Horizon 2020 Calls on 5G

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Horizon 2020 5G funding
Dr Stafford Lloyd
Horizon 2020 National Contact Point
ICT & Future and Emerging Technologies
UK5G Webinar, 11 October 2019

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What is Horizon 2020?
- EUR 80 billion available 2014-2020 – it’s large scale collaborative research and innovation

Who am I and what do I do?
- Network of National Contact Points (NCPs) is the main structure to provide guidance, practical
information and assistance on all aspects of participation in Horizon 2020.
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Horizon 2020 participation and Brexit
- Whatever happens we can PARTICIPATE and GET FUNDING
- If developing a proposal:
- Make sure basic eligibility criteria are still met if the UK isn’t a member state/associated country
- Ensure you write a good proposal, from the perspective of the EC – deliver impact in Europe!
- Latest government guidance: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/uk-participation-in-
horizon-2020-uk-government-overview

Withdrawal agreement
- UK-based individuals and organisations would remain eligible to bid for funding, participate
in and lead consortia including calls in 2019 and 2020 on the same basis as now
- Projects approved during this period will be able to continue with an uninterrupted flow of
EU funding
- But, what about no-deal?
“Following withdrawal from the Union, the UK will continue to participate in the Union
programmes financed by the MFF 2014-2020 until their closure.”

If there’s a no-deal Brexit
- Free to participate as a third country across most of H2020, except:
- mono-beneficiary schemes
- some space and security projects, which only allow participants from EU countries
- some multi-beneficiary schemes (for example Fast Track to Innovation - FTI)
- Can continue to coordinate projects and distribute EU funds
- Not automatically eligible for EU funding, unless essential for action
- Funding will be provided via the UK Government underwrite guarantee and guarantee extension
- Article 9 of Grant Agreement – ‘Implementation of action tasks by beneficiaries not receiving EU
funding’ will be introduced
- For new bids covered by the guarantee extension, proposal preparation will be largely the same
- UK entities costs not taken in to account in terms of overall EC budget contribution
- Enter ‘zero’ under requested EC budget
- Proposals will be evaluated as normal, so planned activities have to be reasonable.

Ongoing eligibility – no deal scenario
- Post-exit applications – covered by guarantee extension
- Submit proposals as normal, with zero EC budget request
- Guarantee process kicks-in during grant preparation phase
- Must meet basic eligibility and deliver impact in EU
- Pre-exit applications, successful after exit – covered by guarantee
- Prepare proposal as per UK status on deadline date
- Eligibility unchanged at point of application – so long as basic criteria is met
- If eligible proposal will be evaluated as normal
- If pre-grant agreement – Article 9 will come in to play
- If post-grant agreement – transfer as per ongoing project
- Participation as third country with UK underwrite
- Ongoing projects – covered by guarantee
- Funded by EU to exit date
- Participation as a third country with underwrite thereafter.

Get more help
- No-deal guidance assumes no accommodations from EU
- We understand it’s difficult…
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National Contact Point for Legal and Financial
NCP-RULES@innovateuk.ukri.org
07771 722217

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5G in 2020
Available EC budget €182 million split between 4 topics:
- ICT-41-2020: 5G PPP – Innovations for verticals with third party services
- ICT-42-2020: 5G PPP – 5G core technologies innovation (closes 16 January 2020)
- ICT-52-2020: 5G PPP – Smart connectivity beyond 5G
- DT-ICT-09-2020: Boost rural economies through cross-sector digital service platforms
All open 19th November 2019 and close 22nd April 2020, with the exception noted above.
- Other opportunities:
- ICT-53-2020: 5G PPP – 5G for CAM (closes 13 November)
- Cascade Funding
- The work programme is the sole authoritative text!
- The following is a summary, contact me for more information and support…

ICT-41-2020: Innovations for verticals with third party
services
- Innovation actions, €4-6M, €49M budget (minimum 8 projects to be funded)
- Challenge:
- Software networks provide high flexibility through implementation of virtual network
functions (VNFs). VNF's may be chained across several domains to create Network
Applications (NetApps) tailored to the requirements of specific tenants
- This requires open platforms that provide access to networks resources which can then be
used to develop NetApps supporting requirements and developments from specific vertical
sectors.
- Scope:
- Experimentation facilities able to provide enhanced experimentation infrastructures on top
of which third party experimenters (e.g. SMEs) will have the opportunity to test their
applications tailored to specific vertical use cases
- To create 5G open source repositories for wide use and towards standards development
- Typical vertical use cases: automated mobility, smart factories and industry 4.0, energy,
healthcare, media.

