Horizon 2020: Major possibilities
Horizon 2020 is the new European Framework Program for Research and Innovation. Oslo Cancer Cluster encourage our members to take a closer look at the possibilities Horizon 2020 represents for funding R&D oncology projects and also taking part in international networks.
Norwegian participation in the EU framework programs has been of critical importance to Norwegian research, enabling Norwegian researchers, research institutions and companies to take part in larger international networks.
The Norwegian Research Council has recently been touring most of Norway hosting information meetings on Horizon 2020. The program will take effect from January 2014 and the budget is of around 70 billion Euros over a seven year period. This is a large increase from the last framework program.
Horizon 2020 incorporates three overall areas of funding – and there is a specific focus on SMEs and also on academic-industry collaboration within the program:
- Funding for basic research to support curiosity-driven, innovative research and large-scale cooperation on research infrastructure
- Funding to strengthen industrial leadership and competitiveness with the help of effective industry-oriented funding instruments
- Funding for research and innovation activities to solve shared societal challenges
Under the topic “Health, demographic change and wellbeing”, there are seven focus areas:
1. Understanding health, ageing & disease
2. Effective health promotion, disease prevention, preparedness and screening
3. Improving diagnosis
4. Innovative treatments and technologies
5. Advancing active and healthy ageing
6. Integrated, sustainable, citizen-centred care
7. Improving health information, data exploitation and providing an evidence base for health policies and regulation
More information may be found here:
The Norwegian Research Council webpage
Draft Work Programs 2014-2015
Newsletter – Program for Health, demographic change and wellbeing
Important deadlines:
- Horizon 2020 national launch events: October 2013 to January 2014
- Adoption of work programme and publication of first calls for proposals: December 11 2013
- Expression of interest: Medio January 2014
Background material presented by the Research Council on the information meeting in Oslo in November 2013:
