Joint Programming Initiatives JPIs UKRO Conference 23 June 2017, Newcastle Tim Willis and Kristine Zaidi

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1 Joint Programming Initiatives JPIs UKRO Conference 23 June 2017, Newcastle Tim Willis and Kristine Zaidi

2 Joint Programming Initiatives endorsed by the European Council (2008) as a new approach to address Societal Challenges that could not be addressed solely at the national level national funds and programmes mobilised to enhance European Research Area 10 JPIs each addressing a specific challenge Most JPIs have a CSA for coordination costs JPIs are more than an ERA-Net! JPIs help realise a European Research Area in specific societal challenges mobilising national resource under a common strategy

3 UK is represented in all 10 JPIs Alzheimer and other Neurodegenerative Diseases (JPND) Agriculture, Food Security and Climate Change (FACCE) A Healthy Diet for a Healthy Life Cultural Heritage and Global Change: A New Challenge for Europe Urban Europe - Global Urban Challenges, Joint European Solutions Connecting Climate Knowledge for Europe (CliK'EU) More Years, Better Lives - The Potential and Challenges of Demographic Change Antimicrobial Resistance- The Microbial Challenge - An Emerging Threat to Human Health Water Challenges for a Changing World Healthy and Productive Seas and Oceans JPIs help realise a European Research Area in specific societal challenges mobilising national resource under a common strategy

4 What do JPIs do? strategic hubs/platforms for R&I in their respective challenge: National Ministries and funders from each country Agree common Strategic Research and Innovation agendas Deliver joint calls (ERA-Nets); alignment; policy interactions plus knowledge hubs, foresight and data mapping, and share data and infrastructure Some JPIs have good overlap with Horizon 2020 Societal Challenges: others do not Oversight by GPC (part of ERAC): paper on future of JPIs published following external evaluation. JPIs help realise a European Research Area in specific societal challenges mobilising national resource under a common strategy

5 Agriculture Food Security and Climate Change: FACCE-JPI 22 countries (New Zealand observer) Aligned and mobilised over 120M national research Delivered over 50M in new research through joint calls Knowledge Hub MACSUR interdisciplinary modelling of European agriculture: 265 members, 18 countries, 300 scientific papers, input to EEA's indicator report and CC impacts & IPCC's 5th Assessment Report. BBSRC & Defra together with UK Global Food Security Programme

6 Agriculture Food Security and Climate Change: FACCE-JPI The integrated FACCE-JPI strategic research agenda defines 5 core research themes: 1 Sustainable food security under climate change, based on an integrated food systems perspective: modelling, benchmarking and policy research perspective 2 Environmentally sustainable growth and intensification of agricultural systems under current and future climate and resource availability 3 Assessing and reducing trade-offs between food production, biodiversity and ecosystem services 4 Adaptation to climate change throughout the whole food chain, including market repercussions 5 Greenhouse gas mitigation: nitrous oxide and methane mitigation in the agriculture and forestry sector, carbon sequestration, fossil fuel substitution and mitigating GHG emissions induced by indirect land use change

7 Key facts: JPI Urban Europe Established in 2010; 20 member states (7 of them observers and co-funders of joint calls) and 25 funding organisation 5 calls to date, UK participated in 3, two more are planned for later in 2017 Portfolio of 52 projects to date 80 mil EURO spent from 2012 to 2016 (73M in joint call and ca 8M in-kind, e.g. management of the calls) plus about 17 mil EURO from EC as ERANET Co-fund top-up. Variable geometry in joint actions Challenge driven, inter and transdisciplinary approach with impact and relevance Aims: enhance the capacities and knowledge on urban transitions towards more sustainable, resilient and liveable urban developments, reduce the fragmentation in funding, research and urban development; to build critical mass to realise urban transitions, increase the profile of European urban science, technology and innovation on the global stage. UK participating funding agencies: ESRC, AHRC, EPSRC, Innovate UK

8 JPI Urban Europe Five thematic priorities to address key issues of urban sustainability in a inter- and transdisciplinary way focusing on specific societal urban challenge: Vibrancy in changing economies: exploring urban growth and shrinkage and how new socio-economic vibrancy and equality in cities with changing economies can be sustained. Welfare and finance: dealing with the changing role of public services, community based activities, local and shared economy, and the potential of social innovation and new business models. Environmental sustainability and resilience: investigating the role of ecosystem services, sociotechnical systems and nature based solutions to reduce greenhouse gas emission and improve the resilience and adaptive capacity of cities. Accessibility and connectivity: improving the accessibility to infrastructure, services and urban amenities for high quality of life as well as to facilitate new urban economies and urban innovation eco-systems. Urban Governance and Participation: innovating urban governance and participatory approaches to unlock the full potential for urban transitions and to capacity building to catalyse progress in the other thematic priorities, considering in particular the opportunities of big data and enabling sociotechnical systems.

9 JPI Urban Europe Outlook - Long-term vision and ambition: JPI UE = THE platform to create, combine, discuss and make available knowledge and robust evidence for sustainable urban solutions by setting common research and innovation priorities, improving and aligning R&I instruments, moderating science-policy processes and supporting transnational collaboration for local capacity building. To focus on activities that strengthen the social benefit of research results; strongly fosters challenge driven innovation; and amplify the cooperation with cities and urban stakeholders. International agenda Challenges: Longer term relationships with cities and business need to be established Despite the progress in alignment national landscapes are still fragmented The uptake of new knowledge, tools and approached for urban transitions is still limited JPI UE to become well recognised source of knowledge for informing European and international urban policies

10 JPI Urban Europe Planned activities 2017 Sustainable Urbanisation Global Initiative, FWE Nexus (call with Belmont Forum) 2017/18 Joint pilot call with NCFC (China) on sustainable urbanisation in the context of economic transitions and climate change 2017/18 Innovation Action: making cities work 2018/19 Urban Accessibility and Connectivity 2018/19 Quality of Urban Life 2019/20 Urban Transitions 2020/21 Sustainable Urban Areas

11 Future of JPIs GPC opinion on the "Future of Joint Programming to address societal challenges" in the context of the mid-term review of Horizon 2020 and the preparation of the 9th EU Framework Programme for research and innovation 9 June 2017: JPIs have a crucial role in the ERA and the next Framework Programme In the next FP, future P2Ps should act more as gateways between MS/AC policymakers and the EC in the definition of future R&I programmes in the area of SCs. In order to be able to play such a political role, P2Ps need to focus more on being strategic hubs for their respective challenges. Enhance alignment and added value to society Create a long term roadmap towards FP9 JPIs help realise a European Research Area in specific societal challenges mobilising national resource under a common strategy

12 What you can look out for JPIs input to shaping FP workprogrammes and societal challenges We aim to mobilise national investments to ERA level We deliver through alignment of national-level activities; new joint calls; enhanced impact to policy and scoping future challenges JPIs are seeking to broaden activities at international level We are led by National representatives and Science / Stakeholder advisory Boards JPIs will be continuing their activities into FP9 JPIs help realise a European Research Area in specific societal challenges mobilising national resource under a common strategy

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