33 Amendments of Lena KOLARSKA-BOBIŃSKA related to 2011/0402(CNS)
Amendment 164 #
Proposal for a decision
Recital 5
Recital 5
(5) There is a critical need to reinforce and extend the excellence of the Union's science base and ensure a supply of world class research and talent to secure Europe's long term competitiveness and well-being. Part I ‘Excellent science’ should support the activities of the European Research Council on frontier research, future and emerging technologies, Marie Skłodowska- Curie Actions and European research infrastructures. These activities should aim at building competence in the long term, focusing strongly on the next-generation of science, systems and researchers, and providing support for emerging talent from across the Union and from associated countries. Union activities to support excellent science should help consolidate the European Research Area and make the Union's science system more competitive and attractive on a global scale. Or. en(This amendment applies throughout the text. Adopting it will necessitate corresponding changes throughout.)
Amendment 166 #
Proposal for a decision
Recital 6
Recital 6
(6) Research actions carried out under Part I ‘'Excellent science’' should be determined according to the needs and opportunities of science, without pre-determined thematic priorities. The research agenda should be set in close liaison with the scientific community. Research should be funded on the basis of excellence. Other principles could also be taken into account such as inclusiveness, cost efficiency and the reduction of disparity of research infrastructures between the EU-15 and EU-12 EU Member states, which are needed to establish excellence.
Amendment 208 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 3 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1 – point b
Article 3 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1 – point b
(b) securing sufficient supplies of safe and high quality food and other bio-based products, by developing productive and resource-efficient primary production systems, fostering related ecosystem services, along side competitive and low carbonsustainable supply chains;
Amendment 285 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex 1 – point 1 – point 1.1 – paragraph 6
Annex 1 – point 1 – point 1.1 – paragraph 6
Priority setting will equally be based on a wide range of inputs and advice. It will include, where appropriate, groups of independent experts set up specifically to advise on the implementation of Horizon 2020 or any of its specific objectives. These experts group shall show the appropriate level of expertise and knowledge in the covered areas and a variety of professional backgrounds, including industry and civil society involvement and should also be subject to geographical and gender balance.
Amendment 286 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex 1 – point 1 – point 1.1 – paragraph 6
Annex 1 – point 1 – point 1.1 – paragraph 6
Priority setting will equally be based on a wide range of inputs and advice. It will include, where appropriate, groups of independent experts set up specifically to advise on the implementation of Horizon 2020 or any of its specific objectives. These experts group shall show the appropriate level of expertise and knowledge in the covered areas and a variety of professional backgrounds, including industry and civil society involvement, characterized by balanced participation of all Member States.
Amendment 291 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex 1 – point 1 – point 1.1 – paragraph 8
Annex 1 – point 1 – point 1.1 – paragraph 8
As Horizon 2020 is a programme for seven years, the economic, societal and policy context in which it will operate may change significantly during its life-time. Horizon 2020 needs to be able to adapt to these changes. It also must be able to adapt to any failure to broaden participation by all Member States and their regions. Under each of the specific objectives, there will therefore be the possibility to include support for activities beyond the descriptions set out below, where this is duly justified to address major developments, policy needs or unforeseen events.
Amendment 299 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex 1 – point 1 – point 1.2 – paragraph 2
Annex 1 – point 1 – point 1.2 – paragraph 2
Social sciences and humanities are also mainstreamed as an essential element of the activities needed to tackle each of the societal challenges to enhance their impact. This includes: understanding the determinants of health and optimising the effectiveness of healthcare systems, support to policies empowering rural areas and promoting informed consumer choices, robust decision making on energy policy and in ensuring a consumer friendly European electricity and gas grid, supporting evidence based transport policy and foresight, support to climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies, resource efficiency initiatives and measures towards a green and sustainable economy.
Amendment 316 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex 1 – point 1 – point 1.4 – paragraph 2
Annex 1 – point 1 – point 1.4 – paragraph 2
The debt facility will provide loans to single beneficiaries for investment in research and innovation; guarantees to financial beneficiaries making loans to beneficiaries; combinations of loans and guarantees, and guarantees or counter- guarantees for national and regional debt- financing schemes. It will include an SME window targeting R&I-driven SMEs with loan amounts that complement finance to SMEs by the Loan Guarantee Facility under the Programme for the Competitiveness of Enterprises and SMEs. Special attention shall be granted to requests from SMEs and other bodies located in less developed regions.
