Horizon 2020 – Towards 2018-2020 Workprogrammes : Take part to our reference groups

The exact details on the practicalities of the calls for the remaining 3 years is still under discussion: options envisaged are either a biennial Work Programme for 2018-2019 with an ‘outlook’ on 2020 that will contain details of the final year’s Work Programme, or directly a triennial Workprogramme. That final year’s Work Programme will bridge the transition between Horizon 2020 and its successor programme. The development of the new Work Programmes will also take into account the results of the Horizon 2020 interim evaluation.

The development of Strategic Programming on the basis of the Commission’s priorities and stakeholder consultation is currently taking place in the first half of 2016, primarily with the Advisory Groups for each area of Horizon 2020. To prepare for this, the Advisory Groups will be given a series of general questions to inform the development of the strategy for the final three years in their areas:

• What are the challenges in the field concerned that require action under the Work Programme 2018-2020? And would these require an integrated approach across the societal challenges and leadership in enabling and industrial technologies?
• What is the output / impact that could be foreseen? Which innovation aspects could reach market deployment within 5 -7 years?
• Which gaps (science and technology, innovation, markets, policy) and potential game changers, including the role of the public sector in accelerating change, need to be taken into account?
• Which areas in particular could benefit from embedding of horizontal aspects such as social sciences and humanities, responsible research and innovation, gender aspects, and climate and sustainable Development?

See the timeline foreseen for this action:

Figure: H2020 Strategic programming for WP 2018-2020

NCP Brussels is inviting you to provide your input to currently open stakeholder consultations, through the Belgian representatives at the Programme Committee. To do so, join our Reference Groups in each Societal Challenge and area of the Programme.

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