Horizon 2020: Opportunities for stem cell researchers. 12th Annual Norwegian Stem Cell Network Conference Soria Moria Hotel, 29 th September 2015

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1 Horizon 2020: Opportunities for stem cell researchers 12th Annual Norwegian Stem Cell Network Conference Soria Moria Hotel, 29 th September 2015

2 Introduction to H2020 Societal Challenges: Health NMBP and FET Health Excellence: ERC and MSCA Other opportunities: HFSP (human Frontier COST network FRIPRO Mobility grant Ethics How to write an application? Courses Berit Sundby Avset NCP MSCA NCP ERC FRIPRO Lars Petter Korsnes NCP Health, demographic change and wellbeing H2020 BIA

3 What is Horizon 2020?

4 Horizon 2020 will use three core themes to maintain Europe s position as one of the world s leading innovative regions:

5 The three pillars of Horizon 2020

6 Societal challenges Health Food, oceans, bioeconomy Safety and security Energy Innovative societies Transport Climate, the environment and resources

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8 Industrial leadership

9 Information and communication technoligies Nanotechnologies Advanced materials Biotechnology Advanced manufacturing and processing Space Access to private financing and venture capital for research and development All forms of innovation in all types of small and mediumsized enterprises

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11 Excellent science

12 Frontier research from researchers at the forefront Mobility and career development New innovation areas Access to stateof-the-art infrastructure

13 International network High profile grants International mobility

14 EU EUROPEAN RESEARCH COUNCIL THE RESEARCH COUNCIL OF NORWAY CAREER TRACK 0 2 YEARS AFTER PHD 2 7 YEARS AFTER PHD 7 12 YEARS AFTER PHD VERY EXPERIENCED RESEARCHER 2 8 YEARS AFTER PHD FRIPRO Young Research Talents 0 6 YEARS AFTER PHD FRIPRO Mobility Grant > 6 YEARS AFTER PHD FRIPRO Researcher project 2 7 YEARS AFTER Starting PHD Grant 7 12 YEARS AFTER Consolidator PHD Grant TEN YEAR TRACK RECORD Advanced Grant MARIE SKŁODOWSKA-CURIE ACTIONS SOURCE: THE RESEARCH COUNCIL OF NORWAY

15 European Research Council Goal: foster scientific excellence: science for science s sake; pioneering, frontier research Attractive, long-term funding: 5 years Excellent investigators and their research teams Ground-breaking, high-gain / high-risk research Independence, creativity, leadership, scientific impact One criterion: Excellence Bottom up, all disciplines, all nationalities

16 Grant Description Qualications Funding Duration Starting grant For early-career researchers to develop their career and establish their own team PhD years experience Normally 1.5 million Up to 5 years Consolidator grant For researchers to consolidate their own research team or programme PhD years experience Normally 2.0 million Up to 5 years Advanced grant For well-established researchers to develop a new and outstanding project 10-year excellent scientific track record Normally 2.5 million Up to 5 years

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18 ERC Calls Calls Starting Grant ERC-2016-StG Consolidator Grant ERC-2016-CoG Advanced Grant ERC-2016-AdG Call Opens Deadline(s) Budgets million EUR (estimated grants) 29 Jul Nov (335) 15 Oct Feb (335) 24 May Sep (235) The opening dates and deadlines are indicative Start planning your application early! Discuss your research idea and your CV with your peers, the EU-advisers at your university, the NCPs If you do not make it till the second stage, quaranteene for 1 or 2 years Do reapply!!

19 Choose your panel Life sciences: 9 panels Social Sciences & humanities: 6 panels Physical sciences & engineering: 10 panels LS3 Cellular and Developmental Biology Cell biology, cell physiology, signal transduction, organogenesis, developmental genetics, pattern formation in plants and animals, stem cell biology. Stem cell research has also been funded by these panels: LS2 Genetics, Genomics, Bioinformatics and Systems Biology Molecular and population genetics, genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics, bioinformatics, computational biology, biostatistics, biological modelling and simulation, systems biology, genetic epidemiology. LS4 Physiology, Pathophysiology and Endocrinology Organ physiology, pathophysiology, endocrinology, metabolism, ageing, tumorigenesis, cardiovascular disease, metabolic syndrome. LS7 Diagnostic Tools, Therapies and Public Health Aetiology, diagnosis and treatment of disease, public health, epidemiology, pharmacology, clinical medicine, regenerative medicine, medical ethics. And by some of the others

20 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Objective of the MSCA: Ensure the optimum development and dynamic use of Europe s intellectual capital in order to generate new skills, knowledge and innovation Budget : million

21 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Key features Open to all domains of research and innovation from basic research up to market take-up and innovation services Entirely bottom-up Participation of non-academic sector strongly encouraged, especially industry and SMEs Mobility as the key requirement - funding on condition participants move from one country to another Promotion of attractive working and employment conditions Particular attention to gender balance Public engagement of supported researchers One call per each MSC action per year

22 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Planned deadlines 12. Jan Sept Apr 2016 Info meeting 13th October :00-14:30 Forskningsrådet, Lysaker ative_training_networks_itn_2016/ ?lang=en

23 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Research networks (ITN) Support for Innovative Training Networks European Training Networks (ETN) joint research training and/or doctoral programmes Joint research training, implemented by at least three partners from in and outside academia European Industrial Doctorates (EID) for the doctoral candidates to develop skills inside and outside academia that respond to public and private sector needs European Joint Doctorates (EJD) a network with the aim of delivering joint, double or multiple degrees. Joint supervision is mandatory Implemented by European partnerships of universities, research institutions, and non-academic organisations.

