Call for Experts for Horizon 2020 Advisory Groups

The European Commission has launched the call for experts for Horizon 2020 Advisory Groups. Candidates having registered no later than Wednesday 6 March 2013 will be taken into account for the setting up of the first Horizon 2020 Advisory Groups. The first Horizon 2020 calls are expected to be published by the end of 2013.

The Advisory Groups will be composed of 20-30 individual experts and representatives of public and private organisations (universities, research, industry) having a prominent role in the related activities of each challenge/objective. Expertise is called for within the following areas:

• Future and Emerging Technologies (FET)
• Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions on skills, training and career development
• Research infrastructures (including e-Infrastructures)
• Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies within the following areas:
  • Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)
  • Nanotechnologies
  • Advanced materials
  • Biotechnology
  • Advanced manufacturing and processing
  • Space
• Access to risk finance (debt or equity financing)
• Innovation in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)
• Health, demographic change and wellbeing
• Food security, sustainable agriculture, marine and maritime research and the bio-economy
• Secure, clean and efficient energy (including nuclear energy)
• Smart, green and integrated transport
• Climate action, resource efficiency and raw materials
• Inclusive, innovative and secure societies

Background: Paradigm change in Horizon 2020

Horizon 2020, the European Union’s new funding programme for research and innovation for the period 2014-2020 reflects the ambition to deliver ideas, growth and jobs for the future. It represents a clear break from the past as it brings together all existing Union research and innovation funding, including the Framework Programme for Research, the innovation related activities of the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme and the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT), into one single framework programme.