Amendment 319 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex 1 – point 1 – point 1.4 – paragraph 3
Annex 1 – point 1 – point 1.4 – paragraph 3
The equity facility will provide venture and/or mezzanine capital to individual enterprises in the early stage (start-up window). Special attention shall be granted to enterprises located in less developed regions. The facility will also have the possibility to make expansion and growth- stage investments in conjunction with the Equity Facility for Growth under the Programme for the Competitiveness of Enterprises and SMEs, including in funds- of-funds.
Amendment 330 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex 1 – point 1 – point 1.5 – paragraph 1
Annex 1 – point 1 – point 1.5 – paragraph 1
A key added value of research and innovation funded at the Union level is the possibility to disseminate and communicate results on a continent wide scale to enhance their impact. Horizon 2020 will therefore include, under all of its specific objectives, dedicated support to dissemination (including through open access to research results), communication and dialogue actions, with a strong emphasis on communicating results to end- users, citizens, civil society organisations, industry and policy makers. To this extent, Horizon 2020 may make use of networks for information transfer. Communication activities undertaken in the context of Horizon 2020 will also seek to raise public awareness on the importance of research and innovation by means of publications, events, knowledge repositories, databases, websites or a targeted use of social media. It will also seek to promote and highlight the role of female researchers and innovators.
Amendment 365 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex 1 – point 3 – paragraph 5
Annex 1 – point 3 – paragraph 5
Particular attention will also be paid to the coordination of activities funded through Horizon 2020 with those supported under other Union funding programmes, such as the Common Agricultural Policy, the Common Fisheries Policy or the Erasmus For All: the Union's programme for Education, Training, Youth and Sport or the Health for Growth Programme. This includes an appropriate articulation with the Cohesion policy funds, where support to capacity building for research and innovation at regional level may act as a ‘'stairway to excellence’', the establishment of regional centres of excellence may help close the innovation divide in Europe or support to large-scale demonstration and pilot line projects may aid in achieving the objective of generating industrial leadership in Europe. This synergy should allow less developed regions equal access to Horizon 2020 programmes without diminishing the core objective of the Cohesion policy.
Amendment 367 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex 1 – point 3 – paragraph 5 a (new)
Annex 1 – point 3 – paragraph 5 a (new)
To exploit synergies between policies, stairways to excellence instruments should be introduced in both Horizon 2020 and Cohesion Policy. Measures to identify potential of most promising centres ('centres of excellence"), providing the seal of excellence for them, should be introduced.
Amendment 383 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex 1 – section 1 – point 1 – paragraph 4
Annex 1 – section 1 – point 1 – paragraph 4
An ‘investigator-driven’ approach will be followed. This means that the ERC will support projects carried out by researchers on subjects of their choice within the scope of calls for proposals. Proposals will be evaluated on the sole criterion of excellence as judged by peer review, taking account of excellence in new groups, new generation researchers, especially in less developed regions, as well as established teams, and paying particular attention to proposals which are highly pioneering and involve correspondingly high scientific risks.
Amendment 390 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex 1 – section 1 – point 1 – point 1.1 – paragraph 1 – point 3 – indent 1 a (new)
Annex 1 – section 1 – point 1 – point 1.1 – paragraph 1 – point 3 – indent 1 a (new)
- attempt to promote the active involvement by researchers from under- represented European regions.
Amendment 414 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex 1 – section 1 – point 3 – point 3.2 – paragraph 2
Annex 1 – section 1 – point 3 – point 3.2 – paragraph 2
Funding will be given to the best or most promising experienced researchers, regardless of their nationality, who want to develop their skills through a trans-national or international mobility experience. They can be supported along all the different stages of their career, including the most junior ones just after their doctoral degree or equivalent experience. These researchers will receive funding on the condition that they move from one country to another to broaden or deepen their competences in universities, research institutions, businesses, SMEs or other socio-economic actors of their choice, working on research and innovation projects fitting their personal needs and interests. Additional funding should also be available to promote researcher's mobility towards institutions in the less developed regions. They will also be encouraged to move from public to private sector or vice-versa through the support of temporary postings. Part-time opportunities allowing combined positions in both public and private sectors will also be supported to enhance the transfer of knowledge between sectors and also encourage the creation of start-ups. Such tailor-made research opportunities will help promising researchers to become fully independent and to facilitate career moves between public and private sectors.
