2013/743/EU: Council Decision of 3 December 2013 establishing the specific progra... (32013D0743)
2013/743/EU: Council Decision of 3 December 2013 establishing the specific programme implementing Horizon 2020 - the Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (2014-2020) and repealing Decisions 2006/971/EC, 2006/972/EC, 2006/973/EC, 2006/974/EC and 2006/975/EC Text with EEA relevance
- COUNCIL DECISION
- of 3 December 2013
- establishing the specific programme implementing Horizon 2020 - the Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (2014-2020) and repealing Decisions 2006/971/EC, 2006/972/EC, 2006/973/EC, 2006/974/EC and 2006/975/EC
- (Text with EEA relevance)
- (2013/743/EU)
- TITLE I
- GENERAL PROVISIONS
- Article 1
- Subject matter
- Article 2
- Establishment of the specific programme
- Article 3
- Specific objectives
- Article 4
- Budget
- TITLE II
- IMPLEMENTATION
- Article 5
- Work programmes
- Article 6
- European Research Council
- Article 7
- Scientific Council
- Article 8
- Dedicated implementation structure
- TITLE III
- FINAL PROVISIONS
- Article 9
- Monitoring and information on implementation
- Article 10
- Committee procedure
- Article 11
- Exercise of the delegation
- Article 12
- Repeal and transitional provisions
- Article 13
- Entry into force
- Article 14
- Addressees
- ANNEX I
- BROAD LINES OF THE ACTIVITIES
- Common elements for the indirect actions
- 1. PROGRAMMING
- 1.1.
- General
- 1.2.
- Access to risk finance
- 1.3.
- Communication, exploitation and dissemination
- 2. COMPLEMENTARITIES, CROSS-CUTTING ISSUES AND SUPPORT MEASURES
- A.
- Social sciences and humanities
- B.
- Science and society
- C.
- Gender
- D.
- SMEs
- E.
- Fast Track to Innovation (FTI)
- F.
- Widening participation
- G.
- International cooperation
- H.
- Sustainable development and climate change
- I.
- Bridging from discovery to market application
- J.
- Cross-cutting support measures
- 3. PARTNERING
- PART I
- EXCELLENT SCIENCE
- 1. EUROPEAN RESEARCH COUNCIL (ERC)
- 1.1.
- The Scientific Council
- 1.2.
- Dedicated implementation structure
- 1.3.
- Role of the Commission
- 2. FUTURE AND EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES
- 2.1.
- FET Open: fostering novel ideas
- 2.2.
- FET Proactive: nurturing emerging themes and communities
- 2.3.
- FET Flagships: pursuing grand interdisciplinary scientific and technological challenges
- 2.4.
- Specific implementation aspects
- 3. MARIE SKŁODOWSKA-CURIE ACTIONS
- 3.1.
- Fostering new skills by means of excellent initial training of researchers
- 3.2.
- Nurturing excellence by means of cross-border and cross-sector mobility
- 3.3.
- Stimulating innovation by means of cross-fertilisation of knowledge
- 3.4.
- Increasing structural impact by co-funding the activities
- 3.5.
- Specific support and policy actions
- 3.6.
- Specific implementation aspects
- 4. RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURES
- 4.1.
- Developing the European research infrastructures for 2020 and beyond
- 4.1.1.
- Developing new world-class research infrastructures
- 4.1.2.
- Integrating and opening existing national and regional research infrastructures of European interest
- 4.1.3.
- Development, deployment and operation of ICT-based e-infrastructures
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- 4.2.
- Fostering the innovation potential of research infrastructures and their human resources
- 4.2.1.
- Exploiting the innovation potential of research infrastructures
- 4.2.2.
- Strengthening the human capital of research infrastructures
- 4.3.
- Reinforcing European research infrastructure policy and international cooperation
- 4.3.1.
- Reinforcing European policy for research infrastructures
- 4.3.2.
- Facilitating strategic international cooperation
- 4.4.
