2 Amendments of Vittorio PRODI related to 2011/0387(COD)
Amendment 173 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex – part 4 – point 4.1 – paragraph 1
Annex – part 4 – point 4.1 – paragraph 1
The EIT designed an original funding model which builds on joint strengths and resources of existing excellent organisations; EIT funding acts as a catalyst to leverage and pool together supplementary financial resources from a wide range of public and private partners. On this basis, the EIT provides on average up to 25% of the total KIC funding, while the remaining minimum 75% should come from non-EIT sources. This includes KIC partners' own revenues and resources, but also public funding at national, regional and EU level, in particular the – current and future – Structural Funds and the Framework Programme for Research and Innovation. In the latter case the KICs (or some of their partners) apply for funding in accordance with the respective rules of the programmes and on an equal footing with other applicants. The contribution from KIC partners is not a classic grant ‘co- financing’ requirement, but a pre-requisite for a minimum level of involvement of existing organisations and their financial commitment to the KIC. This bottom-up approach guarantees strong commitment from KIC partners, incentivizes investment and stimulates structural and organizational change among KIC partners and beyond. However a top-down construction should not be excluded, especially in research initiatives that are already based on such a construction. The experience of the initial KICs shows that industry is financially committed to the delivery of the KIC business plans and that the share of the KIC budget from industrial partners amounts between 20%- 30% of the total KIC annual budget. Furthermore, KICs have managed to align and pool additional streams of national funding, which would not have been available otherwise (by way of illustration, the German Government has decided to entrust the management of the ‘Software Campus’ education initiative to ICT Labs, with a budget of 50 million € over a 5-year period, coming from both public and private sources).
Amendment 195 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex – Factsheet 3 – part 2 – paragraph 6
Annex – Factsheet 3 – part 2 – paragraph 6
The challenges related to healthy living are valid across Europe. The responses, which can be provided by a KIC, require the intense co-operation between excellent, multidisciplinary and multi-sector teams with participants from all sectors of the knowledge triangle (research, business and education). A KIC on this theme would have the added value of linking the activities of innovation and higher education with the already existing excellent research base, e.g. through furtherance of a pathway-based paradigm in safety testing and health research, taking advantage of innovative new human biology-based experimental and computation tools that are more predictive and efficient than traditional animal models. In doing so, it will put particular emphasis on higher education curricula, new skills development (needed e.g. for technology development but also for elderly care), strengthening entrepreneurial aspects in order to foster the development of a highly entrepreneurial workforce in the area, to support the development of new products and services, and to strengthen existing value chains or even create new ones. Examples of potential products and services that could be created through a KIC go beyond technology applications (such as applications that treat, code, standardise and interpret data in areas like cancer, cardiovascular diseases; or tools for risk assessment and early detection), and could trigger social innovation with new concepts improving for example lifestyle management and nutrition, fostering active and independent living in an age-friendly environment, or maintaining economically sustainable care systems.