Amendment 441 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex 1 – section 1 – point 4 – point 4.1 – point 4.1.1 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Annex 1 – section 1 – point 4 – point 4.1 – point 4.1.1 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Research infrastructures which are not on the ESFRI list but play an important role in trans regional scale should also be supported. Horizon 2020 should also support transnational cooperation as far as research infrastructure is concerned. The European Commission shall assist Member States in their efforts to optimise their research facilities by setting up an EU-wide database on all openly accessible regional research infrastructures.
Amendment 445 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex 1 – section 1 – point 4 – point 4.1 – point 4.1.2 – paragraph 2
Annex 1 – section 1 – point 4 – point 4.1 – point 4.1.2 – paragraph 2
The Union will support networks that bring together and integrate, on European scale, key national research infrastructures, with particular focus on promoting networking and integration of scientific communities of the EU-15 and EU-12 EU Member States, through, for instance, a more integrated Research Infrastructure landscape. Funding will be provided to support, in particular, the trans-national and virtual access of researchers and the harmonisation and improvement of the services the infrastructures provide. Around one hundred networks of infrastructures in all fields of science and technology would require such support, with up to twenty thousands researchers per year benefitting from access to these facilities.
Amendment 453 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex 1 – section 1 – point 4 – point 4.2 – point 4.2.2 – paragraph 2
Annex 1 – section 1 – point 4 – point 4.2 – point 4.2.2 – paragraph 2
The Union funding will support the training of staff managing and operating research infrastructures of pan-European interest, the exchange of staff, especially between the EU-15 and EU-12 Member states, and best practices between facilities, and the adequate supply of human resources in key disciplines, including the emergence of specific education curricula.
Amendment 455 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex 1 – section 1 – point 4 a (new)
Annex 1 – section 1 – point 4 a (new)
Amendment 459 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex 1 – section 2 – point 1 – paragraph 2
Annex 1 – section 2 – point 1 – paragraph 2
The successful mastering and deployment of enabling technologies by European industry is a key factor in strengthening Europe's productivity and innovation capacity and ensuring Europe has an advanced, sustainable and competitive economy, global leadership in high-tech application sectors and the ability to develop unique solutions for societal challenges. Innovation activities will be combined with R&D, as an integral part of the funding. Substantial focus shall be given to small and medium scale projects.
Amendment 502 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex 1 – section 2 – point 1 – point 1.3 – point 1.3.4 – paragraph 1
Annex 1 – section 2 – point 1 – point 1.3 – point 1.3.4 – paragraph 1
Developing new products and applications and consumer behaviour that reduce energy demand and facilitate low-carbemission production, as well as process intensification, recycling, depollution and high added-value materials from waste and remanufacture. Or. en(This amendment applies throughout the text. Adopting it will necessitate corresponding changes throughout.)
Amendment 539 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex 1 – section 2 – point 2 – point 2.1 – paragraph 1
Annex 1 – section 2 – point 2 – point 2.1 – paragraph 1
The Debt facility will provide loans to single beneficiaries for investment in R&I; guarantees to financial intermediaries making loans to beneficiaries; combinations of loans and guarantees; and guarantees and/or counter-guarantees for national or regional debt-financing schemes. The Debt facility will undertake maturity enhancement activities, and it will support the dedicated SME Instrument (see Part II, section ‘3. Innovation in SMEs’ of this Annex). Special attention shall be granted to requests from SMEs and other bodies located in less developed regions. Provisions from the debt facility may be combined, with the possible addition of grants (including lump sums), with provisions from the equity financial instrument in one or more integrated schemes. Soft loans and convertible loans may also be possible.
Amendment 547 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex 1 – section 2 – point 2 – point 2.2 – paragraph 1
Annex 1 – section 2 – point 2 – point 2.2 – paragraph 1
The Equity facility will focus on early- stage venture capital funds providing venture capital and/or mezzanine capital to individual portfolio enterprises. Special attention shall be granted to enterprises located in less developed regions. These enterprises may, in addition, seek debt financing from financial intermediaries implementing the Debt facility.
