22 Amendments of Chrysoula PALIADELI related to 2011/0401(COD)
Amendment 29 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 11
Recital 11
(11) Horizon 2020 - the Framework Programme for Research and Innovation in the European Union (hereinafter ‘Horizon 2020’), focuses on three priorities, namely generating excellent science in order to strengthen the Union's world-class excellence in science, fostering industrial leadership to support business, including small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) and innovation and tackling societal challenges, in order to respond directly to the challenges identified in the Europe 2020 strategy by supporting activities covering the entire spectrum from basic and applied research to market and society. Horizon 2020 should support all stages in the research and innovation chain, especially activities closer to society and the market including innovative financial instruments, as well as non- technological and social innovation, and aims to satisfy the research needs of a broad spectrum of Union policies by placing emphasis on the widest possible use and dissemination of knowledge generated by the supported activities up to its social and/or commercial exploitation. The priorities of Horizon 2020 should also be supported through a programme under the Euratom Treaty on nuclear research and training.
Amendment 33 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 13
Recital 13
(13) In the context of the knowledge triangle of research, education and innovation, the Knowledge and Innovation Communities under the European Institute of Innovation and Technology should strongly contribute to addressing the objectives of Horizon 2020, including the societal challenges, notably by integratingencouraging the cooperation between research, education and innovation. In order to ensure complementarities across Horizon 2020 and the adequate absorption of funds, the financial contribution to the European Institute of Innovation and Technology should be made in two allocations, with the second subject to a review.
Amendment 49 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 22 a (new)
Recital 22 a (new)
(22a) Horizon 2020 should support research in the field of Humanities, - especially those which produce knowledge-, via basic and applied research, and contribute with new material evidence, or new methods of approach, to the development of new fields of interdisciplinary research, the creation of new jobs, the preservation of cultural heritage and the sustainability of Europe as the cradle of humanistic tradition and leader in world tourism.
Amendment 60 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1
Article 1
This Regulation establishes Horizon 2020 - the Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (2014-2020) (‘Horizon 2020’) and determines the framework governing Union support to research and innovation activities and fostering better exploitation of the social and industrial potential of policies of innovation, research and technological development.
Amendment 63 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point a
Article 5 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point a
(a) excellent science including basic and applied research in the Humanities;
Amendment 64 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point c
Article 5 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point c
(c) societal challenges including basic and applied research in Social Sciences.
Amendment 70 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 14
Article 14
Horizon 2020 shall be implemented in a manner ensuring that the priorities and actions supported are relevant to changing needs and take account of the evolving nature of science, technology, innovation, markets and society, where science includes any field of academic research and innovation includes business, organisational and social aspects.
Amendment 78 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 20 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point a
Article 20 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point a
(a) an ERA-NET instrument using grants to support public-public partnerships in their preparation, establishment of networking structures, design, implementation and coordination of joint activities as well as topping up of individual joint calls and of actions of a local, regional, national or a transnational nature;
Amendment 86 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex 1 – paragraph 7 – point a
Annex 1 – paragraph 7 – point a
(a) The European Research Council (ERC) shall provide attractive and flexible funding to enable talented and creative individual researchers and their teams working in any field of knowledge to pursue the most promising avenues at the frontier of science, on the basis of Union- wide competition.
Amendment 87 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex 1 – paragraph 7 – point b
Annex 1 – paragraph 7 – point b
(b) Future and emerging technologies shall support collaborative or cross-disciplinary research in order to extend Europe's capacity for advanced and paradigm- changing innovation. It shall foster scientific collaboration across disciplines on radically new, high-risk ideas and accelerate development of the most promising emerging areas of science and technology as well as the Union wide structuring of the corresponding scientific communities.
Amendment 88 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex 1 – paragraph 7 – point d
Annex 1 – paragraph 7 – point d
(d) Research infrastructure shall develop European research infrastructure for 2020 and beyond, foster their innovation potential and human capital, and complement this with the related Union policy and international cooperation in order to retain and attract talented people to live and work in the Union.
Amendment 89 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex 1 – paragraph 14 – point f
Annex 1 – paragraph 14 – point f
(f) Inclusive, educated, innovative and secure societies.
Amendment 92 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex 1 – paragraph 16
Annex 1 – paragraph 16
Social sciences and humanities shall be an integral part of the activities to address all the challenges. In addition, the underpinning development of these disciplines shall be supported under the specific objective ‘Inclusive, educated, innovative and secure societies’. Support will also focus on providing a strong evidence base for policy making at international, Union, national and regional levels. Given the global nature of many of the challenges, strategic cooperation with third countries shall be an integral part of each challenge. In addition, cross-cutting support for international cooperation shall be provided under the specific objective ‘Inclusive, educated, innovative and secure societies’.
Amendment 95 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex 1 – paragraph 17
Annex 1 – paragraph 17
The specific objective ‘Inclusive, educated, innovative and secure societies’ also includes an activity to close the research and innovation divide with specific measures to unlock excellence in less developed regions of the Union.
Amendment 96 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex 1 – part I – point 1 – point 1.1 – paragraph 6
Annex 1 – part I – point 1 – point 1.1 – paragraph 6
Furthermore, these factors compound Europe's relative unattractiveness in the global competition for scientific talent. The ability of the US system to offer more resources per researcher, better research infrastructures and better career prospects explains how it continues to attract the best researchers from across the world, including tens of thousands from the Union.
