12 Amendments of Rolandas PAKSAS related to 2011/0401(COD)
Amendment 41 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 20 a (new)
Recital 20 a (new)
(20a) Accessibility of information and communication actions concerning Horizon 2020, including communication concerning supported projects and results, requires the provision of accessible formats for all. Accessible formats include, but are not limited to, large print, Braille, easy-to-read text, audio, video, and electronic format.
Amendment 103 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 12 – paragraph 1
Article 12 – paragraph 1
1. For the implementation of Horizon 2020, account shall be taken of advice and inputs provided by: advisory groups of independent, high level experts set up by the Commission; dialogue structures created under international science and technology agreements; forward looking activities; targeted public consultations; active consultation of organisations of persons with disabilities, and transparent and interactive processes that ensure responsible research and innovation is supported.
Amendment 115 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 15 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Article 15 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Horizon 2020 shall take appropriate steps to prevent any discrimination based on sex, racial or ethnic origin, religion or belief, disability, age in research and innovation content, including measures to remove barriers to accessibility for persons with disabilities.
Amendment 119 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 16 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
Article 16 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
All the research and innovation activities carried out under Horizon 2020 shall comply with ethical principles and relevant national, Union and international legislation, including the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union and the European Convention on Human Rights and, its Supplementary Protocols as well as the United-Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
Amendment 285 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 21 a (new)
Recital 21 a (new)
(21a) To ensure the appropriate balance between consensus-based and more disruptive R&D&I, at least 15% of the budget of the "Societal challenges" priority and of the specific objective "leadership in enabling and industrial technologies" within the "Industrial Leadership" priority should follow a bottom-up, research-driven logic in accordance with the agreed priorities. Furthermore, the right balance should be stricken within the "Societal challenges" and the "Industrial leadership" priorities between smaller and bigger projects, taking into account the specific sector structure, type of activity, technology and research landscape.
Amendment 299 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – part III – point 1.3 – paragraph 5
Annex I – part III – point 1.3 – paragraph 5
Specific activities shall include: understanding the determinants of health (including environmental and climate related factors), improving health promotion and disease prevention; understanding disease and improving diagnosis; developing effective screening programmes and improving the assessment of disease susceptibility; improving surveillance and preparedness; developing better preventive vaccines; using in-silico medicine for improving disease management and prediction; treating disease; transferring knowledge to clinical practice and scalable innovation actions; better use of health data; understanding of inequalities in the type, appropriateness and quality of health care and treatment available to persons with disabilities, including the consequences for disabled people (e.g. loss of independence); Research on policies and practices for user involvement in health care provision; active ageing, independent and assisted living; individual empowerment for self- management of health; promotion of integrated care; improving scientific tools and methods to support policy making and regulatory needs; and optimising the efficiency and effectiveness of healthcare systems and reducing inequalities by evidence based decision making and dissemination of best practice, and innovative technologies and approaches.
Amendment 302 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 23 a (new)
Recital 23 a (new)
(23a) All research and innovation builds on the capacity of scientists, research institutions, businesses and citizens to openly access, share and use scientific information. To increase the circulation and exploitation of knowledge, free open online access to scientific publications, already embraced in the Seventh Framework Programme, should be the general principle for scientific publications which receive public funding from Horizon 2020. Furthermore, Horizon 2020 should experiment with online open access to already public scientific data produced or collected by publicly funded research aiming at open access to such data becoming the general rule by 2020.
Amendment 353 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 27 a (new)
Recital 27 a (new)
(27a) Universities play a fundamental role within the scientific and technological base of the Union as basic institutions of excellence, both in training and research. Research and technology organisations occupy nodal positions within innovation eco-systems, bringing together key players across the whole innovation chain, from fundamental to technological research, from product and process development to prototyping and demonstration, and on to full-scale implementation in the public and private sectors. Industry and SMEs are essential in bringing research results into the markets. Horizon 2020 should leverage investment from the private sector in RDI in order to bring combined public and private R&D investment to 3% of GDP (of which the private sector should contribute with 2/3.
Amendment 528 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 15 a (new)
Article 15 a (new)
Article 15 a Open Access With a view to enhance exploitation and dissemination of results and thereby boost European innovation, free open access to publications resulting from research funded by Horizon 2020 shall be mandatory. Free open access to already public scientific data produced or collected within research funded by Horizon 2020 shall be promoted.
Amendment 900 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex 1 – Part – point 2 – point 2.3 – paragraph 3 a (new)
Annex 1 – Part – point 2 – point 2.3 – paragraph 3 a (new)
FEST will be operated in all three priorities of Horizon 2020. The FEST budget will be allocated across the three priorities in proportion to the allocation of the total Horizon 2020 budget across the three priorities. A FEST Steering Board, composed of scientists and engineers of the highest repute and appropriate expertise, ensuring a diversity of research areas and acting in their personal capacity, shall provide input and advice to the Commission on the overall scientific strategy for the FEST activities, the establishment of the work programme and the criteria for the calls for proposals, as well as the definition of specific topics for FEST Proactive and FEST Flagships. Evaluation of all FEST projects will follow exclusively strict criteria of scientific and technological excellence and, in pillars two and three, of innovation potential (impact)
Amendment 1211 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex 1 – Part 2 – point 2 – point 2.3 – point a – paragraph 1
Annex 1 – Part 2 – point 2 – point 2.3 – point a – paragraph 1
The goal is to improve access to debt financing - loans, guarantees, counter- guarantees and other forms of debt and risk finance - for public and private entities and public-private partnerships engaged in research and innovation activities requiring risky investments in order to come to fruition. The focus shall be on supporting research and innovation with a high potential for excellence. In the interests of ensuring critical mass and a whole-innovation-chain approach, they will preferentially target activities resulting from other actions funded under Horizon 2020, including support to Phase 3 of the new dedicated SME instrument.
Amendment 1217 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex 1 – section 1 – point 2 – point 2.3 – paragraph 3 a (new)
Annex 1 – section 1 – point 2 – point 2.3 – paragraph 3 a (new)
FEST will be operated in all three priorities of Horizon 2020. The FEST budget will be allocated across the three priorities in proportion to the allocation of the total Horizon 2020 budget across the three priorities. A FEST Steering Board, composed of scientists and engineers of the highest repute and appropriate expertise, ensuring a diversity of research areas and acting in their personal capacity, shall provide input and advice to the Commission on the overall scientific strategy for the FEST activities, the establishment of the work programme and the criteria for the calls for proposals, as well as the definition of specific topics for FEST Proactive and FEST Flagships. Evaluation of all FEST projects will follow exclusively strict criteria of scientific and technological excellence and, in pillars two and three, of innovation potential (impact)