EUROPEAN COMMISSION Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs Industrial Transformation and Advanced Value Chains Automotive and Mobility Industries GEAR 2030 Working Group 2 Highly automated and connected vehicles Draft report of the 2 nd meeting of project Team 2 Financing instruments for implementation 13 June 2016 (14:30 17:00 hrs) Place: Ertico Buiding -Blue Tower 2nd Floor Avenue Louise 326 -B-1050 Brussels Documents: https://circabc.europa.eu/w/browse/71af35a5-9f9d-4636-b824- af3197c45723 1. Adoption of the agenda The agenda was adopted with no change. Participants: DG GROW/C4, DG MOVE/C2, DG R&I/H2, Committee of Regions, ASFINAG (AT), ESP, NL, PL, UK, Bosch, Digital Europe, ERTICO, EUCAR, JLR, PSA, NXP semi-conductor, Qualcomm. 2. Adoption of the report Chair recalled the scope of work agreed at the last session. The report was adopted. 3. What are the financing needs/priorities for stakeholders/member States The chair/rapporteur recalled that the goal of the PT which is to make a gap analysis. To do this, the group needs to have a good view on the concrete issues that needs to be financed at the EU level in particular for research/predeployment. EUCAR presented key challenges for automated and connected driving to initiate a discussion followed by a tour de table regarding financing needs from member states perspective and stakeholders. The key challenges are directly or indirectly related to automated and connected driving and the time horizon is 2030(PPT on CIRCA). Certification and validation for automated driving (including the functions testing): How to test, certificate and validate automated driving functions? Commission européenne/europese Commissie, 1049 Bruxelles/Brussel, BELGIQUE/BELGIË - Tel. +32 22991111 Office: BREY 10/047- Tel. direct line +32 229-87580 antony.lagrange@ec.europa.eu
Enabling SAE level 4 automated vehicles: How to enable safe SAE level 4 automated driving at mass-production costs? Safe and secure connected vehicles: How to secure connected vehicles from manipulation and threats to guarantee safe operation and protection of goods? Digitalisation the next generation of safe, smart and connected vehicles: How to maximise the impact of smart and safe mobility solutions, and stay ahead in the race for global competitiveness for digitalisation and connectivity of vehicles? Future integrated mobility: vehicles, business models and solutions: How to meet customer expectations for personalisation and customisation of shared mobility services and vehicles? Digital breakthrough of automotive development and manufacturing: How to transform manufacturing processes to fulfil customisation needs, deliver customer experience, vehicle variety and consider future requirements at industrialized mass-production costs? Competitive automotive innovation cycles: How to substantially reduce the vehicle development lead-time and meet required time to market with consistent or improved quality and similar or reduced investments? Long-haul commercial vehicle 2030: How to fulfil the requirements on emissions, energy, road-safety and traffic flow while increasing the amount of required long-haul transport movements? Integrated logistic system: How to provide commercial vehicles fulfilling the needs from an integrated logistic system and benefit from the optimization potential? Urban commercial vehicle 2030: How to fulfil the requirements of the future urban environment on emissions, energy consumption, road-safety and traffic flow while increasing the amount of required transport movements? SPAIN emphasized the need for collaboration and the opportunity in pooling funds. They will prepare new topics by the end of this month on new generation of safety components, etc. PSA focused on the harmonization of testing requirements. EC reminded that this item was discussed in PT1 and participants are invited to contribute. ASFINAG (AT) mentioned the need for a step by step approach. Call for proposal for concrete operating structures is under preparation. Digital Europe noted that they will provide their position paper. From their view connectivity and automation will converge to create scale. Funding projects need to keep this in mind. A defragmented funding landscape and a visison for the next 10-15 are important. The EC reminded the approaches in GEAR 2030 and STRIA: What concrete issues needs to be financed in particular at EU level; What kind of research/predeployement is required? EC also emphasized the need for robust validation as it is important for regulators. Bosch noted that the interaction between driver and vehicle is still an important issue. Artificial intelligence and Deep Learning are key technologies for autonomous driving where Europe seems lacking competencies. 2
JLR underlined the importance of not being prescriptive ( not pick and choose technologies ). Simple rules for calls are welcome and further questioned funding after end of Horizon 2020. Megacity test cases could be an interesting option. The Chairs reminded that funding mechanisms for this activity in Gear 2030 are not limited to Horizon 2020 but could go beyond existing instruments (e.g. EUREKA). Financing scheme like those from the EIB migt play an complementary role.. UK emphasized the need for cross border activities and testing in rural environment, as well as the need for security. Further, business models, public acceptance and standards are important success factors for connected and automated driving. DG MOVE mentioned the STRIA Roadmaps and infrastructure requirements together with the need to to create synergies. DG R&I invited the participants to a half-day STRIA workshop 23/6/2016. PL mentioned their activities on public acceptance and the focus on reuired infrastructure. NL emphasized connectivity and how connectivity works with