Activities of Maria da Graça CARVALHO related to 2019/0151(COD)
Plenary speeches (1)
Establishing Horizon Europe – laying down its rules for participation and dissemination - Specific Programme implementing Horizon Europe – the Framework Programme for Research and Innovation - European Institute of Innovation and Technology - Strategic Innovation Agenda of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (debate)
Amendments (26)
Amendment 114 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 5 a (new)
Recital 5 a (new)
(5 a) The crisis resulting from the outbreak of COVID-19 has caused a massive and disruptive impact on Member States' health and economic systems, causing societal disruptions. Those impacts will require the collaboration of all Union institutions, bodies, offices and agencies and the EIT should contribute to the innovation efforts that are needed to provide a coherent response to the crisis. Moreover, the EIT and its KICs should reinforce its actions in order to support and increase the resilience of microenterprises, small and medium-sized enterprises, start-ups as well as students, researchers, entrepreneurs and employees.
Amendment 115 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 5 b (new)
Recital 5 b (new)
(5 b) Ongoing research into tackling the effects of the COVID-19 crisis should be accelerated. The EIT should boost the impact of that research and help develop products and innovative services arising from that research, ensuring that they reach as many people as possible.
Amendment 116 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 5 c (new)
Recital 5 c (new)
(5 c) The EIT Governing Board and the KICs shall adopt flexibility measures and actions necessary to provide the appropriate support to their ecosystem based on the knowledge triangle, creating, where necessary, ad hoc support measures for their partners and beneficiaries and even beyond their communities. They shall provide their partners, their beneficiaries and students with tools and instruments to adapt to more decentralised and remote working methods, less travel, more uncertainty and continued social distancing.
Amendment 128 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 9
Recital 9
(9) Taking into account the specificity of KICs, it is necessary to provide for special minimum conditions to form a KIC,. Those conditions may, on an exceptional basis derogatinge from the rules for participation and dissemination of the UnionHorizon Europe framework programme supporting research and innovation. Similarly, specific rules on ownership, access rights, exploitation and dissemination may be necessary for KIC added-value activities.
Amendment 147 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 17 a (new)
Recital 17 a (new)
(17 a) The EIT should ensure a balanced distribution of the budget throughout the years and a smooth transition from the current and the next MFF period, in particular for the ongoing activities.
Amendment 158 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 20 a (new)
Recital 20 a (new)
(20 a) The KICs, acting as an innovation facilitator through their co-location centres and innovation hubs should consider the countries’ smart specialisation strategy priorities and thus enhance countries innovation capacity by fully reflecting regional capacities and potential, opportunities, weaknesses, as well as local actors, their activities and markets.
Amendment 175 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 6 a (new)
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 6 a (new)
Amendment 176 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 6 b (new)
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 6 b (new)
(6 b) ‘EIT country liaison officers network’ is a network of national representatives nominated by the Member States and the countries associated to Horizon Europe, comprising part of the National Contact Points structure of Horizon Europe and helping to spread awareness, provide guidance, practical information and assistance about the participation in EIT;
Amendment 182 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 8
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 8
(8) ‘Regional Innovation Scheme’ (‘RIS’) means an outreach scheme targeted at partnerships between higher education institutions, research organisations, companies and other stakeholders, in order to foster innovation across the Union, increase the geographical outreach of KICs’ activities and expand synergies with the European Structural and Investment Funds in order to improve the local innovation ecosystems across the Union;
Amendment 185 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 10
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 10
(10) ‘KIC multi-annual business plan’ means a document describing the objectives and the planned KIC added- value activities;
Amendment 230 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 1 – point c a (new)
Article 6 – paragraph 1 – point c a (new)
(c a) Steer the implementation of RIS scheme by providing means for establishing Innovation Hubs in EIT RIS Member states.
Amendment 241 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 1 – point i a (new)
Article 6 – paragraph 1 – point i a (new)
(i a) provide the necessary support and synergies with KICs to develop innovative solutions and help with the European Economic Recovery, while achieving the Union's priorities of the ‘European Green Deal’;
Amendment 242 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 1 – point i b (new)
Article 6 – paragraph 1 – point i b (new)
(i b) ensure that KICs can operate with the necessary flexibility to adapt their operations to the increasing demands arising from the COVID-19 crisis;
Amendment 252 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 1 – point l
Article 6 – paragraph 1 – point l
(l) design and coordinatemonitor the implementation of support actions undertaken by the KICs for the development of entrepreneurial and innovation capacity of higher education institutions and their integration in innovation ecosystemactions.
