24 Amendments of Patrizia TOIA related to 2016/2147(INI)
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas, in negotiating H2020 and the current Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF), Parliament asked for EUR100 billion euros rather than the EUR 77 billion agreed and the budget seems very limited if H2020 is to fully explore excellence potential and respond to societal challenges European and global society is currently facing; whereas, in negotiating H2020 and the current Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF), Parliament asked for EUR 100 billion euros rather than the EUR 77 billion agreed and the budget seems very limited if H2020 is to fully explore excellence potential;
Amendment 26 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Recalls that the objective of H2020 is to contribute to building a society and an economy based on knowledge and innovation by leveraging additional national public and private R&D funding and by helping to attain the target of 3% of GDP for R&D by 2020; regrets that the EU invested only 2.03% of GDP in 2015, with the individual figures for different countries ranging from 0.46% to 3.26%14 ; reminds that the European Research Area (ERA) faces direct competition with the world's top-performing research regions and that the strengthening of the ERA is therefore a collective duty of Europe; _________________ 14 ‘Horizon 2020, the EU framework programme for research and innovation. European Implementation Assessment’. European Parliament Research Service.
Amendment 81 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Insists that research can be a risky investment for private investors and that funding research practice through grants is a necessity, in particular in areas with only limited market incentives for the private sector and especially for SME; regrets the tendency, in some cases, to move away from grants towards the use of loans; recognises that loans must be available for high TRL, close to market activities, within other types of instruments (e.g. EIB schemes) outside of the FP;
Amendment 89 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Underlines that several Member States are not respecting their national R&D investment commitments; calls for the earmarking of Structural Funds for R&D activities, especially investments in capacity building, infrastructure and salaries, asks that the 3% of GDP target be met, and hopes that this can be raised to 4% in the not too distant future; calls on the Commission and Member States to drive national strategies to reach that objective (for example that R&D investments are not account for as investment in relation to deficit objectives);
Amendment 107 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Confirms that ‘excellence’ should remain the key criterion across the three pillars, while noting that it is only one of the three evaluation criteria, alongside ‘impact’ which is fundamental to the concept behind the proposal and its objectives, and ‘quality and efficiency of the implementation’; calls for the reweighting of these criteria and invites the Commission to set out additional sub- criteria by adding ‘SSH integration and geographical balance’ under ‘impact’ and ‘project size’ under ‘efficiency of the implementation’;
Amendment 115 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Calls for better and transparent evaluation and quality assurance by the evaluators; takes note of the complaints made by unsuccessful applicants that the Evaluation Summary Reports lack depth and clarity on what should be done differently in order to succeed; calls on the Commission to publish, in conjunction with the call for proposals, detailed project evaluation criteria and reasons for proposals being rejected;
Amendment 146 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Calls on the Commission to continue to enhance the societal challenges approach and emphasises the importance of collaborative research; underlines the need to reinforce some societal challenges such as innovation in agriculture and health, especially cancer including childhood cancer, which is the leading cause of children's death by disease over one year of age in the EU, and antimicrobial resistance research plans;
Amendment 147 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Calls on the Commission to continue to enhance the societal challenges approach and emphasises the importance of collaborative research; underlines the need to reinforce some societal challenges such the ageing of the European population as innovation in culture, agriculture and health, especially cancer and antimicrobial resistance research plans;
Amendment 153 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. Calls on the Commission to encourage research and innovation in carrying out annual Horizon 2020 programming, with clear and specific final objectives aimed at increasing employment, competitiveness, environmental sustainability and public health;;
Amendment 157 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 b (new)
Paragraph 15 b (new)
15b. Calls on the Commission to promote networking between institutions active in health research, for example through experimentation with innovative joint care and assistance programmes for vulnerable persons;
Amendment 166 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16a. Stresses that current Horizon 2020 funding risks increasing the disparity and divergence between European regions and macro-regions, favouring those with a high level of public support for R&D and the presence of organised and dynamic industrial ecosystems and therefore asks the Commission to bring Horizon 2020 and regional policies more closely into line, so as to align development in underdeveloped and highly industrialised regions and encourage SME participation in innovative clusters;
Amendment 188 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
Paragraph 18 a (new)
18a. Welcomes efforts to secure better links between the European Research Area and the European Higher Education Area facilitating ways to train the next generation of researchers; Calls on the Commission to continue working in the complementarity of ERASMUS+ Programme and FP9 by supporting initiatives, such as summer schools and testing the latest research based didactic methods and by introducing a supplementary ERC scheme, similar to the ERC Proof of Concept scheme, allowing ERC grant holders to explore innovative teaching methods and curricula;
Amendment 190 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
Paragraph 18 a (new)
18a. Stresses the importance of closer cooperation between industry and the university and scientific establishment, so as to facilitate the creation of dedicated structures within universities and scientific centres for the purpose of forging closer links with the production sector;
Amendment 201 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)
Paragraph 19 a (new)
19a. Calls for a comprehensive vision and action plan for health research and product development to increase coordination and coherence of European programmes with national and international initiatives and research agendas, and to ensure promising products are supported throughout the entire development pipeline; Calls on the European Commission to also prioritise public health in developing countries, as the Ebola crisis revealed the importance of public health for the development of regions
Amendment 209 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Recalls that SSH integration means SSH research in interdisciplinary projects and not an ex-post add-on to otherwise technological projects, and that the most pressing problems faced by the EU require methodological research that is more conceptually focused on SSH; calls on the Commission either to introduce a minimum percentage dedicated to SSH funding, or to create an evaluation sub-criterion that takes account of its inclusion in projects; underlines that more budget should be made available for SSH under Societal Challenge 6 in order to meet European citizens’ concerns and help EU institutions and member states to support policies on migration, terrorism, unemployment, social inclusion, inequalities, culture, cultural heritage and the role of creative industries, growth beyond GDP as well as the relationships of the EU with other parts of the world; calls on the Commission to report on the budgets allocated to such fundamental political, social and cultural issues affecting the EU in Societal Challenge 6.
