At the first CEI – SEENET- MTP Workshop “Widening Participation of CEI Countries in the EU Research Programs – Training-Research in Physics", Bucharest, Romania, May 25-27 2014.

1. PHYSICS
TOWARDS HORIZON2020
Ana Proykova
ESFRI & FET advisory group
H2020

2. Layout with abbreviations
• ESFRI
• FET
• H2020
• Physicists in H2020

3. European strategy forum on
research infrastructures
ESFRI (formed in 2002)
The mission of ESFRI is to support a coherent
and strategy-led approach to policy-making
on research infrastructures in Europe, and
to facilitate multilateral initiatives leading to
the better use and development of research
infrastructures, at EU and international
level.

4. Ms and AS have two delegates
to ESFRI
One - working at the respective ministry of
science or/and technology
One scientist from academia (university or
research institute)

5. ESFRI Roadmap

6. FET = future and emerging
technology
Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) go
beyond what is known! Visionary thinking
can open up promising avenues towards
powerful new technologies.
The visionary aspects and exploratory
characteristics of FET might make it sound
like a kind of magic, but the mission of FET
is actually very concrete: to turn Europe's
excellent science base into a competitive
advantage.

7. What are advisory groups
for?
Advisory group (AG) experts provide high
quality and timely advice to the Commission
services during the preparation of the
Horizon 2020 work programme.
15 (thematic) +4 (horizontal) AGs
http://ec.europa.eu/programmes/horizon2020/

8. Thematic advisory groups
Excellence science
1) 'Future and Emerging
Technologies (FET)';
2) Marie Skłodowska-Curie
actions on skills,
training and career
development';
3) 'Research
infrastructures
(including
e-Infrastructures)';
'Leadership in enabling
and industrial
technologies’:
4) 'Information and
Communication
Technologies (ICT)’
5)'Nanotechnologies';
'Advanced materials';
'Biotechnology';
Advanced manufacturing
and processing';
6) 'Space';
…… up to 15

9. Cross cutting AGs
International Cooperation
Science with and for society (SWAFS)
Gender
Societal challenges

10. Three pillars
The Horizon 2020 programme consists of
three core themes or 'pillars':
Excellent science
Industrial leadership
Societal challenges

11. Excellent Science
(Physics)
- FET = future and emerging technology
- Focus should be put in applying for Marie
Skłodowska Curie Actions (MSCA) and
European Research Council (ERC)
fellowships. These account for 25% of
Horizon2020 funding (17,55 B euros).
- Research Infrastructures grants should also
be a great focus of the community (3,23%
of the Horizon2020 budget, i.e. 2,27 B
euros).

12. However
The Physics community should NOT ignore
opportunities that can be presented in the
other two pillars (Industrial leadership,
Societal challenges), since Pillar 1 is
less than a third of Horizon2020
Applying for calls in the other two Pillars
will require enhanced efforts in
networking with industry (in the case of
Pillar 2) and with scientists from other
disciplines (in the case of Pillar 3).

13. Future and Emerging
Technologies (FET, Pillar 1)
Specific challenge: Supporting a large set of early
stage, high risk visionary science and technology
collaborative research projects is necessary for the
successful exploration of new foundations for
radically new future technologies. Nurturing fragile
ideas requires an agile, risk-friendly and highly
interdisciplinary research approach, expanding well
beyond the strictly technological disciplines.
Recognising and stimulating the driving role of new
high-potential actors in research and innovation,
such as women, young researchers and high-tech
SMEs, is also important for nurturing the scientific
and industrial leaders of the future.
Scope: Proposals are sought for collaborative
research

14. Leadership in Enabling and Industrial
Technologies (LEIT, Pillar 2)
ICT calls
Sensor networks in hostile environments
Low radioactivity tracing
Photonics: Photodetectors (large area, small
pixels) // Extreme photonics (lasers/mirrors)
Cryogenic detectors (MKIDs, TES)
Materials of extreme radiopurity
Space

15. Work Programmes
2014-2015 (almost no changes)
2016-2017 (under strategic discussions)
2018-2019
2020
Hadron Physics: 3 categories of
activities:
• networking
• transnational access and/or service
• joint research

16. Networking activities -
Physics
1. MAN: Management of the
Consortium
2. THURIC: Theory of Ultra
Relativistic Heavy Ion
Collisions
3. ENCstudy: Feasibility
study foran
electron-nucleon collider
in Europe
4. EPOS:Exciting Physics Of
Strong Interactions
5. MesonNet: Meson Physics
in Low-Energy QCD
6. SPHERE: Strange ParOcles
in HadronicEnvironment
Research in Europe
7. FAIRnet: A worldwide
research networking
activity forexperiments
on QCD at FAIR
8. SaporeGravis: Heavy
flavouredprobes of
deconfined QCD matter
9. LEANNIS: Low-energy
antikaon-nucleon and
-nucleiinteraction studies
10. Lattice QCD: Lattice
Quantum Chromodynamics

17. Flagships
internal calls
Graphene
The Graphene Flagship brings together an
academic-industrial consortium aiming at a
breakthrough for technological innovation.
Human Brain Project
The HBP will develop six ICT platforms, dedicated
respectively to Neuroinformatics, Brain
Simulation, High Performance Computing,
Medical Informatics, Neuromorphic Computing
and Neurorobotics. In all cases, the platforms
will build on existing capabilities, some but not
all developed by the HBP partners.

18. Thank you!
anap@phys.uni-sofia.bg