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EU indus­tri­al lead­er­ship gets boost through eight new research partnerships

18.12.2013
The part­ner­ships will lever­age more than €6 bil­lion of invest­ments to be alloc­ated through calls for pro­pos­als under Hori­zon 2020, the new EU pro­gramme for research and innov­a­tion. Each euro of pub­lic fund­ing is expec­ted to trig­ger addi­tion­al invest­ments of between three and 10 euro to devel­op new tech­no­lo­gies, products and ser­vices which will give European industry a lead­ing pos­i­tion on world mar­kets (MEMO/13/1159). European Com­mis­sion­er for Research, Innov­a­tion and Sci­ence Máire Geoghegan-Quinn said: ​“Europe needs industry to innov­ate to cre­ate income and jobs. New tech­no­lo­gies and products, such as green cars, energy effi­cient build­ings and clean­er man­u­fac­tur­ing pro­cesses, are essen­tial to address soci­et­al chal­lenges such as cli­mate change, energy and resource effi­ciency. We want these con­trac­tu­al PPPs to have a sub­stan­tial impact on the com­pet­it­ive­ness of the EU industry, on sus­tain­able eco­nom­ic growth and the cre­ation of new high-skilled jobs in Europe.” Vice Pres­id­ent Neel­ie Kroes, Com­mis­sion­er respons­ible for the Digit­al Agenda, said: ​“This is a great oppor­tun­ity for Europe. These PPPs will main­tain our glob­al lead in robot­ics, photon­ics, high per­form­ance com­put­ing, tele­coms and give us a head start in smart cit­ies, intel­li­gent trans­port, edu­ca­tion, enter­tain­ment, media and oth­er prom­ising mar­kets. Com­bined with a com­pre­hens­ive indus­tri­al strategy, the PPPs will ensure vig­or­ous European lead­er­ship and a bet­ter future for all.”

The eight con­trac­tu­al Pub­lic-Private Part­ner­ships are:

  • Factor­ies of the Future (FoF), to sup­port the man­u­fac­tur­ing industry through the devel­op­ment of sus­tain­able pro­duc­tion tech­no­lo­gies and sys­tems (Link to factsheet)
  • Energy-effi­cient Build­ings (EeB), to increase the com­pet­it­ive­ness and energy effi­ciency of the con­struc­tion industry (Link to factsheet)
  • European Green Vehicles Ini­ti­at­ive (EGVI), to devel­op a com­pet­it­ive and resource effi­cient trans­port sys­tem with sig­ni­fic­antly less CO2 emis­sions (Link to factsheet)
  • Sus­tain­able Pro­cess Industry (SPIRE), to make the pro­cess industry more resource- and energy-effi­cient (Link to factsheet)
  • Photon­ics, one of the key enabling tech­no­lo­gies for our future prosper­ity and an essen­tial ele­ment of many sec­tors, from energy and health, to every­day products like DVD play­ers and mobile phones (Link to factsheet)
  • Robot­ics, a key driver of indus­tri­al com­pet­it­ive­ness and essen­tial to address key soci­et­al chal­lenges in areas such as demo­graph­ic change, health and well-being, food pro­duc­tion, trans­port and secur­ity (Link to factsheet)
  • High Per­form­ance Com­put­ing (HPC), which plays a pivotal role in stim­u­lat­ing Europe’s eco­nom­ic growth and advan­cing European sci­ence (Link to factsheet)
  • Advanced 5G net­works for the Future Inter­net (5G), to stim­u­late the devel­op­ment of net­work inter­net infra­struc­ture to ensure advanced ICT ser­vices for all sec­tors and users (Link to factsheet)
The con­tracts set­ting up the PPPs were signed yes­ter­day by the Com­mis­sion and chair­per­sons of spe­cially-cre­ated indus­tri­al research and innov­a­tion asso­ci­ations, rep­res­ent­ing more than 1,000 large and small enter­prises across Europe.

Back­ground

In con­trast to the Joint Tech­no­logy Ini­ti­at­ives (JTIs) being set up under Hori­zon 2020, the con­trac­tu­al PPPs do not organ­ise their own calls but fund­ing is awar­ded by the Com­mis­sion through open calls under the Hori­zon 2020 Work Pro­gramme. The first Hori­zon 2020 Work Pro­gramme for 2014 – 15, pub­lished 11 Decem­ber, fore­sees around €1.45 bil­lion for the eight con­trac­tu­al Pub­lic-Private Part­ner­ships.

Con­trac­tu­al PPPs – indic­at­ive budgets (2014−20) (in € millions)

cPPP

EU indic­at­ive budget (mio. €)

Factor­ies of the Future

1,150

Energy-effi­cient Buildings

600 

Sus­tain­able Pro­cess Industry

900

European Green Vehicles Initiative

750

5G net­works for the Future Internet

700

High Per­form­ance Computing

700

Robot­ics

700

Photon­ics

700

Total

6,200

Source: European Commission
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