Amendment 755 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex 1 – section 3 – point 3 – point 3.2 – introductory part
Annex 1 – section 3 – point 3 – point 3.2 – introductory part
3.2. Low-cost, low-carbemission electricity supply
Amendment 763 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex 1 – section 3 – point 3 – point 3.2 – paragraph 1
Annex 1 – section 3 – point 3 – point 3.2 – paragraph 1
Electricity will play a central role in the establishment of an environmentally sustainable low-carbon economy. The uptake of low-carbon electricity generation is too slow due to the high costs involved. There is a pressing need to find solutions that reduce costs significantly, with enhanced performance and sustainability, to accelerate the market deployment of low carbon electricity generation. At the same time, transitional fuel sources for electricity need to be improved to lower their emissions and their environmental impact until they can be replaced by low- carbon alternatives. In particular to:
Amendment 788 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex 1 – section 3 – point 3 – point 3.2 – point 3.2.4 a (new)
Annex 1 – section 3 – point 3 – point 3.2 – point 3.2.4 a (new)
3.2.4 a. Lowering the environmental impact of transitional energy sources The roadmap to a low-carbon economy shows that gas, in the short to medium term, can contribute to the transformation of the energy system. During this transitional period, to achieve the required emission reductions, significant investments are needed in research, development, demonstration and market roll-out of efficient, safe and reliable low- emission energy technologies for transitional energy sources. Technological research and demonstration projects should improve the environmental performance, risk management and safety of indigenous conventional and unconventional hydrocarbon as a major fuel source for electrical production and combined heating and cooling. The objective is to lower their emissions and their environmental impact until they can be replaced and phrased out by low-carbon alternatives.
Amendment 807 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex 1 – section 3 – point 3 – point 3.5 – paragraph 2
Annex 1 – section 3 – point 3 – point 3.5 – paragraph 2
This may include research and demonstration projects to improve the environmental performance, risk management and safety of new energy sources such as unconventional hydrocarbon. Advanced research will also be needed to provide solutions to adapt energy systems to changing climatic conditions. Priorities may be adjusted to new scientific and technological needs and opportunities or newly-observed phenomena which could indicate promising developments or risks to society and that may emerge during the course of implementation of Horizon 2020.
Amendment 898 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex 1 – section 3 – point 6 – point 6.1 – point 6.1.4 – introductory part
Annex 1 – section 3 – point 6 – point 6.1 – point 6.1.4 – introductory part
6.1.4. Closing the research and innovation divide in Europe. There are significant regional disparities across Europe in research and innovation performance which need to be addressed. Measures will aim at unlocking excellence and innovation and, recognizing the need to support and sustain capacity building, in particular research infrastructures and human capital development in the EU-12 Member States. These measures will be distinct, complementary and synergistic with policies and actions of the Cohesion policy Funds. They include:
Amendment 900 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex 1 – section 3 – point 6 – point 6.1 – point 6.1.4 – indent 1
Annex 1 – section 3 – point 6 – point 6.1 – point 6.1.4 – indent 1
– Linking in a competition emerging institutions, centres of excellence and innovative regions in less developed Member States to international leading counterparts elsewhere in Europe. This will, with a particular focus on the EU-12 Member States, involve teaming of excellent research institutions and less developed regions, twinning of staff exchanges, expert advice and assistance and the development of joint strategies for the establishment of centres of excellence that may be supported by the Cohesion policy funds in less developed regions. Building links with innovative clusters and recognising excellence in less developed regions, including through peer reviews and awarding labels of excellence to those institutions that meet international standards, will be considered.
Amendment 901 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex 1 – section 3 – point 6 – point 6.1 – point 6.1.4 – indent 1 a (new)
Annex 1 – section 3 – point 6 – point 6.1 – point 6.1.4 – indent 1 a (new)
– Preferential treatment for project funding selection for excellent projects, where one member of a twinning is from a less developed region.
Amendment 908 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex 1 – section 3 – point 6 – point 6.1 – point 6.1.4 – indent 4 a (new)
Annex 1 – section 3 – point 6 – point 6.1 – point 6.1.4 – indent 4 a (new)
– Supporting the creation of research capacity by, among other things, supporting access by researchers from less developed regions to medical, biological and other scientific data and sample banks and the creation of national data/sample banks in less developed regions as part of the ERA.
Amendment 912 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex 1 – section 3 – point 6 – point 6.1 – point 6.1.4 – indent 4 b (new)
Annex 1 – section 3 – point 6 – point 6.1 – point 6.1.4 – indent 4 b (new)
– Supporting measures to promote project consortium leadership by research centres located in the EU-12 Member States and training on project organisation and administration.
Amendment 986 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex 2 – part 1 – paragraph 1 – point 4 – indent 1
Annex 2 – part 1 – paragraph 1 – point 4 – indent 1
– Research infrastructures developed across the whole of Europe which are made accessible to all researchers in Europe and beyond through Union support