- Specific implementation aspects
- PART II
- INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP
- 1. LEADERSHIP IN ENABLING AND INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGIES
- General
- An integrated approach to Key Enabling Technologies
- Specific implementation aspects
- 1.1.
- Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)
- 1.1.1.
- A new generation of components and systems: Engineering of advanced, embedded and energy- and resource-efficient components and systems
- 1.1.2.
- Next generation computing: Advanced and secure computing systems and technologies, including cloud computing
- 1.1.3.
- Future Internet: Software, hardware, infrastructures, technologies and services
- 1.1.4.
- Content technologies and information management: ICT for digital content and for cultural and creative industries
- 1.1.5.
- Advanced interfaces and robots: Robotics and smart spaces
- 1.1.6.
- Micro- and nanoelectronics and photonics: Key enabling technologies related to micro- and nanoelectronics and to photonics, covering also quantum technologies
- 1.2.
- Nanotechnologies
- 1.2.1.
- Developing next generation nanomaterials, nanodevices and nanosystems
- 1.2.2.
- Ensuring the safe and sustainable development and application of nanotechnologies
- 1.2.3.
- Developing the societal dimension of nanotechnology
- 1.2.4.
- Efficient and sustainable synthesis and manufacturing of nanomaterials, components and systems
- 1.2.5.
- Developing and standardisation of capacity-enhancing techniques, measuring methods and equipment
- 1.3.
- Advanced materials
- 1.3.1.
- Cross-cutting and enabling materials technologies
- 1.3.2.
- Materials development and transformation
- 1.3.3.
- Management of materials components
- 1.3.4.
- Materials for a sustainable, resource-efficient and low-emission industry
- 1.3.5.
- Materials for creative industries, including heritage
- 1.3.6.
- Metrology, characterisation, standardisation and quality control
- 1.3.7.
- Optimisation of the use of materials
- 1.4.
- Biotechnology
- 1.4.1.
- Boosting cutting-edge biotechnologies as a future innovation driver
- 1.4.2.
- Biotechnology-based industrial products and processes
- 1.4.3.
- Innovative and competitive platform technologies
- 1.5.
- Advanced Manufacturing and Processing
- 1.5.1.
- Technologies for Factories of the Future
- 1.5.2.
- Technologies enabling energy-efficient systems and energy-efficient buildings with a low enviromental impact
- 1.5.3.
- Sustainable, resource-efficient and low-carbon technologies in energy-intensive process industries
- 1.5.4.
- New sustainable business models
- 1.6.
- Space
- 1.6.1.
- Enabling European competitiveness, non-dependence and innovation of the European space sector
- 1.6.1.1. Safeguard and further develop a competitive, sustainable and entrepreneurial space industry and research community and strenghten European non-dependance in space systems
- 1.6.1.2. Boost innovation between space and non-space sectors
- 1.6.2.
- Enabling advances in space technologies
- 1.6.3.
- Enabling exploitation of space data
- 1.6.4.
- Enabling European research in support of international space partnerships
- 1.6.5.
- Specific implementation aspects
- 2. ACCESS TO RISK FINANCE
- 2.1.
- Debt facility
- 2.2.
- Equity facility
- 2.3.
- Specific implementation aspects
- 3. INNOVATION IN SMES
- 3.1.
- Mainstreaming SME support, especially through a dedicated instrument
- 3.2.
- Specific support
- 3.2.1.
- Support for research-intensive SMEs
- 3.2.2.
- Enhancing the innovation capacity of SMEs
- 3.2.3.
- Supporting market-driven innovation
- PART III
- SOCIETAL CHALLENGES
- 1. HEALTH, DEMOGRAPHIC CHANGE AND WELL-BEING
- 1.1.
- Understanding health, well-being and disease
- 1.1.1.
- Understanding the determinants of health, improving health promotion and disease prevention
- 1.1.2.
- Understanding disease
- 1.1.3.
- Improving surveillance and preparedness
- 1.2.