Amendment 224 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 a (new)
Paragraph 21 a (new)
21a. Welcomes the setting up of the CEI and stresses the need to promote both research and innovation at the same time; calls on the Commission to use the CEI to create an ecosystem that will help inventors, investors and innovators to make synergistic use of the various FP9 instruments;
Amendment 233 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)
Paragraph 22 a (new)
22a. invites the Commission to keep a balanced funding proportion for the whole research and innovation chain, including cooperative early stage research activities and ground-breaking research required to develop innovative products and services; recognises the importance of the ERC and Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions for improving the excellence of the European research and asks the Commission to safeguard the EU added value within cooperative research projects bringing together different research expertise across the Union;
Amendment 248 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
24. Welcomes the fact that Open Access is now a general principle under Horizon 2020; highlights that the number of publications linked to projects up to December 201621 shows that new policies on enforcing the free sharing and use of databases and the review of data and ideas are required in order to make all scientific data produced by future projects available by default, as the 100 % objective is still a distant goal; _________________ 21 OpenAIRE report: In H2020, 2017 (19 %) out of a total number of 10684 projects have ended and 8667 are ongoing. OpenAIRE has identified 6133 publications linked to 1375 H2020 projects.
Amendment 259 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
Paragraph 26
26. Welcomes the success of H2020 and the 1:11 leverage factor; notes the oversubscription and the challenges that lie ahead, and calls for a budgetary increase of EUR 100 billion for FP9; that should not be affected by BREXIT; Considers that beyond budget increase, an innovative framework incorporating innovation is needed and calls therefore on the Commission to well define innovation and its different types, such as incremental, disruptive and open innovation;
Amendment 300 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28
Paragraph 28
28. Welcomes the current pillar structure of the programme, and calls on the Commission to retain this structure for the sake of continuity and predictability, to improve the interaction among all funding instruments/programmes and to study the possibility of having fewer instruments with harmonised rules; asks the Commission therefore to continue work on the coherence, simplification, transparency and clarity of the programme, on improving the evaluation process and on reducing fragmentation, with appropriate consideration for small projects, specific focus areas and existing networks including the European reference networks;
Amendment 324 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30
Paragraph 30
30. Underlines the need for new higher excellence centres and regions, the opportunity of taking advantage of existing intergovernmental research organizations active Europe, and the importance of continuing to develop the ERA; calls for policies to remove barriers such as lower salaries that are faced by Eastern and Southern countries in order to avoid brain drain, and for the excellence of the project to be prioritised over the excellence of ‘elite’ centres;
Amendment 327 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30 a (new)
Paragraph 30 a (new)
30a. Underlines the need for high quality comparative research on fundamental social and political issues for Europe in order to preserve its high level of economic and social development, laws, freedoms and well-being which all combined give it its added value and confers its identity; calls for a distinct research programme, with high impact on policies, on the future of European democracies and societies including fundamental issues such as democracy, justice, growth and jobs, terrorism, inequalities and poverty, migration, social models, ageing, youth, cultural policies, and the role of Europe in the world.
Amendment 338 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31
Paragraph 31
31. Notes that R&D investment by industry has not significantly increased; in view of the generally scarce resources for public R&D spending, calls for industrial competitiveness to be supported by differentiating between mature and emerging sectors, thus allowing larger or more mature industries to participate in projects more at their own cost or throughpromoting process and product innovation in mature and emerging sectors, in order to create new market opportunities, not least through networks of companies of differing sizes, by means of grants or loans;
Amendment 347 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31 a (new)
Paragraph 31 a (new)
31a. Asks the Commission to consider the possibility for international research organizations established in the EU to participate to the FP9, which would foster the scientific dialogue within the research environment of local communities;