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Toolkit for Southeast Asian Horizon 2020 National Contact Points

TABLE OF CONTENTS A) Information on Horizon 2020 (H2020) ........................................... 4 What is H2020? ........................................................................ 4 Why Participate in H2020? ......................................................... 5 Can Southeast Asian Researchers Participate in H2020? .............. 6 What is the EU’s International S&T Cooperation Policy? ............... 7 How to Participate? .................................................................... 7 Southeast Asia in H2020 ........................................................... 8 B) Role of National Contact Points (NCP) in H2020 ......................... 11 Objectives and aims of an NCP ................................................. 11 Brief Information on the NCP Establishment in SEA .................... 12 Information on the NCP Organisations in SEA: Your H2020 Contacts in SEA ................................................... 12 C) H2020 Basic Terminology ......................................................... 19 2

Aim of the Document The aim of this document is to give some basic background information on the EU Research and Innovation Programme Horizon 2020 (H2020) to the newly established Southeast Asian National Contact Points (NCP). Brief Information on the SEA-EU-NET 1 The “SEA-EU-NET” project has been set up to expand scientific collaboration between Europe and Southeast Asia in a more strategic and coherent manner. The project was launched in January 2008 and involves 16 key institutions from the two regions. It will adopt an evidence-based approach to increase the quality, quantity, profile and impact of Science and Technology (S&T) cooperation between the member countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the Member- and Associated States of the EU Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development and the Research and Innovation Programme Horizon 2020. This is in support of the international strategy of the EU, and in particular the specific objectives of the H2020 - the EU’s primary funding opportunity for collaborative scientific research. The SEA-EU-NET project runs through to the end of 2011 and continues its activities under SEA-EU-NET2 until 2015. The SEA-EU-NET2 project is supporting the establishment of National Contact Points in Southeast Asia. 1 www.sea-eu.net 3

A) Information on H2020 What is H2020? 2 H2020 is the EU Research and Innovation Programme. It will last for seven years from 2013 until 2020. The programme has a total budget of over € 50 billion. This represents a substantial increase compared with the previous Framework Programmes, a reflection of the high priority of research in Europe and the importance of international scientific cooperation. The money will (for the most part) be spent on grants to research actors all over Europe as well as outside of Europe in order to co-finance • Research and Innovation Actions and • Innovation Actions Grants are determined on the basis of calls for proposals and a peer review process. H2020 is made up of 3 main blocks of activities forming 3 specific programmes plus a specific programme on nuclear research and for the Joint Research Centre (JRC): Excellent Science Frontier research Industrial Leadership Towards powerful new technologies Societal Challenges Challenge-based approach brings together resources and knowledge Euratom — Nuclear research and training Joint Research Centre 2 http://ec.europa.eu/programmes/horizon2020/en 4

Why Participate in H2020? The Horizon 2020 Programme is Europe’s largest funding opportunity for research and innovation in all scientific domains. It is providing funding support to a broad range of projects and activities in Science, Technology and Innovation:  Applied research within multi-partner consortia  Individual basic research projects  Innovation Support for SMEs (Small and medium enterprises)  Scientific networks (exchange, coordination and integration)  Research by public-private partnerships  Career development and training of researchers  Access to research infrastructures, co-financing of new, unique research infrastructures at the European level  Conferences, studies and exchange of best practice The motivation for participating in H2020 projects varies. SMEs, universities, public authorities, associations, research centres all find good reasons to participate:  Supporting competitiveness through strategic partnerships  Involvement in leading-edge research projects  Address specific problems on the basis of mutual interest and mutual benefit  Building international research networks  Information about future trends in research  Developing common standards/market opportunities  Developing research for the global knowledge-based economy  Scale of challenges = international collaboration more effective than regional approaches (climate change, environment etc.)  Access to knowledge and technologies of pan-European consortia 5

 Potential new contacts, networks and markets  Intellectual property rights  Increasing the mobility of individual researchers – brain circulation  Integrating Third Country and European scientific and technological potential  Sharing of best practices and knowledge transfer  Contact with promising young researchers and potential new employees  Networking (the opportunity to participate in further projects) Can Southeast Asian Researchers Participate in H2020? The simple answer is yes. Nearly all elements of H2020 are open to partipation by Southeast Asian reseachers. Organisations and researchers from more than 100 countries all over the world are already involved in EU research programmes. Countries in Southeast Asia fall in the category of “Third Countries” and in most cases can be funded through H2020. Third Countries are countries which are: • Not a Member State of the European Union (Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, UK) • Not associated to the framework programme (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, FYR Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Turkey, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, Israel) Third countries include: • Countries neighbouring the EU (Mediterranean Partner Countries, Western Balkans, Eastern European and Central Asian Countries) • Developing countries (ACP, ASIA, Latin America) 6

• Emerging economies (e.g. China, India, Brazil, Russia, South Africa) H2020 is very much built on the idea of reseach consortia i.e. a number of reseach partners coming together in a single proposal. A general minimum condition for particpation is that a consortium must have at least 3 partners from 3 different European countries. What is the EU’s International S&T Copperation Policy? European international cooperation policy has three objectives:  To support European competitiveness through strategic partnerships with countries outside of Europe, including Southeast Asia, in selected fields of science and by engaging the best Third Country scientists to work in and with Europe.  To enhance the production of knowledge and scientific excellence by enabling European universities, research institutions and firms to establish contact with their partners in non-European countries and thereby facilitating access to research environments outside Europe and promoting synergies on a global scale.  To address specific problems that Third Countries face or that have a global character, on the basis of mutual interest and mutual benefit. How to Participate? 1. Understand the basic principles: The EU H2020 Programme is a top-down European research programme focusing on applied research which is open to researchers from the rest of the world. The main H2020 information service is the European Commission’s website http://ec.europa.eu/programmes/horizon2020/ 2. Place your research in the H2020 context: Given that H2020 is a European funding programme, it is importnat to see how and where your research fits into the programme context. You should therefore look closely at the various work programmes which are published on an annual basis to see which calls might be of interest to you and your organsiation The current open calls are available at the so called “Participant Portal”. http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/home.html 7