36 Amendments of Clare MOODY related to 2018/0225(COD)
Amendment 263 #
Proposal for a decision
Recital 8
Recital 8
(8) The completion of the Digital Single Market and the growing opportunities from the convergence of digital and physical technologies requires a stepping up of investments. Horizon Europe will contribute to these efforts with a substantialn appropriate increase of spending in main digital research and innovation activities compared to the Research and Innovation Framework Programme Horizon 20206 . This should ensure that Europe remains at the forefront of global research and innovation in the digital field. _________________ 6 The Communication from the Commission "A new, modern Multiannual Financial Framework for a European Union that deliver efficiently on its priorities post-2020" identifies EUR 13 billion spent in main digital activities under the Research and Innovation Framework Programme Horizon 2020 (https://eur- lex.europa.eu/legal- content/en/ALL/?uri=CELEX%3A52018D C0098).
Amendment 273 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 2 – paragraph 2 – point a
Article 2 – paragraph 2 – point a
(a) strengthening Europe’s scientific base and reinforcing and spreading excellence;
Amendment 284 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 2 – paragraph 2 – point b
Article 2 – paragraph 2 – point b
(b) increasing collaboration across sectors and disciplines, including social sciences and humanities;
Amendment 291 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 2 – paragraph 2 – point c
Article 2 – paragraph 2 – point c
(c) connecting and, developing and facilitating transnational and virtual access to research infrastructures across the European research area;
Amendment 305 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 2 – paragraph 2 – point e
Article 2 – paragraph 2 – point e
(e) attracting, training and retaining, in particular young researchers and innovators in the European Research Area, including through mobility of researchers;
Amendment 320 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 2 – paragraph 2 – point i
Article 2 – paragraph 2 – point i
(i) reinforcing the link between research and, innovation and education, and other policies, including Sustainable Development Goals;
Amendment 330 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 2 – paragraph 2 – point k
Article 2 – paragraph 2 – point k
(k) involving citizens, from various age ranges and end-users in co-design and co-creation processes;
Amendment 344 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 2 – paragraph 2 – point n
Article 2 – paragraph 2 – point n
(n) improving skills for research and innovation;
Amendment 359 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 1 – introductory part
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 1 – introductory part
(1) Pillar I 'Open and Excellent Science' with the following components:
Amendment 430 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 5 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
Article 5 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
1. For each mission, a mission board mayshall be established. It shall be composed of around 15 independent, high level individuals from various sectors and disciplines, including relevant end-users' representatives and academic experts from different disciplines. Any mission board will be established following an open call for nominations or for an expression of interest. The mission board shall advise upon the following:
Amendment 463 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 6 – paragraph 1
Article 6 – paragraph 1
1. The Commission shall establish a European Research Council ("ERC"), for implementing the actions under Pillar I 'Open and Excellent Science' which relate to the ERC. The ERC shall succeed the ERC set up by Decision C(2013) 18957 . _________________ 7 OJ C 373, 20.12.2013, p. 23
Amendment 491 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 9 – paragraph 1
Article 9 – paragraph 1
1. The Commission shall establish a European Innovation Council (EIC) for implementing actions under Pillar III 'Open Innovation' which relate to the EIC. The EIC shall operate according to the following principles: focus on breakthrough and disruptive innovation, incremental innovation, autonomy, ability to take risk, efficiency, effectiveness, transparency and accountability.
Amendment 504 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 10 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – introductory part
Article 10 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – introductory part
The EIC Board may upon request, and in coordination with the EIT Governing Board, address recommendations to the Commission on:
Amendment 512 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 10 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1
Article 10 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1
The EIC Board shall be composed of 15 to 20 high level individuals drawn from various parts of Europe's research and innovation ecosystem, including entrepreneurs, corporate leaders, investors, academic experts and researchers. It shall contribute to outreach actions, with EIC Board members striving to enhance the prestige of the EIC brand.