Amendment 97 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex 1 – part I – point 1 – point 1.1 – paragraph 6 a (new)
Annex 1 – part I – point 1 – point 1.1 – paragraph 6 a (new)
If innovation is to be conceived as a term for economic growth, the long cultural European tradition should not be excluded from its parameters. Since Europe and its cultural heritage still predominate world-wide tourism, further expanded to new markets from the East, excellence in science should also include research in certain fields of the Humanities, which do not only promote knowledge of European cultural past, but create new scientific fields and thus expand the employability of young researchers. From this point of view the Union should invest in innovative research projects, mainly undertaken by university research teams and rarely attracting the interest of private investors, which focus to the discovery, preservation and multi-faceted exploitation of ancient sites and monuments, and support excavations, conservation, physical and digital reconstructions, as a precondition for SMEs and local societies to invest to and profit from the results of research in the Humanities.
Amendment 99 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex 1 – part I – point 1 – point 1.3 – paragraph 1
Annex 1 – part I – point 1 – point 1.3 – paragraph 1
The fundamental activity of the ERC shall be to provide attractive long-term funding to support excellent investigators and their research teams to pursue ground-breaking, high-gain/high-risk research. From this point of view research as a scientific procedure should be recognized without exceptions in all fields of human knowledge.
Amendment 101 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex 1 – part I – point 1 – point 1.3 – paragraph 2
Annex 1 – part I – point 1 – point 1.3 – paragraph 2
ERC funding shall be awarded in accordance with the following well- established principles. Scientific excellence in any field of knowledge shall be the sole criterion on which ERC grants are awarded. The ERC shall operate on a ‘bottom-up’ basis without predetermined priorities. The ERC grants shall be open to individual teams of researchers of any age and from any country in the world, working in Europe. And the ERC shall aim to foster healthy competition across Europe.
Amendment 102 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex 1 – part I – point 1 – point 1.3 – paragraph 5
Annex 1 – part I – point 1 – point 1.3 – paragraph 5
By 2020, the ERC therefore shall aim to demonstrate: that the best researchers are participating in the ERC's competitions, that ERC funding has led directly to scientific publications of the highest quality and to the commercialisation and application of innovative technologies and ideas and that the ERC has contributed significantly to making Europe a more attractive environment for the world's best scientists. In particular, the ERC shall target a measurable improvement in the Union's share of the world's top 1 % most highly cited publications. It shall also try to introduce new criteria, reflecting the European idea of excellence, whose scientific credibility will not be questioned. In addition it shall aim at a substantial increase in the number of excellent researchers from outside Europe whom it funds and specific improvements in institutional practices and national policies to support top researchers.
Amendment 111 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex 1 – part I – point 4 – point 4.1 – paragraph 2
Annex 1 – part I – point 4 – point 4.1 – paragraph 2
Research infrastructures are key determinants of Europe's competitiveness across the full breadth of scientific domains and essential to science-based innovation. In many fields research is impossible without access to supercomputers, radiation sources for new materials, clean rooms for nanotechnologies, databases for genomics and, social sciences and humanities, observatories for Earth sciences, broadband networks for transferring data, etc. Research infrastructures are necessary to carry out the research needed in the field of human sciences such as archaeology, archaeometry, palaeography, anthropology, palaeobotany. They are also a necessary prerequisite for the conduct of research for the preservation of cultural heritage (e.g conservation laboratories). Moreover, research infrastructures are necessary to carry out the research needed to address grand societal challenges —– energy, climate change, bio-economy and lifelong health and wellbeing for all. They propel collaboration across borders and disciplines and create a seamless and open European space for online research. They promote mobility of people and ideas, bring together the best scientists from across Europe and the world and enhance scientific education. They drive excellence within the European research and innovation communities and can be outstanding showcases of science for society at large.
Amendment 113 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex 1 – part I – point 4 – point 4.3 – point b
Annex 1 – part I – point 4 – point 4.3 – point b
The aims shall be to encourage research infrastructures to act as early adopters of technology, to promote R&D partnerships with industry, to facilitate industrial use of research infrastructures, to support the creation of datasets in any field of knowledge, especially in the area of the humanities, as a precondition for the commercialization of European cultural heritage, and to stimulate the creation of innovation clusters. This activity shall also support employability, training and/or exchanges of staff managing and operating research infrastructures.
Amendment 126 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex 1 – part III – point 6.3 – point 6.3.1 – paragraph 1
Annex 1 – part III – point 6.3 – point 6.3.1 – paragraph 1
The aim is to enhance solidarity as well as social, economic and political inclusion and positive inter-cultural dynamics in Europe and with international partners, through cutting-edge science and interdisciplinarity, technological advances and organisational innovations. Humanities research can play an important role here. ResearchResearch in the field of human and social sciences can play an important role here. Research in the field of humanites shall reveal, develop, preserve and designate the multidimentional European cultural heritage by creating new scientific disciplines, thus new innovation fields and jobs. Research in social sciences shall support policymakers in designing policies that combat poverty and prevent the development of various forms of divisions, discriminations and inequalities in European societies, such as gender inequalities or digital or innovation divides, and with other world regions. It shall in particular feed into the implementation and the adaptation of the Europe 2020 strategy and the broad external action of the Union. Specific measures shall be taken to unlock excellence in less developed regions, thereby widening participation in Horizon 2020.