4 Amendments of José Ignacio SALAFRANCA SÁNCHEZ-NEYRA related to 2018/0224(COD)
Amendment 17 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 8
Recital 8
(8) The Programme should maintain a balanced and clear approach between bottom-up (investigator or innovator driven) and top- down (determined by strategically defined priorities) funding, according to the nature of the research and innovation communities that are engaged, the types and purpose of the activities carried out and the impacts that are sought. The mix of these factors should determine the choice of approach for the respective parts of the Programme, all of which contribute to all of the Programme’s general and specific objectives.
Amendment 19 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 14
Recital 14
(14) The Commission’s Communication on the interim evaluation of Horizon 2020 (COM(2018) 2 final) has provided a set of recommendations for this Programme, including its Rules for participation and dissemination, building on the lessons learnt from the previous Programme as well as input from EU institutions and stakeholders. It is stated in the evaluation that the programme is clearly underfunded given the number of proposals put forward that were deemed to have exceeded the stringent quality threshold, and it is estimated that applicants spent EUR 643 million preparing the proposals. Those recommendations put forward include to: invest more ambitiously in order to reach critical mass and maximise impact; to support breakthrough innovation; to prioritise Union research and innovation (R&I) investments in areas of high added value, notably through mission- orientation, citizen involvement and wide communication; to rationalise the Union funding landscape, including by streamlining the range of partnership initiatives and co-funding schemes; the development of more and concrete synergies between different Union funding instruments, notably with the aim of helping to mobilise under-exploited R&I potential across the Union; to strengthen international cooperation and reinforce openness to participation by third countries’ participation; and to continue simplification based on implementation experiences from Horizon 2020.
Amendment 20 #
(15) The Programme should seek synergies with other Union programmes, from their design, simplification and strategic planning, to project selection, management, communication, dissemination and exploitation of results, to monitoring, auditing and governance. With a view to avoiding overlaps and duplication and increasing the leverage of Union funding, transfers from other Union programmes to Horizon Europe activities can take place. In such cases they will follow Horizon Europe rules.
Amendment 36 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 44 – paragraph 1
Article 44 – paragraph 1
1. By derogation from Article 237(3) of the Financial Regulation, external experts of proven independence may be selected without a call for expressions of interest, if justified and the selection is carried out in a transparent manner.