Amendment 555 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex I – paragraph 1
Annex I – paragraph 1
The implementation of Horizon Europe's programme-level objectives in an integrated manner will be ensured by multiannual Strategic Planning. Such planning will provide the focus on impact for the Programme overall and coherence between its different pillars, as well as synergy with other EU programmes and support to and from other EU policies. is steered by an inclusive and transparent strategic planning process of the research and innovation activities funded by the Programme. The Strategic Planning process shall lead to the implementation of Horizon Europe's programme-level objectives thereby defining the funding priorities. It will provide focus on impact for the Programme and coherence between its different pillars, as well as synergy with other EU programmes and support to and from other EU policies. The strategic planning process and the adoption of the strategic R&I plan through a delegated act shall increase ownership and understanding for the purpose of the programme by a wider public and will allow the co-legislators, stakeholders and Member States to be fully informed on the envisaged initiatives. The Strategic Planning will help to develop and implement policy for the relevant areas covered, at EU level as well as complementing policies in the Member States. It will allow simplification of the funding landscape, avoid duplication and overlaps between funding possibilities and promote faster dissemination and uptake of research and innovation results. In order to respond to these objectives, the Commission will launch an open consultation phase with Member States, the European Parliament, stakeholders, including civil society organisations, about the strategic priorities including missions, under the Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness pillar, and the suitable types of instruments, in particular the European partnerships. All partnerships and missions or any other strategic new initiative shall be identified in this Strategic R&I Plan before being implemented in work programmes. As regards European partnerships, the Strategic R&I Plan will outline and give the rationale for the creation, merge and phasing out of the European partnerships. All well-established partnerships, such as the Joint Technology Initiatives, will be considered for continuation beyond 2020 due to their added-value in bringing and leveraging private investment and contribution to synergies of funds (i.e. Clean Sky has signed partnerships with 17 Member States and regions around Europe). As in Horizon 2020, proposals for Joint Undertakings will be presented as Council Regulations. On-going and new KICs will be defined in the legislative proposal for a Decision of the European Parliament and the Council on the EIT Strategic Innovation Agenda. Nevertheless, the creation of any new KIC should entail additional and adequate budgetary resources, not to undermine the objectives and the commitments of the existing KICs. 'FET Flagships' supported under Horizon (currently Graphene Flagship, Human Brain Project, Quantum Flagship) will continue to be supported under the Programme. As they present substantial analogies with missions, other 'FET flagships', if any, maybe be supported under this Framework Programme as missions geared towards future and emerging technologies. The missions should strengthen the collaborative aspects of the Programme and reinforce existing European partnerships, which could work as supporting implementation pillars of the missions. The missions will have technological and societal elements and will be defined in close cooperation with all relevant DGs. The Strategic Planning will identify existing links between Horizon Europe and other Union Programmes, including the Euratom programme, which offer possibilities for synergies between EU funds. Horizon Europe will become a point of reference for research and innovation in all related programmes across the EU budget and non-funding instruments. This will also promote faster dissemination and uptake of research and innovation results and avoid duplication and overlaps between funding possibilities. It will provide the frame for linking the direct research actions of the Joint Research Centre and other actions supported under the Programme, including the use of results for support to policy.
Amendment 675 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex I – part I – point 2 – point 2.2 – point 2.2.2 – paragraph 1
Annex I – part I – point 2 – point 2.2 – point 2.2.2 – paragraph 1
The EU needs a strong, resilient and creative human resource base, with the right combination of skills to match the future needs of the labour market, to innovate and to convert knowledge and ideas into products and services for scientific, economic and social benefit. This can be achieved through training researchers to further develop their core research competences as well as enhance their transferable skills such as a creative and entrepreneurial mindset. This will allow them to face current and future global challenges, and improve their career prospects and innovation potential.
