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What is our vision of the societal challenge around Public Services? Which are the funding opportunities for these topics in the recently launched Horizon 2020 framework programme?

Mechthild Rohen, Head of the Public Services Unit in DG CONNECT speaks about this. Enjoy this short video.

In this video Paul Timmers (Director of Sustainable and Secure Society in DG Connect) speaks about the funding opportunities in ICT for societal challenges in the recently launched Horizon 2020 framework programme. This is the first video of a series of 7 each one explaining more in detail the funding opportunities for different societal challenges.

Horizon 2020 is the EU's biggest ever research and innovation framework programme with a seven year budget worth nearly €80 billion. The funding is intended to help boost Europe's knowledge-driven economy, and tackle issues that will make a difference in people's lives. The programme is build around three pillars: Excellent Science, Industrial Leadership, and Societal Challenges.

"To create a new technology for improving people's quality of life... This is my dream"

The Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Networks are interdisciplinary and intersectoral networks of universities, research institutes and companies based in different countries.

“IT for manufacturing”, ARGOS project

“Big data for health”, MD-Paedigree project

EDUWEL is an Innovative Training Network (ITN) composed of 15 early stage researchers and led by Bielefeld University.

“Bio-robotics”, PLANTOID project

“Virtual reality for health”, VERVE project

“IT for manufacturing”, FOFdation project

“IT for manufacturing”, FI-PPP & FITMAN project

“eHealth”, MICHELANGELO project

What are your main concerns for the future? What is needed to exit the crisis and help Europe's economy to grow? How do you see Research & Innovation making a difference for a better future?

Find the answers to some of these questions here.

Have a look at this video promoting the Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) Open Research Funding Scheme. FET Open supports early-stage joint science and technology research around new ideas for radically new future technologies.

“Graphene”, Graphene Flagship project

Coralie Chanvillard is an early stage researcher undertaking a PhD in Berlin, under the ITN Grant of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie programme. This grant gave her the opportunity to gain plenty of scientific experience and to do part of her research in other European Union Member States. She is researching her PhD in Immunology in Berlin at the Hospital Charité. Her research is on multiple sclerosis.

Gillian Hendy is an Electrochemist at MIT, Langer lab, USA. She was granted a Marie Skłodowska-Curie International Fellowship. The MSCA funding enables her to acquire new skills and gain new knowledge in a leading organisation outside Europe.

Marta López Daris is an ecologist from Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain and a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Individual Fellow at the Instituto de Productos Naturales y Agrobiología (CSIC) where she is concluding a postdoctoral position. She has already undertaken research on rethinking Darwin's Theory of Evolution in the contemporary context. Her scientific approach is to study hunting as a force driving evolution. She spent two years in the US and one year in Spain comparing the evolution of predator and prey between the Bahamas and the Canary Islands. As a scientist, the Individual Fellow Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions grant is helping her to improve her scientific skills and initiate strong collaborations with scientists in other parts of the world.

“Open Access for European science”, OPENAIRE project