Amendment 261 #
(b) innovation-driven research, experimentation, prototyping and demonstration in areas of key economic and societal interest and drawing on the results of Union and national research, with the potential to strengthen Union’s competitiveness at international level and find solutions for the major challenges faced by European society, including health and digital challenges and the implementation of the Union's climate goals and the UN Sustainable Development Goals;
Amendment 272 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 2 – introductory part
Article 7 – paragraph 2 – introductory part
2. Without prejudice to the framework partnership agreements and multi-annual grant agreements between the EIT and the KICs, the KICs shall have substantial overall autonomy to define their internal organisation and composition, as well as their precise agenda and working methods. In particular, KICs shall:
Amendment 280 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 2 – point d a (new)
Article 7 – paragraph 2 – point d a (new)
(d a) elaborate a two-year strategic plan detailing initiatives envisaged to mitigate the effects of the COVID-19 crisis, while paying specific attention to actions aiming to increase the resilience of microenterprises, small and medium-sized enterprises and start-ups, but also of the students, researchers and employees;
Amendment 282 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 2 – point d b (new)
Article 7 – paragraph 2 – point d b (new)
(d b) in synergy with other Union innovation strands and other Union institutions, bodies, offices and agencies and in order to respond to the European recovery plan, publish dedicated calls, promote initiatives using their partnerships, ecosystems and communities, develop individual and cross-KIC projects to support business restructuring, and identify microenterprises, small and medium-sized enterprises, start-ups and other stakeholders that need support and for example a better access to finance;
Amendment 283 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 2 – point d c (new)
Article 7 – paragraph 2 – point d c (new)
(d c) propose initiatives aiming to support their ecosystem based on the knowledge triangle, while at the same time being flexible enough to create measures that are fit for purpose for their partners and beneficiaries and beyond their existing communities;
Amendment 289 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 3
Article 7 – paragraph 3
3. The relationship between the EIT and each KIC shall be based on framework partnership agreements and multi-annual grant agreements .
Amendment 290 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 3 a (new)
Article 7 – paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. When selecting projects and partners, and when is strictly necessary to separate proposals of equal quality, after an assessment based on the excellence criterion, KICs shall give priority to those proposals that: (a) include a higher number of low R&I performing regions or countries, according to the European Innovation Scoreboard, the Regional Innovation Scoreboard and the Widening countries as established by Horizon Europe; (b) include a higher number of regions or countries that are not yet participating in the KIC community; (c) involve regions and countries that commit to contribute with ESI funds;- involve a higher number of SMEs; (d) ensure a better gender balance.
Amendment 294 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 1 – point b
Article 8 – paragraph 1 – point b
(b) specific rules on ownership, access rights, exploitation and dissemination may apply for KIC added-value activities, where appropriate.
Amendment 329 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 17 – paragraph 7
Article 17 – paragraph 7
7. The EIT shall establish a competitive and performance-based allocation mechanism for granting an appropriate share of its financial contribution to the KICs. It shall include assessing the KICs’ business plans and performance as measured by continuous monitoring , and in particular their progress in achieving financial sustainability , the KIC’s openness to new members, their dissemination strategies and their geographical spread, as well as the performance of those business plans as measured by continuous monitoring , and in particular their progress in achieving financial sustainability. Particular attention shall be paid to actions put in place to mitigate the effects of theCOVID- 19 crisis and to the development of innovative ideas.
Amendment 331 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 17 – paragraph 7
Article 17 – paragraph 7
7. The EIT shall establish a competitive and performance- based allocation mechanism for granting an appropriate share of its financial contribution to the KICs. It shall include assessing the KICs’ business plans, their openness to new members, dissemination strategies, geographical coverage and size of the KICs’ consortia and performance as measured by continuous monitoring , and in particular their progress in achieving financial sustainability .;
Amendment 344 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 19 a (new)
Article 19 a (new)
Article 19 a Mid-term review of the EIT By … [three years after the date of entry into force of this Regulation], this Regulation shall be subject to a thorough mid-term review by the Commission, also on the basis of the periodic evaluations established in Article 19(2) and (3). Among other elements, that mid-term review shall also assess the effectiveness of the financial sustainability strategies of the KICs, the feasibility of further increasing collaboration between the EIT and all implementing bodies of Pillar III of Horizon Europe in order to maximize synergies and have a one-stop-shop for innovation with a set of different complementary activities. The review should also examine whether the EIT could play a more horizontal role across all Pillars of Horizon Europe.
Amendment 373 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – section 6 – point 1
Annex I – section 6 – point 1
1. The staff of the EIT shall consist of personnel employed directly by the EIT . The Staff Regulations, the Conditions of Employment of Other Servants and the rules adopted by agreement between the institutions of the Union for giving effect to them shall apply to the staff of the EIT. As a transitional measure, this provision shall apply to the staff of the EIT whose contracts expire in 2020.