Amendment 712 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex I – part I – point 3 – point 3.2 – point 3.2.2 – paragraph 2 – indent 2
Annex I – part I – point 3 – point 3.2 – point 3.2.2 – paragraph 2 – indent 2
– Networks of pan EU-European, national and regional research infrastructures addressing global challenges for the provision of access to researchers as well as for the harmonisation and improvement of the infrastructures' services;
Amendment 763 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex I – part II – point 1 – point 1.1 – paragraph 4
Annex I – part II – point 1 – point 1.1 – paragraph 4
These health challenges are complex, interlinked and global in nature and require multidisciplinary, cross-sectorial and transnational collaborations. Research and innovation activities will build close linkages between discoverybasic, clinical, epidemiological, environmental and socio- economic research as well as with regulatory sciences. They will harness the combined skills of academia and industry and foster their collaboration with health services, patients, policy-makers and citizens in order to leverage on public funding and ensure the uptake of results in clinical practice as well as in health care systems. They will foster strategic collaboration at EU and international level in order to pool the expertise, capacities and resources needed to create economies of scale, scope and speed as well as to share the expected benefits and financial risks involved.
Amendment 780 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex I – part II – point 1 – point 1.2 – point 1.2.1 – paragraph 1
Annex I – part II – point 1 – point 1.2 – point 1.2.1 – paragraph 1
People in vulnerable stages of life (birth, infancy, childhood, adolescence, pregnancy, mature and late adulthood), including people with disabilities or injuries, have specific health needs that require better understanding and tailorpersonalised solutions. This will allow reducing related health inequalities and improving health outcomes to the benefit of active and healthy ageing throughout the life course, in particular through a healthy start of life reducing the risk of mental and physical diseases later in life.
Amendment 811 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex I – part II – point 1 – point 1.2 – point 1.2.2 – paragraph 1
Annex I – part II – point 1 – point 1.2 – point 1.2.2 – paragraph 1
Improved understanding of health drivers and risk factors determined by the social, economic and physical environment in people’s everyday life and at the workplace, including the health impact of digitalisation, pollution, climate change and other environmental issues, will contribute to identify and mitigate health risks and threats; to identify and to reducinge death and illness from exposure to chemicals and environmental pollution; to supporting environmental-friendly, healthy, resilient and sustainable living and working environments; to promoting healthy lifestyles and consumption behaviour; and to developing an equitable, inclusive and trusted society.
Amendment 832 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex I – part II – point 1 – point 1.2 – point 1.2.3 – paragraph 2 – indent 1 a (new)
Annex I – part II – point 1 – point 1.2 – point 1.2.3 – paragraph 2 – indent 1 a (new)
- Infrastructure and capabilities to harness the potential of genomic medicine advances into standard clinical practice;
Amendment 847 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex I – part II – point 1 – point 1.2 – point 1.2.4 – paragraph 2 – indent 1
Annex I – part II – point 1 – point 1.2 – point 1.2.4 – paragraph 2 – indent 1
– Drivers for the emergence or re- emergence of infectious diseases and their spread, including transmission from animals to humans (zoonosis), or from other parts of the environment (water, soil, plants, food) to humans and the implementation of empirical preventative solutions that minimize transmission;
Amendment 848 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex I – part II – point 1 – point 1.2 – point 1.2.4 – paragraph 2 – indent 1
Annex I – part II – point 1 – point 1.2 – point 1.2.4 – paragraph 2 – indent 1
– Drivers for the emergence or re- emergence of infectious diseases and their spread, including transmission mechanisms from animals to humans (zoonosis), or from other parts of the environment (water, soil, plants, food) to humans;
Amendment 873 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex I – part II – point 1 – point 1.2 – point 1.2.5 – paragraph 1
Annex I – part II – point 1 – point 1.2 – point 1.2.5 – paragraph 1
Health technologies and tools are vital for public health and contributed to a large extent to the important improvements achieved in the quality of life, health and care of people, in the EU. It is thus a key strategic challenge to design, develop, deliver and implement suitable, trustable, safe, and cost-effective tools and technologies for health and care, taking due account of the needs of people with disabilities and the aging society. These include artificial intelligence and other digital tools and technologies, offering significant improvements over existing ones, as well as stimulating a competitive and sustainable health-related industry that creates high-value jobs. The European health-related industry is one of the critical economic sectors in the EU, accounting for 3% of GDP and 1.5 million employees.
