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EU and industry join forces to invest €22 bil­lion in research and innovation

10.07.2013
These research part­ner­ships will boost the com­pet­it­ive­ness of EU industry in sec­tors that already provide more than 4 mil­lion jobs. They will also find solu­tions to major chal­lenges for soci­ety that are not being solved quickly enough by the mar­ket alone, such as redu­cing car­bon emis­sions, imple­ment­ing biobased industry or provid­ing the next gen­er­a­tion of anti­bi­ot­ics (MEMO/13/669). José Manuel Bar­roso, Pres­id­ent of the European Com­mis­sion, said: ​“The EU must remain a lead­er in stra­tegic glob­al tech­no­logy sec­tors that provide high qual­ity jobs. This innov­a­tion invest­ment pack­age com­bines pub­lic and private fund­ing to do just that. This is a per­fect demon­stra­tion of the lever­age effect of the EU budget for growth and jobs.” Over­all, a pro­posed €8 bil­lion invest­ment from the next EU research and innov­a­tion pro­gramme, Hori­zon 2020, will secure around €10 bil­lion from industry, and close to €4 bil­lion from EU Mem­ber States. European Com­mis­sion­er for Research, Innov­a­tion and Sci­ence Máire Geoghegan-Quinn said: ​“These ini­ti­at­ives not only strengthen our eco­nomy, they are an invest­ment in a bet­ter qual­ity of life. Work­ing togeth­er will enable us to tackle issues that no one com­pany or coun­try can deal with alone.”

The five Pub­lic-Private Part­ner­ships, called ​‘Joint Tech­no­logy Ini­ti­at­ives’ (JTIs), are: 

  • Innov­at­ive Medi­cines 2 (IMI2): to devel­op next gen­er­a­tion vac­cines, medi­cines and treat­ments, such as new antibiotics
  • Fuel Cells and Hydro­gen 2 (FCH2): to expand the use of clean and effi­cient tech­no­lo­gies in trans­port, industry and energy
  • Clean Sky 2 (CS2): to devel­op clean­er, quieter air­craft with sig­ni­fic­antly less CO2 emissions
  • Bio-based Indus­tries (BBI): to use renew­able nat­ur­al resources and innov­at­ive tech­no­lo­gies for green­er every­day products (factsheet at right margin)
  • Elec­tron­ic Com­pon­ents and Sys­tems (ECSEL): to boost Europe’s elec­tron­ics man­u­fac­tur­ing capabilities

Back­ground

The JTIs are open to a wide range of indus­tries across Europe, includ­ing SMEs, and all types of research organ­isa­tions can apply for fund­ing. The Com­mis­sion has developed the new ini­ti­at­ives in close part­ner­ship with industry, who in turn have com­mit­ted sub­stan­tial fin­an­cial resources. Major changes have been intro­duced to address the cri­ti­cisms that the cur­rent ini­ti­at­ives are overly com­plex and dif­fi­cult to par­ti­cip­ate in. The Innov­at­ive Medi­cines Ini­ti­at­ive, Clean Sky and Fuel Cells and Hydro­gen JTIs all cur­rently exist, while the Elec­tron­ics JTI will com­bine two cur­rent part­ner­ships. The Bio-based Indus­tries JTI is a new ini­ti­at­ive. New legis­lat­ive pro­pos­als are needed now to estab­lish the ini­ti­at­ives under the next EU research and innov­a­tion pro­gramme, Hori­zon 2020, which is sub­ject to approv­al by the European Par­lia­ment and Coun­cil. The pack­age also includes four pub­lic-pub­lic part­ner­ships between the European Com­mis­sion and EU Mem­ber States: new treat­ments against poverty-related dis­eases, meas­ure­ment tech­no­lo­gies for indus­tri­al com­pet­it­ive­ness, sup­port for high tech SMEs, and solu­tions for the eld­erly and dis­abled to live safely in their homes. The Com­mis­sion Com­mu­nic­a­tion accom­pa­ny­ing the legis­lat­ive pro­pos­als also sets out how the Com­mis­sion intends to strengthen indus­tri­al engage­ment in Hori­zon 2020 through fur­ther pub­lic-private part­ner­ships.

Innov­a­tion Invest­ment Pack­age — total invest­ments (2014−20) (in € millions)

Joint Tech­no­logy Initiatives

JTI — Pub­lic-private partnershipsEU (Hori­zon 2020) + EU Mem­ber States (for Elec­tron­ics only)IndustryTotal
Innov­at­ive Medi­cines Ini­ti­at­ive 2€1725€1725€3450
Fuel Cells and Hydro­gen 2€700€700€1400
Clean Sky 2€1800€2250€4050
Bio-based Indus­tries€1000€2800€3800
Elec­tron­ic Com­pon­ents and Systems€1215 (+ €1200 from EU Mem­ber States)€2400€4815
Total JTIs€7640 (€6440 from Hori­zon 2020 + €1200 from EU Mem­ber States)€9 875€17 515

Joint Pro­grammes with Mem­ber States

Pub­lic – pub­lic PartnershipEU (Hori­zon 2020)Mem­ber Statestotal
European and Devel­op­ing Coun­tries Clin­ic­al Tri­als Part­ner­ship 2 (EDCTP 2)€683€683€1366
European Met­ro­logy Research Pro­gramme (EMPIR)€300€300€600
Eurostars 2 (for SMEs)€287€861€1148
Act­ive and Assisted Liv­ing Research and Devel­op­ment Programme€175€175€350
Total joint programmes€1445€2019€3464

SES­AR Joint Undertaking

JUEU (Hori­zon 2020)Euro­con­trol and oth­er memberstotal
European Air Traffic Man­age­ment Sys­tem (SES­AR)€600€1000€1600
TOTAL €22579
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