services
- Expected impact:
- Testing and validation of NetApp solutions on top of a 5G virtualised experimental
environment
- NetApps secure interoperability beyond vendor-specific implementation across multiple
domains, availability of standards or reference implementations
- Open-source repository of network applications that can be further leveraged by other
developers
- Creation of third party markets for start-ups and SMEs. 50% of SMEs are targeted for this
action
- Relevant 5G PPP KPI: Service creation time in minutes
- Results that may be appropriate for transfer towards an incubator or a start up, either within
the project or outside of the projects in follow up actions.

services
- Don’t want:
- Experimentation facilities that are not sufficiently open, or rich in terms of VNFs, to attract
third parties to test NetApps for specific vertical sectors
- Solutions that clearly will not be taken up by SMEs or start-ups
- Topic development – new topic:
- Leveraging on 5G enabling technologies and systems developed within or out of the 5G PPP
Phases 1, 2 and 3
- Extending the innovation to software innovations with low market entry barriers that can be
leveraged by SME’s and new actors
- Project Portfolio : see 5G PPP websites
- Key stakeholders:
- SW development companies, SMEs and research centres (public or private)
- Communication research department in universities, industries and research centres.

ICT-42-2020: Core technologies innovation
- Innovation actions, €4-6M, €48M budget (minimum 8 projects to be funded)
- Closes 16 January 2020!
- Challenge:
- 5G offers prospects for a range of new technologies and hardware devices to enter the
market and to create economic opportunities for new and innovative market actors
- The challenge is hence to reap the fruits of earlier R&D investments in these enabling
technologies to support the emergence of new markets and new market actors in Europe.
- Scope:
- Integration and validation of target components into an overall architecture representing a
subset of 5G network functions
- Key 5G technological blocks under consideration are primarily hardware-based and include,
but are not limited to, phase array antenna, array processors, millimetre wave devices and
subsystems, photonics based devices, baseband processor platforms, low-cost access points,
new generation of 5G terminals…
- A special emphasis will be put on new types of IoT devices demonstrating the use of 5G
connectivity functionalities addressing requirements of verticals.

- Expected impact:
- Support to the emergence of a European offer for new 5G core technologies at TRL 7 or
beyond
- Support to the emergence of new actors in the related markets
- Creation of high tech start-ups or of new business opportunities for established SMEs
- Strong SME participation is targeted.

- Don’t want:
- R&I on components not related to 5G connectivity
- Actions that do not open strong SME opportunities.
- Topic development – new topic:
- Leveraging on 5G enabling technologies and systems developed within or out of the 5G PPP
Phases 1, 2 and 3
- Extending the innovation to their application at hardware level for devices, terminals,
network equipment
- Project Portfolio : see 5G PPP and ECSEL JU websites
- Key stakeholders:
- Components and hardware development companies, SMEs and research centres (public or
private)
- Communication research department in universities, industries and research centres.

ICT-52-2020: Beyond 5G
- Research and innovation actions, €5-12M, €55M budget (5 or more projects to be funded),
however:
- Initiatives with strong structuring effects across a large set of key industry stakeholders and
programmatic impact for future European actions in the domain of Smart Network and
Services may target the higher budget range.
- Challenge:
- The challenge is to go well beyond the 5G capabilities available in 2020. It also looks Beyond
5G to prepare Smart Connectivity systems as a platform for a Next-Generation Internet,
supporting a highly flexible connectivity infrastructure that can dynamically adapt to
innovative applications whilst facilitating user data control and innovation friendly
implementation of relevant legislation. This requires a full value-chain approach towards
seamless and secure end-to-end interworking with computing resources and with a range of
innovative devices.

ICT-52-2020: Beyond 5G - scope
- The work covers the long term transformation of networks into a distributed smart connectivity
platform with high integration with (edge) computing and storage resources
- Should enable novel interaction between human and digital systems based on new terminal types
embedded in the daily environment, e.g. in cars, doors, mirrors, appliances, and new interfaces
recognising gestures, facial expressions, sound and haptics
- Proposals may focus on one or several of the following sub-topics and will bridge towards
preparing evolution paths for R&I on smart networks and services in future programmes:
- Infinite network capacity, innovative spectrum use and management, usability of new bands
and radio technologies and architectures including optical capabilities
- Imperceptible latencies through flexible connect-compute technologies
- Smart connectivity of massive amounts of things and systems, impact of mobile edge
computing and energy efficiency
- Novel architectures protocols and technologies (e.g. AI) for adaptive networks
- Personalised, multi-tenant and perpetual protection based on security, privacy and trust
mechanisms with innovative technologies (e.g. DLT).