Amendment 1587 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex I – part II – point 5 – point 5.2 – point 5.2.3 – paragraph 2 – indent 4 a (new)
Annex I – part II – point 5 – point 5.2 – point 5.2.3 – paragraph 2 – indent 4 a (new)
- Open data systems which foster sharing of plant, pathogen and environmental data and knowledge that enable further scientific research, environmental planning and development of commercial products;
Amendment 1763 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex I – part III – paragraph 7 – indent 1 a (new)
Annex I – part III – paragraph 7 – indent 1 a (new)
- - Increase the collaboration of all types of innovators, in particular between start-ups, SMEs and larger companies, creating new ecosystems. The role, expertise and fruitful experience of the EIT and KICs in establishing such ecosystems shall be promoted and supported, given their structural partnership with stakeholders at different EU regional and local levels.
Amendment 1782 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex I – part III – paragraph 11 – indent 2
Annex I – part III – paragraph 11 – indent 2
– Support to the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) and Knowledge and Innovation Communities (KICs). The EIT is Europe’s largest integrated innovation ecosystem, with over 1,000 excellent partners from business, research and education and beyond. The EIT’s innovation model, carried out by the KICs, works and remains particularly relevant in removing barriers to innovation at Member State and regional level. They shall also benefit from additional funding allowing efficient realisation of this goal.
Amendment 1792 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex I – part III – point 1 – point 1.1 – paragraph 2
Annex I – part III – point 1 – point 1.1 – paragraph 2
The EIC will be implemented primarily through two complementary types of action, namely the EIC Pathfinder for advanced research, for the early stages of technology development, and the EIC Accelerator for innovation and market deployment actions, including the pre-mass commercialisation stages and company growth. With the idea to complement the EIT and cooperate with it in offering a single one-stop shop and a single process of support, the Accelerator will also award blended finance, combining grants with equity investments. It will in addition also channel access to loans provided under the InvestEU programme.
Amendment 1821 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex I – part III – point 1 – point 1.1 – point 1.1.2 – paragraph 2
Annex I – part III – point 1 – point 1.1 – point 1.1.2 – paragraph 2
Consequently the Accelerator will, in full complement with the EIT's support for start-ups and scale-ups, and in cooperation with EIT and the KICs, provide financial support to not yet 'bankable' or investors-attractive innovators and companies that have the ambition to develop and deploy in EU and international markets their breakthrough innovations and to scale up rapidly. For that purpose it will build on the experience from the Phases 2 and 3 of Horizon 2020 SME Instrument and from Horizon 2020 InnovFin, in particular through the addition of non-grant components and the ability to support larger and longer investments. The EIT’s start-ups and scale-ups, assessed positively by the relevant KIC, shall have a fast-track access to the tools and instruments of the Accelerator
Amendment 1833 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex I – part III – point 1 – point 1.1 – point 1.1.2 – paragraph 7
Annex I – part III – point 1 – point 1.1 – point 1.1.2 – paragraph 7
The Accelerator will mainly operate through a continuously open and bottom- up call, targeting individual entrepreneurs (mainly start-ups and SMEs), with a particular attention paid to young and to women innovators. This open and bottom- up call will be complemented by targeted support for on emerging breakthrough or disruptive technologies of potential strategic significance. Proposals may also be submitted by investors, including public innovation agencies, but the support will be awarded to the company. Cooperation with EIT and its KICs and full complementarity with their accelerating activities will be ensured.
