EUROPEAN RESEARCH AND INNOVATION OFFICE Michael Browne Head of European Research & Innovation University College London.

EUROPEAN RESEARCH AND INNOVATION OFFICE

Michael BrowneHead of European Research & Innovation

University College London

Presentation Structure

- Introduction to UCL

- UCL’s strategy for Horizon 2020

- Connecting with innovation actors on a European (global) scale

- Examples of how Research Technology Organizations & SMEs can work together

A bit about me/UCL• London’s Global University• More than 700 FP7 projects• Total cumulative budget of €400M• 110 ERC Projects• Europe’s lead HEI in Health research• Consistently ranked in top 5 HEIs

in Europe across all of FP7• UK lead in collaborative research• Plan to be Europe lead in collaborative

research

HORIZON 2020 REPRESENTS A SIGNIFICANT OPPORTUNITY

UCL’s Horizon 2020 Mission Statement

Dedicated Proposal Writing Support Service

Horizon 2020 = €80 billion: Focus areas

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Seamless Connections

International Cooperation

European Research Area

Simplified Access

Coherent with other EU and MS actions

Common rules, toolkit of funding schemes

Europe 2020 priorities

Tackling Societal Challenges Creating Industrial Leadership and Competitive Frameworks

Excellence in the Science base

•Health, demographics and wellbeing

•Food security and sustainable bio-resources

•Secure, clean and efficient energy

•Smart, green and integrated transport

•Resource Efficiency and Climate Challenge

•Secure and inclusive societies

•Leadership in enabling technologies (ICT, nanotech, bio-economy, manufacturing, space & biotechnology

•Access to risk finance

•Integrating research, education and innovation (EIT)

•Innovation in SMEs

•Frontier research (ERC), FET

•Skills and career development - Marie Curie

•Priority research infrastructures

Vision2020: connecting research and innovation actors across Europe

Key objective for UCL is to work with other sectors across Europe Primary focus is SMEs – from all thematic areas (focus on innovation)

Vision2020 is central to UCL’s strategy to connect with SMEs – this is already happening – Kitforkids, Cell2b and iQur

Thank you!

www.ucl.ac.uk/reseach/europe

[email protected]

Michael Browne