automation. Further NL highlighted the Learning by doing approach. Learning from real life tests in different member states is important. For this a set of comparable guidelines/principles are required. NL will provide some principles in the coming meetings. ERTICO reminded to focus on the financing issues not the topic themselves. Further scalable solutions are required. There is a high potential for evolution through Digitalisation(incl. e.g. Big Data, cloud computing). For this good connectivity is needed as well as the need to share the data on testing. At least one large urban test field is needed. The group recalled the need for a coherent funding approach to give a visible and substantial impulse with global effect, the need for interaction between the funded projects. Conclusion: The Chair invited the Member States and stakeholders to contribute on priorities/ issues in particular those not present at this meeting.. 4. EU instruments and national measures The group reviewed the available EU instruments (Bosch PPT available on CIRCA). Some key points: Contractual PPPs (e.g. green car initiative, 5G network). A cppp for Connected & Automated Driving could be an option in the next EU framework program (2020ff) JTI (e.g. ECSEL, shift to rail, SESAR) are long-term Public-Private- Partnerships for industrial competitiveness. JTI are jointly financed by the EU and member states. JTI are sometimes seen as burdensome from an administrative point of view (e.g. two proposals needed for EU part and national part). For certain areas like (pilot) production in electronics ECSEL could be worthwhile to address. 3
ERA-NET: national initiatives topped by EU money (33% of national funding). Part of the work program of the EU COM. Easier than JTI Connecting Europe facility. 30 bion managed by INEA. 9 TEN-T focus on projects of common interest for infrastructure (applicants are MS). Could be very interesting for Intelligent Transport Systems along the multimodal Core Network Corridors. EUREKA: intergovernmental network (not only EU), bottom-up principle, market driven, precedent: PROMETHEUS was a pioneering EUREKA initiative between 1987 and 1995 on driverless cars with a total investment of 750 million. It is considered as best practice. IPCEI: 6 IPCEI identified at this stage. Instrument to facilitate Member States/EU/Industry co-financing which allows for state aid compatible with the internal market. IPCEIs are on top of the political agenda in the EU and several member states. An IPCEI for Connected & Automated driving could have a global impact on the competitiveness of the European industry. Since the EIB instruments (Juncker Package, ESIF) are loans and credits, the EIB can play a complementary role to public funding. The European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI) is an initiative launched jointly by the EIB Group (European Investment Bank and European Investment Fund) and the European Commission as a means to overcome the current investment gap by mobilising private financing for strategic investments. EFSI covers projects to support: 1) Strategic infrastructure, including digital; 2) Education and training, research, development and innovation; and 3) smaller businesses and midcap companies. Specific instruments are loans, guarantees, credit enhancement products to stimulate capital market financing and equity-type products, including those taking technology, demand or regulatory risk. European Structural & Investment Funds (ESIF) = regions administrates the budget ESIF is the EU s main investment policy tool with a budget of EUR 454 billion for 2014-2020 The Chair recalled that the purpose of the group was not to select one winner but to look at all the possibilities. Spain presented its funding activities on automated and connected vehicles (see CIRCA). There is no dedicated program but different instruments that can be used for funding. The participants called for more details on the on-going projects: which topics are looked at with which program. Spain informed that some Spanish entities collaborate with FR and IT on a bilateral basis. The UK (centre for autonomous vehicles established BIS and DfT) presented the on-going projects (see CIRCA) worth up to 200 million, through Innovate UK. CCAV will launch another research and development competition later this year. CCAV will work with Innovate UK to develop the scope of the competition. It is being funded from the BIS 100 million intelligent mobility fund. NL volunteered to present their national program at the next meeting. Due to the lack of time, the Austrian program could not be considered (available on CIRCA). It could be done at the next meeting. 4
5. Gap analysis The gap analysis will be done based on the received inputs on funding needs and priorities matching these funding mechanisms. A matrix will be developed including the input from member states and all stakeholders. 6. Structure of the report The draft structure of the report was presented by the Chair and was supported by the group: 1. Executive Summary 2. Scope 3. Challenges for implementation of automated and connected vehicles 4. Funding mechanisms to support implementation a. European programmes b. National programmes 5. European financing schemes to support implementation(e.g. EIB) 6. Gap analysis 7. Recommendations 7. Allocation of tasks The chair called the Member States/stakeholders to contribute to the gap analysis before 15 August especially the ones which were identified with an on-going national programme (e.g. FR, SE and DE) 8. Conclusions and next steps The group agreed that at the next meeting someone from EIB/Junker plan could be invited to introduce EFSI. As for PT1, the following tentative dates have been selected for the next PT2 meetings: 30 August 2016, 5 October 2016 and 8 November 2016. 5