- Preventing disease
- 1.2.1.
- Developing effective prevention and screening programmes and improving the assessment of disease susceptibility
- 1.2.2.
- Improving diagnosis and prognosis
- 1.2.3.
- Developing better preventive and therapeutic vaccines
- 1.3.
- Treating and managing disease
- 1.3.1.
- Treating disease, including developing regenerative medicine
- 1.3.2.
- Transferring knowledge to clinical practice and scalable innovation actions
- 1.4.
- Active ageing and self-management of health
- 1.4.1.
- Active ageing and independent and assisted living
- 1.4.2.
- Individual awareness and empowerment for self-management of health
- 1.5.
- Methods and data
- 1.5.1.
- Improving health information and better use of health data
- 1.5.2.
- Improving scientific tools and methods to support policy making and regulatory needs
- 1.5.3.
- Using in-silico medicine for improving disease management and prediction
- 1.6.
- Health care provision and integrated care
- 1.6.1.
- Promoting integrated care
- 1.6.2.
- Optimising the efficiency and effectiveness of healthcare provision and reducing inequalities by evidence-based decision making and dissemination of best practice, and innovative technologies and approaches
- 1.7.
- Specific implementation aspects
- 2. FOOD SECURITY, SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY, MARINE, MARITIME AND INLAND WATER RESEARCH, AND THE BIOECONOMY
- 2.1.
- Sustainable agriculture and forestry
- 2.1.1.
- Increasing production efficiency and coping with climate change, while ensuring sustainability and resilience
- 2.1.2.
- Providing ecosystem services and public goods
- 2.1.3.
- Empowerment of rural areas, support to policies and rural innovation
- 2.1.4.
- Sustainable forestry
- 2.2.
- Sustainable and competitive agri-food sector for a safe and healthy diet
- 2.2.1.
- Informed consumer choices
- 2.2.2.
- Healthy and safe foods and diets for all
- 2.2.3.
- A sustainable and competitive agri-food industry
- 2.3.
- Unlocking the potential of aquatic living resources
- 2.3.1.
- Developing sustainable and environmentally friendly fisheries
- 2.3.2.
- Developing competitive and environmentally friendly European aquaculture
- 2.3.3.
- Boosting marine and maritime innovation through biotechnology
- 2.4.
- Sustainable and competitive bio-based industries and supporting the development of a European bioeconomy
- 2.4.1.
- Fostering the bioeconomy for bio-based industries
- 2.4.2.
- Developing integrated biorefineries
- 2.4.3.
- Supporting market development for bio-based products and processes
- 2.5.
- Cross-cutting marine and maritime research
- 2.5.1.
- Climate change impact on marine ecosystems and maritime economy
- 2.5.2.
- Developing the potential of marine resources through an integrated approach
- 2.5.3.
- Cross-cutting concepts and technologies enabling maritime growth
- 2.6.
- Specific implementation aspects
- 3. SECURE, CLEAN AND EFFICIENT ENERGY
- 3.1.
- Reducing energy consumption and carbon footprint by smart and sustainable use
- 3.1.1.
- Bringing to mass market technologies and services for a smart and efficient energy use
- 3.1.2.
- Unlocking the potential of efficient and renewable heating-cooling systems
- 3.1.3.
- Fostering European Smart Cities and Communities
- 3.2.
- Low-cost, low-carbon electricity supply
- 3.2.1.
- Developing the full potential of wind energy
- 3.2.2.
- Developing efficient, reliable and cost-competitive solar energy systems
- 3.2.3.
- Developing competitive and environmentally safe technologies for CO
- 2
- capture, transport, storage and re-use
- 3.2.4.
- Developing geothermal, hydro, marine and other renewable energy options
- 3.3.
- Alternative fuels and mobile energy sources
- 3.3.1.
- Making bioenergy more competitive and sustainable
- 3.3.2.
- Reducing time to market for hydrogen and fuel cell technologies
- 3.3.3.
