Latest Developments on Horizon 2020 and Successes of the Lithuanian Presidency

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Latest Developments on Horizon 2020 and
Successesof the Lithuanian Presidency

• Meeting of the Steering Platform
• on Research for WBC
• Zagreb, 11-12 December 2013

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Priorities of the Lithuanian Presidency of the EU
Council in RDI area

• To finalise legislative environment in order to
  start Horizon 2020 at the beginning of 2014,
  including European Institute of Innovation and
  Technology as well as Euratom programme
• Find appropriate and timely solutions for
  initiatives implementing Horizon 2020

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Latest Developments on Horizon 2020

• Competitiveness Council (research part), 3
  December 2013
• Lithuanian Presidency played a crucial role in
  leading the negotiations towards the formal
  adoption of Horizon 2020
• Horizon 2020 package - the major EU Framework
  Programme for Research and Innovation (2014-2020)
  adopted
• Innovation Investment Package general approach
  was reached
• Euratom Framework Programme (2014-2018) -
  political agreement was reached

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Horizon 2020 package

• Regulation establishing Horizon 2020 - The
  Framework Programme for Research and Innovation
  (2014-2020)
• Regulation laying down the rules for the
  participation and dissemination in Horizon 2020 -
  the Framework Programme for Research and
  Innovation (2014-2020)
• Council decision establishing the Specific
  Programme implementing Horizon 2020
• Regulation establishing the European Institute of
  Innovation and Technology (EIT)
• Decision on the Strategic Innovation Agenda of
  the European Institute of Innovation and
  Technology (EIT) the contribution of the EIT to
  a more innovative Europe

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Innovation investment package

• New generation of 9 public and private
  partnerships under Article 185 and Article 187
  of TFEU which will allow carrying out large-scale
  and long-term innovation activities under the
  umbrella of Horizon 2020
• Five public-private partnerships will be
  conducted in the fields of bio-based industries,
  aeronautics, electronics, fuel cells and
  hydrogen, as well as innovative medicines
• Four public-public partnerships will be
  established for the joint implementation of
  national research programmes in the fields of
  active and healthy ageing, clinical trials in
  African countries, metrology and research and
  development performing SMEs

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Presidency events. Research

• Meetings in Brussels
• Competitiveness Councils (September, December)
• Research working party
• Meetings in Lithuania
• Informal Competitiveness Council (Research part),
  23-24 July 2013
• European Research Area and Innovation Committee,
  10-11 October 2013
• Research Working Party, 10-11 October 2013
• Five conferences

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Successes of the Lithuanian Presidency

• Informal Competitiveness Council on the topic of
  skills. Main outcomes
• Successful build-up of the ERA strongly depends
  on how Member States are realizing it in their
  national research and innovation systems
• High quality research and research environment
  helps in retention of talented researchers. In
  addition to financial incentives and the quality
  factor, social and quality of life issues should
  not be underestimated
• Policies should include a broad range of skills,
  but mixed in the balanced way on either national,
  regional and the EU level. We need to overcome
  traditionalism, interdisciplinary fragmentation
  at universities and devote attention to
  multidimensional experience in education
• More efforts need to be devoted to the STEM
  (science, technology, engineering or mathematics)
  skills, openness of the curriculum, overcoming
  internal fragmentation within the universities
  themselves

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Successes of the Lithuanian Presidency

• Informal Competitiveness Council on the topic of
  skills. Main outcomes
• Activities as bringing talents to Europe using
  the scholarships, establishing networks of
  researchers worldwide, examples of industrial PhD
  programmes, Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions, etc.
  can form the set of instruments for better
  academia and business collaboration opportunities
• Mobility of human resources in science and
  technology is currently an important policy
  matter in Europe. An important group of mobile
  human resources are PhD/doctoral students
• Further harmonization of efforts is required to
  improve and to balance the attractiveness of the
  various regions within the EU teaming, twinning
  and ERA Chairs. New initiatives supported through
  Horizon 2020 could help address the innovation
  divide and make Europe stronger as a whole

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Lithuanian Presidency conferences

• Horizons for Social Sciences and Humanities
• 23-24 September 2013
• Enhancement European international cooperation
  and Eastern Partnership in RDI, 30 September-1
  October 2013
• MANUFUTURE 2013, 6-8 October 2013
• Joint FISA 2013 and Euradwaste 13 conference,
  14-17 October 2013
• Invest in Researchers, 14-15 November 2013
• As well as
• Vilnius Innovation Forum, 4-6 December 2013

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