ICT-52-2020: Beyond 5G – expected impact
- Smart connectivity technologies for platforms integrating ubiquitous connectivity, storage, and
computing resources opening for new service and business models
- Smart connectivity platforms towards perceived zero latency
- Network scalability towards a high number of resource-constrained (IoT) devices
- Characterisation and availability of secure and trusted environments for software based
virtualised networks, including underlying hardware limitations and enabling trusted multi-
tenancy
- Innovative radio spectrum use, novel strategies for coverage/service extension, support of novel
wireless technologies and use cases through platforms, usability of today unexplored spectrum
- Heterogeneous networks with dynamic topologies for advanced mobility solutions
- Dynamic scalability of network capabilities with managed and enhanced optical resources
- Characterisation of AI and blockchain technologies in the connectivity domain, notably for
network/service management and security
- Significant reduction of total cost of ownership through improved operational and capital
expenditure efficiency, and energy consumption.

ICT-52-2020: Beyond 5G
- Don’t want:
- Short term R&I without ambitious perspective
- One off proposals with no follow up potential under next MFF (Horizon Europe)
- Technologies locked to a specific business model
- Actions which do not clearly focus on European opportunities and actors
- Topic development – new topic
- May however piggyback on previous topics in the 5G PPP notably topic ICT 09 2017
"Networking research beyond 5G" or EUJ-02-2018 "5G and beyond“ and ICT-20-2019-2020
5G Long Term Evolution
- See project portfolio on 5G PPP website
- Stakeholders:
- ICT vendors, network service providers, verticals, SMEs
- Academics & R&I centers are expected to have a “visionary” role compared to the previous
5G PPP phases
- Large scale framing initiatives should be strongly industry driven.

DT-ICT-09-2020: Boost rural economies through
cross sector digital service platforms
- Innovation action, €15M per project, €30M budget
- Read the platforms preamble – has specific requirements
- Challenges:
- Attractiveness of rural areas via jobs and services
- Increase connectivity and digitization of rural areas
- Limited interoperability between object/service platforms supporting applications and
sharing data
- Create a marketplace for service/applications providers and platform operators supporting an
ecosystem.

- Scope: Proposals are expected to develop and demonstrate cost-efficient and flexible cross-
domain applications through large-scale pilots addressing all of the following aspects:
- Integration of data across different platforms for efficient service provision (where
appropriate based on AI)
- Develop open marketplace for cross-cutting services
- Reference implementations (proof-of-concept, demonstrators)
- Develop Pilots demonstrating benefits in rural areas
- Create innovation ecosystems for novel applications
- Pilots should build on an open, API-based, interoperable and federated IoT architecture and
include a reference implementation supporting flexible integration of heterogeneous services
- Pilots should bridge the interoperability gap of the smart object platforms and create markets for
service – and application providers as well as platform operators, supported by a vibrant
ecosystem of developers, service providers and user communities.

- Pilots could be developed in the following application areas (not exhaustive):
- Public services
- Energy
- Autonomous robotics transport
- Logistics
- Education
- Tourism
- Health and care.
- The application should support the implementation of the smart village concept:
https://enrd.ec.europa.eu/smart-and-competitive-rural-areas/smart-villages/smart-villages-
portal_en
- Participatory approaches to addressing local challenges likely to be encouraged.

- Expected impact:
- Validate the brokerage platforms illustrated by an increase of cross-cutting applications and
services
- Demonstrate and show-case cross-sectorial platforms interoperability.
- Demonstrate the benefits of data sharing across platforms from different sectors.
- Exploration and validation of new industry and business processes and innovative business
models validated in the context of the pilots.
- Overcome the digital divide between rural and urban areas, and to develop the potential
offered by connectivity and digitisation of rural areas.
- Improve quality of life in rural areas, higher standard of living and services for citizens.
- Creation of opportunities for entrepreneurs, notably SMEs, by promoting new market
openings, providing access to valuable datasets and direct interactions with users, creating
new businesses in rural areas.
- Plus the generic impacts applied to all platform topics.

