(48)The current system of reimbursement of actual personnel costs should be further simplified building on the project-based remuneration approach developed under Horizon 2020 and further aligned to the Financial Regulation.    For the Council, The President oss-border investment in research and innovation bringing mutual benefits to people and businesses while ensuring that the EU can uphold its interests in strategic areas. 1.Procurement under the Programme shall be awarded and managed in accordance with Title VII of the Financial Regulation, unless otherwise specified in this Chapter. Full complementarity exists between the Single Market Programme and the actions of the future European Innovation Council for innovative companies, as well as in the area of support services for SMEs, in particular where the market does not provide viable financing; the Enterprise Europe Network may serve, as other existing SME support structures (e.g. This may include basic and applied research, technology development and integration, testing and validation on a small-scale prototype in a laboratory or simulated environment; Innovation action: action primarily consisting of activities directly aimed at producing plans and arrangements or designs for new, altered or improved products, processes or services, possibly including prototyping, testing, demonstrating, piloting, large-scale product validation and market replication; Innovation and market deployment actions: actions embedding an innovation action and other activities necessary to deploy an innovation in the market, including the scaling-up of companies, providing Horizon Europe blended finance (a mix of grant-type funding and private finance); ERC frontier research: principal investigator-led research actions, hosted by single or multiple beneficiaries (ERC only); Training and mobility action: action geared towards improvement of skills, knowledge and career prospects of researchers based on mobility between countries, and, if relevant, between sectors or disciplines; Programme co-fund action: action to provide co-funding to a programme of activities established and/or implemented by entities managing and/or funding research and innovation programmes, other than Union funding bodies. A Seal of Excellence may be awarded subject to the following cumulative conditions: nd has passed applicable thresholds for the first two award criteria referred to in paragraph 4. for those activities that would be eligible under an innovation action. This is 70% of the budget earmarked for SMEs. The second pillar on Global Challenges and Industrial Competitiveness will take forward the societal challenges and industrial technologies. The Framework Programme will intensify cooperation and extend association agreements to include countries with excellent science, technology and innovation capacities. (6)The conception and design of the Programme should respond to the need for establishing a critical mass of supported activities, throughout the EU Union and through international cooperation, in line with the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). fund set up in accordance with Article 38 of Regulation (EC) No 1290/2013. eholders in fully endorsing the principle of the open access and working with them to make the European Open Science Cloud a reality; that allows for unrestricted and constant knowledge and data circulation and creating the necessary incentives for programme beneficiaries and innovators to share their results and data for reuse. Rules adopted on the basis of Article 322 TFEU also concern the protection of the Union's budget in case of generalised deficiencies as regards the rule of law in the Member States, as the respect fo. (3)The promotion of research and innovation activities deemed necessary to help realise Union policy objectives should take into account the innovation principle as put forward in the Commission Communication of 15 May 2018 'A renewed European Agenda for Research and Innovation - Europe's chance to shape its future' (COM(2018)306). The Programme will continue to facilitate cross-border collaboration between top scientists and innovators, allowing for trans-natio, nal and cross-sector coordination between public and private R&I investment. hout prejudice to the Financial Regulation, expenditure for actions resulting from projects included in the first work programme may be eligible as from 1 January 2021. For grants, this shall include consideration of the use of lump sums, flat rates and scales of unit costs. This Pillar should also support the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) and European innovation ecosystems at large, notably through co-funding partnerships with national and regional innovation support actors. 7.Horizon Europe activities shall be primarily delivered through calls for proposals, some of which organised as parts of missions and European Partnerships. missions and the European Innovation Council) and the increased budget to be delegated, changes to agencies’ mandates will be needed, Evaluations will be carried out in line with paragraphs 22 and 23 of the Interinstitutional Agreement of 13 A, , where the three institutions confirmed that evaluations of existing legislation and policy should provide the basis for impact assessments of options for further action. Where relevant, the necessity to ensure the overall coherence of the portfolio of projects should be taken into account. Project-based remuneration means remuneration that is linked to the participation of a person in projects, is part of the beneficiary’s usual remuneration practices and is paid in a consistent manner. The Programme should therefore take into account the specific characteristics of those regions in line with the Commission's Communication on 'A stronger and renewed strategic partnership with the EU's outermost regions' (COM (2017) 623 final) as endorsed by the Council on 12 April 2018. They shall ensure that any rights of their employees or any other parties in relation to the results can be exercised in a manner compatible with the benefici. Implementation modalities of the equity and repayable support. It shall take effect the day following the publication of the decision in the Official Journal of the European Union or at a later date specified therein. 