Seminar: Horizon 2020 – Work Programme 2018-2020

Horizon 2020 – Work Programme 2018-2020

Cooperation opportunities for Japanese researchers

Horizon 2020 is the EU's Framework Programme for Research and Innovation which runs from 2014 to 2020, with a budget of nearly EUR 80 billion (roughly JPY 10 trillion). It is fully open to international cooperation and is the EU's biggest research and innovation programme ever. It leads to more breakthroughs, discoveries, and development of products and services by taking great ideas from the lab to the market. Europe, like Japan and much of the world, faces major challenges such as ageing populations and the depletion of natural resources. Horizon 2020 is designed to address these societal challenges through funding excellent science, technology and innovation.

Horizon 2020 is built around 3 pillars: Excellent Science, Industrial Leadership and Societal Challenges. Timewise, it is divided into 3 Work Programmes. The last one, covering three years, will start in January 2018 and its content will be announced at the end of October 2017.

Researchers and managers are invited to attend this event to learn directly from representatives of the European Commission about opportunities for research collaboration in various thematic fields, as well as about individual fellowships, under Horizon 2020 in its final phase (2018-2020). The seminar will also feature a number of testimonies by Japanese and European participants in Horizon 2020 projects about the merits of collaboration under the programme, and will provide information about support services for those who wish to join Horizon 2020 research activities.

(English / Japanese simultaneous translation available)

registration (required) here

Agenda

14:00                  Doors open: Registration and Welcome Coffee

MC: Leonidas Karapiperis, Head of S&T Section, EU Delegation to Japan

14:30               Welcome

• Viorel Isticioaia-Budura, Ambassador of the EU to Japan

14:35 – 14:50      Remarks from Japanese ministries and funding agencies

14:50 – 15:05      “Overview of EU – Japan STI Collaboration”      

15:05 – 15:20     Presentation on internationalisation of research in Japan (tentative)

15:20 – 16:35     "Horizon 2020 – WP 2018-2020"

                            - Overview of collaboration opportunities under WP 2018-2020

   - Thematic presentations

16:35 – 16:55      Coffee Break

"Experience in EU-Japan collaboration under Horizon 2020"

16:55 – 17:25      Academia / Research Institution from Japan

17:25 – 17:40      Academia / Research Institution from Europe

17:40 – 17:55    Industry from Japan

17:55 – 18:20      European Research Council grantee

18:20 – 18:40   "Support for Japanese researchers to participate in Horizon 2020"

• Naomichi Yamada, H2020 National Contact Point

• Matthieu Py, EURAXESS Japan

18:40 – 18:45      Closing remarks

18:45 – 20:00     Reception

                            Opening adress:

• Robert-Jan Smits, Director-General, DG Research and Innovation, European Commission