Sustainability and creative industries in Horizon 2020
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The document outlines EU funding opportunities within Horizon 2020, particularly focusing on the creative industries and sustainability. It discusses challenges like low ICT adoption and market fragmentation, and highlights funding mechanisms for innovative SMEs and cross-regional collaboration. It also emphasizes the importance of sustainability as a cross-cutting theme in funding, with specific initiatives and timelines for project development.
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- 1. Creative industries and sustainability in H2020
- 2. Contents 1. Our reading of EU funding 2. Specific opportunities 3. Next steps
- 3. EU funding is designed to address key strategic challenges DG CONNECT DG GROWTH DG CULTURE INNOVATION – EVERYTHING INCLUDES ICT DEVELOPMENT FUNDS, SOME OF WHICH ARE FOCUSED ON INNOVATION CULTURE (AND CREATIVE INDUSTRIES?) • Low adoption of state-of the-art ICT • Skills • Atomized markets as a result of fragmentation and fragmentation for different markets (e.g. Language) • Difficult for innovative SMEs to scale up quickly + SOCIETAL CHALLENGES • Cross-sectoral and cross- regional collaboration • Using cluster organisations to support SMEs and to facilitate innovation and structural change • Near-market demonstrators to test new industrial value chains and give rise to emerging industries • Skills • Facilitating access to finance • Enlarging the market place • Expanding international reach • Reinforcing co-operation with other sectors and policies
- 4. Innovation Funds - > DG Connect • Horizon 2020 funding • ICT Innovation Vouchers • European Investor Gate Industrial funds -> DG Growth • Cluster Excellence Programme • COSME Cluster Internationalisation Programme for SMEs • INNOSUP • Startup Europe (Unit E3 Net Innovation): www.startupeurope.eu (with Connect) Creative Europe -> DG Culture • Culture • Media • Creative Europe Financial Facility But... Pretty strong support mechanisms for these already (Creative Europe Desks) • ERDF • Interreg • Urbact And endless others... Others The main funds have sustainability as a “cross-cutting theme” Funds for agencies in red; for businesses / orgs in blue; For both in green; Historic focus in yellow boxes
- 5. ... And so sustainability can fit within any of the key H2020 strands
- 6. These are innovation funds and so are focused on technology but... “Investing in world class research and innovation in the field and by promptly transforming knowledge assets into business successes and responsible solutions for Europe’s most urgent sustainability and societal challenges” – draft work programme for 2016 -17n >>”climate related expenditure should exceed 35% of the budget”
- 7. 1. Our reading of EU funding 2. Specific opportunities 3. Next steps
- 8. INNOSUP12015: Cluster facilitated projects for new value chains To develop new cross sectoral industrial value chains across the EU, by building upon the innovation potential of SMEs. Support for 5- 10 projects per year. First stage concept note of 10 pages. 30 – 04 - 2015
- 9. ICT 10–2015: Collective Awareness Platforms for Sustainability and Social Innovation a. Collective awareness pilots for bottom up participatory innovation paradigms b. Multidisciplinary research on collective awareness platforms (Internet Science) c. Digital Social Platforms (DSP) d. Coordinating pilots and research activities in CAPs 14 – 04 - 2015
- 10. Under societal challenges… Support to research on cultural heritage -Secure, clear and efficient energy -Cultural heritage and European identities -Mitigating the impacts of climate change on cultural heritage -European Research Infrastructures -Integrating society in science and innovation
- 11. 1. Our reading of EU funding 2. Specific opportunities 3. Next steps
- 12. Timings for H2020 Workplan for 2015 being developed Consultation with national representatives Publication of draft work programme Q1 2015 Q2 2015 Q3 2015
- 13. Next steps? 1. Develop this report, showing the transnational partnership and a clear idea for a programme meeting the draft aspirations 2. Targeted approaches to members of the Programming Committee (civil servants, publicly available online) 3. Check call documents for impact and apply as a partnership March - April May - June October