Amendment 1846 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex I – part III – point 1 – point 1.1 – point 1.1.3 – paragraph 1 – indent 1
Annex I – part III – point 1 – point 1.1 – point 1.1.3 – paragraph 1 – indent 1
– EIC business acceleration services in support of Pathfinder and Accelerator activities and actions. The aim will be to connect the EIC Community of funded innovators, including funded Seal of Excellence, to investors, partners and public buyers. It will provide a range of coaching and mentoring services to EIC actions. It will provide innovators with access to international networks of potential partners, including industrial ones, to complement a value chain or develop market opportunities, and find investors and other sources of private or corporate finance. Activities will include live events (e.g. brokerage events, pitching sessions) but also, the development of matching platforms or use of existing ones, in close relation with financial intermediaries supported by the InvestEU and with the EIB Group. These activities will also encourage peer exchanges as a source of learning in innovation ecosystem, making particular good use of Members of the High Level Advisory board of the EIC and EIC Fellows;. Those additional EIC activities focused on breakthrough/high- risk innovations will complement the similar portfolio of the EIT activities targeting entrepreneurs, innovators and start-ups. EIC shall make use of the KICs’ expertise and experience, when providing support to innovators.
Amendment 1878 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex I – part III – point 2 – point 2.1 – paragraph 2
Annex I – part III – point 2 – point 2.1 – paragraph 2
The EU must also aim to develop ecosystems that support social innovation and public sector innovation, in addition to innovation in private enterprises. Indeed, the government sector must innovate and renew itself in order to be able to support the changes in regulation and governance required to support the large-scale deployment of new technologies and a growing public demand for the more efficient and effective delivery of services. Social innovations are crucial to enhance the welfare of our societies. As Europe’s largest innovation network, the EIT will play an important role in the development of such ecosystems and in the implementation of this priority. The EIT connects national and regional innovation ecosystems via its Innovation Communities (KICs). They make the case for desired interregional cooperation by linking innovation ecosystems on a pan- European scale. KICs should therefore be used as the basis for the further development of the ecosystems, especially in the fields covered by the activity of the KICs. The latter shall benefit in such cases from an additional and adequate funding allowing the efficient implementation of this goal.
Amendment 1887 #
Activities will be implemented to ensure effective complementarity betweenand cooperation between EIT and EIC’s types of action and their specific focus on breakthrough innovation, with activities implemented by Member States and Associated Countries, but also by private initiatives, in order to support all types of innovation, reach out to all innovators across the EU, and provide them with enhanced and adequate support.
Amendment 1898 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex I – part III – point 3 – point 3.2 – point 3.2.1 – paragraph 1
Annex I – part III – point 3 – point 3.2 – point 3.2.1 – paragraph 1
The EIT will play a reinforced role in strengthening sustainable innovation ecosystems across Europe, providing solutions to the most pressing global challenges our societies are facing. In particular, the EIT will continue to operate primarily through its Knowledge and Innovation Communities (KICs), the large- scale European partnerships that address specific societal challenges. The creation of new KICs as well as its timing must be carefully considered not to undermine the efficiency and sustainability of the existing ones and should therefore be accompanied by additional funding. It will continue to strengthen innovation ecosystems around them, by fostering the integration of research, innovation and education. Furthermore, EIT will contribute to bridge existing gaps in innovation performance across Europe by expanding its Regional Innovation Scheme (EIT RIS). The EIT will work with innovation ecosystems that exhibit high innovation potential based on strategy, thematic alignment and impact, in close synergy with Smart Specialisation Strategies and Platforms.
Amendment 1912 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex I – part III – point 3 – point 3.2 – point 3.2.4 – paragraph 2 – indent 2
Annex I – part III – point 3 – point 3.2 – point 3.2.4 – paragraph 2 – indent 2
– Planning and implementation of EIT activities in order to maximise synergies and complementarities with the actions under the Global Challenges and Industrial Competitiveness Pillar and when appropriate, contribution to these actions;
Amendment 1915 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex I – part III – point 3 – point 3.2 – point 3.2.4 – paragraph 2 – indent 3
Annex I – part III – point 3 – point 3.2 – point 3.2.4 – paragraph 2 – indent 3
– Engage with EU Member States at both national and regional level, establishing a structured dialogue and coordinating efforts to enable synergies with existing and future national initiatives, in order to identify, share and disseminate good practices and learnings;