- New alternative fuels
- 3.4.
- A single, smart European electricity grid
- 3.5.
- New knowledge and technologies
- 3.6.
- Robust decision making and public engagement
- 3.7.
- Market uptake of energy innovation - building on Intelligent Energy Europe (IEE)
- 3.8.
- Specific implementation aspects
- 4. SMART, GREEN AND INTEGRATED TRANSPORT
- 4.1.
- Resource-efficient transport that respects the environment
- 4.1.1.
- Making aircraft, vehicles and vessels cleaner and quieter will improve environmental performance and reduce perceived noise and vibration
- 4.1.2.
- Developing smart equipment, infrastructures and services
- 4.1.3.
- Improving transport and mobility in urban areas
- 4.2.
- Better mobility, less congestion, more safety and security
- 4.2.1.
- A substantial reduction of traffic congestion
- 4.2.2.
- Substantial improvements in the mobility of people and freight
- 4.2.3.
- Developing new concepts of freight transport and logistics
- 4.2.4.
- Reducing accident rates, fatalities and casualties and improving security
- 4.3.
- Global leadership for the European transport industry
- 4.3.1.
- Developing the next generation of transport means as the way to secure market share in the future
- 4.3.2.
- On-board, smart control systems
- 4.3.3.
- Advanced production processes
- 4.3.4.
- Exploring entirely new transport concepts
- 4.4.
- Socio-economic and behavioural research and forward-looking activities for policy making
- 4.5.
- Specific implementation aspects
- 5. CLIMATE ACTION, ENVIRONMENT, RESOURCE EFFICIENCY AND RAW MATERIALS
- 5.1.
- Fighting and adapting to climate change
- 5.1.1.
- Improving the understanding of climate change and the provision of reliable climate projections
- 5.1.2.
- Assessing impacts and vulnerabilities and developing innovative cost-effective adaptation, risk prevention and management measures
- 5.1.3.
- Supporting mitigation policies, including studies that focus on impact from other sectoral policies
- 5.2.
- Protecting the environment, sustainably managing natural resources, water, biodiversity and ecosystems
- 5.2.1.
- Furthering our understanding of biodiversity and the functioning of ecosystems, their interactions with social systems and their role in sustaining the economy and human well-being
- 5.2.2.
- Developing integrated approaches to address water-related challenges and the transition to sustainable management and use of water resources and services
- 5.2.3.
- Providing knowledge and tools for effective decision making and public engagement
- 5.3.
- Ensuring the sustainable supply of non-energy and non-agricultural raw materials
- 5.3.1.
- Improving the knowledge base on the availability of raw materials
- 5.3.2.
- Promoting the sustainable supply and use of raw materials, including mineral resources, from land and sea, covering exploration, extraction, processing, re-use, recycling and recovery
- 5.3.3.
- Finding alternatives for critical raw materials
- 5.3.4.
- Improving societal awareness and skills on raw materials
- 5.4.
- Enabling the transition towards a green economy and society through eco-innovation
- 5.4.1.
- Strengthening eco-innovative technologies, processes, services and products, including exploring ways to reduce the quantities of raw materials in production and consumption, overcoming barriers in this context and boosting their market uptake
- 5.4.2.
- Supporting innovative policies and societal changes
- 5.4.3.
- Measuring and assessing progress towards a green economy
- 5.4.4.
- Fostering resource efficiency through digital systems
- 5.5.
- Developing comprehensive and sustained global environmental observation and information systems
- 5.6.
- Cultural heritage
- 5.6.1.
- Identifying resilience levels via observations, monitoring and modelling
- 5.6.2.
- Providing for a better understanding on how communities perceive and respond to climate change and seismic and volcanic hazards
- 5.7.
- Specific implementation aspects
- 6. EUROPE IN A CHANGING WORLD - INCLUSIVE, INNOVATIVE AND REFLECTIVE SOCIETIES
- 6.1.
- Inclusive societies
- 6.1.1.