Finding partners - https://www.ideal-ist.eu/
Enterprise Europe Network
Stakeholder groups:
- 5G PPP
- NetWorld 2020 ETP
Events:
https://ec.europa.eu/digital-
single-market/en/newsroom-
agenda/event
F&T Portal

FED4FIRE+ call for experimenters
- Continuous call for experimenters, various amounts available, up to €60K
- Possibility to perform experiments that break the boundaries of different testbeds or domains
(wireless, 5G, wired, OpenFlow, cloud computing, smart cities, services, etc.)
- contact@fed4fire.eu
- More cascade funding available here: https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-
tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/competitive-calls

ICT-53-2020: 5G for CAM (13 November deadline)
- Innovation actions, €7-10M, €30M budget (3 or more projects)
- Summary:
- Connected and Cooperative Assisted Mobility (CCAM) identified as a strategic industrial
opportunity in the EU in line with 5G Action Plan objectives
- 5G specifications from 3G PP release 16 will be available early 2020 (5G NR-V2X and beyond
- Aim: Validating 5G for CAM in the wider techno-policy context.
- Scope:
- Validation of the latest available 5G specification in the context of innovative CAM
applications under realistic conditions and seamlessly functioning across borders
- Broad innovation perspective covering use cases in the vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V), vehicle-to-
infrastructure (V2I), vehicle-to-pedestrian (V2P), and vehicle-to-network (V2N) domains
including the supporting service infrastructure
- Core technological innovation expected from 5G, such as radio, RAN and core network.
Innovations in the area of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to enable advanced CAM use cases are
also included
- Implementations with pre-defined corridors, which were defined in 2018…

Last bits of info…
- ICT Helsinki, was last month! Link to the 5G parts, including pitches:
- https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/events/cf/digital-excellence-forum-ict-proposers-
day-2019/item-display.cfm?id=23617
- 5G Action Plan for Europe
- https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/5g-europe-action-plan
- European 5G Observatory
- http://5gobservatory.eu
- 5G PPP
- http://www.5G-PPP.eu

Thank you for your time and attention!
NCP-ICT-FET@innovateuk.ukri.org
07867 832084
@UKH2020_ICT

Participation in H2020 Projects

ⓒ 2019. Samsung Research UK. All rights reserved.
SRUK background in H2020
• Active in H2020 projects since 2015.
Phase I Phase II ICT-17 ICT-19
ICT-20
ICT-20
• H2020 projects have benefitted in:
• Developing SRUK’s 5G research and project management expertise.
• Collaboration opportunities with other industry partners, leading universities, research institutes.
• Opportunities to introduce Samsung 5G products in PoC’s, test facilities and large scale trials.
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• Joint initiative between the 5GIA and the EC. Develops the
wider research framework for ICT domain, in the H2020.
• European Technology Forum develops research vision/agenda
for the future ICT industry. 5GIA borne out of Networld 2020.
• No need to be members of either to participate in H2020 projects. Project calls are
open and proposals evaluated independently.
• 5GPPP orchestrates the live set of projects to yield the agreed research outcomes:
 Steering board contains the PM’s of all the live projects (current chair from SRUK)
 Technical board contains the TM’s of all the live projects
 Various working groups (WG) focus on specific topics and provide project outputs to
relevant European bodies. (eg: Spectrum WG provides opinions on RSPG and CEPT topics)
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H2020 project eco-system

• Building a proposal:
• Proposals contain Excellence, Impact and Implementation parts. Excellence needs to highlight
beyond SoTA research contributions. Impact needs to align with the expectations of the particular
call. Project implementation plan is also very important, aim to achieve ‘tangible’ outputs.
• ‘Tangible’ outputs – high impact in 3GPP/ ETSI standardisation, outputs directed specifically
towards certain industries (5G verticals), software/channel models widely made available, IPR,
internal exploitation plans within companies, white papers /research papers.
• A good consortium needs a mix of large industries, academia, research institutes and SMEs. ICT
proposers’ days are a good place to pitch ideas and find project partners.
• Work within a project:
• In project reviews, outcomes are measured against what was promised in the proposal. So always
plan to deliver (at least) what is in the proposal –implementation plan needs to be well executed.
• Key project members are expected to contribute to the 5GPPP TB/ SB/ WGs.
• Visible presence in EuCNC is expected- as a key outlet for EU project dissemination.
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