aerospace
Belfast)
– Ulster University
– University of Limerick
– University of Patras
– Ulster University
– DLR
– Centro Ricerche Fiat
– Swerea SICOMP AB
– Politecnico di Torino
Recruiting 15 PhD students
Programme of summer schools and transferrable
skills training

13. MSCA Individual Fellowships
Bringing in new skills
Developing research and commercial links
Secondment opportunities
Sustainable
geopolymer
concrete
Low
environmental
impact solvents
Efficient
design tools
for aerospace

14. www. cordis.europa.eu

15. Things to do
• Think on your existing projects ideas. Consider your R+D trajectory
• Who and what has been funded? →Check Cordis
• Register as evaluator
https://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/exper
ts/index.html
• Develop a partnering profile
• Added to NICP mailing list to receive updates (esp next calls)

16. Upcoming calls and events
Next call deadlines
• NMP 19th Jan
• Transport 26th Jan
Cambridge April 4, 2017 Brokerage/info-day event for the 2018 NMPB topics.
https://www.b2match.eu/h2020nmp2017
EuroNanoForum 2017 - Valletta, Malta, 21 - 23 June 2017.
Representatives from industry, research, academia and businesses
will discuss the latest developments in nanotechnology and
advanced materials and their contribution to European
manufacturing.. More information and updates

17. • Very specific, demonstrator focussed, tender-style projects (€0.5-1.5M)
• No requirement to collaborate with other countries
• 5th Call for Proposals to be launched on 28th November
• Info day material should be available online

18. Thank you
c.prunty@qub.ac.uk