25 Evaluation of impacts achieved at Union and national level in relation to defined targets and key performance indicators, feeding into the Programme evaluation set out in Article 4. , including an assessment of the most effective policy intervention mode for any future action; and the positioning of any possible renewal of a European Partnership in the overall European Partnerships landscape and its policy priorities; Appropriate measures ensuring phasing-out according to the agreed conditions and timeline, without prejudice to possible continued transnational funding by national or other Union programmes. Given the new elements, in the remit of the new Framework Programme (e.g. shall provide for the award of the contracts to the tender(s) offering best value for money while ensuring absence of conflict of interest. EUR 2 800 000 000 for cluster 'Inclusive and Secure Society'; EUR 15 000 000 000 for cluster 'Digital and Industry'; 000 000 for cluster 'Climate, Energy and Mobility'; EUR 10 000 000 000 for cluster 'Food and Natural Resources'; EUR 2 200 000 000 for the non-nuclear direct actions of the Joint Research Centre (JRC); EUR 13 500 000 000 for Pillar III 'Open Innovation' f. EUR 10 500 000 000 for the European Innovation Council, including up to EUR 500 000 000 for European Innovation Ecosystems; EUR 3 000 000 000 for the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT); for Part 'Strengthening the European Research Area' for the period 2021-2027, of which. ents, when it carries out investigations into criminal offences falling within its competence in accordance with Regulation (EU) 2017/1939. It will also contribute to the other Programme's specific objectives as described in Article 3. It lays down rules on the implementation of the Union budget, including the rules on grants, prizes, procurement, indirect implementation. Association to the Programme of each of the third countries under point(d) shall be in accordance with the conditions laid down in a specific agreement covering the participation of the third country to any Union programme, provided that the agreement: –ensures a fair balance as regards the contributions and benefits of the third country participating in the Union programmes; –lays down the conditions of participation in the programmes, including the calculation of financial contributions to individual programmes and their administrative costs. An approach of general opening for international participation and targeted international cooperation actions should be followed, including through appropriate eligibility for funding of entities established in low to middle income countries. intellectual property rights, that is: (i) held by beneficiaries prior to their accession to the action; (ii) identified by the beneficiaries in writing in any manner as needed for implementing the action or for exploiting its results; ans the public disclosure of the results by appropriate means (other than resulting from protecting or exploiting the results), including by scientific publications in any medium; “exploitation” means the use of results in further research and innovation a. ctivities other than those covered by the action concerned, or in developing, creating, manufacturing and marketing a product or process, or in creating and providing a service, or in standardisation activities; “fair and reasonable conditions” means appro, priate conditions, including possible financial terms or royalty-free conditions, taking into account the specific circumstances of the request for access, for example the actual or potential value of the results or background to which access is requested. gramme shall ensure the effective promotion of gender equality and the gender dimension in research and innovation content. ts), prizes and procurements It may also provide financing in the form of financial instruments within blending operations. (54)The types of financing and the methods of implementation under this Regulation shall be chosen on the basis of their ability to achieve the specific objectives of the actions and to deliver results, taking into account, in particular, the costs of controls, the administrative burden, and the expected risk of non-compliance. Thus the proposed regulation on data governance will help by boosting data sharing across sectors and Member States, while the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a … With the agreement of applicants concerned, the Commission or funding bodies implementi. The power to adopt delegated acts is conferred on the Commission subject to the conditions laid down in this Article. EUR 16 600 000 000 for the European Research Council; EUR 6 800 000 000 for Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions; EUR 2 400 000 000 for research infrastructures; II 'Global Challenges and Industrial Competitiveness' for the period 2021-2027, of which. The evaluation committee may be assisted by independent experts. resources allocated to the Programme shall also contribute to the corporate communication of the political priorities of the Union, as far as they are related to the objectives referred to in Article 3. Open access to research data shall be the general rule under the terms and conditions laid down in the grant agreement, but exceptions shall apply if justified, taking into consideration the legitimate interests of the beneficiaries and any other constraints, such as data protection rules, security rules or intellectual property rights. The gender dimension should be adequately integrated in research and innovation content and followed through at all stages of the research cycle. 1.In addition to the criteria set out in Article 197 of the Financial Regulation, for beneficiaries with project-based remuneration, costs of personnel are eligible up to the remuneration that the person is paid for work in similar projects funded by national schemes. nce with Article 35(3). There are three types of partnerships: 2027-2036, of which 40% will be highly skilled. Resources allocated to Member States under shared management and transferrable in ac, cordance with Article 21 of Regulation (EU) XX […Common Provisions Regulation] may, at their request, be transferred to the Programme. Actions that receive joint funding from different Union programmes shall be audited only once, covering all involved programmes and their respective applicable rules. new and more knowledge and technologies, promoting scientific excellence and significant scientific impact. Download available work programmes. Horizon Europe is the EU’s ambitious €100 billion research and innovation programme that will run from 2021-2027. (a)European Innovation Council: promoting breakthrough innovation with scale-up potential at global level. 5.Audits may be carried out up to two years after the payment of the balance. European Partnerships will be selected, implemented, monitored, evaluated and phased-out on the basis of the following criteria: (a)Evidence that the European Partnership is more effective in achieving the related objectives of the Programme, in particular in delivering clear impacts for the EU and its citizens, notably in view of delivering on global challenges and research and innovation objectives, securing EU competitiveness and contributing to the strengthening of the European Research and Innovation Area and international commitments; In the case of institutionalised European Partnerships established in accordance with Article 185 TFEU, the participation of at least 50% of the EU Member States is mandatory; (b)Coherence and synergies of the European Partnership within the EU research and innovation landscape; (c)Transparency and openness of the European Partnership as regards the identification of priorities and objectives, and the involvement of partners and stakeholders from different sectors, including international ones when relevant; (d)Ex-ante demonstration of additionality and directionality of the European Partnership, including a common vision of the purpose of the European Partnership.