- The mechanisms to promote smart, sustainable and inclusive growth
- 6.1.2.
- Trusted organisations, practices, services and policies that are necessary to build resilient, inclusive, participatory, open and creative societies in Europe, in particular taking into account migration, integration and demographic change
- 6.1.3.
- Europe's role as a global actor, notably regarding human rights and global justice
- 6.1.4.
- The promotion of sustainable and inclusive environments through innovative spatial and urban planning and design
- 6.2.
- Innovative societies
- 6.2.1.
- Strengthening the evidence base and support for the Innovation Union and ERA
- 6.2.2.
- Exploring new forms of innovation, with special emphasis on social innovation and creativity, and understanding how all forms of innovation are developed, succeed or fail
- 6.2.3.
- Making use of the innovative, creative and productive potential of all generations
- 6.2.4.
- Promoting coherent and effective cooperation with third countries
- 6.3.
- Reflective societies - Cultural heritage and European identity
- 6.3.1.
- Studying European heritage, memory, identity, integration and cultural interaction and translation, including its representations in cultural and scientific collections, archives and museums, to better inform and understand the present by richer interpretations of the past
- 6.3.2.
- Researching into European countries' and regions' history, literature, art, philosophy and religions and how these have informed contemporary European diversity
- 6.3.3.
- Researching Europe's role in the world, the mutual influence and ties between the world regions, and a view from outside on European cultures
- 6.4.
- Specific implementation aspects
- 7. SECURE SOCIETIES - PROTECTING FREEDOM AND SECURITY OF EUROPE AND ITS CITIZENS
- 7.1.
- Fighting crime, illegal trafficking and terrorism, including understanding and tackling terrorist ideas and beliefs
- 7.2.
- Protecting and improving the resilience of critical infrastructures, supply chains and transport modes
- 7.3.
- Strengthening security through border management
- 7.4.
- Improving cyber security
- 7.5.
- Increasing Europe's resilience to crises and disasters
- 7.6.
- Ensuring privacy and freedom, including in the Internet, and enhancing the societal legal and ethical understanding of all areas of security, risk and management
- 7.7.
- Enhancing standardisation and interoperability of systems, including for emergency purposes
- 7.8.
- Supporting the Union's external security policies, including through conflict prevention and peace-building
- 7.9.
- Specific implementation aspects
- PART IV
- SPREADING EXCELLENCE AND WIDENING PARTICIPATION
- PART V
- SCIENCE WITH AND FOR SOCIETY
- PART VI
- NON-NUCLEAR DIRECT ACTIONS OF THE JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE (JRC)
- 1. EXCELLENT SCIENCE
- 2. INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP
- 3. SOCIETAL CHALLENGES
- 3.1.
- Health, demographic change and well-being
- 3.2.
- Food security, sustainable agriculture and forestry, marine, maritime and inland water research, and the bioeconomy
- 3.3.
- Secure, clean and efficient energy
- 3.4.
- Smart, green and integrated transport
- 3.5.
- Climate action, environment, resource efficiency and raw materials
- 3.6.
- Europe in a changing world - Inclusive, innovative and reflective societies
- 3.7.
- Secure societies - Protecting freedom and security of Europe and its citizens
- 4. SPECIFIC IMPLEMENTATION ASPECTS
- ANNEX II
- PERFORMANCE INDICATORS
- 1. PART I. PRIORITY 'EXCELLENT SCIENCE'
- 2. PART II. PRIORITY 'INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP'
- 3. PART III. PRIORITY 'SOCIETAL CHALLENGES'
- 4. PART VI. NON-NUCLEAR DIRECT ACTIONS OF THE JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE (JRC)
- ANNEX III
- MONITORING
- ANNEX IV
- Information to be provided by the Commission in accordance with Article 9(2)
- ANNEX V
- Programme Committee configurations
- Part I — Excellence Science:
- Part II — Industrial Leadership:
- Part III — Societal Challenges:
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