24 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Individual Fellowships (IF) Objective to enhance the creative and innovative potential of experienced researchers to provide opportunities to acquire new knowledge, work on research projects in a European context or outside Europe, resume a career or return to Europe Scope Individual, trans-national fellowships awarded to the best or most promising researchers (all nationalities, subject to mobility rule) European Fellowships (12-24 months) or Global Fellowships (12-24 months + mandatory return phase of 12 months) Career Restart Panel and Reintegration Panel Secondments, notably in the non-academic sector, embedded in the career development Expected Impact to release the full potential of researchers and to catalyse significant development in their careers in both the academic and non-academic sectors

25 Ethichs in H2020- ETHICS APPRAISAL STEPS Ethics Selfassessment Activity Who? When? How? Applicant Application phase Consideration of ethical issues of the proposal Ethics Pre-screening /Screening Ethics experts Evaluation phase Review of application material Ethics Assessment (for proposals involving hesc or raising serious ethical issues) Ethics experts Evaluation/ Grant preparation phase Review of application material Ethics Check/Audit Ethics experts Implementation phase Review of project deliverables/intervi ew with applicants

26 ethics issue checklist Part A of your proposal cipants/data/ref/h2020/grants_ma nual/hi/ethics/ethics-eit_en.pdf 1. HUMAN EMBRYOS/FOETUSES 2. HUMANS 3. HUMAN CELLS / TISSUES 4. PERSONAL DATA 5. ANIMALS 6. THIRD COUNTRIES 7. ENVIRONMENT & HEALTH and SAFETY 8. DUAL USE ethics self-assessment Part B of your proposal (as a separate annex) describe how the proposal meets the national legal and ethical requirements of the country or countries where the tasks raising ethical issues are to be carried out explains in detail how you intend to address the issues in the ethical issues table provide the documents that you need under national law(if you already have them), e.g.: an ethics committee opinion; the document notifying activities raising ethical issues or authorising such activities nts/data/ref/h2020/grants_manual/hi/ ethics/h2020_hi_ethics-selfassess_en.pdf

27 Human embryos and foetuses (reefering mainly to human embryonic stem cells (hesc)) The following fields of research cannot be financed at all under Horizon 2020 research activities aiming at human cloning for reproductive purposes research activity intended to modify the genetics of human beings that could make such changes heritable (exception: research relating to cancer treatment of the gonads) research activities intended to create human embryos solely for the purpose of research or for the purpose of stem cell procurement, incl. by means of somatic cell nuclear trans Research on human stem cells (both adult and embryonic) may be financed depending both on the contents of the scientific proposal and the legal framework of the Member States involved.

28 Novel, innovative and interdisciplinary basic research focused on the complex mechanisms of living organisms; Topics range from molecular and cellular approaches to systems and cognitive neuroscience and the interactions between organisms. A clear emphasis is placed on novel collaborations that bring biologists together with scientists from fields such as physics, mathematics, chemistry, computer science and engineering to focus on problems at the frontier of the life sciences. International collaboration Young Investigators' Grants, Less than 10 yrs after PhD Less than 5 yrs after starting independent lab/group Program Grants Any career stage Postdoctoral Fellowships Less than 3 yrs since PhD 3 years Move into new line of study in a new country Annual calls Must register well before deadline Submit letter of Intent at call deadline Full proposal by invitation only Ian Gjertz: ig@rcn.no

29 Financing for Networks Open to all scientific areas The networks - COST Actions must have a clear objective Funds meetings, short research visits and conferences, but NOT the research Open researchers from all member countries can sign up for new networks Two annual deadlines: march and september More info: and on Forskningsrådets web Norwegian COST-contact: Trude Dypvik, Forskningsrådet tdy@rcn.no

30 FRIPRO Mobility Grant All research field 0-6 years after PhD 2 years abroad + 1 year in Norway Open for all Norwegian research institutions The Norwegian institution will be the employer during the whole fellowship Collaboration agrement with the institution abroad Open to PIs of all nationalities Calls in 2014, 2015, fellowships/call FRIPRO Common call deadline Common evaluation process 25. May 2016 Other application types: Young Research Talents Researcher projects Co-funded by the FP7 Marie Curie COFUND action of the European Union For more information about all application types:

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32 200 European EURAXESS Service Centres assist you with practicalities Information: National web sites EURAXESS Norway EURAXESS Links 32

33 Information meetings, workshops and courses: 15. Oct. From invention to innovation - How to achieve impact in H2020 projects? (NFR, Lysaker) 28. Oct How to develop a project - Horizon 2020, Joe Gorman (NFR, Lysaker) 8. Dec How to develop a project - Horizon 2020, Joe Gorman (Trondheim) In 2016: Sean McCarthy: "How to Write a Competitive Proposal for Horizon 2020 Workshops organised by the NCPs, throughout the year How to write applications to the ERC, at the large Universities appr 6 months before deadline For a full list see:

34 National Contact Points (NCP) NCP for each thematic area under Horizon 2020 Per Ivar Høvring NCP: ERC Per Magnus Kommandantvold NCP: ERC, MSCA, Infrastructure Berit Sundby Avset NCP: ERC, MSCA You should also contact the EU-advisors in your organisation! Contact:

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